Question about OiS

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SHINY

Friday, January 16, 2004 6:53 PM

I always just assumed that Early was sophisticated enough to know how to disable any alarms prior to boarding the ship...after all, his ship was apparently able to approach Serenity without triggering any of the proximity alarms

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

SLOWSMURF

Friday, January 16, 2004 7:48 PM

Remember, Wash did notice something strange a bit before he boarded, but obviously early had done it right and made only a minimal indication of himself.

As for the door, you can either fault Joss for not having an alarm(again as this would be a minimal issue it might have only been on the bridge, and as far as I know, no one was there), or assume early disabled it before opening the door. Personally, I'd go for the second one.

BROWNCOAT1

Friday, January 16, 2004 8:03 PM

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I had questions about it as well.

I suppose Early could have had a device to disable such a sensor, but it seems to me once the outer hatch to the airlock was opened, some sort of alarm or warning should have been sounded, at least on the bridge.

That has ALWAYS really bugged me. I come from a submarine background, and we had a system that would do exactly that, tell you if a hatch was open. And it was simple and basic, why Serenity does not have it, well...

Maybe Mal has not been keeping his ship maintained the way a good captain should.s my damn spaceship?"

I suppose that it is possible that disrepair could be the cause. It could also be that Early somehow disabled it once he reached the ships hull.

As far as his approach goes, it could be he laid in a course than drifted into proximity of Serenity under no power to try to avoid detection. Still seems a proximity alert would have been sounded.

Guess we don't want to poke too many holes in the story since Joss had to get Early onto the boat somehow.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

SERGEANTX

Friday, January 16, 2004 8:18 PM

Early had an experimental 'plot device' built into the electronics of his ship that 'suspended disbelief' so that he could get onboard Serenity without alerting the crew. I believe its some sort of top secret technology the Alliance has been working on.

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

SAKRYSTA

Friday, January 16, 2004 9:33 PM

Remember, Wash said something about picking up a weird heat bounce off their wake.

I just assumed that if Early had good enough tech to make his ship look like a "heat bounce," he had a way to open the hatch without being detected.

River also got OFF the ship without being detected. ;)

...still a little whimsical in the brain pan...

WERESPAZ

Friday, January 16, 2004 10:16 PM

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Originally posted by Sakrysta:
Remember, Wash said something about picking up a weird heat bounce off their wake.

I just assumed that if Early had good enough tech to make his ship look like a "heat bounce," he had a way to open the hatch without being detected.

River also got OFF the ship without being detected. ;)

...still a little whimsical in the brain pan...

The way I figure it, the proximity alert would only be neccesary for things toward the front of your ship, therefore Early could have come up from behind (with his own proximity alerts going off, I'm sure) and thus only giving a "heat bounce" that most people would think was a "sensor being turned around". As for the hatch, I think there's probably some light or something on the bridge that says the "starboard ventricle exterior airlook door is ajar" or something like that, but everyone was pretty much in bed, which Early could have what Early was waiting for, after all, the captain had made for his bed right before Early came in.

-The SpAz

SPECTRE

Friday, January 16, 2004 10:37 PM

For starters. Early's ship ruled! As far as I know it's still drifting out there somewhere so it may be a future find.
Serenity has to have airlocks. In a few different eps EVA's were conducted. Evidence enough that there were airlocks? Besides it would be nuts not to have an airlock or EVA procedure in place.
Early obviously knew enough about the Firefly design to know how he was going to breach the ship and since he didn't want to kill River by explosive decompression he figured it out.

Wow! That came out in a blurt. It feels good to GEEK!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks.
Buzz

SUCCATASH

Friday, January 16, 2004 10:53 PM

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For starters. Early's ship ruled! As far as I know it's still drifting out there somewhere so it may be a future find.

I know I'm not the first person to say this, but why didn't the crew of Serenity steal his ship or at least ransack it for valuables? Isn't that what they do best?

SHINY

Friday, January 16, 2004 11:19 PM

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Originally posted by Spectre:
For starters. Early's ship ruled! As far as I know it's still drifting out there somewhere so it may be a future find.
I know I'm not the first person to say this, but why didn't the crew of Serenity steal his ship or at least ransack it for valuables? Isn't that what they do best?

Yes, I had the same question when I first saw the ep. The only reason I could come up with is that it might be too distinguishable and maybe Early's friends or employers might be able to trace it back to the crew (especially since many of their disreputible contacts are probably not about selling them out...)

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

KERNELM

Saturday, January 17, 2004 3:47 AM

This has been discussed before... note first of all that it's almost certainly River who sends the ship off. Why didn't Mal stop her then? Who knows. Could be he was so relieved River's plan worked he wasn't thinking about the ship, maybe he told River to send it to a rendezvous point where Serenity could get at it more easily. Other theories also exist...

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