Subnautica's Degasi: Full Lore Documentary

Degasi was a medium sized ship that was owned and operated by the Torgal Corporation - a small clan-corp of the Mongolian Independent States. The Torgal Corporation was by no means massive, but it did have plenty of experience hauling materials across space, and talks were even being made of the company constructing a brand new phasegate. At the head of it all was Paul Torgal, who became the company’s CEO following his mother’s retirement. Often traveling with a skeleton crew, Paul was well known for his ability to make impulsive, but profitable decisions.
For the Corporation’s next mission, Paul planned to accompany his son Bart as they traveled to a new deep space station, where Bart would serve as Chief Operating Officer for the next 5 years. The Degasi was selected for the mission, and the crew was stripped down to just 6 members as a result of the seemingly simple task at hand.
For a while, the mission went quite well, the ship was making good time, and the crew were never distressed. Nothing was out of the ordinary until Paul observed a planet in the 4546 system. The object in question was planet 4546B - a near earth-sized terrestrial planet which appeared to contain a liquid ocean. Knowing that these types of planets were the most likely to contain life, Paul makes the decision to detour and investigate up close...

[@Prak_Giggles]

the sad part is that the last base could've told us a bit more about Bart's last days/weeks, but the Aurora destroyed the base and possibly any other PDAs

[@theicymonke]

No joke BRO T_T

[@Venenus_MC]

maybe not destroyed by the crash land tho, the things are bulletproof or something, the pda's probably disintegrated with the explosion

[@rubenlohata5263]

@@theicymonke ok?

[@KysEcstacy]

​@@Venenus_MC the aurora could def crush smth like that, its 4000 ft across and 1000 ft tall. Its made of dense metals and thus would be insanly massive and heavy

[@allinairhanson6886]

Why yes, Marguerite is indeed part of the ecosystem now, heck you could even say she's an apex predator

[@themarksmanxii7256]

Lol below zero reference

[@Venenus_MC]

even ate leviathan meat, probably could say she is kind of a leviathan type of threat (hope i said that right (89))

[@Venenus_MC]

its threat sorry

[@Gamerafighter76]

Eeyup.

[@SunitaDevi-fp6zx]

​@@Venenus_MC You can edit the comment

[@masteryadiel]

Not only is it sad that Bart died before he could find out how to cure the disease, but also that all of his final work and home got destroyed when the Aurora landed. Imagine if there was a way to explore his final base.

[@mr_spartan2413]

It is sad but his research wasn’t in vein, without his discoveries we would have never had access to the facilities

[@StegoAqua]

His skeleton if it was still there, it got utterly body by the Aurora

[@ZestyZapper7]

unless you’re talking about the base that the show in the cinematic trailer or one of the trailers he went island kellyshrok caves deep grand reef and then he went back too the island base at the end of hisblifr

[@masteryadiel]

@@ZestyZapper7 yeah, the cinematic one, the one that got crushed by the aurora

[@ZestyZapper7]

@@masteryadiel oh alright

[@astrixalasen7816]

I like how Bart's POV continues off of whoever is speaking, showing that he's the one neutral party in all this, just there due to his father's choices and just making the best of it by studying the planet.

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

I love how a Captain, a Biologist and a Mercenary had it worse than a janitor. One Riley is enough to defeat fauna, build bases, feed himself, establish communication with an outside ship, establish communication with a Sea Emperor, cure Kharaa within himself, hatch the Emperor's children, become a step dad for lovely little Emperors, turn off the Main Architect Defence Weapon, build a rocket and succesfully escape with tonnes of diamonds in tow, probably buying out the entire Alterra Corporation

[@matheusexpedito4577]

3 trillion in debt? Well how about you check out these diamonds and rubys

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

@@matheusexpedito4577 "haha nearly endless cube of energy goes vzoom"

[@B.L.U.S]

riley is not an janitor he is an chief manager idfk

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

@@B.L.U.S chief janitor

[@B.L.U.S]

@@NiCoNiCoNiCola funny joke but no

[@tobiz1922]

2 things I noticed: Paul saw a light below him so I think he found the lost river and not a squid. He might have been killed by one though. This makes more sense since it's a hint for the player to go deeper. Bart talks about visions getting worse. I don't think Kharaa causes these so it's most likely the sea emperor trying to communicate with him like she does with the player but Bart thinks it's the illness.

[@escaped_cephalopod]

Yea, but, why didn’t she send all of them visions when, y’know, they were all still alive and working together?

