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''[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=173414 Lovehammer: Sailor Moon 40K]'' is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|exactly what it sounds like]], a [[Sailor Moon]] / [[Warhammer 40,000]] crossover. This page focuses more upon Arkado's story and everything else will be marked as such, however its [[The Verse|universe]], such that it is, can be divided into two basic catagories:

* The serious stories, most notably the story written by Arkado which first appeared on the Spacebattles Creative Writing forum in early September 2010. There is also another story with a similar premise being written by Charles Bhepin, author of ''[[Shinji and Warhammer40K|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]'', under the title ''Lovehammer: The Scattering of Serenity'', which went live on FF.net around the end of September 2010. Bhepin cites Arkado’s version as his inspiration.

* <s>The Mother Ship</s> [[Lovehammer Inc|The Parent thread]] which is more a group consensus set of universes and exist primarily as [[Crack Fic]].

However, in general ''Lovehammer'' begins during the Great Crusades just after the God-Emperor has finished vanquishing the warlords of Terra and united the planet under his rule. Several universes over, the Silver Millennium comes crashing down around Queen Serenity’s ears, and her attempts to reincarnate Princess Serenity and the Senshi are sabotaged by Chaos, which redirects the Senshi’s souls outside of time and space. Unfortunately for the Ruinous Powers, however, [[Spanner in the Works|the infant Serenity lands practically in the Emperor’s lap]]; sensing a power to rival his own, the Emperor promptly adopts the girl and raises her as his daughter. As the Emperor and the Princess search the galaxy for the lost Primarchs however, they discover that the Senshi have come along as well.

Now flash forward to the 41st Millennium. Princess Serenity is worshiped as [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|the first child of the Emperor]] and the Senshi -- called Anima by the citizens of the Imperium -- are revered to the same degree as the Primarchs, but the galaxy is still much the same [[Grimdark]] battlefield that it is in canon, though there are numerous changes which make themselves apparent as the story goes on.

Our story begins when '''COMMISSAR [[Ciaphas Cain]], HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!''' and [[Badass Army|the Valhallan 597th]] find themselves abruptly dispatched to the [[Death World]] Hades VI, where an ork space hulk has crash-landed and its contents have begun harassing the locals. The Valhallans have barely made landfall when the orks mount a major offensive, setting off a chain of events that leads Cain to stumble onto the lost resting place of Sailor Saturn, who went missing shortly before the Horus Heresy. In typical Cain fashion, the situation proceeds to escalate very quickly and very badly when the Ruinous Powers arrive in orbit intent on claiming the planet and snuffing out Saturn's life before she can adjust to her new surroundings. At the same time, other factions across the galaxy begin to react to Saturn's return, and none of them have her best interests in mind, not even the Imperium she serves...

