Radio

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Radio
Category	Interior Modules
Description	Receive short-range communications.
Debug Spawn	radio

The Radio is an item that can be constructed with the Habitat Builder. One is also found in Lifepod 5, but it needs to be fixed with the Repair Tool in order to function.

Recipe

Audio

Standard

	Trigger	Dialogue
	Repairing the Radio	"Radio online. Broadcasting emergency distress signal."
	Repairing the Radio	"RADIO: This is Aurora. Distress signal received. Rescue operation will be dispatched to your location in 9...9...9...9...9... hours. Continue to monitor for emergency transmissions from other lifepods."

Lifepods

	Message	Signal	Trigger
	"RADIO: Playing pre-recorded distress call... OFFICER KEEN: This is Officer Keen in Lifepod 19! The captain is gone. I have assumed command. The last thing the captain did was give me co-ordinates for dry land. We regroup one and a half kilometers south-west of the crash site. Stay together. Good luck. This message will now repeat. PDA: Rendezvous co-ordinates corrupted. Transmission origin co-ordinates downloaded."	Lifepod 19 - Second Officer Keen's last broadcast location	Crafting a Mobile Vehicle Bay
	"RADIO: Playing pre-recorded distress call... This is Lifepod 6, I have a passenger onboard. Co-ordinates attached. We've landed a kilometer from the crash site, but there's radiation inbetween us and the rendezvous. Request immediate assistance. 6 out."	Lifepod 6 - Crew requested assistance surviving radiation	Crafting a Habitat Builder
	"RADIO: Receiving pre-recorded distress call. Playing back... This is Lifepod 3, uploading our co-ordinates. We're plugging some holes in our emergency Seaglide, so if we're late for the rendezvous, don't panic. Also, don't go home without us. Seriously. 3 out."	Lifepod 3 - Crew reported their seaglide damaged	600 sec after answering automated bounceback
	"RADIO: High priority automated message from Aurora Lifepod 13. Co-ordinates attached. Lifepod is carrying high priority passenger 'Jochi Khasar. I said Khasar! Why do I have to record this anyway?'. Send immediate burial detail."	Lifepod 13 - Carrying high priority passenger's remains	Entering the Grand Reef Building a Nuclear Reactor
	"RADIO: Playing pre-recorded distress call... This is Lifepod 7, co-ordinates attached. Pod is structurally sound, but the fabricator's bust. Requesting immediate assistance. 7, out."	Lifepod 7 - Aurora crewmember requested assistance	Spending 10 hours in-game Entering the Aurora Prawn Bay
	"RADIO: Playing pre-recorded distress call... This is Ozzy from the cafeteria, what the hell guys?! They didn't warn us this might happen! Our pod was almost crushed by the seamoth bay on the way down, now we're hanging on the edge of a cave system and this grim-looking snake-thing's trying to eat through the hull! Come get us already!"	Lifepod 17 - Crash landed near the seamoth bay, hull giving way	Crafting a Seaglide Two hours after answering automated bounceback
	"RADIO: This is an automated distress signal from Lifepod 12, co-ordinates attached. Warning: Lifepod has sunk beyond safe diving distance. Do not attempt retrieval without submersible support."	Lifepod 12 - Sunk beyond 250m	Crafting a Laser Cutter Spending 14 hours in-game
	"RADIO: Playing pre-recorded distress call... CTO YU: This is Lifepod 2, co-ordinates attached! We're way past our safe depth and bleeding O2. We'll have to swim for the surface, but it's 500 meters straight up. We'll make for the rendezvous and keep you posted. Yu, out."	Lifepod 2 - CTO Yu sunk 500m before abandoning the pod	Entering the Deep Grand Reef Constructing a Thermal Plant
	"RADIO: This is lifepod 4! We've landed close to the Aurora, flotation devices active, but we've got some big old fish in the water with us and I don't know how long we're going to last. We're close to the crash site so bring radiation protection. 4, out."	Lifepod 4 - Radiation suit recommended before attempting rescue/salvage	Spending 6 hours in the Safe Shallows Entering the Bulb Zone

Sunbeam

	Message Number	Dialogue
	Message 1	"This is Avery Quinn of trading ship Sunbeam. Aurora, do you read? Over. Nothing but vacuum. These Alterra ships. They run low on engine grease, they send an SOS; you offer to help, they don't pick up. Aurora, I'm out on the far side of the system, it's going to take more than a week to reach your position, do you still need our assistance? Over. I'll try them again tomorrow. Damn charter's going to have us blowing our credits running errands for Alterra. See what the long-range scans pick up in the meantime. "
	Message 2	"Aurora, this is Sunbeam again. We just picked up a massive debris field at your location. I didn't know how bad... How many of you... I didn't know. We are now en route to your location. We're going to bring you home. Sunbeam out. What else can I say? The last time I parked a rig this big on a rock that small was in VR, and I blew it Oh, it's a bad option alright, but so are all the others."
	Message 3	"This is Sunbeam. Y'know, Aurora, we're from a little trans-gov on the far side of Andromeda, and we have a saying there. There's no bad without the good, no good without the bad. Sounds like you tasted a bunch of the former, but that only means you're overdue a whole lot of the latter. Might just be we're it. We're scanning for somewhere to park as we speak, we'll be in touch when we find it. Sunbeam out."
	Message 4	"Aurora, we're approaching the planet now, and we have a landing site for you that's... well, it's better than the alternatives. We've sent you the coordinates. It'll take us a couple of days to align our orbit, we should be able to establish direct contact with you during that time, then we're coming in to get you. Cross your fingers the weather holds, and don't leave us waiting. Sunbeam out."

