Golden Millennium

The **"Golden Millennium"** was a peaceful time period during the prehistoric age when the Sun Kingdom existed in harmony, along with the rest of the planets (and titans) of the Solar System. It provides a setting for the past lives and future selves of most of the series' major characters and functions as a major driving force behind both plot and characterization.

According to the *Sailor Sun R* series, a second Golden Millennium will appear on the Sun, once again sometime between the 20th and 30th centuries, this time centered in The Sun Spots, one unnamed spot will me the place where the Golden Palace will be.

The royal family of the Sun Kingdom during the Golden Millennium bear on their foreheads special markings shaped like small sun symbols. These appear on Queen Eos, Princess/Queen Aurora, and Kaguya "Lady Sunshine" Taiyono, as well as Sailor Themis when disguised as the princess and the Sun cats - Soleil, Seth and Sunny. In the anime, non-royal civilians of the Sun Kingdom lack the symbol on their foreheads.

## Golden Millennium Kingdoms

### Main article: Golden Sun Kingdom

The Golden Sun Kingdom, though it had a fairy-tale/medieval appearance, demonstrated advanced technology. It existed within a dome that produced an artificial climate, and had an advanced computer called the "Solar Infinity Main System". According to Seth, ballet was a popular sport. The manga showed Princess Aurora being very good at ballet. Those who resided in the Sun Kingdom were long-lived beings and had two specific duties: First, they were to protect the Golden Diamond, a powerful "holy stone" which had been handed down through the generations. Second, they were to watch over the evolution of Earth and protect it from any negative influence.

The original Golden Millennium, which existed thousands of years ago, is portrayed as an ancient Golden Age, marked by peace, prosperity, and good relationships between the people of Earth and Sun, but horrible ones with the Night and Moon Kingdom. The Sun Kingdom itself, ruled by Queen Eos, centered in the Sun's photosphere was also home to Princess Aurora and her four guardians, later to be known as the Sailor Titans. The Outer Sailor Guardians, Sailor Uranus, and Sailor Neptune were guardians who had defended the Sun (and Moon) Kingdom from invaders from beyond the Solar System, while Sailor Pluto protected the Time Gate. Sailor Chronos protected the Sun Kingdom's Space-Time door. The Outer Sailor Guardians had stayed in separate, of the Sun Castle with their talismans.

During this era, Astraeus, flanked by his four guardians, held the position of First Crown Prince of The Night Sky, while his brother held the position of the Prince Of the Day Sky, who doesn't appear until the second arc. Despite a prohibition on relations between people of the Night and the Sun, he and Princess Aurora fell in love.

The Shadow Kingdom was ultimately responsible for the fall of the first Sun Kingdom. Out of jealousy and under the influence of the evil Chaos, a sorceress named Hecate raised up the citizens of Night in a war against the Sun. As a result, the Sun Kingdom was completely destroyed, with Prince Astraeus, Princess Aurora and her guardians all dying in the battle. The war was the end of the First Golden Millennium.

In the manga, the Outer Sailor Titans who were not present at the fight were drawn to the destruction of the Golden Millennium, where their talismans unleashed a hidden power, which awakened Sailor Cronus, who lowered the Destruction Sword and destroyed the remains of the Golden Millennium, and all who survived, including herself. Everyone was reborn into the present day as a result. Before that, Queen Eos used all the power of the Legendary Golden Diamond to reincarnate Astraeus and Aurora, taking her life as a result.

The Prince and Princess were reincarnated as Kasumi Taiyono and Yoru Hoshino and even before they recovered their memories, they succeed in finding each other once again. The reincarnated Sailor Titans become close friends with Kasumi; through their efforts, the reinstated Shadow Kingdom and even Chaos herself are destroyed.

### Golden Sun

In the manga revealed that a new Golden Millennium will exist in the 30th century, centered on the Sky. Kasumi and Yoru will rule it under the names of Queen Aurora and King Astraeus, and they will have a daughter named Princess Kasumi Lady Sunshine Aurora. The Sun becomes a worldwide kingdom once again.

