'Verse Theory

POSTED BY: UnregisteredCompanion
UPDATED: Saturday, February 25, 2006 21:07
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UNREGISTEREDCOMPANION

Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:59 PM

I play Star Craft...I read alot of history...and I am a Hitch Hiker's Guide fan. I think all the stuff mashed together somehow...LOL

Since the people of earth are really just descendents of phone sanatizers that got shot into space...what do you expect?

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"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."

ARCADIA

Saturday, February 25, 2006 7:47 PM

Only a little nuts...

I don't think Joss was lying when he said that Earth was left because it was used up. It was in the show. It was reinforced in the movie. It is a fun thoery... but, I doubt it. Plus, then how do you account for people like Kaylee? :-)

Also, I really don't see the Alliance as the warden types. They're more like... like Mustafa from Brave New World, they think that everything they do they are doing for the best. They end up enslaving the public... but they aren't doing it for spite, or power, or justice, or revenge. They just want everyone to be peaceful and happy, the bastards.

It is an interesting theory, though.

"Objects in Space"
River: It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think...

ASARIAN

Saturday, February 25, 2006 9:07 PM

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Originally posted by UnregisteredCompanion:

Is it possible that 500 years ago, when they "left earth", they were actually kicked out? The new solar system with all the moons wasn't a refuge for the teaming masses, it was an Autralian style prison colony!

They packed up all the troublemakers and criminals and sent them out in to space. Meanwhile, back on earth, all the hoidy toidy good-2-shoes are sipping tea and laughing.

Mal and friends are all decendents of troublemakers. The Parliment types are decendents of the warden types and still feel that the people need to be controlled.

Am I nuts here or what?

Let's start with Serenity, the pilot:

ZOE
All those moons --
just like the central planets,
they're as close to Earth-That-Was as
we could make 'em: atmosphere,
gravity and such, but...

MAL
Once they're terraformed, they'll
dump settlers on there with nothing
but blankets and hatchets and maybe
a herd. Some of them make it, some
of them ...

So, I'd be inclined to say poor folks got dumped on the moons; and rich people got the nice planets. Things ain't that simple, unfortunately. Take Osiris, for instance, homeworld of Simon and River. It's a very wealthy Core world. But Ariel, supposedly a moon of Osiris, is also very prosperous. So, I think it's likely Dobson is telling the truth, and really only the border moons are in bad shape.

Also, because Osiris is the Capital of the Alliance, and very prestigious, it stands to reason that some very "important" people also live there; and that the new solar system certainly isn't meant for the outcast alone.

Who was left on Earth-That-Was when they went? Hard to say. But usually it's the wealthy, rich folks that inhabit the newly formed planets first. I say "inhabit"; doesn't mean they went first. Remember Bowden's Malady?

ZOE
Affliction of the bone and muscle.
Degenerative.

BOURNE
Very. Every planet that's been
terraformed for human life has its
own little quirks. Turns out the
air down underground, mixed up
with the ore processors, it's a
perfect recipe for Bowden's.

Like the film Aliens, it's likely they first sent generations of terraformers; takes decades. Probably people volunteering (or with otherwise no real prospects on Earth).

All of this is highly speculative, of course. And your guess is as good as mine.

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

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