Talk:Mountain Men/@comment-5459309-20150322203504/@comment-25176701-20150322235444

"I just don't understand what the point of making Reapers was to begin with. Yeah, it keeps the grounders away, but the Acid Fog already did that."- Well, I am assuming the Reapers were created for extra protection of Mount Weather. Just in case something happened where the acid fog didn't work, they would always have Reapers to keep the Grounders afraid to go anywhere near the mountain. Also, it probably wasn't safe for the planet if the acid fog was used over and over again.

"And I'm sure the Mt Men would be able to collect new grounders without their help as well."- Well, it was still dangerous (for a number of reasons) for the MM to go out of Mount Weather and collect Grounders. So, they probably used the Reapers because if anyone got hurt or killed at least it wouldn't have been their own people.

"So what exactly did they gain from making Reapers?"- They gained the satisfaction of knowing that they, yet again, succeeded at being assholes.

Like I said in my previous comment, the MM did not need to make Reapers in order to survive. They wanted to do it.