The Mercury II - Subnautica's First Victim 

Lol now imagine the creatures guarding them

From the old Al-an conversation with Robin in the original story, he said humans were the first civilization they met. So that's why there aren't any other alien shipwrecks on the planet.

remember that this is just one water-filled crater on 4546b, which is just a small fraction of its surface. I think a lot of people forget there's a whole planet out there to consider, outside this little "lake".

@@virt1onewhat are you talking about? The planet is almost completely water with some islands and most of the oceans are deep. The “void” is really just outside the shallow areas of the crater and sector zero. And any other shallow areas. Most of the world is the “void”

@@paytonallen1027calm down payton, its just a conversation

That's sad...

thats whats so fucked up about it too-- like idk, but when i first played through, i didn't quite realize that her final message had come from the ship while it was underwater, while they were trapped and running out of air. Haunting. Subanutica really knows how to do lore

@@radicalkeag I wish more people would notice how haunting this game is when you put the context of how some of these characters in the game met their end, it's truly terrifying and sad. It's extremely fucked.

​@@radicalkeagi didn't realize it was the final message and searched the ship for so long desperately

IKR

I don't think so, there's no Warpers or Emperors in Sector Zero, and the crews dies at Twisty Bridges. And those habitat are infested with Brute Sharks, they also said "Dark Waters" in the PDA which likely they're reaching Deep Twisty Bridges and met Squid Sharks there

@@I_Dont_Believe_In_SaladHe's saying that there could have been warpers because it was before the enzyme was spread. They probably wouldn't have been too shocked about a big shark.

@@thatsstoguy Exactly.

@@milamberfeist9929fun fact, if you are cured or before you’re infected with Kharaa, you can interact with the warpers and they will cross their arms and inspect you. Also they went extinct because their fabricator was destroyed by the sea dragon, and all creatures attack them after seeing them kill their fellow creatures

@@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad the sea emperors were in below zero however they were cut out later when they revamped the story and it honestly would make sense the warpers analyzed and killed any infected person its how multiple people in the normal subnautica most likely died as well i mean lifepod 7 only had a bust fabricator and the pod was completely fine it was said in the pda the only real dangers were the bonesharks but honestly i doubt they would have gone all the way to the surface to kill him also medical officer danby was infected he landed in the bulb zone zo things could have happened but the only things he mentioned was the infection so he could easily have died to warpers

Definitely

Don't feel bad. Most things like this go over my head in games. I'm more focused on my own character's survival than I am characters that, due to the state of the ship, obviously died a long time before I got there.

I remember being super confused when I found the wreck. “What the fuck? Another ship? Where did this come from?”

Yeah i don't remember any of these audio files, how did i miss them? I listened to all of them in the OG game

I felt so bad for that one dude who had to watch half his team literally torn apart

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QEP: "imma firin mah lazar!"

*gets shot down by the enforcement platform*

I agree! I love putting in time and over analyzing all the tiny details

And quite a lot of people love you making those videos with that detail!

​​​@@Breathtaker5000So many tiny details in one place and so many plot holes in the other Subnautica lore is truly something

@@NEINNEINNEINNEIN1 Like how the alien weapon platform can cover a sphere.

@@brodriguez11000 and how did precursors get their tech with their collective iq being below zero

He didnt really do anything either pretty much the emperor did all the work but also because his radio was broken so the warpers never detected him until he already gained a foothold

@@cancerouscorndog6425 Ryley was extremely lucky, by far the luckiest character you could ever get in a game, landing in safe shallows, damaged radio, got knocked out on his lifepod preventing him from entering the water too soon and getting detected by the warpers, sea emperor establishing comms with him, other crew members being the lab rats of the planet doing things that either got them killed while progressing things for others, like how certain members set up communications with Alterra or gave codes and such. Ryley didn't have to do shit but go with the flow.

@@raionshishi8290kinda beautiful if you take into consideration the message of not dominating nature but being one with it that the original subnautica kind of pushed. He went with the tide while the others tried to swim against it

How did he manage to do it?

Plot armor.

Maybe in subnautica 3

There's a throwaway line that Avery Quinn says that really makes the Subnautica setting kind of huge. "We're from a little Trans-Gov on the far side of Andromeda..." So humanity has conquered at least two entire galaxies, then?

