Talk:Sky People/The Culling/@comment-138.237.244.249-20141110190825/@comment-26247132-20150630173011

Super late to the party, but I always love answering your questions.

First, we know there were only 100 Delinquents because Abby tells Clarke in the Pilot, "all one hundred of you," not "a hundred of you."

Next, they only needed to kill enough citizens to give themselves the two extra months they needed to fix the problem. The 320 citizens should have been enough but they might have eventually needed to cull more if the problem took longer to fix.

1. I'm not sure if Section 17 is the same as Section B-17 (which is in Factory station and where Bellamy was from). If it is Factory, then we know already the Council felt these people were dispensible and non-essential. It's mentioned that Section 17 would be in their sleep period already and they would also introduce a sleeping gas to make sure of it.

2. My guess is it was picked for: a) the majority of people were expendable, b) the section was easy to isolate to cull, c) the number of people in the section. For c), they most likely had a few over their magical "320" number to ensure they'd get the amount of extra oxygen they needed.

3. I thought that was just one room of the section, symbolizing the other people in the other areas, sort of like how Tor represented the 319 other volunteers for us to relate to.

4. If the lockdown failed, they have a lot more problems going on with the Ark than just an oxygen shortage.... If I understood correctly, they used the sleeping agent to make them fall asleep so they wouldn't feel the effects of suffocation, not to actually kill them. The lack of oxygen is what killed them.

5. From the reactions of the people in Medical, oxygen shortages seemed to be a common enough occurrance. Tor even says, "The air's never been this bad. They're gonna fix it, right? Like always?" meaning it's happened before.