Story (spoilers ahead)

[The Dip]

Okay so we know that the precursors are the ones who brought down the aurora with that giant cannon and that they created the warpers but why though? We also know that it had something to do with a disease and possibly made warpers so they could escape the plague. any ideas?

[Cougarific]

The "Story & Lore" subforum is ---> thattaway (subforums are listed on the right side of the Main page). Lots of interesting story-related ideas floating around over there.

[Kekmeister]

Dataminers have mined this already, needless to say, spoilers ahead.
The aurora is hit by a mysterious projectile (Fired by Precursor Cannon, not known at this time)
The player lands on water. The player then repairs his equipment after aquiring basic gear. He recieves the distress signals and coordinates of the other lifepods, however finds them empty. The aurora explodes. The player goes inside, finds the Prawn suits and the generator room together with some backstory, then heads back to the lifepod. He gets the message that they detected a landmass south of the aurora, where the player will find the 3 bases on the island.
The player finds out they mooved to the jellshrooms and afterwards to the Active lavazone. The player should have high level gear including acess to the Deep grand reef , and visits the lost river where he will fight that "Ghost Reaper" as people call it.

~EITHER PLOT HOLE OR I DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION

The player finds out that there is a second landmass towards the north-west of the aurora, and sees the cannon (how could he not).
He goes inside the cannon and gets the terminal with partial translation. It isn't fully translated but it reads "unidentified craft in orbit of this planet will be destroyed fa prevent the roklarget tylenid infastuden. This planet isk trahaven fuartentodid."
The player then heads into another entrance and finds those green gates that seem to keep water out of the rooms. The first one you should find is

"Weapon set to target all vessels without proper clearance.
Remote thermal generator set to continuous autonomous mode.
Deep facility offline.
Secondary facility compromised."

The player should then discover the Secondary Bio-Research Facility, wich is (i think) located a little bit hidden in the lost river. He will find another precursor PDA entry wich reads:

"Personnel: 7
Function: Live specimen study
Objective: Synthesis of antidote for highly infectious bacterium designated 'Carar'
Method: Infection of live specimens with bacteria; observation of immune response; surviving specimens sent to primary facility for further analysis.
Precautions: Remote research site to reduce risk of contagion. Offsite thermal power generator.
Ground-to-air weapon system in case of security breach."

In the same facility, he will find another PDA that explainst he Virus to you.


"Bacterial Mechanisms: Attaches to healthy living cells and mutates the basic genetic structure.
Symptoms: Stage 1: None. Stage 2: Gradual immune system failure. Stage 3: Unpredictable alterations to biological structure. Stage 4: Complete shutdown of executive function.
Confirmed deaths so far: 143 billion
Treatment procedure: Unknown."


This tells us that that they had the planet on lock-down because of a virus called "carar" and shot down the aurora because it got too close. Also, the devs have stated on the Trello page that hey want the player to be unable to be infected until he knows that the virus exists. When the player IS infected however, you will have small green zits on your screen. Any creatures that are also infected will have the same.

The player should then head to the lava castle to find the precursor base in there. The PDA reads

"Massive internal damage recorded in lifeform containment unit 7 (leviathan).
Facility structural integrity compromised.
Immediate specimen destruction protocol initiated. 314 specimens destroyed. 1 specimen unaccounted for.
Initiated planetary quarantine protocol.

WARNING: No ships will be permitted to enter or leave orbit without proper clearance. Orbital clearance will not be granted to infected individuals. Clean genetic signature required."

This tells us that we will not be able to build a ship to leave the planet until we have not found the cure for Carar, thus making us unable to complete the game.

In the active lava zone, there is another Precursor base wich is the Off-site plant that was talked about earlier. The PDA in there reads:


"This system converts thermal energy to electric current at 90% efficiency. Some of this energy is chemically stored onsite, while unknown mechanisms appear to be transferring most of it to remote locations elsewhere on the planet:

30% Stored for emergency use
30% Ground-to-air Weapon System
22% Primary Research Facility
11% Secondary Bio-Research Facility
7% Self-Warping Quarantine Enforcer Units

The system appears to be fully automated and - given current understanding of the mechanisms involved - uninterruptible.

Facility locations have been downloaded to individual memory cards to generate HUD-mounted signals."

This has no major meaning to the story, but it does give you the locations of the other bases, wich may mean that this plant may have been intended to be found first. Who knows.


To warpers, or Self-Warping Quarantine Enforcer Units, they are creatures made by the precursors. They Display no desire to eat sleep or defend themselves, they exclusivley hunt for creatures infected with carar. According to the Trello page, they seem to prioritize the creature with the highest infection level of Carar but ignore anything lower than >.9 %.
This means that a infected player can release a highly infected creature as a distraction to run away from a warper.
The warpers are intended to spawn in almost all early game biomes, but are more prominent around precursor bases.

As to containment unit 7, this is most likely where either the Sea dragon or the Sea emperor will reside. As far as we are concerned, the Sea emperor is the result of a Precursor / human /other species we do not know that did not die of Carar, and was instead turned into cthulu by its mutating abilities. The sea emperor is planned to be the only being with enough intelligence to speak, however this is from unconfirmed sources. What we do know however is that the Sea emperor and the warpers are the only species immune to carar.

~~~~MORE PLOTHOLES OR MY INABILITY TO READ~~~~
The player aquires a "precursor core/fragment" wich is a crucial component for the players escape rocket.







TL;DR
Player lands
Player repairs aurora
Player finds out about carar
Player has to cure Carar
Player has to get Precursor core/fragment
Player has to build rocket to escape
-roll credits

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