The Terror of Subnautica’s Kharaa Bacteria 

Ryley is honestly such a trooper... Massive headaches, fevers, coughing... Ever had the worst case of the flu and had to lay in bed all day because how how unpleasant and painful it was? Yeah, well, Ryley experiences that and worse, but shrugs it off likes it nothing, diving deeper and facing leviathans all the while. No wonder he was the only survivor, he's a BEAST.

Perhaps Robin wasn’t “more resistant” to the Kharaa but rather it simply took longer to develop because she’s swimming in freaking arctic water.

I always pictured it acting similar to a bacteriophage, multiplying inside your body, moving into the pustules when there are sufficient numbers, and bursting them all simultaneously, leaving you to die from rapid blood loss.

What's interesting is that as far as I remember the architects may have set a system up to ensure the safety of the planet through its smallest species, the peeper, I think there's a whole water ventilation system where peepers are sucked up, end up in the room that the emperess and her spawn are in and then sent back out into the world. once the babies hatched the immunizing fluid they created would latch onto the peepers who would then spread all throughout the planet, immunizing anything that ate them, literally curing the planet from the bottom of the food chain to the very top

to be fair, the dive suit doesn't have gloves by default - so that's probably how carar got in (anyone else remember when it was called that?)

Funny enough you CAN just sit in the life pod or ontop of it and nothing happens. Bobthebuilder up a scanner and check yourself, not infected. BUT if you Ghost Warp over to say, the main Island (Not the floating one) and scan yourself, instantly infected. Touching water doesn't matter, its the moment you leave the life-pods vicinity. I doubt there is any lore implications as without cheating/glitching/mods you would HAVE to touch the water at some point, but its an interesting trigger effect.

I wish the bacteria was as terrifying as this in game, right now it's a plot point and not much more

I would love it is the game HAS to have a transmission moment to get infected. Have it be that the Kharaa can be transmitted every conventional way, but that still means you have to have a moment of infection. The dive suit and helmet would protect you from general contact and respiratory infections. Cooking your food would prevent ingested infections, so no eating creepvine, or gelsacks. Probably not lantern fruit, or bulbo tree either, but, if grown in a sterile environment, it would probably be fine. No stored, found water from boxes either. The water inside may be sealed, but the bottle itself where your lips touch is not sanitary. And, hardest of all, you must NEVER be injured. Even the slightest cut would be enough. I think it'd be a fun challenge run. The Clean run. The only food you can eat has to be cooked or grow in growbeds inside a base. Any injury means death (crashfish are gunna be hell early game). I think a fun thing to do if someone actually made a mod for this is the Warpers actually will leave you alone as long as you don't attack them. If you aren't infected, they leave you be. And the test you get in the gun base, obviously, isn't going to let you go just because you're clean. It will just task you with staying safe and continuing work on a cure.

I’m hoping to see biome videos sometime soon. And one that I definitely want to see is about the crash zone and what it was before the crash. I love the crash zone plateaus

These are such high production value always love to see them! Keep,making the good stuff man!

Annnnnnnnnnd I'm wrong. Here is your 5 bucks. I swear if I lose another bet...

The fact that the bacteria looks like a pickle haunts me in my nightmares

I wish kharaa was used more in below zero. The sister storyline was nothing much.

Appreciate the information you gave me today pai. Keep up the good work.

I love how calm aletho always is in his videos, as well as how he makes certain to link his videos to past ones in a way that makes sense. I always go down a rabbit hole of watching far too many subnautica videos, but I'm never bored rewatching bc he always has a calm voice that makes the videos seem so much more intriguing even on a rewatch

Fun fact: the kharaa made bonesharks and stalkers hostile to the player The ones in the sea emperors tank behave how their ancestors most likely behaved in the past Also this game is a prequel

You should make videos about the biomes. They are the most interesting part of the game in my opinion.

The fact that this might be a real thing in distant space make it all the more terrifying

I love your subnautica videos! Great job 👍👌

The thing is that swimming must genuinely make your condition better due to Sea Emperor’s cure in the water

Just had a bad day, then I logged on to RU-vid and see this. The pain went away

If the Kharaa wasn't a factor or you could cure yourself fast enough I'd stay on that water world.

wow just found your channel . Your editing and videos are amazing keep it up !

We can't forget the fact that in Natural Selection 2 the technical sequel to subnautica. It can evolve to the point it becomes a hivemind type of organism.

ryley literally got symptoms worse than covid and shrugged it off like a beast, maintenance officers are wild

Best subnautica tuber by far from those amazing thumbnails all the way to the way you bring the information love the pasting keep it up !!( also you could make way more content with the biomes )

love you're content man keep it up!

The editing was really good, and at 0:23 I was laughing at the amount of lantern fruit in your clutches. Also, 2:24 was great as well😂 As always, the epilogue featuring another video was a banger as well! :D

I wonder if in subnautica 3 there will be infected precursors🤔

I’m actually currently studying cellular biology for a book I’m writing so this is was nice to listen to while doing a bit of writing and definitely have some inspiration

There was just one flaw in Ryley's dive suit at the beginning. The standard dive suit doesn't come with gloves. So unless you get bitten by or eat an infected fish you get infected through your hands.

