![]() ![]() Barbaric piercings and random bits of metal shoved into their flesh are also common, giving them a ghastly and corpse-like air. As a symptom of their insanity, they deliberately gash and cut their own flesh, and a Reaver is often covered in open or partially healed wounds. Reavers are impossible to mistake for anything else. Showing no care for life, they are driven by an insane, homicidal and savage aggression that manifests in the cannibalism, rape, and torture that they visit upon any unfortunate enough to come across them. ![]() They have no known physical mutations-the primary difference between normal humans of the 'verse and Reavers is their utter and complete madness. Reavers are, at least genetically, human in more or less every way. Mal's knowledge of this indicates that he either has heard of such things before or witnessed it himself. Reavers may themselves be able to detect those humans that are part of the 0.1% that are susceptible to become like themselves and these are the men and women they "convert." This was witnessed on one occasion by the crew of the Serenity when they found one such victim on a derelict ship ( Bushwhacked). When this happens, the person's mind can be so damaged by what they were shown that the only way to cope with it is to begin to act as a Reaver does, eventually becoming one themselves. Some victims of Reaver attacks are left alive and forced by Reavers to view the tortures they inflict on others. However, the remaining 0.1% ("a tenth of one percent") of the population had the opposite reaction, with their aggression and primal instincts boosted beyond simple madness into murderous rage, sadism and savagery.īeing transformed into a Reaver does not seem to be exclusively chemical in origin. The ultimate result was that 99.9% of the population stopped going to work, talking to each other, and eventually stopped moving, eating or breeding, and therefore died. The chemical was designed to weed out aggression and anger. "The Pax" (Latin for "Peace")), administered through the air recycling systems. The Alliance had been testing behavioral modification on this planet through the chemical G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate (a.k.a. Reavers originated from Miranda, the outermost planet in a distant solar system. It's easier to believe they have nothing in common with the rest of humanity. ![]() Most folks believe that Reavers are no longer human. However, key members of the Alliance's Parliament know better, and the crew of Serenity eventually discovers their true origin. They gave into their primal nature and all that was civilized was discarded. They stared into the void beyond and became what they saw: nothing. Reavers are believed by most of the 'verse to be men that went insane at the edge of space and became savage. To the people of the Core Worlds, Reavers are a campfire tale and bedtime story to the people of the Border Worlds and Colonies, Reavers are very real. ![]()
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