After seeing the recordings, Reaper was able to piece together what had happened to the old man...somewhat. He figured out that the old man was running from something or someone, and that thing or person had probably caught up to him. His new mission was to find the old man since he could be his last hope of contacting Prime. Reaper got out of the ship/asteroid and scanned the crash site for any traces of the old man or his kidnappers. He noticed a trail of tracks heading for mountains in the distance. And so of he went, into the wild, searching for the old man, and the last hope for messaging Prime.