--- DB Sommer <sommert@connecttime.net> wrote:

Had to use an old program to do this:

Program: "I'm not over th' hill jesss yet!'

Oh dear. Another one by the esteemed AT

...I just realized.  The way my life is going, it's not inconceivable
that I'll wind up helping build something very close to an AT-AT, or at
least AT-ST, some day.  (Not just a small scale mockup or toy, but the
full-size real thing.  Maybe without the chin blasters, though.)  But I
digress.

 >Minako the Unstoppable Conqueror.

Like Gemma from Ninja Scroll, eh? Movie. Not the watered down T V
series

She wishes her life was just a watered down TV series.

 >No, *Sailor Venus* the Unstoppable Conqueror.  Minako the Girl Who
 >Never Could Keep A Guy, Who Still Ditzed Out Way Too Often, Who
Never
 >Really Got To Have A Normal Life, and Who Was Utterly Terrified Of
What
 >She Had Become.

I much better, of perhaps too descriptive title

Hey, this is Minako we're talking about.  She does not lack for
imagination.

 >Yes, that was more like it.  It was Sailor Venus who had lead the
 >conquest of China and Korea.

Chinese and Koreans must have beed damned pissed over being conquored
by the
Japanese yet again

Well - as noted, this was a primarily cultural conquest, which is
defined in part by the "conquered" voluntarily giving themselves to the
"conqueror" without need of physical coercion.  (Part of my inspiration
was the "cultural conquest" victory from Civilization IV.)

 >the concept of a people ruled by the positive side of their hearts.

Well, 'positive side' as defined my Minako.

Of course.  But it's Minako who is "speaking".

Although the appeal of a benevolent dictatorship such as Usagi would
mean
for the most effective form of ruling. Not necesarily the best.

Again, with "effective" and "best" defined subjectively.

 >Who, in the end, managed to take over the world on Serenity's
behalf
 >(with assistance from Mercury's scientific revolutions, Jupiter's
 >martial prowess, and especially Mars's spirituality) while shedding
as
 >little blood as possible.

A billion or two, but it was just as well since the world was
overpopulated.
It just meant that would be able to introduce a zero population
growth plan
as opposed to reduction plan.

Debates over whether the world is indeed overpopulated aside
(especially with carrying capacity enhanced by tech), Serenity's
preference was more to exile than to kill.  But Minako wouldn't dwell
on that.

 >Oh, there were still those who debated "Japanese" and "American"
and
 >"French" and "Arabian" culture - but, frankly, the differences
between
 >them paled to insiginificance when compared to those of a mere
century
 >ago.  Sailor Pluto said Crystal Tokyo - the future one she had
 >travelled to, in the seemingly endless adventures of her first few
 >years as a magical girl - was still nine hundred years away.

 But Serenity was of the opinion if it worked, why wait, and jumped
the gun
several hundred years. Why wait on perfection? It would be evil not
to lead
them.

Maybe their rule would last nine hundred years.  Or maybe jumping the
gun was why they couldn't get around to establishing the "real" Crystal
Tokyo for a thousand years.

That said, yes, Serenity definitely would jump the gun in that
situation.

 >Hers had been a lifetime of cultural manipulation.  An idol, an
 >actress, an author, a composer, a producer

Whore, well, cortesean, but that was a fancy term for whore

Not at first: servicing just one, or a few, at a time is horribly
inefficient when you've got billions to pacify.  But once virtual
reality progressed to allow tactile stimulation as well...well, she saw
it as another facet of "idol" and "actress".  Especially with the
promotion of lesbianism and bisexualism so that she could service most
women that way too.

 >attempted suicide - only to wake up with her skin smooth and
unscarred.
 >Sometimes Serenity - never Usagi, not any more - or one of her
other
 >friends would standing

stand or be standing

D'oh!  I thought I checked for that.

\>single story, a single culture, a single religion - if worship of
 >Serenity counted as such

if religion= faith, then probably yes, she is

Depends on one's personal definition of "goddess".  Serenity was far
from the first to rule as if she had the power of divinity - but may
have been the first on Earth to actually wield such power, so she
didn't need to repress as harshly those who might doubt her power.

 >Time for a break.  Minako leapt from a fourth story window
headfirst
 >towards a private, shrubbery-hidden piece of pavement, where she
knew
 >from experience that no one would accidentally stumble across her
 >knitting body.  If she couldn't find permanent peace with herself,
at
 >least death could be a temporary substit-

I think other people found this abrupt, but I understood it fully. I
think
it works as is.

It was intended to be abrupt.  Death in that manner has a way of
interrupting the newly deceased's train of thought.

Nice job.

Thanks.  ^_^

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