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Too close for comfort...
POSTED BY: LaiLing
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 6, 2004 23:24
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Monday, July 5, 2004 4:53 AM
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Originally posted by LaiLing:
Of course, the question then becomes WHY are the failures allowed to go out and become Reavers?
The setting is a Reconstruction Era; it's only six years since the end of a civil war. How many of the criminals Saddam Hussein released from gaol are still killing Iraqi people?
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Tuesday, July 6, 2004 11:24 PM
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Originally posted by DixieFlatline:Quote:
Also, from a political standpoint, they're extremely useful to the Alliance as an external threat. If the Reavers are getting stronger and pushing farther in every year, then the border worlds are going to be relying more and more on the Alliance military to protect them from Reaver depredations. Under those circumstances, are they likely to mount another war for independence?
Ooo! I like it! Although, if they REALLY wanted to get nasty, they could spread the rumor that the Reavers are/were Browncoats, or connected to or assisted by them.
"They've gone to *plaid*!"
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