How did the Reavers get on without a fight? by shambleau

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How did the Reavers get on without a fight?

POSTED BY: SHAMBLEAU
UPDATED: Saturday, March 19, 2005 14:52
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Friday, March 18, 2005 2:36 PM

In Bushwhacked, the settlers' ship has evidently been boarded by the Reavers without them putting up a fight. Why not? After all, there's not much worse the Reavers could do to them for resisting than the horrors aready in store, so why didn't the settlers make a last stand?

I thought of the Reavers using a ruse to get on board, but with their mutilated faces, one look at them in a viewscreen or in the airlock and even naive farmers are going to know what's happening. So, how did the Reavers do it?

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Friday, March 18, 2005 2:38 PM

AUROTER

I'll bet they did put up a fight, but what good are a few settlers going to be against reavers? I doubt they'd have any weapons and you can only do so much with a shovel...

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Friday, March 18, 2005 6:45 PM

SIGMANUNKI

Everything was left as if something "happened quick."

So, my guess is that the settlers tried to run and failed. Once the Reavers boarded they met with some resistance, but as Auroter said, they probably didn't have any weapons. There's only so much you can do with farming gear and fits.

Especially when getting overrun by the insane. They tend not to feel pain, etc.

After that, I'd guess the people that survived the initial assult just hid... unsuccessfully.

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Saturday, March 19, 2005 2:43 AM

PURPLEBELLY

Snuck up while the settlers were at the trough, without a proper watch and no proximity detection on a converted short-haul, pulled the O2 until the settlers were floundering and walked in. Didn't play with their victims much either, the reaction of the survivor not withstanding, because they wanted to get away with the special cargo mentioned in the log which was so valuable it was worth more than genseed. Speculatively, they may have had a commission for the special cargo as they had hooked up the settlers with the genseed in cargo for collection on their return - even more speculatively they had left the survivor alive as a joke, after telling him that they would return.

Only Purplebelly is expected to believe this

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Saturday, March 19, 2005 3:30 AM

EMBERS

even if the settlers had adequate sensors they wouldn't detect the other ship until it was pretty close (at least Serenity never seems to).

All the settlers would drop what they are doing and go to their stations to defend the ship the best they could. But their ship wouldn't have any outside guns any more than Serenity does, and they would be easily over takesn.

The Reaves would sweep through, taking some supplies and all their children, killing adults as brutally as possible (which helps to terrify everyone else on board).

Maybe they did leave the one alive as a joke; I'm not imagining that they did any talking, but they knew they had destroyed this guy's mind and that he would be a time bomb.

I think Reavers are scary.

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Saturday, March 19, 2005 10:21 AM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

I thought they tortured the rest of the settlers and made the boy watch. That's why he went nuts.

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Saturday, March 19, 2005 1:52 PM

HARDWARE

The ancient Romans used to shackle prisoners in front of the front rank of Roman soldiers. They were given old or captured weapons and if they survived the battle they were given their freedom. They also used to take hogs, cover their backs with tar or pitch and line them up facing the enemy and light them on fire. The flaming hogs would race in a straight line, ramming through the enemie's line, lighting anything they touched on fire and sowing chaos and destruction.

Now advance the techniques a few thousand years and imagine how terrifying and horrific the Reaver could be.

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Saturday, March 19, 2005 2:52 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

My guess is the colonist came upon the Reaver ship and fell for some sort of trap. Not everyone bought the story of 'Reavers', so when the colonist ship answered the phony distress signal, they didn't expect to find what was waiting for them on the other side of the door. The air locks opened, and the Reavers rushed in ...it was over before it started.

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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