"As I understand it," said the semi-divine being (third class) known as Mambo Jack, "these SM tagged timelines all involve a Silver Millenium, usually involving a Moon Kingdom. In most of them, the kingdom falls due to a certain unrequited love affair and the presence of a Class III (subclass: Vampiric) Entity named Metal'la. There's a major juncture point in these SM timelines where the Silver Crystal is first used to gather up the various heroes and send them forth to be reborn in another millenium."
"So these are standard timelines," said the beholder, focussing three eyes on Jack and two on his dim sum, while the rest rested. "Essentially the Crystal grants her wish as a magic lamp would."
"Pretty much. Roughly seven out of ten will have the wording just right so that the forces of darkness and light are basically in the same roles they were back at the end of the Silver Millenium. This is what usually happens: sentai magical princesses versus one set of vampiric or minor demonic opponents."
"Don't they have better armor?" Tennyson asked. "Human flesh tends to accumulate injuries when not armored."
"Uhm. No. Not typically of an epic fantasy setting," admitted Jack. "Anyway. Out of a hundred, ten will have it so that the groups are still heroes and villains reborn - but neither Dark Kingdom or Moon Kingdom. Those are the ones with superpowered teenage mutants or more Western style superheroes as opposed to the mystic sentai-style types of the Moon Kingdom. Another ten percent, roughly, will have the Silver Millenium champions be absolutely normal people. In those, if their opponents show up their world ends shortly thereafter or other champions arise."
"What of the remainder?" Tennyson asked.
"Real weird stuff, caused by a miscasting of the spell or the terms being lousily set," Jack admitted. "The Millenium Crystal, after all, is essentially a device to grant wishes, with the emotional or spiritual strength of the user being the battery it draws on. And you *know* how wild wishes can get. So in some: the Senshi are superpowered vampires, or Princess Usagi's birth gets thrown off by a decision to freeze the fertilized ovuum until the Tsukino family gets their finances under better control, or they're children of the gods, or something *really* bizarre like the one where they're superpowered android teenaged girls, or even the one where they're pokemon. Pokewomen. Whatever."
"Hmm, so what's this one now that that one Senshi's mucked things up with the paradox storm?" Tennyson focussed most of his eyes on the display.
"Too many paradoxes, too much time travel, all intersecting in a chaos node with a known harbinger of chaos," said Mambo Jack. "The universe moved to correct itself, and Sailor Pluto well and truly FUBARed the situation. Looks like the new reality is:"
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