Firefly Timeline
POSTED BY: Almanac
UPDATED: Sunday, April 16, 2017 22:12
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Although 2010 was a busy year in terms of new stories set in the 'verse, it was not such a great year for my updating the Firefly Timeline...
I'm just starting to make up for that now, with the first bits of information from "Float Out," "The Shepherd's Tale," and "Downtime." I hope to have much more detail to offer in the weeks to come.
In light of the discussion above regarding when "Float Out" takes place, I've applied Occam's Razor to the matter as I said I would.
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You know, it does occur to me we could try to speculate on when What Holds Us Down and Crystal occurred.
I'd guess What Holds Us Down might have happened after Out Of Gas. After Serenity was damaged and their near brush with death, the understandably spooked crew decides they need to stock up on spare parts, so they go stealing from a junk yard. Wash and Kaylee are almost caught and killed.
Crystal appears to be after Ariel and before War Stories, when Simon is trying out new medicine combinations to try to fit the data he got about River's neurology and neuro-chemistry.
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Byte, I'm curious why you feel Crystal must have occured before War Stories? It has been a while since I read it (you sent it to me), but I don't remember what indicates that time placement.
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Well because it seems at that point the crew still had most of the medicine they'd gotten in Ariel, while in War Stories they'd sold off most of it and Mal and Wash dumped the rest when Niska grabbed them.
In this story Simon's inventory seems well stocked. Also, there's a reference to Mal being dead, which could be foreshadowing for a later storyline in the series, or which refers to Mal dying under torture in War Stories before being defibrillated back to life.
But if River can see the future, and some of Crystal seems to suggest she can, then there might be layered meanings there so it could be both. But in any case, I'd lean towards between Ariel and War Stories for those reasons.
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Oh! That makes total sense, thanks for explaining. What Byte says.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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After almost a year offline, the Firefly Timeline has returned to the Web at a new location:
http://thingsthatneverwere.com/firefly.html
This is essentially identical to the last update I'd made to the timeline at its previous URL, since my priority was figuring out where to host my content, but I'm now looking forward to a significant update which will include all the information from official stories that have come out lately. :)
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