Miranda Quarantined

The name of a planet located beyond Reaver territory. It was home to a colony of 30 million people. The alliance conducted chemical experiements on the populace to find a way to make people more controllable. However, the experiments failds: 99.9 % of the population became so passive that they essentially lost the will to live. The opposite effect was observed in the remaining .1% who became extremely aggressive and butchered the Alliance scientists in charge of the experiments. This tenth of a percent escaped and became the Reavers. The Alliance covered up the incident so well, that only a few even know of the planet’s existence - until the existence of the planet and the incident were revealed to the world by the crew of Serenity.