[@apossum6231]

@@escaped_cephalopodwell, i kind of always figured that she didn’t trust them. the sea emperor is canonically shy and timid, she has a hard time trusting people because of what happened to her and her babies. why would she attempt to communicate with a hot headed, blinded-by-rage lady and a cowardly and stuck up man? the only person that showed interest in the ecosystem, the virus, and had a good heart was bart. she trusted him. perhaps thats why she asked what we are. not because she doesn’t know what a human is, she has to, she has seen them before. maybe she asked because she was curious “if you swam with the current or against it”

[@Nickco002]

it says in the lore that he goes towards a light, thinking its his sons seaglide, and then it turns out to be a crabsquid

[@waah5901]

@chenath9582 well shes canonically over a thousand years old lol. She talks about the percursers like she was there, that it was the same batch of eggs they were trying to hatch that you have to. The universe has telepathic individuals, it is an established ability held by some. We see the Sea Emperor communicating with Riley no matter where he is on the map, thats targetted telepathy at over 1 and a half kilometres sometimes. Extrapolating and inferring from that data, we can make the reasonable assumption that she has insight into what you're thinking/feeling. I would imagine that she wanted a sentient being that understood her beyond pure comprehension. She wanted to trust her babies to a likeminded soul. If you want more than that then, yeah, we trigger hormonal releases to feel emotions. Sea Emporer has canon enzyme manufacturing abillities, ones she implies she either has command over or understands the inner-workings of to some degree - she mentions in some of her dialogue something like "the aliens foolishly tried to synthesise it" as if it were impossible to synthesise and she knew that and knew why. Understanding beyond estimation at least. If you combine those two things, it isnt a stretch to say she has some kind of untethered connection to the planets ecosystem, that through this she can confirm telepathic readings that you genuinely engage empathy towards her and the planet, and that, in-turn, you are the correct vector of the enzyme knowledge. She was also probably lowkey super deseperate at that point and was largely more willing to trust us than others until that point. I like to imagine the Sea Emporer as the devs attempt at showing the "waking earth" theory. That we are an integral part of a totally interconnected ecosystem, not above it. That, in a cool and weird, fairly philosophical way, we are the planet evolved to observe itself. We are the macroscopic white blood cells of the planetary organism, the sentient caretaking component of an ancient and relatively infinite being. Sea Emperors quite literally take this role in a number of ways. Humans should be the Sea Emperors of Earth, but are too indoctrinated by the Alterra's of our world. That we own all, when simply, we belong.

[@escaped_cephalopod]

@@waah5901I’m concerned that my first thought when reading the last paragraph was “yea, it’s a giant computer made to calculate the meaning of life”

[@MidanMagistrate]

People rag on Paul too much, and worship Margeurit too much. Both of them had very different views, and neither of them were inherently correct, as Bart says. Paul was playing things safe, perhaps a little too safe. His ideas for survival were sound, but a sound plan never lasts against such an unknown and alien environment. Margeurit was too hot headed and reckless, while she was right about needing the resources from the deep, she was wrong to want to stay down there just for said resources. Paul was very understandably not okay with the idea of going deeper, any normal person in such a situation would want to stay on solid ground. His constant threatening to dock Maida's pay also shows that he was confident in escaping, and that he was fearful of the ramifications that could come his way if he did whatever it took to survive. Meanwhile Maida was too obsessed with beating the environment. She doesn't like Paul for being a corporatist bourgeoisie in her own words, but also holds a very imperialist "Kill anything threatening, and use the resources to kill the next big thing". It's only when Bart reveals they're sick that reality seems to set in for both of them. That they're sick with alien bacteria, and know nothing about it. For once the two are not fighting eachother for power, and their reactions reflect their personalities. Paul is afraid, but trusts his son's intelligence and asks if theres anything he can do to help his son possibly learn more about it, any resource he can scrounge up. But Maida doesn't want to be threatened by it, almost as if the idea of being taken out by an invisible bacterium is insulting to her, so she starts cracking remarks about the absurdity of it and what it could do to them. She doesn't want to be weakened by and lose to such a thing. Really, the writing and characterization of the Dagasi Survivors is incredible.

[@artur6912]

True, in the end it was Marguerite decision that caused the reaper attack. Bart seemed to be the wisesd of them all, despite being the youngest, recognizing that both extremes of Paul and Marguerite will kill them all.

[@TheQuantumParticle]

Highly agree. I bet most of the people hating on Paul have bad experiences/biases towards fathers, which makes them more inclined to blame Paul.

[@isdrakon9802]

​@@TheQuantumParticle part of it is also probably that while Margaret was too aggressive, thats at least progress. You can pull back as necessary if you run into a problem but at least you are moving forward, Paul while being safer means that amy small disruption will throw everything off and you lose progress, which sucks.

[@TheQuantumParticle]

@@isdrakon9802 You could say the same about Marguerite. She brought a REAPER LEVIATHAN to their only refuge. There are so many holes and problems in her plans (if you could even call them that), that if one thing went wrong, everything would fall apart. Like Paul said, It's easier to make a decision in hindsight. Marguerite's "decisions" are more of impulsive actions than anything.

