How do Reavers pilot ships, them being insane cannibals and such?
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I think of the Reavers as being 18th-century pirates on acid.
They can cooperate (just as a pirate crew could), but probably turn on each other periodically. They manage to congregate more or less peacefully (as pirates did in certain Caribbean ports) but quickly attack any outside threat, real or perceived.
And they stage raids on their peaceable neighbors for fun and profit.
Like pirates, Reavers don't give much thought to their own long-term well being. (Most pirates had ridiculously short careers and life expectancies.)
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To me it's obvious. Clearly, they are the direct descendants of New York City cab drivers.
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Originally posted by DonCoat:
I think of the Reavers as being 18th-century pirates on acid.
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Like pirates, Reavers don't give much thought to their own long-term well being. (Most pirates had ridiculously short careers and life expectancies.)
I really like your "pirates on acid" line!
And of course their short life-expectancy/high mortality rate brings up the question of recruitment. Where do new reavers come from? We saw how the severe trauma of surviving a Reaver attack can make a person become one (perhaps mimicking the biochemical instability in the brain?). But do Reavers have and raise their own offspring? And if so, is being raised by Reavers enough to make an individual a Reaver?
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Here's how I see it... spoilerised, obviously.
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The first ones were those affected by the Pax Effect. If it generated a serious enough chemical imbalance, it could become a genetic effect, and be passed down to any offspring a Reaver has *shudder*
Other people can be 'converted' in one (or both) of two ways:
Someone can be made to see them at work and this damages their mind with the horror of it, makes it so the only way to survive it is to become one. Stockholm Syndrome gone worse. Reaver Syndrome, in fact. As seen in Bushwacked.
Maybe the Reavers have cannibalised (heh) parts of their ships from things down on Miranda... like parts from the air processors for their ship life support systems. So they carry the Pax with them, everywhere they go... Concentrated inside a ship, maybe the Pax Effect works quicker... and those who don't weaken and get eaten quickly become hyper-aggressive in very short order and join the Reavers by sundown.... not that there's a sundown in space.
That's what I think.
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At the Con my gf asked Chris if he knew if Joss had been inspired by or heard of the Border Reivers. He didn't know, but I figure he had.
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Scotland-History/BorderReivers.ht
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Hey you know we had a thing here in the UK recently where IKEA had some kinda mega sale going on and it was to start at midnight.......
.....Well frankly it was bedlam!!! With people blocking up motorways(Highways) and abandoning their cars when they realised they weren't going to make it on time. One guy got stabbed and many were punched, kicked and injured....
...all for the sake of cheap, 'fall apart' furniture....
... now these crazy f**kers made it there in there 4x4's so as an example of madness thinking clearly towards the ultimate objective.... There you go.
Never underestimate the mad. Reavers or interior furniture hunters....
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Reavers definitely maintain some intelligence & sense of cooperation as we have seen in the series & the film. In the series they booby trapped the ship Serenity hooks up to in "Bushwhacked", which demonstrates mechanical ingenuity. In the episode "Serenity" the Reavers track the crew to Whitefall & their pilot manages to keep right on top of Serenity despite Wash's skill until he pulls a Crazy Ivan.
I think we can safely say that the Reavers are far smarter than most give them credit for. The example of serial killers who have high IQs is a good one. Just because the Reavers are hyper aggressive and brutally savage doesn't mean they are stupid.
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You ever known a regular steroid user? They can drive a car, thread a needle, carefully remove all the weights from the weight bar and stack them up neatly in their place before using the bar to smash every mirror in the workout room and break a few fingers and a collar bone in the process.
And if you REALLY get him mad you'd have an easier time convincing a grizzly he doesn't want to eat you than talking this guy out of trying to chew your face of for spilling his water bottle.
I think of the reavers as people on a VERY bad, non-stop roid rage.
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In fact, if anything, Reavers would lend themselves to intelligence. Or at least extreme cunning; the brain is a weapon after all. Any Reavers who don't learn and adapt fast will end up particularly dead (they won't be able to feed, they'll get hungry & weak, get ripped apart by the stronger ones), while the smart ones will survive, and might even become the Alpha.
Me, I subscribe to the "pack hunters" idea. It just makes sense from a survivalist POV, and it's logical that the Alphas would be the strongest and most brutal --the best survivors. Even then, they'd likely have a high turnover rate (turn 'em over and stick a fork in 'em?).
Quote:I just wanted to admire this line one more time.
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Never underestimate the mad. Reavers or interior furniture hunters....
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