The 12 Survivors of Subnautica - Full Story Explained!

In the late 22nd century, the Alterra Long-Range Capital Ship "Aurora" is sent to the Ariadne Arm to construct a phasegate. Unknown to most of the crew, the journey also sought to investigate the disappearance of the Mongolian vessel "Degasi". When passing by the oceanic planet 4546B, the Aurora is struck on its starboard side by a massive energy pulse originating from the planet's surface. Lifepods 1-25 were launched, but due to the damage, lifepods 26-50 were inoperable. While attention is usually focused on the events leading up to the crash, as well as the insane story of Ryley Robinson, little thought is given to the 12 other survivors who, for a time, found themselves locked in a battle for survival on an alien world. This report aims to investigate lifepod locations and PDA data in order to paint a picture of the survivor's individual situations, movements, and to draw an informed conclusion regarding how each person met their demise.

[@xavierburval4128]

I just realized, Keen and Yu were probably the closest out of anyone to survival. If they had just chosen to stay on the island and wait for other survivors, they would have eventually met up with Ryley after a few days or weeks depending on how fast the player progresses, and from there they would have greatly increased chances of survival. Although the Degasi logs mention that the island wasn’t sustainable for a permanent stay, the two probably could have survived long enough for Ryley to show up, and the three of them likely could have all escaped. Yu’s decision to go to the Aurora was pretty much the only reason they didn’t survive.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Yeah, if they had only waited a little while longer, it could have made everything much easier

[@spongefcknbob6575]

Question is, would they get the infection if they just stayed on the island. Or is it to late/ not even save on land to begin with

[@xavierburval4128]

@@spongefcknbob6575 well the story said a warper started to follow them the moment they left the island, implying they were already infected beforehand. It’s not clear whether they would have survived long enough to be cured, but there is evidence that the safe shallows help delay the infection because the enzyme-carrying peepers, and assuming the three of them set up a permanent base in that area (as most people do), they would have some extra time. And again, having three people instead of one would almost certainly accelerate progression towards the cure. Building three Neptune Rockets might get costly, but that doesn’t matter as much since at that point you’ve won anyways.

[@wdf_skar]

@@xavierburval4128 I'm pretty sure all 3 could fit on 1 rocket, albeit maybe a bit more unsafely

[@keidkirk6905]

​@@wdf_skarI believe that the Neptune Escape Rocket has life support for one person, but they could have built more of them

[@The_Zoophile_Hater851]

Bro the captain was a W, he sacrificed himself to give the survivors a chance to live.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Yeah, He is definitely one of the most under appreciated heroes in the game.

[@Unbeatcross]

His plan almost worked before it went boom the aroura was pretty under dameged and with a few weeks of work it probably could have been repaired

[@AceFaz]

@@Unbeatcross Well yeah, but as soon as the Aurora took off again, the gun would've shot it again, lol.

[@Unbeatcross]

@@AceFaz I meant if they shut off the quarantine enforcement platform

[@AceFaz]

@@Unbeatcross They didn't know about the gun though.

[@Isaac_646]

I have a theory as to why you can never see the other survivors. Ryley was knocked unconscious in his lifepod, and he must have been unconscious for a long time. During that time, all the other survivors perished. Honestly i think this game handles how lonely and hopeless things are at the start of the game.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Yeah, I think you are correct

[@livingsiren7911]

At the same time however, that’s quite a long time for a fire to be going in his life pod without spreading and burning him alive. I’d day he was out for just a few hours, and that the unfortunate circumstances of the other pods and the decisions made by some of those in the pods made for a quick period of there demises

[@jonharrison3114]

@@livingsiren7911I was more thinking of smoke inhalation but yeah

[@cat_03tv]

I mean the fire could've started a bit after planetfall with the main cause being that damaged system you repair fairly quickly. So... technically Riley could be unconscious for quite some time, so that we're only ten mins away from the Aurora's drive core exploding when we go into the game

[@ButterDog42069]

according to the logs on Aurora's black box, within 8 hours of the crash there was only 1 human life signature being tracked, that being Riley so that means they all died within those 8 hours. That's kinda quick, but makes sense, since the water surface really isn't that big in the game, it's barely 1 square mile, so all the events described in logs could easily happen in that time. My headcanon, is that the lifepods with personnel not prepared for survaval probably died within a couple of hours if not less. The first one to go was probably the lifepod with a crew member and a passenger that blew up. It probably took less than an hous from the crash for that to happen. The other deaths like lifepods 4 or 17 were stretched out within those 8 hours, being picked off by local wildlife or unfortunate circumstance. Yu and Keen probably died somewhere around the 8 hour mark which is also around the same time Riley wakes up. Techically it is possible that Keen is still alive by the time you wake up, but is then shorty after killed somewhere in the ocean while you swim around collecting junk in safe shallows

[@lukedovzik2269]

24:10 It's crazy that the Aurora had 157 passengers but only 50 life pods each only equipped for 2 people for a total capacity of 100 it's like Titanic all over again

[@Breathtaker5000]

fr, there are some eire parallels

[@Fion355]

The scary thing is....Thats normal. Its simply assumed that enough people will stay back/are injured/dead so that the rest can flee.

[@AceFaz]

That's all that was required for the safety inspection, loll.

[@clan741]

Its even funnier because the pods can easily fit a third seat, or more.

[@AceFaz]

@@clan741 Tbf, Just adding seats doesn't mean it's safe for more people. The pods contain nutrient bars and bottled water for 2 people, and the pods are set up to carry the weight of 1-2 people. Adding an extra person in the pod, would mean adding a seat, more resources like food and water, and reworking the floatation devices to balance the weight. It might also just not be legal to put 3 people into a life pod, since if something happens to the pod, all 3 would die. It makes sense that regulations would max them out at 2 people per pod. It would be far more expensive, and likely even less safe, to add another person in the pod.

[@WomanSlayer69420]

Lifepod 3 definitely didn’t make it, the blast hole on the lifepod and the seaglide fragment next to it tells you everything you need to know. The seaglide overloaded and exploded and killed the crew because they rigged a power cell to it instead of a battery.

