strange new worlds (fan fic cliches cont...)
POSTED BY: wytchcroft
UPDATED: Monday, August 20, 2007 06:11
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I like the idea, but the name is a little odd. Does it have any inherent meaning or is just random?
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"You know that's gonna fall off."
-----Nathan Fillion (to me while drunk)
How are ships unlike food?
1. If you try it and don't like it, you don't have to do it again.
2. You can have as much as you want, when you want.
3. Cravings can be very specific.
I mean, hello it's not as if there's 'ship police?
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can't tell without poss spoiler!
but in one story i had BuMali
which is a joke on Malibu.
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Ahh...
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"You know that's gonna fall off."
-----Nathan Fillion (to me while drunk)
How are ships unlike food?
1. If you try it and don't like it, you don't have to do it again.
2. You can have as much as you want, when you want.
3. Cravings can be very specific.
I mean, hello it's not as if there's 'ship police?
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Any reason a full planet has to be the same? No need for themed planets at all IMO, (unless there is a specific reason)
After all we live on a single planet. We have oceans, rain forests, desserts, frozen bits, seasons and much much more.
Even if we assume that planets in the 'verse are much smaller, there will still be room for difference on the surface.
Ever Persephone may have a forest somewhere. After all they would want an ecosystem that could survive. Think of the cost of keeping it artificial. This is a little harder on smaller moons though, where there may be a permanent need for artificial atmo generation.
In the series, we had Bellerophon - a place for the fantastically rich, with floating palaces above an ocean. Mal still got stranded in a desert (probably a cost thing... more expensive to go and film at a different location?).
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Admittedly, I haven't created a lot of worlds in my stories, but I also wrote what I know and apply it to my stories.
The only world I've created was Anubis in THE SERENITY GIG as a planet that's half saharan desert, half ocean, so that there's tons of beach property and a somewhat affluent culture there that's all stretched out in a ring around the planet, while half is just covered in water and the other half in sand. I don't know how realistic this would be, but I just like the idea of half of a planet being a desert wasteland and the other half just water.
But in writing for Regina (when I found out that there's a canon moon named Regina, after my hometown, I've changed Shooter's origin planet to there) and soon for Harvest, I'm basically writing about southern Saskatchewan. Prairies, really.
But for Osiris and Capital City, I'm writing it as a mix of Coruscant from STAR WARS and Toronto. River's reactions to seeing Capital City for the first time in years is the reaction I had when I saw Toronto for the first time. That there'd be hovercars making up a hanging grid and buildings that touch the cloud line, but it has subways, bars, bums, a warehouse district and buildings hundreds of years old. Sort of a mix of the fantastic with the familiar, like BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.
Here's a question up for interpretation. In Objects in Space, Mal references New Melbourne as a planet whose main industry is fish. Now, do you think the planet would be like Australia, New England or the Maritimes. I know the name gives itself to Austrailian actors, but I think it would be more like Newfoundland, P.E.I, Nova Scotia and the Maritimes in Canada.
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Loudon Wainwright III - "Strange Weirdos" off the "Knocked Up" soundtrack
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very interesting post - liked your decriptions..
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Originally posted by reginaroadie:
Here's a question up for interpretation. In Objects in Space, Mal references New Melbourne as a planet whose main industry is fish. Now, do you think the planet would be like Australia, New England or the Maritimes. I know the name gives itself to Austrailian actors, but I think it would be more like Newfoundland, P.E.I, Nova Scotia and the Maritimes in Canada.
ha ha! you never can tell - New Zealand is named after the Viking/Norweigan territory of zealand... and they are NOT alike.
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New Melbourne could probably have all the above, assuming it's a decent size planet. Dominant Australian or Japanese-style urban culture on the largest tropical islands, rugged Alaskan/Maritime/Norwegian settlements around the polar masses, Polynesian or Caribbean cultures at the fringes of the settled areas. To maintain the Western feel, think of San Francisco in the 1850's to 1880's, or Nantucket a smidge earlier.
The 'fanon' explanation I'd heard for why all the planets look the same is that the planets on the Rim are mostly recently terraformed, and the century of less is not long enough for the ecosystems to grow together and produce jungles, forests and the like. By contrast, the Core planets have have centuries for their ecosystems to mature.
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Since my fic is mainly set on Shadow here's how I envsion that planet. It's rolling plains, a lot like central Texas from Austin north to south of Dallas. The climate is moderate, warm summers and winters that are bearable.
It also has a broad corn and wheat growing capacity, much like the Great Plains of the US.
Small towns with the essential stores, banks etc. for a farming community.
I'll even offer up my own state of North Carolina as the planet (or moon) Carolina.
The coastal area has many barrier islands and inlets that are constantly changing.(fantastic for smuggling ). The coastal land is rich and is mainly used for farming with small towns sprinkled through out. There is also a substantail fishing industry (actually fishing is declining rapidly in favor of tourism development-it's about the last of the east coast to be developed).
The middle section is industrial and tech oriented and is booming with people moving in from other areas for jobs. This is where the prestigious universities are and it's a transportation crossroads, both land and air. What undeveloped land there is is wooded or the remains of small farms.
Then there are the sand hills near the central SC border. Scrub vegetation,woodland and heat. A large military base is located there (Ft. Bragg, home of the Special Forces and 82nd Airborne).
Then there are the mountains.(Great Smokies) Inhabited by hardy descendants of Scottish and Irish pioneers on small farms they are giving way to expensive retirement communities nestled in the valleys.
And this state stretches only 600 miles from end to end.
You can pack in a lot of diversity on one planet
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I forgot to add that Carolina would be firmly in the Independent camp.
Weak state government, distrust of "Big" government and a multi million dollar sport crafted out of running away from the police with a load of illegal whiskey in the trunk.
That would be Nascar where top athletes handle gas cans and MIT trained engineers huddle over a car engine. And a "good ole boy" can make millions by pushing an accelerator.
Also, transplants (a nice name for "Damm Yankees") feel a compulsion after a few years here to buy a tremendous pickup truck, get a retriever (Goldens are more popular but Labradors have more "gun sense")and more than a few have put gun racks in the rear window.
It must be something in the air.
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great post!
quick question - 'firmly in the independant camp'
is there a timeline on that? i ask because i'm having to mentally redraw some of the maps and consider alliegances post BDM / post The Wave...
make someone a browncoat today - don't drive nobody away
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