re: #306 chadu

In many regards, Inara’s friend Nandi (the madame in “Heart of Gold”) did exactly that — as a Companion Academy-trained individual. The Academy is on Shinon, one of the two capital worlds of the Alliance (the other is Londinium*), so one of the Corest of Core Worlds.

_{* My personal fanon is that the name Londinium connects Firefly to Batman ‘66, per the latters episodes “The Londinium Larcenies/The Foggiest Notion/The Bloody Tower,” set in Swinging Londinium.**}

_{** My brain is a fun place to live.}

True enough and an interesting counter point, since I get a distinct feel that the villain in thst episode is doing the same thing (I recall there being talk about how he wanted a chance to play cowboys and horses or something along those lines) though of course he does so while he has some kind of hovercraft and an actual energy weapon as opposed to everyone else.