

According to the blueprints, Serenity was laid down in August 2459.
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In 2007, Geoffrey Mandel, the graphic designer from the film, and Tim Earls, the series illustrator and film set designer, produced an official set of Serenity blueprints, which included technical data for the ship. The capabilities of the ship are not elaborated on in aired material, beyond the fact that she is small, unarmed, and defenseless except for her speed and "crybabies": decoy buoys used to mimic other ships (in the episode "Serenity") or Serenity herself (in the film Serenity). You just learn to live there." The Serenity Valley connection is mentioned in the episode " Bushwhacked", although the reason behind the name is not given. The revelation was made in a deleted scene from the episode "Serenity", where Zoe tells Simon that "Once you've been in Serenity, you never leave.

The ship's name comes from the Battle of Serenity Valley, the final action of the civil war Mal and Zoe fought in. In the episode " The Train Job", which was created as a replacement pilot episode when Fox decided that the original pilot was not good enough to be aired, River identifies the ship as a "Midbulk transport, standard radion-accelerator core, classcode 03-K64, Firefly". In the original pilot episode, "Serenity", Serenity is described as a Firefly-class transport ship by an Alliance starship crew, while Shepherd Book identifies her as an "aught three" model, with both parties implying that the class is an old design. At the start of the series, the episode "Serenity" depicts the arrival of the other three members of the ensemble cast as passengers aboard the ship: the preacher (or shepherd) Derrial Book ( Ron Glass), the fugitive doctor Simon Tam ( Sean Maher), and his psychic and psychotic sister River ( Summer Glau). Other flashbacks in "Out of Gas" show how the rest of the main crew came to join the ship pilot Hoban "Wash" Washburne ( Alan Tudyk), mechanic Kaylee Frye ( Jewel Staite), and mercenary Jayne Cobb ( Adam Baldwin), as well as Inara Serra ( Morena Baccarin), a courtesan who hires out one of Serenity’s two shuttlecraft. Mal acquires Serenity from a used spaceship yard after the war (as depicted in flashbacks during " Out of Gas"), intending to hire a small crew and take various jobs to support himself and wartime comrade Corporal Zoe Alleyne, while keeping out of the way of the Alliance, the multi-planetary government they were fighting against. She is the property of Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds ( Nathan Fillion), a former sergeant who served on the losing side of a civil war that ended six years before the series began. Serenity first appeared in the pilot episode of Joss Whedon's Firefly, which is set in the year 2517, in a star system humanity migrated to after using all of Earth's resources.

Two contiguous sets were built, between them containing the entirety of the ship's interior, which provided several advantages to the cast and crew during filming. The collaboration led to more consistency between the live-action and digital effects representations of Serenity than is usual in science-fiction works. The ship was designed by director Joss Whedon, production designer Carey Meyer, and visual effects supervisor Loni Peristere. The ship is the main setting it appears in all fourteen episodes, the film, and several comics.

Set in the 26th century, the series follows the nine-person crew of the Firefly-class vessel, a small transport ship, as they earn a living through various legal and illegal means. Serenity is a fictional spacecraft that appears in Joss Whedon's Firefly television series and related works.
