This evening, I intended to write up an entry for the Moon Kingdom Memorial Outpost. My muse nudged my thoughts onto a slightly different path... so I now present a History of the Crystal Millennium, for consideration and comments. Since this should go onto the Crystal Millennium page in the FenWiki, Wiki markup is already in place.
Mind you, I still have to come up with something for the Outpost...
==History==
The '''Silver Millennium Kingdom''' was established in early 2009 by a group of ''Sailor Moon'' Fen who thought the laws their governments had recently enacted regarding [[handwavium] were too stringent. They left en masse for [[Luna], landing in Mare Serenitatis because that's where the original story put the kingdom's capital.
After the initial rush of being in space wore off, life in the Silver Millennium Kingdom quickly started to become uncomfortable - the settlement was too far from [[Kandor City] and [[Port Luna] to have easy access to the infrastructure that was being created, and too poor to hire [[Hermes Universal Deliveries] to deliver supplies on a regular basis. The colonists deliberated, made what they considered to be a courageous decision, and invited fans of similar works to join them in order to increase their numbers. (The group was still popularly called "the Senshi", though - some habits are difficult to break.) The acceptance of this invitation by groups of other magical-girl Fen, feminists, and equal-rights promoters slowly increased the settlement's wealth as well as their numbers. It also brought them to the attention of a wealthy person in [[Cislunar Space] who shared many of their views on life, [[Yayoi Fujisawa]. Yayoi visited the Kingdom, paid for some desperately-needed essential equipment out of her own pocket, and made a few suggestions. In exchange, the colony very nearly elected her to be the first Queen Serenity; only her insistence that it would be better to choose a leader who was committed to the faction got them to change their minds. Yayoi left as soon as [[Serenity I] was chosen, but by mutual agreement kept her ties to the Sammies, and Serenity I named Yayoi the first of the Named Sailors: Sailor Stellvia.
Three of Sailor Stellvia's suggestions were taken to heart almost immediately. The first, and easiest to implement, was a change of names from Silver Millennium Kingdom to the '''Crystal Millennium'''. This changed the group's focus from dwelling on the past to looking toward the future, and inspired the faction to create something big. (What, they weren't yet sure. But whatever it was, it would be ''big''.)
The second was to institute a permanent search-and-rescue group for the benefit of all. The '''Sailors Armed Militia''' quickly became a respected part of Fen life, with the "Sammies" acting to preserve lives wherever they could and asking nothing in return.
The third was to create something that people would want to visit. Having sightseers visit was an easy way for a settlement to keep in touch with other groups, and the money the visitors spent could be used to purchase a few luxuries - given their recent history, the Crystal Millennium deemed both of these to be important considerations. To this end, the faction built the '''[[Moon Kingdom Memorial Outpost]''' in Mare Serenitatis as a tourist trap.
In mid-2009, '''Yoko Kayabuki''' came up with an idea for a major project: The terraforming of the planet [[Venus]. The idea caught the imagination of the entire faction, who gained approval for the '''[[Venus Terraforming Project]''' at the first [[Fenspace Convention], Anticipation. As a reward and an encouragement to continue coming up with good ideas, [[Serenity I] named Kayabuki-san her Prime Minister, a position she still holds in 2014.
The faction left a token presence at the Moon Kingdom Memorial Outpost and moved to [[Mare Marginis], on the far side of [[Luna]. There they built the headquarters of the Venus Terraforming Project, '''[[Crystal Tokyo]''', and used the process that had previously been used on [[The Island] to launch the entire city into space. Further Unreal Estate followed Crystal Tokyo - [[Crystal Paris], [[Crystal Seattle], [[Crystal Osaka], and others - built from both the Lunar regolith and transparent carbon sheets harvested from the atmosphere of Venus. The Senshi built eleven cities then discovered there weren't enough faction members left to populate a twelfth; the few Senshi remaining on Luna decided to remain there and build ships for the faction instead of joining their sisters above Venus.
In late 2010, the Terraforming Project created processes (with the assistance of Sailor Stellvia's employer, [[Stellvia Corporation]) to turn some of the hydrocarbons they were extracting from Venus' atmosphere into various fuels. This secured a stable funding base for both the Senshi and the Stellvians, and brought the two groups into close cooperation on many matters of concern to both.
Corruption within the Venus Terraforming Project and the Sailor Armed Militia came to light in 2013, in the middle of the [[Boskone War]. Early in the year, it was discovered that [[thionite] was a byproduct of the terraforming bacteria being produced by Crystal Osaka - this was discovered by the faction leaders during a battle which caused the outright destruction of that city. Four months later, one of the connections that the [[Boskonians] used to ship the drug from Venus to the rest of Fenspace were discovered when the commander of Crystal Paris' Sammies was acting as a lookout for a large drug ring. The Sammies have recovered from that revelation, but not without some lifestyle changes being instituted, especially in [[Crystal Kyoto].
