On 2/6/2018 8:00 PM, Cian Witherspoon wrote:
> Firefly works a lot better when you completely ignore the "one giant
> system" idea and go with the jump drive. Just drop a void around a
> cluster of systems and boom - pressure cooker of terraforming every
> world they can.

Agreed (with you and the Berrys).

Though that same amazing terraforming capability, necessary to give the
setting all those habitable moons etc, raises another question/pokes
another hole in the /official/ reason for the Migration - why are they
/here/, and not still in (a fully 'formed and settled) Sol system?
Heck, with that kind of tech, they could have re-terraformed
Earth-That-Was itself; even if it's used-up blackrock, zero resources
left, it's still useful just as a great big lump of real estate right in
the middle of the habitable zone.

(This is, of course, a recurring problem with any work of fiction that
starts with humanity abandoning this system for another, for any reason
short of "Sol somehow did something that stars like Sol aren't supposed
to, and it's all just GONE".  In other words, a wizard did it.)

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