Regina in... Firefly?!

[Jeffr0]

Did anybody notice that Regina is the location of the Serenity rpg supplement?

Out in the Black is the first supplement realeased by MWP for the Serenity RPG. It includes several scenarios and a detailed setting of Frisco Town, on the planet of Regina.

?!

 

[Outsider]

Actually, I'm not completely surprised, given how many subtle but noticeable references/homages to Traveller there are in Firefly... I'd bet a stack of money on someone involved in the writing (whether Whedon or someone else) having played both Traveller and the Star Wars rpg...

 

[rancke]

Originally posted by Outsider:
Actually, I'm not completely surprised, given how many subtle but noticeable references/homages to Traveller there are in Firefly... I'd bet a stack of money on someone involved in the writing (whether Whedon or someone else) having played both Traveller and the Star Wars rpg...

Or it could just be a coincidence. Regina isn't that unlikely a name for a planet for two people to come up with independently. Now, if the town had been called Luck Gibson, it would have been a different matter.

But I just might put a town called Frisco Town on my map of Regina.


Hans

 

[kafka47]

Margaret Weiss & Tracy Hickman are long time Traveller players, as longstanding employees of TSR they might claim Star*Drive & Star Frontiers as inspirations but anytime they are asked directly they always cite Traveller as their inspiration/perspiration when writing the Serenity RPG, as simply they looked at each other and said: "That's Traveller."

 

[Outsider]

Didn't know about Weiss and Hickman being involved in the RPG, nor that they were Traveller veterans...

However, the series came first so I still stand by my belief that the one or more people involved in the scriptwriting are Traveller vets too. There were too many little references to be coincidence. I can think of two instances where the crew were were referred to in passing as travellers ("hold on, travellers" was one, can't remember the other and I've much too much to do today to hunt for the others, but I'll write them down next time I watch it...). You could practically hear the capital T being dropped into place!

 

[Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen]

I ave to admit that Firefly / Serenity is the closest thing to Traveller I have ever seen on TV or the movies...

 

[Ranger]

Originally posted by Outsider:
Didn't know about Weiss and Hickman being involved in the RPG, nor that they were Traveller veterans...

However, the series came first so I still stand by my belief that the one or more people involved in the scriptwriting are Traveller vets too. There were too many little references to be coincidence. I can think of two instances where the crew were were referred to in passing as travellers ("hold on, travellers" was one, can't remember the other and I've much too much to do today to hunt for the others, but I'll write them down next time I watch it...). You could practically hear the capital T being dropped into place!

Yes, and there is also the second to last line in the opening of the movie where the operateive says "I have a feeling I may have a long way to travel."

 

[Jeffr0]

Originally posted by Outsider:
Didn't know about Weiss and Hickman being involved in the RPG, nor that they were Traveller veterans...

However, the series came first so I still stand by my belief that the one or more people involved in the scriptwriting are Traveller vets too. There were too many little references to be coincidence. I can think of two instances where the crew were were referred to in passing as travellers ("hold on, travellers" was one, can't remember the other and I've much too much to do today to hunt for the others, but I'll write them down next time I watch it...). You could practically hear the capital T being dropped into place!

The other time was, I think, in the first Reaver episode... the one where the soldiers were searching for him under the table mats!!!

They referred to Travellers moving to other planets, I think. Might have been Zoe that said it... early on, too.

 

[Rover]

In the real pilot episode (not the train job) before the Credits Wash says something like "Hold on Travellers" when they go to full burn to escape the Cruiser.

I fould a script online that shows that line spelled with 2 L's unlike the typical american spelling with 1 L.

Despite having no evience to support me, I firmly believe that Traveller is a direct influence for Firefly. That is the truthiness of the matter.
R

 

[Redcap]

Maybe that's why I enjoyed Firefly so much, all the oblique references to Traveller, along with the completely oddball ships' company that frankly would never get ships' papers in the Imperium

OT: Speaking of which, anyone got a deckplan of the Firefly class to MT specs?

Roger

 

[Ranger]

Well, there is a very nice deck plan in the Serenity RPG. I think there was also a rough draft of that floating around the internet. Plus there is this site:

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mshute/

It has a black and white deck plan and some nice stand up paper minis.

Also, check out this thread:

http://www.travellerrpg.com/cgi-bin/Trav/CotI/Discuss/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000967#000000

There was a specific MT version floating around (at least I thought it was an MT version), but it seems to have been converted to T20:

http://www.angelfire.com/empire2/savage/1WorldOrder/My_Popular-Media-Designs/Firefly_FT_Original.html

And I did a CT version in HG shipyard:

http://www.travellerrpg.com/cgi-bin/Trav/CotI/Discuss/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=7;t=000179;p=2

 

[Outsider]

Or, how about these...

Elevation views:
Blueprint style
With internal areas marked

And a deckplan


Found the Firefly wiki a few days ago, at this URL

 

[Redcap]

Excellent

Many thanks