Firefly Geographic Parallels? by Ragua

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Firefly Geographic Parallels?

POSTED BY: RAGUA
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 13:31
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Friday, February 24, 2006 7:33 AM

My brother and his wife recently invited themselves up to my place for their Easter Break, and it got me thinking about real-world parallels to the Firefly 'Verse.

They live in San Diego and are the ultimate Stepford family, while I reside in Portland, the city of rain, microbrew, and weirdness. With their name brands and Yuppieness, I figure that they're from one of the Core planets. Portland isn't quite Jiangyin or Whitefall, but I don't think we're Persephone, either. Still, we're definitely one of the outer planets.

Where does your city or town rank in the 'Verse?

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Friday, February 24, 2006 7:46 AM

FOLLOWMAL

Little bitty town in the Ozarks. Yup. As Outer Rim as you can get.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 7:55 AM

SHO

Ozarks, huh? Well, I'm in Little Rock. I probably don't know enough 'verse worlds to accurately place it, but it would be a moderately developed Outer planet, I would say.

"We've done the impossible. That makes us mighty"

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Friday, February 24, 2006 8:01 AM

RAGUA

Addendum: I used to live in Chicago, and I would equate it with Persephone. Enough high culture to match Atherton Wing, Warwick Harrow, and their crowd, but most of the population are working class folks, like the Serenity crew, Badger, and the like.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 8:11 AM

ELEKA

Oh God. I'm trapped in the Stepford center of San Diego, good ole' Carmel Valley, better known as East Del Mar or South Rancho Santa Fe. Yuppy city if I ever saw one. It's like Osiris here, good doctors all over the place and that real "We're so awesome, look at our money/" mentality.

Yup, Osiris. Not living here by choice, if my mom had her way we'd by off on Whitefall or Jiangyin, if it went my way, it would be some place a bit like Beaumonde, so maybe Portland or Vancouver.

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Jayne! Try not to steal too much of their shit.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 9:12 AM

RAGUA

I feel for you, Eleka. It creeps me out whenever I have to go down there. It's as if my brother lives in a completely different reality.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 9:18 AM

DAVESHAYNE

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Originally posted by Ragua:
Addendum: I used to live in Chicago, and I would equate it with Persephone. Enough high culture to match Atherton Wing, Warwick Harrow, and their crowd, but most of the population are working class folks, like the Serenity crew, Badger, and the like.

I still live in Chicago and you have it on the nose. I think I even know where Badger's office would be. (The BNSF freight yards if you're curious; shipping containers as far as the eye can see.)

David

"A lot of people are asking me, you know, what exactly is Firefly? It's a tv show you morons!" - Joss Whedon

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Friday, February 24, 2006 9:36 AM

KEVAR

Itty bitty town in north central Montana. We got a foot of snow last night. Definately one of the rim planets.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 9:55 AM

AGENTROUKA

Hmm.. Not in America, me, but my town is fairly Persephone.

Think, the shopping district where Kaylee's fluff dress lived. *g* Trade and market town since the middle ages.

Enough affluence to have "a temple built" (or three) and a nice history of prominent scholars, but medium-sized and ladden with an underbelly of problems that's not quite Core.

Yup, Persephone, aiming for Ariel one day.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 10:07 AM

FLACO

I'm in the Phoenix area and would have to call it Persephone. It wants to be Osiris or Ariel but has too much a "rough" edge to it.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 10:26 AM

NCBROWNCOAT

I live in a small town (10,000 pop) in eastern NC on a river about 25 miles upstream from the Intercoastal Waterway(Pamlico River to be exact-just to the west of the Outer Banks). Once a thriving farm market town in a farming area. My family ran one of the local department stores for 2 generations until the late 1970's.

It was definately Outer Rim, but the local manufacturing has left and the farms are being subdivided. It's now got high priced waterfront houses that doctors and others from the East Carolina medical school 30 miles away are buying and even Core types from Raleigh and points farther north are coming here also. The infrastructure hasn't quite caught up to their expectations.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 10:37 AM

GRIZWALD

I think I live in Paradiso! Zip code 52160.

