A Very British Serenity

[ffutures]

OK - one of the adventures I want to run in a few weeks will be a story of pioneering Americans heading off to the stars aboard their trusty spaceship, which may or may not be called Serenity. Their aim is to found a new American Republic in another solar system.

However, for game purposes America has been part of the Anglo-Saxon Empire and largely Anglicised for the last 150 years or so, and the gallant crew get most of their ideas of the romance of the Old West and America filtered through a very British lens.

So... I think that the Firefly crew would work for this, if suitably modified. E.g.
The Reverend Book (strict C of E)
Miss Inara Serra (of the Bombay Serras), a gentlewoman and adventuress
and so forth.

Anyone want to give me versions of River, Mal, Jayne, etc.?

Comments

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Jayne as a bounty hunter/lawman for hire like the Earps or Doc Holliday only not so good or reputable

Mal as an ex senior NCO from the West or even California cashiered for disobeying an unlawful order given by an Eastern toff officer

Zoe a Native scout who worked with Mal

Wash riverboat pilot

River an Oriental with mystical and martial training unknown to most Westerners on the run from the Emperor's minions with her Doctor brother

Simon trained by Western Doctors in Shanghai and rescued his sister from the secret training program run by the Manchu Empire

Both had an American merchant father from San Francisco who married a Chinese woman he met after moving to Shanghai

Kayleigh raised by her widowed mechanic/blacksmith father who worked for a small mining railroad who used her as his assistant.