[@isdrakon9802]

@@TheQuantumParticle there is that slight flaw in that the person making the aggressive strategies was a fucking moron. I don't think it needs to be said that bringing the massive animal that could wreck your base, to your base, is a bad idea without hindsight

[@theenthusiast3648]

I feel so bad for Bart. He was just a young curious individual that wanted to do more discovering and research, but his life was sadly cut short because of the decisions of his dad.

[@kayla_white01]

Kind of like the kid who died in that sub implosion recently

[@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad]

​@@kayla_white01the game foreshadowing of the incident for years?

[@Fooooobar]

@@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad Nah just plain coincidence bud

[@kayla_white01]

@@Fooooobar you'd have to be a silly Billy not to see the connection

[@esauvera9289]

​@@kayla_white01it's just a simple connection that both sons met their demise by the choices of their fathers. There ain't no way that a game was prophesying some sub getting crushed many years later

[@harsy1622]

man this actually describes their story the right way, great vid mate!

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thanks man! I’m glad you enjoyed

[@TheLadsGames759]

@@Breathtaker5000 w Video, plus any tips on finding the Lost River? I lost my way to it, and I don’t know where it is now. Sorry if I already asked you, I just have bad memory when it comes to questions

[@JoseBR520_NoobContent]

@@TheLadsGames759 Remember you are in youtube, one search away from finding what you seek. There's one entrance near the south-western BloodKelp and Dunes. At least one Reaper nearby Another entrance is just turning left and diagonally downwards after visiting Degasi's Deep Grand Reef base. Just mind the Crabsquids and Warpers. Safest path tho. The only North-east entrance is between the Mountains (QEP Island) and the Bulb zone. One mountain Reaper near there.

[@massimilianosozzi5882]

​@@Breathtaker5000 i see that tips and making bases are getting more views

[@thegermanfool8953]

🎉

[@dagobahstudios3662]

They should’ve made Bart’s base explorable by putting it on the edge of the crash zone. It’d be really hard to access because of all the reapers, but very rewarding because you could find lots of resources and pda’s detailing his final days.

[@arcdecibel9986]

I liked this a lot better than trying to piece together audiologs with Reapers eating me, and that's saying something, since I found the original experience pretty enjoyable. I was so busy that I didn't ever consider the logs much, but with this talented narration I can fully appreciate the writing and character arcs. They're better than I thought.

[@Biscuithands]

Why not listen to them at base?

[@Tadpoli]

I never realized just how young Bart sounds. I didn't know this until looking it up, but he was only 19 years old. He sounds so passionate and in awe of everything. All he wanted to do was research and learn. I feel so bad for him. Obviously Paul and Maida as well, but Bart was so level-headed. Being the mature one at a younger age couldn't have been easy, especially with how hot-headed his father and Maida were (or are in Maida's case.) Subnautica's stories are so well written and portrayed. They're all so devastating when you really pay attention to the contents and apply them to real life. Your videos on the survivors are so well done. The attention to detail is astounding, and I can only imagine how long it all took. And to add the first person perspectives with the reconstructed bases and imagery makes it so much more engrossing! Massive respect and very well done!!

[@CryptidRenfri]

Reminds me of the world building in a lot of the Fallout games and piecing together the lives of long dead people through all these little environment and context clues, and sometimes written/spoken log entries. Really makes the whole world feel much more real, and the crushing sadness of everything that's transpired before you much more impactful.

[@witherwolf3316]

Having a Subnautica movie about the DeGasi would be so good. The writing is already on that level. It could even have certain parts that use a found footage perspective for all the scenes that the audio logs cover, and more cinematic perspectives whenever it's filling in the gaps.

[@lonewolf0712]

I love how the team put this much effort into a side story. Such a great way to let us hear about things others did to survive and hint at some things we can make.

[@Fronne10]

I think Bart is the true GOAT here. He didn't have a scanner and figured out that the whole world is infected. He was also able to figure out that they needed to go deeper.

[@bnd1506]

it was so amazing that you rebuilt the abandoned bases! nice work!

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thanks :)

[@kakashi0909]

17:00 wow, i never knew margeruite is such a monster hunter. I would really love her to see toe-to-toe against an elder dragon if she can tangle with a reaper leviathan, win, and use its body for stuffs.

[@HG1F2]

Lady's basically a hunter of the first fleet.

[@helohel5915]

Goes to show how good the player character has it. Better fabrication tools, better equipment, better weather and a full understanding of what is going on (at least, once the sunbeam event happens) What the degasi crew was missing was exploration. Complete mapping. One was too busy being careful, one was too busy studying wildlife and the other was too busy killing stuff

[@ReallySirius]

Mercury II’s Survivors and their fate maybe? Even though the game pretty much spells it out I’d still like to hear it all in one sitting without stopping.

