'Verse Theory

POSTED BY: UnregisteredCompanion
UPDATED: Saturday, February 25, 2006 21:07
VIEWED: 3991
PAGE 1 of 2

1 2 NEXT PAGE

UNREGISTEREDCOMPANION

Friday, February 24, 2006 3:50 PM

I was rewatching the episodes when a random thought struck me.....

Is it possible that 500 years ago, when they "left earth", they were actually kicked out? The new solar system with all the moons wasn't a refuge for the teaming masses, it was an Autralian style prison colony!

They packed up all the troublemakers and criminals and sent them out in to space. Meanwhile, back on earth, all the hoidy toidy good-2-shoes are sipping tea and laughing.

Mal and friends are all decendents of troublemakers. The Parliment types are decendents of the warden types and still feel that the people need to be controlled.

Am I nuts here or what?

~~~~~
"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."

THEMANTHEYCALLEDJAMES

Friday, February 24, 2006 4:49 PM

no, that makes perfect since

STILLFREE

Friday, February 24, 2006 5:16 PM

They're all in purgatory!

Sorry, read too many silly Lost theories. I thought that was a great show until Firefly came into my life.

Your theory makes perfect sense. It never crossed my mind.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Friday, February 24, 2006 6:28 PM

The thing is that they were in transit for more than a generation, the trouble makers and their children, and the wardens and the children, would all have been every dead when they got there.

Unless you think being a troublemaker is genetic I think they'd have ironed out and differences by the time the first planet was ready.

-

The idea is fun, but I think it's more likely that they left earth like rats from a sinking ship and left the poor (or those they thought useless) to clean up their mess, if possible.

MYCROFTXXX

Friday, February 24, 2006 6:37 PM

Sounds a bit like "Alien Nation"...

UNREGISTEREDCOMPANION

Friday, February 24, 2006 6:49 PM

"Unless you think being a troublemaker is genetic"

Wel...based on my sons...hummmmmm

~~~~~
"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."

ISAACSHEPHERD

Friday, February 24, 2006 8:25 PM

That is an interresting theory. They never say too much about the reason for leaving besides numbers. Most Sci-fi series leave Earth because it was destroyed or used up. You'd think that if numbers were getting too great maybe population control would go into effect like in China. It seems possible, or the Alliance's foundations were on the Earth and caused people to leave. Or maybe once the Alliance formed, they wanted to expand their grasp. Who knows? What do people (Alliance) with more power want? More power.
IS

CORWYN

Saturday, February 25, 2006 2:33 AM

Getting EVERYBODY off the Earth is a near impossible task (with Firefly tech). Currently you would need to ship 250,000 every day just to keep the popoulation the same.

Given that, it is likely the rich ones or the ones with something to offer got to go; the meek inherited the earth.

Thank You Kindly.

CHRISMOORHEAD

Saturday, February 25, 2006 2:43 AM

Sounds like the backstory to StarCraft.

Have you ever:
Used your teeth as wire strippers?
Given yourself stitches?
Made improvised munitions with no base supplies?
Pissed in a canteen?
Gone a month without bathing?

If so, you MIGHT just be a !HOOAH MOTHERF*CKER!

CHRISTHECYNIC

Saturday, February 25, 2006 2:55 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by corwyn:
Given that, it is likely the rich ones or the ones with something to offer got to go; the meek inherited the earth.

Finally someone who agrees with me. I've been saying that for ages.

1 2 NEXT PAGE