Thy Will be Done

Forward

by Craig Beard

Begin at the beginning and end at the end? In this case, that's a little difficult without ruining at least one of two tales from which Thy Will be Done had its genesis. So let's instead try being a little different and beginn in the middle and end in another omniverse. :)

Hello and welcome to the tale I like to consider both a companion story to Mark Latus's _Thy Kingdom Come_ and an inevitable consequence of an event in a series of my own of which none of you will yet be familiar. For those reading this before taking a look first at (at the least) Trenchcoat Mask, all the Dark Kingdom Renegades tales up to and including TKC and at least the first two parts of Craig A. Reed's Windwalker Chronicles, stop right now - you most definitely shouldn't be reading this first; it simply won't make sense. For those who have decided Frank and I don't know what we're doing regarding TWBD's WWW page and so are reading this before the prologue, stop making executive decisions for yourself, ^_^ go back and read things in the correct order. :) For those who, after looking at the prologue, are shaking their heads and saying: `Now hang on a minute! I'm sure I remember some of these characters from something he wrote way back when Noah was still building the Arc but they weren't in SME last time I checked so what in the Abyss is going on?' please be patient; all (or at least some things) shall be revealed.

I first intended to contact the SME authors (and Mark in particular) in mid '96 with the idea either of writing for SME or at the least requesting that I be allowed to use some SME ideas and in particular the concept of Synchronistic Zones and Youma renegades as a part of my Dark Chronicles saga, quickly abandoning the second idea as distinctly unimaginative on my part ) and the first simply because I didn't have the time. Almost three years passed and DC languished to the point where I'd pretty-much accepted its demise when, unable to sleep in the middle of an April night and having just finished rereading the entire pre-CT DKR storyline, I decided almost on the spur of the moment to put together a new proposal for SME that could expand on the Beta-SM universe as portrayed in TKC while perhaps reawakening DC by using an event in that series (not yet included in DC but glimpsed at the beginning of TWBD Ch. 1) and seven of my own DC characters I considered had too much potential to waste should DC itself finally be laid ingnominiously to rest.

My first proposal which included TWBD (and also two further stories set in the Alpha universe) was rejected as being both too dark and introducing too many new (and worse, paranormal and pseudo-immortal) characters to an already heavily populated Earth-Alpha, something none of the authors felt they should have to deal with. I was ready to forget the whole thing but felt I owed the idea one more try. To my surprise, offering to dump the Alpha tales and keep my characters entirely in the Beta (or at least out of the Alpha) reality (a state of affairs with which I was far from unhappy as the other stories had been no more than a convenience to get them out of SME once TWBD was over) removed almost all the objections, a little fine-tuning and my assurance that TWBD would in no way be linked to DC (another condition I was more than willing to accept as it would be impossible for their to be any connection in any case) all that was needed to make TWBD at least a potential reality.

It's been nearly two years and DC has been given at least a potential new lease of life while I've been ironing out TWBD's outline and working on concepts for a BGC alternate that will explore the story of the Bu-33DA-Elite buma as it unfolds without the events of DC and an SM tale in no way related to anything else. Perhaps the first year of the twenty-first century will be as productive as I've planned, but time will tell.

Craig (15th of December, 2000)

Acknowledgements:

I'd like to thank the following people for help and inspiration (whether large or small) without which this tale would not have been possible.

First and foremost, Takeuchi Naoko for a creation of such depth and richness: had she not conceived any of this, Sailor Moon Expanded simply wouldn't exist.

Next, Mark Latus, not simply for creating the Dark Kingdom Renegades but for conceiving Thy Kingdom Come and with it the Beta-SME SM universe without which TWBD would not have been possible.

Lastly, the SME team as a whole for both their comments on TWBD itself and for giving an already rich universe a scope and depth second to none in the short history of Anime fanfic.

SME-specific Copyrights:

This work is copyright and permission to distribute it on a non-proffit basis is given by me so long as not a single byte of any file has been tampered with (disregarding anything a designated WWW/mailing-list administrator or RAAC moderator might have to do of course ^_^ ) and it is distributed in its entirety. No unauthorised copying, broadcasting, public performance or appropriation of characters and concepts in full or in part (save with regard to other members of the Sailor Moon Expanded team of course) is permitted without written permission from me first. This work may not be distributed for profit or in or with a commercial publication without written permision from myself. Joanna Marina O'Reilly, Marina Alekseyevna Zhuranovskya, Liana, Camilla, Ligeia, Rhiannon and Lenore are Copyright © 1996-2001 by me as is the Bu-33DA-Elite Buma concept as a whole and definitely can't be pinched by any non-SME member under any circumstances without my written consent. Unlike many fanfic creations, these characters appear in slightly altered form in original works and thus are protected under international copyright law. All characters specific to Thy Will be Done are Copyright © 1999-2001 by me and the same rules apply. Anything else native to SME canon is copyright their respective owners so please talk to them if you want to use something they've invented. Everything else not native to any canon is Copyright © 1999-2001 by me unless someone suggests ideas to me that I like and they're willing to let me use. In that case the ideas remain entirely their own unless they specifically tell me otherwise and the copyright for them is theirs so you'll have to ask them if you can use them. :-)

Non-SME Copyrights:

First and foremost, Sailor Moon is Copyright © 1996-2000, Takeuchi Naoko / Kodansha / Toei Animation / Asahi TV / DIC / CWI (even though there may be some question as to whether these last two deserve to retain it).

As for the rest below, the first five only make one tiny cameo and the last three merely get mentioned but I'd better do the right thing.


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