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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bX: [QB] You did ask:[list] [*][i]Angel[/i]<DD>Looks like a rock on the [URL=http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/419/Serenity-AllianceWorlds.jpg]"Worlds Of The Alliance" Graphic[/URL] from the SVC. Plus, I mean, Mercury.</DD> [/list] [b]Core Planets[/b][list] [*][i]Liann Jiun[/i]<DD>Looks like Venus to me. Like it's got a thick atmosphere.</DD> [*][i]Sihnon[/i]<DD>Core planet primarily settled by the decendents of the Sino powers, per the SVC one of the larger central earth-like planets. To my knowledge the show never went there.</DD> [*][i]Osiris[/i]<DD>Wealthy core planet. Where the Tams are from. Except in flashback the show never visted there.</DD> [*][i]Three Hills[/i]<DD>To my knowledge never seen, but mentioned as a place for Mal to sell their stolen 'goods' after Badger refuses them on Persephone.</DD> [*][i]Highgate[/i]<DD>Hoighty-toighty name.</DD> [*][i]Londinium: Bellerophon[/i]<DD>Core planet primarily settled by the decendents of the Anglo/American powers. Per the SVC one of the larger central earth-like planets. To my knowledge the show never went there. Bellerophon is known to be an Alliance moon where the wealthy keep their homes. Floating estates, etc. Visited in the episode "Trash."</DD> [*][i]Ariel: Bernadette, Kerry[/i]<DD>Core planet home to at least one major medical center (St. Lucy's). Visited in the episode "Ariel." Bernadette from the [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_planets_and_moons]Wiki[/URL] "is a non-terraformed moon near the core worlds whose environmentally-sealed station is used as a staging location for ships of settlers headed for the border planets. The settlers in "Bushwhacked" left from here on their way to Newhall." I think it's also where Mal claims to be coming from in "The Train Job." Kerry? I knew a girl named Kerry once. She was pretty.</DD> [/list] [b]Border Planets[/b][list] [*][i]Greenleaf: Jiangyin, Harvest[/i]<DD>Alliance planet (though not specifically mentioned as "core". As previously mentioned, noted as being 10 hours from Jiangyin where the crew of Serenity were selling their cattle in the episode "Safe". Zoe figures this pretty quick, so I'm assuming it's a number that doesn't change, which makes me think Jiangyin must be a moon. Jiangyin is apparently 3 weeks from Persephone which, I am assuming here is more distant due to orbital mechanics. Harvest just felt right there</DD> [*][i]Georgia: Beylix, Ezra, Regina, Muir, Paquin, Whittier[/i]<DD>I have no information how we know that Ezra and Regina orbit a gas giant called Georgia beyond the [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_planets_and_moons]Wiki[/URL]. Ezra is the desert moon around which Niska's skyplex orbits. If I recall correctly we see a large ringed moon impossibly close behind the BDH after Mal gets tossed through the window. Beylix is the only body shown with rings from the [URL=http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/419/Serenity-AllianceWorlds.jpg]SVC[/URL]. Regina is the mining town where Mal and Zoe are detained in the episode "The Train Job." [*][i]Hera: Santo, Persephone, Shadow, Silverhold[/i]<DD>Hera was where the Battle of Serenity Valley was fought. According to the SVC, Hera was an outer world and along with Persephone and Shadow raised an army (half volunteers) to fight for independence. Given the Civil War parallels of the show and the technological disparity, I'm guessing these were fought primarily as defensive battles. In her speech about the Independents, River's teacher shows an [URL=http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/419/Serenity-TeacherMap.jpg]animation[/URL] from which all of these orbits have been traced. But before that, we see a desert planet with a frontier outpost falling under the shadow of what is presumably an Alliance warship. This dissolves to a reddish, Mars-like world, which, ultimately winds up in this orbit in the animation. I'm totally guessing here, but she was talking about the Independents, so it stands to reason she'd show a place significant to the conflict. Serenity Valley would be significant. Shadow (Mal's home, mentioned in "Our Mrs. Reynolds") was evidently devastated and rendered uninhabitable as the RPG would have it. The episodes "Serenity", "Shindig" as well as the comic (TLB) have stories set on Persephone, primarily dealing with crime-lord Badger. Has to be 3 weeks from Jiangyin at some point. Plus I liked the Hera/Persephone thing. Santo is also close as the barfight with the slavers at the holo-pool-table occurs shortly before Serenity's arrival on Persephone. Silverhold which is shown as reddish in the [URL=http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/419/Serenity-AllianceWorlds.jpg]SVC Graphic[/URL] is the locus of Womack's authority from the episode "The Message." The icy, frontier world of St. Albans is 7 (or 8?) sectors away according to Book in that episode. Whatever sectors are.