One of the things that the Firefly RPG deliberately doesn't cover is a rule for death & dying. Characters can be Taken Out of a scene, but this is generally assumed not to mean "killed", at least for PCs. The book includes a sidebar saying that this is deliberate, and that groups should work out for themselves what, if anything, they want to do about death.
So I've given some thought, and here it is:
Noble Sacrifice
At any point, a player can declare that his PC will make a Noble Sacrifice, giving up his or her life for the good of the Crew. At this point, all hostile NPCs are immediately Taken Out of the scene (the GM will decide what happens to them - as with PCs, this doesn't necessarily mean "killed", or even "captured").
Thereafter, the player gets to narrate the rest of the scene, including the PC's inevitable, heroic, and ultimately tragic, death.
Any other PCs involved in the scene can at this point opt to gain 1 PP in return for accepting a d6 "Traumatised" Complication. Or, if they're hard as nails, they can choose not to.
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