The FireFly Tech Manual [Cont.]

POSTED BY: citizen
UPDATED: Sunday, October 23, 2005 01:07
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CITIZEN

Saturday, October 15, 2005 10:19 PM

Fletch2:
A thought occurs. You seem to have at least a passing knowledge of physics etc, would you consider contributing to the theories of the technology of the FireFly class transport?

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RABBIT2

Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:42 PM

Large moon? good point.

DUOSHEILDS

Sunday, October 16, 2005 3:35 PM

I'm not entirely sure how much I could help with the project, but I am very interested. I am a student in college who wants to get an English degree, so maybe I could help there, and I am also a writer.

DUOSHEILDS

Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:43 AM

I guess I forgot to include the details, sorry. I have a yahoo email, duosheilds@yahoo.com, and an AIM name, reisengoku, which I use generally around 10 pm during the week and maybe a little earlier on weekends. I'll be glad to help out in anyway that I can. Are there any more details that have been decided lately?

SUBNUBILUS

Saturday, October 22, 2005 4:56 PM

I don't mean to pull support from this project, but I will say that I tend to agree with Fletch on this one, but perhaps from a different angle. I don't think if you take apart what was given to us that you will find much to make sense of (unless you bend the implied truths), and I don't think it matters. BECAUSE it doesn't explain things, I can safely assume that, even if Joss didn't convey it quite right himself, the fiction, the Universe it takes place in, makes sense and works to support this story. It's like in Star Wars, they never tell you why gravity is the same on all planets we see in the movies, even the smaller and bigger ones, but BECAUSE it doesn't tell us, it's ok... there must be a reason. By stating a reason you can easily ruin it unless you really, really know what you're talking about, and since Joss doesn't, I'm glad he didn't get into those things. I don't know how Firefly class ships work, I don't know the exactly how the galaxy is setup, and I'm not sure why characters wearing body armor get flung backwards when shot like in Westerns... but because it never makes it a point to explain it to me, and I never make it a point to figure it out (how could I? It's the future), I just assume that it makes sense. Remember how Jayne shoots Vera through the suit because he says it needs oxygen? Well, it doesn't as most of you know, but it's ok... Jayne's an idiot, he heard wrong! I'm not the type to call foul on that... Jayne could be wrong, the gun could use yet-to-be-developed or fictional mechanisms that needs oxygen... there's lots of things. Likewise, Joss doesn't know what all he's talking about, and I don't mind because he's smart and is vague on the point we don't need to know about... it's like he's asking us to just trust him, "it could happen somehow, I just don't know exactly how".

So, I'm not interested in the tech manual, but I just wanted to offer my opinion on this.

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subnubilus

PURPLEYIN

Saturday, October 22, 2005 6:08 PM

how do we know that vera doesnt need oxygen? where was the propulsion method fully explained?

personally i think the tech manual would be a good idea, at least it'll be fun to do. And who knows, if firefly comes back the writers might cherish an on-hand proof-read fan-approved vessel manual.

not got an aim, but for now im at fg_number1@hotmail.com

STEVE580

Saturday, October 22, 2005 7:22 PM

Alright, I didn't actually see the image of multiple solar systems - but is it possible that only *one* of the ones shown is colonized? The other solar systems could be devoid of human activity.

Alternatively, perhaps there are two or three systems colonized, but travel between them is less common, or more time-consuming. Now of couse, this raises the issue of what is meant by 'inner planets'...

Citizen - I'd iike to help, if I can; I don't have a particularly exceptional mathmatical educatiion (I have a few friends that do), but I am damndably creative...
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-Steve

FLETCH2

Saturday, October 22, 2005 8:40 PM

I'm not against the idea of a technical manual all I am saying is that it panders to a fan need for consistancy that the production people don't share. At best all it will reflect will be fan interpretations and rationalizations of odd pieces of dialogue or events in 15 or so episodes, none of which seem to be writen with reference to any of the others. Should God willing we ever get to see more of our BDH's anything writen (or indeed anything already shown in the series) is liable to be over ruled by whatever the nescessity of the new episodes is.

I'm sorry to say this folks but even Space:1999 has a more consistant technical background. Firefly isn't that kind of show, it's about how these people live and survive in that environment not a story of that environment. This is not B5 where everything was writen to make sense, this is not even Stargate where they maintain a consistant memory of previous events. This is a people show.

PURPLEYIN

Sunday, October 23, 2005 1:07 AM

ok, i know this thread is about the firefly class ship, and not thw whole firefly 'verse, but whilst we're on the subject of multiple systems...
What if there is only one inhabited system, but there are six others still being terraformed?
The terraforming ships would have had to leave the Earth-that-was long before the humans arrived for it all to be done in time, so maybe the terraforming ships only just got 'round to the other systems (in this planetoid rich stellar cluster).
just a thought.

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