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Title: The Sunlit Millennium
Series: Sailor Moon
Rating: Teen. This is a Choose Not To Warn experience.
Characters: Mostly original, with a few canon faces dropping in.
Disclaimer: Unless you count in dreams, Sailor Moon was never mine.

Bits and bobs from a loose remix of the Xyll Saga, redone from the ground up to use entirely Egyptian mythology and take place during the Sailor Wars.

The fic will be split up into a series of connected stories, and I make no promises to cover everything, because the pressure is lower that way ^_^; Text will all be on the AO3, with links and background information indexed here.

( Links under the cut )

Type: Shameless self-indulgence.
Spoilers: Severe
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The very last of these posts! All the Xyll-related material is up now. If you've been holding off on browsing, now's the time to start. If you've just been waiting for it to be over, your flists are now clear again ^_^

This is the real-world history of the saga: how I started writing at 11, had a complete draft I was (mostly) satisfied with at 15, and ended up shepherding it mostly-unseen from hard drive to hard drive until age 24. Possibly there is nobody else in the world who will care about this, but since you could say the same about the fic and that didn't stop me, I may as well go all out.

If nothing else, it's a cute insight into the mind of a 10-year-old who sees the world through Sailor-Moon-colored glasses, and what came of it.

( It all began in elementary school... )

Type: Worldbuilding, background information
Spoilers: Severe
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I don't remember the logic behind much of anything in this timeline. Probably most of the dates were handwaved. And in retrospect, I'm not a fan of the whole "Earth is the origin of humanity in the SM universe" thing. For one thing, the plethora of other mostly-humanoid species — e.g. Mau cats, Coronis crows, Xenian Flowers, Makaiju space elves, possibly Kakyuu & the Starlights — suggests that there's a galactic template going around, with no indication that humanity has to be its ur-example. (My bets are on Guardian Cosmos.)

You won't need to read the timeline before tackling the story, and in fact probably shouldn't, since the spoilers are pretty blatant. (The date range sweeps from the beginning of humanity to Crystal Tokyo.) All you need to know going in is that the action takes place while the Silver Millennium is still thriving.

All text that follows is taken directly from the timeline written in (real-world) 2002.

( The Timeline. )

Type: Character profiles
Spoilers: Severe
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The current attacking forces of the Dark Kingdom. Featuring a queen, four generals, one brainwashed senshi and one brainwashed love interest, because That's How It's Done.

This covers all the bad guys. Several profiles never got written at the time, so I've added them retroactively, along with some notes on the originals. Anything written in 2012 is in italic text.

Non-italic text and images that follow are taken directly from the profiles written in 2002-2003.

( The servants of Metallia. )

Type: Character profiles
Spoilers: Moderate
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A roundup of the non-superpowered good guys. They're the ones the Sailor Senshi are sworn to protect, but it goes both ways: our heroines never would have made it without the help.

This covers all the named characters who are neither royalty (i.e., senshi and their relatives) nor evil. Recurring ones have their own descriptions; one-offs are mentioned as part of somebody else's. One profile never got written at the time, so I've added it retroactively, along with some notes on the originals. Anything written in 2012 is in italic text.

Non-italic text and images that follow are taken directly from the profiles written in 2002-2003.

( The support crew. )

Type: Character profiles
Spoilers: Severe
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Just because the story mainly takes place in one star system doesn't mean we won't hear from others. Particularly the "Great Senshi", the ones who preside over fundamental forces of the universe, and always seem to come in pairs. (Well, except Eternal Sailor Moon. She stands alone.)

Here be spoilers. Probably guessable ones, but still...humor me and read the whole saga (now half posted!) before proceeding.

All non-italic text and images that follow are taken directly from the profiles written in 2003.

( Senshi of time and space, memory and oblivion. )

Type: Character profiles
Spoilers: Moderate
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Profiles and information about the Xyll system's five planetary senshi, better known as the princesses of their respective kingdoms. (Well, one of the "kingdoms" is post-revolution and another got the planet blown up under it, but you get the general idea.)

Ages are in Earth years, because it was easier than trying to calculate individual sidereal periods for each of the planets, or working out another standard scale to which everyone in the system would adhere to. Birthdays are also in Earth dates, and were chosen to line up with the personality-relevant Earth zodiac signs. In retrospect, I really wish I had made up a Xyllian zodiac and stuck that on the profiles instead.

Sailor Dido's attack is one used by Sailor Jupiter in the manga. That's deliberate. Jupiter learned it from her.

The princesses' first-gen designs all had mundane common-English names. Their designs here have basically the same names with -ity tacked on the end. (Guess which one is the self-insert. No, go on. Guess.)

Text is from the profiles written in 2002. Images are from The Star Crystal Four, drawn in 2012.

( The senshi of the Star Crystal. )

Type: Worldbuilding, background information
Spoilers: Moderate
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Within a reasonable warp proximity to the Sol system is the star Xyll (so named because I thought it sounded cool). It boasts five rocky planets, all inhabited, all named for mythological figures chosen largely at random: Rhea, Dido, Hestia, Antigone, and Chronos.

The outermost planet, Chronos, has a very large moon, not that that will be plot-important or anything. I mean, who ever heard of a sailor for a moon? Plus, it doesn't fit with the rest. At least they all managed to have Greek names, while Chronos' satellite is named for some random Egyptian deity. No way that's going anywhere.

Diagram of the planets

(On the original website, this was an image map with a bunch of links. Here, you get everything in bulk pages, no clicking necessary. Exciting!)

All text and images that follow are taken directly from the profiles written in 2002.

( Welcome to the Xyll System. )

Title: The Xyll Saga
Series: Sailor Moon
Rating: General audiences, but this is a Choose Not To Warn experience.
Characters: Mostly original, with a few canon faces dropping in.
Disclaimer: Unless you count in dreams, Sailor Moon was never mine.

Before the fall of the Silver Millennium, the princess of a neighboring star system seeks to awaken her fellow Sailor Senshi to repel the Dark Kingdom. Granted, if one of the team died in the initial attack, her quest may have failed before it began...but with refugees to protect, brainwashed comrades to rescue, and an invading enemy force to outrun, our heroes don't have time to think too much about that.

Rhea sprite