The Silver Millennium
Part One of the Chronicles of Senshi
The Silver Millennium, Princess Serene, and other related events Copyright (c) 1999, Elizabeth Ray. The Hana Guardians and related situations (c)1999, Samantha Anthony. Sailor Moon, the Sailor Moon characters and their respective names and likenesses are trademarks of TOEI Animation Co., Ltd.(c)1991 Naoko Takeuchi. (You are the world's most talented mangaku, and we love you! Bring Bunny back to life! We need more!) (c)1998 Mixx Entertainment. (You guys rule! Translate more SM Manga!!!!)
Written by: Elizabeth Ray
Original story by: Elizabeth Ray, Samantha Anthony, and Lyssa Farestad
Revision and addition team: Jamie Pritchard, Payton Hooper.
Final editing by: Elizabeth Ray
By the light of the moon, her court and her Queen,
Awaken you warriors, and set my heart free
For Yuri, Tira, and Lina, our likenesses.
For Hanako, Michiko, and Nariko, the
three spirits of our friendship.
Introduction
Once, there was a kingdom that spanned the entire Solar System. Our nine planets orbiting the sun, not unlike they do today, were home to a majestic civilization during a now forgotten era- the Silver Millennium.
Over twenty-seven thousand years ago, the house of Serenity came to the throne of the Moon Kingdom. For years, they raged furious wars with surrounding planets, the Dark Kingdom, and was even in the midst of their own civil war.
During the House of Serenity's Seventh Generation, the Princess Phoebe was born. Once she became Queen, Phoebe knew she must find a solution to the war for her citizens, and the citizens of the entire solar system. For years, Queen Phoebe sought answers, never finding anything that would be of any help. Then she began to study the magicks. She traveled all throughout the solar system, learning and mastering the special magicks of the nine high mages. For thirty years, Queen Phoebe studied the magick arts.
When Queen Phoebe returned home, she was too old to bear a child and never married. Queen Phoebe handed the crown to her younger brother, Malcolm.
Queen Phoebe took the magicks she had learned and forged their powers together. She used an ancient spell to cast this great power into her family's signet, the Imperial Silver Crystal. Thus, she created what would become humanity's safeguard against evil for the rest of eternity. She created the instrument that began a legacy that would last until the end of time; she created hope.
Peace was attained with the destruction of , the leading planet in the rebellion against the house of Serenity. Amethyst Metallia, Queen of and creator of the Dark Kingdom dimension, was banished from the Solar System, and was threatened with execution upon her return.
With all traces of rebellion crushed, Phoebe spent the final years of her life writing her memoirs and teaching gifted students from the Space Science and Technology Academy. There were rumors that she taught one of her students the secrets to the Silver Imperial Crystal, but these were strictly denied by Phoebe herself, who claimed that even she did not fully understand it's nature.
Phoebe passed away only fourteen seasons after her great battle against Metallia. She was seventy-nine cycles, relatively young for the Lunarian life span. With her passing, she left behind a private study for the Queen of the Silver Empire with valued information only the sole monarch could be trusted with. The mountains of tomes and novels, the cases of priceless artifacts and royal heirlooms, every last treaty, decree and royal document, all were kept in this private library.
Soon after, the Empire blossomed. Mercury and Pluto begin seeking greater technological advancements. Venus, with it's mostly elven population, became a bustling trade center, exporting fine-quality handcrafted elven clothes and furniture. Mars and Neptune were centers for the arts, Jupiter and Uranus became rival training schools for the Empire's finest warriors, and the Moon maintained it's standing as the center of Empire social, military, and political activity.
It was a time of advancements, technologically and medically, magickal and mechanical. For almost 2,000 years there was more peace than battles. However, when the Empire was approaching it's two-thousandth anniversary, trouble arose from the least likely of all places.
The Earth.
Mysteriously, evil powers were conjuring monsters, people were turning away from their religion and their monarchs, and soon enough, a rebellion arose in the Kingdom of Atlantis. The neighboring kingdoms, Crystal Kingdom and Sehearday, sent their troops in assistance. It seemed that they were winning, when an unknown event turned the Crystal Kingdom and Sehearday against one another. Within four seasons, every Kingdom on Earth was warring one another.
It was the Crystal Kingdom made their plea to the Moon Kingdom for help that the Earth was considered for joining the Empire. The Earth had always been self-dependent, not needing to rely on the high mages to keep the planet's air breathable, or it's land livable. The Earth was refferred to as the 'home colony', because it was indeed where the first of mankind were born from the heavens.
From heaven they came, and to the heavens the returned......
