I cannot wait to own this book.

where do I get this book? it looks cool.

What arguments is this supposed to settle?

mine is on the way (if I can believe Amazon), and I can't wait. I do wonder why it is called the Official Visual Companion ...okay, lame joke.

A would be totally stupid, hopefully Joss doesn't go that way.

But I don't see how this proves anything either way, it just shows some planetary representations of the known worlds. And until joss says its canon it isn't.

Joss has already said that it is "A". No FTL. Then he said to the interviewer who asked him that if he asked another science question he would cry.

I don't think it's that important to Joss except what would make the most sense artisically. I like "A" better anyway. FTL has been so much, why not try something different?

Well, I'll lower my estimate of him when I get a link to that interview.

No, I don't think he gives a damn either. But now he's being as stupid as the rest of hollywood, except in reverse. They don't give a shit about good and intelligent dialog just blow stuff up (even though there could be good dialog inbetween).

A is stupid, because they only way it could come to pass is if an alien civilization had constructed the system.

not true LexiBlock, a system like that could develop naturally become stable...
Alot of those could also be moons of larger planets terrerformed to be habitable...

Looks like I have stirred up a hornet's nest with the post I accidentally made as 'anonymous'.

Bottom line: "Firefly" and "Serenity" is Joss Whedon's creation.

Debating FTL vs a solar system with an extremely lage number of inhabitable planets/moons is like debating the existance of Kryptonite. It is all make-believe. It is just a hook on which the writer hangs a storyline. Nothing more, nothing less.

To pharaphrase a line from another TV Science Fiction icon, "Deconstruction is Futile".

I'm kinda excited about the fact that Whedon may be on the brink of the equivalent of baseball's "hitting for the cycle" -- creating a hit television series out of a failed movie then creating a hit movie out of a "failed" television series!

See you all in spirit at the BDM premiere!

--Ack

Looks like I have stirred up a hornet's nest with the post I accidentally made as 'anonymous'.

Bottom line: "Firefly" and "Serenity" is Joss Whedon's creation.

Debating FTL vs a solar system with an extremely lage number of inhabitable planets/moons is like debating the existance of Kryptonite. It is all make-believe. It is just a hook on which the writer hangs a storyline. Nothing more, nothing less.

To pharaphrase a line from another TV Science Fiction icon, "Deconstruction is Futile".

I'm kinda excited about the fact that Whedon may be on the brink of the equivalent of baseball's "hitting for the cycle" -- creating a hit television series out of a failed movie then creating a hit movie out of a "failed" television series!

See you all in spirit at the BDM premiere!

--Ack

Oops!

I meant habitable..

Also, I didn't mean to double-post.

Sorry.

--Ack

No citizen to the science i've read it couldn't, not that many worlds, and not with those climates.

Ackerdackerly: "Debating FTL vs a solar system with an extremely lage number of inhabitable planets/moons is like debating the existance of Kryptonite. It is all make-believe. It is just a hook on which the writer hangs a storyline. Nothing more, nothing less. "

I don't agree. That is incompetance, which is why I'm disappoined if Joss has really said that - thought I see noone has of yet showed proof. Of course it could always be countermanded in the later movies (now if only I could get him in a room for a couple of minutes ;)


"Bottom line:..."

Bottom line is, this is no a shrine. If you create something people are going to have opinions about it, opnions which are every bit as valid as the creators - with the one exception that they don't get to decide anything.

Could someone post or better yet email me with all the planet names shown in this image and which planet graphic they coraspond to? I cant read about half of them.

This info will be very helpful to me and the rest of the EV:Firefly mod team.

My email is billds9 {at} yahoo.com

Thanks.

Thanks Ackerdackerly and Aaron Blum for the high res images.

Just as a side note, it's been mentioned on more than one occasion (primarily the Fox prologues by Mal & Book) that they "found a new system" after leaving this one. The very same page this image came from says it was one star, a system with dozens of worlds and hundreds of moons, most of which were solid enough for terraforming (which is where the sci-fi comes in). Just sayin', because it is like I said all along, w/o FTL, it wouldn't make sense.

One star. A fairly big one, with a great many orbital bodies. Joss' words. No one else's. Frankly, I think it is more plausible that way than multiple systems. The only thing I have to really suspend disbelief on is Terraforming as a real (and somewhat successful) process and artificial gravity that makes living on a spaceship "Earth normal". ;)