Firefly

The Fireflyverse is considered to be part of the Jossverse, named after its creator Joss Whedon. Firefly was a short lived (one season before being pulled by Fox for 'low ratings') television programme centred on a group of misfits flying around the galaxy in a beaten-up Firefly-class spaceship known as Serenity.

In this version of the future, Earth has been abandoned in favour of a new solar system with dozens of terraformed planets. The Alliance, a Sino-American amalgamated superpower, dominates the politics of this system and governs all of the Central Planets, and, technically, the outer planets too. A recent civil war was fought between the Alliance and the 'Browncoats', who were anti-Unification, the name given to the amalgamation of the government of all the planets of the system.

Main Characters
Captain Malcolm Reynolds

The captain of the ship Serenity is one Malcolm Reynolds (Mal), who was a sergeant in the Unification War. Little of his past is revealed before his role in the war save that he grew up on a ranch on the planet Shadow, with his mother and an unspecified number of ranch-hands. No father is mentioned. Mal strongly opposed and continues to oppose Unification and the Alliance. He believes in people governing themselves, rather than an impersonal galactic government that steamrollers the little people. He is ferociously loyal but can be conniving and underhand in his dealings to see that he and his get their fair share or more. His attitude to the law is flexible, and he frequently steals and lies, and to a lesser extent kills, without too much bother from his conscience. His main love is his ship, Serenity, which is his home, despite her general unkempt air and lack of maintenance.

Zoe Washburn

Zoe was a soldier who served under Mal in the Unification War, and when the war was over she followed Mal to Serenity and a life as a smuggler/transporter of goods. She also found a husband thanks to Mal; marrying Hoban 'Wash' Washburn, a pilot hired by Mal. Zoe is by turns taciturn and loving, a stoic warrior-type, loyal to both her captain and her husband (illustrated best in the episode 'War Stories') Zoe is Mal's second-in-command on board Serenity, and a crack-shot with her mares-leg style sawnoff shotgun.

Hoban 'Wash' Washburn

Kaylee Frye

Jayne Cobb

Inara Serra

Shepherd Book

Dr. Simon Tam

River Tam

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