Creative Firefly fans: Want to help?

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

Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:19 AM

Not a bad idea, I like the nanotechnology angle. All good except for the whereabouts of Earth, lost to tales and myth. It's unlikely the location of earth would be lost after only 400 years. It may be lost to frontier settlers but certainly not to governments in the Core. Simon had his universal encyclopedia with him so information would still be accessible and cataloged.

My reason for the human race leaving was because Earths orbit became eratic after the collision and thereby altering the orbits of not only Mars and Venus but eventually all the solar planets.This would make it impossible to create the stable environment needed for terra-forming.

P.S. If you haven't yet, read "Prey" by Michael Crichton. A great story about nanotechnology!

Good Luck

KURUKAMI

Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:10 PM

I guess I've got several problems with the "moon mined of its iron begins to fall from its orbit" thing.

First, if one removes enough iron from the moon to actual alter its orbit, you're making it less dense, and therefore decreasing the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth. The moon would therefore wander away from Earth, not towards it.

Second, if the moon's orbit took ten years to degrade (stepping right past the decaying orbit issue) I have difficulty believing that billions would still die in the collision. With a "disaster" that took that long to manifest, and of which there was clear sign beforehand ("Hey, is the moon gettin' bigger or is it just me?" "Don't tell me you're believing them governmental newscasts about the sky fallin', now..."), if indentured servitude had made a comeback virtually all of the population would've been evacuated for one reason or another.

Third, if the disaster was so small as to only strike the Earth (the moon crashing into it), why are there no colonies or space stations on other planets in the Sol system, like Mars or Jupiter's moons?

"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."

SAMURAIX47

Thursday, March 18, 2004 8:19 PM

I would agree with Kurukami. But also it would take millions of years to mine up enough iron mass to affect the moon's gravitational orbit.

I heard something about a prologue that was used in the broadcast versions, Nathan Fillion doing a voice over that said humans used up the Earth... That must mean we used up all the natural resources and probably irreparably ruined the environment.

Now the question of why no colonies on Mars or jupiter? Why leave the solar sytem completely?

The population of Earth in 100 years could be so huge that what ever planets and moons we could terraform in our solar system would still not be enough room for everyone so they head out to a star that has dozens of planets many of them in the temperate zone and able to support life. The core ones probably don't need much terraforming where as others and moons around gas giant planets need more work.

Jaymes

LINDLEY

Friday, March 19, 2004 12:09 AM

We're thinking along similar lines. I've been entertaining the idea of Reavers being the descendents of those left behind on Earth for a while now.

LINDLEY

Monday, March 29, 2004 7:32 AM

Just an update: I've finally found the time to add all the suggestions that have been given so far into the mod.

Well, except one. I didn't include Terra Novus, because in proper Latin, that should actually be Terra Nova, and that's the name of an ENT episode.

Besides, I've already got several worlds that duplicate portions of Earth; don't need one that duplicates the entire thing! :)

KURUKAMI

Monday, March 29, 2004 6:45 PM

Huzzah! Well, it'll certainly be interesting to see how your EV Galaxy map comes out... I've been tinkering with one myself, based on small little hints that were given in various episodes (like Jiangyin being nearly a month's travel from Persephone, as mentioned in passing in "Safe", which means that assuming 2 days per jump Jiangyin must be at least eleven or twelve jumps away from Badger's hole). I'll have to throw together an approximation of my map in a .jpg and show what I've got.

Are you planning to have a timeline, as in, starting the game before the Independents attempt to break away and playing through the five-plus years of the War? Could pilots be on either side of the confrontation -- joining either the Feds or the Independents?

Hmmm... off to tinker with my would-be map in Photoshop...

"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."

LINDLEY

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 2:55 AM

When I originally conceived this project, my intent was to have the player be Mal, and follow him from his enlistment, through Serenity Valley, through his early adventures and aquisition of Serenity, and finally end at Objects In Space.

(Well.....ORIGINALLY I had wanted to go even further, but when news of the movie came, I decided not to. But the final decision on that is still a *long* ways off.)

After putting in a good deal of work on this, I've decided that, as a starting point at least, I'm only going to include events post-Serenity Valley. It would require most of the planets in the mod to have alternate versions for me to include the war years, unfortunately.

I may still add that; I'm not at the storyline-writing stage *just* yet. But I'm trying to shoot for an attainable goal first.

As for my galaxy map, I'm afraid I haven't put overly much thought into it.....I just plopped things down, and tried to avoid any outright contradictions with the series. :) I won't be able to get an exact match; because of the way the engine works, its not possible to put Greeneleaf 18 hours from Jiangyin. It would be *possible* to put it 1 day away, but then there couldn't be an Alliance cruiser closer, so it has to be 2 days away.

DIGITALOUTBREAK

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 10:26 PM

Sanctus: The new home of the Holy See, Sanctus offered hope to the homeless Catholics. The world is covered in a desert, the only water must be distilled from the air or drawn up from underground wells. The papacy has teraformed a small settlement and turned it into a new age garden of eden.

Bar: Alchohol other then the wine pressed from from the grapes grown in the Sanctus orchards has been forbidden. The partender serves only non alcholic beverages... it doesn't look crowded.

No, I'm not catholic. I just thought that the Catholics wouldn't give up that easy.

CHRONICTHEHEDGEHOG

Thursday, April 1, 2004 5:50 PM

Waybreak: Waybreak is the result of an early terraforming attempt gone wrong, the atmosphere changes constantly going from inhabitable to deadly overnight. Constant temperature changes mean that the ice caps freeze and re-thaw every month, resulting in a complete flooding of the planet. There is only one port at Waybreak, the space-station Excession orbitting it which provides refueling, ship parts and a bar.

LINDLEY

Thursday, July 8, 2004 2:52 AM

Just an FYI: This project has been inactive for a while, but I plan to return to it very soon. Please continue to donate any descs you come up with, as that can only help to get the ball rolling again.

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