[@Breathtaker5000]

It’s definitely on the to-do list :)

[@captaindishman9126]

The fact that the Mongolians have strong tenure in space exploration raises lots and LOTS of questions!

[@matheusexpedito4577]

Oh good lord, Spaceship archers

[@ntfoperative9432]

Throat singing intensifies

[@chetanjaswal5593]

Genghis Khan had mentioned it in a secret script that had been discovered near the end of 21st century - " I growing old. I know I won't be able to conquer the world. What I have done is still going to be one of the biggest empires in history. I have just one wish, i want the mongols to conquer the stars. " And it all began right there, Mongols knew what to do.

[@escaped_cephalopod]

@@matheusexpedito4577YES

[@Plazex_]

Make a below zero one. I played the game a long time and discovered that Marguerite is alive and was actually dragged to the void and appeared to the below zero map. Maybe she was dragged to the other side of the planet which explains why so many fish are the same and some are different due to the environment.

[@xcato13x]

I second this!

[@Breathtaker5000]

I plan to do a whole video on Marguerite at some point, I decided not to include the BZ story here because half the video would have just been about that

[@jaymeegrayson4662]

She survived in a reapers corpse eating off of it till she got to the artic where there she made a base and just chilled

[@Chaosworshiper]

@@jaymeegrayson4662 yeah she is such a badass

[@Skeloperch]

It doesn't make sense that she survived since she had Karaa for 10 years before Riley cured it.

[@colbyreader]

I had done what I thought was adequate research to write a fanfic about them but wow I was missing a lot. You did such an amazing job with this and I really enjoyed the visuals. 10/10

[@Breathtaker5000]

Glad you liked it :D

[@palakgupta2736]

What about your fanfic?

[@574guy]

I like how you made these videos in-universe. Makes them feel like authentic documentaries.

[@miniwhiffy3465]

poor paul he got baited by a crabsquid a died it's a sad story of these three atleast we meet one

[@bocktordaytona5656]

What surprises me about the first base of the island its the fact that there is a cave system with the gigantic alien portal on it and the degasi crew didn't find that even living there that ammont of time. I don't know if this Is explained because "in gameplay" the island its small but in lore was bigger like the maps and cities of other games like fallout or skyrim. But for me its quite surprising that they found that alien object on the island and don't searched more both over the land and under to see those gigantic floaters.

[@Breathtaker5000]

I think they either didn’t find it (could have been opened up by a landslide after they left), they DID find it, but didn’t make a pda entry for it, or if they did make a pda entry, it might have been destroyed or buried when the first landslide destroyed the base

[@speedude0164]

I don't remember a portal on that island. Where does it lead?

[@cabz5872]

​@speedude0164 mountain island. Need to head to mountain island portal first in order to turn it on

[@speedude0164]

@@cabz5872 Yeah I just saw someone else online find it. I'll go there myself when I can.

[@radikaldesignz]

In my first playthrough, my first exposure to the floating island was that teleporter. Definitely one of those crowning moments of the game "wait... the other side of the aurora??" And "THERES NO BOTTOM AAAAAAAAH" Think I also had a dream where if you went near the water, a leviathan would cutscene you off the beach lol.

[@apossum6231]

i honestly do not get why people drag paul in the dirt so much. he was an old man, scared for his son and scared for his life. i bet he had a fear of the ocean too with how horrific he found going into the ocean water was. margeurit constantly shamed him, but all paul wanted to do was make sure bart was okay. i know he wasnt the smartest, and it was partly his fault for the lack of research due to his constant hovering over bart. but you gotta feel bad for the poor guy, right? is it weird that i hope that when bart died, paul was waiting for him as a ghost? i know its corny, lol, but i just.. feel so bad for this small family.

[@aircraftcarrierwo-class]

Both Paul and Marguerit were wrong for different reasons. Paul was excessively cautious while Maida was excessively aggressive. They both contributed to the trio's downfall through their bickering and unwillingness to work together off one another's strengths. Maida dragging an unconscious Reaper to the base was just the final shot in a rather long back-and-forth of hostility between them.

[@Exploutato]

At this point, I feel Marguerite could fight the gargantuan leviathan and kill it.

[@EEVEEwolf1]

my humor is ruined, any time i see the quarantine gun i can only ever think of "Oh hey look, a Civilian airline"

[@Gamerafighter76]

Well, at least Maida survived. Wish we could’ve gotten some PDAs or something about her experiences. Bart being caught in the middle is a tough thing to see. I hope Paul was at peace with the decisions he made.

[@jasonturek6671]

Very well edited video; the images on screen represented the audio perfectly and it must've taken a while to get the footage so I commend you for that! I would really appreciate it if you were to make a video in the same style of this one for the Mercury II since it's pretty much Below Zero's Degasi and I don't really understand its story all to well. You have a bright future in KZbin and I hope you continue to put great effort into your videos, thanks!

