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[[WMG: Firefly is a prequel to StarWars.]]

* See, there's a simple explanation for that. No one ever pays attention to that part of the ''StarWars'' movies. Even when they're quoting it.
** ''StarWars'' is being narrated by someone from the future of that Verse. To them, it is in the past; to us it's the future. It's easy!

[[WMG: {{Series/Firefly}} began as an AlternateUniverse all-human fanfic of StarWars]]

[[WMG: [[StarWars Han Solo]], [[Franchise/IndianaJones Indy]], and Mal are all part of the same family]]

** This would mean [[TokenGoodTeammate Book]] and [[NonActionGuy Wash]] were the first to move on from purgatory to heaven...makes some sense. Although, Taking teh comics into account, Book used to be an Operative, which really ought to mean he's the most "sinniest" guy on the ship.

The "crew" of the Firefly are a group of friends who play an MMO called The 'Verse, a fun and challenging MMO that plays like a Space Western with missions that provide an occasional moral challenge that players are put into. Each of the crew have their own classes: Mal and Zoe in the Soldier class. Wash being a Pilot. Jayne in a Mercenary class. Kaylee in an Engineering class. Simon is a Medic class. River in a Rogue/Wizard class. Inara is in a Bard class. And Shepherd Book is in a Civilian class, changing from a previous and undisclosed class. The "adventures" the crew end up in are mostly them role-playing in character (and never breaking their role) addition to actually just playing the game. Some of the characters encountered in the story like Badger and Saffron play as Civilians, but have included Rogue-elements to their characters, while others are story-dedicated {{NPCs}}. The Alliance and Independents war was an actual in-game clan war event that Mal and Zoe were involved in, which they ended up in the losing side of and incorporated into their character's backstory. The biggest bad of the game, the Reavers, are entirely {{NPCs}} (and for the film, Mal and crew agro them and use them to get to Mr. Universe's planet, which is a tactic that MMO players have used against enemies both NPC and player controlled). The game is a one-life/no-respawn style game, meaning if your character dies, they cannot be respawned (which is why Zoe panics at Wash's death, as Wash and Zoe's players are actually a married couple who play the game together after meeting each other in the game. And the "funeral" was something the group held in honor of their fallen comrade). The film's story with Miranda was a hidden mission that no one else knew about that the group of players managed to figure out due to River's class selection, and her hijacking Serenity the way she does was due to her player getting a hidden mission objective from watching the commercial in the bar.

The show's cancellation deprived him of JokerImmunity, and {{Reality Ensue|s}}d.

They're both played by Christina Hendricks, for one, but Chair shares more than an actress with her descendant. Chair has used her body to try to worm her way to the Bellacourt fortune (it's revealed at the end of the [[FirstEpisodeTwist first episode]] that she's pregnant with the Commodore's lovechild, and hopes it'll be an heir. Similarly, YoSaffBridge uses her sex appeal to get together with people before using them for her own gain. Now, ''Series/AnotherPeriod'' isn't even through its first season, so we don't know what happens to Chair or her unborn child yet, but she's implied to have been a prostitute in the past, so she may have given up offspring before. (That last part was put in in case both she and her unborn child die in the show, thus keeping the theory possible.)

[[WMG: "YoSaffBridge" is a descendent of...]]
... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Period Chair]]

They're both played by Christina Hendricks, for one, but Chair shares more than an actress with her descendant. Chair has used her body to try to worm her way to the Bellacourt fortune (it's revealed at the end of the [[FirstEpisodeTwist first episode]] that she's pregnant with the Commodore's lovechild, and hopes it'll be an heir. Similarly, YoSaffBridge uses her sex appeal to get together with people before using them for her own gain. Now, Another Period isn't even through it's first season (and doesn't have its own page on here yet, which is why I linked to [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} another site]], so we don't know what happens to Chair or her unborn child yet, but she's implied to have been a prostitute in the past, so she may have given up offspring before. (That last part was put in in case both she and her unborn child die in the show, thus keeping the theory possible.)

[[WMG: The "Hands of Blue" men work for a corrupt, future version of [[IronMan Stark Industries]] ]]
Because their blood-rupturing-wand thing is clearly a souped-up version of the paralysis generator Stane uses in the first ''IronMan'' film. The protective earpieces are obviously now subcutaneous implants.

The "crew" of the Firefly are a group of friends who play an MMO called The 'Verse, a fun and challenging MMO that plays like a Space Western with missions that provide an occasional moral challenge that players are put into. Each of the crew have their own classes: Mal and Zoe in the Soldier class. Wash being a Pilot. Jayne in a Mercenary class. Kaylee in an Engineering class. Simon is a Medic class. River in a Rogue/Wizard class. Inara is in a Bard class. And Shepherd Book is in a Civilian class, changing from a previous and undisclosed class. The "adventures" the crew end up in are mostly them role-playing in character (and never breaking their role) addition to actually just playing the game. Some of the characters encountered in the story like Badger and Saffron play as Civilians, but have included Rogue-elements to their characters, while others are story-dedicated NPCs. The Alliance and Independents war was an actual in-game clan war event that Mal and Zoe were involved in, which they ended up in the losing side of and incorporated into their character's backstory. The biggest bad of the game, the Reavers, are entirely NPCs (and for the film, Mal and crew agro them and use them to get to Mr. Universe's planet, which is a tactic that MMO players have used against enemies both NPC and player controlled). The game is a one-life/no-respawn style game, meaning if your character dies, they cannot be respawned (which is why Zoe panics at Wash's death, as Wash and Zoe's players are actually a married couple who play the game together after meeting each other in the game. And the "funeral" was something the group held in honor of their fallen comrade). The film's story with Miranda was a hidden mission that no one else knew about that the group of players managed to figure out due to River's class selection, and her hijacking Serenity the way she does was due to her player getting a hidden mission objective from watching the commercial in the bar.