[@MasterOfTruck]

"assuming it doesnt overload 3 meters from the lifepod". thing didnt even make it _OUT_ of the lifepod. im assuming it was almost an instantaneous detonation after it was switched on.

[@vadandrumist1670]

I suppose with dropping in the second safest biome the only way they could die before the player gets to them would have to be through sheer stupidity.

[@ggholdengo]

@@vadandrumist1670 you probably shouldn't blame them, I mean seriously, why would the hell altera provide one seaglide for a lifepod that carries two? Why would lifepod 5 not even have a seaglide?

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

​@@ggholdengoscummy corporation tactics?

[@Trainboi1983]

@@NiCoNiCoNiColaAvery Quinn did say,quote “these altera ships,they run low on engine grease,send a distress signal,you reply back,no answer”

[@user-bv7zo6vd4m]

Honestly the ones how managed to board life pods were the unfortunate minority, because they died slow and painful deaths from sea monsters, disease and drowning, or God forbid, landing in the void, wich is what we have to assume happened to all the other starboard life pods. Everyone on the Aurora probably died imidiatly. Also, something is seriously wrong with the floatation systems, just 2 out of 25 if them worked

[@skiamach6208]

Yes, it was clear when all of the scenarios were put together that quality control missed a flaw in the flotation devices. :) But it is possible that more of the flotation devices worked on those that landed in the void.

[@RM43]

@@VanyaTheSlavicYu’s is the farthest KNOWN lifepod landing location, we have no clue where the majority of the 25 that launched ended up

[@SuperDestroyerFox]

@@user-bv7zo6vd4m Just a quick correction. They Aurora did mean to land on the planet to see what happened to the Degasi.

[@wanderingpenguin6705]

It’s ironic that the only other lifepod that stayed floating was flipped and the guy got killed.

[@PyroGam3s]

@@SuperDestroyerFox I highly doubt they would have landed the Aurora when searching for the Degasi. Most likely kept it in orbit and use some sort of other vehicle for surveying the planet.

[@sjeason]

The worst part about this is considering how the timing has to work out, it’s likely we only miss some of these survivors by hours or minutes. Especially lifepod 3, it’s so close to where we start and they’re probably still alive when we wake up.

[@ntfoperative9432]

Hell, it’s entirely Possible with how close he was Keen literally SAW us moments before his death

[@gothamwarrior]

@@ntfoperative9432I doubt it since you can’t find his body

[@kuroanimates]

@@gothamwarrior That could be more of a game design decision instead of a lore decision

[@gothamwarrior]

@@kuroanimates You can also find the PDA Keen left on the island right off the bat if you go straight to the Floating Island. Keen and Yu are dead before you get out of your lifepod.

[@FormerlyEpicjcat]

You can see keen i dont think so? Idk my friend always remember a scene where a leviathan eats somebody@@ntfoperative9432

[@vadandrumist1670]

Seeing all these together makes me want to see a multiplayer session with proximity voice chat (severely limited underwater without a craft equipped with functional radios when crafted), possibly on the hard mode mod with permadeath and random start. Imagine starting with 12 people only for several of them to immediately die due to poor spawns, and the rest over time to whatever bad luck takes them.

[@PpVonDronAnd11Eyeballs]

That could probably be turned into a cool hardcore series between friends or on KZbin. Reminds me of the hardcore series’s PBG and his friends did

[@enterauh2070]

That actually sounds really fun. Would be cool to have the option to pair as a duo in the same lifepod.

[@travisjames5]

Ahh yeah getting statis rifled and thermo knifed to death.

[@aoisora1445]

and then it becomes a game of survival as one of them among you is a Reaper, being all friendly roaring into the radio as they proceed to do the unthinkable and hunt you down in the safe shallows, until they team up with stasis rifles to take you down...

[@Trainboi1983]

I like that idea,except it’s just survival

[@telemachbreuer601]

what I find astonishing, is that almost all of the at first surviving crew members died of failing flotation devices and the rest did on their incompetence

[@brodriguez11000]

Did they even have drills?

[@SuperDestroyerFox]

@@brodriguez11000 What drill. The lifepods either malfunctioned themselves, without a way to know it without using them, or random workers didn’t have survival skills.

[@MrBulbo-oz1es]

@@SuperDestroyerFox I think they meant emergency safety drills, but the fact they mustered to the lifepods in the first place answers that.

[@SuperDestroyerFox]

@@MrBulbo-oz1es Even then Alterra is too greedy to stop workers for a few days for basic safety.

[@voidwaypr]

The lifepod 6 passenger always seems to grind me up from how stupid she was considering the other one managed to withstand radiation long enough to get the materials for 2 suits. Probably would've made it if the passenger wasn't playing with a bomb.

[@deadlydiamond]

I always thought the crewmembers of Lifepod 3 died as a result of their Seaglide going haywire during a test as a result of the guy tampering with it in order to increase the speed, mainly because there is a siginificant sized hole in the side of the Lifepod, and the fact that there is a damaged Seaglide near it; so I thought it went out of control, and rammed the two crewmembers into the Lifepod, resulting in an explosion

[@MasterOfTruck]

it overloaded inside the lifepod. when you look at the hole, the metal is bent outwards, indicating the explosion happened inside. the guy rigged a powercell to it instead of a battery to greatly increase efficiency and it overloaded. makes for cruel irony when the log says "assuming it doesnt overload 3 meters from the lifepod" only to realize it never even made it _out_ of the lifepod before that happened.

[@raionshishi8290]

@@MasterOfTruck Yep, that is straight up bad luck

[@Trainboi1983]

All I can think of,is the sea glide bouncing around in the life pod,and exploding a minute after,and it’s killing me of laughter

[@deadlydiamond]

@@Trainboi1983 that's actually pretty good

[@DetectiveWraith]

So, basically, the Aurora was not equipped to deal with giant space lasers?

