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DBTT 26 Jul, 2024 @ 12:05pm
(SPOILER ALERT) How are Peepers and other animals from Subnautica 1 in Sector Zero?
While playing, I thought about something interesting: From what I understand about Subnautica's history, the game takes place on top of an inactive volcano, in which its eruption that occurred millions of years ago promoted adequate living conditions in that region, and around it there is the void (ecologically dead zone) that supports only microscopic and leviathan-class life forms, so it is possible to theorize that in each volcano that has at least 4546B it has completely different life forms than other volcanoes. After that I thought about Sector Zero, and as I said, it must have life forms different from other volcanoes, but curiously, in Subnautica Below Zero we can find Peeper there, not exactly Peeper, but an evolution of it, adapted for the cold , the Arctic Peeper, there is also the Boomerang and the Stalker.

We don't have a map of 4546B, but I can theorize where the volcano from the first Subnautica is located. Well, considering that the two islands in the original Subnautica have tropical vegetation and throughout the gameplay the PDA doesn't talk much about the temperature, we can assume that the temperature there is a tropical climate similar to that on Earth, like 30-39C °, like the equator, and in Sector Zero, as expected, it is at the planet's poles. And both in the volcano and in Sector Zero there are Peepers and other animals in common, but wait, if there is the evolution of the Peeper in Sector Zero, then a normal Peeper had to be there to adapt and evolve, but how the hell does Peeper, Boomerang , Stalker, etc. left the equator to appear at the planet's pole? This would imply that Peeper and these other beings had to cross an immense part of the planet's ocean through the void, to then reach Sector Zero, and this is completely impossible, firstly, in the void there is no food, shelter, light, and other basic things for life, in addition, ghost leviathans are extremely aggressive even towards small beings compared to them, after all that you still have to remember that both Peepers, Boomerangs, Stalkers or etc. do not have a migratory lifestyle.

Perhaps the most obvious thing to think about is that the Precursors, while they were in 4546B and were researching the life there, ended up bringing some creatures from there, that would make sense, but the Snow Stalkers (the evolution of the Stalker) literally grew legs and left of water, and this type of evolution takes several million years, and we will agree that the Precursors were not here that long.

Anyone who has a theory to answer this can comment here.
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DBTT 27 Jul, 2024 @ 7:19am 
I had even thought of a hypothesis to explain this, but after posting this text I ended up realizing that it still doesn't make much sense, the hypothesis explained that the reefback liviathans grew much more than we see during gameplay, since the PDA only spoke the size of the digitized individual (30 meters long) and not the maximum size, so theoretically as they grew they would have to migrate to another more spacious place, and when they grew enough they migrated to the void, and they took some animals with them who lived on its coasts, so while they swam aimlessly they ended up finding Sector Zero or another volcano, but this hypothesis ends up falling apart since, as I said, that was millions of years ago, and millions of years ago a certain someone was alive, the Gargatuan leviathan, not only him, but also other beings like the other skeletons we found in the lost river and even more, what if that individual just died randomly and not due to an extinction event? Maybe the survivors are still hiding in the void, and it wouldn't be very cool for a Reefback to come face to face with a Gargatuan.

Thinking about it, I even managed to think of a food chain in the void: Bacteria or beings like krill are its base, then they serve as food for the ghost leviathan, which serves as food for larger beings like Gargatuan, and Gargatuan could be the top of it, or not?
penner3 19 Sep, 2024 @ 10:11am 
We know almost nothing about what's in the Void, or where the two gameplay areas are relative to each other. But, completely bizarre and implausible migrations have happened on Earth in our actual real history, so it's not difficult to invent any number of hypothetical scenarios that could have brought some species from one spot to another.
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