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<blockquote data-quote="Palantir" data-source="post: 2626812" data-attributes="member: 1366">Repairs to Serenity at the endI saw the movie again last night. Looks like the Operative actually gave them what they needed to patch the ship up again. Kinda strange, but then so is the Operative! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Did anyone take note of the Pax timeline? Assuming that the movie takes place pretty close on the heels of the series, the Unification War took place six-eight years ago... but the experiment on Miranda occurred around twelve years ago. That means that the Alliance was experimenting with Pax either right before or during the UWar. Why would the Alliance be experimenting with a Utopia drug if they weren't already thinking about how to use it against opposition? The Pax's failure may have been why the war started in the first place. Perhaps the Alliance planned to gas the Independent worlds into being happy and compliant with Allied rule. When that didn't work, they had to conquer the old-fashioned way.Anyway, just a theory with no hope of being proven... at least until the sequel. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Palantir, post: 2626812, member: 1366"] [b]Repairs to Serenity at the end[/b] I saw the movie again last night. Looks like the Operative actually gave them what they needed to patch the ship up again. Kinda strange, but then so is the Operative! ;) Did anyone take note of the Pax timeline? Assuming that the movie takes place pretty close on the heels of the series, the Unification War took place six-eight years ago... but the experiment on Miranda occurred around twelve years ago. That means that the Alliance was experimenting with Pax either right before or during the UWar. Why would the Alliance be experimenting with a Utopia drug if they weren't already thinking about how to use it against opposition? The Pax's failure may have been why the war started in the first place. Perhaps the Alliance planned to gas the Independent worlds into being happy and compliant with Allied rule. When that didn't work, they had to conquer the old-fashioned way. Anyway, just a theory with no hope of being proven... at least until the sequel. ;) [/QUOTE]

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