Destroyed Lifepods

This article is about the Destroyed Lifepods. You may be looking for the Aurora or Wrecks.

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Spoiler alert: The following section contains story related material.

Popular theory on the fate of the lifepods... Lifepod 1: Unknown outcome. Possibly lost in outerspace, fell deep into the crater edge or crushed by the Aurora on impact. Lifepod 2: All occupanats but Yu drowned. Lifepod 3: Seaglide overloaded in attempt to daisy chain two batteries, leaving behind fragment and killing all occupants Lifepod 4: Managed to scan and decoy a Reaper (PDA Voice Log specifies this as a Reaper, not anything else), however, either the decoy didn't last long enough and the Reaper ate the person, or the person died due to radiation as they swam towards the Aurora. Lifepod 5: You, the player (Ryley Robinson). The only known human survivor of the Aurora to sucsessfully be cured of the Kharaa Bacterium and to escape Planet 4546B alive.  Lifepod 6: Fuel line exploded, all dead. Lifepod 7: Fabricator failed, died of starvation due to lack of food. Lifepod 12: A warper sensed the increased infection levels in Danby, came over from the Mountains border of the Bulb Zone, and killed him. In fact, one "alien" message reads "RADIO: ▀▖┗▛Subject 11783 destroyed. Mode ▄▖▜▚┣: patrol. New targets unaccounted for: 1." Subject 11783 is most likely Danby. There are no other plausible Warper deaths, which is most likely why there is no other message like this. The unaccounted target is you, obviously. (Just to prove that the radio can really pick up warper transmissions and that they aren't something else - the PDA suggests that the Precursors had telepathic abilities to communicate and download data via electromagentic fields, which they most likely implemented into the Warpers they made. And what is radio? Electromagentic signals.) Lifepod 13: Died upon impact, damage due to metal peeling away at "critical external temperatures". Lifepod 17: There are no predators that can successfully damage a Seamoth (thus a lifepod). Popular belief states that a crabsnake was the predator, hence,"grim looking snake". Maybe it was a Sand Shark, but another (less plausible) explanation is... maybe a Levathian class snuck over from a bordering biome. Lifepod 19: Abandoned by Keen, who met Yu on floating island. Both were intercepted by a Reaper on the way to the Aurora, Yu died. Keen, stuck in some unknown location between the Aurora and the island, somehow dies. Lifepods 20-25: Unknown outcome. Possibly lost in outerspace, fell deep into the crater edge or crushed by the Aurora on impact.  Source: TVTheories

Overview

Lifepod	Biome	Coordinates	Items	Occupant(s)
Lifepod 2 CTO Yu's Lifepod sunk 500m before she abandoned it	Northern Blood Kelp Zone	-489 -500 1328	Abandoned PDA - Lifepod 2 Chief Technical Officer Yu's Voicelog (T+2min) Data Box - Cyclops Depth Module MK1	CTO Yu Berkeley
Lifepod 3 Crew reported their seaglide damaged	Kelp Forest	-33 -17 408	Seaglide Fragment Data Box - Compass Abandoned PDA - Lifepod 3 Crew Log	2 Unnamed Crew
Lifepod 4 Radiation suit recommended before attempting rescue/salvage	Crash Zone	717 -7 161	Abandoned PDA - Lifepod 4 Crew Log First Aid Kit Data Box - Creature Decoy	Unnamed Crew
Lifepod 6 Crew requested assistance navigating radiation	Grassy Plateaus	363 -110 309	Abandoned PDA - Lifepod 6 Crew Log #1 Abandoned PDA - Lifepod 6 Crew Log #2 Data Box - Ultra Glide Fins Flares x2 Lead	Unnamed Crew Unnamed Passenger
Lifepod 7 Aurora crewmember requested assistance	Crag Field	-55 -179 -1039	Toy Car An Unusual Doll Gray Cap Microscope Abandoned PDA - Lifepod 7 Crew Log Cylindrical Sample Flask	Unnamed Crew
Lifepod 12 Sunk to the ocean bed	Bulb Zone	1117 -268 568	Abandoned PDA - Lifepod 12 Medical Officer Danby's Crew Log Data Box - Repulsion Cannon	Danby
Lifepod 13 Carrying high priority passenger's remains	Northwestern Mushroom Forest	-919 -177 508	Abandoned PDA - Lifepod 13 Emissary's Voicelog Data Box - Ultra Glide Fins	Jochi Khasar
Lifepod 17 Stranded near a cave system and under attack	Grassy Plateaus	-510 -91 -45	Abandoned PDA - Lifepod 17 Crew Log Seamoth Fragment	Ozzy Unnamed Crew/Passenger(s)
Lifepod 19 Second Officer Keen's last broadcast location	Deep Sparse Reef	-808 -298 -873	Abandoned PDA - Lifepod 19 Officer Keen's Voicelog Abandoned PDA - Lifepod 19 Officer Keen's Crew Log Data Box - Ultra High Capacity Tank	Keen

Gallery

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  Destroyed Lifepods as seen on Trello

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  Lifepod 4 with a functioning flotation mechanism

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  Damage on the outside and inside of Lifepod 13

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  The interior of a Destroyed Lifepod

Trivia

• In previous versions, Destroyed Lifepods all featured the same damage; it was due to a lack of art time, contrary to the theory that they were all attacked by Warpers.
• A second Lifepod 3 had spawned in the Safe Shallows. This was removed in later versions of the game, however.