User blog:KraDannyK/subnautica story

(Before reading) This story takes place in the late 22nd century, when humanity begins to colonize planets in space. A vessel constructed by the trans-gov Alterra, known as the "Aurora", has been sent to the outer reaches of controlled space on its voyage with the goal of constructing a form of high speed space travel structure known as a Phase Gate. The Aurora was chosen for this mission due to its new, advanced scanners, and to find a lost ship, called the Degasi, which crashed on planet 4546B long ago. While the Aurora was cruising around the planet, it was hit by an unknown energy pulse, resulting in catastrophic hull failure, which then crash landed on 4546B.

A lifepod jettisoned from the Aurora while it was crashing, containing Ryley Robinson.

At this point in life the earth was not the home for most people anymore. Most species were either extinct, in containment, or on your food tray. Alterra Corp. just launched their new ship, the “Aurora” to planet 4546b on a mission to perform a slingshot maneuver around the planet, but only the captain knew why. Some crew members were in Ozzy's cafeteria, like Jochi Khasar and Danby focusing on work they need to get done. Everyone else were in their dorms or in the zero-G gym. Everyone else, except for Ryley Robinson. Ryley was always a quiet man, kept to himself. He worked as a Non-Essential System Maintenance Chief. Ryley was a good guy, but he could never stop thinking; thinking about the dangers in space, or thinking about dangers on other planets. Sometimes he would go to Officer Keen and warn him about the dangers in space he thinks about, but Keen always said  “You should really see a counselor about this if you are so worried all the time.” Because he was always thinking he was always tired, and he slept a lot. After talking to Keen he went back to his dorm and fell asleep. *CRACK... BOOM!* Alarms sounded everywhere "Warning. Hull failure imminent. All personnel abandon ship." He heard screaming and he looked out his dorm. He saw fire. Ryley was afraid of fire. Ever since he accidently caught his dorm on fire and burned everything in it, he’s been afraid. Now more alarms sounded and he was terrified. He grabbed his new “PDA”(Personal Digital Assistant) and ran to the lifepod room. Jochi, Ozzy, Danby, Keen and other people were already there. They were all terrified. Especially Keen. He was also a maintenance officer but he never knew what to do in an emergency. Ryley looked at Keen and thought to himself, “Serves him right.” Everyone was rushing into lifepods, and Ryley saw an open one and ran to it. No one was there, so he climbed down the ladder and sat down quickly got in and pressed the launch button. A harness folded down over him securing him into place. The lifepod then said, “Launching in Three...two...one.” The lifepod then launched. He looked up through the lifepod window latch. Everything started to shake and then the fire extinguisher flies out of its handle, hits a panel, and the panel flies off the opposite wall from where he was sitting, exposing wires and then smashed into Ryleys face, knocking him out.

Three hours later he woke up and he saw fire. He knew he had to stay calm in order to survive. He picked up a fire extinguisher off the floor of the lifepod, and he calmly sprayed the fire and put it out. Ryley then took out his PDA file and it said, “Alterra” in a chime voice. His PDA file was updating. Suddenly he heard, “♫###4000 You have suffered minor head trauma. This is considered an optimal outcome.This PDA has now rebooted in emergency mode with one directive: to keep you alive on an alien world. Please refer to the databank for detailed survival advice. Good luck.” He then climbed up the ladder that was in the middle of the pod connected to the hatch and he lifted it up and a strange bird like creature circled above him, chirped, looked at him, and flew away. He then got up on the life pod and turned around. In front of him was the Aurora,halfway sunk and almost completely destroyed. His PDA beeped, he took it out and it said,"The Aurora suffered orbital hull failure. Cause: unknown. Zero human life signs detected.###2500." “Does that mean everyone is gone?” he said to himself. He wondered if anybody was still alive. Everywhere he looked was water, just water. Before he got into the water, he decided to be cautious and he went back into the lifepod. He saw that the system panel was destroyed, so he thought “where can I get a repair tool?” He turned right and saw a fabricator; a machine that crafts items. He said, “that can work.” He went into it and saw recipes for all sorts of things, such as; a knife, And a scanner tool. He then found the recipe for the repair tool; “Silicone rubber? Cave sulfur? Titanium?” he asked himself. “Where am I supposed to find these?” he saw a compartment and looked in it. He found water, food, and flares. “Hmm flares aren't very helpful now are they.” he thought. Then he knew what he needed to do, go out of the lifepod. He knew that he could hold his breath for a long time. He won a breath holding contest. He thought “Maybe I can build a oxygen tank.” He lifted up the bottom hatch and saw strange creatures, he then hopped in and it was warm. He could taste salt in his mouth, but the ecosystem was beautiful. He went back into the lifepod and looked at the lifepod database on the wall "Environment: Uncharted ocean planet. Oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere. Water contamination: high." He was a little freaked out about the contamination, but now knew how the creatures survived on this planet.He went back outside in the water, and He saw an odd looking creature,a fish perhaps. It had two giant eyes on each side of it, and a small body."Warning! Calorie deficiency detected." Said his PDA. He was really hungry and he already ate his nutrient bar (the food he found in the containment locker at the lifepod). The fish didn’t look that appetizing to him but he grabbed it and went back to the lifepod. When he got in he tried to keep the strange fish in his hand, but it was so slippery and it kept sliding out of his hand onto the floor. “Butter fingers.” he said to himself. He eventually got it onto the fabricator, but it kept flopping around. He decided to put his hand on it and it stopped moving, long enough for him to turn the creature into a “Cooked peeper.”That's what it said in the fabricator. The PDA beeped again saying; "The fabricator cooks small organisms, while disposing of the skeletal structure, bodily fluids and internal organs, thus rendering them safe for human consumption." “That's good to know.” Ryley said. He felt better when he heard that. Then he ate it.