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* [[Almighty Janitor]]: The Hades VI planetary defense forces are an entire [[Badass Army]] of [[Almighty Janitor|Almighty Janitors]]. This is because they used to be  {{spoiler|Saturn's Royal Guard}}.
* [[Badass]]: Colonel Radev. There’s not much else you can call a man who kills a Bloodthirster with a Power Sword and [[The Power of Rock]].
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Hotaru, of course.
* [[Badass Army]]
* [[Big Brother Mentor]]: The fandom's more conservative approach to Cain's relationship with Hotaru.
* [[The Chains of Commanding]]: Cain and Kasteen, once faced with the *ahem* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Saturnian Royal Guard]]. Later, Amberley, once she takes over getting Hotaru to safety, which is [[Irony|essentially heresy]].
* [[Civil War]]: What will likely happen once word of Hotaru's survival gets out, and what our heroes are trying to avoid at all costs.
* [[Conflict Ball]]: Holy crap, and how!
* [[Crack Fic]]: The [http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=172987 Parent Thread] that inspired this fic is going in a [[Lighter and Softer]] direction, regarding the lives of the Senshi and Primarchs in the Pre-Heresy period (The Heresy still occurs, but not as damaging). Some of the exerpts are entirely non-serious, such as the [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]] regarding the death of a historical romance writer whose Off-characterization of the marriage between Perturabo and Mercury became [[Fanon]] across the galaxy.
{{quote|(2) I hasten to add that all rumors of the Iron Warriors involvement in Moer’s untimely and unfortunate end are nothing but rumors, as there has been no evidence that the First Chaplain of the Iron Warriors had her blood on his crozius after Moer’s brutalized body had been discovered. For Further reading, I recommend perusing Horatio Grissom’s ''Scelere, Poena et Literature Vol. V'', which discusses the case in detail. }}
* [[Crossover]]: [[Warhammer 40,000]] and [[Sailor Moon]], with [[Expy|elements]] of [[Star Wars]], of all things.
** Which gets into a Cain and Hotaru ''[[Crossover Ship]]''. Not that Cain isn't actively avoiding this as much as he can, or that any ambuguity about his affections is left once  {{spoiler|[[Love Interest|Amberley]] [[Official Couple|shows up]]}}, but given [[Ship Tease|Hotaru's actions]] and much of [[Fan-Preferred Couple|the rest of the thread]]...
* [[Deader Than Dead]]: Hotaru's command of the Silence allows her to do this to daemons, killing them ''permanently'' instead of just banishing them back to the Warp.
* [[Defector From Decadence]]: What  {{spoiler|Operation Keep Messiah Alive}} is likely turning into.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In-universe example: the Hades VI PDF prepared a very competent trap, creating apparent weak points that were actually killing zones, and masked their weak points (like their command center) with decoys that created the illusion of overwhelming strenght... Against the [[Blood Knights|Orks]]. Three guesses for ''why'' this was a colossal error and Kasteen asked [[Lampshade Hanging|“Electronic warfare? Against Orks? Colonel… with all due respect, have you ever fought against Orks before?”]].
* [[Emotion Bomb]]: Hotaru, of the [[Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul]] variety. Not that anyone's complaining.
* [[Everybody's Dead, Dave]]: What Cain gets to explain to Hotaru, regarding [[Horus Heresy|her family.]]
* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: Hotaru’s biggest issue; she’s exceptionally compassionate, idealistic, and she dislikes killing, which would be fine if she were still living before the Horus Heresy, but in the [[Grimdark]] 41st Millennium, those three traits are ''not'' conductive to a long life expectancy.
** However the ability to be a [[Apocalypse Wow|walking Exterminatus]] however is.
* [[Hammerspace]]: Cain thinks Hotaru keeps dropping her weapon someplace.
* [[Healing Hands]]: Hotaru's nicer power.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Hotaru goes through one of these after Cain breaks the news to her that the Imperium has gone to hell in a handbasket since she went to sleep.
* [[Hulk Speak]]: Cain and Hotaru speak Low and High Gothic respectively and have only a passing familiarity with each others’ native dialect. Attempts to communicate between them (or attempts by Hotaru to communicate with just about anyone) inevitably result in this trope.
** Silently commented on by  {{spoiler|[[Cunning Linguist|Amberley]]}}, later.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Just about ''[[Crapsack World|everyone]]''. Except for [[The Messiah|Hotaru]], of course.
* [[Irony]]": [[The Messiah]] is met with much [[Oh Crap]] from her own subjects. An Inquisitor calls in a Battle Barge of [[Space Marines]] to Exterminatus  {{spoiler|the planet with said Messiah on it}}. Another Inquisitor ends up leading the above mentioned Operation Keep Messiah Alive, which will be seen by many as Heresy against the Imperial Creed. This point of contention will likely trigger a Civil War. Isn't [[The Messiah]] supposed to be a good thing?
