Season 3: XiN's Era
Scroll 10: Star-Imbrium
After returning home from Kinmoku, the senshi; including a healed Stratus, Xeme and Sun, settled as best they could back into their lives while still grieving the loss of their friends and allies: Rei, Hotaru, Alan, Seiya and Jeshi. After healing Sarah/Stratus, the senshi went on with civilian life the best they could. Many of them were melancholy day in and day out – namely Jiru.
Having forged special relationships with Jeshi, Kimu and Meumi, Jiru had taken the loss of Jeshi the hardest. Those feelings combined with the ache of loneliness that came when the short senshi thought of her new-found friends that she left behind became melancholy and distracted.
Retreating away from the city-life and living within the Tomoe residence, the melancholy went on until Jiru just couldn't take it anymore. The short senshi approached Erinu and Sarah, asking them to loan her the small starship they had returned to Earth in. Jiru decided to sail the stars in search of the Zero Star Sagitarrious – the birthplace of Starseeds – in order to find a way to bring the lost back to life.
Usagi and most of the senshi argued against this bizarre idea; but when several familiar senshi entered the scene, were things were agreed on quickly. The friends who the senshi of Ice had made during the Eon Celebration - Staro Fox, Chartemis, Dove, ET Monarch, Fal'lon, Tal'lon, Watercress and Puck to name a few – had traveled to earth to assist their beloved friend, XiN.
While hashing out technical and social details – as the world of Earth was now exposed to the idea of 'life out there' – the Sol senshi began to see Jiru's emotional recovery. The Alpha Senshians and Doma Shinans began the foundation of Usagi's future rule by inviting Earth's best astronomical geniuses to assist and help them in building the starship.
Astounding the Earthen population by the rate of progress in building such a mouth-dropping and expensive space project, the senshi builders gained vital points of the general populations' goodwill towards the Sol Senshi. The governmental powers of the world were already in a tizzy since Dark Mercury's attack – which blew the lid off the proverbial pot when Galaxia arrived to help the Sol Senshi and exposing the fact of 'Life Out There' – but were all in agreement to help Japan in its newly and insanely fast growing popularity.
After three-year's time, in which the new senshi and humans alike worked around the clock in upgrading the small scouting ship into a science-fiction-proud star-class cruiser, did the farewells come. Usagi still was reluctant to let her friend go into space after the events on Kinmoku, but Jiru stated it was her wish to retrieve their fallen friends. Setsuna also argued against the idea, stating that it was extremely dangerous to go out in space alone like Jiru was doing. As to bringing back the dead, it was impossible given the circumstances. Erinu, Sarah, Meghiri, and the Kinmoku senshi, however, took XiN's side, with Erinu stating that if Jiru wanted to do it, she should.
With the departure of the visiting senshi, the public had already assimilated the once two-bit Tokyo-city based super-heroines into everyday life. The effect it had on the normal civilian life was like any other; some embraced the fact of magic and extra-terrestrial life while others went fervently against it. The side of life was handled by increased Japanese laws and its enforcers – one of whom was a White Moon Kingdom reincarnate Mercurian captain Robert Prower, a love interest of Ami Mizuno – as the budding young women carved out their niche in life; searing a new, bright future for the world.
As the senshi finally launched the now christened White Moon Starship Dante Imbrium – with the help of NASA-bred geniuses from around the globe – the Sol senshi and earth, finally had a peace in their lives that was a long time coming…
Years after the launch; the uniquely built starship had had passed Pluto – and thus fulfilling a negotiated segment of the starship's development. Part of the negotiations in building the starship was argued fiercely for science's chance to gain its dream-load of information in space, the visiting senshi, whose elected leader was a warrior called Jade Fire, agreed to have a part of the ship rigged with state of the art Kinmokian technology that would not only scan, photograph and record planetary information in passing, but send it back to receivers on earth at a much faster rate than humans had achieved on their own.
One finer details in this stipulation – as put in by the wise Pluto – was that any samples collected from any of the planets would first come into the Sol Senshi's hands before being released for scientific research. When all was planned and agreed, did ship-building proceed.
Having done its job of analyzing and transmitting the data, the Dante Imbrium gained many new crew-members as senshi across the galaxies flocked to the traveling starship, which drew them like a beacon of light. A few of the newer senshi included the long hidden senshi of the 13 retired spies of Galaxia and senshi of the of newly discovered Nemesian satellites: AO, Cadeza, Chiye, Dyey, Dis, Rah, Kaibera, Ketocev, Dakira, Gaspra, Themis and Lir'Raa. Several respectable Kinmoku senshi arrived as well, almost too many to name. But, thanks to the empowered technology of Kinmoku, the Earthen-built starship could easily keep a detailed database of each crew member's informational background.
After becoming fast friends with the fox-tailed Staro Fox; one of the senshi Jiru bonded with during the Senshi Eon celebration and traveled to Earth as a Kinmokian senshi – Jiru begged Staro Fox to become the official captain of the starship; as she herself was a far cry of such a revered position. Since admitting to Jiru that she was a tri-bred senshi, 1/3 Sol Senshi, 1/3 Alpha senshi and 1/3 Doma shin senshi, Staro Fox was unable to do anything but accept Jiru's offer.
After a racial-based semi-mutiny type wave of hatred swept through the Alpha Senshians on board, the few Doma Shin crew quickly proved to not only be powerful, but just and fair as they quelled the uprising. Standing up to verbally-shown bigotry, Jiru and her inner circle of commanders stated that both Doma Shin and Alpha senshi were equal footing while they remained aboard the Dante Imbrium.
After that statement, the mixing pot of culturally-different races on the starship created its own unique routine; as the growing clan of senshi on the ship accepted new crew members of all races, species and sentience. This pleased XiN to no end, as her starseed's hidden power slyly influenced and warped reality – almost making life aboard the ship into paradise, where life was a positive, heart-pounding adventure. More often than not; many races of senshi who would never have normally met forged bonds of friendship, were reinforced when the events of saving the random distress of a planet or galaxy from evil happened.
With its crewmates growing richly in cultural heritage, the Starship continued to travel among the stars, ever searching for Zero Star.