Cast Yourself In Firefly!
POSTED BY: Talvin
UPDATED: Monday, April 19, 2004 11:14
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Here's what I would want to do: I'm finishing up my training at the Companion Academy, and in order to graduate, I have to spend some time shadowing a licensed Companion. Since I'm not exactly the top of my class, there's no way they'd send me to a high-class cruise line or anything. No! I get to shadow Inara on a piece of go-se (not really! don't hurt me!) at the edges of the 'verse.
I kinda thought someone would have had an idea like that already, but I suppose everyone's so eager to be Inara's client that they wouldn't want to be her student. 
"What'd you all order a dead guy for?"
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I'd be some kind of space mexican; floating from port to port in a poncho and a sombrero, speaking spanish and misunderstanding all the chinese.
Good stuff.
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Well, it's a weird idea, but I kinda got it stuck on the brain when I think about this.
An alliance soldier in The War, perhaps undercover - a spy? - is injured in an explosion, and gets. Ok, so it's mass cheesy, but here it goes. Mal and Zoe who fnd her unconcious - an injured civilian apparently. She wakes up with amnesia, joins the Independents, and fights as a browncoat for about a year. Her memory returns in the middle of a heavy firefight, and she ends up back with the Alliance - although Mal & Zoe think she got killed. Problem is, her loyalties have been affected by her time among the independents, and she ends up discharged from Military service.
Years later, she is captain of her own ship, something along the same level as Serenity, although not the same kind of ship. Her crew is small - the bare minimum. Mal and Zoe see her and recognize her just as she has a run in with some unpleasants, nearly getting herself killed. The crew get mixed up a little adventure as they get unintentionally involved in the trouble, and help her save her butt and her crew - and her ship.
From then on, I never really thought too much about - I'd be happy to make it through one episode..
And much as I'd like to see her come between Mal and 'nara, I just couldn't do it. :P
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Originally posted by TheSkipper:
I'd be some kind of space mexican; floating from port to port in a poncho and a sombrero, speaking spanish and misunderstanding all the chinese.
Good stuff.
ROFLMFAO!! that's great! hahaha!
"I prefer the soup thing, it's always a hoot and you don't die from it"
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this maybe a little over ellaborate
I'd be a reaver that gets captured by the crew. Simon using the brain information he'd gained from studying what the blue hand guys did to River, would find a way to block the characters memories back to before he was captured by the reavers so it would essentially be like being in a happy family enviroment one day and waking up the next mutilated beyond description and finding out everyone you ever loved were brutally raped to death. never having heard of reavers beforebeing turned into one the character would not trust the crew of the serenity, instead thinking they are the ones that did this to him. slowly the memory blocks would come undone and the character would essentially be mentally tortured all over again as the memories of everything came flooding back. before eventually being put out of my missery
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(Going OT for a moment)
Quote:Well, it wasn't exactly "high profile," considering that the only witnesses were a bunch of fringers, a nomadic Companion, and a Shepherd. A group small and low-profile enough to be disappeared without much trouble, IOW. Just blame Reavers/pirates/any of a million dangers in space.
Originally posted by dbell46:
Sorry to go off on a tangent for a moment, but
that's a question that has bothered me since the
lawman in serenity tried to arrest simon.How
can you arrest someone who was not detained
leagally and committed no crime to begin with?
If the academy wishes to maintain a low profile,
then a high-profile manhunt is a silly way to go
about it.
As for arresting Simon, I'm no legal expert, but the charge could easily be something like "theft of Alliance property" (assuming that Blue Sun is part of the Alliance proper and not just a private MegaCorp), "flight to avoid prosecution," "resisting arrest," Heck, even "wrongful endangerment" (if not for him, the Serenity crew wouldn't have to be brain-melted).
Heck, the Alliance could even say that Simon was the one responsible for River's condition (not like they have to be honest; they own the Legal System), and take River into "protective custody."
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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
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I'd be a tough, kinda bitchy princess who hired the crew to do a job. Jayne has to pretend to be her bodyguard, and in the process falls in love with her. But all she'll do is kiss him on the cheek and flirt with him, so he's forced to follow her around, constantly requesting sex in really innapropriate ways.
"Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy."
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I step onto the platform, resplendant in my black pants, polished black boots and red tunic. The other five take their places. This is my first such asignment as part of the survey team. The captain says, "energize."
The room begins to fade out of existance. Suddenly the klaxon blares.
"EMERG....STATIC...LAR FLARE...STATIC...THEM BACK!!!"
The terrain fades into existance, mostly of scrub oak and rolling hills. I suddenly find myself alone. Well not alone. To my left is a small but motley band of thugs carrying an assortment of antique weapons. Anchient but effective. To my right is a man in a long brown coat, an attractive dark skinned woman, and a big scary looking man carrying a really big gun. The man in the brown coat with a shocked expression on his face says, "te ma da."
Suddenly hands go to weapons and gunfire erupts. About half of the gunfire is exchanged between the two groups and the other half at me. I duck and roll aiming for some cover. "Dang," this tumble weed doesn't offer much cover so I duck and roll again behing a small boulder. This red shirt makes me nothing more than a target. I tear off the shirt and before I can throw it away a bullet snatches it from my hand.
I hear a high piched whine and instinctively my hand goes to my belt. The pistol grip is hot to the touch. "GORRAMIT, OVERLOAD...gorramit? I heave the pistol away. An explosion rocks the ground showering me with rocks, body parts and other debris.
I lay on the ground, stunned and staring up at the sky. A face comes into view, the man with the long coat. A boot steps onto my chest and a pistol swings into my face.
"You saved my life. Now give me a good reason that I don't kill you," the man says.
"I like your coat."
I like crossover episodes.
We got you partially surrounded
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Quote:
Originally posted by dbell46:
Sorry to go off on a tangent for a moment, but
that's a question that has bothered me since the
lawman in serenity tried to arrest simon.How
can you arrest someone who was not detained
leagally and committed no crime to begin with?
If the academy wishes to maintain a low profile,
then a high-profile manhunt is a silly way to go
about it.
1. How can you just arrest someone who has committed no crime?
Easy. Thats what tyranny's do. Sure, we have a nice Constitution that protects our rights and preserves our liberty. So did the Germans in the 1930's. Iraq was a Democracy, Saddam got 99% of the last vote, probably because of the popularity of his program to save cemetary space by burying thousands of people in the same spot. The Soviet Union had an popular elected assembly, which helped send thousands of "insane" people to "hospitals" in beautiful Siberia.
And in the United States of America you can be detained indefinately without charges or a hearing or even reasonable access to legal counsel if you are a "witness", "Suspect", or "person of interest" in a national security investigation. Not saying right or wrong, just saying thats the law, at least until the Supreme COurt sets us straight as to what the Constitution says about it.
Yup. Tyranny and due process don't get along.
2. Why high profile manhunt for low profile agency?
There is no high profile anything when the Govt controls the media, as I'm certain the Alliance does.
Further: "All personel be on the lookout for a Simon Tam. Dr. Tam is wanted in connection with the kidnapping of his sister, theft of Alliance property, and assault on Alliance citizens. (Add in murder for what happened on Ariel. Damn Doctor killed a whole Hospital security staff before making off with a fortune in medical supplies.) BE advised suspect is considered armed and highly dangerous."
Now thats not too high profile, we hear worse out of Cleveland every couple days.
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