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<blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 2454507" data-attributes="member: 143">The Alliance is a coalition of Anglo-Chinese forces who control the interior/advanced planets. The Separatists (&quot;Independents&quot;, &quot;Browncoats&quot;) were the ones that Mal fought for. They represented the periphery/frontier planets that resented Alliance control and tried (and failed) to break off from the central authority represented by the Alliance. I got the impression that many of the frontier colonies had been &quot;fire and forget&quot; deals that had been mostly abandoned after the initial wave of settlement. Thus they may have gotten used to self-rule and resented attempts to control them after the Alliance coalesced and tried to assert control. At the time of the series, Alliance control over the outer systems is still pretty weak at best, although Alliance military forces do appear fairly frequently at strategic points (e.g. on the train in &quot;The Train Job&quot;), and their cruisers do patrol the 'verse pretty frequently (although there never seems to be one nearby when you really need one!).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lazybones, post: 2454507, member: 143"] The Alliance is a coalition of Anglo-Chinese forces who control the interior/advanced planets. The Separatists ("Independents", "Browncoats") were the ones that Mal fought for. They represented the periphery/frontier planets that resented Alliance control and tried (and failed) to break off from the central authority represented by the Alliance. I got the impression that many of the frontier colonies had been "fire and forget" deals that had been mostly abandoned after the initial wave of settlement. Thus they may have gotten used to self-rule and resented attempts to control them after the Alliance coalesced and tried to assert control. At the time of the series, Alliance control over the outer systems is still pretty weak at best, although Alliance military forces do appear fairly frequently at strategic points (e.g. on the train in "The Train Job"), and their cruisers do patrol the 'verse pretty frequently (although there never seems to be one nearby when you really need one!). [/QUOTE]

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