If a life pod landed in the void, they just have to survive until their pod goes 8,192 meters and they will be teleported to the surface next to Ryley's escape pod

How scary would it be if you landed in the void sinking deeper and deeper untill your pod Is crushed by the water pressure/ and or you are eatin

"This is Lifepod 20, We've hit the surface of the planet. The PDA is saying the planet is highly water based. The scans are showing infection in the water, but our suits should be able to withstand it, at least until extraction. Lifepod 14 has landed close to us, the survivor from there is swimming to us with the seaglide. [Distant yelling] [ghost screech] [chomp]. [Frantically yelling] There is something out there... I've lost sight of lifepod 17's crew. [Ghost screech] [loud metal crunching] We are not going to make it, [nervous breathing] that...thing ate 17" (PDA: hull breach detected floatation systems offline) "OUR LIFEPOD IS DAMAGED, IF YOU FIND THIS LIFEPOD, GET OUT...[crunch]" if one landed in void.

Imagin waking up to your life pod just sinking into a dark abyss just hearing the roars of ghost leviathans and just dying of starvation or hunger or your life pod getting crushed by the cold pitch black waters knowing there is almost no chance for your survival

I sometimes think it would be cool to find a hidden life pod somewhere in the void with a very interesting voice log or something.

I always thought that most that were deployed missed the crater and ended up in the void. I bet a lot of lifepods were destroyed in an explosion or by debris. This shows how lucky Riley really is, his lifepod was functioning, landed in the crater, AND landed in the shallows away from Warpers

“After 8 hours the only surviving person on the planet was Riley Robinson” That sentence is oddly terrifying.

It would be funny if a life pod hit a leviathan in the face as it crashed

I believe that the warpers had at least one kill under their belt as I’m fairly certain that at one point when you receive a radio message about the warper it says they are looking for 9 targets and that number later dials down to just the player so I do think it could be possible for a warper to have some sort of part in the demise of the other survivors

Some lifepods might have landed in the dunes and got buried after the crash landing of the Aurora

You know its a good game when even the void itself feels like a big feature

I know the answer, the plot armor on the life pods wasn’t strong enough.

One possibility that I haven’t seen is the possibility that one of the life pods landed not in the void and not in the crater but perhaps in another area with livable conditions. If this is the case for any life pod then there are 4 different possibilities that could have occurred, those being: 1. The life pod and the person inside could have been killed at some point during planetfall. 2. The person landing in a resource-poor area and being unable to create anything besides food and water. 3. Their blueprints all got deleted due to damage like Riley and they were too far from the Aurora to be able to scan wreckage and thus could only build the most basic of things. 4. Their blueprints were not deleted and they were able to make a rocket, this however could have gone 1 of 2 ways, the first outcome of this is that they launched before the quarantine enforcement platform was disabled and were shot out of the sky, or they could have saw the Sunbeam get shot down and postponed their launch until seeing Riley launch off with his rocket then they successfully launched and got to go home.

I have an idea about how riley might've survived aside from landing in the safe zone. If you check the little screen near the lifepods solar chargers you can see that it says "Outgoing radio communications offline" This could be why riley wasnt hunted down by like a warper or something. They could not find him

Possibility #7 is most plausible. Draw a 1ft × 1ft square on the ground beside your house, climb onto the roof, then drop 25 marbles in the direction of the square. Chances are very few will land in the square.

What we know according to some calls: Ozzy: attacked by sand shark CTO: drowned or got killed by radiation Lifepod 4: attacked by reaper leviathan Lifepod 7: Might of been badly damaged, and hull breached Khasar: maybe attacked by boneshark Lifepod 3: died by stalkers Well, this is according to distress calls

Imagine if in below zero you found Lifepod 25 or something but it was abandoned and it was kind of like the other survivor

" The only thing I see is darkness, an infinite void of darkness and horrifying creatures, I just see creatures going around me waiting to attack, I would be just a little snack for them [ Pressure at maximun tolerable level ] I think this is the end, if anyone finds this in this horryfying place, I just want to say, get outta here, now. [ Inminent colission with massive creature ] [ Ghost Leviathan Screams ] [ Static ] "

I personally believe that all of these happened to a few each, but my original thought was that they landed in the void. Great video!

