THE QUEEN OF THE LUNARIANS

**THE QUEEN OF THE LUNARIANS** is the third episode of The Nixonverse. The episode acts as a prologue for the story of Luna, the eponymous Lunarian Queen.

## Overview

### Landing Area

The episode is a depiction of Apollo 11 moon landing.

The video begins on a black screen before zooming into a rotating map of the moon, which eventually centers on a location marked "Landing Area." The image then fades into a satellite image of the moon with the sketch of the landing area and surrounding region superimposed over the image.

### Home Video

The video then cuts to a home-video of a man showing a series of damaged photographs, with the text "Grandma tried to burn these" appearing over the entire video. These images appear to be from the moon landing.

The first photograph. depicts an astronaut descending the moon lander's ladder, while in the background there is a glowing figure. The second is the astronaut planting the American flag on the moon, with the figure still in the background. The third is the astronaut holding two containers, closer to the figure. The fourth is the figure standing atop the moon lander. Finally, there is a photograph of the figure standing with its arms outstretched, with the earth in the background.

### The Queen of the Lunarians

The video then zooms in and remains on the final image shown, as quotes from astronauts climb up the screen.

*"She was like a mirage, or some kind of fantasy"* - Pat Cleveland (American astronaut)

*"She doesn't wear shoes, winter or summer. Ask her where she's from... Mars?"* - Beverly Ann Johnson (American astronaut)

*"She's here. She will speak first"* - Ed Dwight (First man on the Moon).

The video focuses on Ed Dwight's quote, with his being the only one that is voiced. An image of Ed Dwight with the Queen of the Lunarians in the background is then shown, with the text "Before Ed Dwight stepped off the lander, the Queen of the Lunarians spoke the first recorded words on the Moon."

Images of the Lunarian Queen, Ed Dwight, Michael Collins, and John Glenn appear, as the audio from their meeting plays.

The Queen of the Lunarians speaks first, stating: *"Beauty is something else, something inexplicable that each person carries inside. This form of beauty related to Her visions. There's a great division coming about on this planet. There are going to be a lot of people who will die because they just don't know how to live. They don't know what life's about, they don't know how to give, how to love - nor do they want to. And those who are beautiful enough - I don't mean physically but something beyond that - they will have the chance to learn how to fly, to be beautiful, to rise above the level of the normal human - to be superior beings first and eventually gods and goddesses."*

Mike exclaims about how there is air on the moon before. John then orders Ed to fire his weapon at the Lunarian Queen. Ed complies, and his weapon can be heard firing as an image depicting a ray gun appears over his portrait. An image of a wand appears over the Lunarian Queen as John's portrait then fades from the screen.

### Certificate of Death

The video cuts to the "International form of medical certificate of cause of death" for John Glenn. The card shows that John Glenn was evicted from reality as a consequence of a "Lunarian encounter," and that his death took approximately 63 seconds. According to the card, the case has been officially closed.

## Notes

### Avenues' Note

Both the raygun and the wand depicted are symbols. They are stand-in representations for real-world devices. Similarly, the speaker emblem is indicative of dialogue being spoken on the Moon. Regards, the Avenues.

### Trivia

* John Glenn's cause of death, "Eviction From Reality" has been seen previously in the Monument Mythos as the method in which the Air Force One Angel killed John Rockefeller.
* In a distinct difference from our own timeline, Ed Dwight is depicted as being the first man on the moon, with Neil Armstrong being entirely absent. The real world Ed Dwight was famously the first African American to be in the Air Force training program for NASA astronauts, but was infamously rejected from officially joining NASA. He later went on to be a famous sculptor.