![]() ![]() Hell, watching their friends and family die around them was probably part of them going into a homicidal rage, or perhaps part of why they left the planet: I could see a mob of crazed rage-aholics seeing their world die, thinking it was a plague or some sort of attack by "those damned scientists and doctors and foreigners and GAHIjustwanttokilleverybodyrrraaaahhhhh!!!!", and blasting off-world. They probably got more and more angry as the rest of the population began to starve, eventually turning on each other as the only ones who would respond. No doubt they were INCREDIBLY frustrated with their friends, who were too tired to move. ![]() They got irritable, and then they got angry. More likely, the "Reaver-ification" took time, just like the "sloth-ification" of the rest of the population did. It seems unlikely that people drew in a single breath of the Pax, went insane, and started killing people. But I would argue the opposite: the process was probably parallel. Your question assumes that the Reavers were "born" before the rest of the population died. Has a canonical source provided an explanation? We only know that the Reavers ignore the dead, not the pacified. So why didn't the Reavers attack the pacified population before they died? Surely they would have taken sadistic pleasure in attacking the pacified population, even if there was no resistance. It would take days for the pacified population to die of starvation or thirst, and the Reavers would have had time to inflict massive trauma and fatal injuries to them. However, the article does not appear to cite a canon source for its explanation. In the same vein, the Reavers did not bother to attack the 99.9% of Miranda's population that were pacified by the chemical, as these people would have had no reaction. When Jayne questions why the Reavers did not destroy the Mule, River muttered to herself, "They want us alive when they eat us." Both these events take place in the film. At another point, Mal, Zoë, Jayne, and River were on their Mule, being chased by a Reaver hovercraft. At one point, three Reavers were about to attack a man, but when Mal shot him, they gave up their effort. It has been observed/implied on at least two occasions that Reavers do not bother with already-dead prey, preferring, if not insisting, that their victims be alive. Why didn't the Reavers murder and mutilate everyone on Miranda? Instead, everyone on MirandaĪ plausible explanation is given in the Firefly Wiki article on the Reavers: However, they also discover a recording which reveals the origin of the Reavers - the 0.1% of the population of Miranda which had the opposite reaction and became insanely aggressive. The Pax was designed to pacify the population and make them less aggressive, but the crew finds many bodies with no evidence of trauma or injury because the Pax caused most of the population to stop doing anything and simply die. That the Alliance had added a chemical called the Pax to the air supply on the planet. In the movie Serenity, Mal and his crew travel to Miranda where they discover ![]()
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