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Originally posted by arcplayer:
Could Blue Sun have experimented on River with "good" intentions?

There have been speculations that the Reavers and River were the result of the same line of experiments that Blue Sun has been conducting. What if, the Reavers had nothing whatsoever to do with Blue Sun? Suppose that Rivers intended purpose was to establish contact with the Reavers.
She is a reader and is intuitive with a phenomenal intellect. This would give her a chance to comunicate with, and understand the motivations of the Reavers. Simon: "She feels everything. She can't not." Zoe: "The Alliance could have uses for a spy that can read minds"

She has inhuman combat skills. All the better to stay alive long enough to find a way to establish dialog. Kaylee: "No one thats a person could shoot like that."

Josh has said that Mal can't see the good that the Aliance is doing because of his history. Maybe we haven't been able to see Blue Sun's good deeds because we are too close to River.

If it was Blue Sun's plan to stop the Reaver attacks by using a fully augmented and prepared River to establish contact and negotiate with the Reavers, would thier morbid and creepifying "the end justifies any means" methods be totally evil?

I hope that I expressed this well enough.
It seems to be a compelling reason for the horrors
River had to endure.
What do you think?

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Originally posted by Shiny:
it doesn't appear large scale insurrection is very likely anymore.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Why use a teenage girl to deal w/ Reavers when you can just send the Blue Hands out w/ their wandy thing and what ever other toys they likely have ?

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

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