Hi! Sorry, this isn't the first chapter of the story, it's simply a bunch of author's notes. I know that we're not supposed to post them as a separate chapter and everything, but they are really long and it's stuff that you all should know.

Backstories..

Gundam Wing.
It's been two years since the series, and Endless Waltz never took place. Pretty simple, ne?

Sailormoon.
Crystal Tokyo was formed and the peace lasted for hundreds of years. End of story, right? Wrong. A great evil disrupted the peace, resulting in a long war. The evil was defeated in the end, but all of the senshi, save Pluto, were killed. Crystal Tokyo was demolished. However, most of the world's population survived thanks to the efforts of the senshi. They recreated the world as it existed before the Crystal Millenium, and eventually that time was forgotten. It is now a fairy tale that parents tell their children before they go go bed at night.

Of course, thanks to those amazing things known as starseeds, the senshi could be brought back. In the year A.C. 194, the senshi were sent back to Earth. That's about all you need to know.

Phew. It's hard to cram all of that into a couple of paragraphs. Anyways, it should also be noted that I tend to lean more towards the manga version of SM, so that's what I'll be using.

Ages and Name Spellings

Tsukino Usagi - 17
Aino Minako - 17
Hino Rei - 17
Kino Makoto - 17
Mizuno Ami - 17
Tenou Haruka - 19
Kaiou Michiru - 19
Meiou Setsuna - 22
Tomoe Hotaru - 14
Chiba Mamoru - 20

Heero Yuy - 17
Duo Maxwell - 17
Trowa Barton - 17
Quatre Winner - 17
Wufei Chang - 17
Une - 21
Sally Po - 21
Lucretzia Noin - 21
Milliard Peacecraft - 21
Relena Peacecraft - 17
Dorothy Catalonia - 17
Hilde Schbeiker - 17
Catherine Bloom - 19

Romance Warnings..

I should probably warn you now that this is not going to be a "Let's pair all the senshi and pilots up!" fic. As much as I do love to read those, I don't feel the need to write one. I want to focus more on the plot than any pairings. Of course, I'm sure I'll end up pairing up at least one couple. It's inevitable. ^.^;; I don't know who or when.. it will be whoever I feel works well together whenever I feel they should be together.

Here's the second warning.. I WILL be using the following pairings:
Usagi/Mamoru. Yes.. sorry for all of you who love to pair Usagi off with the pilots, but I feel as if she should be with her one true love for this story. And no, there is no way to change my mind.
Haruka/Michiru. You didn't think I could split these two up, did you?
Milliard/Noin. Eh.. I'm not sure exactly where or what I'm going to do with these two, but it will be something. It might be one sided.. I dunno. We'll see how it turns out. We all see at least some sort of connection between these two, I'm sure.

If you havn't noticed, I'm going with all of the series pairings. (With the possible exception of Milliard/Noin, who aren't really canon.) ^_^; Points to me for stateing the obvious.

Well.. I think that's it. That's right, I'm finally going to shut-up and let you go read the story! Just remember people.. reviews keep my muse happy and healthy. ^.~

If you with to contact me for any reason, please email me at: genkichiharu@yahoo.com