What do we 'know' about these worlds?

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UPDATED: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 04:18
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ANOTHERSKY

Sunday, June 7, 2009 6:49 AM

Raptor: I'm not a statistician, but somebody might want to look at the possibilities of actually managing to populate those planets, given a nudge in technology to get them there.

Settlers tend to have a lot of kids, for several reasons. And the growth of the overall human pop of earth is exponential, not a 1:1 curve.

This means that our exponentialrate now is exponentially higher than our exponential growth 500 years ago (aka 1500). Given that prediction, and starting with six billion + people outright on Earth-that-Was (ominous) seems possible to me.
Besides, what's an average planet population? They're not all core worlds jampacked with skivvers and richies.

Planet Bob, THE most disappointing planet name ever: Well, Whedon wrote for Titan AE, and I think somebody else from his team was also involved, so...maybe.

Anjl: I recall reading your planet descriptions and seeing how they compared with mine a while back. Are you still doing that?

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NCBROWNCOAT

Sunday, June 7, 2009 3:41 PM

I would think that the Core worlds would have a lot of "cublicle jockies". Middle class office drones that power the beaucracy of the government and the myriad companies based in the Core.

They live in high apartment towers in similar apartments and their kids go to the public schools. They pack the parks and green spaces on weekends and holidays and if they are lucky and save their credits they may go to a resort once or twice in their lives.

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, June 8, 2009 8:16 AM

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Regina as the Train Job site is in the Serenity Blue Ray extras, the RPG manual, and likely in the Visual Companions.

Not in the Visual Companions that I've found, but also have not yet seen that in the bluray. Is that in the Serenity verse worlds file? I though I got through all of those.

BYTEMITE

Monday, June 8, 2009 3:05 PM

Yeah. I remember specifically that the Train Job is part of Regina's description, kind of like how Ariel is mentioned as the site of a hospital robbery suspected to be associated with the crew. But if I'm wrong in that the crew isn't mentioned, then Regina's description includes a mention about Bowden's Malady, which is a dead giveaway.

Regina and Ezra are in the same system, at least, I don't think it would take too long to get there and for Crow's group to have gotten back, assuming that Crow didn't get kicked into a turbine as he did.

And I've also read, because of tricks with the grav drive and screening, that while ships in the firefly verse don't do faster than light, they do get up to 1/3 of light speed. Or at least the Arcs that left Earth could, and I doubt they went BACKWARDS with space travel technology in 300-400 years. But then again, maybe grav screening let the Arcs have more thrusters while inertia dampening compensated for the excess mass... ANYWAY.

My figuring is, if ships in the firefly verse go about 1/3 lightspeed, that's why I figure a trip between nearby planets in a system only takes a couple of days, between systems a week or two, and across the verse a month or two.

Now, where did I read those? It was either in the Verse by Numbers/White Pages, or in the manual...

Off subject again. Regina isn't too far from Ezra, I'm pretty sure the Blu-Ray confirms it, I know for sure its in the RP manual, so I'm pretty sure it's canon.

Plus, in the War Stories shooting script, there's a scene where Inara goes to talk to that councilwoman, and it's revealed that Niska has the closest approximation of a government body over Ezra scared stiff. My impression is that Niska and his crime syndicate have just about full run of the entire planet, with a few minor independent criminal groups trying to eke out a living under Niska's nose. I don't think Niska would need to hire someone outside to steal any medicine on Ezra.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 7:00 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
Yeah. I remember specifically that the Train Job is part of Regina's description, kind of like how Ariel is mentioned as the site of a hospital robbery suspected to be associated with the crew. But if I'm wrong in that the crew isn't mentioned, then Regina's description includes a mention about Bowden's Malady, which is a dead giveaway.

Regina and Ezra are in the same system, at least, I don't think it would take too long to get there and for Crow's group to have gotten back, assuming that Crow didn't get kicked into a turbine as he did.

And I've also read, because of tricks with the grav drive and screening, that while ships in the firefly verse don't do faster than light, they do get up to 1/3 of light speed. Or at least the Arcs that left Earth could, and I doubt they went BACKWARDS with space travel technology in 300-400 years. But then again, maybe grav screening let the Arcs have more thrusters while inertia dampening compensated for the excess mass... ANYWAY.

My figuring is, if ships in the firefly verse go about 1/3 lightspeed, that's why I figure a trip between nearby planets in a system only takes a couple of days, between systems a week or two, and across the verse a month or two.

Now, where did I read those? It was either in the Verse by Numbers/White Pages, or in the manual...

Off subject again. Regina isn't too far from Ezra, I'm pretty sure the Blu-Ray confirms it, I know for sure its in the RP manual, so I'm pretty sure it's canon.

Plus, in the War Stories shooting script, there's a scene where Inara goes to talk to that councilwoman, and it's revealed that Niska has the closest approximation of a government body over Ezra scared stiff. My impression is that Niska and his crime syndicate have just about full run of the entire planet, with a few minor independent criminal groups trying to eke out a living under Niska's nose. I don't think Niska would need to hire someone outside to steal any medicine on Ezra.

I looked all over my Serenity bluray dics today, didn't find anything about Regina, or TTJ.
I accept that Bowden's disease, being a mining malady, would be present both in a mining town like Paradiso, as well as mining areas of Regina. Does not mean this is the only place in the verse, or in the system, that it exists.
I have not heard that RPG is a canon source.
Ezra is the first orbital body in the Georgia system, and Regina is the second. They might also be on opposite sides of the Georgia Sun. According to Mao of the Verse, not in bluray extas.

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 1:43 PM

Darn it. I don't have access right now to my own Blu-Ray to check, because I don't know where my Blu-ray player is right now. House is under a bit of rearrangement.

I'll check for myself when I can. Was the Bowden's malady note there?

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:29 AM

Well... I feel like an ass.

Found my blue ray player, set it up, and JewelStaiteFan's right. Regina isn't mentioned anywhere on the database included on the Blu Ray.

So... It is still in the RPG manual, but as has been said, there are quite a few people who don't consider it canon. I'm not sure why, but yeah. I guess the site of the train job is up to you, and you can say Ezra or Regina... Or maybe even another one, probably so long as it's in the Georgia system.

I'm going to go hide my face for a while now.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:18 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
Well... I feel like an ass.

Found my blue ray player, set it up, and JewelStaiteFan's right. Regina isn't mentioned anywhere on the database included on the Blu Ray.

So... It is still in the RPG manual, but as has been said, there are quite a few people who don't consider it canon. I'm not sure why, but yeah. I guess the site of the train job is up to you, and you can say Ezra or Regina... Or maybe even another one, probably so long as it's in the Georgia system.

I'm going to go hide my face for a while now.

I did not find any mention of Bowden's Malady on the Serenity bluray, but I was only looking for Regina references in the planet database and the personnel dossiers. I have heard about the Bowden's Malady also being on Regina, not sure if that's only from RPG source, but I have never found canon statements that define Regina as the location of Hancock and Paradiso.
To be clear, there are numerous conflicts about. The Serenity bluray extras have moved the worlds around so that they have only one Sun, and all worlds seem to orbit that one sun. Universal has dictated and specified that there are 5 Suns in the verse, and therefore 5 different orbital systems at minimum. These 2 concepts do not mesh, so the Serenity bluray extras do not coform to to Universal Studios parameters.

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