At 10:34 AM 5/13/97 -0400, you wrote:

	Hiya!

	Just been plotting some stuff out, and, much to my surprise, I 
discovered I needed a little background info on the two animes in the 
subject line (I had never intended to refer to them...)

	First:
	The first moon kingdom - when did it collapse?  How much is known 
about the Earth kingdom that Endymion came from?

Quite a bit.... He was the Prince, and he had four generals (Kunzite, Neflite,
Jadeite, and Zoicite). Queen Beryl took over and started to turn everyone
against Prince Endymion by using the power of Metallia (who was born from a
sunspot on the Sun). Beryl was from Earth too.

	And if I remember - the assault on the moon kingdom was from 
Earth, backed up by various demonic forces - or am I wrong?  Any word of 
what happened to the other planetary kingdoms?

Yes, it was an assualt on the moon, and the other planets (inner) were 
ravaged too. The outer senshi were supposed  to only defend the solar
system from invaders from OUTSIDE the solar system, and they were also
forbidden to talk to each other or the other senshi and had to stay on
their planetary castles. (I can get the names of the castles if you need
them)