Creative Firefly fans: Want to help?

POSTED BY: Lindley
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 22:06
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LINDLEY

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:15 AM

Some very interesting ideas in this thread, thanks all.

I'm taking a bit of a break from this project this week, since its spring break, but I'll let you all know when Alpha 1 time is approaching.

VAMPIREFAN

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:31 AM

sounds like a very interesting project. i will be trying out the game you posted the link to.

good luck and can't wait for the finished product.

laura

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KAYLEESSERENITY

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:06 AM

Hey I'f u need any help email me at getupkid64@yahoo.com. I'm a huge FF fan and I could have been a artist for Marvel comics, I'm 16.

Cut him open? Robot.

WYDRAZ

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SamuraiX47:
... Any planets in the system would be wiped out by the nova and its burnedout remnant might be captured by the blackhole. If you're gonna have a binary star system, better to make it a stable star system.

I disagree. That's boring. Besides, you're not taking into account a few things. (1) An outer planet could conceivably survive such an event, and even as a burnt husk it might be reclaimed through terraforming. (2) Cosmic disasters take a loOOOong time to occur. With a window of stability as small as a few hundred years (e.g. after the supernova and before the development of a black hole) it might be worth terraforming a planet or at least colonizing a system purely for its mineral wealth.

WYDRAZ

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:01 AM

3 Systems for submission:

Zircon Gamma

Known commonly as the Robot Planet, Zircon Gamma is owned and run by Zircon GmbH, an old and propserous corporation with headquarters in the core worlds. Zircon Gamma is a research and development lab, located outside Alliance territory for legal reasons. In the past, Zircon GmbH has been slapped on the wrist by the Alliance a few times, for crossing legally ambiguous territory in their robotic and cybernetic experiements. Although they do nothing the Alliance wouldn't do in its own secret labs, the simple fact is that they are on the Alliance's watch list because of Zircon's secrecy and monopolist business practices. But out here, they are free to develop as they please. The planet exports standard issue robots for the entire sector, yet robot factories comprise of less than than half of their facilities. The majority are devoted to secretive R&D projects.

Cretaceous

This terraformed world, located just outside of the core worlds, is owned by an Alliance biogenics conglomerate. Cretaceous has been made into a recreation of prehistoric Earth, complete with dense jungles and genetically reconstructed dinosaurs, created in Alliance labs. The planet serves not only as a giant experiement, but has also become something of a cash cow. Wealthy hunters pay plenty to get a shot at bagging a Tyrannosaur, and dino-meat is a delicacy for those who can pay.

Pegana IV

Due to a lack of terraformable planets, the Pegana system is pretty much uninhabited. In its outer (seventh) planet, an scientific outpost run by an independent genius listens for signals from the outer rim. Doctor Vernon Lu-Hawkins and his team of assistants are out here in nowhere land hoping to find proof of alien intelligence. Even after hundreds of years of space exploration, it seems some few scientists still believe there may be extraterrestrials out there. Until recently, Pegana IV has been ignored. But then a wormhole appeared to open near the systems' outer boundary, and a signal is coming through. Dr. Lu-Hawkins and his team have not yet been able to translate it, but he claims it is proof of the existence of ETs. Though no one believes his claim, it is rumored that the Alliance has taken an interest...

PYROPHORUS

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:33 AM

Allright, I thought I might give this a shot.

My first planet is pretty simple. A core planet with a moon circling about it.

Terra Novus (or new earth): Was the first planet created by the terraformers, to mimmic the best of climates earth that was had to offer. It is the pride of terraformation offering a climate ranging from -5 degrees celcius to 20 degrees allowing for amazing swept beaches as well as beutiful skiing. It is the settlment of the terraformers ancestors and is only accessible through a port on its moon (altera luna), due to its surrounding defence grid.

Altera Luna: Circles Terra Novus. Although it has no atmosphere, it includes one of the most heavilly defended alliance spaceports in the Verse. It is the only access point to Terra Novus.

The Xhao-Leverson Asteroind Belt (Frontier): Named after two of the most prominent terraformers of the new Verse. The asteroid belt was an essential component in elements needed for the terraformation of the new Verse. It is still home to a large mining colony today.

Rupert (Deeps): This planet is home to a colony of estranged individuals. They see it as their objective to monitor going's on in the Verse and know a great deal about whats happening. This planet is home to The Restaurant at the End of the Verse and proves itself that the bible aint the only book to have survived this long.

