Discussing the week of BDM.

POSTED BY: jewelstaitefan
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 07:38
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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Thursday, June 5, 2014 4:38 AM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Too tired to rummage through all this, but I'll just say... even w/ a Firefly , travel time to different planets would take days, not hours.

( Unless you're communicating such things over an open channel, when the enemy can hear you, then hours really do become days )

Mmmmmmm.
In Safe, Book is bleeding out, and Mal states it will take 10 hours to get from J-place (locale for Safe) to Greenleaf, passing several other planet orbits in the Red Sun system, and Map of the Verse indicates these 2 bodies are on opposite sides of the Red Sun.

In BDM, Mal tells Simon on Lilac that he and River can depart in 10 hours time when they reach Beaumonde.

In BDM, I think Mal says during the "TRAP!" discussion after the Trap wave that Inara's location is only a few hours out, while they are sitting on Haven.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Thursday, June 5, 2014 4:50 AM

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Originally posted by M52NICKERSON:
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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
I also should have mentioned that after Serenity leaves Maidenhead, and Operative goes to Training House in daytime, Mal arrives on Haven in evening, and stays past sundown before going to Training House atill in daytime. Since Training House remained in the day side of it's planet both for Operative arriving and Mal arriving, this helps show the lack of passage of a day. Unless, of course, one would argue the Operative was not really in much of a hurry, and sat around lolligagging with Inatra for a few days before getting around to pursuing River.

I know, old discussion but...

Age of the post does not devalue the merit of discussed points. The great benefit of this consistent forum is to allow anybody with new insights to partake.

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I can see the Operative sitting a waiting to see if Mal took the bait and came for Inara. Up to that point he had no other leads that we know of as to where Serenity was.

Mmmmmm.
A. Operative arrives at Training House.

B. Mal is on Haven until Inara waves, then Mal & Co departs forthwith for Training House. (IIRC Mal indicates it is only "a few hours out")

The time between A and B is your concern, right?
Maybe operative had Inara wait a bit to wave, but he would have still been present, and hovering over her shoulder, I would conjure. Inara did send the wave at Operative's behest, would we not assume?

Mal comes in within hours of Inara's wave.

From Operative's move to have Inara wave until Mal shows up hours later is not really much waiting time.
I think I was suggesting that Operative would have been lollygagging around from the time Operative arrived at Training House and was met by Inara, until the time he had Inara wave for "help." Since his mission was to find River, I don't see a reason for any lollygagging.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 7:38 AM

Figured out Training House was .255-.309Au away, and would be the far side of Deadwood. Near side and New Omaha too close. Next nearest Glynis is about 7-8 hours away, 2.236Au.

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