Greetings and salutations! I've only recently 
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please forgive me if I'm at all rude. Thus far I've found it most enjoyable 
and interesting and thought I should de-lurk.

On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Mr. the Rutsch wrote:

On Fri, 5 Jan 1996, Ken Arromdee wrote:

Yay!  A serious Sailor Moon fanfic!  This may be the first one I've seen...I 
forget.

    A voice shouts "Hands in the air and nobody gets hurt!"  A man pulls a
gun on Usagi and says "Okay, now we're gonna change these speeches a little.
The monarchy is draining the public dry and we're sick and tired of it!"
He tosses his own script at her, which she nearly misses catching.  His hench-
men, apparently hidden in the crowd, all pull guns on everyone, then the first
man says "Read it, now, or Small Lady gets it."

This plan is pointless.  Maybe I'm missing something, but if they don't 
hide the fact that they're forcing her to say it, nobody's going to be 
fooled into believing the speech.  It'd be more interesting if they 
secretly point a gun at her or her family and tell her to read the speech or 
else.  
Although it is a good idea, I know if I lived under the rule of Sailor 
Scouts I'd be the first one rebelling ^_^.  I've always wondered how the 

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hell these people would be proclaimed ruler of Tokyo/world. 
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I know SM isn't supposed to be taken seriously, but I've wondered about 
this myself. The Crystal Tokyo (Empire?) looks like you're standard 
variety utopia:bright, clean, shiny, peaceful and prosperous. Nice to see 
someone thinks there are some "malcontents" running loose. But I assume 
that the old Japanese Imperial House is gone. Given that HM government had 
wanted assurances that the Emperor would be left alone if Japan 
surrendered during WW2 and the sometimes violent behaviour of Japan's 
right-wing when it comes to anything regarding the Imperial institution, 
I figure some of Neo-Serenity's supporters spilt a bit o' human blood in 
bringing her and her clique to power...
	Some things just don't change no matter how pretty they get.^_^
(Polisci has made me waaaaay too cynical...)

Bob Batara
blakrose@uclink2.berkeley.edu