The Production rented a real Howitzer gun for Mal to shoot at
the Alliance aircraft with at Serenity Valley. To make it
a bit more sci-fi, they did two things:
- 1 Added the Weyland Yutani logo from 'Alien' to the screen
of the heads-up display
- 2 Stuck two wooden boxes on the sides with tracing arcs
of green lights on them
These are they. Still running on the original batteries.
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