[@Alknix]

What I don't get is why in the world would they settle in the giant snake-infested caves and not in the safe shallows just a few hundred meters away!

[@Breathtaker5000]

Because then the player would find it right away! 🤣

[@escaped_cephalopod]

Because there were a lot of good materials

[@engi_games]

Reapers probably

[@jonesother]

this video and your channel deserve way more attention! this is really good!

[@Breathtaker5000]

Glad you think so! :)

[@bvlaho00]

Amazing video. Whole story, without any blank spots. This channel deserves a lot more subscribers. Keep up the good work 😊

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thank you! Will do! :)

[@zoebelle8970]

Awesome video. So well made. I feel so bad for Bart. He seemed so sweet.

[@ThatOneIce_Peashooter]

Unknown worlds entertainment needs a prequel where you play as someone from the degasi

[@Pyromaniac_5355]

That would be cool, however it would also be pretty difficult to pull off as the story of the crew members is already told. It would be hard to give the player freedom over what they do if they already have a story.

[@The_Real_Coral_Grimes]

Such a shame what happened to the degasi crew. I’m curious to know what would’ve happened if the other 3 members survived. Maybe more input would have led them to discovering the truth of the aliens, reinforcement platform, the sea emperor etc. And to think that Bart (and kind of margeruite) were on the right path to figuring out all the things that ryley eventually did. Also a shame that the aurora destroyed barts final base. Would’ve liked to have seen those pda’s. I wonder what I would’ve been like if the reaper never destroyed their base. What if ryley was part of the degasi crew. There’s so much potential for what if scenarios about this game. I know that Marguerite survives and is in below zero, but I haven’t played it yet, so idk if she mentions the events of the first game, or anything else she has to offer. Great video, I continue to see how amazing this game is, and its community makes it all the better 😁

[@Grayson-e7m]

I love the part where Bart until then there is still the view

[@skin_the_sun]

i wish leviathans and stuff could destroy the bases you make in the game, it would make them a lot scarier and would make you reconsider where you put your base

[@Kingofovertimea]

I find it ironic that Margaret didnt want to stay in the "cave" and then look at where her base is in Below Zero.

[@Copper_snipezz]

Bart's side of the story is actually really sad, stuck on a planet with only 2 others, who then disappear and is stuck to live out is short life alone

[@ringpop6482]

Imagine the massive amounts of research Bart Torgal must have accumulated over his time on 4546B. All that information would be vital to fully understanding the secrets of the (at the time) uncharted planet. It's a shame it was all most likely destroyed by the crashing of the Aurora, and the sequential decimation of the immediate local ecosystem/environment.

[@professionalautist]

Please keep making these lore videos they are very interesting

[@Breathtaker5000]

Will do! ;)

[@manglequeen5616]

AMAZING VIDEO! I am currently so obsessed with subnautica, i am sad that i started playing it so late and never tried it before.

[@kyle--859]

Yeah, me too. About a week ago I saw it on sale for only $10 so I bought it. I have been obsessed with it for the last week

[@escaped_cephalopod]

@@kyle--859 same at about the same time as you

[@zoomzoom2221]

looking at the cinematic trailer the lore of the degasi is shown pretty well, not exact but pretty well

[@vladvulcan]

I love how do you illustrate all the story with actual gameplay clips! Keep at it, bro!

[@maksphoto78]

Where is Bart's last base? I have never come across it.

[@escaped_cephalopod]

It was in the safe shallows but got squished by the Aurora (it was in the trailer)

[@millataylor69420]

Marguerite is such a badass

[@Breathtaker5000]

fr

[@stevepalpatine2828]

You put a lot of work into this and it shows. Really great vid, thanks for this, you definitely earned a sub.

[@Breathtaker5000]

I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the support!

[@sparty9938]

great video! surprised on how little subs you have. I wish you could've included Marguerit Maida's story after the events of the first game, maybe in another video?

[@Breathtaker5000]

I plan to make a whole video on her. I was gonna include all of that in this one, but I feel like her BZ story is distinct enough from the DEGASI to warrant its own documentary

[@AbC-pj2op]

There is fish , then there are bigger fish , then there is the biggest fish, and there is Marguerite

[@escaped_cephalopod]

She’s an honorary leviathan class lifeform

[@Nosekeponer503]

@@escaped_cephalopodLeviathan life class form? She is a Apex class lifeform

[@tristanmatthews2360]

You did a great job with the video cuz there was nothing on the screen that we really had to watch so I could just have it on in the background as I did stuff.

[@Blitzozs]

it's made extra unfortunate when you consider that both of them were smart and read each side of each situation if they had just stopped arguing so often they might have made it back alive

[@escaped_cephalopod]

There’s a theory that since the Kharaa has increased aggression as a symptom it’s the reason they argued… most of the time lol

[@kaiweber1178]

Your videos are very interesting, like I already said earlier. You deserve way more subs fr. Keep up the work!