[@Breathtaker5000]

That sums things up quite well 🤣

[@williammarkle8472]

They didn’t know that would happen but the real question is the bases on the floating island in the back of the ship how long has the player been out to the point it started to rust

[@featgorgon3985]

@@williammarkle8472the degasi crew landed on the planet like 10 years prior to the events of subnautica, those bases were not recent structures, the bases you find on the island were not built by aurora survivors

[@Pagrandukas810]

He was out for 3 hours

[@argentin2306]

​@@williammarkle8472not rust actually, more like filth (titanium doesn't naturally rust like iron, and the damage on the bases is due to rocks collapsing and effecting the structure on itself)

[@argentin2306]

Riley essentially survived because: 1_ He had a lot of luck by landing on the shallow part 2_ He was an introvert and thus didn't send any message through the radio (Warpers detected other survivors due to them attaching the coordinates on the transmissions they sent)

[@Breathtaker5000]

Pretty much

[@allodickasaurus7797]

Riley couldn't send any messages through his radio as it was broken.(could only receive but not send messages)

[@gregoryl.levitre9759]

@@allodickasaurus7797 which is a plot hole considering the fact that he repairs the radio.

[@DetectiveWraith]

@@gregoryl.levitre9759 and because… eventually you make a new radio in a habitat…

[@ahmataevo]

Riley survives the warpers, reapers, and ghost leviathans because he makes the stasis rifle and knife early enough.

[@Mrqwerty2109]

After the disaster, Alterra's Board of Directors created The Aurora Commission, to analyze the emergency response and immediate aftermath of the crash, as well as events preceding it. They're findings included: that there were not enough lifepods to accommodate all 157 crew and passengers aboard, only fitting enough for 100; that of the 50 lifepods onboard, only 22 jettisoned before splashdown; that the entire starboard set of 12 lifepods landed in the inhospitable ocean void of planet 4546b, with their occupants lost at sea; that of the 10 lifepods to survive the initial crash, only 2 had correctly functioning flotation devices, with the remaining 8 having either failed to deploy or malfunctioned; and that the sheer hostility of the planet caused the deaths of 12 of the 13 survivors of the initial crash. After this incident, Alterra did not alter its regulations for minimum lifepod requirements nor its standards for flotation devices.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Alterra in a nutshell 🤣

[@JD..........]

"corporation Bad" Pretty transparent.

[@luisemoralesfalcon4716]

You would think after the significant investment you would try to make sure of the crew survives, that planet is a goldmine and they could have established a modest mining operation making use of the alien portals taking them to the lowest and resource rich caverns.

[@vladvulcan]

And covered up the whole story

[@thebigcheeseslice]

all of the survivors: fucked, dead, somehow survived. stubborn ryley: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

[@voidwaypr]

With Lifepod 7 I think how he died was that he was trying anything and everything with the fabricator trying to have it make something useful, and then it created some kind of explosive that destroyed the pod. The hole goes outwards, so it was something from the inside that had to have destroyed it

[@williammorgan1159]

nah it just created the markiplier bobblehead and they died out of confusion lol

[@vladvulcan]

@@williammorgan1159 lmao

[@CoolSpudMan]

The ending seems perfectly in universe I would like to imagine that the memorial video was made by altera but considering they still made ryley pay the 100000000000 credits after he survived, they probably wouldnt care that much

[@graciecat9694]

Maybe it was made by Ryley himself, then. :3

[@masterofwriters4176]

It might do more than you think. With subnautica occouring an unknown number of years in the future, inflation may make 1000000000000 credits less of an unpayable sum than you think

[@michaelwhary7697]

Yeah, it's like better to just stay on the ocean planet than for you to go back cuz that debt is too high.

[@alchemysaga3745]

#12 Accepted the fact that cheating his way through medical school is going to kill him rather quickly. Shock is a hell of a drug.

[@raionshishi8290]

Shit it's honestly pretty realistic for him to come to that conclusion, who wouldn't XD, cheated and ended up in a bad situation not knowing what to do, yea that checks out.

[@redflag0477]

Do you ever wonder if Riley ever felt survivors guilt we never hear about him in the second game.

[@1th_to_comment.]

He might have

[@emilyrasputin]

He's probably in debtor's prison 😳

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

He seems like a guy who doesn't care and on top of that: he's a janitor. All these highly trained professionals and the only survivor is a janitor, man probably feels much more superior than anyone on the ship

[@matheusexpedito4577]

​@@NiCoNiCoNiCola that's why he survived, ever stepped on wet floor that had just been cleaned? If the janitor doesn't crack your skull he will surely make you need a wheelchair

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

@@matheusexpedito4577 Riley is so competent, he cleaned the crater clean from the Kharaa

[@nathanieljohnson5430]

I feel really bad for the two who drowned in particular. Idk why that bothers me more then getting eaten by bonesharks but I guess its the steady hopelessness of swimming for hours only for it to not matter as your strength slowly fails.

[@RhazOfRheos]

Theres movie with this setting.. I think its The Reef.

[@Octokillz_]

They didnt drown, the seaglide overloaded and exploded

[@asteropax6469]

Thank you for the documentation! That erases 1 million credits from your debt. You currently have 999,999,000,000 credits left to pay! - Alterra Corporation

[@Breathtaker5000]

LMAO! 😆

[@Ainavol_sans]

Time to run from the IRS-

[@monad_tcp]

no way 25 diamonds were that expensive. also the "green cubes" can just be smuggled

[@monad_tcp]

@@Ainavol_sans I'd prefer to be eaten by a leviatan

[@DrYeet2704]

Honestly, you’d have thought that the Aurora would have had energy shields like what the Cyclops has, albeit on a much larger scale and could probably run nearly indefinitely as long as the drive core was working. Kinda strange that they had that tech available with the Cyclops, but not with the Aurora.

[@AceFaz]

Costs too much money for Alterra to do that. Literally just cheaper to pay off the families of the dead.

[@garryuyahoo]

The cyclops shields use a LOT of energy. I'm sure the Aurora had navigational shields like your escape rocket, but the power available to the quarantine laser would have outclassed anything mounted to a ship.

[@hentaisailor5951]

@@garryuyahoo i know i'm late but true especially because the damage done to the aurora us beyond the capabilities of any weapon known to man so their shields probably wouldn't matter

[@nolsee1176]

I get where you’re coming from, but the readouts of the Quarantine Enforcement Platform show that it uses a shockingly high amount of energy (100 of the most powerful nuclear weapons on Earth, at least) concentrated into a single beam. I doubt any shield available to Alterra would matter.

