Moon Revolution

The **Moon Revolution** is a conflict between the planets and an alliance of moons.
The latter was originally founded by Titan after growing frustrated by how planets treat their moons, particularly after being belittled by Earth.

The Moon Alliance movement originally organized for a peaceful strike against the planets. However it started pursuing a terrorist agenda when its leadership was monopolized by Ganymede and Europa, who advocated wiping out life on Earth to send a message to the other planets.

## Background

Throughout the series, the planets have shown several degrees of contempt towards their smaller companions, treating them on varios occasions as trophies and things to show off.

In *The Moons of Saturn* and *The Moon meets Titan*, the latter was shown to greatly admire the Earth, however when Earth's moon presented him to the former in *The Truth about Titan*, an argument broke out as Earth became increasingly insecure about his uniqueness in the Solar System, offending Titan in the process.

Later, after Astrodude revealed in *Mission to Titan - Part 2* that Titan could sustain life, this motivated the latter to organize a strike that would demand an end to planets discriminating against moons, and was joined by Earth's Moon, and the Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos.

# Timeline of The Moon Revolution

## Founding and Early Objectives

The original plan by Titan was to gather moons and go on a strike in front of them, demanding equal treatment as planets. However, Ganymede, who had, along with the other Galileian Moons (Europa, Callisto and Io) just joined his group, eventually convinced Titan to pursue a violent strategy: they'll gather moons per usual, but instead they will do an asteroid bombardment attack on Earth, to kill all life on his surface, destroy his ego, and send a hostile message to the planets.

This change in tactics proved controversial, as Earth's Moon was fiercely opposed to a violent strategy, especially one that could kill all earthlings (like Astrodude's wife and son), and even Titan started having second thoughts. The former then decided to leave the group, but although Titan, as the formal leader, allowed him to do so, Ganymede and Europa (who were asserting their roles within the group) sent Callisto and Io to prevent him from leaving and telling the Earth, though the former had a change of heart and let him escape underneath the Asteroid belt without telling the others.

## The Recruitment

After that incident, the moons split up to recruit the Solar System's other moons: Ganymede would bring the Saturnian moons, Europa with the smaller Jovian moons, Titan, Phobos and Deimos for the Uranian moons, and lastly, Io and Callisto for the Neptunian moons.

## The Start of the Revolution

The overall objective remained attacking the Earth and killing all life on it, however in *The Battle of the Planets*, Europa and Ganymede decide to take a gamble and attempt to recruit Venus and Mars to their cause, despite the fact that they're planets, due to recent conflicts between the two and Earth. This attempt however was futile, as the two decided to protect the Earth despite their conflict. Because of that, the moons attempt to kill them both, to prevent them from warning the Earth and blocking their route towards him, leading to a fight between the two groups that culminates in the moons surrounding the planets, severely injuring them.

## The Moon Revolution Arc

In *The Moon Revolution - Part 1*, it is revealed that the planned angle of attack would be a pincer movement between two pairs of moons, a rapid bombardment, and a swift return to the asteroid belt, however with a great risk of alerting the Sun and attacking them with a solar flare. However, in *The Moon Revolution - Part 2*, when Earth's Moon arrived to confront Titan about the moons' attack on Venus and Mars. Ganymede and Europa told Titan that they didn’t only defeat 2 planets they removed any potential threat to Earth. Earth’s Moon disagrees of what they did and tells Titan to do the right thing and says the Moon Revolution is getting out of control. Titan said that he wanted to be the Earth more than anything and Earth said in return that moons should know their place. Ganymede said that the planets thought of the moons as inferior, and annoyance.

Ganymede persuades Titan into doing the wrong. The group decide to keep him as a hostage to lure Earth into the asteroid belt, to prevent their ambush from being spotted by the Sun. Callisto switches sides and throws an asteroid at Titan to let the Moon escape. Titan out some moons to block the Moon from escaping. The Moon tried to explain but they thought he was trying to buy time. Callisto and Io swoop in and destroy the moons blocked their way. Moon said that the gas giants are their only hope. Triton joins in and goes to get Jupiter while Callisto, Io, and the Moon try to buy time.

