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Originally posted by zzetta13:
The PAX was sent to other places. And by the by don't think we'll ever see the powers that be stop trying to create a uni without sin.

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oooh creey reaver missionaries

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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
The Reaver Cafe Cook Book?

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Originally posted by MarvlGrl:

BTW, absolutely LOVE the "I'm so into Firefly, my butt glows in the dark"...comedic gold.

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Originally posted by 13:
Pax means 'peace' in Latin, I think.

Dunno why I said that...

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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
Actually, reconsidering, it's possible that there will be some kind of tribal development. Though possibly along the lines of 'Honey, I ate the kids'.

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
I read a theory about this that they were fine around each other, but "normal" pheremones drove them mad. I don't think this is true either, because the guy in Bushwacked only started "functioning" properly after commiting violence, not to mention he never got hit with the PAX.
That's the only way I can see them making more of themselves; forcing normal people to watch until they went out of their minds. I was always stunned that they would even have the mental capacity for this. Hell, I'm stunned they can fly ships.

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Do you know what radiation does to the brain? To any tissue?

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
It's not just that they're savagely insane, it's that they literally take such horrible care of themselves that their functions would continue deteriorating.

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Being a "human-flesh-eating loonie of the first order, but clearly the smartest person any of his victims ever met" is almost mild compared to Reavers. Someone like Hannibal could function in normal society, could pretend he wasn't a killer and a cannibal, Reavers cannot.

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
They are driven by ferocity and the need to eat people. Ok, maybe they had the capacity to know that making some poor soul watch while they raped, butchered, and devoured people would hurt him, but in a different way. I just can't see torment of the soul being as appealing to them as torment of the body obviously is.
I don't assume that insanity=stupidity, but I'm hardly going to assume that we're talking about rational, reasoning, logical, thinking creatures here.

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
They obviously don't maintain their ships very well, because they leave trails of smoke in atmo and trails of radiation outside it. They don't care about anything other than being able to harm people as easily as possible. They don't really care if they live or die.

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
How do I know the Bushwacked victim wasn't dosed with PAX? Because as you said, it is undetectable. They wouldn't know what it was that made them what they were, they wouldn't know what was causing the problem, and they wouldn't be able to find out because they couldn't detect it. Even knowing from hearing it spoken of wouldn't do them any good because they couldn't reproduce it unless they knew what was in it. And I don't think they would gas potential victims with it, either, because they like their prey to be not only alive but kicking. And it obviously doesn't work instantly because the whole crew was on Miranda, breathing the air, but left before it effected them. It probably took weeks to sink in; weeks of most people getting more mellow and more apathetic and a few people becoming more and more aggressive. And they probably didn't become Reavers, actual Reavers, until after the rest of the people were dead or more people on the planet would have shown signs of being knawed on. It might have taken them months to really go savage.

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