Rationalizing a Firefly - Serenity type setting

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by mindstalk

Or just massive inequality. The descendants of the terraformers are likely the Core worlds, with the Rim people just dumped out on the more marginal worlds. The crew/passenger divides of Lord of Light or The Steerswoman were more extreme, in their ways.

Bah. The Rim fought a war with the Core and the relative odds weren't much worse than that between the North and the South in the American Civil War.