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Originally posted by MalNourished:
I thought that there was at least one female Reaver near the beginning of the BDM.

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Originally posted by MalNourished:
I thought that there was at least one female Reaver near the beginning of the BDM.

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I reviewed that scene; the shot is extremely brief, virtually subliminal, but I don't think the reaver in question is female.

As to the lack of female reavers, it's not too surprising; human agression is tied up with hormone levels, and testosterone is one of the strongest agression stimulators. It wouldn't be unreasonable that only males develop the overagression syndrome that makes one a reaver. (It's not sexism, folks, it's biochemistry.)

"She's tore up plenty. But she'll fly true." -- Zoë Washburn

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Originally posted by ShadowChild:
...I wonder if they reproduce. It would seem theyd need to....

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Originally posted by THENCDUCK:
I think reavers are only men, but wouldn't there have been like 3 million reavers to begin with. In the BDM didn't the lady say that 30 mil people died, so there had to be at least a couple million Reavers. That population will last for awhile just a thought.

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Originally posted by ThePistonEngine:
"A tenth of a percent"

0.001 * 30,000,000 = 30,000 Reavers

And I'd so totally do a Reaver chick

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Originally posted by THENCDUCK:
I think reavers are only men, but wouldn't there have been like 3 million reavers to begin with. In the BDM didn't the lady say that 30 mil people died, so there had to be at least a couple million Reavers. That population will last for awhile just a thought.

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Originally posted by VTbrowncoat:
I suspect that either there's some inconsistency in the official "reaver census" or there's more unknown or undocumented reavers apart from the ones from Miranda.

We believe that Miranda had a worldwide population of 30 million, most of whom just curled up and died after being administered Pax. And 1 tenth of 1 percent of that population turned into Reavers, or about 30 thousand. And that happened 10 or 12 years before the events of BDM take place.

It seemed to me the Reavers had quite a large number of ships out there in Reaver territory, some of them quite large and at least some of them packed to the rafters with Reavers. The ship that EMP'd Serenity in BDM and then landed seemed to have quite a large crew, yet wasn't all that much bigger then little ol' Serenity.

Now it's probably save to assume that the average life expectancy of a Reaver isn't all that terrific. And being a Reaver recruiter can't be the most full-filling job in the 'verse either.

A decade or more of floating out there, doing Reaver stuff should diminish the ranks considerably and if they started with 30 thousand and never added any I don't see how they could crew and maintain all those ships. Crewing and maintaining being rather relative terms, considering.

I don't even want to think about Reaver procreation. It doesn't seem like an environment that would easily lend itself to raising and nurturing munchkin Reavers.

Though Reavers, despite their considerable rage are apparently capable of organization and delegation of duties.

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If Reavers can sense their own kind (which would explain why they won't attack each other), then it's possible that they can sense when a victim has been afflicted and will stop attacking that person.

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Originally posted by ShadowChild:

Funny, I usually notice things like that. Some of the Reavers do have longish hair, not that that necessisarily means anything but perhaps why I didnt notice before. I wonder if they reproduce. It would seem theyd need to, the fleet between Haven and Miranda is WAY too big in my opinion to be only 10% of Miranda's pop. Either that or theres not many Reavers per ship...but that wouldnt fit the masses seen in the raiding parties...

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Originally posted by Kaele:
But this is exactly the opposite of my point. The Pax drug made River hyper-sensitive, and I'm assuming did the same to the Reavers. But they can't sense each other, hence not attacking one another.

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