Radio

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Uses & Messages

After repairing the Communications Relay inside Lifepod 5, it will inform the player that it is broadcasting a distress signal:

• "RADIO: Radio online. Greetings survivor. I am your emergency radio transponder. Broadcasting emergency distress signal." File:RadioBootup.ogg

Afterwards, the player will recieve a message from the Aurora:

• "RADIO: This is Aurora. Distress signal received. Divers equipped with seaglide propulsion vehicles will be dispatched to your location in 9...9...9... hours. Continue to monitor for emergency transmissions from other lifepods." File:RadioBounceBack.ogg

After this message has been answered, the player may receive more messages. Most of these messages are distress signals from other Lifepods, but the player will also receive messages from the Sunbeam in an attempt to get rescued.

Completion of certain tasks will trigger the following messages:

Lifepods

	Message	Signal	Trigger
	"OFFICER KEEN: This is Officer Keen in Lifepod 19! The captain is gone. I have assumed command. Scans show dry land a kilometer south of the crash site. Stay together and regroup at the rendezvous point. Good luck. This message will now repeat. CPU: Rendezvous co-ordinates corrupted. Transmission origin co-ordinates downloaded."	Lifepod 19 - Second Officer Keen's last broadcast location	Crafting a Mobile Vehicle Bay
	"RADIO: This is Lifepod 6, high priority passengers onboard. Co-ordinates attached. We've landed one click from the crash site, but the rendezvous path is irradiated, and we've only got one rad suit. Request immediate assistance. 6 out."	Lifepod 6 - Crew requested assistance in surviving radiation	Crafting a Habitat Builder
	"RADIO: This is Lifepod 3, uploading our co-ordinates. We're plugging some holes in our emergency Seaglide, so if we're late for the rendezvous, don't panic. Also, don't go home without us. Seriously. 3 out."	Lifepod 3 - Crew reported their seaglide damaged	600 sec after answering automated bounceback
	"RADIO: High priority automated message from Aurora Lifepod 13. Co-ordinates attached. Lifepod contains the last known remains of passenger 'Emissary Jochi Khasar. I said Jochi Khasar! Why do I have to record this anyway?'. Send immediate burial detail."	Lifepod 13 - Carrying Mongolian emissary Jochi Khasar	Entering the Bulb Zone
	"RADIO: This is Lifepod 7, co-ordinates attached. Pod is structurally sound, but the fabricator's busted. Requesting immediate assistance. 7, out."	Lifepod 7 - Aurora crewmember requested assistance	Entering the Aurora's generator room
	"RADIO: This is Lifepod 17, co-ordinates attached! Looks like the Seamoth Bay collapsed around me. Do not attempt rescue without laser cutters, you'll only add to the body count. Lifepod 17 out." File:RadioLifepod17.ogg	Lifepod 17 - Crew reported the Seamoth bay collapsed around them	Crafting a Seaglide
	"RADIO: This is an automated distress signal from Lifepod 12, co-ordinates attached. Warning: Lifepod has sunk beyond safe diving distance. Do not attempt retrieval without submersible support." File:Lifepod 12 Audio.ogg	Lifepod 12 - Sunk beyond 250m	Constructing a Bioreactor
	"CTO YU: This is Lifepod 2, co-ordinates attached! We're way past our safe depth and bleeding O2. We'll have to swim for the surface, but it's 500 meters straight up. Keep you posted. Yu, out."	Lifepod 2 - CTO Yu reported sinking 500m before abandoning her lifepod	Constructing a Thermal Plant
	"RADIO: This is an automated distress signal from Lifepod 4, co-ordinates attached. Since planetfall pod has not sustained damage; no crewmembers have disembarked; zero lifesigns have been detected onboard. Recommend investigation." File:Lifepod 4 Audio.ogg	Lifepod 4 - Zero lifesigns. Recommend investigation	Crafting Copper Wire

Sunbeam

	Message
	"This is Avery Quinn, of trading ship Sunbeam. Aurora, do you read? Over. Still nothing. These Alterra ships. They run out of engine grease, they send an SOS; you offer to help, they don't pick up. Aurora, I'm out on the far side of the system, it's going to take take more than a week to reach your position, do you still need our assistance? Over. I'll try them again tomorrow. See what the long-range scans pick up in the meantime. Damn charter's going to have us wasting our profit margin running errands for Alterra." File:SunbeamRadio1.ogg
	"Aurora, this is Sunbeam again. We just picked up a massive debris field at your location. I didn't know how bad... how many of you... I didn't know. We are now en route to your location. We're going to bring you home. Sunbeam out. What else can I say? We're a six-seater and we aren't even slightly equipped to handle this? Our pilot last attempted a planet landing in the academy simulator? It's a bad situation, but so are all the alternatives." File:SunbeamRadio2.ogg
	"Sunbeam, broadcasting to all survivors of the Aurora. We've covered more than half the distance, so hold on in there. We're scanning the planet for dry land as we speak. You couldn't have picked a less convenient parking spot, but we'll be in touch as soon as we have a landing site for you. Sunbeam out." File:SunbeamRadio3.ogg
	"Aurora, it's Sunbeam. We've made orbit, and scans have found a landing site on the planet that's only rated hazardous. It's our best shot. We've sent you the coordinates. We'll be there in two days' time. Cross your fingers the weather holds, and don't leave us waiting. Sunbeam out." File:SunbeamRadio4.ogg

