Other populated places for Ranma to become a senshi of...

[Wyrd]

My computer died, so I won't be able to be on all that much in the near future. The blue screen of death has itself died. It doesn't even manage to load up far enough to show me that any more. I hope to be able to check in here occasionally, though.

I like the idea of Doctor Who Senshi. Sailor Gallifrea could be fun, of course, but I just love the very idea of Sailor Raxacorocophallibitorious. A slythein or a Dalek in that little dress? Hilarious.

I've considered writing a crossover fic with SM and Naruto, where Naruto's world wasn't as hard hit in Beryl's rebellion and managed to hold onto more of the magic of the Silver Empire. This knowledge was mostly on how to fight with magic, as it was initially used to hunt down and wipe out the yoma that managed to escape being sealed away by Serenity. You could also take this the other way, and use it to put a Naruto character in the SM verse. Maybe Konatsu starts to remember his prior life as Hinata, or any of the other kunoichi. It would explain how well he can act female and how good he is at learning kunoichi skills if his prior life was as one.

Chewbacca's homeworld was Kashyyk, and looked nothing like in the prequels(*cough*Lucas sucks*cough*). Solo's homeworld was Corellia. A senshi of the Rancor homeworld could be played up for laughs.

Some fantasy examples that I haven't seen: Krynn from Dragonlance(a kender Senshi would drive everyone nuts, though there are plenty of other races you could use), or Faerun, the setting of Forgotten Realms. The planet for Children of the Sun is never named, though it could be good.

A Sailor Pern could also be interesting, especially if her powers extend to her dragon and to any fire lizards she has bound to her, allowing them to teleport to Earth or other worlds. It is set way in the future, but the dragons have the ability to jump through time as well as space, so one trying to jump back to Earth would jump to the time pictured in the image she used to focus the jump. If that particular picture happened to be of Tokyo during the right time...

I forget the name of the planet, but the Atevi could be interesting in a crossover. 2 1/2 to 3 meter tall catlike beings with an absolute obsession with math and calculating omens.

Most series that are quite clearly not set in our universe on our Earth don't bother naming their planet unless there is some element of space travel involved. As such, you could declare any such series that you want to cross over with SM to be its own planet, named by you, with the character you are bringing in as a Senshi of their world.

[Dumbledork]

How about the home planet of the Thundercats?

[Spokavriel]

Thundera. But it kinda blew up. The series takes place on Third Earth.

[Crescent Pulsar R]

I'll add Thundara anyway, in case anyone wants to do something with it (like prevent it from exploding or something). Besides, senshi still have their powers even after the place they're supposed to protect is gone, so... I'll also add Third Earth.

Wyrd:

Well, you certainly made it fun for me, with all of the things I had to look up.

(I don't read much in the way in books, so no one assume I know what you're referring to. In fact, all I've ever read are: Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar and Serpentwar sagas, The Hobbit, and Harry Potter. That's it. I've heard of and picked up a few things about this and that, but not much. Which is how I was able to add "Randland" from Wheel of Time. It's hard not to know about it, since I've read some Ranma 1/2 fics that crossovered with the universe. Weeee~)

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

A C'tarl C'tarl senshi would give Luna nightmares. But I can't find the name of their home planet.

[Crescent Pulsar R]

I can't, either. Even after I found out that they belong to the Outlaw Star series. ;p Ah, well.

[Wyrd]

Thundara wasn't destroyed, merely conquered, and the population scattered to other worlds. There was even a series done a while back that tried to restart the Thundercats after they returned to Thundara. There was a bit of a time skip while Lionel was inside a book learning how to be a proper leader. When he got out, Mum-ra had come back(he had supposedly been permanently killed for real this time) and had taken over the world. He'd made Cheetara and Wily-kit his sex slaves. It was meant to be a darker and more adult version, but it didn't last.

[Crescent Pulsar R]

I can't imagine why. XD

Huh. It somehow failed to cross my mind until now, but I suppose that Asgard and Niflheim, from Aa! Megami-sama!, counts. Maybe Yggdrasil, too?