Other

	Message	Trigger
	"RADIO: ▀▖┗▛Nine new biological subjects designated. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: hunting/analyzing. Sharing subject locations with other agents."	Entering the Mountains Crafting the Prawn Suit
	"RADIO: ▀▖┗▛Subject 11783 destroyed. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: patrol. New targets unaccounted for: 1."	Entering the Deep Grand Reef
	"RADIO: ▀▖┗▛▄▖▜▚┣ ▜▚┗┣┗┫┓┏┓ ▛▄▖┅┗▖. ┣┗┏▛▄▖▜┏┣ ▚ ▖▞┣┗▖┗┣. ┣┗▖┃▀▚▗┏┏┓. ▖┛▀┗▞┃┏▄ ▛┏┗▄▖▜▚┣ ┅▖┗━▖ ▖┓┫▞┣ ▚ ▛▄┅┗▖ ▚ ▖▞┣┗▖┗┣ ▚┛▘▞━▖┅."	Entering the Lost River Bones Field
	"This is Alterra HQ. This may be our only communications window. We can't send a rescue ship all the way out there, so Aurora, you're just gonna have to meet us halfway. We've uploaded blueprints to the ship's computer. *Offmic* We're doing a sandwich run, are you in? Uh, yeah, give me a second. Blackbox data shows the high security terminal in the Captain's quarters is still functional. *Offmic* Becky's leaving like in five minutes. Alright tell Becky I'll just take the regular. *Offmic* The regular? Yeah, she'll know what I mean. *Offmic* And if she doesn't? Just tell her the regular dude. *Offmic* If I say regular, and she's like "what's the regular," I have to come all the way back up here. The code should be 2679. The regular's just a ham and cheese. *Offmic* Ok, well would you just say ham and cheese?! Ham and cheese! *Offmic* Ok."	5 days after visiting the Quarantine Enforcement Platform Entering the Disease Research Facility

Gallery

A Radio inside a Seabase

The Radio inside Lifepod 5

Trivia

• The Radio was originally named the Communications Relay.
• Captain Hollister is a reference to the British TV Series "Red Dwarf (1988)".
• The automated bounceback from the Aurora is most likely based on the position and condition the ship is in. Considering all the crew are dead and the ship is destroyed, it reaches the maximum arrival time (99999 hours) and cuts off.
• Second Officer Keen assuming command may be a reference to the DOS computer game series "Commander Keen".
• The line: "CPU: This is Aurora. Distress signal received. Rescue operation will be dispatched to your location in 9...9...9...9...9... hours. Continue to monitor for emergency transmissions from other lifepods.", is a possible reference to Portal 2, where the announcer says to Chell: "You have been in suspension for nine, nine, nine, nine, nine... nine, ni-- *continues in background* This courtesy call is to.....".
• The messages "▀▖┗▛Nine new biological subjects designated. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: hunting/analyzing. Sharing subject locations with other agents." and "▀▖┗▛Subject 11783 destroyed. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: patrol. New targets unaccounted for: 1." are broadcasted by Warpers.
• Messages, before they were replaced with encrypted symbols:
  • ▀▖┗▛▄▖▜▚┣ ▜▚┗┣┗┫┓┏┓ ▛▄▖┅┗▖. ┣┗┏▛▄▖▜┏┣ ▚ ▖▞┣┗▖┗┣. ┣┗▖┃▀▚▗┏┏┓. ▖┛▀┗▞┃┏▄ ▛┏┗▄▖▜▚┣ ┅▖┗━▖ ▖┓┫▞┣ ▚ ▛▄┅┗▖ ▚ ▖▞┣┗▖┗┣ ▚┛▘▞━▖┅..
    • -> Karflaget gertrupop flayra. Troflagot e aitrart. Trankeboop. Askrinol forlaget yarma aquit e flyra e aitrart escimay.
      • The word "Flayra" was an Easter Egg. It is the twitter username for the Game Leader Charlie Cleveland.
  • ▀▖┗▛Nine new biological subjects designated. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: hunting/analyzing. Sharing subject locations with other agents.
    • -> Nine new biological subjects designated. Mode switch: hunting/analyzing. Sharing subject locations with other agents.
  • ▀▖┗▛Subject 11783 destroyed. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: patrol. New targets unaccounted for: 1.
    • -> Subject 11783 destroyed. Mode switch: patrol. New targets unaccounted for: 1.
• 9...9...9...9...9 (99,999) hours is about 11 years and 5 months (11.4078 years). 999 hours is almost six weeks (41.625 days).
• The radio message from Alterra H.Q. is voiced by two Youtubers from the "Neebs Gaming" channel, a channel which did a Subnautica roleplay series.
• When the Radio was first released instead of messages it would send the player parts of lyrics from the song Holy Diver by Ronnie James Dio