Rationalizing a Firefly - Serenity type setting

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Originally Posted by sir_pudding

I don't see what makes it necessary. IMO, Firefly would have worked just as well in an open cluster (the Hyades is a really good candidate; both close and dense) with a very fast STL drive (probably some gravitic pseudovelocity warp drive). Taking a couple of years to get from the core to the fringe doesn't, IMO, hurt anything.

That's not a bad idea, not at all.

A gravitic pseudo velocity warp drive looks like another physics-busting miracle, but that may not be a problem. Firefly already does have gravitic tech, including, IIRC, a grav drive on ships. I pointed out the gravitic super science in a previous post. Not that the show counts as hard sci fi! It doesn't.

The miracle system seems like a classic mega-engineering sort of thing. It reminds me a wee bit of Niven's Ringworld.

YMMV