Either that or Sailor Venus now had black and white striped fur.
"Well, she's going to be a cop anyway," said one of the old men. "It's not like she's the only alien around, you know."
Setsuna twitched at the idea of Minako wearing a police uniform. Especially over her fur.
Were all of the former Sailor Senshi now aliens? If not, did that mean that Haruka and Michiru would be trying to kill those that were?
Ranma had forged a kingdom in the past in the ruins of the Silver Millenium, so how did that explain the appearance of aliens on the streets of Tokyo?
Setsuna turned the pages of the book and finally found an answer in one of the last places she'd look for it. The "forward" by some gaijin she'd never heard of named "as a shade of purple-gray."
The impact of actually getting into the Lunar Citadel, viewed since Galileo's days but inaccessible until the first Lunar Mission by the United States in 1962, cannot be underestimated by those who grew up in the era since then.Prior to that, all we had were scattered myths and legends that were apparently unconnected. Stories of a shining Camelot that was the inspiration sited in the Middle Ages tale, or in the Greek tales of a city that had rivaled Olympus. Myths had grown since the ruins on the moon were first detailed as more than a smudge. Tales of ghosts and aliens and worse.
The scrolls and the human if dessicated body put many tales to rest. The idea that there was a human connection came simultaneously with archaeological records being updated. Australopithecus was previously considered a human ancestor, which was now proven to be like the Neandrathal - a side branch that didn't survive the ages but which actually shared camps with "Java Man". After the scrolls were retrieved, it was found that early hominid die offs were caused by a war that split the groups that had existed beforehand and that this war was the result of a schism between the arriving neo-humans from space. Some of whom came to Earth, adding a fourth group to the mix. While Australopithecus apparently perished during a climatological change caused by the upthrusting of the Himalayas - Neandrathal itself was a casualty of a political struggle that had ended with only one human species from that point on. The input of some being known as Metal'la, apparently thought to be a refugee from the opposite side of the star sailors, was enough to doom humanity's cousins that were not simply absorbed into the common species.
We had met the aliens, and we were them. We were both the children of the Earth, and of Space. Nor were we alone. We were neither as savage nor as unconnected from space as we once thought.
It is due entirely to the discovery of the Lunar Scrolls that the process for awakening Talents (or ESPers if you prefer the older term) was discovered and that alien contact followed.
It was further stated by the Salusians that King Ranma had first sent a message in the years following the collapse of the Silver Millenium but that request for assistance had gotten lost in a bureaucratic foul-up until after Ranma's New Moon Kingdom had already passed into myth.
There it was. Setsuna closed the book, groaning with the realization. The Salusians had kept an eye on the system after that, then opened limited diplomatic contact in response to an innocently sent request for help that they had arrived too late for and probably still felt guilty about being the calvary that arrived after the battle had been lost.
Other races had no doubt followed suit. Once the story about the Salusian failure had gotten out, it would have been too good a story (or cautionary tale) not to pass around.
Sitting back and watching, Setsuna's breath caught as she spotted another familiar face. Or mostly familiar face. Another alien, and yet it was a face she knew quite well. It was:
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