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Tens of thousands of years ago from modern time, things were very peaceful. There had been no war or violence for many years and all the planets were in harmony. Each planet had a kingdom which was guarded by a powerful protector who was born from the very element of the planet to which she is to protect and is known as the Sailor Soldier, elite protector of the planets kingdom. All the planets in our solar system were strongly allied among each other. The leader of this alliance was the Moon Kingdom because the royal family who lived there was the most powerful. The Moon Kingdom was so powerful, in fact, that natives born there could not die of natural age or disease all because of the power alone. The entire Moon Kingdom power rested within the Silver Millennium Crystal.

Earth was a slightly different story, they resided in the dark ages at a time when all the continents were connected and ruled by a single kingdom. Earth was also not at peace, they often had battles and conflicts between each other and many times were at war. Because they were in the dark ages they knew nothing of such things as other planets, stars, and such. Most especially, they never suspected that there were people living on the moon they see every night. Queen Serenity of the Moon Kingdom kept it this way and intentionally isolated herself from Earth. Despite this isolation, she did have a soft spot for them in her heart and longed for a time when all the planets would be allied in unification. She also strongly desired to help them get out of the dark ages and become technologically advanced.

One day, Queen Serenity gave in to her soft spot and made contact with Earth. She successfully established alliance with Earth and began trading with them. The Moon Kingdom was highly sophisticated and advanced plus they could develop technology that is impossible to develop on Earth. The Queen also setup a means of free passage between Earth and the other planets. Now her vision of the ideal future was complete and every one of the planets within the Solar system were allied in one unification.

The alliance with Earth was very exciting and everyone welcomed Humanity. Shortly after, a prince by the name of Prince Endymion from Earth met the beautiful Princess Serenity from the Moon Kingdom. They both fell deeply in love and wanted to get married but Queen Serenity expressly forbid the marriage, Earth was allied with the other planets but it's still a separate kingdom meaning Prince Endymion was foreign to the Moon Kingdom and could never be engaged to anyone of that Kingdom.

Prince Endymion and Princess Serenity's love only got stronger and they began to get desperate. They began to arrange secret dates on Earth and the Moon. Often, Prince Endymion would attend parties held by the Moon Kingdom by dressing in a Tuxedo with a white mask on. This effectively concealed his identity from Queen Serenity and the Imperial Guards allowing him to court the Princess in secret. They knew this couldn't be kept up forever but were unsure what to do next.

Prince Endymion was the most honored and highest reputable prince on Earth. He had 4 loyal subjects, Nephrite, Zoisite, Kunzite, and Jedeite whom he closely trained. They began to notice the prince leaving for absence more and more frequently to the Moon Kingdom. Eventually they brought up this matter in front of him and explained he needed to get back to his duties as Prince. Queen Serenity also noticed Princess Serenity leaving very often as well for small periods of time. It was apparent something was going on.

An unexpected twist of events started happening on Earth which tore this secret relationship up. An evil person by the name of Beryl was starting a protestor group against the Moon Kingdom. She claimed that the Moon Kingdom was evil and must be destroyed at once. More and more people gathered together on her group until she could finally denounce herself leader after which she became known as Queen Beryl. It wasn't long before the central Kingdom on Earth agreed with her opinions and united with her making her the most powerful Queen on Earth.

Queen Beryl announced one night that that night they would lead a surprise attack on the Moon Kingdom and kill every baby, child, and adult in existence plus obliterate the Kingdom to dust. Prince Endymion, being the prince, knew of this plan and rushed to the Moon Kingdom to inform them of this attack. He requested to immediately defect to the Moon Kingdom and abandon his citizenship with Earth. Queen Serenity agreed under these given conditions and gave final consent for marriage after the battle.

The imperial soldiers of the moon kingdom lined up in preparation for battle. Sailor Moon and the allied Sailor Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto joined forces along with their soldiers. Queen Serenity was sure this was enough so she stood back and waited from her tower but the attack came in numbers so much larger than they expected. The Moon Kingdom was enormously outnumbered and was taken easily. Queen Beryl personally killed Prince Endymion, the traitor, directly in front of Princess Serenity. Out of grieve, the princess tried to kill Beryl but Queen Beryl was too strong and quickly killed her as well.

By then the Moon Kingdom had fallen, everyone but Queen Serenity and her 2 advisers Luna and Artemis had been killed. Queen Serenity, now without any kingdom and family, was greatly grieved and angered. She had to put a stop to this and she could. The Silver Millennium crystal is the lifeline of the Moon Kingdom and the source of all it's power. It works 2 ways, to give life or to emit power. Queen Serenity, the most powerful figure in the solar system, could easily wipe all evil away but at the cost of using all the crystals power in place of life energy. In other words, she would have to give up her life in order to produce enough power to defeat the enemy.

Being that her daughter was now dead, her kingdom destroyed and everyone she knew now killed. It wasn't a difficult option. She released her life through the crystal and in a blinding light trapped the enemy and everyone else including her own people who were already dead into a sphere. She now had 2 options, to destroy the sphere and forever kill Queen Beryl and her troops, or to send the sphere into the future where everyone can be reborn including her own people and her daughter who were killed. She decided on the 2nd choice even if it meant Queen Beryl would be reborn.

After sending all the souls into the future to be reborn, she died. But right before she died, and right before her advisers were sent to be reborn she gave them special instructions. "The biggest tragedy of this is that my daughter will never know who I am and will never remember all the memories we had together. She will only remember the facts of what happened. Luna, Artemis, when the time is right, you will remember everything. Find my daughter and gather the rest of the soldiers. She will be the only one who can prevent the events from happening again."

The video below is from the anime and covers the Moon Kingdom back-story as mentioned above but doesn't go into near as much detail: