Shitennou

Overview

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Deep History (not yet ICly known)

Imagine the Solar System, four and a half billion years ago. The planets have only recently formed. Earth is still alone in its orbit, patiently sweeping its space clear like the other major worlds. It’s a little smaller than the modern planet - and much, much drier; the Sun’s heat prevented water from accumulating enough to contribute much to any nearby planet’s formation.

In the outer solar system, though, water ice is common. And out there formed a planet that Earth’s scientists would name Theia, for the mythological mother of the goddess of the moon, the Titan of sight and brilliance who gave gold its shine and gemstones their glint. Theia was not a graceful gas giant like Uranus or Neptune, not possessed of Pluto’s special qualities. The interesting thing about Theia is its wandering orbit, that brought it into the inner system, and eventually caught it there. For a while it shared Earth’s own orbit stably and politely.

What changed that? Was it an early attempt to destroy a planet that would become troublesome? Was it Venus’s influence, shifting the gravitational equilibrium in a cosmic act of love? Was it just chance, orbital mechanics, no conscience involved whatsoever?

Whatever might have caused it, Theia fell out of her stable place in orbit and spiraled along that shared path. A rock-and-ice world the size of Mars or larger struck the ancient Earth almost head-on.

Both worlds shattered. But Earth was newly coalesced to begin with, and welcomed Theia in, re-forming with and incorporating the greater part of both their masses into one larger Earth with a newly vast supply of water. The rest of their fragments formed a near-planetary-size Moon, large enough to provide the tides that later helped those new waters give birth to land-life so swiftly and in so many forms.

As with the rocks, so with the crystals. Earth’s sailor crystal and Theia’s both shattered in the collision and re-formed… creating the Golden Crystal, brilliant and warm enough to one day draw Queen Serenity’s attention. And the Moon was left with none of its own, providing a place where she could settle.

A few fragments of Theia, however, still to this day have not completely dissolved; we see them as anomalies in the mantle, deep-hidden echoes of ancient disaster. And four fragments of Theia’s crystal remain separate, altered by and aligned with its history: the outer void, the stars undimmed by the distant Sun, the glacial ice it brought to Earth and the clays that ice made possible, the fire and flight and chaos and transition of the vast impact. When the Golden Crystal gathered itself for a wielder, those four fragments were drawn by the old connection of their origins, and wielders of their own were born in anticipation. Kunzite. Nephrite. Jadeite. Zoisite.

They’re disasters. But they’re Earth’s disasters, and ones that make new life possible thereafter.

Silver Millennium

• (From the Additional Sailor Moon Origin Info page:) Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion had a star-crossed love, the pair frequently sneaking from the Moon to the Earth and vice verse to see each other. Beryl, a servant in Prince Endymion’s palace, was madly in love with the prince, and offered herself to Metallia in exchange for power. Through means known only to Beryl and the Shitennou, she swayed them to her side, and the Shitennou joined the Dark Kingdom. Metallia’s influence, wielded by Beryl, turned the people of Earth against Endymion and the Moon Kingdom. In a devastating attack, Beryl killed Prince Endymion as he protected Serenity. Serenity, in her grief and horror, took her own life. Sailor Venus killed Beryl shortly thereafter.
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Dark Kingdom Arc

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Current Status

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