Question about Reavers

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SCHOONER

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:16 PM

I'm at work and can't find the correct thread, but there was a huge discussion abut this around nine months ago. Many theories were proposed. The one I thought was most interesting (and my apologies to the original posters if I am over-simplifying) is that PAX was basically a prion, like Mad Cow Disease. This would mean that "Reaverism" could be passed on to other people by eating Reaver flesh. So new Reavers could be created by this method, and children born to Reavers would carry the disease as well.

If someone knows the original thread off-hand, please post a link. Amazing stuff, and really impressed me with the level of interest and intelligence of the people on this site. Thanks, folks.

TRISTAN

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:26 PM

Hehehe, I can actually see that...heck, with the tweens these days having their faces covered in bits of metal, the Reavers might just fit right in...I shudder to think what their ties would be made of, though...

Back to creating more Reavers...I do think they are capable of "creating" more of themselves. Not by reproducing...that would just be wrong...and would at the same time produce a tiny little snack (ew). I would imagine they can "create" others the same way they did in Bushwacked...

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13

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:31 PM

Pax means 'peace' in Latin, I think.

Dunno why I said that...

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PHOENIXROSE

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:49 PM

Reavers could not reproduce because they are exposed to constant radiation and are therefore sterile. Besides, I can't see a Reaver carrying a child to term in the first place with the life they seem to have, and it seems like they would just eat it right away. I know, gross.
The PAX was not sent to other planets, nor did River get a hit of it, nor did they experiment with it beforehand, nor did they continue to experiment with it; where do people come up with these ideas?
There's no shortage of non-selves to eat, even if they happened to go after other Reavers. I read a theory about this that they were fine around each other, but "normal" pheremones drove them mad. I don't think this is true either, because the guy in Bushwacked only started "functioning" properly after commiting violence, not to mention he never got hit with the PAX.
That's the only way I can see them making more of themselves; forcing normal people to watch until they went out of their minds. I was always stunned that they would even have the mental capacity for this. Hell, I'm stunned they can fly ships.
Basically, Reavers really are boogeymen; they make no logical sense and are very scary.

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ZZETTA13

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 5:37 PM

13, seens like I remember the "Amity" of Amity Island in Jaws ment Friendship too. At least the Great White shark thought so.That brings an image to mind, a school of reavers encircling a great white. Each intent on filling up on the other. Who would wiw?

PhoenixRose. The PAX not sent to other plantet? I beg to differ. I know folk that say they are up to 3 or 4 PAX a day

Z

MARVLGRL

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 5:43 PM

I kind of think the Reavers could inbreed. That would just make 'em even more mucked up.

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:00 PM

I don't think so

no baby reavers

BURMA!

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
-try it out, I dare you

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I'm so into Firefly, my butt glows in the dark.

MARVLGRL

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:08 PM

Aw but baby reavers would be so cute...and by "cute" I mean incredibly repulsive. Maybe reavers give birth to full size reavers...

BTW, absolutely LOVE the "I'm so into Firefly, my butt glows in the dark"...comedic gold.

BIGWOLF18

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:15 PM

thats just plain creepy! i think they couldn't reproduce but they could covert people like bushwacked, i can see them coming to your door, like jahovas witnesses, (if there are any jerhovas witnesses on here sorry but, jerhovas witnesses are gorram annoying!)

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MARVLGRL

Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:17 PM

I would imagine the Reavers would send their message of raping and pillaging through book clubs (a la Alan Tudyk's line on the gag reel).

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