Do the events in Subnautica take place on a floating platform?
SnailsAttack
Join Date: 2017-02-09 Member: 227749Members
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There's no real way to be sure of it, but I believe that Subnautica's entire map takes place on a floating island, held up by colossal floaters. The reason that I think this is because of planet 4546B's colossal moon, which would cause tremendous tidal variances.
The only explanation is that the play area floats above the tides, or that it's a simple oversight. I'm not sure how to explain the geothermal activity, though.
Regardless, if it is a floating island, it's pretty scary to think about what lurks below...
The only explanation is that the play area floats above the tides, or that it's a simple oversight. I'm not sure how to explain the geothermal activity, though.
Regardless, if it is a floating island, it's pretty scary to think about what lurks below...
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As for the map being aback behemoth floaters, I find it hard but fun to believe. If it were true, I'd be okay with it. The only problem would be the Lava Zones and thermal vents; if not from the deep then where does this heat come from? And if it's just an enormous pocket of heat, I suspect the floaters below would be shrivelled like a prune and turned to ash by now.
It's a fun concept, but one that I find hard to get behind.
My biggest question about 4546B's oceans are why are there seemingly no ocean currents...even around the volcanic vents the water doesn't move...a serious immersion breaker for me...
correct, but our moon orbits about once a month, meaning that on a daily time scale the moon doesn't move that much and the tides don't shift their schedule quickly. 4546B on the other hand has its moon eclipse its sun every couple of days, that means its moon is orbiting the planet substantially faster relative to Earth's moon. With such a short orbital period and the apparent relatively quick rotation of 4546B it would make tidal forces on the planet surge laterally instead of vertically, causing extreme currents but not much rising and falling of tides.
The big obstacle however is the Lava zone. Where should the lava come from then?
Of course there could be a solution: The Precursors could use ion crystals to melt rock or ... some other crazy idea.
I don't think the map is behind held up by floaters, but rather it IS the floater. The geothermal activity is its massive guts breaking down the rock that it last devoured. The atmosphere is the membrane separating it from the reaches of space. The moon is just there until the floater is done digesting, then that moon is next.
space floater planet
Most of this would have to influenced from some outside force, if it is indeed a flat earth
I think the next thing the floater will be devouring will be this thread.
Food for thought...
Still, it does raise the question as mentioned about where does that lava come from (and why aren't there intense thermal currents flowing up from the lava zone into the rest of the world, especially the Lost River since it's the coldest place right above the warmest place...). For the lava, one theoretically possible idea is a massive deposit of decaying radioactive materials that's melting the surrounding rock.
Realistically though, it's one of those suspended-disbelief things where the player isn't supposed to know that game takes place on a floating island in the void and assumes that the game world is a plateau connected to the planet somewhere down in the depths.
It's reefbacks all the way down.
Could be in a geosynchronous orbit or somesuch? (maintaining its position in sync with planet's own rotation).
Something didn't quite work as intended, I take it?
So that's why you lot removed terra-forming, we are not supposed to "KNOW THE TRUTH"
Muhaha, that might even explain the lava caves and the acid lost river ...
No, you misunderstand. In Subnautica 2 it will be revealed:
(imagine this in a thundering Charleton Heston voice)
I KNEW IT!
That's why we need the rocket to get out of the simulation. Then you wake up at the QEP beach and a Reaper is laughing ...
... finally you really wake up at the Alterra survival simulator and start to feel good, seeing your fantastic survival score ...
... until you realize that your rocket full of diamonds and ion crystals to make you rich never existed ...
... just when you think it can't get worse you get fired from Alterra, by trying to smuggle Alterra property against regulations ...
... you try to find a new job in space, travelling to Magellan, where you get marooned on a water planet ...
... the following massacre on this planet, known as the "Mass murder at Magellan", ...
Was very surprised when lava zone was introduced.
I made the comment 'Reefbacks all the way down' and then saw someone had beat me to the punch. As you know, no way to delete posts. This forum software is meh.
y u h8 on Vanilla?? (yeah, you're right)
I het the acid caves, but how the lava? And what are the thermal vents then?
Too much spicy Mexican food.
See above.
/immature