Ok but like, he sounds 13, but has the IQ of a damn 40 year old, this is illegal

Everybody gangsta till Riley starts driving the Aurora

The void bit is especially terrifying, when you consider the fact that Ghost Leviathans Never. Stop. Growing. It is a LITERAL fact that this means some could be Much, MUCH bigger than the aurora

I feel like some might’ve landed very far away in the setting of Below Zero and have been eroded away by the elements.

Just imagine your escape pod launched not to long ago and outside you hear a thunk and now you’re on top of the ship you just tried to escape.

Well a pda said he was going inside the aurora to fetch supplies or something so he could have met other survivors and died in the explosion

The ghost leviathans have a bite attack but they don't technically eat you they eat micro organisms. They're just territoral I guess

Me parking my ship in the aurora looks back at ship reaper leviathan Casually juggling it

Dude, you sound extremely educated on this scientific ish. It’d be awesome if you continued with this and helped some developers on the realistic details! Also, it’s nice that you’re able to speak freely and intelligently and you don’t sound like you’re reading a script.

Riley is really good at making choices. He calculated exactly when to launch and which lifepod is most reliable

It would be VERY COOL to find lifepod 5 (Rileys lifepod) in Below Zero somewhere floating, it could of drifted there. Maybe you can even find a PDA log that was left behind.

the biggest possability is that it's a combination of all these possabilitys...... totaly is your favorite sentence XD

*Me and the leviathan bois laughing in the corner* Edit: wowie

I haven’t seen the entire video, and this point may have already been made, but a very strong point could be that they sunk endlessly into the Dead Zone. Think about it: the dead zone is endlessly falling. Especially relating to his first idea (damage to the lifepods after it was hit) the lifepods may have been damaged enough to where life support or something similar were compromised. As the pods sank into the dead zone, the crew may have panicked and fleed from the pod, only to find themselves in open water, where they were most likely killed by the Ghost Leviathans. This also may explain why we cannot find any of the lifepods, as they simply continued to sink. That’s just my take, anyway. Feel free to drop any ideas you have about this theory in the replies!

Only 8 hours. Wow now that is a speedrun

My void/deadzone pod fan-theory: "I do not know where i am..." "Where is everyone?" "What are those big things?" "Please come save me..." "No one wil-" *Audio error* *Silence* *Distorded audio* "CaN Y0u HEaR ThEM?¿" "!CAn YoU sEE THem?" "they. are. so..." *cut* You can find this life pod in a small cave close to the void/dead zone (Side Note:there will be a lot of Ghost leviathans) Inside the cave,you have a chance of hearing someone talking about you,everytime you do something big in the game Ex-sea moth:"i wish i had one of those,you do not need it right?" Ex-cyclops:"do you think that is good?" Ex-dying:"what is wrong with your face,did you saw a ghost or something?" Ex-sunbeam:"now they can join this hollow planet,forever" Ex-Hatching the eggs:"you got this far,so far,do me a favor buddy,leave this planet,forever" Sorry if that is cringe or bad,im new to the game And sorry for my bad english,im brazilian :)

What if Riley wasn't knocked out maybe he coulda saved a couple people ?

What I love is that a Warper radio message suggests that you weren't alone as it says that 1 of the 2 subjects have been killed which adds another question of who survived?

It really makes you think about how lucky Ryley was, they not only landed in non of the dangerous biomes, but they managed to land in one of the safest biomes in the entire game, as well as far enough from the Aurora to not be dying of radiation poisoning. The only other lifepod which had anywhere near that amount of luck was lifepod 3 landing in the kelp forest, and somehow they still were killed.

I felt so sorry for the survivor in life pod 4. He had no choice but to take his chances with the decoy. I can’t even imagine how terrifying that swim for the ship would have been, which ultimately ended badly for him.

An additional Possibility can be that the Explosion caused some of the Lifepods to violently crash into each other, dashing the pods to bits. If it didn't, the collision could have thrown the Pods either into space, Crater's edge (the Void to you), Land (which would have shattered the pod), or even down into the Dunes or Mountains (home of the Reaper Leviathans)... And some may even have been swept into the lost river or the Magma Caverns, the latter would mean they became the Sea Emperor Leviathan's idea of "Canned Food".

