Talk:Marguerit Maida/@comment-104.219.45.88-20161126174255/@comment-32268403-20180214235057

My response to this entire chain of comments in order.

1. Adding another person would ruin the feel of the game.

2. She would have died by the time you landed due to Kharaa.

3. Kharaa is more akin to an insanely fast-spreading interstellar cancer rather than AIDS.

4. The Degasi crashed "nearly a decade ago" to quote the Aurora's Auxiliary Mission Statement, and it takes 13 months for the Aurora to even reach Planet 4546B so I think It's fair to say that Margeurit would have succumbed to the Kharaa.

5. The statement about many tentacles doesn't make much sense either, due to evidence greatly conflicting.

Evidence as to what attacked them:

1: It has tentacles.

2: It makes the sound of a Reaper Leviathan.

3: Margeurit managed to lodge scrap metal in it's neck.

Notes 2 and 3 support the idea that she was fighting off a Reaper LEviathan, and some have rationalized the tentacles statement by claiming that Paul mistook the Reaper's facial claws for tentacles.

Note 1 supports the idea that it may have been a Sea Dragon, seeing as they have tentacles. This is also possible, seeing as the Sea Dragons are known to venture out of their habitat to find Reaper Leviathans for food. This does not explain why it makes the Reaper Leviathan sound, though I suppose you could put this down to a mistake.

As for the scrap metal note, it could simply be that the peice of scrap metal was not nearly as effective against the Sea Dragon as it is made out to be. Imagine getting a metal splinter in your throat, not deep enough to badly hurt you. I know I'd still panic and try to run away from whatever put it there.

In the end though, even as I have stated my rationalisations, I don't think it's a Sea Dragon. There is evidence there, just not enough evidence.

Notes 1 and 3 would support the idea that this creature is a Ghost Leviathan. It is entirely possible that they were attacked by multiple Ghost Leviathans, and that the creature's "Tentacles" were just the tails of other Ghost Leviathans. Keep in mind, Ghost Leviathans attacking together is not uncommon.

I would make the same point here about the scrap metal, but I've already done that for the Sea Dragon.

Overall, Ghost Leviathan is actually probably the least likely possibility.