The "crew" of the Firefly are a group of friends who play an MMO called The 'Verse, a fun and challenging MMO that plays like a Space Western with missions that provide an occasional moral challenge that players are put into. Each of the crew have their own classes: Mal and Zoe in the Soldier class. Wash being a Pilot. Jayne in a Mercenary class. Kaylee in an Engineering class. Simon is a Medic class. River in a Rogue/Wizard class. Inara is in a Bard class. And Shepherd Book is in a Civilian class, changing from a previous and undisclosed class. The "adventures" the crew end up in are mostly them role-playing in addition to actually just playing the game. Some of the characters encountered in the story like Badger and Saffron play as Civilians, but have included Rogue-elements to their characters, while others are story-dedicated NPCs. The Alliance and Independents war was an actual in-game clan war event that Mal and Zoe were involved in, which they ended up in the losing side of and incorporated into their character's backstory. The biggest bad of the game, the Reavers, are entirely NPCs (and for the film, Mal and crew agro them and use them to get to Mr. Universe's planet, which is a tactic that MMO players have used against enemies both NPC and player controlled). The game is a one-life/no-respawn style game, meaning if your character dies, you cannot log back in, respawn or create a new account (which is why Zoe panics at Wash's death).

[[WMG: Firefly is set in the StarTrek universe]]

[[WMG: Firefly is set in the StarTrek universe but is one of the Omega colonies]]

They're both played by Christina Hendricks, for one, but Chair shares more than an actress with her descendant. Chair has used her body to try to worm her way to the Bellacourt fortune (it's revealed at the end of the [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler first episode]] that she's pregnant with the Commodore's lovechild, and hopes it'll be an heir. Similarly, YoSaffBridge uses her sex appeal to get together with people before using them for her own gain. Now, Another Period isn't even through it's first season (and doesn't have its own page on here yet, which is why I linked to [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} another site]], so we don't know what happens to Chair or her unborn child yet, but she's implied to have been a prostitute in the past, so she may have given up offspring before. (That last part was put in in case both she and her unborn child die in the show, thus keeping the theory possible.)

The only connection is the fact that they both have male characters named "Jayne" (well, in the TF2 'verse it's "Jane") who wear funny hats.

** You're assuming that Reavers can't pilot a ship because they're insane and violent? Isn't the new pilot of ''Serenity'' just as insane and violent? The assumption that the technical skill of piloting a ship cannot be acquired by any person without sanity is [[YouFailLogicForever spotty at best]]. Plus vampires wouldn't make good pilots. They'd burst into flames any time they headed towards the center of the solar system because the sun would shine through the window.

Set 500 years after Farscape finishes. The knowledge John Criton left on the moon was damaged, so they could't quite develop faster than light travel, and as it turn out, Earth is a lot further away from the rest of the Farscape Verse than originally thought.

In an interview that is no longer online, Whedon (supposedly) stated that Firefly was based on a roleplaying game he played during his university years in England (1982-1986). Assuming he played a published game, rather than a home brewed system or a genera hack, the available sci-fi RPGs at the time would have included only a few games, most of them horribly out of tone and genre. If games without planet generation and slug weapons are eliminated, the games TabletopGame/TwentyThreeHundredAD and TabletopGame/Traveller, both published by GDW at the time, are the only available option (now the same ruleset with a different setting manual). However, TabletopGame/TwentyThreeHundredAD wasn't published until 1986, the end of Whedon's university term, making it unlikely. Additionally, the firefly class ship from the show is very similar in size and capability to the Type 'R' Fat Trader from the books - both possessing short range FTL systems, limited defenses and weaponry, and large cargo holds with limited crew capacity. In terms of tone, both firefly and traveller share a similar feel - a "sixguns and starships" or "shotguns and starships" approach to the universe, with the characters often skirting the law in both. Furthermore, several worlds appear in officially published Traveller material that also appear in Firefly, including the Regina, Bellerophon, Ariel, and Persephone, many of which share some, if not most, of their characteristics between universes. Even more damning, in 1984 Gamelords inc. released a Traveller compatible supplement titled "A Pilots guide to the Drexilthar Subsector" which described Reavers Deep with pirates, which included the quote: "clashes of the Reavers proved to be an aggressive, warlike, and generally unprincipled group." Finally, in the pilot episode, wash shouts "Hang on Travellers" during some maneuvers - note that the leaked shooting script uses the double L spelling (though this may simply be a britishism, it is difficult to tell).

[[WMG: ''TheGiver'' takes place in the Firefly Universe.]]

[[WMG: The Alliance is being manipulated by the [[CthulhuMythos Great Old Ones]]]]

* Holy shit, I think you're on to something. It also eliminates the "why don't Reavers attack each other" ItJustBugsMe.

[[WMG: Firefly shares the same universe, or may be a neighboring universe, to TheChroniclesofRiddick.]]