Speculations/theories on Reavers and the role they play.
POSTED BY: Candall
UPDATED: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 22:25
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This is a bit of a strech, but what if... and I mean what if, the Reavers arn't all that bad? so far, "no one" has ever seen a reaver and lived to tell the story, all we know are from rumors.
So, my thought is that the "Reavers" is really an underground movement against the Blue Sun (funny how the Japanese Flag is the Red Sun). Maybe they were ex-experiments that got away in time? the whole ruthlessness is just a smoke screen so that other people won't dare to look to closely at what they actually do. To convert people into joining thier cause against the Alliance? (please don't ask me to explain the bodies and the skinning, maybe it's done by something else... let's say nine-by-nine, feet of pine?)
or perhaps an on going experiment with the blue sun? River is the mind experiment and Reavers are the physcial experiment? and the the skinned body left behind is part of the clean-up?
Of course this would mean that our fabu captn, (who's rarely wrong) is wrong about the Reavers, and it doesn't explain how Mal and Zoe seem so certain about their Reaver info...
oh well... just a thought
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Originally posted by davey:
...after all skinning someone is only an extension of scalping them!
And the Native Americans learned scalping and a lot of other torture techniques from their European allies circa the French and Indian Wars. And I do mean they learned from both sides of that conflict. We have the Alliance officer saying disgustedly that he hadn't seen torture like "that" since the war. Begs the question, I say!
Also, as far as being Reaverized goes, don't you think the shock, brutality and horror of the Battle of Serenity Valley and its aftermath (not to mention 6 years of war) might have had a similar effect on the combatants? Mal says the survivor hasn't actually left the bushwhacked ship, that he's stuck there by what he's seen and experienced, that he has absorbed it, become it. In the cut scene from Serenity, Zoe pretty much says the same thing about herself and Mal and Serenity Valley.
No, Mal won't be whole until he can leave Serenity (Valley) behind.
Ljosalf
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Originally posted by Kohan:
So, my thought is that the "Reavers" is really an underground movement against the Blue Sun (funny how the Japanese Flag is the Red Sun). Maybe they were ex-experiments that got away in time? the whole ruthlessness is just a smoke screen so that other people won't dare to look to closely at what they actually do. To convert people into joining thier cause against the Alliance? (please don't ask me to explain the bodies and the skinning, maybe it's done by something else... let's say nine-by-nine, feet of pine?)
If your right I wonder if the group that helped get River out might be them. Maybe even whom ever Private Declan Everton in Dead or Alive was working for might be them.
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Originally posted by Highiron02:
My theory is somewhat more simplified.
Alliance = Rock
Reavers = Hard Place
Serenity is somewhere in the middle
We got you partially surrounded.
Very concise.
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My theories in regards to the reavers.
1.They originally were troops in the alliance army and very likely were at the battle of sernity.
2.When Rations ran low they resorted to canibilism.
3.They were sentenced by Book who was a military judge at the time to a prison ship or planet/moon/asteroid in a remote region of space.
4.They were tampered with (in a cruder fashion than River)either before the war to augment them as troops or after the war as expendble test subjects.possibly both.
5.At some point they overthrew whatever/whoever was containing them and now raid in an ever expanding radius from their base.
6.Their behavior is simple in that their reputation is important to them and their survival.They would not be the first civilization that lives by aquiring a nasty reputation for themselves so noone seeks them out or confronts them.They do what they must to survive.This includes canibilism both for sustenance and reputation and justifiable vengence for being abandoned/betrayed by the alliance(in their minds).
7.They have a civilization because otherwise they would no longer exist.Mindless cannibilism is not a sustainable culture.It requires an us and them philosophy. It also requires spareing at least some of their prey that meet the qualifications for becomeing one of them to renew numbers.
It requires special treatment for breeders and may lend importance to River as to what status she would have amoungst them if they were altered by the blue sun corp.
8.Somewhere they have a leaderor a communal mind to some degree, because mindless barbarians do not pilot spaceships nor find or track anything in space..they would all run around on their little piece of space till there was one left who had a full belly.But interesting that they find the ship when someone tries to link send a signal to federation (mole first episode).It is out of federation answer range but perhaps in range for them to track.
9.To sum it up Reavers are organised/civilized(by their own terms). They cultivate their reputation purposefully and methodically and give the powers that be the excuse that they do not need to deal with them because eventually anyone doing what the reavers do,cannibalism/travelling without shielding/self desacration without purpose(once again a rep thing) would just burn out so why expend resources on a dangerous and costly proposition of taking them out.
Fear is also the largest adrenaline boost there is...imagine if you were feeding off somone elses...great perk for a soldier..hmmmmm
Rysh
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