Chapter 4 is now available for your reading pleasure.

[Bob Schroeck]

> when they'd found Ami Usagi
Needs a comma there.  Unless there's a new cast member I don't know about. (artist conception)

<snrk>

Concordance>  Those that were usually got the name of the planet's moon (or if it had more than one, one of the larger moons).
Well, close.  They're all named after a satellite of each planet.  For Venus and Mercury, there are are no natural satellites (moons), so NASA got to name them with their orbiters.  A friend of mine wrote some code that interpreted the mostly garbage telemetry Magellan was sending back, helping to save the spacecraft -- and he's a fan of Sailor Moon.  It must be kind of cool to have something one worked on incorporated into fictional mythology.

That is very cool. Can I add that to the Concordance?

It seems to me that the two older girls had important almost-adult stuff to do like driving cool cars, and then some chuuni named Usagi urgently summoned them to a fight that wasn't an urgent fight after all.  And here I was afraid that they wouldn't have a reason to be annoying for half a season.

Oh, they don't need a reason to be annoying. They're going to be less in-your-face about it because the Princess has a genuine Military Advisor who's training her and won't put up with crap from the rank-and-file, but they'll be picking up some of the "that's not how we did it in Silver Millennium" obnoxiousness that fanon normally hands off to Luna. (And might I say that Luna surprised me while I wrote the last couple chapters? She was supposed to be the reactionary voice opposing Doug at every turn, and suddenly turned into a quite reasonable ally to him.)

And as far as "not urgent" is concerned, don't be so sure.

I'm not sure I actually said it, but it was a very enjoyable and fun read, and as always I'm eager for more.

Thank you! I'm still deciding which current project to focus on next, but DWS-05 certainly has a lot of plot notes in place already.