[@Breathtaker5000]

Glad you like them! :)

[@somedaysasi]

Excellent video, wow!!! Thank you very much for putting it together, as I love the story. Your voiceover is great too, made it so I could listen while I got had my hands busy!

[@louisebou]

Amazing video! I just finished the game and I had no motivation to go through the logs again to have a better look at the whole story, so this is way better, thank you! I'm just wondering, how did you manage to have the leviathan appear in the grand reef (the 500meter deep zone)? Incredible visuals btw, great job!

[@Breathtaker5000]

I just spawned it in with console commands :)

[@RobertSela]

Incredible effort went into this video. Well done.

[@fertileplanet7756]

Unknown to them, Maruerit (I probably butchered her name) survived, even past the time of the Aurora crash and the time that Ryley Robinson was on the planet.

[@Jellyfish_the_one]

Man, the voice acting is so good, I feel like it's real and I actually feel bad

[@bober-mz2ys]

i sorta expI sorta expectced to have a little bit of what happened to margret, since we know she survived in below zero, and killed that reaper

[@Breathtaker5000]

I’m gonna make a dedicated video on all that

[@itsmefil2670]

honestly why tf didn't they build a base in the safe shallows from the start

[@Breathtaker5000]

Because plot go brrrrr

[@robertpresley1503]

Did they make it to the shallows?

[@sillyguy_5559]

@@robertpresley1503they made it it both the jellyshroom caves and what was there before the aurora crashed (drstroying the base altogether)

[@loganshread6418]

just got into the game and just completed it without recalling finding any of this stuff i’m so obsessed with this game and its lore now thanks for making this

[@Breathtaker5000]

You’re Welcome :)

[@Monika_de_Fontaine]

Une vidéo de qualité,on voit clairement que tu prends du temps et du plaisir à les faire

[@cybercaliber6033]

Was the Final Base that Bart built ever in the Game? I don't Remember seeing any bases in the safe shallows Edit: It was on the Crash Zone. I'm Stoopid

[@lukedovzik2269]

No that base never appears in-game

[@CoolSpudMan]

​@@lukedovzik2269he means the aurora landed on it

[@Captain_Rex14]

Thanks for putting the lore info together. Listening to them in order in game is alright, but your visuals really bring out the story.

[@StalwartForce]

Nice vid man. Seems like this game is getting alot of new players as well.

[@atigerclaw]

"Come ON, Uncle Scrooge! There's adventure down in those caves!"

[@treybrzezowski3259]

17:00 This 15 second bit of Maida's Dialogue is brought to you by the Monster Hunter community! XD

[@combinecommando001]

Marguerrit surviving both kharrah and the void absolutely make no sense, it was just the devs desperately wanting to connect the first game with below zero, period.

[@escaped_cephalopod]

Yeah but its funny

[@combinecommando001]

@@escaped_cephalopod eh, fair enough. personally, I choose to just ignore Below Zero since it's a below average game in my opinion. I still love playing the 1st game at least once a year.

[@hitbox_91]

Love the Rimworld background music, if I heard that correctly. 👌 Thanks for putting the story together in the right order!

[@sotosgramm1478]

Great video i really enjoyed it, nice editing i would love to see a documentary on the precursor race and all their bases next!

[@Z4bra]

This was really good i would never have understanded this without you, thanks

[@hireath4295]

It'd be coll if you could repair their bases and use them in game

[@jdzencelowcz]

Good story, but Paul's comment screams sea dragon, if only the lines had been changed to 'as big as a cyclops' & 'mandibles', that woulda tracked.

[@Breathtaker5000]

It’s confirmed to be a reaper in the second game

[@kewure9132]

my question is, shouldn’t have the crews of the aurora and the degasi known about the mercury 2?

[@Boi_n]

You need to continue the degasi with the survival of meda in below zero

[@Sniperboss-bf9ux]

The only problem Iv ever had with this story it the degasi crew only really travel down and they never go over to the gun or describe any of the reapers they would have seen

[@thearkedwolf5754]

“Natural growth rate” Idk about you guys, but each growth bed can hold 16 Marblemelon seeds and 3 melons can fill my entire food and water. The fourth one can be replanted as 4 seeds. Not sure how they can’t survive. They should just get good.

[@Thefufflylord]

I'm enjoying these lore videos of yours. I'm curious though, why do people say that Paul was killed by the Crabsquid? I know there is the trailer, but how do people know that is actually Paul? Is it just speculation again? Regardless, are you going to continue with Below Zero lore? I think a deep dive (heh) video on the infected Ice Beast would be cool.

