Was Mars a Mars-That-Was in the Firefly 'verse?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 13:11
VIEWED: 1308
PAGE 1 of 1

CHRISISALL

Monday, April 24, 2006 3:06 PM

Why go to another galaxy, wasn't Mars a viable candidate for terraforming?
Or did the Blue Sun Co. mine, pollute and radiate it, making it impossible to terraform long before the need to leave Earth?

Opinions?

Total Chrisisall Recall

ZZETTA13

Monday, April 24, 2006 3:42 PM

CHRISISALL, yep the Mars that was, was. I think we earthfolk may have trashed it and the other local planets as well.

Joss decided to take his verse out of town

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, February 9, 2026 6:19 PM

Musk clips his Mars settlement ambition, aims for the moon instead

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/science/elon-musk-spacex-priorities-moo
n-intl-hnk

ANONYMOUS1

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 12:58 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Why go to another galaxy,

Hi,

Not another Galaxy. No FTL in the verse. They used generations ships…which meant people lived and died and their children carried on etc.

Was the solar systems in the Firefly/Serenity universe much closer than the ones in our universe or they had much faster ships then we have now or it took a very loooooong time.

ANONYMOUS1

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 1:03 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
wasn't Mars a viable candidate for terraforming?

Our Mars has no global magnetic field. So it might not be a viable candidate except in sealed shield environments.

They might have used Mars up like they did Earth.

ANONYMOUS1

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 1:03 PM

Speaking of the moon

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/?q=Artemis&f=&tab=

Artemis II currently set for Tuesday March 3, 2026.

“ First crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft. First time humans will go beyond Low Earth Orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.”

ANONYMOUS1

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 1:11 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Musk clips his Mars settlement ambition, aims for the moon instead

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/science/elon-musk-spacex-priorities-moo
n-intl-hnk

I still think Mars is his long term goal. Moon would be a stepping stone…also proof of concept. Darn thing is also so much closer.