"Star Seeds" are crystals contained in all life forms including planets, stars, and asteroids.
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Everything originates in the Galaxy Cauldron and are made from Star Seeds. Newborn stars are born from Star Seeds themselves and have special Star Seeds sent to grow alongside them which mature to become Sailor Crystals which form the core of a Sailor Guardian's powers. Most of the Star Seeds consisted of a small glittering sphere enveloped in a hexagonal dipyramidal-shaped transparent crystal.
In the anime, regular Star Seeds play a slightly different role in Sailor Moon Sailor Stars and seem to have been conflated with Sailor Crystals in the case of certain characters. In Sailor Moon Sailor Stars, All normal Star Seeds are a light blue-gray color. In the case of "True" Star Seeds (which act as counterparts to Sailor Crystals), the color corresponded to their planet color.
A regular Star Seed resides within regular humans and once removed, the light within it fades (turning the victims into phages in the 90's anime). It is unknown why they turn into phages since they were only made to be the Monster-of-the-day for the anime, but a possible explanation is that it was caused by the Galactica Bracelets which are imbued with dark energy and allow a normal living being to attain an evil Sailor Guardian-like state under the control of Shadow Galactica. The implication is that those with "true" Star Seeds would be able to resist the effects the dark energy.
In the anime, Galaxia's Star Seed seemed to have attained a level of sentience; it took the forms of Chibi Chibi to get close to Usagi, the Sword of Sealing to fight Chaos Galaxia, and a bright pink butterfly to fly across the galaxy. In its common appearance, it was a pink Star Seed.
In the manga and the anime, if a Star Seed was retrieved, its carrier could be revived in their physical form.
Types of Star Seeds[]
- Normal Star Seed: Common people had weak Star Seeds that had a temporary shine of light upon extraction. When a human was hit by the golden energy blasts produced by Sailor Galaxia's bracelets, an orange-colored flower appeared above their head or in front of their chest and opened to reveal the Star Seed. If left exposed for too long, the seed will immediately turn dark as its shine fades, turning its human host into a Phage.
- True Star Seed: Those belonging to Sailor Guardians had a permanent shine, and were called True Star Seeds, or, in the manga/crystal, Sailor Crystals which, as stated by Galaxia, were separate from the normal "human" Star Seeds they were born with. Each planetary body in the galaxy was represented by its own Star Seed, and the Sailor Guardian of that planet was its carrier. It retains their shine even with exposure to the outside and they are held within Sailor Guardians. They withhold the power of the star they protect/have the power of. If a Sailor Guardian's Star Seed was taken out of their body, the Sailor Guardian disappeared, which was equivalent to dying, as shown in episode 196.
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- Since the creation of phages are only exclusive to the anime, in the manga, the Animamates did not pursue humans and their main goal was to hunt down the Sailor Guardians for their Sailor Crystals.
- In the anime, the only people who were revealed as having True Star Seeds were Tuxedo Mask, Sailor Moon, and Princess Kakyuu. Sailor Galaxia only pursued the Star Seeds of the remaining Sailor Guardians towards the end of the series.
- Usagi's Star Seed is revealed by Sailor Galaxia in the first anime as "the most brilliant and pure Star Seed in the galaxy".
- It's unknown how the Silver Crystal could be Usagi's Star Seed, something that is the core of one's life, in the anime when not only was it established as a holy artifact that had been passed down the Silver Millennium family for years, Queen Serenity had split the Silver Crystal into the Seven Rainbow Crystals, an act that would've prevented Princess Serenity's reincarnation and Usagi's own birth had the very core of her life been impaired in such a way.
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