9:30 Ah yes, the ol' combination of events

Now that I think about it, I hope that none of that metal scrap in the safe shallows comes from lifepods....

Hey man! I’m pretty sure I gave you this idea! Yeah I’m undertheshallows I change my name a lot😅 (if I didn’t then sorry) also I LOVE you videos and I’m pretty sure I’ve almost watched all of them? Keep going, your videos make my day😁.

Since we're including malfunctions, I'd say it's safe to say that many of them just didn't launch from parts of the ship being torn. Many pods may have been directly hit by the beam.

Well done, while watching the video I thought of multiple possibilities but you kept addressing each one. Goes to show Speedy's attention to detail

when i clicked on the video and heard "there was 25 lifepods deployed and only nine are seen in the game" i was like "oh the 16 others are just in the void"

Thank you Speedy, now I can rest in peace. :) I'll keep watching you.

imagine being stuck in space with just a lifepod, that would be so scary

I really like the possibility style of Theory.

I would die of a heart attack the moment I saw a ghost leviathan if I landed in the void

They got a severe case of not belonging to the protagonist.

He Sounds so young but so professionel at the same time. Subbed

If any of the life pods landed on ground they most likely would have left a crater so i dont think thats very plausible, its also possible that when the auroura was shot some of the lifepods were flung towards the artic area

the 3 dislikes are 3 of the ghosts of the failed life pods and mad at him

I think a cool subnautica mod is where the aurora crashes with you inside it and still alive but you have to try and make it out of the aurora before it explodes you have to make a radiation suit with materials you find on the aurora and eventually you make it to the place where you exit then you get the message that the aurora is about to explode you know you can’t make it far enough away intime and accept your fate

Good video bud. I have to say, despite you sounding very young, you present yourself in a very professional and understandable way. Keep at it bro

"This is lifepod 35. I have been sinking for the past half hour. These erie glowing creatures are patrolling outside in this void of water and micro-organisms. *Life pod reaching maximum crush depth* If you get this message, don't come for me, and tell my family I love them. *static*

Your videos are amazing and the editing is great your videos encourage me to work harder with my videos. So thank you for that 🙂

Imagine like the beginning of below zero it was one of the Aurora survivors that was in a life pod and luckily floated to the below zero area

one could’ve landed in one of the hydrothermal vents that are at the deep ocean floor and then gotten destroyed by the lava. We know from the lava zone that it can easily destroy the plasteel that the prawn suit is made out of so it could probably destroy a life pod as well.

Riley has dream level luck

My theory is that maybe most of the people didn’t make it in time cause you know how it says when you enter the aurora that there was human tissue so I was thinking that the lifepods were destroyed by impact to the ground.

What if some life pods were propelled by the explosion, and launched to other biomes, like the arctic biome?

imagine a subnautica dev watches this and makes a game about the other life pods, like you said at some point in the video.

It's either they ended up in space, in the void, the moons, burnt while entering the atmosphere, or on a part of the planet that isn't the void.

‘Might have landed in the void.’ HELL-NA-TICA

Ok, but can we talk about how altera has a 4% survival rate for their life pods? like, they must have cut cornered somewhere

The void is probably the most Likly the option if the life pod didn’t get hit by the ghost due to momentom they could be crushed by the deapth this could be anthor likly posibility that people could impload and be aten because of the deapth and by judging the pron suit is taller and by the animations their life pods could be eaten aswell of corse this might be my own head cannon but it’s interesting to think about (btw love the content keep up the amazing work my guy)

The thumbnail image is exactly my loading image....

Here is a good one Possibility #10 The life pods went into orbit and landed onto other parts of the planet, some in the void and some in other parts of the planet. For example, the Below Zero Crater or other upcoming game locations.

