Unification War

The Unification War is the penultimate event in the backstory of Joss Whedon's Cancelled T.V. show, "Firefly", now a major motion picture entitled, "Serenity".

Set 500 years in the future, Humans have colonized and terraformed a planetary system of uknown location. The system contains core planets and "border" planets. As a general rule, the farther out one travels, the less civilized society becomes. historically, The core planets allied under a single government ("The Alliance") and declared war upon those planets that wished to maintain their independence ("The Browncoats"). This series of events is recalled as the Unification War. The Alliance was victorious, and those surviving independents migrated towards the outer planets.