Post by Aulius on Jun 26, 2006 23:14:56 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]*UPDATE 2.6.06* Added a small section on Companions, A line on Shepards in the 5th paragraph and updated slang[/glow]
Ok this is really for those of you who have watched Serenity and/or Firefly. I have a copy of the movie so does spawn. He also has a copy of the whole series.
Basically its set 550 years in the future where everyone has left Earth (Known as Earth-that-was) and colonised new solar systems.
Earth had become one country thats culture is mixed between China and America so sometimes you will have people saying words in chinese etc. The way it plays out it has a Sci-Fi Western feeling to it, the idea is that all the problems we have today are still there and its not one big utopia.
Here is a map of it:
The Core Worlds (shown in Purple) grouped together to form the Alliance and tended to tell people what to do.
The Borderworlds didn't particularly like them being told how to run stuff and formed a group known as 'The Independants'. Eventually what happened was that there was a war which the Independants lost. The Independants were also known as 'The Browncoats' (which is also what fans are called). The day that the Independants surrendered became known as 'Unification Day', the day in which all the worlds came under one rule of the Alliance. Much of the border worlds are heavily Christian and the closer you get to the core worlds more and more believe in science. Also the closer to the core you are there are far better facilities open to you. It is not uncommon that on the farthest borderworlds there are towns looking something out of a western. Priests are also not known as priests but as 'Shepards' ie, a Shepard tending his flock (Followers of god).
The world known as Miranda (Top Left) is where the Reavers first appeared. (Anyone who has seen the movie can skip this bit) The Reavers were an accident, the Alliance released a gas into the athmosphere during its terraforming known as Paxalon Hydrochloride, PAX for short, was meant to calm the population which it sort of did. However the people just stopped doing stuff, going to work, sleeping, eating...breathing. About 30 million people just let themselves die. However, about 30,000 had a opposite reaction. They became angry, violent etc and killed some of the population. The Reavers, mutilate themselves, rape, kill, skin people alive and even eat people. They hang around the area between the nearby solar system and Miranda occasionally sending out raiding parties (reading parties if you have seen the out takes of Serenity) to the top two solar systems. The reavers also strap bodies, primative weapons and spikes onto their hulls. They also cause their engine to leak radiation for some reason.
The core worlds dismiss the Reavers as rumour but after the crew of Serenity (Watch the movie please) broadcasted information about the Alliance creating the Reavers this has been fixed. Also no one is particularly pleased with the Alliance now but it is expected that it will blow over eventually.
This is a Firefly, which will be the ship we have, this one in particular is Serenity. There are two shuttles and you should be able to make out one by the wing. Also a Firefly has no weapons but has the possibility to have small defensive weapons added. A Firefly also has alot of hollow areas where pipes and cables run which can be used to hide contraband or cargo that would get them introuble for having IE Alliance military rations.
Here is the layout:
The crew quarters are behind the bridge/cockpit, that stretch between the B/C to the dining room. Where the walkway goes horizontal(on the diagram) that takes you to one of the shuttles. There are 8 passenger rooms
Heres a Crew list(to be filled up):
Captain:
First officer:
Pilot: Sasha Lucas (Ceri)
Possible Co-Pilot:
Engineer: 'Ant' (Aulius)
Doctor: Alan Moore (Spawn)
Gun hand (someone who knows how to fight in case of sticky situations): Sky McKellar (Pheonix)
Passenger list ie anyone who deicide to stay on board who doesn't exactly have a profession:
1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:
7:
8:
Slang
Slang is quite different since they use a mixture of chinese and english so:
Shiney: Basically it means, cool, great and excellent.
Gossah: I think it means Shit
Gorram: Saying 'God Damn' in one word
Heads/Goes south: Example : "If this job goes south then we ain't gonna need new Catalysers 'cause we'll all be dead". Meaning: If this job gets fucked up
'Verse: People don't say Universe any more so they say 'Verse for short.
Possible Jobs
Basically we either get contacted by someone who has a job to offer or we ask people if they need any cargo to be shifted. Whether it be a legitamate cargo or smuggling. 90% of the time its the captain who finds a job.
