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30 Mar 2011, 7:20 pm

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Firefly is a cool Batman villain.


Did you see his recent doings in Streets of Gotham? He basically turned half of Gotham into cases of spontaneous combustion. Including Black Mask.


No I didn't, but see the people on that Firefly show DO THAT!



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30 Mar 2011, 7:33 pm

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Firefly is a cool Batman villain.


Did you see his recent doings in Streets of Gotham? He basically turned half of Gotham into cases of spontaneous combustion. Including Black Mask.


No I didn't, but see the people on that Firefly show DO THAT!


They have laser guns and speak a dialect of English that works in some Mandarin phrases (imagine instead of Spanglish being low class that it was English with Mandarin if the person really gets upset/annoyed).


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30 Mar 2011, 7:44 pm

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They have laser guns


Actually, no, they have firearms. One villain had a laser pistol, some Alliance troopers have sonic blasters (or something like that), but the main characters use kinetic energy weapons and not direct energy weapons. Heck, in Serenity, one villain's weapon of choice was a sword. Low tech weapons are weapons nonetheless. A sword, bow and arrow, spear, ballista, etc can be just as lethal today as any firearm.



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30 Mar 2011, 7:45 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
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They have laser guns


Actually, no, they have firearms. One villain had a laser pistol, some Alliance troopers have sonic blasters (or something like that), but the main characters use kinetic energy weapons and not direct energy weapons. Heck, in Serenity, one villain's weapon of choice was a sword.


You're right. I more meant that it's weapons other than traditional projectile firearms. I'm still learning the mythology of Firefly.


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30 Mar 2011, 7:48 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
They have laser guns


Actually, no, they have firearms. One villain had a laser pistol, some Alliance troopers have sonic blasters (or something like that), but the main characters use kinetic energy weapons and not direct energy weapons. Heck, in Serenity, one villain's weapon of choice was a sword.


What about The Lassiter?


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30 Mar 2011, 7:53 pm

skafather84 wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
They have laser guns


Actually, no, they have firearms. One villain had a laser pistol, some Alliance troopers have sonic blasters (or something like that), but the main characters use kinetic energy weapons and not direct energy weapons. Heck, in Serenity, one villain's weapon of choice was a sword.


You're right. I more meant that it's weapons other than traditional projectile firearms. I'm still learning the mythology of Firefly.


The first few minutes of Serenity provide a fairly good basic overview, but I can't seem to find a clip of it on youtube. Essentially though, people migrated from our solar system to that of a massive star system (blue giant? It has a tremendous habitable zone, so all of the flights are within interplanetary space via ships like the Firefly, not requiring FTL technology or Picard to say "make it so" while he orders a cup of tea and thereby stalls the warp drive.)



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30 Mar 2011, 7:54 pm

Titangeek wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
They have laser guns


Actually, no, they have firearms. One villain had a laser pistol, some Alliance troopers have sonic blasters (or something like that), but the main characters use kinetic energy weapons and not direct energy weapons. Heck, in Serenity, one villain's weapon of choice was a sword.


What about The Lassiter?


That's a laser pistol.



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30 Mar 2011, 7:58 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
They have laser guns


Actually, no, they have firearms. One villain had a laser pistol, some Alliance troopers have sonic blasters (or something like that), but the main characters use kinetic energy weapons and not direct energy weapons. Heck, in Serenity, one villain's weapon of choice was a sword.


What about The Lassiter?


That's a laser pistol.


Ya, but it was on the ship for a while :lol: And if i remember correctly, Inara has the laser equivalent of a derringer.


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30 Mar 2011, 8:15 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
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iamnotaparakeet wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
They have laser guns


Actually, no, they have firearms. One villain had a laser pistol, some Alliance troopers have sonic blasters (or something like that), but the main characters use kinetic energy weapons and not direct energy weapons. Heck, in Serenity, one villain's weapon of choice was a sword.


You're right. I more meant that it's weapons other than traditional projectile firearms. I'm still learning the mythology of Firefly.


The first few minutes of Serenity provide a fairly good basic overview, but I can't seem to find a clip of it on youtube. Essentially though, people migrated from our solar system to that of a massive star system (blue giant? It has a tremendous habitable zone, so all of the flights are within interplanetary space via ships like the Firefly, not requiring FTL technology or Picard to say "make it so" while he orders a cup of tea and thereby stalls the warp drive.)


I recently did a run on the series and the movie. Do you mean Serenity the pilot or Serenity the movie?


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31 Mar 2011, 5:03 am

skafather84 wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
They have laser guns


Actually, no, they have firearms. One villain had a laser pistol, some Alliance troopers have sonic blasters (or something like that), but the main characters use kinetic energy weapons and not direct energy weapons. Heck, in Serenity, one villain's weapon of choice was a sword.


You're right. I more meant that it's weapons other than traditional projectile firearms. I'm still learning the mythology of Firefly.


The first few minutes of Serenity provide a fairly good basic overview, but I can't seem to find a clip of it on youtube. Essentially though, people migrated from our solar system to that of a massive star system (blue giant? It has a tremendous habitable zone, so all of the flights are within interplanetary space via ships like the Firefly, not requiring FTL technology or Picard to say "make it so" while he orders a cup of tea and thereby stalls the warp drive.)


I recently did a run on the series and the movie. Do you mean Serenity the pilot or Serenity the movie?


Serenity the movie, during River's dream right before Simon rescues her in the Tri-D playback that the nameless sword wielding assassin fellow was watching.



