Written by: Troy Silver Stanton

I'm going to try to keep this as simple as I can, so bear with me while I explain exactly how I've cheerfully mangled the Sailor Moon plot lines.

Sailor Moon V is a parallel story line to the original Sailor Moon story line. The split occurs between the American-Dubbed Episodes #6 (Time Bomb) and #7 (An Uncharmed Life). There, the first Dark Adventure of mine takes place (entitled "For The Love Of Mercury"). After that, the story lines run roughly parallel up until Episode #40 (Day Of Destiny). The major change with that episode is that no one loses their memories and Serena keeps the Crescent Moon Wand. At that point, the Sailor Moon plot line goes one way while the Sailor Moon V plot takes a sharp turn to deep left field. [grin]

I've already received several complaints about minor discontinuities in the stories. Keep in mind that this is a parallel plot and that small details may be out-of-order by either accident or design (or ignorance of the real answers). Also, keep in mind that my only source for information about the Sailor Moon "world" is from the American episodes from DIC. The known and obvious discontinuities are:

The incorrect spelling of Lita (I always heard it as Leda. I liked it so I kept it. Makes more sense, too, if you know alot about Greek mythology).

Darian's jeep (I knew he had a bike, but I wasn't sure about the car he drove. Having a jeep sounded cool so I let him have one).

Ami and Greg never really hit it off (namely because Ami has Tolaris).

Mina and her family live in a studio apartment (sounded cool when I first wrote it).

Chad's attitude towards Rei (Chad doesn't worship her as much as he does in the series and won't take a lot of her attitude).

Zoisite's gender (keep in mind my source for this....)

The incorrect spelling of Jaedite (wrote the 1st Episode before I found out how to correctly spell it).

Lita's past relationships (I only know she once had a boyfriend named Freddy who dumped her. Everything else you read about her past was made up by me).

Another potentially fatal mistake is the number of liberties I've taken with this story. Fan-fiction means I get carte blanche with the story lines, but I do hope I didn't go overboard. FAIR WARNING: The first episode is rather clean and nice, but (IMHBEO) the plot quality kinda drops a bit in the second story ("By The New Moon's Light"). Also, starting with the 2nd Episode, there are certain scenes that some readers may not like (ie: The various Scouts get some with their boyfriends....), so if you don't go for that kind of stuff, you are advised not to read it. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. [evil laugh] [Note: IMHBEO means In My Humble But Expert Opinion. Just so you know.]

The list of liberties are as follows:

Episode #1 (For The Love Of Mercury)

Tolaris's powers are modeled after X-Men's Storm.

Maze looks vaguely like Rei from "Vampire Hunter D".

The name/group "Dragoons" was taken from the game "Final Fantasy II"

Dyvach's name was adapted from "Taran Wanderer" by Lloyd Alexander.

Ensign Tempest looks an awfully lot like X-Men's Storm :)

The oft-used phrase "Ami, we've got to get you out more" was taken from a piece of fan-fiction entitled "Digital Moon" by Mike Koos. (I talked to Mike about that one and he kinda liked it. Thanks, Mike!)

Episode #2 (By The New Moon's Light)

Mina's ancestral lineage was based partly on Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Daigan's name was taken from somewhere, but I can't remember where :(

Daigan looks a LOT like Count Strahd from AD&D's RAVENLOFT campaign.

Shar-Tei's reflex power came from Robotech.

Episode #3 (Of Love And Crystal)

The Napoleon reference was adapted from a routine by The Greaseman. ("Napoleon, get your hand out of your pants and put it in your shirt. History will give you more respect that way....")

Episode #4 (Shadows Of The Past)

I make no apologies for the Smurf joke.

The MechBlaster 3000 was modeled after the heavy assault weapon used by Drake and Vasquez in the movie "Aliens".

The name Raijen stems from a mistranslation of Raiden.

The Highlander references stemmed from a converstation I had with one of my fan-friends. Thanks for the input, Skywise!

[Yes, I had to take some stuff out to save space. I can't put everything I wanted to into this Episode because I'm running out of both space and time.]

Episode #5 (Time Enough For Love) [Still being written]

Reish'id's name was taken from that super-old arch-enemy of Batman from the Animated Series (but I'm quite sure I didn't spell it right).

Reish'id's voice is modeled after Shere Khan's from "Tale Spin".

[Note: The fragment for the 5th Episode was hastily written down before I forgot another (IMHBEO) excellent plot. It won't be finished or worked on until I finish and release the 4th Episode.]

