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<blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 2454819" data-attributes="member: 4090">Several hundred years in the future. I don't recall if it is said exactly or not.The colonists all originally came from Earth, but some unspecified disaster seems to have taken place there. It isn't really talked about much (listen close and you might hear some references to the &quot;Earth that was&quot;), and there is a brief puppet show (mostly in the background) in the episode &quot;Heart of Gold&quot;- which may not have premiered yet; it's one of the last ones- which touches briefly on it.As others point out, the Alliance uses some high tech stuff; Jayne's gun Vera seems to be somewhat modified more than anything currently seen, and some other high technology is seen in later episodes. The majority of the people on Firefly, however, are the outer rim colonists, who are on the far reaches of everything (think third-world countries) and don't have access to the real &quot;high-tech&quot; weaponry. These are the planets that Mal and crew tend to stick to, as Mal (as a former Browncoat) doesn't like being anywhere near the Alliance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cthulhudrew, post: 2454819, member: 4090"] Several hundred years in the future. I don't recall if it is said exactly or not. The colonists all originally came from Earth, but some unspecified disaster seems to have taken place there. It isn't really talked about much (listen close and you might hear some references to the "Earth that was"), and there is a brief puppet show (mostly in the background) in the episode "Heart of Gold"- which may not have premiered yet; it's one of the last ones- which touches briefly on it. As others point out, the Alliance uses some high tech stuff; Jayne's gun Vera seems to be somewhat modified more than anything currently seen, and some other high technology is seen in later episodes. The majority of the people on Firefly, however, are the outer rim colonists, who are on the far reaches of everything (think third-world countries) and don't have access to the real "high-tech" weaponry. These are the planets that Mal and crew tend to stick to, as Mal (as a former Browncoat) doesn't like being anywhere near the Alliance. [/QUOTE]

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