Talk:Mountain Men/@comment-66.87.133.66-20150204073047/@comment-5.71.144.144-20150214122707

At the time of the war they thought they were the only survivors, they didn't know that a handful of people outside would be able to adapt and evolve to tolerate the radiation. Being sealed away they never had to go through this process, and being as there are only 400 of them there aren't enough to do so anyway. The Ark believed that it would be at least another century before radiation dropped to safe level but mount weather wont survive that long. Their filtration and decontamination processes have already begun to fail thus their desperation to do anything to find a way to survive outside.