Talk:Aurora/@comment-222.124.31.142-20161130015816/@comment-24075212-20170408233135

A lot of them will have died during the crash. More may have died during the explosion (if they were in the ship). Lifepods seem to have randomly landed around the area. Some landed in the radiation zone, so they were cooked. Some may have been caught in the quantum detination. Others landed in unsafe areas of the ocean. The player is lucky to have landed in basically the ideal spot, the safe shallows have no major aggressors and a good smattering of resources to get you started. Elsewhere, things are not so plush.

It would be nice to encounter other survivors (after all, we periodically get new transmissions, so pressumably someone is sending them, unless Altera's communication technology is utterly lousy and taking ages to send/recieve), but I suspect that won't happen, and if they do add them, they won't be of much help.