Mass Extinction Event?
Jamezorg
United Kingdom Join Date: 2016-05-15 Member: 216788Members
United Kingdom Join Date: 2016-05-15 Member: 216788Members
So we already knew the Precursors destroyed themselves with the Carar, but NOW we're getting word of ANOTHER extinction event from terminals in the Thermal Plant...
It really intrigues me that the Precursors were doing exactly what we were doing but with different creatures; it just makes me so happy. And all we see of this ancient world is pretty much the Emperor, which adds a whole new layer to it's eggs hatching and stuff (and we see skeletons in the Secondary Research Facility). So, here's some conversation starters:
1. What was this extinction event? Was it Carar?
2. Are there any other creatures that we see that survived this extinction event?
It really intrigues me that the Precursors were doing exactly what we were doing but with different creatures; it just makes me so happy. And all we see of this ancient world is pretty much the Emperor, which adds a whole new layer to it's eggs hatching and stuff (and we see skeletons in the Secondary Research Facility). So, here's some conversation starters:
1. What was this extinction event? Was it Carar?
2. Are there any other creatures that we see that survived this extinction event?
Comments
I've read it and it seems like it's just suggesting Carar.
Maybe the meteor was carrying the Carar?
No, I think the precursors developed the carar for use as a weapon.
No, the Carar was created by the Precursors.
As far as everyone is aware of we the 'players' have assumed that the Precursor's were wiped out, granted the physical body form of them and not the digitized form of them.
We all know that the Carar was created by the Precusor's there's enough inside the game to support that fact. Wikia link http://subnautica.wikia.com/wiki/Carar
1) there were two extinction events the meteor and the carar, which the thermal plant terminal is talking bout is unknown.
2) The precursors created the carar for unknown reasons.
3) The purpose of the research is to find a cure.
4) The carar has killed over 140 billion.
5) The resident precursors of 4546B stored themselves as data when there was a breach in containment.
Have I got anything wrong or missed anything relevant?
The meteor had to do at least some damage to nature. Maybe that's why the Dunes is so barren? Or did it do more damage than that?
We must rather assume it was the Carar. There was some bioresearch going on when a breach caused an outbreak and thus the planet had to be put in quarantine. The natural immunity of the Emperor could be a hint that the former extinction was an earlier Carar outbreak.
Is it possible that all of the caches were underground and have just been revealed by natural things happening? The Dunes one was revealed by the meteorite impact, the Sparse Reef one could be from the Floating Island lifting up from the biome, and the one in Blood Kelp could have been revealed by the Under Islands and the Blood Kelp.
I'm no meteorological expert, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
How big is the meteorite in the dunes? For example, the meteorite that affected the K-T (cretaceous) extinction* was estimated to be about as big as a city (6miles/10km wide, by some estimates). If the impact of the meteorite was large enough, it could have spread a large enough ash cloud to affect the entire dunes biome. Once we get the size of the meteorite we could hypothetically calculate the size of the fallout it would have caused. It is always possible that it had a negligible effect on the dunes, as well.
*(one of the most accepted theories for the extinction, anyway)
You're missing out on two factors there, how fast the object is going and the displacement of the seabed and water. Last two would slow the object down but you'd still get quite the large amount of damage done by it, speed and mass matter. Take a meteorite the size of a car or a bus for example, both sizes has enough energy to be as destructive or more destructive as our currently most powerful nuclear weapon devices.
That meteorite is a bit larger than a Cyclops, you are probably only seeing half of it or even a 3rd of it, a good deal of it would be buried under the surface.