New: Firefly; Vigilant (free, open-ended, www, human, space, rpg, abstract)

From: donotreply@pbm.com (PBM List Autoposter)

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:13:01 +0000

Name:		Firefly; Vigilant
Costs:		Free
Frequency:		At your leisure within reason.
Email:		schmitt zat socantel.net
URL:		http://www.geocities.com/jrampel1/FireflyVigilant.html
Type:		Human Space RPG
Last-Update:		2005Dec14
Keywords: free, open-ended, www, human, space, rpg, abstract

Description:

Firefly; Vigilant is an RPG based on the 2002 TV Series Firefly created by
Joss Whedon - using Yahoo/Group as a play forum and it's own web site to
hold the game info and bios.

You wont see Vulcans, Borgs, Klingons or Shapeshifters, this is not a
high-tech Star Trek type of RPG. This is all human based with a western
theme in the outer Frontier rim of space.

There is plenty of info on the web site related to Firefly and the type of
game it will be, also links to other background information and TV
character pics.

The Black or Verse as it's called- consists of three systems, the Core,
Pheripheral and Frontier. As earth was dying off humanity spread out to
the universe and other newly terraformed worlds- some closer, some further
away- the closer worlds were the Core Worlds. The core worlds formed what
was called 'The Alliance' and tried to bring in the outer worlds who
resisted. These outer worlds were the Independants (Indies, Browncoats)
who refused and a war was fought- the Alliance being the victor at the
final battle of the pheripheral world of Hera. Hera was the government
seat of the independants, few go back now because of the bad memories and
Alliance presence.  The Browncoats were so called because of the brown
leather dusters which were part of their uniform.

The independants drifted to the outer worlds, some becoming pirates,
smugglers, slavers... others looking for old freighters and crews to keep
them going and under the radar of the Alliance.

A captain's goal was simple. "Find a crew, Find a job, Keep flying."

Captain Jack Stryker a veteran of the Browncoats, captains the Vigilant an
old Fireclass freighter from before the unification war. A favorite vessel
of pirate and illicit merchant crews, it's many nooks and crannies make it
perfect for smuggling and hiding almost anything. The Vigilant resembles a
luminous insect from the Earth of old, the firefly.

Captain Stryker sits in a lounge on The Void, an outer rim space station
catering to many low lifes of The Verse, its law and government are
corrupt and anything can be bought for a price. This is a huge two tiered
40 deck station that also has many bars, restaurants, nightclubs,
companions(prostitutes)... it even has many good businesses of production.
All is not bad on The Void.

New crew members joining will be considered as having already known one
another and are on leave, as the Vigilant is being overhauled.

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