Plot Poll

[Wisper]

You should be able to select 2 options, feel free to add comments as well regarding your votes

[Roger]

I haven't voted yet, because I'm not entirely sure what I want (or even 100% sure I'd come back to be perfectly honest). So here are my thoughts to both let you all know what I'm thinking and maybe to help others in coming to their decisions.

Post Serenity - Do not want. I liked the movie but from an RP perspective it's bad. I like the idea of the Alliance being weakened but that's about it, and even that is vague at best (oh people now have this conspiracy theory so the sole military power is going to be defeated, yeah right). And Reavers being a small fringe boodeyman type thing is where they belong.

Pre Serenity - Maybe. It's simple and that might be for the best. No major canon events we are locked into, just a somewhat known sandbox for us to RP in.

Current AU - Even easier! Hahaha. But really, our current system is pretty much option 1. We're post serenity and a tiny little bit has happened to explain what happened between the credits of the movie and when our RP starts. People on Beylix are more upset than most but it's still not open warfare. Alliance discredited the signal. Pax is still a threat. Not much different there.

Super Focused - I like this, but then again I'm not sure this is a real choice on its own, but a sub-choice. We need to pick a grander setting to plop ourselves in. We also want to have room for potential future expansion. To start with, yes, I think a focus like this would be good, but we don't want to completely constrain ourselves.

Total Overhaul - This is a ton of work for the staff. As mentioned elsewhere, although I see many benefits, I also see the drawbacks to this course of action. I won't write even more walls of text on the subject.

Other - The possible middle ground I see between a total overhaul and using Firefly itself is a large time skip. We don't use canons anyway, right? We never really got into the "current events" of the signal. We don't have a big issue with the Verse history or the culture, but we have some minor complaints.

Why not set our site 100 or so years further into the future? That's enough time to allow change so we all have the familiar elements but we can also explain other things too. In that time the Alliance REALLY could have shrunk to just the Core and now the various Rim planets ARE independent adding that political dynamic and some more diversity to military types. Maybe such and such planet was insignificant before but in the last century they discovered space oil and it's rich and developed while so and so planet fell on hard times. We never saw Sam Grady type prosthetic limbs in the show because maybe they didn't exist THEN but they certainly do NOW. Supertrade? Never heard of something so powerful in the show. Well, it got big in the last two decades. Deal with it!

Same Firefly lore and setting and less work to set up. At the same time it allows us to "fix" some things we didn't like and to add in other things we thought were missing. Thoughts? Wrong place to put this?

[Yautja]

OK, I'm being bias... Sue me. I like the supertrade thing, and it so certainly has legs. Onas doesn't even have to be a played character anymore, if it would please the site as a whole, he was never meant to be more than a facilitator for others to find their way to ships an/or broader lifes. But you gotta love the story, its a dark take on a dark world/s. Again, i'm bias. Shoot me.

For other, Roger's idea above. Shoot, score, danceoff. What's not to like? It would be my vote that the Alliance suffered at some point cause of some video so long ago that no one remembers it. Reavers are still around because "We love Miranda as a pirate base!... oh, ok, not the best idea after all....." But leave them as the lovable raping homicidal canabalistic insane creatures that they are. No need to mess with perfection, and why keep them at all? Who doesn't want to pop a reaver now and then?

Keepin it short tonight. But I'd come back for this.

[Wisper]

I like the push far into the future idea I must say. It gives a ton of freedom for us to decide the changes like you said. Even with that idea we could use the super trade as a sub plot still because I do like that idea as well

[Panda]

I have to agree that I like Roger's plot idea. 100 years in the future makes it so that the Firefly series had an impact on the overall universe and we can mold the plot to decide how things affected what. Additionally, I have to agree that I love the Reavers being these boogeymen that only a very few number of people have encountered and since the Pax scare at the end of Serenity made the Reaver threat seem so real, it kind of destroys that about them. 100 years is more than enough time for the Alliance to get people to forget about that and there definitely would be a much different political demographic. Clear borders designated between the Alliance core worlds and the Independent rim planets.

It could even be that the Firefly events ended up in small fights and the rise of the Independents again, which may or may not have led up to a second war. Then it could have ended, surprisingly enough to the Alliance, at a stalemate and the two factions call for an armstice and now 100 years later they're at this very terse standoff, though there is still civilian travel and trade between the factions. But that's just my addition to Roger's story, doesn't have to be added haha This paragraph is my own ideas and the previous paragraph is my opinion/vote

[Wisper]

That looks like all the votes we're going to get. So it's between our current plot and the 100 year push into the future plot. Any additional thoughts? Personally I'm leaning towards the future one

[Roger]

I eventually voted Other (100 year future plot).

[Edith Hunter]

I threw my vote down for the other ( 100 year plot thingy ) too, but also with a 'Pre-Serenity'. I'm more for the 100 year skip. Gets us away from being restricted by the canon story, and we can go nuts with how the 'Verse is now.