[@raionshishi8290]

The Cyclops Shields is capable of withstanding a Leviathan class creatures attack for a few sustained seconds if I remember correctly. Yet it also uses a lot of energy just to keep them active. Even at a larger scale I don't think it could withstand the power of the QEP. The PDA states the energy core "houses energy equivalent to a 100MT nuclear detonation." For comparison, the nuclear bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki had explosive payloads of about 15 kilotons (Little Boy) and 20 kilotons (Fat Man); at most, a fiftieth of a percent of the energy core's output. The core's output is still about more than twice the 50-58 megaton payload of the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba. It would not be able to withstand that kind of power, and the energy cost itself would be outstanding.

[@nomanstuber4291]

I've always wondered how the survivors ended up dying, like, I knew 12 most likely died because of Kharaa and 13 dying on impact but this video basically gave me the information I was looking for. Thanks for making it!

[@brodriguez11000]

Flotation devices made by the lowest bidder.

[@thesagerodel4485]

This was really well done, I'm going to show this to my friend. CTU officer got herself and the first mate killed; she should've just adhered to orders.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thanks! Imagine an alternate scenario where keen and Yu survived and were able to meet up with the player

[@thesagerodel4485]

@@Breathtaker5000 That would've been amazing. To think Riely was out cold for the hours it took for every one else to die. Warpers are burtal. The only other one that was really sad IMO was the two from lifepod 6; that rich woman's arrogance, ego and entiltlement got them both killed when they could've survived too. If she had been a litle less impatient then 5 people could've met at the rendezvous.

[@NayiraBooth]

Should be a mod

[@moviemaker2011z]

@@Breathtaker5000think we can get a mod that makes that happen?

[@artomania4212]

Subnautica did a gr8 job at potraying womanin both of the lmao 😂 ☕

[@todesengel6348]

The beginning part where the captain is saying he needs to stay always makes me really sad. You can almost tell in his voice that he’s trying to not think about the fact that he’ll probably die, especially when he says “Negative”. He hesitates a little

[@CuteHalo]

About lifepod 3: I always assumed that the engineer had the right suspicions about the power cell exploding, because there is the rest of a seaglide just outside the lifepod, I believe the only you can scan outside a cargo box (unsure about that), and that explosion killed them. I also wondered about Jochi Kasaar (sp?). You know, ‘Send immideate burial detail’. Is he not considered a survivor? It would be harsh to record his name BEFORE launching, or during descent, where he is much more agitated. Just my 2 cents/points about it! I loved the rest of it. And of course: please prove me wrong😊

[@Breathtaker5000]

You are probably right about life pod 3, I never thought about that. I would imagine Jochi Kasaar had his name recorded when he boarded the aurora, since he was a Mongolian, and his name would need to be put into the system

[@sabrinasugar2819]

I don’t think Kasaar made it though. Doesn’t his recording have him praying for his soul before death? I think the AI sent out the send immediate burial detail because he’s dead and “important.”

[@CuteHalo]

@@sabrinasugar2819 A hesitant ‘I see your point’, I’ll give you that. Remember: the radio message: «Jochi Kasaar. I said Kasaar! Why do I have to record this anyway?» That is not the recording from him entering the Aurora, I believe. He is a diplomat, and for too educated to scoff at protocol like that. Also, I don’t believe that recording would follow the lifeboat passenger, it is too much of a hassle. No, I believe that line is recorded after planetfall. It makes more sense that he doesn’t understand why he cannot just be rescued (remember the passenger from nr 6 with the same non-comprehension), but the lifepod knows this is not a salvagable situation. What do you think?

[@tatsumiuchiha5559]

I'm just really sad about how close some of them were to meting up with Riley. Coz Riley got really lucky, he landed with most of his lifepod fine and with access to abundant resources including food (peepers) and water (bladderfish). Most of all, he essentially landed on the peak of the underwater volcano, making it very easy to access Oxygen, not to mention the lack on any predators in the region. Because of that, his "early game" was relatively very easy compared to what all the others faced... he had time and resources to build all sorts of equipment, including the scanner and repair tool as well as O2 tanks and the seaglide. And even a base. What all of that means is that all the people that were not in immediate danger due to predators and stuff, could have survived because when Riley would come to meet them he'd be with a seaglide or seamoth or even a Cyclops. He had essential tools, lots of batteries, etc. because of his location, and hence could have easily picked them up and set them up with a big base. Keen and Yu for example, if they had waited like Keen wanted to, Riley could have reached them on a Seamoth, at which point he could inform them of the passing (or potential rescue) of other members, and taken them to safety. Or build them a base there, I mean resources isn't really an issue when you have submarines. One of the reasons why the Degasi crew died off was because they had setup bases in progressively worse locations instead of even the Grassy Plateaus for some reason (why did they go in the cave with the giant snakes), and weren't really willing to venture down (not sure if they had the means to... coz we did get a lot of important blueprints from the wrecks of the Aurora itself) and thus didn't make it to the Sea Emperor (coz Maida would have 100% been able to outmaneuver the Sea Dragons and Ghosts based on how she just randomly went and HUNTED a Reaper for Bart to research).

[@The_Real_Coral_Grimes]

This comment made me appreciate how intricate this game really is. Like it could have just been “Crash in water planet. Avoid shark. Get material. Build rocket and go.” But there’s so much lore and depth to this game. This is a game that would be awesome for a live action show/movie adaptation.

