So when do we get to see Sailor Eris, Naoko?

[shinzakura]

So, the wannabe 10th planet finally gets an official name. Somehow, it fits, since the finding of the former-Xena ultimately led to the demise of Pluto's status as a grand planet, symbolically similar to the way that Eris' namesake, the goddess, started the Trojan war by handing an apple off to the wrong person at the wrong time (yes, apples tend

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[flinkie]

Mercury's not a bad idea, but I like Venus as an option as well - you sure as hell aren't gonna hide outside on the dark side of the planet, in a spacesuit...not whenever the external pressure's enough to crush a submarine AND melt down most of its wreckage, /at night/ no less.

Of course, if you want something that NOONE COMES BACK FROM throw a prison around Nemesis. Life sentence ahoy, if you've got a drive big enough to get there in a relatively reasonable amount of time. And there ain't NOWHERE to go from there.

[shinzakura]

Actually, in our series, Venus isn't an option anymore, as it's undergoing terraforming to "improve" it to look like the Mohave Desert. In fact, Venus looks like something in between New Edwards from Macross Plus and Venus in Cowboy Bebop.

I suspect that Pluto and Eris are UNEG military early warning stations, since there's no practical use for them otherwse.

[flinkie]

You should read the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. REALLY good hard sf and projections into the future; one of the ideas to terraform venus was first to change the rotation rate of the planet by running a longitudinal series of massive strips of conducting metal, that wouldn't be bothered by the heat, and then massive EMP generators in orbit. Let the electromagnetic resistance begin changing the spin to something more earthlike, and then start attacking the atmosphere

[silverlightstar]

To me, Pluto is still a planet (and a Senshi), thankyouverymuch. ^^

Interesting that they named that dwarf planet Eris.