Aurora

I just went through the whole aurora to come back to the Cyclops dead out of power because I had stealth mode on the whole time

I was messing around in the crash zone, and I found a time capsule, and when I opened it, there was a reinforced dive suit, the cat poster from the aurora, and a cuddlefish egg

I have one but I can’t find any more in the mushroom forest and some videos I watched say that there are lots by the back of the Aurora. I’ve heard some bad things about the back of the Aurora, but the videos said that avoiding the reapers is easy. Do I go to the back of the Aurora or somewhere else?

So I know it's not a new theory that Alterra's negligence was the cause of death for all the Aurora crew, but what if it WASN'T negligence...?

Let's look at what we know about the incident: The Aurora was supposed to build a phasegate but was also on a secret mission to investigate the disappearance of the Degasi on 4546B. It carried 157 people, nine of whom were passengers, and one was an emissary for Alterra's rival, Mongolia. Alterra had a lot of beef with Mongolia and was hoping the phasegate construction would allow them to surpass their rivals.

Finding the Degasi was meant to be a sort of peace offering. But what if Alterra had different plans? From Below Zero, we know that Alterra is shady as HELL, wanting to silence all who decide to step out of line like they did with Sam, and from hearing a couple of the crew members logs on the Aurora, specifically CTO Yu, I would assume that a few of the Aurora crew members were a bit too... free thinking... Sending the Aurora to a planet with two ships having gone missing (I'm including the mercury) with an important emissary on board and possible defecting crew would definitely work in Alterra's favor. Get rid of someone who is a head for your competitors, and get rid of troublesome employees. And even IF the defector part of my theory is false, Alterra is still a douchy company to forfeit the lives of people to reach their own goals.

The lifepods are the biggest piece of evidence for this theory. As pointed out by many, the lifepods are poorly equipped with limited food and water, faulty machinery, no defense measures, no diving gear or radiation protection, and easily interceptable radio signals. These aren't lifepods, they're floating caskets/ beacons for predators. Despite knowing that 4546B was an ocean based planet with leviathan class predators, they had made sure those lifepods were more of a death sentence than a salvation, no matter who got into them, unless you are Ryley, you're dead.

I just noticed that the aurora only has one voice and thats at the start of the game I always wanted to have a voice in a huge vehicle like the Cyclops and I don't wanna have a crappy sea truck that takes hours to get one module I want a huge vehicle that is meant for military purposes or deep sea exploration that's a tank and nuclear powered I liked the Aurora's drive core breach thing so I say if a vehicle like a huge vehicle blows up like the Cyclops takes 3 or 5 minutes to go and the player has 3 choices option 1: abandon ship. option 2: try to save the ship. option 3: risk it and continue on without repairs and try to make it to a safe area and it works like the drive core after a period of time that area becomes a field of radiation and needs to be fixed and the idea from the Atlas submarine can be used to like a life pod launcher a sonar room,huge command deck huge engines,and etc

This would be very cool and adrenaline boosting I've always wanted a ship that's huge and a tank many rooms and like 2 or 4 ion or other powered sources engines that can visually move like the R.M.S titanic engines along with 3 moon pools and a big nuclear reactor having to have daily checks to run and be monitored by the AI or player think of the ship as a huge old main base that is mobile I think that's bad ass in my opinion

Wow, I haven’t been here in ages! I probably don’t know anyone here and no one here knows me most likely. But I decided to make a Subnautica AU thanks to some support from some friends and here ya have it!

Tell me your story.

“Honestly, where to begin? I suppose it all started on the Aurora. The Aurora was launched to begin construction of a phasegate in the Ariadne arm. I was the non-esssential systems maintenance chief. If our mission was successful, I’d finally get that promotion to essential systems I’d been working for. Anyway, at this point, all that anyone knew, anyone at my rank that is, was that we were going to perform a slingshot maneuver around a planet called 4546B in order to get us going in the right direction.

“The next thing that EVERYONE knew… was that we were falling out of the sky.”

Alarm bells. Voices shouting. Explosions. Pandemonium. This was all that Riley Robinson registered around him as he ran through the decks of the Aurora. He passed countless other people running to-and-fro amidst the chaos. He didn’t care about the others. All that mattered was the sign above him. Lifepod Bay. He looked around madly for an open pod. There! Lifepod 7 was untouched. Lucky number seven! He thought.

Lucky number seven indeed.

“You haven’t the faintest idea. Let me continue.”

Riley dashed for the Lifepod hatch. He slid down the ladder like a fireman and sat in one of the seats, buckling himself in. He looked at the Lifepod hatch, waiting for only a moment before yet another ship-wide warning went off. Time to go! He punched the commands into the control panel under his hand and lurched as the Lifepod entered free-fall. It would really suck to land on land on a 90% water planet. He thought. He looked up at the hatch, his only window to the outside world, and watched as the Aurora exploded for the final time. He knew that anyone that was left inside were likely dead. He hardly finished the thought when the shockwave from the blast hit the Lifepod, the Lifepod shaking and starting to spin. He could hear the rattle of loose components. He looked back down just in time to get a face full of metal plating that had dislodged from the fuse box, and everything went black.

