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[Firefly] What was precisely the reason Mal, Zoe and thr other rebels lost the war against the Alliance?
gpt
Logistics. The browncoats were fighting for independence of peripheral planets and moons. Those places produced raw materials, with most of the value added manufacturing occuring in the Core. While initially the browncoats were able to raid supply depots and armories for weapons, they had accute shortages of fuel and ammo as the fighting dragged on. They were unable to engage in pitched battles and from an early stage were fighting rear-guard actions to preserve territory. In many ways they had no chance of success, with the fight against the Alliance merely being the dying gasp of a unified political entity that hoped to stand in opposistion to the flow of wealth from the edeges to the core of the system.