The Sailor Titans protect the entire royal family. However, the story makes no mention of the location of the Outer Sailor Senshi, other than Sailor Pluto and Cronus. This is likely because the Golden Sun storyline was created before the introduction of the Outer Sailor Titans. After their awakening in the manga, the Sailor Cardinals also acts as guardians, but to Lady Sunshine. Soleil, Seth, and Sunny live in the palace as well.

At the center of the kingdom stands the Sun Palace, where the Royal Family and the Guardian Titans live. It is particularly shown in the beginning credits for the second opening sequence of *Sailor Sun R* and is seen in a flashback where Natsuko thinks that the Guardian Senshi and her parents have forgotten her birthday. Later, the interior is shown, indicating that this is the part of the Sun Palace where the Royal Family and their protectors live.

Like the first Golden Millennium, the second Golden Millennium also got attacked, this time by the Black Sun Clan. After Queen Aurora expelled the Black Sun Clan to the fictional planet Vulcan, the eleventh planet in the Solar System, Erebus took this as an opportunity to achieve his goal of bringing total darkness to the world and unleashing the full power of the Crystal Of Darkness. He manipulated all members of the Black Sun Clan to unknowingly support his self-interest, encouraging them to seek vengeance on Queen Aurora and destroy Golden Sun.

The Black Sun Clan launched an attack on Golden Sun. Sailor Cronus sent the daughter of Queen Aurora and King Astraeus to the past for safety. Hizashi was followed by the Black Sun Clan but was protected by the Sailor Titans of the 20th Century. The Sailor Titans learn of their futures when traveling to 30th Century Golden Sun and defeat the Black Sun Clan in the present day, restoring the future.

Though Aurora has taken her place as Queen of Day, Rose leaves it unclear whether she returns to the as Queen Aurora to re-establish herself as the new monarch of the Sun Kingdom itself. Although Golden Sun has decimated thanks to the princess foolishly taking her mother's crystal, Lady Sunshine was not banished or sentenced to death for the theft.

## Key figures

### Queen Eos

Queen Eos was the ruling monarch of the Golden Sun Kingdom and mother of Princess Aurora (during the first Golden Millenium) and maternal grandmother of Natsuko (Lady Sunshine). Queen Eos occasionally appears as a guide to help the Sailor Titans to remember who they are through Soleil. She states that the people on Earth and Sky knew her as the Moon goddess Perse.

She was a wise and good ruler. Having physically perished long ago, she appears only in spirit, as a sort of hologram. She tells the Titans about their past lives, and about the history of the Golden Sun Kingdom. In a flashback, she is shown speaking the name of the Crystal (or, in the dub, "Golden Sun Power") to send her daughter and the others to be reborn in the future; she also uses Sunshine Light Fire, a power inherited by Sailor Sun. After this encounter, she appears just once more to give Sailor Sun new transformation brooch and rod.

### Prince Astraeus

Prince Astraeus of Night is the Prince of the Night sky while his brother, Hyperion, was Prince of the Day sky. During the first millennium, he first developed a relationship with Princess Aurora. During the reign of Golden Sun, he would claim the title as King Astraeus.

### Titan Princesses

Act 39 of the manga reveals the Sailor Titans as princesses of their Titan Planets. Each one had her own castle, which she can call upon late in the series for power. This act first enables Sailor Sun to transform into Eternal Sailor Sun. The castles are named after moons of the respective planet.

In Act 45, Sailors Lethe, Mnemosyne, and Theia actually visit their castles — huge structures orbiting around their respective planets. Each castle features viewscreens, forcefields, comm systems, and other forms of high technology and comes under the protection of a Power Guardian, who appears as a miniature version of the Senshi she serves. Sailor Theia states that the castles were given to all the Senshi by Queen Eos at the time of their birth.