From: inverseparadox@comcast.net   
      
   SK wrote:   
      
   > Chris Kern wrote:   
   >   
   >> Episode 83 - The shocking future! Demand's dark ambition   
      
   > The Senshi meet King Endymion, at least in holographic form, and he   
   > gives some answers as to how the future has come to this state.   
   >   
   > According to him, they are in the thirtieth century.  The world of   
   > the Senshi’s time suffered some great calamity and was frozen for a   
   > long time, until Serenity and the Crystal restored it.  Since then,   
   > the world was unified under Serenity’s rule and Crystal Tokyo was its   
   > prosperous center.   
   >   
   > A war broke out between the Senshi and evil forces.  It’s not really   
   > clear, but I got the feeling that they were humans, though possibly   
   > consorting with ye powers of darknesse.  Most were defeated and   
   > cleansed, but a few who refused were exiled into space.  They happen   
   > to find Nemesis, the ‘tenth planet’, and there are transformed,   
   > gaining supernatural powers to become the Black Moon.   
      
   Hmm. My understanding has always been that the war was a matter of what   
   you might call rebellion, or at least refusal to be ruled - that the   
   people on the Other Side were those who objected so strongly to the idea   
   of Serenity ruling the world that they were willing to fight to prevent   
   it - which would mean that the people of the Black Moon are, from their   
   own perspective, simply coming back to reclaim their homeland   
   (homeworld) from the usurper and/or prevent her from having ever risen   
   to power in the first place. (Although they may have forgotten some   
   parts of their initial purpose...)   
      
   That is, that is my understanding of what the generally accepted   
   scenario is (certainly I've seen several fanfics based on that premise).   
   My own view of the matter is slightly different, but differs from the   
   above only in that I assume - on little evidence other than the fact   
   that the Senshi, and Usagi/Moon/Serenity in particular, are The Good   
   Guys - that Serenity did not attempt to take over the world so much as   
   get acknowledged ruler by general acclaim.   
      
   --   
          The Wanderer   
      
   Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any   
   side of it.   
      
   Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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