[FFML] [Firefly][ATLA] The Powers in the 'Verse

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Lawrence Chu <lawrence at sandwich.net> wrote:
> everyone grew mighty weary of it all.  In the end, people stopped bending,
> or at least they stopped showing it off.

That needs more of an explanation.  Even in a modern setting
(or Serenity aside from terraforming uses), bending can come
in handy, and in the long run practicality tends to win out over
ancient politics.

> airbenders keeping the atmosphere at bay

The wrong sort of atmo - but many of the planets seem small
enough that their challenge would be more keeping it present.

> Mind, these planets were deemed outliers, and they're on the other side of
> the Core, so we don't see them none.  But they exist.

That seems highly unusual.  The Alliance would have identified
bending as a useful art, and co-opted it to its own purposes -
capturing benders by force and/or engineering the right genes
into its people, if the blood happened not to already be on the
Core worlds.

> Pretty of it all?  Legend had it Earth-That-Was anointed the Avatar.
>
> And the colonies, each of them planets anointed one of their own.

Wouldn't it be more in-setting for the Alliance government to
anoint one?  It's been long enough since Earth-That-Was that
any avatar that boarded the colony ships there would now be
dead.

> people generally want
> Serenity crew fanfic, not fanfic that happens to be set in the 'Verse.

Make it compelling enough, and people will even read original
setting fiction.

That said, not all the successful Star Wars & Star Trek fics
had the main crews, especially with Star Wars.  There are
enough setting elements to borrow.