[@devoutrelic1228]

I've always assumed Paul was indirectly killed by a Warper. He descripes seeing a "blue light" below him, but when he swims closer it's gone, causing him to wonder if he'd seen anything at all. Then he simply drowns because he says he's low on oxygen.

[@Thefufflylord]

@@devoutrelic1228 Never, that does make a lot of sense and then I imagine that other creatures picked up the sense of his blood.

[@Breathtaker5000]

I got the information about Paul’s death from the wiki and the first trailer, where it shows (presumably) Paul getting attacked by a crabsquid

[@Breathtaker5000]

The trailer analysis bit is somewhat of an educated guess

[@devoutrelic1228]

@@Breathtaker5000 In the absence of any actual definitive answer to how he died, that interpretation is just as good as mine. Personally I like mine better simply because I like the Warpers, but yours would give the Crabsquid some love. The Warpers are already credited in killing basically half of all the survivors, so they can settle for having killed one less.

[@VeryBigAustralianIcePlanet]

This is actually amazing the base remakes the story telling is just👌

[@Johnny-yw3sr]

Amazing work you really took your time and put in all the leg work 👍👍💯

[@Breathtaker5000]

Glad you enjoyed watching it, it was a lot of fun to make :)

[@Trollgernautt]

Personaly I always thought the "kraken" that attacked the 500 depth base was a Seadragon, not a reaper. Paul mentions tentacles, calls it a kraken and reapers are the prey of seadragons, so maybe a fresh one was too much to pass up? And of course ingame mechanics lock creatures on each biome, but in nature animals, even more apex predators, do as they please, so it's not that hard to imagine a seadragon hunting for reapers outside the lava zones. i feel bad for Bart, he was young and such a romantic, kid deserved better. Does anyone know when the Degasi crashed on 4546B? Like how many years/months before the Aurora? I might have missed that information. But the greatest mystery of all to me is why a Mongolian had such a thick Scotish accent... guess we'll never know...

[@thegermanfool8953]

An amazingly put together video!

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thank you :)

[@calinchefalan5745]

This was a great video, just the outro though, from scary to normal/happy

[@Undstu]

Video deserves millions of likes. Fr looks like it took hours, let alone the editing. Great video man. 👍

[@moviemaker2011z]

agreed, this is absolutely fantastic. great storytelling and presentation for the win here.

[@gottothetop2]

You should do the mercury 2 next idk the story behind that

[@Breathtaker5000]

It’s on my list

[@ManfiCat]

How about the story of Robin's sister's workmates, like Parvan and Fred?@@Breathtaker5000

[@Andrija-r2w]

Aurora was probably sent to help degassi but even Aurora was broken on same way

[@AbC-pj2op]

Knowing there is a glactic mongol empire. Its possible that some words in the game are in mongolian. And i am mongolian. Do you know that kharaa (хараа) means vision in mongolian . If we add the letter l to the word. Kharaal (хараал) would be the word curse in mongolian . Idk if this helps you or not but.. the more you know ig

[@escaped_cephalopod]

Huh that’s kinda cool!

[@trevorcsizmar2222]

i think a games based around the degasi crew where you play as bart

[@trevorcsizmar2222]

would be cool

[@Elkay_J]

One thing I've never noticed before. At the end Bart says "the visions are getting worse" as far as I'm aware, visions are not a symptom of the virus. Was the sea dragon empress contacting Bart with visions in the same way she contacts the player?

[@HolUnd96]

I know the creature we heard did sound like a reaper but the waypaul describes it it sounds more like a sea dragon, as the reaper isnt much longer than a cyclops by like 3 meters, hes says kraken, and with how close they were to the lost river even being right near sea dragon kill you can scan, its more likely a sea dragon smelled the injured reaper and came looking for an easy meal as the scent just happened to be coming from where one of the exits to his hunting grounds

[@lordfury18]

Reaper: i am the apex predator up here!!!! Marguerite: *are you sure about that?*

[@escaped_cephalopod]

Marguerite: There is no god up here OTHER THAN ME

[@Zynthex]

Nice video, you deserve way more subscribers!

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thanks! I appreciate the compliment :)

[@Shaduww]

How did Bart know his dad and marg died if he was the first to leave

[@escaped_cephalopod]

He probably saw them

[@GatTheCat]

margeruit sounds like Valkyrie from apex just a lil bit older.

[@hewhoc8664]

Brilliant content and very well narrated 👍🏻👍🏻

[@leorickpccenter]

Awesome. Love this game. I might be diving back soon.

