Talk:DNR/@comment-35.40.161.188-20170419230519/@comment-216.49.186.123-20171214202323

No, I don't think so about the Sky People using nightblood. Space is chock full of radiation. There isn't any atmosphere to filter any of it out, so if you are living out there then you are going to naturally develop a tollerance for it. The Mountain People could have developed a tollerance like the Grounders, but instead of subjecting themselves to small doses of radiation, they completely avoided it. I'd wager if a time traveler from 100 years ago were to appear in 2017 they would probably be burned immediately from the elevated radiation levels on the planet right now due to all of our wireless tech.

Anyway, if they were doing gene therapy on the Ark then I think that would have made it into the storyline.

There weren't any 'cult members' when Becca got to the ground. That was shortly after the rockest were launched, so all that was there were the dead and dying. She would have administrated nightblood to some and tried to establish some sort of order. Superstition and religion are powerful tools that humans seem to gravitate to in the absense of any other governement, so the 'cult' is no different than any other religion in the world today.