[@dannymac4801]

Imagine the lawsuits for the complete failure of close to all of the life pods emergency floatation devices if this really happened.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Knowing Alterra, they’ll probably just cover it up…

[@SnobbyBird_]

this was phenomenal. there aren’t many channels that go this far to make a great video

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thanks so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it :D

[@PolyphonicSpr33]

I'd found all the disparate lifepod locations and accompanying pdas, so I already knew what happened to them all. But I came across that knowledge in a very fragmented, haphazard way while playing the game. So, it's really cool to see it all compiled like this and even presented like it's an investigation report from the agency that looked into the crash. Well done video 👏🏼👏🏼

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thank you 😀

[@powerboy101]

They should make a mod or DLC where many more people survive and make it to the rondevu and the player meets up with them and it changes the game completely

[@Breathtaker5000]

that would be awesome

[@BonkMaster363]

Call it Subnautica Survivors and you have a done deal

[@ryllis4293]

YES!!!!Keen and human resources lady`s death made me really sad

[@user-vc8lu9eb1l]

subnautica multiplayer in a nutshell-make it very hard and very challneging to survive

[@chrischrisdaman]

If there was a subnautica movie, I’d want it to be about the other survivors

[@Breathtaker5000]

Yeah, that’d be awesome

[@AceFaz]

They'd probably have all the survivor deaths scattered throughout the movie as Riley learns what happened. I doubt they'd make a whole movie, where we get introduced to 1-2 characters, then they die. Then we get introduced to another 1-2 characters, and they die. Lol

[@chrischrisdaman]

@@AceFaz well, I’d think it would be we get introduced to all the characters at the beginning on the aurora and spend some time there, then when it crashes, we then switch around between the different survivors as they slowly get picked off before finally CTO yu and second officer keen meet up and go on their fated voyage toward the aurora.

[@AceFaz]

@@chrischrisdaman So we get introduced to just under 20 characters, then watch them all die? Even with a 2 hour runtime, every character would average just over 6 minutes of individual screentime. Not really a lot of time to actually get attached to the character for the deaths to be meaningful. Would also kinda be a bad movie if everyone just keeps dying, with no actual plot or resolution :/

[@chrischrisdaman]

@@AceFaz eh, fair enough now that I think about it

[@LazyB0i]

I wonder, did the two crew members from lifepod 3 pass Riley's lifepod then on their way to the rendezvous? and if so. Why didn't they wake him up or stop there to rest/resupply etc.? Unless they were in the part of the safe shallows close to aurora and underwater, they should've seen lifepod 5. Just wondering.

[@Breathtaker5000]

I've thought about that, my best guess is that is was a combination of two factors 1. Them having to be underwater to use their seaglide 2. They more preoccupied on getting to the rendezvous point alongside scanning the water for predators, thus never having much of a reason/chance to check the surface for other lifepods.

[@LazyB0i]

@@Breathtaker5000 Yeah that does make sense since they know more people will be at the rendezvous point, another good reason could be that did they see lifepod 5, but since it was floating and perfectly fine (and since it was also in the safe shallows with plenty of resources) they assumed whoever was in there is already heading to (or at) the rendezvous.

[@LazyB0i]

Another thing I wondered too was that, since Lifepod 3,4, and 6 (and 5 for 3 and maybe 6) were so close to each other. Wouldnt they able to see each other? And if so, I wonder if they ever met up with each other or saw each other while getting supplies. I wonder if this couldve changed their survivability and the story (like if theyg rouped up and etc.) And again they couldve gone to 5. It woulde been cool if like you started to lifepod 3 4 and 6's crews at your lifepod and you have like a squad.

[@qwazer6150]

​@@Breathtaker5000There's a high chance that your guess is correct since they might also guess that most life pods at this point would've malfunctioned floatation device...

[@combinecommando001]

Do remember that Ryley's pod radio and main computer were damage, so unlikely emitted any signal, considering their journey was most likely underwater, they likely just swam right passed it

[@The1WhoCooks]

Honestly Subnautica has a really sad story of wat happened to the crew

[@Breathtaker5000]

For real, the story is so dark!

[@brodriguez11000]

Survivors would have made it multiplayer, or at least those games where one hops from character to character.

[@PizzaDragon56]

@@Breathtaker5000 yeah, and that doesn’t even include the sea emperor or the Degasi survivors

[@lytecannon]

Extremely well put together video. Wonderful to watch!

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thanks! I keep learning a lot with each one I make, so hopefully they will get even better.

[@slix54415]

Dude, lifepod 6 could have easily made it to the rendevous yet the idiotic passenger decided to blow them both up. they had a very lucky spot with nothing damaged.

[@gabeew_]

For real man, such a dumb decision from the passenger that costed their lives...

[@spongefcknbob6575]

You video is so high quality and so serious, my brain thinks it's a real story. A really sad one. I really felt every little fight for life of every life pod mentioned. Horrible deaths, even with best chances the infection would still get you. The game itself misses the logical part. The attack of a leviathan HAS to be deadly for every situation, same for swimming on your on vs something smaller like bone shark. With that much realism, curing the infection in time would be a real challenge. Would have loved a gamemode making Subnautica as much horror as it would have been if its a real story.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thanks! I definitely tried to take on a more serious tone with that video, glad you enjoyed :D

[@epicgamertool]

Can we all agree that lifepods 6 and 3 sold, I also don’t think Keen and Yu made the wrong decision to leave the island. Keen and Yu made a rational choice but they just got unlucky.

[@luckygamermemberofvma7903]

If they waited a few more days they would have round our guy.then Maybe a love story? idk

[@Space_Plays6259]

i feel so bad for keen…i knew the other lifepod people were probably dead but i got so excited when i heard he made it to land, and so sad and angry when i realised he was probably dead. i would’ve loved to have an extra survivor with me in my base, it gets so lonely in there!

[@gioflare4940]

This was incredible! Makes me wish there was an alternate story where you could try to help everyone survive and the complications that come with it

[@laurentdestrez1207]

This is why I hate games where you are the only survivor, it's very useful for the developer and obviously not realistic... I hate that.

[@Cattywattys]

Oh and please tell us why the game where you crash land on a water planet. Luckily not in the void. Needs to be more realistic. I’m sure being the only survivor is the least unrealistic thing here

[@iSomeDood]

@@laurentdestrez1207Below Zero was a big flop, a big reason for that was- surprise surprise- the dialogue and the missing feeling of being alone

[@halo129830]

@@iSomeDoodthat and they changed the story near the finish line seriously watch some of the alpha the story was freaking awesome.

[@iSomeDood]

@@halo129830 yeah, i got the BZ early access on day 1, i agree it was awesome. dont know why they keep firing employees who do an amazing job, but they have their reasons i guess?

