Surprise, surprise, more Rever questions.
POSTED BY: Kaythryn
UPDATED: Saturday, August 23, 2003 18:19
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"...making it look more dangerous than it is."
Ah, like the Huns, who used to let some people go so they could run ahead and tell horror stories. When the Huns caught up to them and the next village, the fight was already gone from the terrified inhabitants!
Or, the Scots, who used to put their bagpipers right out front to dishearten their enemy--According to legend. (If the Scottish were fighting other Scottish, would the other Scottish be disheartened listening to bagpipes played by another clan? I don't know how that would work.)
Or, the Luftwaffe who used to attach sirens to the bottoms of the Stutka dive bombers to freak out the people who heard the bombs screaming in.
Damn, I hope that movie comes out to explain these things and more. 
Viva Firefly!
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Perhaps the Reavers live(for I agree with Anthony in that the Reavers must have some society) on a planet with much higher Radiation levels than on most terriformed planets, thus over the generations builing up a tolerence for it. Then, when the Reavers capture a ship for use as a raider they tear out the unneeded shielding in order to increase their power requirements... remember how the 'obsolete' Trans-U managed to catch Serenity in short order...
Oh, my God! Who's flying this thing! Oh, right, that would be me...
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I tend to agree that the lack of sheilding may not be immediate suicide. As Drakon mentioned with the old Soviet subs, they can still operate, just with a higher likelihood of illness. From what we know of the reavers, however, I don't think they'd be too worried about that.
As to why they would pull the sheilding in the first place. It's possible that they had to refurbish a wreck that was found or taken. In doing so they may well have put a more powerful engine into the Trans-U hull than it was originally designed for. To accomplish this, they may have had to do without a few not-quite-so-essentials, like rad shielding. As mentioned before, the reavers don't seem intent on survival so much as bringing violence to bear upon others. The piloting of the Trans-U at the end of Serinity shows little or no regard for the limitations of a worn and obsolete hull. I would imagine the 'crew' on board were more interested in catching their prey than dealing with the concequences of their means.
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