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[edit] Blue Hands and Blue Sun
Where is it stated that the Blue Hands were employees of Blue Sun? All that is really known is that they were contractors for the Alliance (noted in the comic "Serenity").Shsilver 19:10, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Inspiration
Is it possible that Blue Sun was inspired by Black Sun? The Wookieepedian 08:48, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
- While you're at it, don't forget the Black Sun from Snow Crash. Although that's arguably less of a corellation. Atinoda 04:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Location of Blue Sun
It is not speculation to use accepted canon to deduce the reality of the Firefly universe. It is an astronomical fact that stars have a limited 'habitable zone'. In our solar system, Mars and Venus are on the outer and inner edges of our habitable zone. With terraforming, both planets may be made habitable. In order to host a dozen worlds in stable orbits, this implies that the sun of the Firefly universe needs a habitable zone that is four times wider, which can only happen with a star that is several times more massive than our Sun. This is not speculation, this is based on astronomical facts.
Now, as for asserting that "Blue Sun" is from the color of the star of that system, what other Blue Sun would be of significant importance to be the logo and name of the biggest enterprise in said star system? It would obviously be whatever corporation performed the terraforming of the worlds of that star system. This is not speculation, this is logically consistent deduction. The name is also consistent with historical colonization enterprises like British East India, British West India Companies, Hudsons Bay Company, etc: colonization corporations have historically been named after their primary geographical area of control. Again NOT SPECULATION.
That the series is set in the 25th century and the human population got there from Earth via sub-light propulsion are canon. It thus obligates us to the astronomical fact that the star system is less than 500 light years from Earth. Again, NOT SPECULATION. Citizenposse 23:28, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
- The second paragraph is all speculation. Not that I disagree with you, but the fact is that it is speculation. No official canon source has said any of those things (to my knowledge).Atinoda 04:55, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
- By your logic in your second paragraph, the fact that the Titanic, for instance, was part of the Red Star Line should be taken to indicate that we orbit a red star. Shsilver 19:02, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
- No, because the Red Star Line was never an all-encompassing pan-solar-system industrial conglomerate, as Blue Sun is. Also, note the difference of choice of nouns: "Red Star" and "Blue Sun". If the term were "Blue Star", I'd agree with you, but the use of the term "Sun" clearly denotes a nearby stellar body with those characteristics. Furthermore, given the significant use of asian cultural referents, and Japan was the "Land of the Rising Sun" (i.e. not "star"), I think this is quite a bit more credible than you claim. User:Citizenposse69.173.98.243 00:26, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