[glow=red,2,300]We can decide on a ship name as we go along just make a suggestion. I would like to call our ship Freedom since it reflects my character feels. The ship is our little freedom slightly further away than the alliance[/glow]
There is two types of currency,
Platnum: Mainly used around the borderworlds
Credits: Used In the core areas
Companions
Companions are...well the trained "Space Whores" of the 'Verse. They are trained in special schools to teach them to read body languages, give massages, how to 'pleasure' their clients, Dancing, Manners, how to dress and how to convince/seduce their clients (not the bad kind where they rob everyone...well except possibly for the episode "Our Mrs Reynolds").
The differnce between Companions and general whores is that they get to choose who they want and can obviously set their price.
By the rules of being a Companion they have to keep full confidentiality about their clients, have a check up once a year to make sure they havn't got something bad and that the rules for having a boyfriend/girlfriend are....complicated and were never explained fully. Just left at complicated.
Since I started this thread I get first dibs on the crew list . For which side they fought in the war you can have either Independance, Neutral or Alliance.
Name:Joseph "Ant" Antronias
Born on which planet: Jiangyin
Job:Engineer
Which side in the war: Independance
Background: Was an engineer aboard an Independance cruiser but was captured after using a life pod to escape and spent the rest of the war as a Prisoner of War. He used to be a deep believer in god but completely lost it after he found out that all his brothers died in the Battle of Serenity Valley (Considered the turning point of the war which allowed the Alliance to Win, Also the reason why the other Firefly is called Serenity). He has been told he has a talent for repairing and maintaining ships in working order better than any repairshop that is on a planet. When off ship he usually wears a brown deerskin coat.
Right now our ship is parked on Persephone getting crew, the Captain (if ever appearing) just got the ship and has got it in sort of working order.
Start, this is from my characters view, you can switch it to yours if you wish
Ant carried his bag over his shoulder. He needed work bad and needed to get away from a former colleague luckily the ship he was previously working on took off before they told her. As well as that, the ship was uncomfortable and didn't pay well.
He stopped walking and from over peoples heads he could see something that he fell in love with straight away. It was a Firefly class which were getting rare now. He headed over to it and hoped they were hiring
Ok this is really for those of you who have watched Serenity and/or Firefly. I have a copy of the movie so does spawn. He also has a copy of the whole series.
Basically its set 550 years in the future where everyone has left Earth (Known as Earth-that-was) and colonised new solar systems.
Earth had become one country thats culture is mixed between China and America so sometimes you will have people saying words in chinese etc. The way it plays out it has a Sci-Fi Western feeling to it, the idea is that all the problems we have today are still there and its not one big utopia.
Here is a map of it:
The Core Worlds (shown in Purple) grouped together to form the Alliance and tended to tell people what to do.
The Borderworlds didn't particularly like them being told how to run stuff and formed a group known as 'The Independants'. Eventually what happened was that there was a war which the Independants lost. The Independants were also known as 'The Browncoats' (which is also what fans are called). The day that the Independants surrendered became known as 'Unification Day', the day in which all the worlds came under one rule of the Alliance. Much of the border worlds are heavily Christian and the closer you get to the core worlds more and more believe in science. Also the closer to the core you are there are far better facilities open to you. It is not uncommon that on the farthest borderworlds there are towns looking something out of a western. Priests are also not known as priests but as 'Shepards' ie, a Shepard tending his flock (Followers of god).
The world known as Miranda (Top Left) is where the Reavers first appeared. (Anyone who has seen the movie can skip this bit) The Reavers were an accident, the Alliance released a gas into the athmosphere during its terraforming known as Paxalon Hydrochloride, PAX for short, was meant to calm the population which it sort of did. However the people just stopped doing stuff, going to work, sleeping, eating...breathing. About 30 million people just let themselves die. However, about 30,000 had a opposite reaction. They became angry, violent etc and killed some of the population. The Reavers, mutilate themselves, rape, kill, skin people alive and even eat people. They hang around the area between the nearby solar system and Miranda occasionally sending out raiding parties (reading parties if you have seen the out takes of Serenity) to the top two solar systems. The reavers also strap bodies, primative weapons and spikes onto their hulls. They also cause their engine to leak radiation for some reason.
