Talk:Fog of War/@comment-26247132-20150720201427/@comment-26247132-20150722040519

I've been thinking on this a bit and came up with a possible explanation for Cage's seemingly irrational need to cure the Mountain Men. After figuring out the Ark Population Equation and considering how quickly the Grounders multiplied (they have a high mortality rate yet they are the most numerous population), I wonder if there is more to the story. Think about how the MM conveniently had an entire empty dorm room for the Delinquents. They weren't limited on supplies, either, as seen by their feasts.

So why such a small population when the Mountain could clearly have supported more? My current guess is because they were an obviously sickly population that was going extinct at an alarming rate. Perhaps Cage knew it was more dire than Dante believed and that they wouldn't have survived long enough for Dante's plan to work and that was the cause of his urgency. At the very least, it makes him seem more rational in ignoring Clarke's threats. He knew they were doomed either way.