Talk:Planet 4546B/@comment-68.42.118.52-20161105004838/@comment-68.42.118.52-20170501080052

@Fandom User: "Could Subnautica be above a supervolcano and could it be possible the Lost Leviathan and the Armored Leviathan died from it or even the Precursors?"

1st Question: Yes It's entirely possible that the map of Subnautica is the caldera of an ancient and colossal supervolcano similar to Yellowstone.

2nd Question: No. While it IS a possibility, there is no evidence to suggest the leviathans of the Lost River died from volcanic activity, but it would explain how they ended up there. As for the Precursors, they are still "alive" by definition since they downloaded their minds into the terminals located in the caches when the Carar escaped the Disease Research Facility.

According to the Fossil Data text, Planet 4646b has been around for at least 10,000,000 years. We also know that an asteroid struck the planet as evidenced by the crater in the Dunes. As seen by the Precursor cache next to the crater, the asteroid struck the planet during the occupation of the Precursors, which was 1,000 years before the events of the game. It could be that at one time, the supervolcano was dormant until the asteroid struck the planet and reactivated the volcano into the active state shown in the game. There's only one problem with this theory and that's the aforementioned asteroid. We don't know anything about how big it was or how fast it was going prior to impact.

Also, the wikia is incorrect saying it's a meteor, it's a meteorite. A meteoroid is a small body of matter that orbits around the star. A meteor is a meteoroid that vaporizes upon reentry. (this is what's called a Shooting Star) A meteorite is a small asteroid that survives reentry and has a charred surface. An asteroid is a large meteoroid that orbits around the star. This crater confirms that Planet 4546b has an asteroid belt or additional celestial bodies.