The Senshi continue to terraform Venus, promote Love and Justice throughout the Solar System, and provide a place for independent women to live their lives to the fullest no matter their background.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Mind you, I still have to come up with something for the Outpost...
==History==
The '''Silver Millennium Kingdom''' was established in early 2009 by a group of ''Sailor Moon'' Fen who thought the laws their governments had recently enacted regarding [[handwavium] were too stringent. They left en masse for [[Luna], landing in Mare Serenitatis because that's where the original story put the kingdom's capital.
After the initial rush of being in space wore off, life in the Silver Millennium Kingdom quickly started to become uncomfortable - the settlement was too far from [[Kandor City] and [[Port Luna] to have easy access to the infrastructure that was being created, and too poor to hire [[Hermes Universal Deliveries] to deliver supplies on a regular basis. The colonists deliberated, made what they considered to be a courageous decision, and invited fans of similar works to join them in order to increase their numbers. (The group was still popularly called "the Senshi", though - some habits are difficult to break.) The acceptance of this invitation by groups of other magical-girl Fen, feminists, and equal-rights promoters slowly increased the settlement's wealth as well as their numbers. It also brought them to the attention of a wealthy person in [[Cislunar Space] who shared many of their views on life, [[Yayoi Fujisawa]. Yayoi visited the Kingdom, paid for some desperately-needed essential equipment out of her own pocket, and made a few suggestions. In exchange, the colony very nearly elected her to be the first Queen Serenity; only her insistence that it would be better to choose a leader who was committed to the faction got them to change their minds. Yayoi left as soon as [[Serenity I] was chosen, but by mutual agreement kept her ties to the Sammies, and Serenity I named Yayoi the first of the Named Sailors: Sailor Stellvia.
Three of Sailor Stellvia's suggestions were taken to heart almost immediately. The first, and easiest to implement, was a change of names from Silver Millennium Kingdom to the '''Crystal Millennium'''. This changed the group's focus from dwelling on the past to looking toward the future, and inspired the faction to create something big. (What, they weren't yet sure. But whatever it was, it would be ''big''.)
The second was to institute a permanent search-and-rescue group for the benefit of all. The '''Sailors Armed Militia''' quickly became a respected part of Fen life, with the "Sammies" acting to preserve lives wherever they could and asking nothing in return.
The third was to create something that people would want to visit. Having sightseers visit was an easy way for a settlement to keep in touch with other groups, and the money the visitors spent could be used to purchase a few luxuries - given their recent history, the Crystal Millennium deemed both of these to be important considerations. To this end, the faction built the '''[[Moon Kingdom Memorial Outpost]''' in Mare Serenitatis as a tourist trap.
In mid-2009, '''Yoko Kayabuki''' came up with an idea for a major project: The terraforming of the planet [[Venus]. The idea caught the imagination of the entire faction, who gained approval for the '''[[Venus Terraforming Project]''' at the first [[Fenspace Convention], Anticipation. As a reward and an encouragement to continue coming up with good ideas, [[Serenity I] named Kayabuki-san her Prime Minister, a position she still holds in 2014.
The faction left a token presence at the Moon Kingdom Memorial Outpost and moved to [[Mare Marginis], on the far side of [[Luna]. There they built the headquarters of the Venus Terraforming Project, '''[[Crystal Tokyo]''', and used the process that had previously been used on [[The Island] to launch the entire city into space. Further Unreal Estate followed Crystal Tokyo - [[Crystal Paris], [[Crystal Seattle], [[Crystal Osaka], and others - built from both the Lunar regolith and transparent carbon sheets harvested from the atmosphere of Venus. The Senshi built eleven cities then discovered there weren't enough faction members left to populate a twelfth; the few Senshi remaining on Luna decided to remain there and build ships for the faction instead of joining their sisters above Venus.
In late 2010, the Terraforming Project created processes (with the assistance of Sailor Stellvia's employer, [[Stellvia Corporation]) to turn some of the hydrocarbons they were extracting from Venus' atmosphere into various fuels. This secured a stable funding base for both the Senshi and the Stellvians, and brought the two groups into close cooperation on many matters of concern to both.
Corruption within the Venus Terraforming Project and the Sailor Armed Militia came to light in 2013, in the middle of the [[Boskone War]. Early in the year, it was discovered that [[thionite] was a byproduct of the terraforming bacteria being produced by Crystal Osaka - this was discovered by the faction leaders during a battle which caused the outright destruction of that city. Four months later, one of the connections that the [[Boskonians] used to ship the drug from Venus to the rest of Fenspace were discovered when the commander of Crystal Paris' Sammies was acting as a lookout for a large drug ring. The Sammies have recovered from that revelation, but not without some lifestyle changes being instituted, especially in [[Crystal Kyoto].
The Senshi continue to terraform Venus, promote Love and Justice throughout the Solar System, and provide a place for independent women to live their lives to the fullest no matter their background.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012