You get confident there's nothing down there with you. Second pulse, more emptiness shows itself. Barren seafloor beneath, jagged volcanic rocks and twisting rock bridges going across the chasms. One pulse goes out, the sound it makes working as the perfect cliffhanger, and you see only landscape. You turn on your active sonar to see something, because you can only navigate by compass for so long. Ghosts have lost interest in you as you went deeper. Aside from creeking of your ship barely holding pressure, there's silence. So you turn them off not to gather any more attention. If Ghosts don't scare you, and you go deeper, where even your trusty Cyclops Mariana starts to creek and shake from the pressure, and you reach whatever landscape is down there, there's no light around you aside from your headlamps. Gameplay-wise Gargantuan is impeccable at one thing: ultimate "let's not go further" deterrent.
They've left enough blank spaces to fill later. So, Gargantuan is quite possible lore-wise.
Not to mention, deep-sea creatures fall apart outside their preferred pressure (the famous blob fish from that meme) due to how they evolved their bodies to survive down there, a creature as big as a Gargantuan simply wouldn't come close to the surface unless it wanted to lose its life. It's already seen in some life forms existing in Mariana Trench at 11km, it'd be even worse at ~50km. Also, don't forget that increased pressure leads to gigantism. If a Gargantuan is ~1,2km long, their expected average depth would be at least at around ~50km. A creature that requires hundreds of kilometers of sea depth to feel sorta okay-ish to move would also require absolutely immense pressure to survive. They were just smart enough not to come close to the Crater.Īlso, Subnautica leaves out a very important part of how the physics of deep-sea life work - the pressure. Just because one Gargantuan Leviathan got lost and his skeleton got placed in a cave system, formed on top of a dormant volcano thousands of years ago doesn't mean they are extinct. There's life at the Mariana Trench, what stops it to prevail out there too? If Crater's Edge alone allowed such gigantic by Earth standards creatures to live, and we already see examples of even bigger monsters occupying the edges of the Crater (Ghosts), there's no doubt bigger fish exists down there.Īnd who knows how deep the ocean goes. That's at least mature Ghosts (because kiddie-winkies are only allowed to play in the "shallows", kekw) and whoever the fuck knows what else. The in-game tooltip tells you that according to known data, Dead Zone supports microscopic and Leviathan lifeforms. If just a 2km deep Crater's surface and it's internal structure supported and nurtured oceanic life as big as Reaper Leviathans (that's already tens of meters long active predatory creatures), Reefbacks (closest to humbback whales), Sea Treaders and, most importantly, Ghost Leviathans, just think what lives outside. We don't know how big 4546b is, but following all the sci-fi tropes (and real life examples), gas giants and water-worlds are usually massive. We're talking constellation of Ariadne Arm, that's fuck-all far away. And our planet is relatively tiny in comparison to our own Solar System standards. Crater's Edge is what, barely 2km deep at the lava level? Mariana Trench is 11km.ġ1km, dude. And funny enough, even aliens only built in the shallowest waters. Like, thousands of years of just quarantine. In Sector Zero, there lied a massive fucking Phase Gate made by Precursors and noone had an idea. To be fair, the planet is barely explored at all.
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