Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31541346-20170122003549

Of course the Player is going to survive Carar. The goals of the game: Research Degasi, Cure Carar, Get the hell out of the Planet back to home.

Even the PDA refers to seabases as "Treat this place like your home, but never forget that it is not."

You must always have escape in mind. Always.

Enzyme 42, from what I know, puts the bacteria to 'sleep' (It's not a virus, the Virus can't be cured, it constantly evolves. Our body know what 2016 flu is like, but our body doesn't know what 2017 flu is like. Stuff like that.), so if it puts Carar to sleep, it would give the Players body (Assuming so, the Player would have to get an exessive amount of this Enzyme, I assume they won't go swimming around giving exessive amounts to other creatures) enough time to rebuild it's immune system and destroy the bacterium.

With Enzyme 42 in such amount in the body, it won't disappear for a very long time or maybe even forever, serving as a cure (at least for the player). The player can still get the bacteria, however, since the body already knows how to fight it off (Especially with the help of Enzyme 42, it may disappear but the body is already experienced in the subject of Carar) so it will die off from that body, not being a carrier host anymore.

With this Enzyme in other bodies, (The creatures already with it will most likely die if not given enough Enzyme 42 or time to re-build their immune system unlike the player), they would also be immune, and Carar would die off the planet without any hosts to spread it to.

I don't know if this enzyme will be distributed in large amounts via water by just letting go of Sea Emporer babies (Making the mother nice and healthy again would also serve great purpose, however she might die soon since she has probably lived to surpass her expected life span and without being in capitivity, well, you know what would happen.) to spread it to the water (if that's possible that is), or vaccination of two of every species on the planet to reproduce naturally with the enzyme in their immune system to fend off Carar, but it's most likely going to go around by Sea Emporer babies (We have to keep in mind this is a game and  it wouldn't be enjoyable rounding up two of EVERY SINGLE SPECIES on the planet, unless the Aquarium already has them.).

Another thing is, people think Bart believes every single creature has Carar, however this may not true. Every creature would eventually have tiny green 'blisters' on them, and be spreading them elsewhere. Carar is a plague that goes through other creatures via water, so they would have to catch it through water. Some creatures have it and some don't (although it isn't hard to spread, not ALL of the creatures have it. It's not like Carar activates a breeding hormone in the brain to reproduce and make children before death. Well, it's possible but unlikely.) Even if all creatures had it, there would be the ones surrounded by the Sea Emperor in the Aquarium surviving and battling the disease. (The disease can't get in the Aquarium, I assume. But I don't know.)

Also, I believe the Player has it from getting a semi-infected Bladderfish and creating water, without fully disinfecting the water at first (Nobody makes Bleach straight up) and getting rid of all Micro-organisms (Disinfected waters' description says it removes all Micro-organisms.) In the trailer for Subnautica, the player dazily gets on top of the Lifepod and falls into the water without the scuba gear, so that could also be one way, although I observe that doesn't happen in the actual game. It's more likely the Player caught it right before getting to the Precursor base and disabling the gun, as on Trello the dev's say how the player doesn't have it for most of the game and it only becomes apparent when you try to disable the weaponary system.

You'd have to cure yourself to get the weaponary system to turn off, which is another reason why the Player would have to survive it. The game wouldn't be fun if you just died there.

Not to mention there is supposedly one remaining Precursor on the planet, most likely being the king. I could've misinterperted this as being the Sea Emperor, which would be ironic since I'm posting it on this page.

But you can never know with Subnautica, can you?

(I posted this as a comment earlier but I wanted to make an actual discussion on it. Don't you dare put this down unless you have a valid reason and explanation.)  