</DD> [*][i]Heinlein: Higgin's Moon, Salisbury, Triumph[/i]<DD>Another gas-giant whose mention I don't know, other than the [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_planets_and_moons]Wiki[/URL]. Higgins' Moon is where the Mudders mine the ceramic clays for a Magistrate named, Higgins as shown in "Jaynestown". Salisbury, don't know. If Heinlein is a gas giant, then it should probably have lots of moons. Salisbury could be one. Triumph is where the crew of Serenity is first introduced to the character Saffron (Yo-Saff-Bridge) in the episode "Our Mrs Reynolds." I figure it's got to be a little fringey and a lot back-water-y with the rainsticks gifts and strange marriage ceremonies. [*][i]Athens: Deadwood, Beaumonde, Ita, Whitefall[/i]<DD>Whitefall is mentioned as being the fourth moon of Athens in the episode "Serenity." That the crime-lord Patience is able to control so much of it with her mostly horse-mounted posse, makes me think it's in the sticks. Plus in the article "A Brief History of the Universe circa 2507 A.D.", Joss specifically calls Whitefall and Beaumonde pissant moons. The fighting in the War for Independence apparently never reached these worlds. Beaumonde is visited in the movie "Serenity" where the crew meet Fanty and Mingo at a bar called The Maidenhead. Ita is a moon in a remote sector (whatever a sector is) and is from where the crew of the S.S. Walden is returning from a salvage mission when they pick up Serenity's boosted distress beacon in the episode "Out of Gas"</DD> [*][i]Boros: Constance[/i]<DD>Boros was Serenity's posted destination before Badger's refusal to purchase their "goods" forced them to detour to Whitefall which detour evidently wouldn't put them more than a day or so off schedule. Constance is a world where Mal, Zoe and Jayne attempt a bank heist in the TLB comic</DD> [/list] [b]Frontier Planets[/b][list] [*][i]Newhall[/i]<DD>Original destination of the settlers before they were hijacked by Reavers from the episode "Bushwacked."</DD> [*][i]Dyton[/i]<DD>Badger's home world.</DD> [*][i]St. Albans: Aberdeen, Haven[/i]<DD>Icy frontier world, home of Tracy visited in the episode "The Message." He-who-shall-not-be-named pointed out that Aberdeen and St Albans are both Scottish. I believe Inara's Companion Training House is on a colder world, and Aberdeen just seems right somehow. Also, from the movie, Haven ain't but a few hours out or something. Actually all the worlds in the movie are REALLY close together. According to the script in the SVC, Serenity could get to Mr. Universe in four hours at hard burn from Miranda. (In that same line River mentions the distance as something like 367,644 miles. 367,644 miles is barely farther away than Earth's moon! Historical revisionism or no, I'm thinking a planet capable of supporting 30 million souls would be quite visible to anyone capable of looking skyward. But Joss gave us the Musical episode of Buffy, so we forgive him his not-so-science-y bits.)</DD> [*][i]Verbena[/i]<DD>Formerly a poor, underdeveloped world frontier planet when the Alliance chose it as a site of a new gearshift assembly factory for military skiffs from the unaired script "Dead Or Alive". From the [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_planets_and_moons]Wiki[/URL]</DD> [*][i]Lilac[/i]<DD>A planet presumably near Reaver territory shown as having a purplish atmosphere as seen from orbit. The crew of Serenity are here robbing an Alliance bank when the town is hit by Reavers in the "Serenity" movie.</DD> ... [/list] <center>[URL=http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/419/bX-SerenitySysMap-7.jpg]For great visualization (on a new page): [IMG]http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/419/bX-SerenitySysMap-7sm.jpg[/IMG][/URL]</center> [/QB][/QUOTE]
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