[Comartemis]

The Disc.

[Spokavriel]

Haven't heard of that "Restart" attempt. But I do remember Jaga making it clear in season 2 that Thundera exploded.

[Crescent Pulsar R]

The Disc.

Yes. Definitely Discworld. Now I must bang my head on something for not thinking of it sooner.

Well, at least I remembered Memorze, another planet that's in To Love-Ru.

[camk4evr]

Haven't heard of that "Restart" attempt. But I do remember Jaga making it clear in season 2 that Thundera exploded.

Here's a link to the Wikipedia article. According to it Thundera was destroyed only for it to be reconstructed by Mum-Ra. The 'restart' that Wyrd mentioned sounds like the Comic Book miniseries Reclaiming Thundera which ended with Lion-O trapped in the 'Book of Omens' and the follow up miniseries The Return in which Lion-O returns to find New Thundera enslaved by Mum-Ra. The only information about a new TV series I've found is that Cartoon Network will be airing a new Thundercats series in 2011.

(I never did watch much of Macross. Do they have homeworlds, are do they live in their spaceships?)

The zentraedi live out their lives on ships. The only homeworld they'd have would be the protoculture's since they were the one's who created the zentraedi.

Now to bring this post on topic, the only three worlds mentioned in the various Macross series (besides those in our solar system) that I can think of off the top of my head. Namely Zola, Eden, and Varuta.

[Dumbledork]

Have I already mentioned Eternia and Eteria from Masters of the Universe?

[Crescent Pulsar R]

If not you then someone did, because I know they're on the list.

Now to bring this post on topic, the only three worlds mentioned in the various Macross series (besides those in our solar system) that I can think of off the top of my head. Namely Zola, Eden, and Varuta.

Am I to guess that they're all in the same continuity?

[Wyrd]

The Robotech novels were surprisingly well written, and took the imformation and plot holes revealed over the course of the various series to build a moderately hard sci-fi series while retaining everything that happened in the first series. I've only managed to find the first couple of volumes of the second series(where they are driving tanks), the rest are all out of print and I don't even know how many ever got published. In those books, the actual homeworld of the Zentraedi was the home of the Robotech Masters. They were engineered from workers of their race with the original intent of being miners on a different world, which I suppose you could then consider the Zentraedi homeworld. When they first went to war with the Invid, they altered the programming given to the clones to make them soldiers instead of workers. The vulnerability to music was an intentional flaw in the design of their revised programming made by the scientist in charge of the procedure because he disagreed with the whole thing. When he finally had an opportunity, he used music to convince the crew of what was later named the SDF-1 to rebel and sent it away to keep it out of the hands of the Masters when it looked like they were going to reclaim it. The Invid homeworld was destroyed by the Masters to eliminate the only natural source of protoculture so they wouldn't have to worry about anyone developing the same technology to use against them. Destroyed could just mean bombarded from orbit, though, and just because it was destroyed wouldn't stop there being an Invid Senshi.

I notice that nobody seems to have brought up any video game worlds. Any of the Final Fantasy series could make good homeworlds for Senshi. I especially like the idea of Sailor Spira being a summoner and summoning Shiva in a battle, convincing the Earth Senshi that she is just another dark general of the latest invasion force. Rogue Galaxy has a number of worlds that could be interesting, as could the worlds of the Star Ocean series. Just about any RPG could be considered, since what you really need is a strong story to have something to work from. A few FPS like Halo give you enough backstory that you could use worlds from them as well. Heh, Sailor Zerg and Sailor Protoss...

The homeworld of the Predators could be used as well. Any of the planets from Firefly would be good candidates for Senshi, especially since the system it is set in so closely resembles the Silver Millenium, down to virtually every rock big enough to have appreciable gravity being colonized. It could be that they weren't able to terraform the other worlds in the Sol system because they had already been terraformed once, leaving insufficient resources on those worlds to redo the process.