Wow. This one ended up being a hell of a lot longer than I thought it was going to end up. I'd intended to have discrete episodes, with this spelling out and wrapping up one storyline before I spend a moment elsewhere, then jump back into the fray, but it seems like I'm going to need to spend a bit of time in the next one dealing with the overrun. I'd intended, originally, that Confederation be a single episode, but as I was half way through the drinking game, I realized it was going to be entirely too long to wrap up in a single episode, so I decided to split it at the most dramatically appropriate spot.

This one, like the beginning of BSG's season two, is the closing up of a number of old threads I had weaving through the first few episodes, before I move on to bigger and better things, but only as it regards to the Crew of Legacy. For the rest of them, their respective stories are only just beginning. I'm also glad that I could get the crew of Serenity in here, and moreover, get their voices correct. The first attempt I took at including them was an abject failure, such as that I had to start all over again from the first line, but the rewrite, as you can see, is much improved. It's got Jayne (and River) being lewd, Mal yelling at Inara, and Kaylee hugging people. Just another day on Serenity.

The language warning is back in effect, and with great gusto; this is not intended for the immature reader (and I say that including the childish fourty year olds out there...). Also, the bastard Spanish spoken by Lex, like the Mandarin throughout this season, has scroll over translations. Just point at the words, and it'll tell you what you're missing.

Serenity and the 'Verse are property of Joss. Everything else is mine.

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Confederation, Part 1

The halls slipped past Blue as his pace through the still brightly lit halls left the pages stumbling out of his path. He noted idly that the ones which hadn't cleared out of his way found themselves