The Expanding Verse
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UPDATED: Monday, February 24, 2025 23:36
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I've always been a big fan of Firefly, since the day it aired in fact. As a graphic designer I've created my share of fan made projects and I love the continuing creation of materials that have been created by amateurs and professionals alike. I think of it as the Expanding Verse and I recently began making all sorts of graphics and designs for several fan made projects, including a short film out of Salt Lake called Reaverized and a webseries by Mediablender out of the Northwest called Courage. I just thought I'd share some of the designs I've posted at fireflyprops.net and the Replica Prop Forum. Enjoy.
Declaration of Dangerous Goods
This first document is a standard form for the Declaration of Dangerous goods. The form is stamped showing an origin out of the Eavesdown Docks, but I left the signature spaces intentionally blank, so that each one can be signed by you with the intention of making them unique. I went for a bold look, with simple write-in spaces and an obvious warning color scheme. This is based on an actual export form, and I was surprised to see that a form of this kind was so simple in terms of information requirements. It is 8.5" x 14" to match the standard ship's papers size. Enjoy.
http://pics.fireflyprops.net/PACE-HAZRAD-DangerousGood.pdf
New Kong Customs
These are Import/Export tags that I created for my Chinese Cooler project, and I've created six different tags for each. Now the tags have random number sets to show visits through the New Kong Customs House at different times.
The pdfs were created on 8.5" x 11" with crop marks.
Import - http://pics.fireflyprops.net/PACE-NewKongSilver.pdf
Export - http://pics.fireflyprops.net/PACE-NewKongGold.pdf
Keelhauler Transport and Trading Company
Keelhauler Transport and Trading Company might seem like a fly by night business at first glance, especially to the larger companies and the handful of mega-corporations in the Verse, but not so. Not only does Keelhauler thrive with its handful of old transports and seemingly remote offices, but it manages to pick up so much business that falls through the economic cracks of the Core that it excels on several fronts.
First, the Keelhauler fleet is small, so maintenance is small. Rather than maintain a large fleet of ships and shuttles in endless need of repair or replacement, Keelauler piggybacks more than 85% of its transport and trade with other cargo ships, ingoing and outgoing passenger liners and smugglers already bound for destinations favorable to shipping and receiving.
Second, Keelhauler has little to no overhead. Small runs in great quantities means big business with little storage or stock issues.
Also, the name is hard to forget. Even if one could forget such a name (with that special 'I'm sorry...what?' quality) Keelhauler itself would never let you forget it. What Keelhauler lacks in large advertising funds, it more than makes up for in the liberal distribution of cheap print goods.
Ship a box or two for Keelhauler and expect to walk away with a t-shirt or two and a handful of classic postcards (perfect for that handwritten wave from the Rim).
"Dear Ma. Our postman got ate by Reavers, but the youngin's are just fine."
Front:
Back:
pdf:
http://pics.fireflyprops.net/KeelhaulerPostcard.pdf
NOTE: These are set up as U.S. standard sized postcards for mailing. You should print these on pretty heavy cardstock, or they'll fail as actual postcards.
Beaumonde Bonded Carrier and Forwarding Operations form
This was one of my first ship's pape
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Very Shiny!
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Interesting... I like the "dangerous goods" form, though I wonder if a world isn't so backbirth that they actually HAVE Alliance customs officials just how often they use paper. But I bet you could put a typing fade in animation for some of the Chinese and text in Flash or something, make it look all high-tech and digital, maybe edit it into a video production on top of a regular piece of paper.
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Very Shiny!
Thank you. There's going to be a lot more where those came from. Food and beverage labels, munitions, technical manuals, etc.
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Shortly after the Official Map of the Verse came out, J. Chris Bourdier created the Verse in Numbers, and shortly after that I threw the ARC (Astrogation Reference Charts) together. I recently discovered a few subtle mistakes I made and I always wanted to expand the ARC to include mining facilities, remote docks and outposts in the asteroid belts of the Verse. Of course, the Kuiper belt around White Sun is simply too large for the format of the ARC as it is now, but I took the liberty of adding two far flung dwarf planets and their satellites. As for Motherlode (around Red Sun) and Uroborus (around Blue Sun), they now sport dozens of outposts and mining facilities. The names listed are nicknames or shortened version of much longer titles, such as CMC - N1, which stands for 'Corone Mining Consortium - New Facility 1'. My many thanks to the fans who contributed names for these lonely, remote rocks.
This is version 1.3
http://pics.fireflyprops.net/PACE-ARC1.3.pdf
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No set of ship's papers is complete without a Crew and Passenger Roster, so I had to make my own. I went with a very simple color scheme but an evil border. It was a nightmare to design and build. I borrowed a little from the border of an old mining certificate, but added and added and added until I went a bit blind.
I'll go and rest my eyes now.
http://pics.fireflyprops.net/PACE-PassengerRoster.pdf
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The takeaway box is utterly adorable. What is the wasp saying??
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The yellowjacket is saying, "Shiny!."
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Originally posted by yellowjacket:
The yellowjacket is saying, "Shiny!."
Awwwwwwww.
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In addition to printed paper goods, I have to create a lot of logos, directional signs, labels and warning decals to be used as vinyls, stickers and paint decals. This is one of several electrical warning labels that I've been working on. I have three others in the process, but I love skulls, so this one was the first out of the gate.
There are six different stickers to a sheet. They can be printed on sticky back paper or you can spray mount them to appropriate/inappropriate places. The crop marks are a bit tricky, but I was trying to utilize as much surface area as possible.
http://pics.fireflyprops.net/PACE-HighVoltage.pdf
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