Talk:Warper/@comment-24.144.255.216-20170306165829/@comment-194.239.215.40-20170307221758

litteraly 1 day ahead of me. If they were made using existing fauna and gene manipulation. then its likely a mix of different kinds of fauna, the most notable being the tentacles, the purple cloak and the claws.

the only native fauna in subnautica that have tentacles are leviatian class creatures (and the reefback which isnt a leviathan since its not a massive 'predatorial' creature) so we can assume that they were made using some juvanile leviathan. the precursors conveniently have an egg incubator for the sea emperor. maybe as a way of producing both the carar resistant enzyme and to make these warping proxy guards. but to make them tough theyd need armor of some kind

which it is there, that the reefback comes into mind. The texture alone looks alot like that of warpers, but i mainly believe this, because looking at other armored creatures in subnautica they just dont appear to have the same grow structure as warpers and reefbacks, sandsharks use plated armor and sea treaders uses a more of a whole body exoskeleton. where as the warpers and the reefbacks both share a thick mantle on the top side

however the head matches no current fauna in the game. but if the precursors shared any of our human psycological traits then they might just have shaped them, in their own image. using the head structure of themselves to make them more familiar. if not then the fauna has either yet to be implemented, belonged to one of the hundreds of extinct creatures or finally. the specimens are just located somewhere else on the planet