Talk:Expansion Pack/@comment-35342725-20180418161509

What I would like to see with LIKE being the operative word:

Instead of having a completely new character you would progress to around the end of the game where the PDA receives a distress signal that is kilometers (probably hundreds away) of another character requesting help and a escape route from "this damn cold place". Because it is so far away and you have to go through the dead zone to get there she gives you the blueprint for the ATLAS which has a hard enough hull to withstand the Ghosts. (This is its main function, the PDA you have had it this entire time but wouldnt allow you to build it because all the scans of the surrounding environment were just to small for it to fit.)

You build it and go. Once there you find all of her old bases made out of some material harder than titanium that is incredibly heat resistant. Because you do not have this resource (and therefore cannot build a base in the below freezing salt water) the ATLAS turns into an actual mobile base, sort of like how the cyclops was before they removed the ability to put solar panels on it and the power cell glitch - but bigger. (doesn't need to be able to go many places, its just a tethering point for the player.  that they need to return to, maybe have like 3 or 4 places that it can sit that isnt open water.

You go on a search for her finding all of the things she left behind. You find more precursor technology. You learn more about the precursors, find a master teleporter to a slave in the research facility. You explore yada yada yada. Eventually you get another transmission from her saying she's going extremely deep (2000+ meters) in her modified cyclops to look for something that she found on sonar. Something so big it "cant" be a living creature.

Screaming and water rushing in, she calls you again saying you need to come save her, "there is something down here that just cut through the cyclops hull like it was nothing". You dive down in the ATLAS to save her and find the huge leviathan that has so far been unused in the concept art. You dive deeper to get to the cyclops wreck. She dies, you find the wreck and take all of her resources which includes the insulating materials.

You return to the normal game and use them to build the inside of the rocket to shield you from the coldness of space. If you don't have the expansion then you just get the regular crafting recipe.