I'm not sure they ever explained it. Step one, survive snake bite ... step three, profit?
(In the tie in novels, it's explained as some big plague thing that will hit with an astroid or comet, and Max's blood/DNA holds the key to saving humanity from said plague, which the cult were all immune to as a result of those centuries of breeding or something.)
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Date: 2008-01-23 10:00 pm (UTC)(In the tie in novels, it's explained as some big plague thing that will hit with an astroid or comet, and Max's blood/DNA holds the key to saving humanity from said plague, which the cult were all immune to as a result of those centuries of breeding or something.)
(Or so I dimly recall.)