Still on the drawing board:

Episode #I (Interlude)

Yes, that is a capital i and not a Roman numeral. It's sort of the half-way point in my series, since the second 'half' is a time-jump of around four years. For those of you who've been waiting on edge since this started, Serena and Darian finally go at it in this one. It won't be graphic but you will get the general idea....

Episodes #6, #7, #8, #9, and #10.

I won't say much about the second 'half', but I will be bringing in the Outer Scouts (ie: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto). I have *NO* idea how they came into the regular Sailor Moon series, so I'm making *all* of this up and there is *no way* any of you will be able to see any of this coming. [evil diabolical laugh]

Other credits:

The names Kay, Morgan, and Minerva in reference to Sailor Scouts have been taken with permission from a piece of fanfiction entitled "Moonlit Desity" by Bill Barbas (cybear@netcom.com).

The names Alex, Susan, and Michelle in reference to the Outer Scouts were picked up from a discussion in rec.arts.anime, I belive (I could be wrong). I don't remember who said what, but my thanks to whomever was involved.

The name Zenida came from a long-forgotten schoolmate, Zenida Serrano.

The 'Dark' and related elements were taken from "Vampire Princess Miyu".

(Zenida, if you're out there, dig out your yearbooks from Mauka Lani and look through the one published in 1984. It should have just a simple red cover.)

It has been made aware to me that there is a group called the Psi-Corp on the television show "Babylon 5". I have never seen the show and any similiarities between Sailor Moon V and Babylon 5 are purely and entirely coincidential. It has also been made aware to me that another Sailor Moon fanfiction series makes use of the concept of 'extradimensional pockets' for the Sailor Scouts. Again, any similiarities between Sailor Moon V and that series (I don't know the name of it) is purely and entirely conincidential.

That should cover it, I hope. If anyone has any suggestions, questions, [sigh] flames, whatever, please e-mail me at stantont@mnsinc.com. Oh, and fair warning about typoes: My UNIX doesn't have a spell-checker yet, so if you see a typo, go ahead and correct it. Just e-mail me about it so I can have it fixed in the next revision/update.

One minor note: It seems that my stories are starting to pop up in bizarre places, like on private BBS's and such. I don't have any sort of problem with that at all, but I would just like to be informed of their "public" locations so I can easily have them updated if need be. Call it a personal quirk.

One semi-major note: I'm getting bombarded with requests to put my works on various web pages. My thanks for asking, but my permission really isn't needed for that. However, I will only be mailing the updates/new parts to the 'official' distribution sites, so please don't ask me to send you anything. If I sent one person something, I'd feel obligated to start sending requests to everyone and my mail server would physically come to my terminal and eat my hard drive. So to avoid any serious problems, I can't do private mailings. Deeply sorry.

As of August 12th, I am leaving for Army boot camp at Fort Jackson, SC. I will be spending 8 weeks there getting my butt whipped into shape, afterwards which I'll be moved to Fort Gordon, GA for 9 weeks of aditional training for my MOS. Unfortunately, this means that I won't be able to work on the series for at least 17 weeks. Also, since I will be elsewhere, my e-mail account will no longer be valid. I will resume writing my series when I get the chance and will somehow find a way to set up another e-mail account so everyone can continue to send me questions and comments. Just be patient with me as I will do the best that I can. But know this: One way or another, the series WILL go on in the future.

Special thanks to:

Michael Hokuda (jeant@hawaii.edu) for not only being the first person to give me a useful reply but for setting me straight on some of the details.

Artemis (vbaa85a@prodigy.com) for being gracious enough to put my stories on his web page (http://pages.prodigy.com/vbaa85a/stories.html).

MegaZone (megazone@world.std.com) for his eternal patience in dealing with me on the topic of archiving my stories at ftp.std.com. (I didn't mean to jam your mailbox like that while you were on vacation. Sorry.)

Jen Burns (jburns@longwood.lwc.edu) for not only putting up with me babbling about Sailor Moon since Oct. '95 but for keeping me from going overboard when it came to writing certain scenes.

Jason Hatter (towonder@cris.com) for also being kind enough to put my stories on his web site (http://www.cris.com/~towonder/fanfic.html).

The various personae at The Glass Dragon MUD (dragon.ods.com 4000) for putting up with my pestering everyone about wanting to read my works. (In case you care to know, my alias on there is Raijen since Silver was already taken.)

And last, but never least, a HUGE thank-you goes to Takeuchi Naoko for creating Sailor Moon in the first place.

Troy "Silver" Stanton
stantont@mnsinc.com
09 August 1996