@@thegardenofeatin5965 If they reached Andromeda and have already colonized all the way to the other side of it relative to the Milky Way, they are definitely also already colonized Triangulum which isn't relatively much further out as our second closest neighbor galaxy. So yeah, the story universe of Subnautica must be massive.

Try Natural Selection 1 and 2. Same canonical universe as Subnautica

You guys will be surprised how far humanity has colonized in this universe, it's a lot more than you think.

I agree

but isnt the player from the first game a diver? that means he was the best prepared to survive in the planet above all of them.

@@marcosdheleno Maybe, I guess. After all most of the lifepod survivors died inside or near their pod. Those that do know how to swim either got dragged down by another person, met a predator, or made some bad decisions. The two who made it to the rendezvous point would have had survived if they stopped for a while built a base and made proper preparations. You know like carrying a bunch of decoys, or a stasis rifle. I bet the CTO could've repaired the fabricator at the old degasi base.

@@marcosdhelenohe was a maintenance chief

First game you play as a maintenance guy.. the second game you play as a Xeno linguist woman..

I suppose not . . .

Something that could easily tear through a well prepared crew of 7 all on its own? Probably not. Sharks aren't that good.

​@@CatManReal warpers on the other hand...

@@1th_to_comment.are unknown

Alien Nemo wasn't what they had expected

Yeah! Wouldn’t it have to not be underwater if they were gonna start it up again?

@@jarrahgold1061 As of recent when I replayed the game, I was listening to the recording and it implies the Mercury got a near miss from an Anti starship cannon, I say A as I assume they are all over the planet covering sectors, and they were saying like "if they dont want us here, then surely they wont mind us leaving" which means the ship was in a repairable state. And I assume the mercury's current position is a second clear shot.

It says in the video where it was first shot.

@@raionshishi8290where land,not where shot

@@Tucher97I definitely think it crashed on land

well..... i recommend you NEVER visit the void ever then.....

it was probably a mixture of decades of degradation, lilypad roots, deep purple vent most likely bringing large groupings of bacteria. I'm also pretty sure the reactors exploded

Taking a guess i'd say it was probably Chelicerates that made those holes, that or just general rusting from being underwater so long

@@Fin-ButtkickerFun fact: Pure Titanium doesn't rust.

@@BldSnipar probably Chelicerates or even just damage sustained during planetfall then

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“Cource” this mis-spelling made my day.

and there are women in their group, as opposed to being just a bunch of dudes.

They do have a tendency to bite, though; they only try executing the player if they happen to be low health. Most leviathans do that, when their prey is at full health; a lot like the reapers do from the first game.

Warpers

@@Just_Poncho If I were to reply, doubt it's Warpers. Beyond Alan's cache, a handful of sanctuaries and a phase gate, there isn't much worth protecting. The research facility and QEP definitely, but those are in The Crater.

@@takedown205productions6 Wait but aren’t warpers supposed to just eliminate anyone who is infected? From my understanding they where everywhere before hand just eliminating anyone who got the infection so it would make sense for them to be in the artic too and maybe as they got picked off by other predators only the ones around larger more important structures (which would have had a larger warmer population) remained

@@Just_Poncho While the warpers are supposed to deal with any and all biological threats, it's possible the Architects left in a hurry after the facility was breached. They didn't expect Al-An to go rogue, and centered most of their security around the one place where the Kharaa was being studied. They probably thought the warpers would keep the Kharaa from spreading past the crater's edge, which didn't pan out all too well in the end. Besides, while it would make sense for them to be in the arctic, any bacterial infection would have a hard time in colder places. The Frozen Leviathan's readout even stated that the Kharaa had to put in extra effort over time to survive off the dead material, so they didn't think the polar region of Sector Zero warranted much help from their enforcers.

Yeah so he knows how to clean shit up and you can't stop Riley simply by making that shit be an alien disease that nearly wiped out an entire alien race, Riley is just too good at cleaning shit up.

@@user-bt8xr5si9y the first grade cleaner in the universe

@@watermelon2485 C'mon, he's no Roger Wilco.

The story is really quite good, even if you have to go a bit out of your way to learn the whole thing

well the first one is yeah, the second was garbage

Listen, below zero isn't subnautica 2. It's more like a DLC for the first game. Subnautica 2 is being made as we speak.