[@LukTheKing]

I’ve always wondered why we can’t find the degasi wreck in game. Or can we? Maybe I haven’t explored enough to know

[@Breathtaker5000]

My guess is it drifted further out to sea and sank in the void

[@shaden99]

I am listening this story another time and this video is done amazingly. Now if I have to be honest, Margaritue is the best and badass character in the game. Great expert on surviving and she knows what to do and how to survive. Sure, she was reckless but still, she wanted to discover the truth. Bart is also a cool character. Curious around the world and he was determined to find the cure. Too bad he didn't make it. About Paul, even though he is elder, he was arrogant and completely listens only to himself and stuborn. He was a poor and incompetent leader and he couldn't make a proper decision that would help them to survive and finding the truth. So, yeah. Very interesting story of Degasi crew.

[@monke1002]

paul wanted to play it safe, really, would you want to descent 500 meters below sea to a biome with fking electric crabsquids just because the mercenary you hired wants to explore more and endanger your 19 yro son?, margaret was arrogant too, she literally brougth reaper remains without thinking that she migth be tracked by the smell, if the crew listened to paul, they would have died peacefully in the surface

[@shaden99]

@@monke1002 Well, you have a good point there. If they could work together, they might survive longer. They both are partially to blame.

[@serenastarz28]

20:20 If you review the data point where they talk about the virus for the first time, they all admit to having the symptoms, but because it can’t be confirmed by the system as to whether or not they actually have it it’s entirely possible that one of them could’ve had symptoms But not actually had the virus. They could’ve simply had blisters, rashes, coughing, wheezing, all sorts of stuff, but not actually actually have been infected.. there’s also several theories on how Marta survived. My personal belief is that she was never really infected in the first place and simply had symptoms that caused them to believe she was also infected when she was in fact not. Due to the fact that in subzero, you find Marta well and alive, and from what I can understand, the cure was only introduced after the latest ship, in Subnautica crashed. One of the only way for her possibly to remain alive is that she was given antibodies of a sort before she was infected. as we know from current stuff, vaccines and cures are fairly different. And it’s vastly harder to cure someone who’s already sick than to prevent someone from getting sick in the first place. My theory is that she was never sick and when she escaped the leviathan and ended up eating it and surviving in it, the leviathan are essentially vaccines because they produce an enzyme similar to the one that cures the virus Making it so that their body are constantly subjected to the virus, and then slowly work through it therefore producing antibodies to combat against the virus. This would explain how none of the Leviathan in the entire series are ever shown to have the virus. Combined with the fact that might be just extremely lucky in the fact that she’s less susceptible to the virus., could prove how she survived the subzero. I got the idea well, all of the plots and theories were drifting through my head and the medical officer who scanned himself and the couldn’t identify what he had because it wasn’t in the system. It occurred to me that he definitely had. Karaw, someone could be convinced that they had the virus while not actually having it simply by having symptoms similar, but because the system can’t identify when they have the virus, they can’t identify who has it and who has just symptoms.. after listening to the system, it’s entirely possible that because directly after their fight, they started branching apart that no one actually had time to investigate and make sure she was actually sick. It also makes a lot more sense that both of the men were immunocompromised to the virus due to the fact that they are genetically related and it is shown that Bart dies from the virus. It is also highly possible that his father had the virus. But not being of the same blood as could possibly have not gotten it in the first place. There are no telling us how much time exactly spend next to each other or in contact or who sleeps in what beds together but if I had to guess the tour related, they spent more time together and eventually infected each other. One thing that doesn’t add up that I remember very clearly is when went out to get the teeth or the tusks that they needed for the glass to build the observatory or whatever is that she came back with a gash in her arm, which would’ve made her get the virus Into her bloodstream just as the medical officer did later on in time. Instead of her, becoming resistant to the virus, it’s possible that she did it. Her jeans are weird. She could’ve already been neutral to it. That or by some weird chance, her body also produces the similar enzymes that the leviathans produce and she was able to manage to survive that way until the cure 10 years later. It also just occurred to me that when she went out and got the gash she might’ve been fighting a leviathan and might’ve been introduced to antibodies that way, but I’d have to go back in the video and re-look at what creature attacked her because I actually don’t think it was that. I think it was a jelly stalker or something.

[@serenastarz28]

Please keep in mind. I’ve never actually watched anyone play through the game nor have. I played through the game myself. I’ve just watched several videos on a deep dive Nautica and one video on how Marta possibly survived. And in a half an awake half asleep thought produced this idea. it’s entirely possible that Marta was the one who gave the virus to the rest of the crew because they didn’t really go outside from what we can gather from the Datta points. and she got a gash in her skin which would’ve introduced her to the virus, through her bloodstream. Which she then would’ve transferred to the other occupants bart and his father. But that would mean there was a giant plot hole on the developers part on how Marta survived, unless it had to do with her introducing the virus straight into her bloodstream and them simply catching it from her. Its Entirely possible she didn’t catch the virus, and the virus was introduced through Bart studying a whole bunch of flora and Fana. But everything will remain in mystery.

[@kewure9132]

i remember that quote from the trailer “we shouldn’t have gone so deep”