From:	"Mark Latus" <Mark.Latus@msvu.ca>
Organization:  Mount Saint Vincent University
To:	sme@planetx.org
Date:	Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:27:17 -0400
Subject:       Re: Return to Earth Beta (was Re: Stephen and Daisuke as we
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> From:           "Berk' Watkins" <lilin@ufl.edu>
> To:             "Mark Latus" <Mark.Latus@MSVU.Ca>
> Subject:        Re: Return to Earth Beta (was Re: Stephen and Daisuke as well as a  
> Date sent:      Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:50:47 -0000

>     I'd like some details on this story.  Sure, during this time Chrys is 
> just getting ready to fight The Forge, but it would be nice to know what's 
> going on.  Maybe Beta-Chrys can find a way back.
>
Digging out the old description (written when SME was just me & Andy 
and he wasn't calling it that) here's what we have

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DKR series 2 - four closely interlinked stories.  Set a year or 
two after the Black Moon War.  I'll have to coordinate with you as to
who's still alive, name of Calcite & Minako's child, etc.
"Lord of the Abyss"
"Mindscapes"
"Nemesis"
"Descendants"
Rough outline.  Rebuilding is going well but Calcite and the rest of 
the DKR are bothered by dreams that seem like memories of their long 
dead counterparts.  The dimensional gate opens and Zeus and Hades 
(now known as Knight rather that Sailor) arrive from New Camelot.  
Ares has been having visions which indicate Calcite is linked to 
avoiding some disaster that is approaching.  It turns out to be a 
setup by neoMetallia who intends to take out Queen Serenity/Astoria
Pendragon then lead this continuum's counterpart of Nemesis to 
victory over New Camelot then use it as a bridgehead to take out
Crystal Tokyo.  With the dimensional gateway jammed Minako, the DKR 
and the Knights are on their own.
"Descendants" will probably be the most interesting to write as it'll 
be narrated by Ruby Aino, wouldbe writer and one of Cal & Mina's last 
kids (apart from the one who was just conceived) who's about 110 
years old at this point.  It'll start pre CR with her planning to do 
a biography of her father and forcing her mother to accompany her as 
she visits Margrave, Azurite and the rest of the DKR.  It'll also
feature Adamite and a bit about the Berylists.  They maintain that 
Beryl was the victim of a smear campaign and the DKR sold her out in 
exchange for power when the Senshi took over the world.  They also 
claim to have photographic evidence of Setsuna on the grassy knoll 
but let's not get into that. 
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Things have changed since that was written.  Pluto's existence is 
unknown outside of the CT Court, the Berylists got mentioned in BWB,
only Zeus will initally show up in CT, the first story will now be 
titled "Shadow of the Overlord" but overall it holds up.

A few more details
"Shadow of the Overlord" - All DKR members having disturbing dreams 
from POV of long dead counterparts.  Zeus arrives with prediction of 
doom and asks DKR to cross over.  Accompanied by Minako & Margrave in 
catform they do.  Cal discovers that Zeus (unaware she'd become 
immortal & see ever see Cal again) has created romantic legend based 
on herself and Gray (allegedly leader of the mysterious heroes of 
Avalon who will return in our darkest hour, yadda yadda ...) about 
their "tragic" separation a millenia ago.  Minako very unamused.  
Hermes has mellowed and is married to Beta-Ferrite.  A mysterious 
entity  attacks Calcite, Minako tries to save him and gets zapped.  
Cal apparently hurt but recovering while Minako comatose.  Queen 
Pendragon (Beta-Serenity) attempts to heal her.  Entity was using 
Minako as Trojan Horse, drains power from SC & puts Pendragon in a 
coma.  Entity assumes the form of the Overlord and vanishes.  Chaos 
ensues

Mindscapes
Ti enters Cal's mind and learns truth about entity.  1000 years ago 
the Overlord attempted to merge with the Abyss and become the new 
Metallia.  He failed but his mind formed a template and over time it 
memories actreted about it and it became sentien.  While largely 
composed of the Overlord's memories it knows it is a distorted copy 
and loathes itself almost as much as it hates everything else.  From 
the Abyss it was able to trace the DKR back home and has been 
watching them, planning revenge on both them and Earth Beta.  Ti 
revives Cal and he enters Minako's mind to try to revive her.

