What happened to Earth?
POSTED BY: DaisyCutter
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 14:45
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Basically what the topic says. What I believe from listening to the prologue to the film is that the Earth is overpopulated and that is why they went to the other star systems to colonize. There is mention of Earth in the firefly series, but there are a few things I want to know.
-Are they in communication with Earth?
-Is Earth an alliance planet?
-Was the Earth destroyed?
I was hoping someone could explain
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The film and series says its 'used up' which leaves allot to interpretation. The Earth-that-was seems to have a near mythic quality to it in the series, which makes me think they’re not in any form of communication with it. (Depending on where the verses' system is- it would take anywhere between 100 years to hundreds of thousands of years to get a signal, or send a signal to it).
My guess (and several others) is that there was a war. a big one too, with allot of fallout that killed off the planet, so the remaining governments banded together to send terraforming ships to a far away system, and then send millions in vast ships to live there. Although it only mentions Earth, there would probably have been habited asteroids with contained atmospheres, and with enough solar reflectors, and a molten core (to hopefully create a magnetosphere) mars could have been made Earth like, perhaps the first trial run of terraforming. In which case the other inhabited planetoids would have to have been involved in the war.
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They used it up, they left and they've never looked back.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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In the opening scene you can see Nukes going off in several places around the globe. At least, that's what they looked like to me.
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Those were not nukes, they were ships blasting off. If they were nukes, it would have been a lot brighter and no one would have been able to escape.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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I agree that to simply say it was "used up" does leave a lot to interpretation; however, the Earth-that-was tag line makes it sound as if it was all but rendered uninhabitable either through war, pollution, over-population....take your pick. The fact that they "found a new solar system" leads me to believe that those that could make the journey left for good, and most likely have no contact with the Earth-that-was.
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I've written two fan fics about the earth that was and one about the journey to the new worlds. I put them in the Blue Sun room, you can read them if you want.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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What are the titles?
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Just click on my username and scroll down a bit.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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The stories have a lot of promise. I thought "The Void" was particularly interesting, and the first person perspective and the epsitolary structure is a unique way of communicating the experience.
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