Just speculating on the Planet 4546B
Lonnehart
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Just a few things about Planet 4546B I've been wondering about...
1. Is the landmass we're playing on some kind of plateau? The entire playable area appears to be on some kind of rocky structure jutting out from the ocean which seems to be endlessly deep.
2. Is there more than one plateau on this world? There can't be just one I think...
3. How the heck did this thing form? I only have two guesses... Either the entire plateau is a gigantic meteorite that landed on its end on the planet's hard water surface with the end we're on gradually eroded away so most of it is underwater. Or some alien civilization built the thing artificially.
4. I bet the planet is pretty gigantic and the landmass we're on is tiny. With ships disappearing around the planet for thirty years before the game's story I'm guessing most of those ships ended up in the deep ocean abyss...
Just some thoughts about Planet 4546B. Any other thoughts or comments to add?
1. Is the landmass we're playing on some kind of plateau? The entire playable area appears to be on some kind of rocky structure jutting out from the ocean which seems to be endlessly deep.
2. Is there more than one plateau on this world? There can't be just one I think...
3. How the heck did this thing form? I only have two guesses... Either the entire plateau is a gigantic meteorite that landed on its end on the planet's hard water surface with the end we're on gradually eroded away so most of it is underwater. Or some alien civilization built the thing artificially.
4. I bet the planet is pretty gigantic and the landmass we're on is tiny. With ships disappearing around the planet for thirty years before the game's story I'm guessing most of those ships ended up in the deep ocean abyss...
Just some thoughts about Planet 4546B. Any other thoughts or comments to add?
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Now with 4546b there could be several possibilites.
1: It can be that its crust is much thicker overall but split up horizontally with layers of water. Beneath that could be a very deep layer of ocean, then the mantle, outer core and the very inner core.
2: It could just be a water planet with maybe a very hot core, mantle and a thick crust.
3: It could have a very cool and hard metal core with a very deep layer of ocean, but with no heated mantle and such. The large moon and the little one farther out could compensate with how they influence the planet. Gravitational pull and tides. They could make sure the planet stays active. Again depending on the parent star, its clearly hot enough to have life as we know it so that isnt a problem, but the planet depend on the moons/ natural satelites more.
Ever seen Star Wars episode 1? Yeah theres an good example of a planet named Naboo with the core being entirely made out of water and its passable of all things. With big ocean creatures.
And in Episode 3 theres a big water planet, Kamino. No idea how its buildt up though.
Whish I could remember any from Star Trek but oh well.
4:My guess too, we might be on a very small part of shallow water. Might be the only place we can actually see the ocean floor to any extent. Maybe the rest of the planet have no more landmass/ crust and just deep ocean.
Hope it helped getting an idea
I would also say the high humidity in the atmosphere of an ocean planet would lead to massive storms and torrential downpours at least on a seasonal basis.
I imagine the floaters holding up the playable area would be extra massive...
Meaning they will go anywhere till the creature dies stressed fish usually go for cover and they prolly die hiding under stones making floaters stick to the stones where they release eggs that float to the surface, hatch feed on the sunlight and attach to fish taking them back to the deep finishing the cycle of life.
Yeah, and the UK will vote to leave that as well...
Floaters are strange creatures indeed. How many of them and how massive would they have to be to hold up a continent sized land mass?
I have my doubts on the floater theory because of the geological activity going on underneath. We do have lava zones after all...
But there were two leading theories if i remember, one being that we are near a continent thus possibly in a sea on the coastal shelf. Or that we are in a large archipelago chain, which again would keep the whether around what we have and explain why the water isn't that deep. Plus both theories explained why land life exists and how it so easily formed on floater island.
Now I think the archipelago was winning because of the idea it would have broken up currents that large bodys of water would have. Thus give us this environment of lower currents. Also i think it also better explained the safe shallows also why we don't see the land mass from space, but i don't remember.
but might revive or just remake the thread, just so we can break down subnautica bit by bit.
Actually, that large moon that's really close should be having a huge impact on the planet. The tides would be massive and there would be huge tectonic shifts. Not to mention that the large moon is well inside what is called the Roche limit. That moon should either be in a unstable orbit with it eventually impacting the planet (like Phobos) or it should have been torn apart into a ring system.
The small moon does not seem to move at all, thus should not create any shifting tides.
1) Lonnehart Yes, but if the planet is all ocean the, moon would not have an affect on the planet for large waves. The gravity of the planet would exert the same amount of force over the entire planets surface, therefor eliminating the possibility for large waves.
2) Xyphon The moon would not be in an orbit at all, in actuality, Planet 4546B is orbiting the moon. I know this sounds crazy, but the gravity of the planet after you leave its atmosphere is very small. Because of the small amount of gravity past the planets atmosphere, it makes it possible for the moon to be extra close, the moon have no affect on waves and such, and have Planet 4546B orbiting its moon
P.S. Planet 4546B's land mass (play area) itself is floating (and a cube). The bottom of the land mass is roughly 3050 meters deep. I spent so much time swimming down there with only a seaglide in creative.
Hope I helped sort out some of Planet 4546B's mysteries.
Kamino is just an earth except global warming happened really quick and the ice on the entire planet melted and boom ocean world
and that was Episode 2
(Kinda like how in native american mythology, the world is on the back of a gigantic turtle. Unfortunately, there aren't turtles in SN.)
Hahahahahahaha!!!!! True, I forgot about that part. However, it can be fun to theorize, and give your thoughts on it all.
Isn't that the flat earthers and religious literalists as well. Living on the back of elephants who are standing on the back of a turtle, on a flat plane surrounded by Antarctica, underneath a ice dome firmament, at the center of the universe
Also what happened to 4546A
Fine, I'll leave
Huge friggin' space floaters!
As for the planet in general, it's most likely an earth-like world in structure, perhaps with a bit more water, but I'm sure there are continents somewhere, keeping mega-storms in check and being the source for the plants on the floater islands. I don't think that the bottomless map is evidence for the planet being some sort of crazy 100% water world, that's clearly just a game mechanic.
I think that thermodynamics, gravity, and geometry might prohibit that.
And even if it was possible... A creature of that size would probably cause extreme currents and waves just by swimming around with the amount of water it would displace. Surely we'd notice some of those effects on our small neighborhood, if it was that insanely big, a sea dragon basically looks like plankton to it. Not even mentioning it's sustenance and energy requirements, just to be able to move
The bigger something is, the slower they become. Just look at the biggest lifeforms on our planet we have discovered... They are a bloody tree that looks like a forest and an interconnected fungus