Town of 450 (when the snowbirds are all home), on the railroad tracks, lots of farms and ranches all around. The terraforming took especially well around here, though; no desert. Lots of greenery and marshland.

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Friday, February 24, 2006 11:08 AM

ELEKA

It is a completly different reality. I know people who don't let their kids, kids my agfe who are in high school attend PG-13 and R rated movies because they feel it will expose them to a "corrupt and tainted world."

WTF!?! It is really sad. One of the oldest went off to clooege last year and fell straight into rehab for drug problems, I talked to him and he was like, "I had no idea. Life was all sugary sweet and rainbows back home." It's like freakin' Alliance Pax-ing without all the cannibalistic 10% of the population thing.

I do have to add that once you get about 15 min. from where I live, you hit like Persephone-esque areas. Alot more laid back, a big mix of Core folk and the rest of us living "together" as best they can.
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Jayne! Try not to steal too much of their shit.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:27 AM

DAVEC5

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Originally posted by Ragua:
Where does your city or town rank in the 'Verse?

i WISH where i live smelled as nice as Canton.... just kidding, i'm on the raggedy edge myself. My little piece of Texas is full of gun-toting, knife weilding, war-mongering, back-stabbing, face-shooting galloots who would just as soon shoot you as vote for a democrat.....and that's just when Dick Cheney is down here quail hunting.....
yes, Redneck City....population 28....although boothill is pretty full.
Actually, i've always gotten the impression that many of the outer rim planets look an awfully lot like just a little east of El Cajon, CA...

Adios, muchachos...The Lone Liberal

....and we all shine on....

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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:42 AM

DOG13000

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Originally posted by daveshayne:
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Originally posted by Ragua:
Addendum: I used to live in Chicago, and I would equate it with Persephone.

I still live in Chicago and you have it on the nose. I think I even know where Badger's office would be. (The BNSF freight yards if you're curious; shipping containers as far as the eye can see.)

I moved to the North Shore (Wilmette - go to New Trier just like Jayne!) a couple years back... definitly Osiris Here.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:38 AM

CYBERSNARK

Inner rim round here.

We play like we're civilized; whole area's built up, parking lots everywhere, connected to several major highways, civic projects all pretty and new. It's only when you look closer you see our lack of music stores, our one half-assed comic shop, our one mall, one movie theatre, the newspaper that seems to be published by C-level journalism undergrads, and the fact that 90% of the jobs in town come from the paper mill that's about to close.

In about 5 years, this place'll look like it's run by hill-folk (there's talk of putting up a post at the end of Pitt St). We've already got the "church on every corner" mentality.

Now that I think about it, the soon-to-be-closed mill would make a half-decent place to stand in for some of the more industrial worlds. . .

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Originally posted by Eleka:
WTF!?! It is really sad. One of the oldest went off to clooege last year and fell straight into rehab for drug problems, I talked to him and he was like, "I had no idea. Life was all sugary sweet and rainbows back home." It's like freakin' Alliance Pax-ing without all the cannibalistic 10% of the population thing.

What did Joss say about the need for scary fairy tales (and what happens to kids who are raised to think it's all sweetness and light)?

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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:56 AM

KIZYR

Oh this is a fun thread!

Ok, I currently live on Londinium; straight-up center of the 'Verse. Though, I was born and raised in a city on Beaumonde; I just moved to Londinium for university and stayed around afterwards. My folks, though, primarily hail from Haven.

On Earth-that-Is, that'd be Washington DC, Nashville, and Dhaka in that order. KF

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Look in my eyes, Lord, and my sins will play out on them as on a screen. Read them all.
Forgive what you can and send me on my path. I will walk on until you bid me rest.
~Haven Prayer

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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 1:31 PM

DONCOAT

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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
In about 5 years, this place'll look like it's run by hill-folk (there's talk of putting up a post at the end of Pitt St).

Post holer. Makes holes for posts.

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