| Tacticslion |
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Well, "space madness" really isn't all it's cracked up to be in the Firefly universe...
... but it actually might be a thing in Pathfinder and thus in Starfinder, considering the Dominion of the Black.
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| Neadenil Edam |
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Cthulhudrew wrote:I prefer the Firefly tv show version of the Reavers to Serenity's version.Not surprising. They movie had to compress all the information that would have been developed over three to five seasons.
It still did not cover all of it. The mystery behind Shepherd Book's past was not fully revealed until the Graphic Novel's came out.
| PaladinDemo |
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It varies on the type. From what I observed.
Reavers - chemical weapons test almost gone right. 98% dead, 2% insane.
Necromorph/Markers - signal tapping into a person's subconscious giving the order to kill, dead converts into unknown undead type.
Pandoram - Mutations caused by exposure to reactor core, mutation type unknown.
Rest are either PlanetSide or had the foresight to make starships bigger just in case of kanoddling. Pandoram is the closest to deep space sickness or sci-fi equivalent of Wendigo syndrome.
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It varies on the type. From what I observed.
Reavers - chemical weapons test almost gone right. 98% dead, 2% insane.
Necromorph/Markers - signal tapping into a person's subconscious giving the order to kill, dead converts into unknown undead type.
Pandoram - Mutations caused by exposure to reactor core, mutation type unknown.Rest are either PlanetSide or had the foresight to make starships bigger just in case of kanoddling. Pandoram is the closest to deep space sickness or sci-fi equivalent of Wendigo syndrome.
I'm damn impressed someone remembers Pandoram that well.
The Deadspace zombies and mad men are directly caused by the alien artifact. Sort of like
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Freehold DM wrote:You can't take the sky from me!The White W0rg wrote:My thoughts are that I better be able to have a Firefly-class ship. Billowing smoke optional of course.indeed.
I need something to blow up.
uses dead space chainsaw to take hands, sky from Lord Fyre
| PaladinDemo |
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PaladinDemo wrote:It varies on the type. From what I observed.
Reavers - chemical weapons test almost gone right. 98% dead, 2% insane.
Necromorph/Markers - signal tapping into a person's subconscious giving the order to kill, dead converts into unknown undead type.
Pandoram - Mutations caused by exposure to reactor core, mutation type unknown.Rest are either PlanetSide or had the foresight to make starships bigger just in case of kanoddling. Pandoram is the closest to deep space sickness or sci-fi equivalent of Wendigo syndrome.
I'm damn impressed someone remembers Pandoram that well.
The Deadspace zombies and mad men are directly caused by the alien artifact. Sort of like ** spoiler omitted **.
Watched it last year. Probably misspelled it too.
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Lord Fyre wrote:uses dead space chainsaw to take hands, sky from Lord FyreFreehold DM wrote:You can't take the sky from me!The White W0rg wrote:My thoughts are that I better be able to have a Firefly-class ship. Billowing smoke optional of course.indeed.
I need something to blow up.
| Tacticslion |
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It's like space zombism - they have to be smart enough to hide in the shower, open the door (sometimes) or whatever!
So... space magic!
... like Dead Space!
(More seriously, though; their higher cognitive functions never actually shut down. It was just that their personality was entirely overwritten and reformatted to be purely motivated by aggressive rage and murderous hatred for all that is "other" than themselves - i.e. all non-Reavers and any Reavers who, by incident or intent, somehow misaligned themselves with the Reaver(s) in question - and with absolutely no moral qualms about anything. I can attest that, though never even close to being murderous or violent, even when really ticked off, there is still a working portion of your brain that is attempting to solve a problem. Making your ship go there so you can murder and eat people is a problem that needs to be solved, and furiously, for such creatures. Instinctual pack behavior - aka, mob-mentality - leads to more or less working together, and general survival of the early urges yields only survivors capable of properly channeling their infini-rage into a mostly-survivable - sort of - "working conditions"... it's just that the "work" was murder, torture, and general evil mayhem. Like in Dead Space! >:D)
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Freehold DM wrote:I still have the sk ...Lord Fyre wrote:uses dead space chainsaw to take hands, sky from Lord FyreFreehold DM wrote:You can't take the sky from me!The White W0rg wrote:My thoughts are that I better be able to have a Firefly-class ship. Billowing smoke optional of course.indeed.
I need something to blow up.
I can watch that on loop hundreds of times and it still makes me laugh.