Imagine if we got a game where we were another survivor on 4546B. Our lifepod fell in the void but was going so fast it went right by the ghost leviathans and got to the bottom of the void. In the game youd be able to explore the void in its entirety. Obviously the area you start in would be inhabited by ghost leviathans or anything hostile but as you go further you discover many new biomes and fauna. Yk how subnautica had a little land and below zero had more well in this game sense your lifepod landed at the bottom of the void there would be no land. A problem that comes up is "well if your that deep then wouldent it be impossible to survive bdcause the water pressure would crush everything?" Yes. But its a video game! Also how would you beat the game? Well id say itd have a bad ending, kind of. You build a underwater rocket thing to fly up and away and as your doing it you get out of the water and you see rileys rocket leaving. But then the ship gets yanked down and you see a ghost leviathan jump out of the water and bring you back down. The lights blink red, a hole is made and water starts flooding in, then you see the ghost leviathan head to head before it roars and the screen cuts to black, cueing the credits. I could see it being called "Subnautica Deep End" or something. I think itd be fun and intresting idk. Edit: i came up with an idea. It could be a rust type multiplayer game where you and up to 15 other people could start a world. There would be a map similar to subnautica where there would be three safe areas near the middle and your life pods would all be in them. I think it would be interesting and make it unique.

If a lifepod sank in the void, it is more likely it would have imploded before the occupant could starve/suffocate. Assuming the leviathans didn't tear it open, as the reapers did with some of the ones the player actually does find.

Why are there no bodies around? They could have burned up while entering the atmosphere but there would still be charred bodies

Maybe that one (or several) lifepod landed on the sector zero because the lifepods were Ejected on 4546B, so it is possible that one (or several) lifepod would have gone around the atmosphere and finally crashed into the sector zero

Alright, so, hear me out: Another Possibility are the Reapers. And I know what you're probably gonna say: Where are the Lifepods then? Well, if they dragged the Lifepods over to the Back of the Aurora, who's to say the Lifepods didn't get Buried by the Reaper Leviathan Swimming Routine, not to mention the fact that a lot of the Sand back there was completely jumbled up (Probably not because of the Reapers but because if the Aurora's Impact). Another Option of Lifepod Disposal Leads me to a Voicelog from BZ: (Spoilers for Marguerite Maida's Story after the Degasi) Alright, so: After the Reaper Attacked, it is stated that Marguerite battled with the Reaper up until the Point where the Reaper decided to plunge itself into the Void, possibly in the Hopes of getting rid of her. Instead Marguerite finishes the Reaper off down there. Then comes the Part where she Realizes she's in the Middle of Void with no Idea where she is and the whole Reaper Raft Thing, but that's currently not important. Whats important is the Fact that the Reaper decided to drag her down into the Void to eat/dispose of her. So the "Dropping into the Void" Theory would still work, if a bit different (It's far fetched, I know)

Somewhat unrelated but my theory as to why we survived is because of a few things. 1: we know from lifepod 17’s audio log that many pods got damaged or were close to being damaged by HUGE debris chunks, these most likely broke off of the aurora with much more speed than the lifepods, so Riley was lucky as they managed to get into a lifepod very quickly, why? Well they are a maintenance chief, albeit non-essential. They were doing work near the lifepod bay. That also explains why nobody joined them in the lifepod, as Riley knew that if he waited any longer he risked never even reaching the planet. 2: Riley landed in the safe shallows. This is a very simple reason as to why he survived, he simply landed somewhere lucky. A lot of the lifepods were destroyed by creatures after landing. 3: He isn’t stupid. As we learn many lifepods succumbed to human error. Like lifepod 6. Plus Riley has some maintenance experience, which as we know from what the PDA says in the drive core, the repair tool still requires SOME skill.

They might of landed in below zero area

fun fact: ryley robinson wasn't the only survivor, another lifepod way out of the wreckage of the aurora survived. story continues with Subnautica 3: Craters Edge

These videos are fucking spectacular man. Unbelievable talent.

Hey! I just recently got into subnautica and your video came up on my feed. I just wanna say, if you really are this young and making such great videos with all this merchandise and all these subscribers, its amazing! You're doing fantastic, and if someone thinks you don't deserve all the fame that you have, they're wrong and you shouldn't even give their opinion the time of day :)

What is a pod crashed into the enforcement platform and the nearby reaper destroyed the remaining bits because the pod would most likely fall into the water

This kids theory videos are probably my favorite really well put together

Great video 👍

I am surprised you did not talk much about landing in the dunes or something and being eaten by leviathans. But... idk

i remember seeing a guy in your last stream saying about it and you telling him to shhh lol

Sidenote: Lifepod 13 was not destroyed by atmospheric entry, but destroyed the critical landing systems. This caused the drag-centered slow-down system to fail, and big splash.