[@isfrenchjei]

poor guy that is literally the underdog that built a spaceship in matter of months just to return with a trillion dollar debt 😭😭😭

[@luckygamermemberofvma7903]

Not to mention he probably lost some friends and maybe a lover

[@ItsChesterLavender]

I'm kinda late but my head canon is that when they told him about his debt, he just said "fuck off" and came back to 4546B and just lived there, since he's experienced and knows how to survive there

[@PizzaDragon56]

@@ItsChesterLavender and turned the QEP back on

[@digitalitsfridee2771]

Everyone talking about keen and yu, but ozzy could have easily made it out if he hadn’t waited for it to sink. I know he couldn’t have know if the surface air was breathable, but if he just left the life pod for a second he would’ve survived. Also after it sunk, they could’ve gone out of the jelly mushroom area so they could’ve survived that way. If they just left the lifeblood at all during the whole time they would’ve survived.

[@raionshishi8290]

For those of you who are confused by the fact that there is only 157 people aboard the Aurora despite it's massive size when compared to cruise ships on earth that are way smaller but house thousands of people. The Aurora is a research vessel. It's essentially a cargo ship by nature, meant mostly for transporting and storing materials. Think of massive container ships today which despite their size, are only manned typically by 20-30 people, which are comprised of the main officers and the rest are engineers. The Aurora is comparable to this, it's not a cruise ship or a vessel for many people to occupy, it's main focus is to explore, construct and gather, this requiring little space for people and more for other certain objects. Only having essential people aboard such as Command Team, Engineering Team, Support Crew. Tho there were passengers (9), they were likely representatives or high priority passengers for various reasons.

[@bird3094]

Knowing all of this makes Ryley’s situation even more terrifying knowing that you are completely alone on an alien planet completely oblivious of everything around you and knowing if you die no one would know and you would be written off as an accidental death. Knowing that if your sea moth or cyclops runs out of battery no one is coming to the rescue you are alone. That’s true fear and that’s why this game still scares me to this day

[@dampersaucer667]

Very well made :D. I walways wanted to know an in depth look at what happened to the other survivors

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@lordmoo7126]

I believe lifepod 3 try and modify the seaglide to take a power cell instead of a battery, which due to bad wiring blows up, because they have a massive explosion on their pod and nothing in the vicinity of that area would have the ability to destroy their pod like that.

[@keelykerr7249]

Lifepod 6 always angers me cause the crew member seemed pretty competent and likely would've lasted longer if not for that annoying passenger

[@JeffDeff-hp3el]

The captain and second officer were pretty good at their job, the doctor not so much.

[@AceFaz]

The doctor was good at just reading off the charts, which really was his entire job. Not so great at the whole Real Doctor bit though, lol.

[@Phillip12131]

Lifepod 6 had a decent chance if I’m being honest, if it weren’t for the passengers poor decision making

[@Paulene_hargrove]

For real! If the passenger hadnt been impatient or too scared to leave (understandable but still affected their chances), then they wouldnt have exploded their lifepod :( They had a decent chance, especially since the HR Manager found enough lead for two radiation suita

[@lunatickgeo]

Wait, if the lifepods could only hold 2 people each, and there were only 50 lifepods on the Aurora, that meant if there was an emergency 56 people would never be able to escape the ship!

[@wolfwarrior2213]

In this case only half of the life pods could be used yes there are 50 but only 25 on either side of the ship, and the beam hit one side pretty much annihilating half the lifepods

[@PizzaDragon56]

The Titanic be like

[@sharondornhoff7563]

Presumably the Prawn suits could also be used as in-space life capsules in a pinch, even if you can't descend to a planet in one.

[@lunatickgeo]

@@sharondornhoff7563 I don't think they have 56 Prawn suits though, although that would be a neat sequel to Subnautica...you're in space in a Prawn suit and you have to build a space station so you can build a vessel to get planetside

[@hashtagrex]

Alterra had completely lax quality control, with literally every single pod having a huge safety flaw that killed its crew (remember, even your pod was so badly damaged that there was a fire inside). It didnt have enough pods for the whole crew, almost none of the pods had sufficient supplies, etc etc etc. When designing an escape rocket, even that was a pile of junk that almost got destroyed by the debris field that it was *designed* to go through. The PDA had sufficient range to be able to scan for human life, as yours tell you, yet most of the survivors had no clue if anyone was alive, meaning essential basic survival tools were either not taught to be used or were completely locked off from the users. On top of that, the PDA kept a running tally of the cost of every single thing that you yourself gathered and built, giving you an unpayable debt on your return home after having narrowly survived. And not a single part of that is some dystopian fantasy, that is exactly how corporations operate when given free reign over governments. We are heading like a freight train to that future, where corporations in space operate with impunity and enslave people through "loopholes." Yet people will defend these corporations to their dying breath.

[@jackwoody270]

It's crazy to think that if that metal plate hadn't smacked Ryley in his head then he might have saved quite a few of the people from the life pods, not to mention that Yu and Keen would probably be alive

[@nitzan3782]

Considering the seaglide fragment directly adjacent to Lifepod 3, it's probable that the rigged power cell did, in fact, explode a meter from the lifepod.

[@AntonSlavik111]

I would have liked that the starboard Lifepods were not all destroyed and some or even one ejected out into space that way you could have a space spin off game while keeping the main Subnautica games water based.

[@AceFaz]

Well 13 of the lifepods are Completely missing. It's entirely possible that one got lost in space somehow.

[@HeatherHolt]

Subnautica reminds me of PREY a lot, prey being much more narrative heavy IMO but I imagine your idea would be very much like prey - floating around in space and finding other survivors or bodies and fabricating stuff from materials to progress. Gah prey is so good.

[@LDLaizare]

What about the two messages you intercept from the Warper network? They would indicate that the survivors are still alive before and after the Aurora explosion. And what about Khasar? The Mongolian emissary? He was traveling with the Aurora and a funeral procession in the event they found the Degassi crew dead.

[@deppintt8136]

For a ship as massive as the Aurora, the fact that it can only hold slightly over a hundred passengers is disappointing. That kind of ship could hold more than a thousand.

