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Picture from Sailor Saturne's site at http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/4514/Voltron.html
The following is a story of Voltron I made up based on the T.V. cartoon Voltron by World Events Productions. I did not have World Events Productions' permission to do the story and therefore it does not have World Events Productions' endorsement.
Princess Allura and the rest of the Voltron force were in the castle library, trying to discover information that would support that Keith should be king after he and Allura were married. Nanny and Coran of coarse had other duties that needed to be attended to.
"Why isn't this stuff stored on computer?" asked Pidge. "It would be so much faster to find the information there rather than looking through books."
"Actually Arus has bits of even some of the obscurest information stored on computer," explained Allura. "Remember how easily we discovered information on that second castle that suddenly made its reappearance?
"That's right! Coran didn't even know about that offhand. So why are we wasting our time with books at all?"
"Though it's slower, I've never really completely trusted that all the information we have in books is really that readily identified as pertinent by a computer."
"You say that the computers have bits of even some of the obscurest information about Arus, but what about other planets?"
"Much of the history we have of other planets is usually sketchy at best."
"That's too bad," said Pidge. If I couldn't find the information I needed in Aurs's history, I was hoping to find it in the history of a royal line on another planet."
"Pidge, you could still try," encouraged Allura. "Although the information is sketchy, you may still find something useful. And like you said, the computer is faster."
"All right, I'll see what's there," said Pidge and he went to use a computer in the library. Everyone else looked through books. Because of how long it took to search through books, it made sense to only have one person using a computer.
And so the team began their search for information, anything in history that would support an exception to the rules of royalty where a man who wasn't a prince could become king. When Pidge finished with the computer, everyone stopped their research to hear what he had found.
"What'd you find?" asked Hunk.
"These are the main things of interest that I found. Number 1, is what we all know: if a prince marries a woman who is not a princess and he becomes king, then she becomes queen, but if a princess marries a man who's not a prince and she becomes queen, he doesn't become king. Number 2, if a prince and a princess marry and become king and queen, the line of heirs carries on in either the prince's or princess's family name depending on whose planet or kingdom they're ruling -- in the princess's name if it's her planet or kingdom, in the prince's name if it's his planet or kingdom. Number 3, if a queen dies and her husband is not king, he does not rule the planet as king, but supports the rule of whoever her child is that is heir to the throne -- kind of like what Coran has done for the princess, except that he's not royalty and it's his job to be a royal adviser. If there is no child to be heir, the right to being heir is passed on to the eldest prince or eldest princess in the dead queen's family line who would be a bother or sister or their children. Number 4, if a king dies and the queen was not a princess or was a princess from another kingdom, the heir to the throne would be a child of the king or if there's no child then a brother or sister of the king or one of their children. However, the queen would retain her title as queen. Number 5, I was wondering who would be heir to the throne if there was no one in the original royal line of the planet or kingdom to be heir, but I didn't find any situations where that has happened. Number 6, if a prince and princess marry and they are both sole heirs to rule next on their own planet, then they are to rule both planets together and their children would be depended upon to establish separate royal lines, one on each planet, as it works out that way. But, if either the king or queen have a brother or sister who can rule on the planet they don't reside on, then that sibling becomes ruler of that planet, creating another royal line to be followed. Number 7, I thought it was interesting that the heirs to the throne that I was finding were always the oldest son -- even if there was an older daughter, and the only exception to this that I found was in the most recent history of Planet Pollux where it was decided that between Prince Bandor and Princess Romelle, that in the absence of their father King Coba and their older brother that Princess Romelle was heir to the throne. But she relinquished the privilege to her younger brother Prince Bandor. And that's it. I found no situation where a man became king if he wasn't a prince first."
There was a short silent pause, during which the princess was deep in thought.
"That's excellent information, Pidge!" said the princess suddenly sounding excited.
"I don't see how," said Pidge sounding baffled.
"Keith, Lance, Hunk, hand me your notes, so I can compare them with mine."
They all handed over their notes and Allura glanced them over.
