Are Reavers a real player Faction how do you join them?

[Aashenfox]

And then you end up impaled on the spike at the back of the station...

I see you know the score (in the movie and the game!).

Never been scanned though. I mean it. Never.

/proud

 

[Noctover]

How do Reavers clean their weapons?

 

[Wolfe3]

...When coasting into the mailslot sideways at 450mps in my cutter on silent running with 720t of narcotics on board, I can often be heard muttering...

"I am a leaf on the wind, I am a leaf on the wind"

That or this.

 

[Darth Ender]

I am a big firefly fan.

However you are wrong when you say FDEV missed an opportunity. In Elite lore prior to Firefly they have dredgers, which are huge behaviors that are basically Reavers.

Dredgers aren't in the game either.

By missed opportunity, i'm talking about content in the game. Not ideas or lore that may or may not have been retconned out of existing. Such npc archetypes would be interesting, compared to the (all bad guys are pirates or opposing military) setup they got going on. It would be like a universal adversary akin to thargoids but it could have existed from day 1 and be an ongoing plot-point. All low hanging fruit that requires minimal new content to implement. Hence, missed opportunity.