&gt; I spent 20 minutes trying to find this reference and could not find anything convincingly close enough. It is a sci-fi reference or something that happened in our world? The only thing I could find was FireFly related.<p>It is a scifi&#x2F;firefly reference. Spoilers ahead for the Serenity movie.<p>Miranda is a planet on a far far &quot;edge&quot; of the Verse (the &quot;known universe&quot; in Firefly) and considered fictional before the events of Serenity as the Alliance had basically struck it from records (and it was deep in &quot;Reaver space&quot; where people of the Verse don&#x27;t go without a serious death wish). An Alliance research program was tried there: G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate (&quot;Pax&quot;) had been found to reduce aggression, and on Miranda it was tried on a large scale, spread throughout the planet via the air processors system.<p>The compound pacified 99.9% of the population so much they basically stopped all drive. They stopped working, talking, feeding, moving and ultimately leaving.<p>The remaining 0.1% blew a gasket and went the exact opposite becoming ultra-violent self-mutilating merciless and fearless animalistic — but not stupid — monsters: the reavers, which have plagued the Verse since.