Editing Sailor Moon (section)

=The 'verse=
The central conceit of Sailor Moon is that, in a lost era, humanity had a great civilization that stretched across at least the Solar System, a civilization that derived its powers from [[magic]]. The ruler of this solar empire reigned over everything from her homeworld on Earth's moon, but Earth, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto all had their own sub-rulers. The last heir to this empire was the Princess of the Moon, who was engaged to the Prince of the Earth. The two were very much in love, but of course there was trouble on the horizon; another woman loved the Prince of Earth, and she become so consumed by envy and jealousy that she sold her soul to dark powers (no, not '''[[Ravenloft|those]]''' [[Dark Powers]]) for the magical might to take what she wanted. In a single night of slaughter, she overthrew and destroyed a centuries old civilization singlehandedly... but, ironically, she failed to get what she wanted, as the Moon Princess and the Earth Prince died rather than surrender to her will, using the divine artifact that was the central hub of her civilization to cast their souls an unfathomable distance into the future to be reincarnated.

The series proper begins when those reincarnations finally come of age...