Nemesis
On Beta the city state of "New Camelot" developed a lot more 
militaristically than "Crystal Tokyo".  In fact after the so called 
"Unification Wars" of the 21st century it rules the world.  They went 
into space the same way resulting with contact with Nemesis in the 
25th century.  After initial conflicts a cold war ensued with NC 
holding out the asteroid belt and Nemesi holding inward to Saturn.  
Jupiter and the space between remain neutral territory filled with 
sensor satellites and defences.  NeoMetallia is about to tip the 
balance.  Having made contact with Ali & Ann's parasitic offspring 
(having consumed all life on their last world they are desperate) and 
promised them the colonies on Mars and in the belt it is going to use 
their organic stealthed spacecraft to penetrate the terran defence 
lines.  Plus with Pendragon & the SC out of action Earth has lost a 
major defence.  Beta-Diamon is about to launch his invasion unaware 
that Wiseman has been overwhelmed and absorbed by neoMetallia with 
the energy it stole from the SC.  What no one knows is it's all a 
sideshow.  "Don't look so surprised Diamon, I'm a mega villain.  It's 
traditional for me to betray everyone and try to destroy 
everything."  NeoMetallia's real purpose is to access the Kronos 
(Saturn) doomsday machine and destroy everyone.  Then he'll break open 
the dimensional seals on the Dark Kingdom and the youma will come 
forth and rule Earth again.  "And this time I'll get it right!"  Cut 
off from their own Earth by dimensional jamming Cal, Mina & the DKR 
are about to go through a different version of the BMW.  Except this 
time Earth is a lot better prepared.

"Descendants"
Its plans ruined neoMetallia crosses to CT intending to get personal 
revenge by killing Cal & Mina's children.  Needing a host he manages 
to temporaily overwhelm Rei but he needs a youma body.  Lucky he's 
got one in mind.  Azurite & Pyrite's son, Adamite.  But there's some 
very angry people in hot pursuit.  When the dust clears both Adamite 
& neo Metallia are dead.  Azurite announces her pregnancy and 
that she'll be terminating it if there's any sign it'll turn out like  
Adam.  The story concludes with the birth of Sylvite, a healthy & 
normal renegade.

Don't expect it anytime soon.  But here's the prologue to "Shadow of 
the Overlord"

     Let me tell you a story.
     Once upon a time there was a magical kingdom.  It was ruled by a 
queen who was not particularly wise, nor kind, nor just.  Still this 
was all right as most of the people in the Kingdom were pretty rotten.
But there were a few who dreamed of a better world.  Then one day 
their dreams came true.
     Their Queen was going to attack another world despite all the 
obstacles against her.  For the other world was guarded by magical 
princesses, one of who held the magic jewel that had banished the 
queen and her army to their dark, unpleasant world long ago.  The
dreamers knew it would be a disaster but perhaps, just perhaps it 
would be an opportunity for them.
     Sure enough the Queen and her world were destroyed but he 
dreamers escaped.  Still events did not go as well as they had hoped 
for they were confined to a particular city.  As ultimate battles of 
good and evil occurred there on a regular basis life was not as 
peaceful as they had hoped.  Still it was better than the alternative 
so they learned to live with it.
     Then the day came when two battered princesses arrived from 
another world and the Dreamers learned that in another world they had 
followed their nightmares and brought darkness upon the Earth.  
Disturbed by this tale they journied to the other world and learned 
that their leader's other self had taken the name Overlord and made 
himself King of the Earth.  There was a battle between them and the 
Overlord perished.  The leader of the Dreamers decided to stay on 
this world.  Perhaps to prove he was not like the Overlord, perhaps 
to atone for the sins of the man he could have been.  He did not know 
his reasons himself for those who truly know their own hearts are rare 
indeed.  The other dreamers stayed with him and it was ten years 
before they departed the other world.
     They returned to their adopted world to find darkness had fallen 
upon it in their absence and the princesses were locked in their own 
dreams.  They awoke the Princesses and the Princesses drove the 
darkness from their world and built a magical city to live in.  They 
were grateful to the dreamers and offered them places within the 
magical city.  One of the dreamers became a magical princess, another 
married one of them.  The other two dreamers left the city but came 
back eventually to live within it.  All four of them set about living 
happily ever after.
     This was a bit harder than the stories tell and there were some 
bad times but mostly life was good and they were happy.  
     That was a thousand years ago.  They have forgotten the dark 
Earth, forgotten the Overlord.
     How very, very foolish of them.
     
end of prologue               

Mark

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