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How are ships unlike food?
1. If you try it and don't like it, you don't have to do it again.
2. You can have as much as you want, when you want.
3. Cravings can be very specific.
I mean, hello it's not as if there's 'ship police?

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Originally posted by wytchcroft:

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How are ships unlike food?
1. If you try it and don't like it, you don't have to do it again.
2. You can have as much as you want, when you want.
3. Cravings can be very specific.
I mean, hello it's not as if there's 'ship police?

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LOL! HA HA! yeh, i'm just jealous coz i can't do that stuff!

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Originally posted by TuJiaoZuo:
*Sneaks in to respond*

I get your drift with planet cliches. In the show, all of the planets looked like they were basically the foothills of Southern Cali. Not very attractive, dusty, nothing but shrubs and lizards. It's really easy to just either go along with that or the norm for all of the other fiction out there. It's like going along with the 'Kaylee is from Harvest' thing. It's so hard not to because it's fanon at a point.

My trick is more or less I've traveled a good deal in the nineteen years I've been on Earth-that-was. I do live in Cali where the series was filmed, but I know that Northern California is a far cry from Southern California, plus I have been to many other states, so I always try to incorperate a state or place into a town or planet. They're all so different, so it's easy to just insert an area I have seen myself. I just assume that every planet had a different reaction to the terra forming processs as well as posesses a different purpose for the Alliance. Poorer looking planets would just have settlers dumped on it, nicer ones like core planets would be used for more 'useful' and profitable things.

Aberdeen in my fic is generally that fine line between Montana and Wyoming. Montana has lots of prairie in certain areas, rolling hills that just go on forever (Especially right after you leave Glacier National Park, you exit the forest and are just immedaitely met with plains). However when you reach Wyoming, you have this sparse, hard, red desert like area for the most part.

Also, names really help convey the scene. The planet Sierra is all forest, and it's named (I made it up) for the mountain range nearest to my home, the Sierra Nevadas, and I wanted it to be more lush woods. A vacation planet for those who enjoy nature, that place that is up and coming, with fine dining, casinos, good shopping and spas popping up in small cities. So like a Lake Tahoe which is in the Sierra Nevadas. And Ming-Yu, the name of the new city the crew stayed at in my fic, translates into 'Brilliant Jade' (ironcally the name of a painting I did, but I digress). Jade is green and the city itself is nestled in the woods and would be flooded with green in the spring, so hence the name.

I really hope that helps and I'm not rambling. I'm, sure a much more seasoned and eloquent writer has a better response.

Your Indian Pirate Lord,
Ash

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Originally posted by danniisupernova:
Too much desert. There's always this big wasteland with no color and lots of heat and a hick town with yokels. I'm pretty sure everywhere in the Verse doesn't look like the damn Navajo Desert or the damned Oregon Trail.

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Originally posted by reginaroadie:


Here's a question up for interpretation. In Objects in Space, Mal references New Melbourne as a planet whose main industry is fish. Now, do you think the planet would be like Australia, New England or the Maritimes. I know the name gives itself to Austrailian actors, but I think it would be more like Newfoundland, P.E.I, Nova Scotia and the Maritimes in Canada.

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The 'fanon' explanation I'd heard for why all the planets look the same is that the planets on the Rim are mostly recently terraformed, and the century of less is not long enough for the ecosystems to grow together and produce jungles, forests and the like. By contrast, the Core planets have have centuries for their ecosystems to mature.

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