Talk:Subnautica: Below Zero/@comment-36318863-20180724191944

So Ryley returns from Planet 4546B and sells all the data, he collected, to pay his penalties of 1 trillion credits(as they say after the credits at the ending of Subnautica). The other people get really interested in the planet's history and the planet itself and also pretty concerned about the prevous accidents(the Aurora crash and the Degasi crash, also the Kharaa  bacteria). And the people return to the planet for research purposes(and maybe to find cure for the Kharaa) but the planet doesn't have a lot of land for creating bases. So they choose the biggest piece of land - The Arctic. And that's where the second game takes place. This is my interpretation, I hope the story of the second game is something similar and i hope you like it.