@@1991USsoldier well subnautica below zero is a second game as its a full priced own game as it isnt tied to the first one via a dlc or expansion within the first game. you pay for below zero seperately. you can call it whatever all i call it is garabage

@@Cameron-up3vp I know how they released it but it never should have been a full release. I agree it is a much smaller map, the story is kind of rushed, and honestly, this is personal preference, but having the voice over for my main character outside the journal entries she is keeping kind of breaks my immersion.

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but squidsharks dont really have a way to rip anything to shreds. they had giant fangs, sure, but those are used to grab its prey and force it inside its mouth. the description makes it sound more like what would happen to someone who was attacked by either of the 2 leviathans, OR, the warpers. as their claws are described to be as sharp as massive scalpels.

My Pleasure! :D

That would have saved everyone a lot of trouble

@@Breathtaker5000 maybe even some architect lives who knows what the gun has mistaken

Perhaps it has a long recharge time, and if it wastes time on a warning shot, the assumption is it can be destroyed by return fire from orbit

It's not far fetched to think it originally emitted a warning transmission not to get close or be shot down. Now, either so long without maintenance made the transmission stop repeating or human comms can't detect it. (It takes the PDA to be face to face with the QEP to understand the transmission from the gun

Given the gravity of what could happen withe the bacterium getting off world it seems fitting to take no risks

Thanks! It’s on my list :D

Was there a "demise?" Sam was killed by her own bomb, as was...the security guard guy. Everyone else it seems like were evacuated. Granted, all of the bases are weirdly ruined.

@@Breathtaker5000 thats actually a good idea never could connect what happened to them I do know how Fred and Sam died, as well as the Omega Lab workers, but not anyone else like Jeremiah or Emmanuel

@@thegardenofeatin5965 Fred?

@@Prak_Giggles The investigator Alterra hired to look into the Omega Lab and Leviathan site incidents explicitly mentions: "A localized explosive charge was then released and detonated from a distance. Lab equipment was damaged to the point of inoperability, and all live specimens were destroyed. No personnel was injured." So nobody died at Omega Lab. And at the beginning of the game Lillian Bench's message to Robin (the player) mentions that her mandate with Alterra ended which lead to her leaving 4546B. Seeing as how Lillian knew and interacted with others we learn about throughout the game: it's safe to say they all just left at the end of a mandatory work period rather than died.

aurora big ship go boom boom precursor scary alien big virus research virus release virus die

@@GamerSlope I do know about that , by my original comment I meant many side(or sort of hidden) stories or information in both subnautica and below zero. For example: about Degasi . Apologies for my English as it is not my first language 🤗😄

@@GamerSlope Very good summary, have to admit that

@@GamerSlope I actually also made a mistake in my original comment, I meant Alterra, not Aurora

degasi crew broke down the degasi built on the floating island big storm destroy big farm they do big run to big jellyshroom cave run out of big resoucres go to big deep grand reef (somehow dont find the lost river) reaper attacks due to marguerireite big crab electric squid eats daddy and marguerieriete runs away for the next games plot then son cries that daddy and step mommy died so he runs to the floating island then to the crash site (which was safe shallows) builds small base dies and 10 years later aurora big ship go boom boom and crash crash on boom boom base@@palakgupta2736

because she's Marguerit

It was nothing more than a cold to her

she just built like that

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The Subnautica games are at their best when the game world couldn’t care less about you. It makes it feel more alive, and the lore more intriguing.

​@@operationangel7940 the OP is having Main Character Syndrome

​@@operationangel7940agreed, subtle realism that works too well

the problem is, subnautica is an exploration style game first. and while having some personal story is not a bad idea. in their execution, they took away player agency. it became more of a guided experience instead. you go here, do that, do this, and go to the end. its so bad, that even base building became mostly a waste of time.

I mean, in the game, lore Margaret floated in a Reapers corps all the way there.

@@Kingofovertimea yeah but some dumbass is gonna beleive he can do it

@@Kingofovertimea She floated for a LONG time tho. When the ocean currents were way stronger than they are currently in the games lore.

It was going great . . . Until it wasn’t 🤣

Glad you enjoyed it! 😀

Considering the state of the Mercury II, that likely happened quite a while before we eventually came to the planet and the Crew was quarantined in the Arctic Spires region which means there is the Ice Worm but also likely Snow Stalkers so after they died their bodies were likely consumed entirely. Edit: Below Zero takes place 2 years after the first game which means the Quarantine Enforcement Platform is already turned off when we go to 4546B. The Mercury also predates the Aurora and the Degasi by quite a long time (even the Degasi predates the Aurora by like 10-20 years) and thus there isn't much left of anything or anyone.,

@@user-bt8xr5si9y 2 years? I thought it was like 8-10 years between original SN and BZ.

