Rationalizing a Firefly - Serenity type setting

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Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Bad wording on my part. I meant likely to sustain populations greater than tiny research stations.

Ah, right.

No, no, I tend to agree.

But on the other hand, if we are going to apply those standards of realism, why the heck did people leave Earth-that-Was?

If they had such amazing terraforming tech, why not terraform Earth back into a livable state?

There are some quirky things in the Firefly backstory. I'm not saying they can't be explained. I'm only pointing out that they do seem to require further explanation (or not, maybe it doesn't matter for the stories being told...).


Was the terraforming tech only developed past a rudimentary level AFTER humans arrived in the 'Verse?


Is it perhaps based on the environmental life support, gravitics, and ecoystems tech used in the generation ships?

Were those generation ships or sleeper ships?