The core worlds dismiss the Reavers as rumour but after the crew of Serenity (Watch the movie please) broadcasted information about the Alliance creating the Reavers this has been fixed. Also no one is particularly pleased with the Alliance now but it is expected that it will blow over eventually.
This is a Firefly, which will be the ship we have, this one in particular is Serenity. There are two shuttles and you should be able to make out one by the wing. Also a Firefly has no weapons but has the possibility to have small defensive weapons added. A Firefly also has alot of hollow areas where pipes and cables run which can be used to hide contraband or cargo that would get them introuble for having IE Alliance military rations.
Here is the layout:
The crew quarters are behind the bridge/cockpit, that stretch between the B/C to the dining room. Where the walkway goes horizontal(on the diagram) that takes you to one of the shuttles. There are 8 passenger rooms
Heres a Crew list(to be filled up):
Captain:
First officer:
Pilot: Sasha Lucas (Ceri)
Possible Co-Pilot:
Engineer: 'Ant' (Aulius)
Doctor: Alan Moore (Spawn)
Gun hand (someone who knows how to fight in case of sticky situations): Sky McKellar (Pheonix)
Passenger list ie anyone who deicide to stay on board who doesn't exactly have a profession:
1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:
7:
8:
Slang
Slang is quite different since they use a mixture of chinese and english so:
Shiney: Basically it means, cool, great and excellent.
Gossah: I think it means Shit
Gorram: Saying 'God Damn' in one word
Heads/Goes south: Example : "If this job goes south then we ain't gonna need new Catalysers 'cause we'll all be dead". Meaning: If this job gets fucked up
'Verse: People don't say Universe any more so they say 'Verse for short.
Possible Jobs
Basically we either get contacted by someone who has a job to offer or we ask people if they need any cargo to be shifted. Whether it be a legitamate cargo or smuggling. 90% of the time its the captain who finds a job.
[glow=red,2,300]We can decide on a ship name as we go along just make a suggestion. I would like to call our ship Freedom since it reflects my character feels. The ship is our little freedom slightly further away than the alliance[/glow]
There is two types of currency,
Platnum: Mainly used around the borderworlds
Credits: Used In the core areas
Companions
Companions are...well the trained "Space Whores" of the 'Verse. They are trained in special schools to teach them to read body languages, give massages, how to 'pleasure' their clients, Dancing, Manners, how to dress and how to convince/seduce their clients (not the bad kind where they rob everyone...well except possibly for the episode "Our Mrs Reynolds").
The differnce between Companions and general whores is that they get to choose who they want and can obviously set their price.
By the rules of being a Companion they have to keep full confidentiality about their clients, have a check up once a year to make sure they havn't got something bad and that the rules for having a boyfriend/girlfriend are....complicated and were never explained fully. Just left at complicated.
Since I started this thread I get first dibs on the crew list . For which side they fought in the war you can have either Independance, Neutral or Alliance.
Name:Joseph "Ant" Antronias
Born on which planet: Jiangyin
Job:Engineer
Which side in the war: Independance
Background: Was an engineer aboard an Independance cruiser but was captured after using a life pod to escape and spent the rest of the war as a Prisoner of War. He used to be a deep believer in god but completely lost it after he found out that all his brothers died in the Battle of Serenity Valley (Considered the turning point of the war which allowed the Alliance to Win, Also the reason why the other Firefly is called Serenity). He has been told he has a talent for repairing and maintaining ships in working order better than any repairshop that is on a planet. When off ship he usually wears a brown deerskin coat.
Right now our ship is parked on Persephone getting crew, the Captain (if ever appearing) just got the ship and has got it in sort of working order.
Start, this is from my characters view, you can switch it to yours if you wish
Ant carried his bag over his shoulder. He needed work bad and needed to get away from a former colleague luckily the ship he was previously working on took off before they told her. As well as that, the ship was uncomfortable and didn't pay well.
He stopped walking and from over peoples heads he could see something that he fell in love with straight away. It was a Firefly class which were getting rare now. He headed over to it and hoped they were hiring