If you have never watched Firefly, then stop whatever you are doing and get to it, you can come back and read this post later. Ok good, now where were we. Firefly. The series is set a few hundred years from now, after people begin to terraform a new star system and it follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a “Firefly-class” spaceship whose work consists of cargo runs or smuggling while failing to stay out of trouble. There is no faster than light travel in this series, so ships can’t just “warp” where ever they want. Instead they travel about from planets and moons, exchanging cargo, refueling and trying to make a living. We are going to model “The Verse” of Firefly in Neo4j, and see how we can find routes to move our illicit cargo from one place to another.
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