Reavers....How do they....

POSTED BY: IndyBlues
UPDATED: Thursday, March 23, 2006 17:22
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SHINYFAB

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:05 PM

Sorry . . . I'm terrible with math. 300,000 is a lot of people. That many can last a long time whether or not they can reproduce. But that is a good question. This is a large group which is very dangerous. Why wouldn't the Alliance try to do something? Perhaps the Reavers are too far from the core planets for them to care right away. And the Alliance can't patrol the large amount of planets they have at the moment, so maybe they don't have the resources to handle the threat to begin with?

Bwah!

ZISKER

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:17 PM

Durn good question - I'll have to go with the 'Bushwhacked' Theory.

And, as I woman, I have no 'ERA' issues with women not being Reavers. They're Reavers. I'd like to think my gender is above that If Joss Whedon saw them all as male, that's fine by me (which, it seems from the Serenity Visual Companion, he might have - I couldn't find any Reavers that appeared female)

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CEDRIC

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:23 PM

After I watched the movie, I started thinking about this question. I have no specific evidence for this theory, but I think it makes a certain amount of sense. So here's my speculation:

On some raids, the Reavers use PAX as a weapon. It makes some of the crew lie down, and it makes the others as crazy and dangerous as the Reavers themselves. In that way, they grow and recruit new members.

I also theorize that the PAX has an anti-radiation side effect--how else would the Reavers have survived so long without core containment?

Anyway, I like speculating.

Cedric

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INDYBLUES

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:16 PM

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Now with such a powerful threat, one wonders why the hell the Alliance haven't dealt with them?

I think that's a great question, and I think the answers are:

A. They are way too horrible to try and deal with, especially with the numbers they would face. The Reavers have nothing to lose, and everything to gain, so they will stop at nOTHING in a battle.

B. What better way to keep prying eyes away from Miranda, and finding anything out about the atrocities there.

'Blues

ASDF

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:50 PM

Not to be pedantic, but 10% of 30 million is 3 million... That's a whole lot of reavers

RABBIT2

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:59 PM

I had a rather horrible thought about this subject recently.
Since nobody survives a Reaver attack then nobody knows for certain what happens to the children they capture.
Perhaps they only murder, kill and abuse adults, the children are for the most part carried off in order to be turned in to a new generation of Reavers , rather as the man in `Bushwhacked` was.
Just what was the cause of the screaming over the radio that we heard in the movie?

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STARRBABY

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:05 PM

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Originally posted by IndyBlues:
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Now with such a powerful threat, one wonders why the hell the Alliance haven't dealt with them?

I think that's a great question, and I think the answers are:

A. They are way too horrible to try and deal with, especially with the numbers they would face. The Reavers have nothing to lose, and everything to gain, so they will stop at nOTHING in a battle.

B. What better way to keep prying eyes away from Miranda, and finding anything out about the atrocities there.

'Blues

My idea is that the Alliance was in the process of creating an army to battle the reavers. They didn't want anyone to know about Miranda, though, so they convinced the families of the brightest and best to send them to an "academy" where the programed them to kick reaver ass.

RABBIT2

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:36 PM

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My idea is that the Alliance was in the process of creating an army to battle the reavers. They didn't want anyone to know about Miranda, though, so they convinced the families of the brightest and best to send them to an "academy" where the programed them to kick reaver ass

They probably had something like this in mind, at least in a general way and they are probably also assuming that the Reavers are so insanely aggressive they will have largely wiped themselves out in a few years.

They are also totally wrong.

What has probably been happening is that a warped Reaver culture has been developing in those ship hulks orbiting Miranda over the last twelve years and their population is actually increasing.
So far they have been sending out small raiding parties of `Warrior` Reavers to attack isolated colonies for additional recruits they can `Reaverise` and anything else they can use.
But once they are ready they probably plan a more general assault on more populated worlds.

Remember, If the Firefly version of the future is drawing on 19th century US history then the next conflict that takes place after the Civil War is the Indian Wars.

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INDYBLUES

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:14 PM

They may also know, in some way, that the Alliance is responsible for their madness, and as stated above, were waiting for that day for a grand assault. Payback,......it's a bitch!
'Blues

RABBIT2

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:31 PM

Yes, and add to that most of the prisoners they take probably have `Independant` sympathies.
So any `Stockholm Syndrome` Reavers likely dont like the Alliance much either.

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