Creative Firefly fans: Want to help?

POSTED BY: Lindley
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 22:06
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THEGREYJEDI

Thursday, July 8, 2004 4:04 AM

Darkstar (Frontier) - A resource moon. Terraformed atmosphere, but incapable of sustaining agriculture. Owned and operated by an independent mining Corporation, YeXing-Apollo, Inc. They distanced themselves from the fighting during the Civil War between the Alliance government and the Independents Faction. However, they made a pretty penny by supplying materials to both. Darkstar itself is perpetually shrouded in darkness, as its orbit is fixed in the shadow of the "GreenWorld" of Whitestar. Darkstar has dense regions iron, aluminum, titanium, gold, and copper, making this a rich and vital moon. YeXing-Apollo has it's own refinement and processing plants, and make known, and patented, titanium-steel alloy, as well as their own brand of nearly any metal product conceivable; tools, eating ware, machine parts, wiring, raw building materials, and even select firearms and bladed weapons. YeXing-Apollo is half-owned by the Darkstar Miner's Union, ensuring cooperation between management and labor. The miner's are well-cared for by YeXing-Apollo, and being well-cared for, and having the interest of a stock-holder, yields high productivity. Many of the executives of YXA have estates incompassing grand plantations on Whitestar.

Jed's - Seen as one of the best watering holes on Darkstar, it serves alcohol distilled from products grown on Whitestar, and food made from real meat and veggies grown on Whitestar. Despite these amenities, it's the favored hang out of many underworld contacts for it's mediary position between upper crust and lower class; underworld and high class.

Whitestar - A terraforming surpise. When YXA bought the twins of Whitestar and Darkstar (planet 3 of the white star solar system designate 4460 and it's two moons, a perpetually darkened moon and an orbitting moon, the latter being very small), the prospects for a successful terrafom were slim. However, Whitestar was a spectacular, if accidental, success. It's existance, while not hidden, isn't terribly well known. A goodly portion of the land is tilled and farmed. Orchards, wheat fields, herding of all manner of livestock. The executives, and many of those who became wealthy in and from the twins of Whitestar and Darkstar all have plantations on the surface. Not all the land is settled, leaving vast forrested regions and two noted mountain ranges on in the northern hemisphere and another on the exact opposite side of the planet. Aside from the plantations and farm settlements, there are three major port cities, developed to bring a steady supply of materials back and forth from Darkstar. These cities are Longshire, Yu, and Apollo. Longshire is seen as the unofficial capital of the two settlements, and seat of YeXing-Apollo, Inc. While Apollo is host to a small garrison of Alliance Marshalls and pilots, it is mainly seen as a reward deployment for exceptional soldiers and rich mens' sons.

The Crimson Dragon - A Hotel/Resort/Gated Community/Getaway/Government Building/Tavern servicing rich clientele, and their business partners. The Companion's Guild has its own dedicated wing of the huge Complex located in the equatorial city of Yu. Lavish, beautiful, bright, and expensive, a stay at the Crimson Dragon is not easily forgotten.

"And these three remain: Faith, Hope, and Love. And the greatest of these Love."

KURUKAMI

Thursday, July 8, 2004 6:02 PM

I still am eagerly awaiting this. Best of luck, Lindley! And I'll try to come up with some more descriptions...

"Sir, I would like to gingerly point out that it is difficult for someone to be gently reassuring when they're holding three and a half feet of sharpened steel."

LINDLEY

Tuesday, July 20, 2004 3:53 AM

I've made some more progress on this recently. Hopefully an alpha version of the galaxy will be available soon----136 systems so far!

Feel free to contribute more.

GRIMLAKIN

Tuesday, July 20, 2004 6:33 AM

Blackstone: A hole in the wall planet that was barely able to be terraformed. Some suggest it was an accident to target this planet in the first place. No start to provide heat or light this is actually a small planetary core note much bigger than a moon inside of what amounts to a very loose gas giant. The terraforming pushed the worst of the gasses off of the planet itself hovering just over 100ft from the surface. No meteor or can make it through the gasses burning all the way in. Ships have to slow and take a very long and slow descent in making the planet easily defendable. Witch as it turns out is a major boon to one of the last places in all of the known worlds to have an alliance base. The only reason anyone can guess as to it not being taken over is the planet has next to nothing for exports other than an exotic fuel that can be harvested from the upper atmosphere that is used in fast burn rockets.

The darker truth of the matter is that his planet was instrumental in the fall of the Alliance. While the core leadership thought that they were safe here they were slowly and irreversably coerced into controll by the Alliance. It was through mental manipulation through agents provided by blue sun industries. The people of Blackstone are a listless lot. Some farm... some work. All were once notable people.

An old bar drunk now is one man that could not be coerced for whatever reason. A low ranking general that was run out for suspected treason. now bitter and defeated and more than a little confused he spends his time drinking at the one tooth inn. Jokingly called that because the locals know that the Alliance's last real tooth sits rotting himself away on a bar stool.

I will leave it to you to name and come up with more. ;)

HOBBES

Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:13 PM

Athena

Founded before the War by a splinter faction wanting to create someplace independant from the Alliance. Since they stayed out of the war and are far out on the rim they remain unbothered.
As the name suggests (it's in depth, but I'll explain why if anyone wants) Athena is a high technological haven.

It was founded by bored students wanting to research outlawed technology.

Athena itself is little more then a a big rock in a system of rocks. Two gas giants and the sun exist in a stable system that has several asteriod belts from former planets.

Athena has been hollowed out and spun, essentially an O'Neill colony in an asteriod.
Being fairly paranoid they have a limited supply of advanced anti-ship weaponry.

Although the moons of the gas giants are terraformable they passed them in favour of an easily hidden and defended rock.

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May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May you be in heaven an hour before
The Devil knows you’re dead.

LINDLEY

Sunday, July 25, 2004 3:11 PM

143 stellar objects to date. Keep 'em coming! I'm getting *very* close to a complete galaxy. At this point, its mostly just a matter of filling in gaps.

TETHYS

Sunday, July 25, 2004 9:13 PM

I, personally would be more than willing to extend any help whatsoever in this job...any photoshop or anything else as well....along with planets, cultures, etc etc

and reavers being descendents of earth, Mal himself states otherwise......

"You replaced Firefly with *barf* Fastlane?!"
Zoe:"Take me Sir. Take me hard" - War Stories

TETHYS

Sunday, July 25, 2004 9:23 PM

also...email me at terreas@hotmail.com when the mod is completed please!!!!

"You replaced Firefly with *barf* Fastlane?!"
Zoe:"Take me Sir. Take me hard" - War Stories

LINDLEY

Monday, September 6, 2004 6:26 PM

I'm closing in on the end of this process----any last-minute additions people would like to add?

Pretty soon I'm just going to start filling in the remainder with empty systems. I need to move on to the next stage of design if I'm going to complete this in a timely fasion.

HELIA

Tuesday, September 7, 2004 12:46 AM

How about Pomona – a small mountainous border planet named after a roman goddess of orchards. It was originally intended to grow fruit for the luxury markets, but when the climate proved too cold, hard wood trees were planted everywhere instead.

Later an exclusive Eco-Lodge was built, allowing the very wealthiest tourists from the core planets to vacation in the forest.

The Lodge masks the existence of a top-secret Alliance complex - a listening station, monitoring broadcast traffic on the cortex from all neighbouring planets.

There are two types of bars catering to the only types of clientele – the rough logger’s hangouts and the genteel faux-rustic look at the lodge. Employees of the complex do not drink alcohol on tours of duty.

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