FTL Travel/Teleportation
Canon (What Happened)
Teleportation is the main faster than light (FTL) travel method in the series. The Sailor Scouts can use Sailor Teleport, and the Black Moon Clan uses parts of the Malefic Black Crystal to teleport for instance. The Malefic Black Crystal can also transport the user through time as well as space, making it special. Other organizations like the Dead Moon Circus and Shadow Galactica can also use teleportation, and the Death Busters are attempting to bring Pharaoh 90 into the Solar System. Sailor Scouts can also fly through space if needed, but this takes far longer. Some teleportation methods are more efficient than others.
Curiously, there are no large spaceships in the series. The main spaceship of the R season is Rubeus’s UFO which is not that large. The spaceships seen in Super S are also not particularly large either. Shadow Galactica, most strangely, seems to have no large spaceships (at least in the anime) despite being a galactic empire. Why is this so?
Theory
The teleportation methods used in Sailor Moon for faster than light travel can only teleport a certain mass or volume. This means that most inter-system spaceships will be below a certain maximum size for the faster-than-light travel or teleportation needed to move them.This prevents teleportation or faster than light for capital ships, and this explains why there are no capital ships in Sailor Moon. Since capital ships would take too long to move to other solar systems, they would be too impractical, or would only be used in a single system.
The “Old West” of Galactic Settling
There is a “land rush” in space which constitutes claiming as many planets as you can govern if there is enough unclaimed territory. Crystal Tokyo used nanomachine replication technologies to make colony ships faster, which could develop into bases on other planets. With the improvements on FTL teleportation technology made in the 2090s in terms of greater “jump drive distance”, it was therefore quite easy for Crystal Tokyo to settle nearby star systems outside the Solar Systems with bases. A greater “jump drive” distance means faster and easier settling. There was quite a bit of expansion room before running into other polities, which were respected. In about 40 years or so, over 100 planets had been surveyed and bases built using replication technology. The planets that were habitable were considered for settlement once there was enough interest to settle them.
Other polities also had their own land rushes where there was available room for settling. The combination of more room, credibility from Sailor Moon/Neo-Queen Serenity saving the galaxy in the Shadow Galactica War, and superb governance meant that Crystal Tokyo became a de facto galaxy leader by 2100.
I think the galaxy will have some Old West equivalents or archetypes to it. Settling outside your solar system is difficult because of how FTL travel might work. There are many planets that are inhabitable, but many polities never had the resources or political will to settle them. Most galactic governments will likely consist of one or a few neighboring systems (except for the Watchers of the Deep Core or other civilization in the galactic core where the star systems are less spread out.). The galactic frontier settling, however, is more likely to be settled in a more organized way than the historical settling of the American West. (Do note that popular perceptions of the Old West often exaggerate the level of violence.)
So how does the reborn Senshi work? Yes, Sailor Zacharia has an eagle companion. She is also part of a Sailor Guardian team of nearby systems. Yes, she will one day meet Neo-Queen Serenity. Let's hope this isn't awkward.
Canon (What Happened)
Teleportation is the main faster than light (FTL) travel method in the series. The Sailor Scouts can use Sailor Teleport, and the Black Moon Clan uses parts of the Malefic Black Crystal to teleport for instance. The Malefic Black Crystal can also transport the user through time as well as space, making it special. Other organizations like the Dead Moon Circus and Shadow Galactica can also use teleportation, and the Death Busters are attempting to bring Pharaoh 90 into the Solar System. Sailor Scouts can also fly through space if needed, but this takes far longer. Some teleportation methods are more efficient than others.
Curiously, there are no large spaceships in the series. The main spaceship of the R season is Rubeus’s UFO which is not that large. The spaceships seen in Super S are also not particularly large either. Shadow Galactica, most strangely, seems to have no large spaceships (at least in the anime) despite being a galactic empire. Why is this so?
Theory
The teleportation methods used in Sailor Moon for faster than light travel can only teleport a certain mass or volume. This means that most inter-system spaceships will be below a certain maximum size for the faster-than-light travel or teleportation needed to move them.This prevents teleportation or faster than light for capital ships, and this explains why there are no capital ships in Sailor Moon. Since capital ships would take too long to move to other solar systems, they would be too impractical, or would only be used in a single system.
The “Old West” of Galactic Settling
There is a “land rush” in space which constitutes claiming as many planets as you can govern if there is enough unclaimed territory. Crystal Tokyo used nanomachine replication technologies to make colony ships faster, which could develop into bases on other planets. With the improvements on FTL teleportation technology made in the 2090s in terms of greater “jump drive distance”, it was therefore quite easy for Crystal Tokyo to settle nearby star systems outside the Solar Systems with bases. A greater “jump drive” distance means faster and easier settling. There was quite a bit of expansion room before running into other polities, which were respected. In about 40 years or so, over 100 planets had been surveyed and bases built using replication technology. The planets that were habitable were considered for settlement once there was enough interest to settle them.
Other polities also had their own land rushes where there was available room for settling. The combination of more room, credibility from Sailor Moon/Neo-Queen Serenity saving the galaxy in the Shadow Galactica War, and superb governance meant that Crystal Tokyo became a de facto galaxy leader by 2100.
I think the galaxy will have some Old West equivalents or archetypes to it. Settling outside your solar system is difficult because of how FTL travel might work. There are many planets that are inhabitable, but many polities never had the resources or political will to settle them. Most galactic governments will likely consist of one or a few neighboring systems (except for the Watchers of the Deep Core or other civilization in the galactic core where the star systems are less spread out.). The galactic frontier settling, however, is more likely to be settled in a more organized way than the historical settling of the American West. (Do note that popular perceptions of the Old West often exaggerate the level of violence.)
So how does the reborn Senshi work? Yes, Sailor Zacharia has an eagle companion. She is also part of a Sailor Guardian team of nearby systems. Yes, she will one day meet Neo-Queen Serenity. Let's hope this isn't awkward.