As a thought to how the Senshi come together in the Spiral... I was thinking that something along the lines of the original SM Season 1 stuff might actually apply to the Spiral. Beryl and the Dark Kingdom might be a Taiidani protectorate, or minor kingdom in the Centauri Sextant. The seven Rainbow Crystals are scattered across the Spiral (which explains how the Senshi come together - Beryl's first attack is aimed at a target near Tsukino in the Humanx, the second crystal is in the Drac Combine, the third in Haven space...)
The Galactic Council also probably plays a role, as opposition or victim - which gives them a front-row seat to be impressed by the Senshi. The Council can then arrange to call in the girls for special missions, or put them on permanent troubleshooting retainer.
Dunno how well this fits with other plans, but it's an idea for how to get all these Galaxy-class characters end up on a single team. And is a bit subtler than having a stuffed plushie fall from the sky to bean Tsukino in the head, as well. :D
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Didn't Beryl and all happen already? Before the Great Templating anyway? I'd rather we let classinc SM villains rest, and have our reincarnated Senshi react to the nasties in ACTIII. Work bringing them together into that part ... somehow ... okay, so I haven't the foggiest _how_.
... need to ponder this ...
... I'm going out for coffee. See you tonight.
-Griever
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They have vague memories of each other from previous lives? a few of them randomly meet and pull of a combination attack and decide to stick together.
Lots of ways for them to meet.
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Okay, lessee what I've got noodling around in the back of my head.
Time setting: Thirty five thousand years ago, during the fall of the Silver Millenium. Beryl, priestess of the Elder Goddes Metallia, has breached the last defensive barrier surrounding the Galactic Leyline. The forces of the Silver Millenium wage a desperate, losing battle to hold back the enemy while Serenity the Younger, the two advisers from her council whose training most suits them to the task, her daughter and son-in-law work frantically to turn the tide of both the battle outside and the larger war in time to keep Cthulu in his seal and save the trillions of innocents endangered by the Tar-Aiym's desperate gamble with a weapon known only as Azathoth.
They fail.
The defenders, line soldiers and Senshi alike, are slaughtered, and as Beryl herself bursts into the Leyline's control chamber, the young lovers spend their own lives to give Serenity the critical seconds to activate the ancient device.
A moment later, Serenity and the single survivor of the guard detail, Senshi Pluto, are the only living beings present. Healing the gravely wounded warrior is a matter of only a thought, and gathering the souls of the fallen only slightly harder, but what comes next is considerably more difficult.
The tremendous, ancient, incredibly complex spells that kept the ten worlds of the Silver Millenium habitable have been sundered by the Cult of Metallia, and will fail within a matter of hours - condemning every single person on those worlds to certain death.
The Leyline has sufficient power to repair them, but the task is beyond the skills of any mage still living - and more, there is no time.
So, instead, Serenity commands the Leyline to find the ten worlds in the galaxy most suited to maintaining the lives of her people... and then to scoop up the population of each of the Millenium's worlds wholesale and teleport them to their new homes.
That done, she sends out a probe to check the status of Cthulu's prison... and finds it fatally weakened, to the extent that even the tiny effect of her probe is enough to shatter it, and release the god.
Even the Leyline has limits, and while Serenity manages to defeat the god and rebuild the seal, the backlash of the battle wounds the queen fatally, and, more, disrupts the sealing so that, rather than being an improvement on what it replaces, it is instead fatally weaker... and, distorted by Azathoth's nearby power, fatal to every speck of life or spark of light across a vast swath of the galaxy.
The dying queen's last act is to tie the preserved souls of the fallen to a warning system that will reincarnate them when the new seal begins to fail, and provide a critical warning of and defense against the awful threat.
Fast forward thirty thousand years.
Pluto is still alive, and has spent the intervening time trying to build up her own resources, and, somehow, prepare for the inevitable clash.
When, finally, her sources tell her that the Leyline has triggered the first of its reincarnations (Venus), she promptly starts looking. Unfortunately, even with thirty millenia of practice and functionally unlimited spending cash, the galaxy is a big place.
However, the Queen's advisors - who survived the battle - are part of a species with an unusual ability. They can empathically 'tune' themselves to a single individual, and gain, among other things, an unerring sense of their partner's physical location.