"I think using this information on the history of Arus and Pidge's outside information, we've got something here!" she said. "What I've noticed about Planet Arus is that there have been few times that a princess has been heir to the throne, and never has a princess married a man who wasn't a prince. The times that a princess married a prince, they did rule only Planet Arus together."
"So how does any of that support Keith becoming king?" asked Lance.
"Well, it's a good thing that in Arus's history, there isn't an example of a princess marrying a man who wasn't a prince because he probably wouldn't have become king. Since this is the first time, it's going to happen. We can make it happen with the right reasons."
"But, Princess, what reasons could possibly justify doing that when we can't find anywhere in any planet's history that it's happened before?"
"Lance, don't you see it?" asked the princess. "Don't any of you see it?"
The boys glanced around at each other and then back at the princess and simply said "No," all at the same time.
"Allura, I'm sure you're more accustomed to understanding this than any of us are," said Keith. "What is it that you see?"
"Oh, don't you get it?" questioned Allura sounding a little frustrated. "There's no difference between whether a princess marries a prince or a man who isn't a prince because neither one makes a difference as to whose family line is heir to the throne. Since there is no difference, there's no reason why the man a princess marries shouldn't be king, even if he's not a prince. And as for history being a problem of showing no examples of it, that's not a problem. Didn't you hear what Pidge said? For the first time ever that we've been able to find in recorded history, a princess was heir to the throne on Planet Pollux even though she had a younger brother! Princess Romelle and Prince Bandor made a historical first more drastic than what we're trying to make. Based on that, there's no reason why Keith shouldn't be King!"
"Wow, even I understood that," said Hunk.
"You're good!" complimented Pidge to the princess on her reasoning skills.
"That makes sense," said Lance sounding impressed. "But now you'll have to convince your people."
"And do that we shall," said Allura confidently. "Come Captain. Let's go face your people."
"This ought to be good," said Lance humorously from behind Keith and Allura as they were all leaving to inform Coran at Castle Control.
"Yeah," said Pidge and he giggled a little along with Hunk.
"You guys aren't going to be able to make me nervous," added Keith humorously.
"You're not nervous?" asked Allura sounding shocked. "I think I'm more nervous that I've ever been in my life!"
"That's what I mean. They can't make me nervous because I can't possibly be more nervous than what I already am."
Allura laughed a little.
"I'm sorry Keith, I wasn't trying to make you nervous," apologized Lance. "It's just that...this ought to be good." And Lance snickered a little followed by a few snickers from Hunk and Pidge.
"You already said that, Lance," said Keith sounding peeved.
"Sorry, Keith," said Lance, and he snickered some more.
Commentary: Originally wrote this by saying that much of Arus's history wasn't on computer. After seeing the episode of the second castle again, I was reminded that the castle's computer system really did have loads of history readily available. So I've changed this story to reflect that. I don't know if Allura really would have misgivings about computers. I just came up with that on my own to fit the story. In the animated series there have been situations that allude to Prince Bandor being heir to the throne after his brother Avok was lost, and there have been situations alluding that Romelle is. I choose to think that when Hagar said Bandor was next for being ruler, it was because she was thinking for sure that Lotor would have Romelle for his own, leaving only Prince Bandor to rule Pollux. Much of Voltron the Third Dimension information I choose not to use. Because some of it is contradicts the first two seasons of Voltron, I only use of it in my stories what I want to. Even if it's information that's not directly contradicting, I don't use it if I don't like it. I feel justified in doing that because it has many contradictions. Ariella is part of my storyline (though she's from Voltron the Third Dimension) as the first queen of Arus (though not directly mentioned in this story) but I do have her marry a prince in a story I have yet to post (sorry for the spoiler). To see great Voltron fiction using Voltron the Third Dimension within the continuation, check out Adele's website at http://www.alluraandkeith.homestead.com. Even the elements of Voltron the Third Dimension that I don’t like she writes about well!
[Author -- Sheila Bliss, based on the previous creation of Voltron by World Events Productions]
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