Serenity premise
POSTED BY: Blackadder7
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 1, 2008 03:59
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My thought is that the Alliance does not get rid of the Reavers because it helps them control and/or lessen the combined strength of the fringe worlds. Those living outside Alliance territory could never gather arms against the Alliance if they are too busy fighting or guarding themselves against the Reavers. The Reavers pose a formidable threat to the those similar to our BDHs but certainly not to the Alliance
Your thoughts?
-fff.me
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My thoughts have mostly already been said:
1 Cleaning up Miranda without raising eyebrows would be impossible. How does one clean up 30 million bodies without anyone wondering why they died?
Remember that the operative seems to be as loyal as they come (er... came) and they wouldn't even tell him about it. Where are they going to find enough workers more loyal than the operative to clean up 30 million dead bodies?
2 Even if they did clean up Miranda the question would still linger, "What happened here?" since it's a perfectly good world with nothing wrong with it and no one lives there.
3 The Reavers never leave any survivors with minds intact, if people didn't do things like lock themselves in vaults no one would ever know what was happening. Even with people locked in vaults, and an entire Alliance cruiser seeing the Reaver's handy work in Bushwacked there is still no proof of their existence by the time of Serenity. They clean up after themselves because, though they leave bodies, they never leave witnesses (at least not sane ones) and they never left anything that had been able to be presented as proof.
4 They also clean up after Miranda. Everyone who came close to spotting Miranda died until no one came close to Miranda for fear of death. That means that no one needs to know about Miranda, not even the operative who was, in effect, heading up the cover up.
It really is simply more efficient to let the Reaver's keep the secret for them. It took eight people seeing Miranda to get the truth out there. Eight. Think about how many people would have had to see it if they tried to clean the place up because the Reavers were no longer keeping it a secret for them? Any one of those people could have potentially discovered and revealed the truth.
They could have killed those people, but then the people killing those people would have also known a deep dark secret of the Alliance (that they killed a lot of people who worked on Miranda) so then what? Kill the people who killed the people who could have learned about Miranda?
As far as we know no one in the Alliance outside of Key Members of Parliament knew about Miranda, that's why it remained a secret for so long. If they'd taken actions, like killing the Reavers, that would have necessitated an active cover up of what happened there the secret wouldn't have lasted nearly as long.
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In closing, the way they decided to keep it a secret was flawless until some idiot put Key Members of Parliament in a room with a psychic and even then it probably would have been kept if not for an unforeseeable string of events. Were it not for that one mistake their method would have worked and only they would know what happened.
If they had killed off the Reavers, and thus destroyed the thing protecting Miranda from the public, either they would have needed an active cover up in which case everyone involved would be exposed to the truth (though there is a slim chance no one involved would make use of that exposure), or they would have had to leave Miranda as it was, sitting there waiting to be discovered. Either way it is less efficient, leaves more people in a position to know the truth, and has a lower probability of success than what they actually did in the movie.
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A lot of good points have been made.Here's some of what I think is going on.Somewhere in the BDM Mal says "There's a universe full of it(the PAX)." This tells me that it isn't only Miranda or the quadrant where Miranda is found that has reavers.The powers that be know that it is everywhere. My thoughts are that they are well aware of the problem, they just haven't any idea of a solution.Not the first time a government had to deal with Frankenstein's monster. The body of this new solar system has been infected. You can't just start cutting off body parts. Soon you'll have no arms or legs.There's a lot more of this story needs tellin. Another couple of moives and a new seires may do the trick :)
Z
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Everyone has really good points. I think that the Alliance thought the damage was done, they might as well not make it worse and try to salvage the situation.
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Cannot find where Mal says the Universe is full of it. Perhaps something about the Parliament?
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