And, not wanting to miss the fun, they've spent the intervening years in stasis, waiting for the chance to be of use.
Cue Artemis.
Pluto drops him on the right planet, and then goes back to waiting. Eventually, some of the other senshi are born, then, finally, the princess - who would be the only person able to access the Leyline or any of the other various surviving artifacts that were keyed to her family along.
Cue Luna.
And then Pluto-chan discovers something interesting - that the interaction of probabalistic threads within the magical signatures of the senshi seems to be working to bring them all together in the same place.
She learns this when she's sitting in a coffeeshop on Luthien, taking a break, and Mars and Jupiter walk in the door, chatting like old friends.
Cue spit-take.
Other notes: Senshi can recognize each other instantly; they don't neccessarily -realize- it, but there's a voice in the back of their head that starts chanting "Friend! Friend!" every time they see each other. It doesn't have to be in person; just a recognizably good picture. However, it -doesn't- happen with perfect body doubles - only the real deal.
And that's as far as I've gotten.
Blessed be.
-n
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This would be the point where the Secret Ideological Organization ACROSS steps up to bat, I think.
ACROSS, being the type of organization looking for People with Power and the right kind of mindset to topple the preexisting structures of the Spiral and replace them with Utopia, notices the Senshi right off the bat and recruits (most of) them as they get out of high school (or the local equivalent). As every last one of them is a pretty high-ranking Talent, they get plenty of assignments. These assignments start out small and fairly local (Agent Tsukino, for example, is told to set up a data tap in City Block F of Pyrea Station, with the help of two senior ACROSS agents who shall remain nameless for the moment. ;) ) but start ranging further and further out as each Senshi gets experience and the ability to extend her range.
Once the Senshi are becoming extensive galactic travellers, the Leyline takes over. One of the sub-directives hidden in Serenity's last program is intended to make sure that the Senshi and the Princess meet and bond appropriately - after all, they're not much of an effective force against R'yleh if they're scattered and alone, are they? Of course, Serenity wasn't expecting them to be reborn on different sides of the damn galaxy...
Anyway, when the Leyline's "come together" directive starts running, little subtle things (butterfly effect, dontchaknow) start nudging the Senshi closer and closer together. Like, for example, a wholly unrelated series of events involving a bad datacrystal and a banana peel result in a Kentaran Mechwarrior playing tourist on Venus running into a native med student and her Midgardian best friend...
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>>The dying queen's last act is to tie the preserved souls of the fallen to a warning system that will reincarnate them when the new seal begins to fail, and provide a critical warning of and defense against the awful threat.<<
Where is it, where is it... Aha!
>>Ami Mizuno, physician in training, galaxy rank cryokinetic, and - nominally - an expatriate Midgaardian living in the Commonwealth. In fact, she is a Vorlon, a junior member of one of thousands of Societal Monitoring Teams conducting anthrosocioological research on the other civilizations of the Spiral.<<
Would that not make Mizuno a rather *young* Vorlon? At what age do they reach enlightenment, anyway?
-Dro'gan, called Niteflier-
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>>You're assuming that Ami's as young as she looks<<
Unless the Leyline knew that she would be reborn as a Vorlon, would not it have sent her spirit back at nigh the same time as the others?
And if it *did* know, then HOW?
(Mind you, I'm just trying to make a little sense here. It could be that these questions won't be answered until someone writes a story to explain them.)
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Okay, throw Mina in there as well. How'd the Leyline know about what they would be reincarnated as?
(As a thought, if it did know, then that means Ami might have been reborn a relitivly short time after her death, say a few centuries or so. Hmmmn. Interesting)
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> Okay, throw Mina in there as well. How'd the Leyline know about what they would be reincarnated as? <
For a dumb machine, it's pretty smart.
> (As a thought, if it did know, then that means Ami might have been reborn a relitivly short time after her death, say a few centuries or so. Hmmmn. Interesting) <
Well, -individual- Vorlon don't live that long. Six or seven centuries, tops.
I do think that, proportional to their expected lifespans, the Senshi are all about the same age.
Blessed be.
-n
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