Talk:Mountain Men/Harvest Project/@comment-138.237.112.209-20150203173358/@comment-25869525-20150204020354

OK, my attempts to answer:

1 & 2: I don't recall it ever being mentioned how long ago they started this. I imagine at some point after they first saw grounders (or as they call them, outsiders), they began to ponder how they were able to survive outside, and wanted to find a way they could go outside also. I'm guessing then they sent a few guys out in their hazmat suits and captured a few live outsiders for study. From there, they eventually found their way to transfuse blood from an outsider to heal up radiation damage suffered by "insiders". As far as diseases and such, they may have some kind of filtration in place in the machinery they use for transfusions.

3: Good question. I suppose they could scavenge parts from available materials, But, since they won't bring in anything from outside, as evidenced by them dscarding everything worn and carried by the 47 when they brought them into the mountain, it does seem implausible that they'd have enough metal laying around to make any large number of cages.

4: I imagine Mt Weather has a goodly amuont of interior space. It's hard to say, since the few times we got a gimpse of a map, I never saw any scale to go by. And then, the parts not on the map, no idea how big those might be.