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Firefly: Category Technology

A tag for pages involving technology in the Firefly future.

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Currently (2005) unavailable technology appearing in Firefly:

• Paper Screens (we have it, but not as nice as theirs)
• Food Stuffs - one brick feeds a family for a month, including immunizations
• Ability to add or draw out psychic powers from some people
• Holography
• Permeable (some kind of energy field?) windows - Mal gets thrown through one at the beginning of The Train Job
• Cryogenic suspension
• Faster Than Light travel and communication
• Fuel dense enough for ships to travel in and out of atmosphere for long distances/times
• Artificial gravity/inertia (see Grav Dampener)
• Terraforming

Why don't they have:

• A lot more cameras/sensors (the train they rob, outside ships - Serenity, etc.)

Q & A with Joss Whedon

from the Browncoats website.

How difficult was it to come up with new technology for your 'verse, without it becoming a clone of other sci-fi movies/shows?

Firefly and Serenity distinguish themselves from other science fiction in terms of their technology because they don’t really have very much. I don’t know anything about science and I’m much more interested in a hands-on rough-hewn world than I am in everything being convenient so I seldom come up with any cool inventions which is very good for a guy who stopped taking science when he was fifteen.

See also

• http://wise-nano.org/w/Main_Page on nanotechnology.