Talk:Vehicles/@comment-153.107.192.206-20160921025257/@comment-30079531-20160927234234

The story behind the precursors seems to point out that they all died to a virus (I forgot the name) and that they were trying to stop it from spreading from outside the planet, as such, the Ground to Air (Or surface to air) weapon was built to keep outworld stuff from landing on the planet and spreading the virus.

It was also said in the final 3 Degasi Data Downloads that they were infected with this said virus, but they didn't find out how, and probably didn't considering the contents of the final, 9th PDA found. It claims that they were killed by a Reaper, so they probably died at that final base, even if the Reaper didn't get them, the pressure and crab squids would have anyway. Unless the Cyclops/"sub" they had wasn't destroyed.

Any of the life pods that are found are torn to pieces from their landing, to creatures like Reapers, Stalkers, and Tiger Sharks nearby the broken pods. Only the Player's lands *mostly* intact, since it was on fire for a while (Remember you woke up +3 hours after landing!) probably 1-2 hours as it spread from the damaged pod eletronics. And in the intro we also see that there was a black, oily substance leaking from the damaged electronics as the cover got ripped off, so the fire was bound to happen anyway.

And so it stands to reason that we, the Player(s) were the only survivors of the crash SIMPLY because our landing went *mostly* well, and we landed inside the Safe Shallows biome.

Meaning that no one else *probably* survived the crash landing on the planet, since we don't know if anyone landed in a whole different area than the map we play in.