Talk:Destroyed Lifepods/@comment-37832112-20181216091847/@comment-33330791-20190511161754

It is stated in-game that 25 lifepods launched. My theory is that the lifepods on the port (left) side of the Aurora landed in the crater because that side of the Aurora is facing the crater. The lifepods on the starboard (right) side would have landed in the dead zone where the crew inside those pods would have starved or been eaten by ghost leviathans. As for ihavenoname89's arguement, the radios on the lifepods have short-range communications with a range of only about 2 km (the approximate diameter of the crater) so the other pods' signals couldn't have reached. Also some of the lifepods probably landed in the crash zone and were crushed by the Aurora on its impact with the planet.