[spoiler]Reavers[/spoiler]

POSTED BY: rallem
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 22:53
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FARFLY

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:08 PM

Seems to me that Reavers (if there are any left) wouldn't be around very much longer anyway. They are essentially human, driven mad by the Pax added to the air processors and started doing stupid stuff like traveling around in a nuclear powered ships without core containment. So, how long does it take for radiation poisoning to kill them all off?

RALLEM

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:09 PM

That's a good point Farfly

ALLIETHORN7

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:14 AM

How do we know that that was the entire fleet that went after our merry band of adventurers? I don't know about the rest of y'all, but I saw more then a couple of stations that would have trouble moving- and let's not forget about the ships that couldn't move at the time.
Also, for the sake of arguement, that the Reavers had no real viable way of communications- I highly doubt that they would use ship-to-ship radio. So, considering how ruttin' big Reaver space is, there should be quite a few more. I don't care what you say- those fifty ships that followed Serenity? No way they could even hold 10000, let alone 30.

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RALLEM

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:21 AM

There are lots of questions that cannot be explained like communications, engineering, reproduction, and resource management. Sure the raiding parties brought new recources, but how did those get distributed, and adapted for their craft? Did the Reavers eat stuff that was not human?

PHYRELIGHT

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:26 AM

In the novel, they descibe Reaver space as having about 100 ships floating, and about 50 of them fallowed Serenity out to Mr. Universe's moon.

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BROWNCOAT1

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:05 AM

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Originally posted by blackbeanie:
While they might have taken out most of the reavers, I doubt it was all of them.
Some were probably sent off on raiding parties or maybe they had another armada hovering around somewhere. Who knows?

My thoughts exactly. Surely some of the Reavers are out wandering in the black looking for prey. I doubt very seriously that the Alliance took out every Reaver ship. I would say some got away, not the larger ships, but surely some of the smaller, more agile ones.

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MICJWELCH

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:25 PM

This actually brings up a different question I had. The pax was still in the air when Serenity got to Miranda, wasn't it? How contagious is it? Is that how the guy in the series became a Reaver? Would Mal and his crew be carriers, or worse?

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REDHEAD

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:49 PM

The pax is a drug not a disease. Therefore, it isn't contagious.

The reason the boy on Bushwhacked became a reaver is more like the Stockholm syndrome--he was so traumatized by what he viewed that he wanted to become a reaver so that he wouldn't be destroyed by reavers (a little shaky plot development I think . One reason why this isn't my fav episode)

The drug is gone from Miranda's system so the crew won't become reavers nor pass on reaverness

MSG

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:20 PM

It's obviously been a considerable amount of time since the pax was released and any drug that uses air born dispersal would likely have dissipated within 20-30 minutes. Once the system which fed pax into the air was no longer functioning, and it would eventually run out of pax and stop, there's not much chance of there being pax in the air. Could be residue on clothes and bodies, but it's unlikely that it wouldn't have decayed to point of not being pax...so I think they weren't exposed.

Unshielded cores would lead to sterilization and that kind of eliminates the reproductive growth, so it's either convert or die off... Don't think they convert many ( if it's even possible to convert ) so there might be a few reaver groups left, but not for much longer ( maybe 20 years tops)

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RALLEM

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 5:05 PM

Biological and Chemical agents like the pax would be broken down over time by the weather, so now other than getting rid of the bodies the planet of Miranda would be ready for colonization especially now that the secret is out and most of the Reavers have been eliminated.

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