That had to hurt.

“Hurt like hell. I can feel my face bruising just THINKING about it. Thank god I didn’t have a mirror in that Lifepod.”

*chuckling* be glad you don’t have a mirror now!

“The audacity! How dare you! You’re one to talk, you-“

Please, continue.

“Oh, alright.”

Riley awoke to two very unpleasant sensations. A massive throbbing headache… and smoke inhalation. He groggily opened his eyes to the sight of half the Lifepod on fire. Shit! He struggled out of his seat and quickly extinguished the fire with the nearby fire extinguisher. Thankfully it was on his side of the Lifepod.

Lucky break number one, I assume.

“Lucky break number one? That was lucky break five at least! First, I actually got ON a Lifepod, my Lifepod actually LAUNCHED, the fact that I actually survived the “minor head trauma” that metal sheet gave me, the fact I landed in the one place the Warpers and leviathans couldn’t get me-“

You’re getting off track.

“Yeah, sorry… sometimes I just think about how ludicrous it was for me to have survived against all those odds… especially when no one else did…”

Do you need a moment?

“N-no, no. I-I’m fine. I’ll start going over things a bit faster now.”

Riley quickly took stock of his supplies. Luckily the Lifepod was stocked with enough food and water for him to get his bearings and decide on a course of actions. However, there was damage to several systems and he was unable to utilize his fabricator, not that he had anything to fabricate. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his PDA. The Alterra logo greeted him as the PDA intoned: "You have suffered minor head trauma. This is considered an optimal outcome. This PDA has now rebooted in emergency mode with one directive: to keep you alive on an alien world.” Minor head trauma? Optimal outcome my-

Language.

“Shut up. Anyway, basically my Lifepod had nothing but some food and I didn’t have the supplies to make more. Luckily the atmosphere was breathable. I finally decided to pop my head out of the Lifepod and assess my surroundings. I wished I hadn’t.”

Riley stood shocked on the top of his Lifepod. Around him was nothing but water. He could see some reefs under the water below him. It was remarkably clear. But what had his attention now was what stood in the distance: the burning remains of the Aurora. His PDA intoned: “The Aurora suffered orbital hull failure. Cause: unknown. Zero human life signs detected."

That must’ve been a hard shock for you.

“Yeah. Funny thing is, I didn’t even know half the guys, just the bros at non-essential systems. But I felt the loss as if I had known every person on that ship personally. It didn’t get easier from there. I started scavenging. Got my basic necessities, fixed up the Lifepod. Can’t remember when I figured it out, but I’d been out for 8 hours. Back then, I hadn’t known that the distress calls I’d received on the radio were from dead men.”

You were the last.

“I was the last. It became a cycle for awhile. Get materials, find some blueprints from scattered pieces of the wreck, make some tools and build a base. Answer distress calls, locate the wrecked pods… half of them never even launched, Yknow. Learned that when I went to fix up the Aurora after it exploded.”

You were indeed fortunate.

“As we’ve been saying. The real blow came with the promise of salvation…”

Riley Robinson, former non-essential systems maintenance chief of the former intergalactic starship Aurora, was tired. Day after day of the same routine. Gather materials. Eat the same weird-looking fish. Answer distress calls of long-since dead survivors. He found his hope diminishing with each wrecked Lifepod he found. Officer Keen had promised a rendezvous. It was clear none had made it. He clicked the playback button on the latest message…

“It was the captain of a small ship called the Sunbeam. He picked up our distress signal but sadly I couldn’t call him back. I was just receiving bounce back from what was left of the Aurora’s communications systems. He didn’t know what had happened so he was kinda a jerk, but I was so happy. He was headed my way. He would see what happened and pick me up! I only got more excited when he sent his next message a few days later. It had been almost two weeks at that point. It took almost another week, but the Sunbeam finally got here! When the message came through and the captain, his name was Avery by the way, said that he was searching for a place to park, I couldn’t leave the radio! Another few days later, he sent me coordinates for an island. I hopped in my seamoth and made for the island immediately. Three weeks of waterlogged hell and I was finally going to be saved!”

Riley Robinson, former non-essential systems maintenance chief of the former intergalactic starship Aurora, was more excited than he’d ever been in his life. At least half a dozen small fish met their demise against the hull of his Seamoth as he floored it toward the rendezvous coordinates given to him by Avery Quinn, the captain of the ship currently en route to save him! He gets me off this landforsaken planet and I’ll kiss his feet! He thought.

Seems like a rather… odd notion.

“Like I cared! I would have, too!”

Would have, being the key phrase?

“Aye. Would have.”

Riley hopped out of his Seamoth and laughed out loud in joy at a sensation he thought he’d never feel: Sand! Dry, course, rough, sand! He was sick of the water, sick of the swimming, sick of his only solid land being hard metal Habitat floors. He looked around him. The island was small, and primarily consisted of a large mountain, but it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen! Sand, grass, TREES! He had TREES! He had some time before the Sunbeam arrived, so he spent it exploring every nook and cranny of the island. He felt as if he touched every blade of grass and every tree. Soon enough however… “What in the name of the world is THAT?!”