Other

	Message	Trigger
	"▀▖┗▛Nine new biological subjects designated. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: hunting/analyzing. Sharing subject locations with other agents." File:RadioWarper1.ogg	Constructing a Prawn Suit
	"▀▖┗▛Subject 11783 destroyed. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: patrol. New targets unaccounted for: 1." File:RadioWarper2.ogg	Entering the Lost River
	"▀▖┗▛▄▖▜▚┣ ▜▚┗┣┗┫┓┏┓ ▛▄▖┅┗▖. ┣┗┏▛▄▖▜┏┣ ▚ ▖▞┣┗▖┗┣. ┣┗▖┃▀▚▗┏┏┓. ▖┛▀┗▞┃┏▄ ▛┏┗▄▖▜▚┣ ┅▖┗━▖ ▖┓┫▞┣ ▚ ▛▄┅┗▖ ▚ ▖▞┣┗▖┗┣ ▚┛▘▞━▖┅." File:Precursor Radio.ogg	Entering the Deep Grand Reef

In Development

• ALTERRA HQ: This is Alterra HQ. This may be our only communications window. We can't send a rescue ship all the way out there, so Aurora, you're just gonna have to meet us halfway. We've uploaded blueprints to the ship's computer. Blackbox data shows the high-security terminal in the Captain's quarters is still functional. The code should be ####. When you- *Static*

Audio

• Played when the Communications Relay receives a new message: File:RadioNewMessage.ogg

• Playing a message: File:RadioPlaying.ogg

Recipe

Gallery

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  A Communications Relay inside a Seabase

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  A Communications Relay inside Lifepod 5

Trivia

• Captain Hollister is a reference to the British TV Series "Red Dwarf (1988)".
• The automated bounceback from the Aurora is most likely based on the position and condition the ship is in. Considering all the crew are dead and the ship is destroyed, it reaches the maximum arrival time (99999 hours) and cuts off.
• Second Officer Keen assuming command may be a reference to the DOS computer game series "Commander Keen".
• The line: "CPU: This is an automated bounce back from the Aurora. Divers equipped with seaglide personal propulsion vehicles will be dispatched to your location. *Static* Estimated arrival time: 9...9...9...9...9 hours.", is a possible reference to Portal 2. Whereas the announcer says to Chell: "You have been in suspension for nine, nine, nine, nine, nine... nine, nine *continues in background* This courtesy call is to.....".
• The messages "▀▖┗▛Nine new biological subjects designated. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: hunting/analyzing. Sharing subject locations with other agents." and "▀▖┗▛Subject 11783 destroyed. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: patrol. New targets unaccounted for: 1." are broadcasted by Warpers.
• The message "▀▖┗▛▄▖▜▚┣ ▜▚┗┣┗┫┓┏┓ ▛▄▖┅┗▖. ┣┗┏▛▄▖▜┏┣ ▚ ▖▞┣┗▖┗┣. ┣┗▖┃▀▚▗┏┏┓. ▖┛▀┗▞┃┏▄ ▛┏┗▄▖▜▚┣ ┅▖┗━▖ ▖┓┫▞┣ ▚ ▛▄┅┗▖ ▚ ▖▞┣┗▖┗┣ ▚┛▘▞━▖┅." is an automated message from a Precursor.
• Messages, before they were replaced with encrypted symbols:
  • ▀▖┗▛▄▖▜▚┣ ▜▚┗┣┗┫┓┏┓ ▛▄▖┅┗▖. ┣┗┏▛▄▖▜┏┣ ▚ ▖▞┣┗▖┗┣. ┣┗▖┃▀▚▗┏┏┓. ▖┛▀┗▞┃┏▄ ▛┏┗▄▖▜▚┣ ┅▖┗━▖ ▖┓┫▞┣ ▚ ▛▄┅┗▖ ▚ ▖▞┣┗▖┗┣ ▚┛▘▞━▖┅..
    • -> Karflaget gertrupop flayra. Troflagot e aitrart. Trankeboop. Askrinol forlaget yarma aquit e flyra e aitrart escimay.
      • Flayra was an Easter Eggs. It is the nickname from the Game Leader Charlie Cleveland.
  • ▀▖┗▛Nine new biological subjects designated. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: hunting/analyzing. Sharing subject locations with other agents.
    • -> Nine new biological subjects designated. Mode switch: hunting/analyzing. Sharing subject locations with other agents.
  • ▀▖┗▛Subject 11783 destroyed. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: patrol. New targets unaccounted for: 1.
    • -> Subject 11783 destroyed. Mode switch: patrol. New targets unaccounted for: 1.
• 9...9...9...9...9 (99,999) hours is about 11 years and 5 months (11.415411 years).