Where did Mal get the money for Serenity?

POSTED BY: ncbrowncoat
UPDATED: Monday, June 14, 2010 14:40
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NCBROWNCOAT

Sunday, June 13, 2010 2:35 PM

Darn Sunday double post/

ZZETTA13

Sunday, June 13, 2010 2:37 PM

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Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:
If you all remember, Mal's home planet is now uninhabitable and everyone on it killed thanks to the Alliance so I don't think the farm was sold to any one.

I still hold to my original theory that Ma Reynolds had a bank account some where that was unfrozen. And I still have to write the fic.

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

NCB

I wish I knew better the results of the post-war verse. I don’t. Thanks for the info.

Z

NCBROWNCOAT

Sunday, June 13, 2010 2:43 PM

If you listen to the song it tells you what happened to Shadow, "Burn the land, boil the sea ..."

There's a thread somewhere with a discussion about how the Alliance destroyed Shadow. If I remember right, the general cncencous was that the Alliance nuked the planet as a lesson to those darn Independents.

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

BYTEMITE

Sunday, June 13, 2010 2:51 PM

According to my sources, a Firefly costs the equivalence of $2,500 dollars. In the future, since the technology is already well established, it's like buying a small commercial fishing boat, something not-too-pretty and already well used.

And I also agree with the idea that Mal's mother might have had a little money set aside off world. At that point in time, Mal is still rather naively optimistic sounding when he describes to Zoe what he imagines life being like in the black. I don't think he was expecting they would have to support themselves with crime, and so it's unlikely he obtained the money via crime.

ZZETTA13

Sunday, June 13, 2010 2:51 PM

Actually, I don’t know why, but I always thought that the song was a reference to the old “Earth That Was” and how humankind destroyed their original home ( like that would stop us from doing it again right?)

Bite

2,500 $$?

You mean that I bought a FF keychain for 10 when I coulda been flying around in a real one for 2,500 and change? I’m headed out to the junkyard. Are Jewel and Alan available for repairs……?

Z

Z

NCBROWNCOAT

Sunday, June 13, 2010 3:01 PM

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
According to my sources, a Firefly costs the equivalence of $2,500 dollars. In the future, since the technology is already well established, it's like buying a small commercial fishing boat, something not-too-pretty and already well used.

And I also agree with the idea that Mal's mother might have had a little money set aside off world. At that point in time, Mal is still rather naively optimistic sounding when he describes to Zoe what he imagines life being like in the black. I don't think he was expecting they would have to support themselves with crime, and so it's unlikely he obtained the money via crime.

And it looks like he would have had to make extensive repairs to that "old boat" (said with affection) to get her space worthy and Mal would also need money to hire Wash and a mechanic.

BTW has anyone over here listened to Marion Call's brilliant musical tribute to Firefly, "Gotta Fly"? I love that album (CD, download or what ever).

The song "I'm still a Geek" really describes me but all her music speaks to me in some way even the non geeky songs.

She's on a lower 48 tour right now called 48>50 Tour and if she's in your area, please go out and support her. She'll be at Comic Con and Dragon Con too this year.

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/

TWO

Sunday, June 13, 2010 5:08 PM

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Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:
BTW has anyone over here listened to Marian Call's brilliant musical tribute to Firefly, "Gotta Fly"? I love that album (CD, download or what ever).

The song "I'm still a Geek" really describes me but all her music speaks to me in some way even the non geeky songs.

She's on a lower 48 tour right now called 49>50 Tour and if she's in your area, please go out and support her. She'll be at Comic Con and Dragon Con too this year.

Marian Call's Concert dates are here www.mariancall.com/ She is in Texas this week. She will be in Hawaii, Dec 12 – 22, 2010. All over Canada in Oct & Nov.

Buy her autographed CD: http://store.quantummechanix.com/Got-to-Fly-Geek-Tribute-Album-by-Mari
an-Call_p_53.html

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

FEARTHEBUNNYMAN

Sunday, June 13, 2010 6:14 PM

I think CharlieBZ had a fic dealing with something like this, wherein he borrowed money from some kind of black market type lender lady to fix up Serenity after the BDM. I figured if he didn't have money stashed away from before the war (and I like the Ma Reynold's bank account theory too) maybe he helped financed purchasing the ship that way - through a non-Alliance source, maybe with the promise that the proceeds from his first few jobs (which he probably expected to be legal) going to the lender....and then discovered the legal work wasn't frequent enough and didn't pay enough to do it that way, and so he gradually shifted into more criminal enterprises.

MAL4PREZ

Sunday, June 13, 2010 10:46 PM

My take is that Mal briefly tries to make an honest living before seeing how things are stacked against Rim world types. His only way to continue existing is to establish some kind of independent way - say, by buying his own ship.

I figure that he sees Serenity and knows he wants to buy her and make her a home (Last scene in OoG). With that vision in his head he finds Zoe and talks her into turning to crime. In a way that sticks it to the Alliance, of course. After, he talks Zoe into contributing her share so they can get the ship running. (First scene in OoG)

In fanfiction-speak:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=18616

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PIRATENEWS

Sunday, June 13, 2010 11:16 PM

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Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:

My best theory is that Mal got the money from his Ma in a roundabout way. I think I'm giving away a future fic here but here goes.

Mal's Ma is a very astute businesswoman. To run a ranch with more than a dozen hands suggests that the Reynolds ranch was of some size. With a ranch comes a bank account. At least one and maybe more than one.

Cattle would be sold, supplies bought,and salaries for the hands paid and the credits had to go somewhere. Having that amount of cash on hand would be tempting even for the most honest hand.

So the ranch had a bank account, most likely frozen at the beginning of hostilities. At the end of the war, the account was unfrozen, with of course a fee taken by the bankers or they wouldn't be bankers.

It was just enough for Mal to start looking for a space ship to take him to the Black and think about refitting it and hiring a mechanic and apilot. It likely took every credit Mal had, hence the need to find work as soon as Serenity was space worthy.

We don't have canon on this so lots of ways to buy Serenity are viable. What do you think?

Roger that. But it needs a Joss Whedon twist...

Perhaps Alliance vets raped his mom and killed everybody on the farm? Like a Clint Eastwood movie.

Or perhaps the Alliance had to pay war reparations?

Or Mal won the cash in a card game?

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