[@AceFaz]

Not really, if you take a look around the inside. It only has 50 lifepods, just enough to fit 100 people. The 157 that were brought, actually made it kinda overpacked.

[@deppintt8136]

@@AceFaz the issue is scale. It shouldn't only have 50 life pods. Such a massive ship could've had much more. A sea ship on Earth here can hold more people and mote life boats.

[@AceFaz]

@@deppintt8136 Yes, but look inside. Almost all of the ship's space, is taken up by storage for the materials needed to set up the phase gate. This isn't exactly meant to be a cruise ship to hold a bunch of people. It has the crew on board to build, that's all it needs. It was only Meant to carry enough humans, for the building process, while being large enough to store the building materials. This is clear from the massive storage room, and very clear implication that it shouldn't really have more than 100 people on board.

[@deppintt8136]

@@AceFaz that makes a lot of sense actually. Thanks for correcting me.

[@alanmorales4140]

If you notice the size of the rooms it’s clear they chose comfort over practicality

[@mando7346]

So those flotation devices on the pods were obviously made by the lowest bidder. They failed constantly to do their job on every pod except the one the player’s.

[@AceFaz]

Paying off the families for their losses, is cheaper than building actually safe ships.

[@garryuyahoo]

Technically pod 4 stayed afloat

[@paulslater1329]

Perfectly informative The timeline is a luttle confusing although its difficult to order these because of keen and yu surviving for longer. Great video you deserve way more attention!

[@NietoKT]

So... We are not going to talk about the Aurora not having enough lifepods to have all it's crew rescued in case of an emergency? Every lifepod is designed to have two men inside. There were 50 lifepods altogether. 50 x 2 = 100 100 < 157 And I won't even start about some of them being launched with just one pearson inside

[@Breathtaker5000]

Sadly, with how fast the ship went down, I imagine many didn’t even have a chance to make it down to the lifepods

[@NietoKT]

@@Breathtaker5000 what i meant by that is that they had installed too little escape pods for all the crew to launch safetly. It's the Titanic all over again. Too little lifepods, and some of them have been launched with just one crew (for example Riley's). Even if all of them had been launched succesfully, and all of them had been full, third of all the people ale left without any way of rescuing themselves

[@Fion355]

@@NietoKT Company greed and "humanity". Its not efficient to build enough pods for every member, so they simply gamble on their lifes that whatever happens kills enough people so the remaining crew can fit into these.

[@AceFaz]

@@NietoKT It was enough to pass the safety inspection ig, lol.

[@ironhelix306]

Subnautica is such an underrated gem. Lightning in a bottle. The 2nd game is ok but the smaller map i think hurt it more.

[@palemourningrose2463]

I really like how you made the tone of this video much more somber. We don’t talk about it as much as we could, but the stories of the Survivors are incredibly tragic. The terror, despair, and pain they must have suffered is unimaginable. I can only imagine Ryley being wracked with survivor’s guilt after escaping, knowing that in the end he was the only one lucky enough to land in the safe shallows and find enough resources to dive deeper. He fought for the right to survive, yes, but if he had landed virtually anywhere else, if his lifepod had detached a bit sooner or a bit later, if he hadn’t woken up from his concussion, he would be dead. No question.

[@gamingwithnate6941]

Another thing you have to remember is how close the Aurora was to the Dead Zone, Most likely, the reason we can only find 12 pods is because the remaining ones that launched ended up in the Void.

[@sharondornhoff7563]

Or possibly *under* the Aurora itself. Ouch...

[@gamingwithnate6941]

@@sharondornhoff7563 Never even thought about that, yikes...

[@user-ox3cq5gt3q]

I realized ALL of this probably happened while ryley (the player) was unconscious

[@KoriMasho]

This video is so, so well done. This is how I found your channel, and I have now watched it three times and binged some of your other vids. SO GOOD.

[@princesspupcake1269]

These Lifepods didn't seem like they were designed very well... Nearly all of them sank, and attracted predators as if they were just covered in some kind of bait.

[@nolsee1176]

I made the mistake of genuinely mentally putting myself in life pod 4 survivor’s shoes, with the lovely choices to wait for the life pod to be broken apart and then eaten, or swim like crazy for the ship with each second filled with dread beyond imagining. I know it’s dark, but I’d honestly just do myself in.

[@HeatherHolt]

Right! Like hope they’re stocked with enough to make the survival knife and then it’s goodnight nurse - I’d rather take myself out than wait to be eaten

[@atredfaolan]

4 seems to have been the most competent person to have been put in this situation, but still dealt an impossible hand. The guy didn’t miscalculate a thing; the decoys bought plenty of time, he just had no chance.

[@NayiraBooth]

How cool would a multiplayer version of this where you can play as different characters be? Like at the starting menu you choose who you wanna play as

[@alexaajw]

Best Subnautica video I have seen so far!!! Thanks for taking the time to put this together!!!

[@BruhMemeVault]

You create wonderfully put together videos. This is very comprehensive!

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thank you :) I feel like this game has such an amazing story, but so many people miss parts of it because you kind of have to go out of your way to learn it

[@dracorex426]

Wait. The Aurora had 157 Passengers and Crew, and was supposed to possibly rescue the crew of the Degasi, which would be up to another six people. That's 163 people. They has 50 lifepods, each with two seats... *HUUUUUUUBRIIIIIIIS!!!!!!!*

[@Terrariann]

The Aurora wasn’t going to the planet to rescue the degasi it was using the planet’s gravity to slingshot it self and got to close to the surface and the gun hit it

[@dahelmang]

A salute to the captain for going down with the ship, but with actual reasons instead of just because it was expected of him.

[@takedown205productions6]

It was probably the most reasonable use of the trope I've seen yet; without comm equipment, there's no use helping the survivors without contact to HQ. Captain went down with his ship, with the hope that everyone else has a shot in making it.

[@HeatherHolt]

@@takedown205productions6🫡🫡

[@raionshishi8290]

@@takedown205productions6 Yea the Captain of the Aurora goes unnoticed as the MVP to all the crew members that could have possibly survived. Massive respect for his sacrifice and very reasonable act for this usual trope.

