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Post by The Barney on Mar 18, 2012 16:33:33 GMT -8
I, like half the people I’ve heard talk about Traveler, am going to pull a lot of material from the Firefly verse. I’m already quite the brown coat having watched the series and move countless times, I own the 3 comic book sets and the books that include all the scripts and behind the scenes stuff that one could want to know. But I can’t be the first one to want to use the planets of the Verse in Traveler. Has anyone worked up the planet codes from the Verse? I’ll do it all from scratch if I have to, but I’d rather not! LOL. I plan on using the names and general information of the planets, but separating them so the FTL is still needed. I just want to have the information close enough to match anything that the other fans at my table will expect. I was only able to find the complete list. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_planets_and
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2012 21:13:00 GMT -8
From that page and the new version of Traveller p. 167-180 I made these based on those rules:
D452462-6 NI Po ::: "this little moon" A569886-D Ht Ri ::: ocean world from "Trash"... Bellerophon
Haven't seen anyone do an entire list. Congrats on being the first. I strongly suspect Whedon played the game when he was younger. The inspiration is evident all through the show. It would be pretty cool to see it come full circle if true, ha. And I don't mean the Serenity RPG, as respectable as it is.
"Reaver's Deep", "c'mon travellers!", psions, frozen sleep, finding passengers, mercenaries, slug guns, cattle, low tech everywhere... I can't be the only one that's noticed.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2012 12:51:31 GMT -8
I know nothing abut the Traveller planet codes but here is a link to the list of planets and brief descriptions on them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_planets_and_moonsHopefully, their descriptions will make coding easier. Note: The Traveller core book is on its way to me via Amazon. Soon, I will be one of the fold.
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Post by D.T. Pints on Dec 5, 2012 18:04:23 GMT -8
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Post by stork on Dec 5, 2012 19:18:30 GMT -8
We've been saying this since day one!
Thank you so much for the link to that article, it was really well researched, and I feel it validates the Traveller/Firefly controversy!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2012 6:31:59 GMT -8
Oh, wow. Very nice.
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Post by Stu Venable on Dec 7, 2012 16:05:57 GMT -8
Since he only played from 1982 to 1986, that rules our Space Opera, as 4 years is barely enough time for character generation.
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Post by juberberry on Dec 12, 2012 5:54:27 GMT -8
As some of you may have noticed from a few threads I am also taking up the Traveller-Firefly gauntlet. I documented the Firefly 'Verse using a couple different resources. I'm playing after the events of Miranda where the Alliance has lost a little of its grip on the border planets but the core worlds are still firmly in their grasp. The Firefly Wiki firefly.wikia.com/wiki/White_Sun_systemThe Verse in Numbers PDF firefly.wikia.com/wiki/The_Verse_in_NumbersThat helped me work out the details of all the planets in the Verse for any of the planets that had cannon around them. I entered them all into an excel spreadsheet. Anything in Black has Cannon around it. Anything with blue letters is completely open to my whims. dl.dropbox.com/u/13864212/Firefly%20Traveller/The%20Verse/Firefly%20Universe_Current.xlsxIf you find this useful please feel free to use it. As far as FTL - My understanding is that Joss Whedon has stated that there is no FTL travel or communications in Firefly. This hasn't been strictly adhered to (Hello Serenity) but I plan to make this the case in my game. I have some alternate drive mechanics house ruled to explain the propulsion systems without breaking into FTL.
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Post by juberberry on Dec 12, 2012 15:53:03 GMT -8
Ha! I just noticed this original post was from 9? months ago.
Oh well - maybe someone else can make use of the Excel file.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2013 1:22:32 GMT -8
9 months (+1 more I guess) or not, I think I'm going to have to steal that excel sheet you started up. Just for the statistics geek in my alone, not to mention the awesomeness that is Firefly. I've always wanted to try out both Traveler and a Firefly RPG, this might be just what I need to actually go about doing it. I've made it into a Google Spreadsheet, if that's easier for anyone to access. If you'd be interested in updating it even more, just ping me and I'll add you with edit permissions. Firefly Universe on Google Docs
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Post by juberberry on Jan 25, 2013 5:15:11 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2013 5:47:29 GMT -8
I think I updated it successfully. Same link.
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Post by juberberry on Jan 25, 2013 5:51:20 GMT -8
The link above is still pulling up the old file for me.
Edit - Aha - looks like just a bit of lag/cache. Pulling up nicely now.
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Post by Houndin on Jan 25, 2013 8:46:01 GMT -8
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Post by juberberry on Jan 26, 2013 9:17:34 GMT -8
I surely do have one of those waiting until I can get down to Kinko's and have it laminated - it's gorgeous!
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