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• About nullifying video broadcast: verify, verify, verify... - TAFKA Steve 06:58:52 10/04/05 (2)
  In Reply to: Interesting Villain, and ( spoiler warning) posted by Jon L on October 3, 2005 at 14:06:49:

  ...to paraphrase a regretful Dan Rather.

  The video broadcast itself may not change too many minds about the Alliance. The problem the Alliance faces is that the evidence still exists (a planet with 3 million dead bodies), and the curious can corroborate and verify the story by going there themselves. So what should the Alliance do? Blockade visits to the planet? Release a deadly biological agent on its surface? Nuke the whole thing? Any of these actions would tend to verify the content of the video by screaming "cover-up." The Alliance should have nuked the planet in the first place.
  
  

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  • "The Alliance should have nuked the planet in the first place." - First they'd have to deal with all those Reivers. - Audiophilander 00:27:22 10/05/05 (1)
    In Reply to: About nullifying video broadcast: verify, verify, verify... posted by TAFKA Steve on October 4, 2005 at 06:58:52:

    Miranda was almost unapproachable because Reivers surround it, and Reivers don't appear to be unintelligent either, they're just violently unstable and canibalistic.

    AuPh
    
    

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    • Nuke the reivers too. - TAFKA Steve 07:26:02 10/05/05 (0)
      In Reply to: "The Alliance should have nuked the planet in the first place." - First they'd have to deal with all those Reivers. posted by Audiophilander on October 5, 2005 at 00:27:22:

      They are also evidence against the Alliance, esp. if one is captured and the cause of the condition is determined. Remove all the evidence.
      
      

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• Yes, the villain was quite interesting; very atypical. (spoilers follow) - Audiophilander 17:00:33 10/03/05 (0)
  In Reply to: Interesting Villain, and ( spoiler warning) posted by Jon L on October 3, 2005 at 14:06:49:

  I don't agree about the video evidence being less valuable because it's manufacturable. As we know even in today's culture, it isn't just visual information that determines actions and reactions, but also suspicions based on the cumulative experience acquired through word of mouth, film, photographs, testimonials, etc., so gradually informed opinins are fueled by both rumor and evidence. The Reivers were a feared entity in the Firefly/Serenity universe and many folks inhabiting these outer planets had seen what these inexplicably crazed creatures were capable of, but no one had an explanation for their existance, ...until now. Obviously the United Federation of Planets would want to keep this information suppressed. ;^)

  AuPh
  
  

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