MELLOWFLOYD

Wednesday, March 10, 2004 7:35 AM

Nova Canadiana: A core colony whose population claims to be descendents of the ancient nation-state Canada back on Earth-that-was. Their mascot of the beaver and heavy export of maple syrup seems to reinforce their theory. A heavily wooded planet, Nova Canadiana's cities coexist rather well with their great forests. Their heavy dependence on dams for hydro electricity, however, causes them to often be called the most backward of the more 'civilized' core planets, as anything less than nuclear power is seen as primitive. Their population is a diverse mix of cultures, although anglophone, francophone, and asians are the most dominant groups. Their chief exports are their grain, timber, and other natural resources. Their most valued product however, is their famous maple syrup, a staple in all wealthy families' diets.

You're hilarious. Sadist.

LINDLEY

Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:58 AM

Quote:

Zeus: Terra-formed planet just outside of the Core planets. Zeus has several moons, each named after a different lover of the mythic god. The most notable of these moons would be Hera, where the Battle of Serenity Valley occured.

Zeus's main industry is mining, as it is one of the few locations that has a necessary mineral used in Alliance cruiser engines. The population is mainly descended from Earth-that-was miners, most notably coal miners from what was the Eastern United States.

Illegal trade used to flourish on Zeus and its moons. However, after Serenity Valley, the Alliance increased their military presence and enforced stiffer penalties for smuggling.

Hope that helps.

It just occured to me that it doesn't make sense for Hera to be near the Core worlds. The Independent back was broken at Serenity; that implies a large number of the Independent leaders had a base there. They would be more likely to set up on the Rim.

Still, I like your idea well enough.

RONALDRAYGUN

Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:27 AM

Earth-that-was DEEP

Dark billowing clouds hide the planet surface from orbit. Fantastic lightning displays arc across the cloud tops constantly. A dense debris ring encircle's the Earth with larger chunks of rock that orbit further out from the rings. Two Blue Sun Archaeologic outpost's are in orbit as well as an unmarked and unregistered space station. The Alliance has restricted access to Earth's solar system, only extremely desperate and foolish treasure hunters dare to brave the two month trip through reaver territory only to find a dangerous and hostile environment on the Earths surface. However, priceless relics of Earth-that-was can still be found if your up to the task.

Background (for fun!)

Earth now is uninhabited. Located in the old frontier sector of the 'verse, mankind's planet of origin met with disaster almost 400 years ago. Interstellar space travel was entering the colonization age with the advent of terra-forming. It seemed everyone who was wealthy enough to leave for clean new worlds in the "Core" of the galaxy did so.
The Earth's moon having been the first stellar body that was successfully terra-formed was aggressively mined of it's iron. Although the law restricted how much could be mined, corporations were able to circumvent government monitoring which ultimately doomed the Earth. Scientist's found that the moon's orbit had begun to decay and within ten years the moon collided into the Earth killing billions.
For ten years millions of people fled the Earth but passage on starships was expensive for those with little or no money. Indenturing became lawful to lure corporations that had ships capable of ferrying people off world. Free passage in exchange for years of labor on one of several core planets.

The Firefly verse is such fertile ground for Fanfic. I love it!!

KURUKAMI

Tuesday, March 16, 2004 7:09 PM

See, my theory on Earth-that-Was for an EV mod went something like this:

What causes an enormous population to flee not only a planet, but an entire system? It has to be something of overwhelming magnitude, something which would easily destroy everyone if they were caught by it. Solution? Some corporation or government, caught up in its own designs, accidentally released a powerful nanotechnology-warfare agent that, lacking its normal cut-off trigger, quickly began to assimilate and kill nearly every organism it encountered on the face of the Earth. It spread upon the prevailing winds like a plague, bringing panic and destruction wherever it landed.

Before the other planets in the Sol system were truly aware of the threat, many of them had also been infected by the nanotech agent. The refugees of Earth's nations and Sol's colonies fled in spacecraft cobbled together from a variety of technological levels, leaving the plague-ridden domains of mankind far behind and striking out towards what one day would become the Alliance's systems.

But behind them, something happened which they did not anticipate. In a tiny fraction of creatures and organisms, the nanotech-plague did not kill its hosts. Instead, it granted them strength and speed and toughness, enhancing their resistance to disease and radiation so that they could survive in the wastelands that had been left behind. Many of those kept a substantial portion of their intelligence as well, and salvaged spaceworthy craft from the ruins of Earth's civilization. They banded together to form clans within deep space, always seeking to and find uninfected individuals who might swell their ranks.

Centuries after the fall of Earth, long after the truth of the exodus had been lost to tale and myth, they finally found Earth's refugees, and began to prey upon the edges of the society those refugees had built.

Such is the history of the Reavers.

"Sir, I would like to gingerly point out that it is difficult for someone to be gently reassuring when they're holding three and a half feet of sharpened steel."

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