@@vladvulcan No it takes place 2 years after Subnautica

@@user-bt8xr5si9y being released after two years as a game doesn't mean 2 years passed in the game world

@@vladvulcan I know but it is common knowledge that the game takes place 2 years after the events of Subnautica. "Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica." That sentence is literally on the Steam Page for Below Zero lol

lets not forget the homies in the sunbeam where there were no survivors at all from the QEP hit.

@@MasterOfTruck Yeap.

Thanks, I’ll do my best :)

Welcome! :)

It's not a case of failed despite being prepared but more like a laser of that power, range, and accuracy is unheard of. The captain herself said they were lucky to only be nicked when they attempted to enter.

​@@Dratspiderim surprised that was even possible with the architects level of tech

It’s not even that they were unprepared, it was just that the alien tech is alien to them, far beyond what the humanoids could reproduce, it takes too tier tech and skill and luck just to avoid getting obliterated by the laser

Nah it ain't about failing or being prepared, no matter how much preparations or tech you have, there is no way the human tech in the game is ever counter the Architect/Precursor tech, you do remember how much power there is in 1 Ion cube right ? They are far beyond in tech advancement than anything humans can produce.

​@raionshishi8290 fr. If the Precursors can build a device that can be held in your hand with enough power stored to destroy most the 4546 solar system, then there's no way human tech can out do, successfully, a giant SAL-site

Glad you enjoyed :)

Well the thing is imagine space being this vibrant area with lot and lots of ships, humans and station; The subnautica franchise is in a year when everybody has access to space 99% of all ships that got shot down were just trying to pull a gravity meneuver to arrive at there destination faster. Certain ones were intrested by the sudden signs of civillisation during a normal mission for a company, since most money earned is from the vast areas of space people thought that they would earn TRILLIONS from this knowledge. Yet the one planet that had signs of alien life happend to have the quarantine enforment platform. But your idea is still very smart since Altera and many smaller agencies have lost many ships via 4546b so a probe would still be a smart idea. (I like to think that altera tried this but the quarantine enforment platfrom shot it down just like everything else)

that's a joke right? if anything its exactly "professionals" that end up in the shittiest of situations. there are so many channels about professional divers, with years, sometimes decades, of experience, doing this exact crap. so i wholeheartly disagree with you there.

@@marcosdheleno while you're entitled to disagree with me I did specifically note that it wasn't impossible, just improbable seeing that there are different protocols when speaking of space exploration. Let me explain. Yes, a ship can make the same mistakes as a captain can generally be the reason that their vessel goes down when its their word that engages any mission. A good example being the Degasi as they were taking a detour without any specific reason i.e. getting marooned was due to error rather than incompetence. Alterra and the Aurora had less reason seeing that the mission was A.) secret and B.) had all the resources needed to send probes to 4546B seeing that they knew a ship had gone down but didn't have specifics. Even though the choice to fly over a planet that the Captain knew had taken a ship in the past, he at least was trying to fly around the planet not land... something that Below Zero's Captain made all the wrong choices over. Now the Mercury II specifically had the worst reason. Why? First Contact Protocol. There was evidence of an advanced alien technology on 4546B. A major difference between them and the Degasi was that Paul Torgal never mentions having readings thus it can be surmised that they were exploring without restriction. The Mercury II on the other hand was heading back and thus had more reason to be careful when paired with having readings. As I pointed out, a simple way for both the Aurora and the Mercury II to have avoided their fates was to send down mechanized drones/probes first seeing that they both had reason to be concerned, but the Aurora wasn't trying to land like the Mercury II was. Thus the Mercury II has the worst reason for their crash. A simple rewrite would have been "The Mercury II sent a probe but bc it was small the Enforcement Platform didn't register it as a threat." thus making it show that they had less reason to be cautious when they went down." That's why I said 99% of events don't happen because of protocols put into place. Its the unforeseen issues that make for great story telling, i.e. the Kharaa infection that takes the crew and all the creatures on the planet. I love the games I just wish that some details were handled better.

