[spoiler]Reavers[/spoiler]

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

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:53 AM

Hi everyone,
This is a question about the Reavers after Serenity. On Miranda there were 30 million people and 1/10th of a percent turned into Reavers, so the maximum number of Reavers that Serenity could have been pulled into the Republic blockade of Mr. Universe's world would be 30 thousand assuming there is no breeding. At the end of the battle River killed all of the reavers on the surface, and the Republic forces converged on the Crew's position, so I would assume they took care of the Reaver space force above, so does this mean the Reaver is gone from the Verse?

BLACKBEANIE

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:16 AM

That's an interesting question, one I've wondered about myself.
And I've come up with this answer---

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?

Also, I figure in the event of a sequel (or two) Joss probably wanted a few around, just in case.

But that's just my opinion.

Love your sig, btw. Very pretty.

RALLEM

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:34 AM

Thank you

RALLEM

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 8:58 PM

I do think though that the Reaver pressence in the Verse will now be a minor one because the maximum number of Reavers could have possibly been 30000, and of those several must have been killed by raiding parties, internal strife, and not to mention the final battle between the Republic. Now as it was pointed out above that fleet which Serenity pulled into the Alliance's blockade probably wasn't the entire Reaver population, it does bring up some very interesting questions, like how do you get any of those capital ships to work with a crew of nothing but blood crazed maniacs? How did the Reavers aquire those ships? Do the Reavers have a way of reproduction?

MICJWELCH

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:07 PM

Don't forget the guy that turned into a Reaver in the series.

"We may experience some slight turbulence, and then... explode."

RALLEM

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:33 PM

I thought he turned into a reaver like creature, but not a true reaver. Of course my memory is not what it should be so I probably am wrong.

GORRAMGROUPIE

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by rallem:
I thought he turned into a reaver like creature, but not a true reaver. Of course my memory is not what it should be so I probably am wrong.

They said he "became like them". I don't think he could be considered a reaver. However, by the same method I suppose new reavers could be created. And they never said that reavers were only men, there has to be some females. Whether they breed, unsure. Talk about a messed up childhood!
"Hannibal, eat your Ariel Pie! We had to travel 2 hours to find that juicy thigh for dinner!"

RALLEM

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:54 PM

I could see a Reaver coming home from a bad day at work with no way of blowing off steam. I wonder what type of hobbies he would take up, also if they could breed how do they theach their children to take over their jobs after retirement? Are the Reavers unionized?

AZENTROPY

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:03 PM

This is a pet peeve of mine. I think that the 1/10 of 1 percent of 30mil is taken way too literally. 30 million was an estimate, maybe it was 32 million rounded down, or 28 million rounded up... It wasn't exactly 30,000,000 people...

The line in the move is "about a tenth of a percent of the population..". That was an observed number. I'm pretty sure they didn't have time, or cooperation of the Reavers, to do a detailed census of reaver vs. non-reaver.

RALLEM

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:19 PM

ok for arguement's sake let's say there were 30002 Reavers, does the final battle spell their doom as a viable entity? Does it really matter if threre were slightly more Reavers? Does it answer any of the questions raised above?

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