Lord Zack
Explorer
You know I imagine many alternates of Malcom Reynolds wanting to obtain a ftl drive for Serenity, so he and his crew can just leave Alliance territory. Mind you I think that the Firefly "'verse" exists on the fringes of UED territory and that the Alliance is effectively a UED vassal state, so it would be slightly harder for them to avoid entanglements related to their past with the Alliance, but the better the FTL drive they obtain, the further they can get away.