Talk:Crash Zone/@comment-72.12.69.239-20170219191424

My theory on the aurora was that it crashed into a deeper dunes area (shown by the deep trenches behind it which go up more and more as you get closer to the aurora, signifying that it dragged along the bottom and pushed a lot of material around it to form a "hump" of sorts). The reaper leviathans already lived in the dunes, and were ether simply crushed by the aurora upon its impact, or were lucky enough to be far enough away to not get run over by it. And considering warpers only start spawning in other areas after the system recognizes an infected survivor, they most likely knew the ship was still intact from the quarantine reinforcer, or "the gun" as I like to call it, and did enough damage to the dark matter core to cause it to explode, as it's stated before that the crash and shot through the aurora itself wasn't enough to cause the dark matter core to collapse. After doing so, they went back to the precursor bases to recharge after using lots of energy to damage the core, hence why we don't see them. The extended degree field is merely the underside of the aurora being chipped off as it crashed and during its descent into the atmosphere, as well as the chunks that were jettisoned off of it during the dark matter drive core failure