They also fire toxic darts to cripple their opponents but not kill them. Rather than firearms, Reavers will use any sharp object as a weapon in personal combat. They also fire long lance-like metal rods. They use weapons that fire giant sharpened disks similar to buzzsaws or shuriken, in addition to more traditional anti-ship ordnance. Their craft possess a wide variety of exotic weaponry, many of which are designed to snare and capture other ships including EMP cannons, grappling lines, and energy nets. Reavers' habit of ramming their victims with indifference to damaging their own hulls tends to leave their ships appearing battered or torn. This makes Reaver ships faster than their normal counterparts, but also makes it easier for their prey to detect their approach and to hide by powering down their ships rather than fleeing. They are also known for flying without proper safety measures such as nuclear engine radiation containment, a practice tantamount to suicide. Reaver ships, captured from their victims, are instantly recognizable by the haphazard red stripes and bodies of victims adorning their hulls. They appear to live their whole lives in space, only touching down on a planet or moon to carry out a raid. They travel in macabre ships stained with blood and decorated with corpses chained to the hulls. They occasionally leave intentional survivors of their raids, apparently subjecting them to a form of brainwashing – forcing them to witness the torture of other Reaver victims – that may drive them into the same state of cannibalistic depravity. "If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing – and if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order." Reavers are known to capture ships and raid colonies on the edge of populated space – as Zoe puts it: As a result, most of inner worlds and many Alliance officials believe them to be myths made to cover for violent criminals. The Reavers live on the edge of the human-controlled binary solar systems, rarely venturing deep into occupied space. This suggests that Reavers have retained some level of higher intelligence, though guided solely on their impulse to capture and consume any humans they come in contact with. However, they presumably communicate on some level as they are still able to cooperate and act purposefully enough to use spaceships and set sophisticated technological traps. ![]() Reavers growl and snarl like beasts even radio transmissions within their flotilla seem to be little more than shrieks and moans. As a result, little is known of Reavers' social structure. These contacts are brief and survivors few. Their contact with normal humans appears limited to combat, rape, torture, murder, and cannibalism. ![]() Reavers are savage, brutal and primal, though they engage in some form of social behavior and cooperation within their own group. Whether ritually or in fits of rage, they maim themselves, peeling off parts of their own skins and shoving pieces of metal into the flesh. In Firefly, Reavers are readily recognized in any situation by both appearance and behavior.
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