Reaver Hygiene?
POSTED BY: schooner
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 20:32
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Supposed to fly much faster without containment, so they can catch anybody they want to.
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go back the next morning and see it again.
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I'm guessing the Reivers aren't big on MOTs, and I'd be surprised if they were carrying anything like adequate insurance. Thoroughly irresponsible, the lot of them...
Radiation eats away at shielding materials, and without constant repair and replacement, the contaiment will eventually breach.
This phenomenon has dogged reactor design since the early 1950s and right up to the present day, when I just made it up.
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Originally posted by UnregisteredCompanion:
So why do Reavers fly without core containment anyway? Obviously they intentionally do this to their ships. WTF?
I think the lack of containment was more the lack of general maintanaince than a deliberate act. What were missing here is the fact that the Reaver population doesn't necessarily stay static. In "Bushwacked" we see a Reaver in chrysllis (my spelling may be way off today b/c I'm sick, sorry) b/c he was exposed to all the horrors inflicted on other members of the crew. A quick head count makes it unlikely that the rest of the crew was left hanging from the ceiling. So where did the rest go? They were probably taken back to the Reavers ship for future rapin', skinnin', flesh eatin' and what'not. In the process, more of the crew would have been exposed to the abject cruelty of the acts and would have been driven to become Reavers themselves and would have been happily welcomed, given the funny hat and taught the secret handshake. Some evidence of this is given when the BDH's were sneaking through the Reaver fleet and we could hear the multivarious screams coming in through the radio. Thus, them'ens who died from over mutilation (as well as other natural causes. Being shot/stabbed/snacked on must count as natural causes for a Reaver) would have a stream of replacements. Like any other living organisms the Reavers would have been driven to reproduce. Remember, they were angry, not mad. Another thought to consider: all the Reavers I saw appeared male. Perhaps women prisoners are kept alive as breeding machines back in the fleet. A constant source of the next generation of Reavers, with the weak becoming snack boxes.
Hell. It's special. And filled with people with bad hygiene.
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