Mountain Men/Cerberus Project

The Cerberus Project was a practice used by the Mountain Men and led by Cage Wallace to turn the Grounders into Reapers.

History
The Cerberus Project started when the Mountain Men realized the Grounders adapted to the outside radiation, making them immune to it. Mountain Men were not able to adapt to the outside, as they remained in the Mountain the entire time. This made them realized the grounders blood was required in order to allow their people to finally enter the outside world. The grounders however were presumably not willing to give up their blood to them, so Mountain Men would take them by force. However, to make things easier they turned grounders into vicious monsters called "Reapers" in order reap them into caves where the Mountain Men inject a drug into the reapers in exchange for grounders.

System
After the grounders are captured by the reapers and brought to the Mountain Men, Lorelei Tsing would decide which ones would go to the Harvest Project and which ones would go to the Cerberus Program. They would then all go through decontamination where they're blasted with boiling water and doused with something that "burns even worse," according to Lincoln.

Phase 1 of the Cerberus project had the victim strapped down on a gurney and injected with the Reaper Red Drug every two hours while sounding the tone generator and accompanying it with electric shocks to the wrists for approximately 15 seconds.

Phase 2 commenced once the Grounder had become conditioned to show fear towards the tone generator (within a day or two). One newly made Reaper is pitted against another newly made Reaper and the Red Drug is left between them to fight over to the death.

Once they have passed Phase 2, the newly created Reaper is then sent out to collect more Grounders in exchange for the Red Drug.

Victims
These are the known victims to the Cerberus Project:


 * Lincoln
 * Numerous unnamed Grounders

Notes And Trivia

 * It is unknown how the Mountain Men acquired their first group of grounders, but a tactic similar to what they used on the delinquents in We Are Grounders (Part 2) was likely used.