[@ntfoperative9432]

I love how you modeled this as an in universe video

[@thecawsomeone1471]

After watching this video, I can confidently say that these few survivors had it close to the worst. Those that were on the ship died due to the impact probably instantly had it much better, and those that didn’t probably died due to other complications in the landing very quickly could be considered lucky as well. Those escape pods that dropped that were not in the game though, had it far worse. The other of the 25 that ejected had one of two endings. 1. Once the lifepods touched down, they were most likely instantly destroyed by the Aurora on impact, or 2. The ships that weren’t destroyed by the Aurora and weren’t in the game most likely missed the crater entirely and had ejected too early to land somewhere where they had a chance. Those that got this ending, most likely met the teeth of the ghost leviathans very rapidly or sunk to the bottom of the craters edge, being crushed by the bottomless depths. For those survivors that made it to the escape pod with hope and ended up in either of these situations, I grant you a fat L. Get gud.

[@TrayTerra]

Loved it. It was nice to see this all condensed into one source video, telling the whole tale of the other life pod occupants and crew. The dedication at the end made me chuckle a bit and then feel a bit bad for chuckling, lol.

[@iBlackDot]

Finally someone that compiled the pods and made it easier to understand! Thank u! (also that last in memoriam lmao)

[@Breathtaker5000]

No problem! I feel like it’s one of the most interesting parts of the game that no one ever really talks about

[@jakeymcsouse2772]

Great job, you put this together amazingly.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thank you very much! More coming soon :)

[@doggersbot]

Never got the chance to read what happened to the other survivors. Thanks for explaining

[@Breathtaker5000]

No problemo :) Thanks for watching!

[@Ainavol_sans]

I know people have lives and all, but WHY didn't you get a chance to listen to the pdas exactly???

[@doggersbot]

@@Ainavol_sans because I only was able to play for 2 hours

[@mapleflag6518]

F in the chat for my boi Ozzy.

[@Breathtaker5000]

F

[@brysonanderson3763]

F

[@user-fe7tf9ws6z]

Remember that Ryley didn’t survive because he’s the main character, he’s the main character because he survived

[@yourfavouritecookingpan3640]

Dang breathtaker! As someone who is lazy to read the pda by themselves, this is very nice👍

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thanks lol, great to see you here :D

[@mugbug5]

Jesus, you'd be surprised if any of these flotation devices actually passed their safety checks

[@robbiecantrell7344]

Great video,earned a sub.

[@16bitgaming44]

Medical officer Danny probably was infected faster due to his open wounds

[@Breathtaker5000]

Your probably right on that one

[@BloomingBlaster-oz8oe]

I think the warpers got to Danny, witch I think would be a terrifying death, and the radio signals we get showing threats, with it soon becoming just the player, so I think he survived after a while with the food in his life pod. I’m not big on subnatica lore so I might be wrong.

[@16bitgaming44]

@@BloomingBlaster-oz8oeI mean, I hear a lot of theorists talk about how danby got infected with kharra super quickly to kinda prove margurite couldn’t have survived until below zero but the pda says trace amounts of bacteria in the water so open wounds would probably lead to a more direct infection

[@TheKing318i]

This is on hell of a video! Very well made and highly entertaining, well done!

[@vraptork181]

Great video man

[@jasonmcleod8914]

I like how Ambassador Jochi Khasar wasn't mentioned. The guy was a nutcase anyway. 😂😂😂

[@AntonioBarba_TheKaneB]

beautiful story telling! you got a new subscriber :)

[@Mrqwerty2109]

I like how this is a memorial video. Very much reminded me of tributes for other disasters

[@cptsteele91]

Gotta say, I do love the doctor bellyaching about his situation and why would even need to learn medicine properly that's what the robot are for he just parrots info off screens and stuff...whilst being stuck in and succumbing to the precise situation that would necessitate him being an actual learned doctor who can effectively practice medicine

[@TalOfTheEast]

This is really well done, and nicely pulls together the storylines of the survivors. My only complaint is the number of spelling mistakes.

[@peacooler9606]

Ngl life pod 12 died deservingly like c'mon you should have known that the robots wouldn't be there everytime.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Shouldn't have cheated in the exams. . .

[@WINtowo4ka]

Бедный Оззи, он просто хотел продавать еду...

[@dkal7112]

Incredible production I love your videos

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thank You :D

[@TacticaLLR]

Love it Great vid!

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thank You! :D

[@aucklan9930]

great video bro

[@AlrenClan]

With life pod 3, you can find a sea glide fragment 3 metres from the life pods wreckage. My guess is that the sea glide overloaded and that the survivors somehow didn’t survive.

[@TheLadsGames759]

Man, i really hated going to LifePod 19. Not because of the danger, BECAUSE OF MY THALASSOPHOBIA! The fact that I have intense thalassophobia just makes it worse.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Dang 0_0

[@mehshutup3041]

Make a video of you playing the game and youll be famous in no time.

[@TheLadsGames759]

@@mehshutup3041 then I guess I would be suffering just for the entertainment of my viewers (no offense to anyone)

[@Ainavol_sans]

I had thalassophobia to, but I wanted to explore so bad I just went "yolooooo"

[@TheLadsGames759]

@@Ainavol_sans yeah but when I went there I quickly realized the floating island was right above it, so if u get a beacon from the lifepod 19 broadcast u don't even have to drop a beacon at floating island so you can go to the broadcast location and go upwards

[@crypticzomb8994]

This is a very well out together video of the lore of the survivors it’s a shame Ryley (us) were not able to help any of the crew in time.

[@uhudhussain3135]

My new favorite channel

[@sharondornhoff7563]

Theory: The other lifepods' occupants all died well before Ryley woke up, leaving their pre-recorded distress calls for him to receive via radio or scrounge from their abandoned PDAs. The reason why his radio (once repaired) keeps receiving those broadcasts at such scattered intervals, long after their sources are dead, is that the times when he picks up transmissions are when Warpers first locate the by-then-abandoned lifepods and *re-play* the recordings to analyze their messages' contents.

[@rus2207]

Am I the only one that thinks a movie adaptation of this game would be pretty cool?

[@Breathtaker5000]

That would be so cool