Jonathan Lang wrote:
Also, anyone get the sense from the FIREFLY show (I must have
missed it)-- is there a FTL drive? If so, what is it? Warp, Jump, what?
In the show it's not discussed. In the film it's apparently made clear
that all the action is supposed to be happening in a single stellar
system.
IMHO, that's no more realistic than traveling between different star
systems without a discernable FTL drive: either all of the planets are
in roughly the same orbit (because of their similar climates) or you
have to disregard the fact that planets at varying distances from the
primary will tend to have wildly different climates unless some (very
obvious) environmental factors exist to counter the different levels
of sunlight being experienced. And for the most part, none of those
environmental factors are in evidence.
What you say is true, though it has been stated somewhere that the
system is a multiple star system (possibly with a brown dwarf or three
thrown in), and the various bodies we see have been all more or less
terraformed. This might well include many artificial climate moderators
such as solettas or sunshades that have not appeared in either the
series or the movie because they weren't relevant. Also, the colonizers
of the system may have all come from California, and so only inhabit
those parts of the worlds which have California-like climates. Other
parts may be much hotter, much cooler or much wetter, but again they
don't appear because they're not relevant.
On the other hand, what do you expect from a cheap sci-fi series; that
they're going to airlift a film-unit to far-flung corners of the Earth
just to add a bit of variety to the location shots?
--
Nelson Cunnington
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