Rockets and Revolvers- a Firefly based PBEM

From: aurelius451@yahoo.com (Chuck Thorne)

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:16:30 +0000

So here's how it is. The Earth got used up and humanity went into the
�verse. The worlds that got settled are out of one of those old-time
science fiction books, full of tech and people that never have to wipe
their own� noses. The rest of use are out on the Rim on hundreds of
worlds and living pretty rough. We have to get our hands dirty, deal
with pirates, slavers and Reavers- those cannibal spacemen your
parents told you about. Yup, they're real. A few years back, the Core
worlds decided to unite everyone into their gorram Alliance. Some damn
fools, like me, fought and lost. I'm Hadrian Marcus, captain of the
�Forlorn Hope'. She's a Firefly, a freighter. My crew and me wander
about. Mainly in the Aurora system. We haul freight, carry the
occasional passenger, and on occasion move goods without all the
Alliance paperwork. They call it smuggling but we call it minding our
own business. Sometimes we do salvage, sometimes we rob from the rich
and sell to the poor. A few times we even did bounty work, but only
for good people. We steer clear of the Alliance, live as free as we're
able and keep hope alive.

Forlorn Hope is a game based on the �Firefly' series. It's sort of a
SF-Western hybrid. Out on the Rim, tech is pretty low and law is
usually maintained by the barrel of a gun. The crew of the �Forlorn
Hope' are a mixed lot, from a former Alliance doctor to a war criminal
to a street kid who's good at making underground contacts. We're
looking for some mercenary/gunslinger types, a mechanic, a pilot and
any interesting civilian type. We'll take Companions, Shepherds,
traders, anthropologists, bards or actors and pretty much anyone with
money or skills we could use. The site http://forlorn-hope.warp0.com
is still being worked on but the information you'll need is all there.
Why not take a look?