Board Thread:Wiki Development/@comment-26197572-20150412195804/@comment-205.237.134.6-20160204015236

the alterra corporation is the company from ns2 and developed new scientific discoveries, and also sent out ships like the aurora to terraform planets. In subnautica, the aurora was fortunate enough to have class C accommodations including the nano-construction tool(a.k.a the builder) pre-programmed with aquatic structures, being that the planet was scanned as aquatic by the aurora, and only requires raw materials, a separate function from the TSF version which is only used for construction.