* [[It Got Worse]]: Every chapter. [[Ciaphas Cain|Nothing new there,]] [[Cosmic Plaything|of course.]]
* [[Knight Templar]]: Par for the course in 40K, naturally. But a shining example comes in the form of a Space Marine force commander who refuses to believe that anyone on the planet is anything other than a Chaos-worshiping Heretic. Not even when Hotaru shows up, and despite ''his own Chaplain's'' efforts to [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|beat some sense into him]].
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Cain is briefly overcome by a very uncharacteristic zealous fervor when he realizes he’s standing between a sleeping Senshi and a group of hostile orks.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The names of pretty much every [[Original Character]] introduced by the author are anagrams. [[Star Wars|Radev and Soudisi]] for instance.
* [[The Messiah]]: Sailor Saturn, Anima of the Imperium,  {{spoiler|heir to the Imperial throne}}. Plenty of factions will not be amused.
* [[More Dakka]]: Subverted. It’s been noted on Spacebattles that [[Person of Mass Destruction|Hotaru]] is just about the only person in the 40K verse who needs ''less'' dakka.
** Also played straight when the Hades PDF, originally thought as a joke by the Valhallans, reveal their first ace in the hole.  {{spoiler|A customized Baneblade variant with Plasma Cannons}}. When that proves to not be effective enough, they reveal their second.  {{spoiler|An Imperator Class Titan backed up by a dozen Baneblades}}.
* [[My Greatest Failure]]:  {{spoiler|Hotaru was originally put to sleep by the [[G Eo M]] because she screwed up a routine mission and had to Silence a planet to eliminate a Chaos insurgency.}}
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]:  {{spoiler|Narrowly averted.}}
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Apparently Cain knows what it feels like to be hit over the head with a wet grox.
* [[Oh Crap]]: The general reaction to [[The Messiah|Hotaru's]] existence in a world where, literally, [[Status Quo Is God]].
* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]: Averted. Readers who are only familiar with the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' anime might cry foul at the massive power-up the Senshi appear to have been given or scoff at the idea of Serenity being the Emperor's equal, but Arkado has explicitly based this story off of the manga continuity, which is both [[Darker and Edgier]] than the anime adaptation and ''significantly'' more hardcore insofar as [[Power Levels]] are concerned.
* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: Used to great effect by Hotaru, especially on Cain.
* [[Running Gag]]: Whenever the [http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=172987 Parent Thread] that spawned this fic ends up reviewing [[Fictional Document|'literature' of debatable at best quality]] there will be a [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]] regarding the sudden, violent deaths of the author once the Primarchs involved and their Space Marines find out about them.
* [[Reluctant Warrior]]: Hotaru tries to talk an ork out of fighting her at one point.
* [[She's All Grown Up]]: Hotaru is a bit older than she appears in Sailor Moon canon; Cain notes that she looks about sixteen-ish in a few places and judging from his description, she’s apparently filled out in all the right places.
* [[Shoulder Cannon]]: Saturn's new fuku has a pair of [[More Dakka|twin-linked Hellguns]] mounted on each shoulder.
* [[Shout-Out]]: All over the place. They are as followed in no particular order.
** [[Star Wars|Darth Vader's]] [[Expy]] Colonel Radev who even does some of his quotes
** [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|This! Is! Hades!]]
* [[The Starscream]]: Depends on who you are and who's [[Switching POV|telling the story.]]
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: A driving in-universe conflict, given all of the factions who ''do not need'' an Anima of the Imperium suddenly showing up.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: All the Senshi, as mentioned above, are spoken of with the same reverence as the primarchs, though compared to their brothers they were apparently more spiritual leaders than they were great warriors and they don't have an equivalent force to the [[Space Marines]]. That's not to say they couldn't kick ass, though; Jupiter is apparently the patron saint of the Imperial Guard, and Hotaru -- despite being fresh out of 10,000 years of cold sleep -- is virtually a [[One-Man Army]] against orkish and Chaos forces.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Almost everyone, given the setting, but the most spectacular examples so far include the Saturnian Royal Guard ( {{spoiler|who will follow the Anima, even if it means fighting the Imperium}}), a bulk of the [[Space Marine|SpaceMarines]] ( {{spoiler|who remain convinced that everyone from Hades VI, Hotaru included, are lying heretic scum like the Chaplain who realizes the truth}}), and  {{spoiler|Amberley (who is so used to having to manipulate everyone that she goes behind [[Fish Out of Temporal Water|Hotaru]] and even [[Battle Couple|Ciaphas']] backs to protect them all)}}.

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