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31 Mar 2011, 5:04 am

Titangeek wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
They have laser guns


Actually, no, they have firearms. One villain had a laser pistol, some Alliance troopers have sonic blasters (or something like that), but the main characters use kinetic energy weapons and not direct energy weapons. Heck, in Serenity, one villain's weapon of choice was a sword.


What about The Lassiter?


That's a laser pistol.


Ya, but it was on the ship for a while :lol: And if i remember correctly, Inara has the laser equivalent of a derringer.


Oh, yeah, that was when Inara took out the trash - holding Yolanda-Saffron-Briget in the garbage can at laser point. The small gun was a laser derringer? Could just as easily be a pneumatic cyanide pellet gun, but I suppose another direct energy weapon would be more proper and likely.



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31 Mar 2011, 12:02 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
They have laser guns


Actually, no, they have firearms. One villain had a laser pistol, some Alliance troopers have sonic blasters (or something like that), but the main characters use kinetic energy weapons and not direct energy weapons. Heck, in Serenity, one villain's weapon of choice was a sword.


What about The Lassiter?


That's a laser pistol.


Ya, but it was on the ship for a while :lol: And if i remember correctly, Inara has the laser equivalent of a derringer.


Oh, yeah, that was when Inara took out the trash - holding Yolanda-Saffron-Briget in the garbage can at laser point. The small gun was a laser derringer? Could just as easily be a pneumatic cyanide pellet gun, but I suppose another direct energy weapon would be more proper and likely.


The barrel was a bit long, but the handle reminded me of early derringers.
You also have to take in the context of her... um... profession.


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31 Mar 2011, 1:25 pm

Titangeek wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
They have laser guns


Actually, no, they have firearms. One villain had a laser pistol, some Alliance troopers have sonic blasters (or something like that), but the main characters use kinetic energy weapons and not direct energy weapons. Heck, in Serenity, one villain's weapon of choice was a sword.


What about The Lassiter?


That's a laser pistol.


Ya, but it was on the ship for a while :lol: And if i remember correctly, Inara has the laser equivalent of a derringer.


Oh, yeah, that was when Inara took out the trash - holding Yolanda-Saffron-Briget in the garbage can at laser point. The small gun was a laser derringer? Could just as easily be a pneumatic cyanide pellet gun, but I suppose another direct energy weapon would be more proper and likely.


The barrel was a bit long, but the handle reminded me of early derringers.
You also have to take in the context of her... um... profession.


A Geisha? Did they often have laser derringers? :P You're probably right about the weapon Inara had. I should really just find a wiki about it I suppose though.



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31 Mar 2011, 1:42 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Titangeek wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
They have laser guns


Actually, no, they have firearms. One villain had a laser pistol, some Alliance troopers have sonic blasters (or something like that), but the main characters use kinetic energy weapons and not direct energy weapons. Heck, in Serenity, one villain's weapon of choice was a sword.


What about The Lassiter?


That's a laser pistol.


Ya, but it was on the ship for a while :lol: And if i remember correctly, Inara has the laser equivalent of a derringer.


Oh, yeah, that was when Inara took out the trash - holding Yolanda-Saffron-Briget in the garbage can at laser point. The small gun was a laser derringer? Could just as easily be a pneumatic cyanide pellet gun, but I suppose another direct energy weapon would be more proper and likely.


The barrel was a bit long, but the handle reminded me of early derringers.
You also have to take in the context of her... um... profession.


A Geisha? Did they often have laser derringers? :P You're probably right about the weapon Inara had. I should really just find a wiki about it I suppose though.


Actually she is a courtesan. A Geisha is skilled in non sexual arts. She may (or may not) have a sexual relationship with a client, but this is her own business, and is not part of her entertainment. What you are thinking of is probably a Oiran. Also, both of the Oiran and Geisha are from Japan, the society in Firefly is more of a cross between Chinese and western society's, then Japanese and western.


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31 Mar 2011, 1:50 pm

I just noticed that iamnotaparakeet's "location" is inaccurate. The circumference of the earth's orbit is 942,000,000 kilometers or about 52 light minutes.

My first thought: That's way more travel than necessary if they're bouncing from moon to moon of a single planet.

Second thought: I wonder just how big their solar system is? I should watch the show again to see what hints they left.

Third: Oh, he approximated our orbit around the sun, and is actually accurately describing his own location.


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31 Mar 2011, 2:02 pm

ZeroGravitas wrote:
I just noticed that iamnotaparakeet's "location" is inaccurate. The circumference of the earth's orbit is 942,000,000 kilometers or about 52 light minutes.

My first thought: That's way more travel than necessary if they're bouncing from moon to moon of a single planet.

Second thought: I wonder just how big their solar system is? I should watch the show again to see what hints they left.

Third: Oh, he approximated our orbit around the sun, and is actually accurately describing his own location.


My reported velocity is accurate to one significant figure, although it is quite imprecise. I would think that in the Firefly show that they would be in orbit of a massive star, since with the larger stars there is a larger habitable zone (where water is able to be in its liquid state) although also with larger stars they tend to have shorter lifespans, go out in a nova or supernova, and collapse into a neutron star or gravitational singularity. Given that in the extras included on the disc that, if the series continued that the second season would have delved into the mystery of the Blue Sun Corporation (Firefly's version of Weyland-Yutani) I think it might also be indicative of the star system traversed being that of a B-type star.