Bard
CLIPCLOP COCONUT
To start things off, if you hadn't guessed already, this rp is going to be based off of the Firefly universe, following most of its lore. It will not be based on any of the characters or events pertaining to them from the TV series or its follow-up movie Serenity. As is obvious, we will be using OCs (original characters) and portraying our own plot.
For those unfamiliar with the lore, here is a brief synopsis taken from Wikipedia:
"Firefly is an American space westerndrama television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as an executive producer, along with Tim Minear. The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity. Whedon pitched the show as "nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things".[1]
The show explores the lives of a group of people who fought on the losing side of a civil war and others who now make a living on the outskirts of society, as part of the pioneerculture that exists on the fringes of their star system. In this future, the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government, called the Alliance, resulting in the fusion of the two cultures. According to Whedon's vision, "nothing will change in the future: technology will advance, but we will still have the same political, moral, and ethical problems as today".[2]
The series takes place on a variety of planets and moons. The TV series does not reveal whether these celestial bodies are within one star system, only saying that Serenity's mode of propulsion is a "gravity-drive". The film Serenity makes clear that all the planets and moons are in one large system, and production documents related to the film indicate that there is no faster-than-light travel in this universe. The characters occasionally refer to "Earth-that-was", and the film establishes that, long before the events in the series, a large population had emigrated from Earth to a new star system in generation ships:[9] "Earth-that-was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many". The emigrants established themselves in this new star system, with "dozens of planets and hundreds of moons". Many of these were terraformed, a process in which a planet or moon is altered to resemble Earth. The terraforming process was only the first step in making a planet habitable, however, and the outlying settlements often did not receive any further support in the construction of their civilizations. This resulted in many of the border planets and moons having forbidding, dry environments, well-suited to the Western genre."
As is suggested above, a civil war erupted between the established Alliance and the Colonies. The Colonies lost and submitted to the rule of the Alliance. However, my adaption of the universe in this RP will focus on a myriad of characters from either side as stirrings of rebellion begin anew. Players are encouraged to create multiple characters for either the Alliance or the Colonies. If there are enough interested people, I'll create a sign-up thread with more information. Feel free to task any questions. Also, there will be no real limit to the amount of people who can join.
For those unfamiliar with the lore, here is a brief synopsis taken from Wikipedia:
"Firefly is an American space westerndrama television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label. Whedon served as an executive producer, along with Tim Minear. The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity. Whedon pitched the show as "nine people looking into the blackness of space and seeing nine different things".[1]
The show explores the lives of a group of people who fought on the losing side of a civil war and others who now make a living on the outskirts of society, as part of the pioneerculture that exists on the fringes of their star system. In this future, the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government, called the Alliance, resulting in the fusion of the two cultures. According to Whedon's vision, "nothing will change in the future: technology will advance, but we will still have the same political, moral, and ethical problems as today".[2]
The series takes place on a variety of planets and moons. The TV series does not reveal whether these celestial bodies are within one star system, only saying that Serenity's mode of propulsion is a "gravity-drive". The film Serenity makes clear that all the planets and moons are in one large system, and production documents related to the film indicate that there is no faster-than-light travel in this universe. The characters occasionally refer to "Earth-that-was", and the film establishes that, long before the events in the series, a large population had emigrated from Earth to a new star system in generation ships:[9] "Earth-that-was could no longer sustain our numbers, we were so many". The emigrants established themselves in this new star system, with "dozens of planets and hundreds of moons". Many of these were terraformed, a process in which a planet or moon is altered to resemble Earth. The terraforming process was only the first step in making a planet habitable, however, and the outlying settlements often did not receive any further support in the construction of their civilizations. This resulted in many of the border planets and moons having forbidding, dry environments, well-suited to the Western genre."
As is suggested above, a civil war erupted between the established Alliance and the Colonies. The Colonies lost and submitted to the rule of the Alliance. However, my adaption of the universe in this RP will focus on a myriad of characters from either side as stirrings of rebellion begin anew. Players are encouraged to create multiple characters for either the Alliance or the Colonies. If there are enough interested people, I'll create a sign-up thread with more information. Feel free to task any questions. Also, there will be no real limit to the amount of people who can join.
(albiet I haven't watched it in a while) I'll type something up once you make a page of it, PM me/post a link when you're all set.