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Once upon a time, before the archaeological record, there was an age when magic reigned over the world, and was as common as water and air. The Golden Kingdom of Earth had long since established internal peace, though it had to be actively maintained, still fraught with cyclical dissatisfaction and the usual attempts at power grabs and currying political favor. The Silver Millennium, ruled by the Moon and encompassing the rest of the planets in the Sol System, had been created by Queen Serenity in order to protect and nurture Earth, aeons before-- and its planets lived in relative peace and harmony, with little more than internal spats rather than any hostility.

This age ended when a monster that had long been sealed within Sol broke free of its bonds during a solar storm. It sought a path into the heart of Earth in order to use it against the Moon and gain the Silver Crystal, the source of the Silver Millennium's power. The monster's name was Metalia, and it found this path through a young seer of the Earth court, infatuated with the planet's Crown Prince. This seer, Beryl, was wracked with jealousy over his relationship with the Moon Princess, and willing to let corruption into her heart to gain the power to possess him. She sold her soul to Metalia, then spread the corruption with lies and unrest and magic, and finally with the seduction of the Prince's own guardians; in the madness that overtook the world thereafter, they burned their own cities for the energy to feed Metalia and invade the moon.

The Prince of Earth was left as the only protesting voice, and stood against his entire planet, his remaining subjects, insisting that the Moon was not their enemy; Beryl herself cut him down as he moved to protect the Moon Princess from the corrupted woman's blade. His guardians awoke from their madness with the shock of his death, but it was too late--

--just as the Princess' guardian Senshi were too late to stop the grief-stricken girl from taking her own life with the sword still slick with her love's lifeblood. 

With her daughter dead and her kingdom falling and the Earth she'd dedicated her empire to protecting in ruins, the only thing Queen Serenity could do was seal the monster so it could do no more harm, and use the last of her life energy to send the souls of all the victims of Metalia forward into the future, to be reborn in another age-- one hopefully free of the curse of Metalia, and free of the paranoia that had made it so easy to corrupt an entire planet.

The Sol System's Sailor Senshi, Princesses of their respective planets, died protecting Queen Serenity during her final gambit; their worlds -- unable to support life without the magic of Queen Serenity's Phantom Silver Crystal -- died along with the Moon and the civilization of Earth. Only Earth, which had generated and nurtured its own life, remained inhabited, its suddenly quiet and dim moon orbiting as a lifeless husk.

With the end of age of peace, all of the magic and magical warriors of the universe disappeared, whether they were outright killed in the final battle, snuffed out in the pyrrhic victory, or shunted off into pocket dimensional stasis. The Moon Queen’s final wish was to seal the demon from the sun, and it also sealed the doors of magic itself.

In the modern age of the world, the Princess of the Moon and her Sailor Senshi have been reborn, as well as the Prince of the Earth and his Shitennou. After a long and terrifying campaign that drew in all of the awakened magical heroes of Earth, the combined forces of kingdoms long past and newly born magics of the modern age managed to defeat the Dark Kingdom once and for all, and now stand ready to protect Earth as they did countless millennia prior.

==Apping Into the Theme==

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'''Senshi:''' On MahouMUSH, it will be possible to app OC Senshi from outside the Sol System once the in-game timeline has progressed to the Stars Arc and the Starlights become appable. Prior to that, the Outer Senshi and Sailor Chibi Moon will become appable as their stories begin. ''No Sol System OC Senshi will be considered.''

'''Reincarnations:''' Non-Senshi citizens of the Silver Millennium who may have been on Earth or the Moon during the final battle, and citizens of the Golden Kingdom of Earth, who may have had magic of their own and whose souls were sent into the future by the dying Queen Serenity, can be apped as reincarnations and grow into their powers and memories through various IC means.

'''Other Sources:''' You don't have to be reincarnated to come across an item of power dating back to the Silver Millennium or the Golden Kingdom, it just helps a lot. You ''are'' more likely to come across an artifact or something that might grant powers if you spend time around magical people; it's possible to app as nonmagical ('People of Tokyo' theme) and gain powers during roleplay, and this path is open to discussion.