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From: "DB Sommer" <sommer@3rdm.net>
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Oh dear. Another one by the esteemed AT


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 >
 >Minako the Unstoppable Conqueror.

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

 >
 >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

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

Well, 'positive side' as defined my Minako.

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

Actually Legend of the Galactic Heroes addresses this, though no one would
call the Kaiser benevolent as much as he has defeated all of the corrupt
preceeded him. Yang Wenli would  probably have been content to allow him in
charge if he was immortal.

 >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.

 >
 >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.

 >
 >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

 >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

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

if religion= faith, then probably yes, she is

 >
 >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.

 >
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Nice job.

DB Sommer

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