How speedy are you in MPH?

I think it’s also possible that the precursors warpers went around and destroyed them because it looks like some of they were blown out from the inside almost which could’ve been the warpers

yes

I think that some of them could've landed in sector zero, but didn't survive or somewhere else on planet 4546b that we just haven't seen yet.

you’re literally my favourite subnautica yt creator. keep up the great work

I feel the reason we survived is the following: * We got off just before the explosion. (Which likely destroyed the last pod(s) to escape) * We were likely very close to the planet. (Didn’t have to fall as far as some of the others) * We landed near - but not directly next to/under The Aurora. (If you weren’t squished, the Reaper probably finished the job) * We landed in safe water. (The “starter zone”) One thing I noticed was… Some of the pods you see didn’t actually get destroyed by monsters breaking in. (Look at the direction the metal is bending for some of them. It looks more like the crew trying to break out… Now I kinda want theories on how you believe each pod was destroyed/person died)

Epic video. I do have two things I want to bring up though. First one is at 3:10. The Aurora was most likely flying at the edge of the atmosphere. If the Aurora was in a stable orbit, they would not have hit the planet, they just would have sat there. (also why would the precursor gun fire at them if they were cruising in a stable orbit) , so even if life pods maintained their speed, the atmosphere would slowly degrade their orbit. The second is at 6:00. Because of the way the atmosphere would slow down the life pods (and their terminal velocity) would cause them to land far from the crash site of the Aurora. That makes me think that Riley was actually one of the last crewmen off, considering how close he was to the Aurora.

I'm pretty sure the ship was already in the atmosphere when it got shot,not in space. The sunbeam backs it up, and it would also need to be within the planet's gravity well to crash into it in most cases

3:36 that would be *_AMAZING_* if a lifepod is found in sector 0! it's quite plausible, too!

I don't know if anyone has said this but your videos and the quality of your videos are amazing bro. You have a really good way of breaking stuff down. Great job dude

Another option is if the deployment of the lifepods wasnt state of the art, was that the life pods were being registered as deployed, but didnt actually deploy due to damage or another malfunction; not as likely, although plausible if the equipment was damaged. And also, I believe the reason so many lifepods sunk, was due to the shrapnel that was discussed early on. It had perferated through the float tubes and had caused the immediate loss of floatability, although, I would assume that lifepods would be enclosed in a bulkhead, so that kinda rules out small shrapnel, unless the titanium walls were so thin that any shrapnel could make it through, or if the lifepods were truly an open door concept, then the shrapnel would bounce around a bit... Also, since it is a spaceship, wouldn't the lifepods be able to withstand the vacuum of space? Its just odd because the likeliness of a spaceship being anywhere near a planet would be very slow, unless the spaceship architects only planned for the lifepods to be deployed near planets. All this is really just a rabbit hole of course lol. Its just crazy that the lifepods weren't more durable, as they were meant for all emergency abandon ship; they should be more resiliant to all scenarios

A variant on debris theory is that given the proximity of them ejecting from the Aurora they could collided or even slammed into each other basically turning one or both or many into the scraps of metal we find lettered all over the area.. If the collision was at high enough altitude then this would help also explain how we find scraps of metal all over the place.. It may not have all come from the ships themselves.. Idk just an idea 🤔👍

Cool video. The only option that I have a problem is the moon one. I don't now the numbers of the plannet or the orbit of Aurora when got hit by the laser, but using earth as an exemple on an orbit around ISS =~70000-100000 km the deltaV necessary for getting for low orbit is =~0,6 - 0,8 and that is a lot. So it's unlikely that the wxplosion would have enough deltaV, but to make in actual orbit or really slow deorbit is not hard to imagine. Cool video, do more

I think another chance is landing after the Aurora and dying out to the mass radiation or the explosion itself, since we dont get the rad suit until the explosion were not able to explore there, also, another chance is that some malfunctioned while still inside the Aurora, and they were inside as It exploded (once again, unlikely) another is that we coudlve been knocked out for awhile, and someone did survive in their lifepod but completely failed to maintain survival until rendezvous, another possibility is just like lifepod two, they couldve feel far away from the aurora, far enough not to get signals, such as the dunes, then again, some also couldve been ripped out with the wreckage we see around the map, and we just fused with it on impact