Fun fact: in the game natural selection 2 which takes place in the same universe as subnautica warpers ended up getting infected by the Kharaa and later became known as “fades”

I like this kind of videoes. This can be documentary+analysis. I have learned aboud more about kharaa and other levuathans. Thx!

In fact there is medicine for the Kharaa devolved by the architects. Have you ever seen those golden trailed peepers, that is a cured fish which puts an unfinished version of the enzyme in the environment.

WTF 45k? I swear like a month ago you were just starting out! Awesome to see your channel grow so fast, and I must say… I’m incredibly impressed by how much your editing and videos have improved overall :)

Imagine waking up and seeing green pulses on your hands, god that would be terrifying

Thank you for making my day better

Lol I love when you used the Big bang theory intro😂😂😂

Great video glad it is still popular great it actually got updated

How is the editing so good!?

Makes me wonder. With the power of hindsight, if you exited the escape pod through the top hatch, paddled to the QEP without touching the water, would you remain uninfected, and thus able to turn it off. Then it's just a matter of eating Bulbo Trees until the Sunbeam shows up.

Another upload! Thank you!!

The bacteria had pyros flamethrower tf2 reference

Good video i LOVE your content! ❤

bro you know more then i do in subnatica lore keep up the good work👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Aletho can you explain the biomes of 4546B . Like what can you find there and the threaths of the biome?

Coughing and sneezing while dying must suck

Nice OC! And vid!

Riley cleans up the ship from any bacteria, but also from an entire planet.

Yay Aletho posts

This makes me thankful that kharaa isn't real, cuz knowing how we deal with pandemics, we'll practically be dead within the first week or so

0:39 universe sandbox, I remember trying to terraform as many planets in Sol system as possible

the most common cause is probably the filtered water. the bleach water specifies micro-organism free, so that one definitely isnt sterile. It would be possible to never dink filtered water but then anything from a biter to eating infected food could also cause it

The portal 2 alarms are too funny in this context!

ahh, i was wondering when my coffee machine will kill me. btw, great job, i love your vehicle videos.

it would be interesting if you explored Deep Rock Galactic. I feel like your style of video would perfectly fit into it and garner even more attention.

I just realized i have watched every single video of yours but havent subbed yet * 20000 % subbed

You Never Cease To Amaze Us

5:18 as a jojo and subnautica fan i jumped out of bed and started cheering so much 😭

The cod zombie noises are... oddly fitting for Kharaa.

i love your videos, can you cover the cure next?

This is like half educational video half meme lmfao

1:00 I fear no man, but that thing, it scares me

Fun fact:I feel like the brute shark is next cause in the shadow leviathan video there was a brute shark model.

Now I’m scared of a kharaa infected reaper that’s extra angry and going mad

Always a banger

So from watching this my basic understanding is that this is an alien zombie virus

Imagine if someone was immune somehow? Imagine how different the game would be, imagine how some creatures would react to you? Especially the warpers (they would probably try to protect you considering your immunity?)

Nice video🙂 The kharaa bacteria looks like pickles💀

the khaara can be a very scary disease ngl

this makes me think of Naegleria fowler

Wait, I am a little bit late but what if warpers can teleport so they can teleport infected bodies back so they don't infect others?

kharaaster energy drink

Unknown worlds’ other game natural selection 2 takes place in the same universe and has advanced Kharaa as a common enemy

nice vid keep it going

The adaptive imune sistem has an aswer for anything, but it needs to boot up first. Did the devs consulted some medics before coming with this thing? I seen worse, the microfage is the deadliest being on the planet. But it only kills bacterial.

To add to this info. It’s unknown about specific details but several hundred years in the future this virus evolves to the point of puppeting bodies (or corpses). This info comes from the game that the subnautica developers made before subnautica. same name, same virus. If I got any info wrong I do apologize.

the cod zombie sounds make it just that better

You’ll be fine…. *checks fuel readout on my flamer* ….honestly.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the ultimate fate of a Kharaa sufferer as depicted in the Natural Selection series.

Clearly you didn’t use enough love and cookies if you didn’t win it over

So as long as we keep going outside and eating peepers we should be ok

NOT THE NICKELODEON SLIME!!!!!!

Could you do video about cut content (either Original or BZ) or about story of BZ from early access that was later changed?

Hmm… Fabricator -> full course of broad-spectrum antibiotics and some antipyretics just in case Solved. Maybe…

If you can, it would be worth it making a compilation of shirt clips from through the years

Laughs in Husk parasite! This game is just scarier than barotrauma only because its first person

Actually your body has a cure for every POSSIBLE BCTERIA but it takes time finding the rigth one and so, This is pretty accurate

He's already dead, he just doesn't know it, hohoho money!🎅🦀

Loved it

Opinions on the whole home made cure thing lol?

Thats why i live on land

Ryley is the goat he crashed on a alien planet and built a rocket and many bases and got infected by a alien virus and cured it

0:34 oh hey nice fence i guess I won’t kill you

um yeach well can we get the sea empepror witch infact has a antibiotic.

*screams at you for using gas grass trimmer*

It's making me feel sick just watching this! 😂😂😂

Wouldn’t antibiotic help since the bacteria have never seen it

Nah aletho is goated

Your mistake was the blader fish. Watter