Welcome to Out In The Black, an RPG set in the Firefly verse. This is a totally original RPG, thus no canon characters or canon ships.
It's not mandatory to have seen the show or the movie, as everything you need to know is located on board! If you have any questions feel free to leave a message in the cbox or pm a staff member!
The planet of Newhall has been opened two years ago for standard colonization after the most important terra-forming stuff had been done. But just like any other frontier planet, the terra-forming hasn't changed the once small dead planet into a lush world. It's a dusty, desert like world, where only 20% of the surface consists of ocean/lakes, not much I would say.
Focuss here lies on the small town of Ol'Hall, lying somewhere in the biggest desert of the small planet. Not that there are any big cities on the planet, towns lie far from each other, isolated. Population on this planet is small. There isn't really any infrastructure like roads. Travel is either done by horse, and for the lucky ones with some sort of vehicle. But fuel is expensive and hard to come by. Sometimes you might get a captain so crazy to take you to the other side of the planet, but be sure to pay for it. Public transportation? That's something unheard of, although there is talk to build a railway. But that's just talk, and would a railway track really cross a small town like Ol'Hall?
What's to be found in and around the town of Ol'Hall?
-Sheriff Office -Local Tavern (gets some farmers to town) -Doxy House (also gets some folk from out of town into town) -Shop (one or more, although it's not easy to run a shop in a town like this, but people need supplies, if you can offer those, you got yourself a bit of business) -Farms & Ranches -Small church with it's preacher -Town Hall
Daily life in Ol'Hall
Some might call life in Ol'Hall slow, others might say time flies by. One thing is the same with all the folk, life is not easy, and one has to work hard to make a living here. Either being a farmer, the sheriff or working under a boss. Freedom from the alliance is something that attracts people to this planet/town, some just want to start up a new life, some underestimated the hardness off life here. Whatever your story is, you live in this small town, where everybody knows each other, where secrets aren't easily kept, and strangers aren't welcomed with open arms. Folk who act funny aren't accepted easily in this town, most people are religious here, so if you don't show your face in church sunday's expect some funny looks the day after. Anything and everything can happen in this small little isolated town.