re: #265 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

And what’s-her-name, one of the heroes, supported Unification. Most of what we see of the ‘free’ planets are that petty tyrants rule them—arguably an after-effect of the independents falling to pieces, but remember Mal’s group got basically abandoned to death by their own side. Mal’s cynicism may be just as we much from realizing the leaders of the revolution were assholes as anything else: he never talks about any Independent leader or anything that he admires.

At this point we’re implying things about the story that we can not say for sure.

After all, for all we know the jackasses who they run into who run many planets (see the guy from Heart of Gold) may be people who supported Unification then moved out to the distant planets to exploite them like space carpet bangers.