Phobos and Deimos were with them all along. They hated the Moon Revolution because they killed Mars but they still liked Titan. But on Triton’s end he finally made it out of the chaos and got rid the annoying kids. Triton does not want to do the wrong but he doesn’t want to search for the gas giants because if he does search for the gas giants he will get stuck with Neptune again. Titan, Ganymede, and Europa all go up to the Moon and tells him that it’s over. Titan then tells Phobos and Deimos to tell Earth that they got the Moon.

In The Moon Revolution - Part 3, Mercury is trying to take Mars and Venus out of the asteroid belt. Mars wakes up and Phobos and Deimos goes up to him. Earth comes up and ask what was going on. Mercury tells Earth that they were trying to defend him and then Phobos and Deimos tell Earth that Titan captured his moon to set up a trap.

Earth goes into the asteroid belt just like Titan planned. Earth tells Mercury to take them out of the asteroid belt. While Triton is trying to find Jupiter and Saturn but can’t find them when they are the biggest planets in the solar system.

Titan says that the Earth should be coming any second now. Titan made a plan to bombard the Earth with asteroids. The Moon says that he is going to wipe out all life on Earth and make them accept the moons. Titan said that it was better than nothing. The Earth finds Titan wants to talk.

Mimas asks Europa if they start attacking but she says to wait for Titan to give a signal. On Triton’s end he couldn’t find the gas giants and he tries to accept that the gas giants are gone. Earth talked about apologizing to Titan for being mean to him because it made Earth feel less special. Deep inside Earth recognized Titan was pretty awesome and he thought he would lose his friends if Titan reached Earth’s level.

Titan gives Earth a second chance and calls off the attack. Ganymede and Europa are mad at Titan because he calls off the attack when they have their chance to win. Then, Ganymede and Europa tell the moons to attack at Titan and the Earth.

In The Moon Revolution - Part 4, Ganymede tells the moons to attack but they ask if it’s even necessary. Then, Ganymede says to forget what they said and attack because they were so close. Europa persuades the moons into thinking about how their planet thinking of them as inferior. Europa says that they are one step away from victory and all they have to do to win is take it. Ganymede tries again and says to attack the Earth. As the moons are attacking Earth with asteroids, Titan swoops in and protects Earth from getting hit with the asteroids.

Ganymede asks Titan if he is trying to side with the planets but he says that they have caused enough damage. Titan goes to talk with Ganymede until Ganymede has enough of the talk and tells the moons to attack at the Earth again. Titan swoops in again but this time he uses his gravity to turn the asteroids back at them to hit Ganymede. Then, Titan starts chasing Ganymede while Europa tells the moons to attack at Earth again. But then the Moon, Io, and Callisto. Then, Earth finds out that Phobos and Deimos are helping too. Phobos says that no asteroid will get past them but then an asteroid gets past them.

As the asteroid was going towards the Earth, the Earthlings sends a nuclear explosive device to neutralize the asteroid. Meanwhile, Titan and Ganymede, combating each other, start arguing with each other. Titan exclaims that Ganymede "turned my protest into a war", with Ganymede trying to back down, saying that he was giving Titan what he wanted. Then, Triton finds Pluto and Charon and brings them back to the asteroid belt. They give a speech on how there is no difference between planets and moons. Pluto says that the rules the Earthlings made don’t mean anything. All the moons quit the Moon Revolution except Ganymede and Europa. They decide to play along. Titan says that the Moon Revolution is over. Pluto and Charon save the day but not for long.

# Trivia

* The first labeling of the conflict as “The Moon Revolution” was in *The Moon Escapes* at 7:36.
* The moon alliance's current objective of killing everyone on Earth in the hopes of intimidating the planets into respecting them (whose main advocates are Ganymede and Europa), broadly falls under the definition of terrorism, and the current moon alliance can be classified as a terrorist group.
	+ Even so, the objective of wiping out all life on earth is controversial within the group, even when the other moons don't know about the original intent of their movement. This makes it a fragile terrorist group, vulnerable to division if their members find out about the original idea of a peaceful strike.
* It is unknown on who to blame for starting up the whole revolution. However, with logic and reasoning, it could be either Neptune or Astrodude’s fault for starting this up in the first place; Neptune asked Uranus about the origin of Saturn’s rings, but Astrodude chimed in saying the rings came from a moon that was destroyed, causing Saturn to burst into tears and confess to his moons about it.