Thinking like a reaver! - spoilers, I guess

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UPDATED: Thursday, October 27, 2005 08:50
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DREAMTROVE

Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:28 AM

Okay this was the BDT before. So yeah, lots of this was posted but it's a good subject.

Some of what was said there I have to reiterate. Some of it was said by me, others by other people, but basically here it is.

1. Why go to Miranda? There's no food there, and it's a tremendous expenditure of fuel to land and take off. far greater than the fuel cost of going from one planet to the next in space. I really have to agree with no taboo, why go there. it is probably lifeless, foodless, and taking off is not cheap.

2. I think that the dead meat issue relates to the whole shark/wolf thing. Dead things are often diseased and many animals won't eat them. Reavers have some essential human part of their brains switched off to make them revert to animal.

3. Anyone who has taken sedatives may be familiar with the paradoxical effect. Your body needs to overcome the sedative in order to live, you become very, well reaverish. But there's something else going on here as well. There may be an organism or virus, or prion, that maintains the reaver state or feeds off of it. A permanent change has been created, and that permanent change is contagious at least at some level. I agree with whoever first posted last "You get it if you eat reaver flesh, and reavers make you do this." I think it was Doncoat.

4. Reavers probably don't sleep much. They clearly do hallucinate. They are in a hyper state of not being able to sleep. If anyone's had severe insomnia, they're familiar with the lying in bed for eight hours unable to sleep, not much happens then. It's a good way to go insane. Anyway, I think it's part of the reaver mindset.

5. I think reaver transfomation, contagious reaverism is rare. Reavers have some element of contagious PAX, or perhaps they bring it with them, and intentionally use it. If so, it prevents people from being able to fight, and that's why no one ever wins battles with reavers. Then a very few of those will actually have the reavers reaction and reaverize, and fight, and then they become a reaver.

I think they think. They just ain't men. They don't think like men.

DREAMTROVE

Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:01 AM

Walk like a Reaver, Talk like a Reaver, but I know, You're an assassin in disguise, oh yes you are...

TWEEK128

Thursday, October 27, 2005 6:06 AM

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
5. I think reaver transfomation, contagious reaverism is rare. Reavers have some element of contagious PAX, or perhaps they bring it with them, and intentionally use it. If so, it prevents people from being able to fight, and that's why no one ever wins battles with reavers. Then a very few of those will actually have the reavers reaction and reaverize, and fight, and then they become a reaver.

I think they think. They just ain't men. They don't think like men.

I think it's more because they're smarter hunters. If they had some contagious pax which they could intentionally use, I'm fairly certain it would have been brought along and used during the assault. That would also require a measure of planning and maintenance that does not jibe with your otherwise consistent concept of Reavers.

Oh, and what about the ships? Fixing up the ships to be the killing machines they are takes work. As does "decorating" them. Not something animals would be capable of.

Also, I agree with the microsleep thing. That may be all they get, but I'd imagine their bodies have to shut down at some point. I wonder, too, how Reavers conduct themselves amongst themselves. If we ever saw that, I think that would answer a lot of our questions.

I mean, hell, you saw the two ships working to rip apart that one. There's obviously communication ship-to-ship, so it's not just grunting and glancing.

PURPLEYIN

Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:50 AM

Yeah, some parts of the brain that aren’t usually must be 'switched on' but apart from that psychosis doesn’t make you stupid, it just alters your reasoning and perception. so the reavers don’t land on the dead planet for fuel expenditure, and have the inelegance to repair their ships (not well, but it was unlikely that the 0.1% that were reaved were mechanics. probably large media company executives or some such so they’d fix engines without containment and stuff...)

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