RE: Crossovers that Should Be: Convergence of Secret Crisis Wars Across Infinite Fict...
04-19-2018, 02:35 PM
04-19-2018, 02:35 PM
I recently had this idea for a crossover involving Sailor Moon and the 1980s-era cult classic anime series Gall Force:
Essentially, what kicked off the events of both franchises were some highly-destructive wars that occurred in the prehistoric past.
In the case of Sailor Moon, there were some highly-advanced civilizations placed all across our Solar System, watching over the Earth as its own inhabitants developed their own civilizations; these interplanetary civilizations were collectively known as the Silver Millennium. The Silver Millennium was centered around a civilization located on the Earth's Moon (the Moon Kingdom). However, despite their advanced magic and technology and their use of highly-powerful so-called "Sailor Guardians", they couldn't prevent their own destruction at the hands of the malevolent eldritch being known as Queen Metallia. Earth ended up being the only planet left that was able to support life, and even then civilization had to restart from scratch.
In the case of Gall Force, things get a little more complicated. Two races, an all-female race called the Solnoids and an amorphous shape-changing race called the Paranoids, had been at war for centuries. The first entry, Gall Force: Eternal Story, involved a Solnoid cruiser named the Star Leaf whose surviving crew were trying to reach a planet named Chaos, a newly-terraformed planet in the Ninth Star System. Said planet is actually a moon of another planet, Terra, which developed on its own without any help/interference from either race. Along the way, they found themselves involuntarily subjected to an experiment. They later learned that said experiment was a part of a conspiracy involving several factions on both sides, who had realized that extraordinarily powerful weapons being developed by both sides were threatening to turn the war into one of mutual annihilation. The only solution that would stand a chance of offering a more peaceful (and survivable) resolution was to try to create a third race, hence the experiment. However, while an offspring is successfully produced, attempts by overzealous commanders to retrieve it force the remaining crew to sabotage the terraforming system on Chaos while sending the offspring and one of their own members off to Terra, the idea being that those involved in the project wouldn't come after them if they were believed to be dead. The survivors sent to Terra ended up becoming the first humans. Meanwhile, the Solnoid and Paranoid races wound up destroying each other despite efforts to get them to see reason (as documented in the next two entries of the series, Destruction and Stardust War).
Now, blending these two together would almost certainly take some heavy modifications to each others' respective timelines of events, but hopefully the end result should be of interest.
In this version, the Star Leaf travels to the Ninth Star System as part of an exploration mission to find new worlds for the Solnoids to terraform and make into a new home world (keep in mind that, in canon, the original Solnoid home world had apparently been destroyed by the war some time before the events of Eternal Story). Instead, they end up discovering the existence of the Silver Millennium. As events unfold, the crew decide that they should ask the SM's leadership to see if they could be the "third race" buffer between the Solnoids and the Paranoids. Things get even more complicated when several Paranoid ships show up as well. So now the SM is facing the very real possibility of becoming yet another battlefield in an interstellar war that's been growing ever more destructive. Then, on to all of this, add on signs that some malevolent force is stirring...
Long story short, several entire races are about to face their darkest days ever. What they need now is one hell of a miracle. Will everything end in tragedy and utter destruction, or can a Gallant Force arise to write a new legend across the stars...?
Essentially, what kicked off the events of both franchises were some highly-destructive wars that occurred in the prehistoric past.
In the case of Sailor Moon, there were some highly-advanced civilizations placed all across our Solar System, watching over the Earth as its own inhabitants developed their own civilizations; these interplanetary civilizations were collectively known as the Silver Millennium. The Silver Millennium was centered around a civilization located on the Earth's Moon (the Moon Kingdom). However, despite their advanced magic and technology and their use of highly-powerful so-called "Sailor Guardians", they couldn't prevent their own destruction at the hands of the malevolent eldritch being known as Queen Metallia. Earth ended up being the only planet left that was able to support life, and even then civilization had to restart from scratch.
In the case of Gall Force, things get a little more complicated. Two races, an all-female race called the Solnoids and an amorphous shape-changing race called the Paranoids, had been at war for centuries. The first entry, Gall Force: Eternal Story, involved a Solnoid cruiser named the Star Leaf whose surviving crew were trying to reach a planet named Chaos, a newly-terraformed planet in the Ninth Star System. Said planet is actually a moon of another planet, Terra, which developed on its own without any help/interference from either race. Along the way, they found themselves involuntarily subjected to an experiment. They later learned that said experiment was a part of a conspiracy involving several factions on both sides, who had realized that extraordinarily powerful weapons being developed by both sides were threatening to turn the war into one of mutual annihilation. The only solution that would stand a chance of offering a more peaceful (and survivable) resolution was to try to create a third race, hence the experiment. However, while an offspring is successfully produced, attempts by overzealous commanders to retrieve it force the remaining crew to sabotage the terraforming system on Chaos while sending the offspring and one of their own members off to Terra, the idea being that those involved in the project wouldn't come after them if they were believed to be dead. The survivors sent to Terra ended up becoming the first humans. Meanwhile, the Solnoid and Paranoid races wound up destroying each other despite efforts to get them to see reason (as documented in the next two entries of the series, Destruction and Stardust War).
Now, blending these two together would almost certainly take some heavy modifications to each others' respective timelines of events, but hopefully the end result should be of interest.
In this version, the Star Leaf travels to the Ninth Star System as part of an exploration mission to find new worlds for the Solnoids to terraform and make into a new home world (keep in mind that, in canon, the original Solnoid home world had apparently been destroyed by the war some time before the events of Eternal Story). Instead, they end up discovering the existence of the Silver Millennium. As events unfold, the crew decide that they should ask the SM's leadership to see if they could be the "third race" buffer between the Solnoids and the Paranoids. Things get even more complicated when several Paranoid ships show up as well. So now the SM is facing the very real possibility of becoming yet another battlefield in an interstellar war that's been growing ever more destructive. Then, on to all of this, add on signs that some malevolent force is stirring...
Long story short, several entire races are about to face their darkest days ever. What they need now is one hell of a miracle. Will everything end in tragedy and utter destruction, or can a Gallant Force arise to write a new legend across the stars...?