Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28229834-20160612020351

I don't know wether this has been discussed or not but I may have an idea about the Warpers, the Precursors, and the infection.

Subnautica and Natural Selection 2 are believed to be in the same universe (due to the decrypted riddle mentioning the Khaara conflict). In times of war, the combatants might try to find ways of winning in the form of experiments and such.

The actual Khaara are the little microbes that make up that spreading green stuff that you find on the floor of their bases in NS2. That "stuff" has also been called an infection.

So what if the humans decided to experiment on the Khaara to find a way of beating them and shot down the Degasi and the Aurora to maintain secrecy. It's possible the infection is Khaara in origin and, possibly as a result of experimentation, mutated the Degasi survivors into Warpers. Several people have pointed out the Warper's similarity to the Fade and the developers have said they took ideas from the Fade.

I'm not sure how the imprisonment of the Sea Emperor ties into the theory.

It is also possible that it's the other way round and it's the Khaara that are trying to find a way to beat the humans.

This theory may be farfetched but it would quite interesting if it is true. 