Probes likely wouldn't be detected by the QEP or could be easily locked on, Sunbeam had an extremely close entry and almost landed before it finally got locked on and shot down. They didn't have any info other on the planet or that the Aurora got shot down either, just an SOS signal thinking they ran out of engine grease and nothing else, that is until they got to the planet and saw what happened, but weren't thinking about what could have caused that other than the fact that there is a survivor there who likely would have warned them if they would get shot down, but had no communication to relay that. I think it's hinted enough in the game itself. Mercury was the first ever victim, they were slightly aware of the fact that there is a species of sentient life on the planet, but were never expecting a full QEP to shoot them down or ever took caution, they were just excited at the prospect of it all. That was first time mistake of a captain with a bit too much risk for reward in mind type of ego. Degasi had the same kind of idea but weren't aware at all of the QEP or the Architects in general. Aurora was aware of the Degasi wreck, but it was a secret mission and it was actually not to do with them entering the planet, they simply got to close while scanning the planet when they got right on top of the QEP as they were there for a while before it targeted them. They weren't aware how the Degasi crew wrecked either, they simply knew there signal was lost near or on the planet. Sunbeam as explained before were completely clueless to the situation. Honestly based on that I would say it's very much a possible and likely scenario considering only 2 of the ships that crashed actually knew about the possibility of there being something on the planet, but neither were aware it would be dangerous to come close. There was no communication of any of what happened on this planet to any other ship or government/higher powers of this universe.

Same :)

But why does it hunt the incoming ships too? Just to make more people infected?

@@vladvulcan no risks

​@@vladvulcan well what should it do? Fire warning shots? Let's be honest, that would just make people more curious AND show them what they have to be careful of and where the threat is

Yesss thought I was the only one who saw it

Thank You!

Yessss I thought I was the only one who noticed this

I recon she was more injured than she realized, went to sleep and never woke up. There really isn’t much confirming any one theory in particular

@@Breathtaker5000 Most likely fractured ribs and potential mild concussion. She was dead the moment she succumbed to sleep though. Setting aside the concussion, a small area with limited air, in icy waters would have done her in. As the air quality dropped she would have entered a progressively deeper sleep. The ship was rated for atmosphere and vacuum, but with so much damage any insulation would have been at best severely compromised. So the cold would have finished her off as her body likely wouldn't have been able to effectively shiver with so little oxygen.

​@@Breathtaker5000That gives me a little chills thinking about it, going to sleep and never waking up again...

@@trolticon7274 Reminds me of the Sea Emperor, this game is just so haunting, seriously terrifying to think you went to sleep to wake up later, but ended up dying the moment you closed your eyes.

Probably suffocated or something

Between injuries, concussions, cold and excessively little air, it's probably the total combination that did them in

@@thebighurt2495 Usually the case in Subnautica when it comes to the deaths of the crew, it's a combination of things that just can't be fully avoided when it comes to their death.

Imagine if you could find them (in the case that they had cameras) and see the horrors faced by the crew, and the effects of the QEP, etc.

Glad so! :)

Probably while sleeping, because she mentioned almost being out of oxygen

@@bigd_rustce7164 ohh makes sense

True

They probably assumed there were weapons in place to keep foreign vehicles from entering the planet, but would allow vehicles to leave the planet as it would be only the planet's own ships

It sounds to me like the Captain didn't entirely believe it. She just figured they didn't have any other option but to try and hope.

They didn't exactly have any other option anyway, it was either stay and die anyway or possibly escape and get help (die trying) again a risk for reward type of situation.

Was said in the video. The captain herself says "Let's hope it lets us leave" because they weren't sure at all. It's Alien Technology far superior to humans - most people don't even understand how their car works and you think they can now anything about a QEP?

Yesn't

Yeah I really doubt that an entire planetary quarantine was managed by a singular gun, especially with how close the sunbeam gets before it fires

I think the gun is able to use the gravity of the planet to bend the path of the projectile it fires in order to hit a target anywhere on the planet. I read about it in the scan from the QEP in Subnautica.

​@@mikebarbera254youre right the cannon can send beams in orbit

It would be the only gun because Ryle (Subnautica Player) disabled it, and then Altera put researchers in the frozen zone of the planet and quite possible all over the planet.

the mercury was before the aurora and even the degasi

@@silksongoutyet that makes sense now ok thanks for the info 👍

You have to go into the wreck to get a vital blueprint

You gotta explore it and use your tools you know.

But BZ story is good

Hacking them

It isn't only one

it says when you scan it that the energy beam can bend using the planets gravity to hit ships on the other side