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William Somerset was an American General who spearheaded the Reaper Initiative, as a response to his wearisome concern of the Number of the Beast Program created by Zebulon McCandless.

Somerset was opposed to Zebulon McCandless' Number of the Beast program in which he did not trust the Daemonite technology used in the program and was skeptical that the program's post-human prisoners would remain loyal to the U.S. government after being held prisoner for more than sixty years in McCandless' "sick Armageddon fantasy." Knowing the potential dangers in shutting down the NOTB program, Somerset proceeded in the development of the Reaper Initiative to be use as a deterrent to the program.[1]

When the NOTB program was compromised by The High's introduction to the program, Somerset responded by activating the Reapers to eliminate the post-human prisoners along with the Authority who investigated the facility. However, the Reapers were compromised from their original programming upon entering the Bleed and running worldwide devastation.[1]

Somerset was confronted by The High himself who demanded the former to stop the clones. He insisted that there was nothing to stop the Reapers in which this was asserted by the Daemonite Slyxx, a co-conspirator of the NOTB Program, who who informed The High that the Reapers would destroy the world. After Cumberland threatened to kill Somerset for creating the Reapers and left to stop the clones, Somerset find Slyxx having murdered his men and using the Pentagon's computers to contact his species with the words "mission accomplished". Somerset's fate following Armageddon remains unknown.[1]

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