04-30-2010, 01:53 AM
I've just gone looking through the Stub pages. Many of them are either quick writeups of background elements we've never used in-story, or are writeups of particular people's characters, locations, or ships. I've de-stubbed the 37 "background elements" pages.
Removing from the remaining list the 67 pages that particular people really should be fleshing out because they're about their story elements (people, places, or things), that leaves us with 92 stubs. Roll a d100 and re-roll anything above 92 ... 56 - Kyon. No, I'm not re-opening that can of worms; re-roll. 76 - Solomon Space Agency. Blackaeronaut and I are supposed to work on that one, so it's no fair pushing the job off onto other folks; re-roll. 48 - Independent Faction, a Major Faction. The description we've got there is more than good enough for a Minor Faction, but this is one of the Big Six Factions, so it's a bit lacking. Besides, they're probably running Serenity-Con, so we really should know more about them. Have at it, folks.
{{stub}}
{{factionbox
|factionname=Independent Faction
|flag=
|emblem=browncoatflag.jpg
|flagcaption=
|emblemcaption="Ol' Colorblind," the Browncoat flag.
|nicknames=Browncoats, Jossies, Whedonites
|base=[[Serenity Valley], [[Ganymede]
|population=n/a
|influence=Major in the [[Jupiter] subsystem, minor elsewhere
|allies=[[Heinleinians]
|achievements=Settlements on [[Ganymede] and [[Callisto]
Blue Sun manufacturing facility
|stereotype=Rugged Individualists, either gallant swashbucklers or quiet Waif-Fu mystics.
}}
The smallest of the one-fandom major factions, the Jossies are few in number but deeply devoted to their cause. In true emulation of their icons they’ve set up shop in the Jovian system, with plenty of moons to work with.
Broad brush painting gives us a group of people who are, at least technically, libertarians; their greatest desire as a person is “leave me alone, man.”
In Fenspace, there’s a funadmental schism in the Browncoats, leaving us with three subfactions. They’re not named or recognized as units, but they do tend more to their own.
The first group is the more militant side of the Browncoats. These are the Captain Mals of Fenspace, tending towards swashbuckling and gallantry. The horrible interpersonal relationship skills are not mandatory.
The second subspecies of Browncoat are the spiritualists, those who identify more with Book and (not surprisingly) River. Some of their members have been experimenting with mental augmentation, with varying results.
The remaining Browncoats are not so easily distinguished. They’re the “rank and file,” the people who run shops and ship freight, working at building a new world.
{{factions}}
[[Category:Factions]
[[Category:Major Factions]
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Removing from the remaining list the 67 pages that particular people really should be fleshing out because they're about their story elements (people, places, or things), that leaves us with 92 stubs. Roll a d100 and re-roll anything above 92 ... 56 - Kyon. No, I'm not re-opening that can of worms; re-roll. 76 - Solomon Space Agency. Blackaeronaut and I are supposed to work on that one, so it's no fair pushing the job off onto other folks; re-roll. 48 - Independent Faction, a Major Faction. The description we've got there is more than good enough for a Minor Faction, but this is one of the Big Six Factions, so it's a bit lacking. Besides, they're probably running Serenity-Con, so we really should know more about them. Have at it, folks.
{{stub}}
{{factionbox
|factionname=Independent Faction
|flag=
|emblem=browncoatflag.jpg
|flagcaption=
|emblemcaption="Ol' Colorblind," the Browncoat flag.
|nicknames=Browncoats, Jossies, Whedonites
|base=[[Serenity Valley], [[Ganymede]
|population=n/a
|influence=Major in the [[Jupiter] subsystem, minor elsewhere
|allies=[[Heinleinians]
|achievements=Settlements on [[Ganymede] and [[Callisto]
Blue Sun manufacturing facility
|stereotype=Rugged Individualists, either gallant swashbucklers or quiet Waif-Fu mystics.
}}
The smallest of the one-fandom major factions, the Jossies are few in number but deeply devoted to their cause. In true emulation of their icons they’ve set up shop in the Jovian system, with plenty of moons to work with.
Broad brush painting gives us a group of people who are, at least technically, libertarians; their greatest desire as a person is “leave me alone, man.”
In Fenspace, there’s a funadmental schism in the Browncoats, leaving us with three subfactions. They’re not named or recognized as units, but they do tend more to their own.
The first group is the more militant side of the Browncoats. These are the Captain Mals of Fenspace, tending towards swashbuckling and gallantry. The horrible interpersonal relationship skills are not mandatory.
The second subspecies of Browncoat are the spiritualists, those who identify more with Book and (not surprisingly) River. Some of their members have been experimenting with mental augmentation, with varying results.
The remaining Browncoats are not so easily distinguished. They’re the “rank and file,” the people who run shops and ship freight, working at building a new world.
{{factions}}
[[Category:Factions]
[[Category:Major Factions]
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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