About the planets of firefly

POSTED BY: KayleeRulesAll
UPDATED: Friday, August 26, 2005 20:16
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KAYLEERULESALL

Friday, August 26, 2005 3:14 PM

maybe; we didnt really look into that part. still, with planets being (relitively) so small, and space bein so big...i dunno, could go either way, i suppose.

looks like you did 606/70=8...keep in mind lots of them are moons. that would make it more like 606/20, or something like that, seeing as moons typically are only several hundered thousand kilometers from thier planets.
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NOSADSEVEN

Friday, August 26, 2005 3:17 PM

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Originally posted by citizen:

As a rather pedantic sidenote, why in night scenes in FireFly don't we see all these other planets, being so close together wouldn't you see them?

Well, we do see some moons and a planet in the daytime sky outside the bar in The Train Job. (When Mal suggests to Wash that a "grand entrance would not go amiss." IIRC.

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KAYLEERULESALL

Friday, August 26, 2005 3:23 PM

well there ya go!

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CITIZEN

Friday, August 26, 2005 3:40 PM

Oh yeah, forgot about that...
*is properly admonished*

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A: Kermit's undivided attention.

DIEGO

Friday, August 26, 2005 3:54 PM

I think it may be a little easier to conceive of the Firefly system if we drop the "70 Earths" requirement. We've actually not seen very many worlds yet, and there's no reason besides Mal's statement to suspect a system with nearly a hundred habitable worlds. It would be very easy to reconcile the two if we considered the possibility that there are several other human colonized systems. They could all maintain communication with each other even if they were effectively isolated by interstellar distances. I also like the idea because it would multiply the possible diversity of cultures and governments in the 'Verse.

KAYLEERULESALL

Friday, August 26, 2005 3:59 PM

i agree. i think the "hundreds of Earths" and "a whole galaxy of new worlds" refers instead to just the few planets in the system. i mean, were hearing this from space cowboys; safe to say there aint much education among them. they hear a fancy word like galaxy and use it cuz it sounds cool, not much carin if its really the most accurate term for thier little planetry system. thats my take on it, anyway.

while having more systems would make more sense, they are supposed to be able to get to all the planets in the 'verse. its a well known fact that there is no FTL in the 'verse, though, so getting to worlds in another system would take like 50 years or so, probably more. clearly, they cant be in multiple systems.

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GUNRUNNER

Friday, August 26, 2005 4:56 PM

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Originally posted by Diego:
I think it may be a little easier to conceive of the Firefly system if we drop the "70 Earths" requirement.

Its possible that they are counting space stations and habitats on non-terraformed stellar bodies.

BTW Episode 7 of 'The Signal' (The Big Damn Podcast) did a piece on this subject:
http://serenityfirefly.com/

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JAEDE77

Friday, August 26, 2005 5:07 PM

Did anyone catch on Train Job when the Alliance fellas were talking about the train heist, they said something about "oh, that's in the Georgia System"....?????

Maybe that's some sort of "sector" demarkation for the planetary system... but that sounds a lot like a hint that there's more than one planetary system...

Did anybody catch that? Wonder what that's about?

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Originally posted by KayleeRulesAll:
i agree. i think the "hundreds of Earths" and "a whole galaxy of new worlds" refers instead to just the few planets in the system. i mean, were hearing this from space cowboys; safe to say there aint much education among them. they hear a fancy word like galaxy and use it cuz it sounds cool, not much carin if its really the most accurate term for thier little planetry system. thats my take on it, anyway.

while having more systems would make more sense, they are supposed to be able to get to all the planets in the 'verse. its a well known fact that there is no FTL in the 'verse, though, so getting to worlds in another system would take like 50 years or so, probably more. clearly, they cant be in multiple systems.

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When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail and the dust of another world drops behind; When my ship is free of the open sky, its a damn good day to my way of mind; Theres a barren planet you never can leave, theres a rocky valley where we lost a war; Theres a cross worn 'round a soldier's neck, theres a man's faith died on Serenity's floor, but i stood my ground and ill fight once more; Its the last oath that i ever swore

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KAYLEERULESALL

Friday, August 26, 2005 5:42 PM

I took that to mean that the Georgia system is the planet Erza, its rocky moons, and its ring system. its like a collective term for the whole system of bodies in orbit around Erza(which is the world they were actually on) since that whole area is a huge mining center.

its like calling jupiter and its moons the "Jupiter system." as to where they got the name Georgia if the planet's name is Erza, i got nuttin'.

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When the stars shine bright through the engine's trail and the dust of another world drops behind; When my ship is free of the open sky, its a damn good day to my way of mind; Theres a barren planet you never can leave, theres a rocky valley where we lost a war; Theres a cross worn 'round a soldier's neck, theres a man's faith died on Serenity's floor, but i stood my ground and ill fight once more; Its the last oath that i ever swore

JAEDE77

Friday, August 26, 2005 6:29 PM

Great points, Kayleerulesall, I was also thinking (probably too much) that "Georgia" may just be their radio-lingo-word for the letter "G"... so maybe the Alliance has an abbreviation for certain planet/moon combinations...

Hmmmm...

“Can I suggest something that doesn't involve violence, or is this the wrong crowd for that?”
–Wash

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