He decided to go back out once again to look for resources, outside the pod. He saw a rock and it looked weak enough to break he threw a couple punches at it and it broke. A somewhat small chunk of shiny brown rock fell out of it. Ryley picked it up and his PDA beeped; "Copper is an essential component of all powered equipment. Your probability of survival has just increased to: unlikely, but plausible." He was a little more positive he could survive long enough until help arrived. It was now the next day, Ryley hasn't slept, and was surprisingly not tired. He has been farming up resources for a while now, gathering new types of creatures to eat and he’d been learning a little more how to survive; Stay in shallows. Don't go out of shallows. You have everything you need to survive in shallows, But he couldn’t find any cave sulfur. He has been searching and searching everywhere  for it, but he couldn’t find it anywhere. He decided to go cave diving, (duh, obvious). He saw some Tubes that looked like entrances to caves, while he was gathering titanium from rocks. “There has to be another way of gathering titanium” he said at the time. He now saw a giant tube, it was like, a twenty fourth of the size of the Aurora.“Woah!” he said. He was very cautious when he went inside the large tube. It was cold, really cold inside the tube. “What's That?” Ryley thought. There was a strange bulb in the distance. “Cave sulfur perhaps?” He got closer. It was red at the bottom, and there was a little bit of yellow on the tip of it. Then a squeal came from it, and it echoed through the cave. A creature popped out of it. It had one little eye, and little thorn-like spikes all over it. It swam very close to him, and exploded! It damaged Ryley, but not a lot, Then he saw another one. And another, and they all swam after him and they all were blowing up. Now he was now gasping for air. His PDA beeped something but he was to busy trying to get to the surface for air. He reached the surface, and was hurting bad and the water was red with blood, but he needed to survive. He was so far away from his lifepod and he was starting to blackout from losing oxygen. His eyes were starting to close, and he was very tired. He was now too tired to swim and he was sinking. He thought he could see a body figure moving closer to him. Suddenly he passed out. *GASP!* Ryley woke. “What happened?” He asked. He was draped on the side of his lifepod, with his lower part of the body in the water. He didn’t know if this was real or not. He was all healed, and he was breathing.“How am I alive?”He asked himself. He got back into the water and it felt colder than usual. He just realised it was night out. He went back to the giant tube and saw the plant. This time he was more cautious. The plant was already open. He looked inside it, and he saw a yellow-like crust inside it. As he picked it up he new what it was; it was cave sulfur. He got excited. “Now all I need is Silicone rubber!”He thought. He knew where it probably was. He saw a green biome that looked like it held a lot of stuff, and it also had a lot of vines. Ryley decided to go there next, but first he wanted to check the rest of the tube. He found Quartz and some more Titanium. He went over to the biome, and lucky enough he found some “creepvines” and took some bulbs from it to make silicone, and  lubricant because the PDA told him it would be useful. Then he could make flippers first so he could swim faster. His PDA then said when he was about to leave the biome this; "Life on this planet grows in distinct and diverse ecological biomes. Further study recommended." He then sighed and he went back to his lifepod and made the stuff. His PDA said "The fabricator draws from available data to provide environment-appropriate equipment, using locally available materials. For your safety this setting cannot be overridden." Then he made a Repair tool. His PDA said "Be advised: the radio onboard your lifepod malfunctioned during planetfall. Prioritize repair to increase rescue probability." “Finally.” he said. “Now I can fix the lifepod.” He took out the repair tool and looked at it. He was curiously looking at the tip of it. He then touched it and the tip shocked him. He decided not to mess around anymore. He then repaired the panel that shot out and hit him, and then the lifepod powered on. "Lifepod secondary systems online. Running full environment diagnostic and outputting results to databank." The lifepod said. He also made a knife. He looked at it and then spun it around on his finger. “Cool.” he said. The last thing he needed to make was a scanner. He needed some acid mushrooms for the batteries, which were probably those purple like funnel plants he saw below the lifepod. While he was looking for cave sulfur earlier, he saw a lot of outcrops, and then broke them, and got a lot of materials from them. So he had the copper that he needed, and all the acid mushrooms he gathered. Ryley went back to the lifepod and put the materials needed to make some batteries. He made more than enough because batteries don't last forever. He made the scanner and he looked at the front of it. “The scanner can be used to synthesize blueprints from salvaged technology, and to record alien biological data.” Said the PDA “Nifty.”

He started climbing up the lifepod ladder and while climbing he heard a loud rumble. ¨Woah..what's that?¨“Detecting increased local radiation levels. Trend is consistent with damage to the Auroras drive core, sustained during planetfall”. The rumbling stopped. Ryley got worried. What if the radiation got to him. He was worried. He had resources it was about time he used them. He knew that his lifepod was not capable of surviving another hit. He needed to make a new base. There was a habitat builder recipe in the fabricator. He needed a Wiring kit, a computer chip, and a battery. Batteries were easy to make. He had the copper, and there were a lot of acid mushrooms outside. He dropped out of the lifepod, got the mushrooms and made the battery. The recipe for the computer chip had Table Coral in it. So he went back outside the Pod and cut Two shelves off, that were attached to a wall of coral. Then there was a rumbling that shook the entire world.

"Emergency: A quantum detonation has occurred in the Aurora's drive core. The reactor will reach a super critical state in T- 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4-4, 3-3, 2, 1. Ryley swam up to the surface and watched in horror as the Aurora’s hull burst into flames, and the giant vessel exploded.