Reaver Ship

[agentmike]

so remember Firefly and Serenity?
so i want to make a ship controlled by the Reavers and RP in their likeness.
I'm sure this has been done before, but i'd like to give it a shot.

this is what i found on Wikipedia:

Reavers are a fictional group of humans in the television series Firefly and the movie Serenity who live on the fringes of civilized space and have become animalistic. Within the show, their existence is officially denied by the Alliance, the ruling government of humanity, but they are a harsh reality around the outer planets.

The original theory within the series is that Reavers are men who traveled to the edge of the star system and were driven mad by the open vastness of space. This theory is discussed among most of the crew members of Serenity. In Bushwhacked, Shepherd Book states that he believes that they are "just men" who have been removed from civilization far too longmen who could be helped. Both Jayne and Mal strongly disagree with the Shepherd's opinion. The Reavers' true origin is revealed later in the movie Serenity.

Most Humans display much fear toward Reavers, where even the most battle hardened will opt to leave any space where Reavers are present over any possibility of being captured. Zoe said on one occasion when confronted by Reavers "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."
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Behavior

Reavers are savage, brutal and primal. Their contact with other humans appears limited to combat, rape, torture, murder, and cannibalism, and no dialogue has ever been shown. They are still able to cooperate and act purposefully enough to use spaceships and set highly technological traps, suggesting that they have retained some level of higher intelligence, though guided solely on their impulse to capture and consume any Humans they come in contact with.

Reavers are known to raid ships and colonies to rape, kill, skin, and cannibalize anyone they find, though not necessarily in that order. They growl and snarl like beasts, and their methods are considered so horrifying that, when faced with capture, victims have been known to attempt suicide. Mercy killings of those who fall into the hands of Reavers are considered humane. Reavers do occasionally leave intentional survivors of their raids, but they drive these survivors mad through forcing them to watch the torture of other Reaver victims, effectively turning the survivors into second-generation Reavers. Reavers also severely mutilate themselves by cutting themselves, peeling off their skin, or pushing shards of metal into their flesh.

Reavers travel in macabre ships stained with blood and decorated with corpses chained to the hulls. They appear to live their whole lives in space, only touching down on a planet or moon to carry out a raid.

Technology

Reaver ships, captured from their victims, are instantly recognizable by the haphazard red stripes and bodies of victims adorning their hulls. They are also known for flying without proper engine radiation containment, a practice tantamount to suicide. This makes Reaver ships faster than their normal counterparts, but also makes it easier for their prey to detect their arrival and to hide by powering down their ships rather than fleeing. Reavers' habit of ramming their victims with indifference to damaging their own hulls tends to leave their ships appearing battered or torn. 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. They use weapons that fire giant sharpened disks similar to buzzsaws or shuriken, in addition to more traditional anti-ship ordnance. Rather than firearms, Reavers will use any sharp object as a weapon in personal combat. The goal of their weaponry is most likely to increase the number of survivors on victim ships. To cripple rescue ships, they have been known to leave a bait ship intact with a bomb planted on board set to detonate when another ship docks to help, destroying the already-derelict ship and crippling the ship that tried to provide aid.

The Reavers operate a variety of vessels, from Firefly-sized vessels to captured Alliance warships. Most notable among their ships was colony vessel orbiting Miranda, which is several times larger than any of the Alliance vessels it subsequently attacked. Even with its greater size the Reavers used the same tactics as with smaller ships, ramming an Alliance flagship and splitting it in half due to the vast difference in mass.


thats the relevant information about them.

so what ship do you guys think would be a good ship to use?
i'm thinking:
-Pirate Transport
-Salvager
-Slave liner

or maybe something else.
Opinions?

[Sprolf]

You should meet this guy named Mon'star - in game.
You two would get along... great. He'd be quite pleased to meet you, I think. You could discuss your bloody future with him.

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[agentmike]

You should meet this guy named Mon'star - in game.
You two would get along... great. He'd be quite pleased to meet you, I think. You could discuss your bloody future with him.

Mon'Star The Red
yes, i have seen this.

and i have seen him online as well.

any opinions about the reavers ship?
i am leaning towards Junker ID, and using the salvager.
that ID seems to embrace what a reaver could be.
opinions please?

[Kadaeux]

Corsair Gunboat is perfect for it.

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"In a society that has abolished all adventure, the only adventure left is to abolish that society."

[Donutman]

Just, please don't exactly copy the Reavers. Make some changes.

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This thread is so stupid that a bird sitting on a nearby tree just EXPLODED.

[agentmike]

Just, please don't exactly copy the Reavers. Make some changes.

make some changes? how so?

[Tenacity]

Take a look at this wonderful thread:

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?sh...p;hl=xeno+ships

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[agentmike]

that would be excellent. i like the look of the Gull transport.
but still.
doesnt exist yet.....does it?

would the junker salvager be a wise ship to use for this RP, or should i go with something else?

Examples of Reaver ships:

[Akura]

What about the two Order cruisers? Forget for a second that they are Order, and they look damn threatening, kind of evil and spikey. Consider a special RP and a terrorist ID, methinks...

[kikatsu]

if you decide to go with a junker tag....the salvager or slave liner would fit best


though! you could make it a corsair GB....that thing looks so evil with all those spikes....

you could make the RP more Freelancer ish by say...it was a Corsair ship out on patrol in Delta.... something would happen and they were stuck out there for years with no way to get back and no way to call for help...they go mad.... they run out of food and eat some of their own crew to survive... they stumble across a few Zoner explorers and somehow board the ships.... they take the crew and do the usuall reaver stuff to them.... eh you know.... and they continue this behavior throughout the generations of crew on the ship...or something

would need more fleshing out but it's a rough concept but hey....would help you out I think