14 DAY TRIAL // Firefly is something along the lines of the one that got away for many sci-fi fans, meshing together what is both great and horrible about the genre and unfortunately only managing to stir the masses without delivering any closure.
Starring Nathan Fillion as a ruthless space cowboy with an impeccable moral code and a bone to pick with the authorities, Joss Whedon's show got canceled after only 14 episodes, leaving many fans pining for a bit more of the frontier adventures of the renegade crew.
As such, there have been fan-made projects, some of them even materializing into something more concrete than pure fan fiction, such as a board game that's already got a second expansion incoming this April, or a full-fledged online game.
The last time we heard about Firefly Online, the video game adaptation of the prematurely departed series, the game was supposed to be launched sometime this summer on the PC.
Players would allegedly be able to create their own character in the vein of Captain Mal and then assemble a crew and go on missions to make money, while trying to steer clear of the Reavers or the central authorities.
There hasn't been any word until now, when the development team at QMXi and Spark Plug Games has decided to share the first Firefly Online screenshot. The picture – of course – shows the iconic Series 3 Firefly spacecraft in flight, leaving yet another planet behind in its never-ending journey.