Welcome to The Galactic Guide, the Sailor Senshi Sanctuary's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file.  Here you will find detailed answers to the most frequently submitted questions I receive via e-mail or previously in the guestbook.  I will update this page as necessary.  If you have any further questions or want more information, don't hesitate to e-mail me!

What is SSS?
Sailor Senshi Sanctuary is the spiritual reincarnation of a long lost page called Sailor Moon Sanctuary, of which was not mine.  I built on SMS's excellent navigation and organization system when creating SSS.  SSS was intended to be constantly updated (not abandoned for 2+ years like most Sailormoon pages) and improved.  SSS is a great source for information, images, videos, video games, audio, music, midi's, lyrics, translations, and more!  Also, it's always being added upon!!  After a number of hiccups due to the free hosting options going away, I trimmed down SSS and recreated it in December of 2004.  After losing it once again I rebuilt SSS from the ground up based on an older archive in an attempt to recreate some of its former glory.  The SSS you are browsing today was restored in the image of the site as it was in 2000 - 2001, however I am once again updating the site and adding content.  Yet the feel of the site is meant to remain that of how the Internet (and SSS) was back during the turn of the last millennium.

When did SSS start?
July 18th, 1999 is the official date of the site's grand opening.  Prior to that SSS had been around for about two months, but featured very little in the way of content, and up until just before the grand opening featured only the inner senshi, except for Venus.

Why does your site look like it was made in the late 1990's?
Because it was!  Sailor Senshi Sanctuary was essentially caught in a time capsule of online progress.  The site was archived and pushed aside for many, many, many years.  While I attempted to restore the site many times over those years, things never fell into place, leaving the site archived nearly exactly as it was when it went offline back in 2001 when NBCi (formerly Xoom) folded their hosting.  Once I finally got around to restoring SSS, I felt a lot of nostalgia for the older era of the Internet that it was built upon.  Since the majority of my time and involvement with Sailor Moon took place around the time the site was at its peak, I wanted to preserve that over all feeling.  Instead of upgrading SSS I decided I would attempt to restore it to how it was just before the original site went offline.  In that way SSS can be considered a Sailor Moon site preserved in the tradition of how Sailor Moon sites were during the height of their popularity.  I continue to update SSS, including adding new features, but the style and feel of SSS will remain as it is - as it always was.

Has SSS received any awards?
Yes, it has received a few many years ago when site awards were all the rage, although I have never applied for any.

If SSS won awards, where are they?
Simple, I created SSS as a reference and resource for Sailormoon, not as something for me to flaunt around and say how great it is.  When someone does present me with an award I am very thankful, but decline to post it on my page, nor accept it unless insisted upon.  In the beginning I created SSS for me and a few of my friends, but since then it had become quite a large reference and media source.  This site was also used as a starting point for up and coming web page designers that were beginning Sailormoon sites.  Although I can lay no claim to ownership of my video clips, and most of the images in the senshi areas, many come here and ask to take content.  (which I always allow, but like to know the URL of the page that's doing so, so I can make them a link banner for my links page) Most of what this page contains is stuff from other sources (many that don't exist anymore) as well as stuff that I have in my collection that I haven't seen anywhere else.  I filter everything that goes into SSS for quality, rarity, and I make sure that it will not damage your computer in any way.

Does SSS give awards, and if so how do I apply?
In late 1999 I began selecting one site a month for the short-lived Sailor Senshi Sanctuary Award for Excellence.  However, it was an award that could not be applied for.  I would choose a page each month that I felt was worthy of the honor.  I would browse many Sailormoon pages, as well as all the site links in the guestbook... so signing the guestbook would pay!  I decided to do it this way because instead of people begging for awards, I can choose at my discretion which pages I thought were deserving.  Also it opens an award up to, for instance, the new webmaster or webmistress that may not apply for an award for fear of not receiving it.  (Yes, at one time people online actually thought like that)  A Sailor Senshi Sanctuary Award for Excellence was not given away, only the deserving would get them.  As the whole idea of web page awards faded away, as did the SSS Award for Excellence.  Sadly, I was only able to award a few of them before SSS went offline in 2001.  I have no plans to return the award program to SSS at this time.

What sites have received a SSS Award for Excellence?
Unfortunately the list of sites the award was presented to was lost to winds of time.  Besides, I seriously doubt that a majority of the sites are even still around, being updated or at the very least still run by the people who earned the awards.  With Geocities gone these days and most free web hosting disappearing over the years, a large portion of the Sailor Moon web site community has been swallowed by the ever-changing digital frontier.

Questions, comments, suggestions?
Well then, e-mail me!