[TML] Alternate Firefly review

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 8/12/08 11:54 AM, "Brad Murray" <bjmurray.halfjack at gmail.com> wrote:

> All references to planets, moons, and stars in the series (and mostly
> in the movie) are either in the colourful setting vernacular and
> therefore not necessarily literal...

What, when they say "on Persephone", it could be on the continent Persephone
on the same planet as some other "on X"?  But it's clear from the power of
the ship & travel times that many of the places *must* be separate
astronomical bodies.

> Maybe it was. There is no definitive information INSIDE THE WORK to
> declare it one way or the other.

Actually, (from what I've read) the movie and production notes *did* make it
clear that no FTL existed and the planets are all in 1 system.

> Who says they are planet sized? Terraforming may include manipulating
> gravity and other attributes.

O.o

If they could do *that*, they wouldn't have the limits shown...

And seriously, if they had the power to do that much fixing planets, they
could easier have fixed *Earth* and terraformed the rest of the *Solar*
bodies!

> This I am onside with -- the characters and banter alone were a win
> for me, as well as the very (for me) Travelleresque
> making-ends-meet-in-a-spaceship theme, complete with a heavy reliance
> on chemically propelled slug throwing weapons and a powerful intrusive
> central authority with endless resources and powerful weapons.

Hmm.  See, I've played Traveller that didn't involve *any* of that.  And
enjoyed it greatly.  This is why I said it depends on what *you* think
Traveller *is*.