Standing before him was a weird structure like none other he had ever seen. It was a dark green, and consisted of a long platform with a tower standing above the shoreline. It was the weirdest structure he had ever seen in his life. He ran up to the large archway that appeared to be the only entrance into the weird structure and placed his hand on the green light that seemed to take up the space under the arch. His hand hit a solid wall. A forcefield. Question is, who put it here? It’s not Alterran tech, that’s for sure. His PDA confirmed it. “Scans indicate this structure is composed of a metal alloy with unprecedented integrity. No matches found in database. Performing structural analysis."

His curiosity about the structure was cut short by a voice emanating from some form of loudspeaker. He looked around for the source, before recognizing the voice and looking up at the sky. It was the Sunbeam! "Survivor, we see you!” Riley couldn’t help but smile and jump for joy as he heard Avery Quinn’s voice. “Man, I don't know how you held out down there. We've broken atmosphere and we're descending towards the landing site”

Riley’s celebration was cut short by a loud rumbling noise. He looked around for the source before realizing it was coming from the tower. It was moving! He watched as the tower seemed to rotate around a smaller center structure before tilting, as if it was pointing… at the Sunbeam? That’s odd. Riley thought. It looks like… a sense of dread hit him. A gun!

He heard Avery’s voice again. “Is that a building down there?! What do you mean you can't identify it? Hold on, no turning back now!” He started a countdown for landing as Riley watched some sort of energy gather at the end of the tower. His sense of dread only intensified. “No! Turn back! It’s a gun goddamnit turn back!” He shouted. Of course they couldn’t hear him.

Avery’s voice called out again. “It's coming from the building?! Change course, set thrusters to full-“ the voice cut off as a beam of energy emanated from the building, striking the Sunbeam. Riley watched in stunned silence as the Sunbeam exploded, right then and there. An image of the Aurora exploding as he descended in the Lifepod filled his vision. He knew that this is what had happened to the Aurora.

He had led the crew of the Sunbeam to their deaths.

I would love to see a Subnautica mod where the Aurora’s drive core would not blow up and you could craft robots and you and the robots could repair the Aurora and deactivate the qep and fly the Aurora back home with some robots helping maintain the Aurora until Riley gets home.I would love to see if someone actually made this a mod and the last bacon or someone played it on YouTube.

So I have a headcannon about Bart Torgal. we know according to the cinematic trailer that Bart built a base in the safe shallows or the crash zone. Well, we know that the crash zone was a result of the aurora so what if the crash zone was the safe shallows prior to the crash and the reason why we don't find Barts last base is because the Aurora crushed it on impact?

Quite some time ago I dreamt of me playing Subnautica but the whole game was different, you start off in a room with a bed, a table near the wall, a chair for that table, some other decor and a door facing east of the table, and once you go out the door you enter the main part of the game but your trapped in a giant, seethrough box with the crashed Aurora in the middle of it (but there was no radiation oddly) and when you look outside the box you see only water, and inside the box theres no islands, only the Aurora. And when you finally jump in the water, you see that it just keeps going deeper, and the deeper you get, the more biomes you get to. and the only land in that giant body of water is from the edges of the box and a giant pillar of sand, then stone in the middle (where the Aurora and multiple other in-game structures are) and I never really knew how materials were obtained but I assume the edges are where the outcrops are (and I also think that inside the outcrops are just random materials that vary depending on how deep you are). and the objective of the game is changed to destroying the box then escaping.

Now I can go to the back without accidently getting spotted by a reaper.

P.S do they respawn?

It has 3773 supporteds

So i was just doing antoher playthrue of subnautica when is was in the mushroom forset (The one near the aurora) and i heard my pda say t- 10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1 and i as i was trying to get out of the forest my entite screen begins to shake and gets filled with dust.

Yes i almost had i heart attack very fun.

When I first played Subnautica I went to the back of the ship and turned out fine without having an encounter with any “large” creatures.

Actually, I saw a Reefback. This encounter is referenced in my very first post on this wiki.

Does anyone know if Supply Crates' contents are set or random? The wiki page says that they are random, but I'm not so sure. In my experience they are set, because I didn't find any power cell on my exploration of the Aurora.

When I dock my Seamoth in my Cyclops at my "Safe" Shallows base. I hear what sounds like a Reaper Leviathan or Boneshark. I went a little to close to the Aurora on a trip to the Bulb Zone, but he didn't follow me back. So is it just a Cyclops or a Reaper?

I need cyclops fragments. All I found was this:

I Build an Observatory base behind the Aurora especially to see these creatures.

Many panic attacks later my base was finished but that reaper leviathan suddenly just dissappeared from its normal spawn (in which he patrols). How this and is there a way to fix it?

Went to the aurora, at the start of the game, no items

He got what he deserved

Is it just me, or has anyone else encountered not 1, not 2, but 4 to 5 Reapers near the Aurora? At first i thought i recounted one or 2. But no, turns out i didnt. They did catch me, and destroyed my vehicle as well. Did anyone else oncounter this? On the wiki it says only 3 show up, but i had to delete the save since there was no way i could get to the Aurora without getting turned into fish food.