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|4546B Environment Scan=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=[[w:c:subnautica:Planet 4546B|4546B Environment Scan]]
|image=
|description=
- Category 3 Ocean planet<br />
- Oxygen/Nitrogen Atmosphere<br />
- Extensive biodiversity<br />

Safety Warnings:<br />
- May support leviathan class predators<br />
- Water contaminated with high levels of foreign bacteria<br />
- Planet is beyond federation space, rescue unlikely<br />

It is not recommended to explore this environment without hazardous material suits and extensive support apparatus.
|source=[[Repair Tool|Repair]] [[w:c:subnautica:Lifepod 5|Lifepod 5]]
}}

|Alien Sanctuary Beta=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=[[w:c:subnautica:Sanctuary Caches|Alien Sanctuary Beta]]
|image=
|description=
This antechamber consists of a series of data hubs, each adorned with an ion cube. These are networked up to the main terminal in parallel, presumably to ensure data integrity over time.

- Unprecedented data complexity<br />
- Stored data was scanned into the system at the local terminal<br />
- Original data source was organic in nature<br />

Evidence suggests that this antechamber served as a sanctuary of last resort for the aliens that built it. In the event of catastrophe, they could retreat here and somehow transfer themselves to the data hubs for preservation.

It is unclear whether other members of the alien species ever returned here, or how many souls are backed up on the hubs, but the data stored is far too complex to reconstitute with the little information available.
|source=Download from ''Alien Data Terminal'' in the [[w:c:subnautica:Sanctuary Caches|Northern Blood Kelp Zone Sanctuary]]
}}

|Alterra Citizen Testimonials=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Alterra Citizen Testimonials
|image=
|description=
Frank told us this: 'I hear there are worlds out there where kids still learn from books. They go into a classroom every day, they memorize things, then later they type those things out in controlled environments. Or worlds where everyone's supposed to do whatever creative job they feel like! What use is learning to draw or sing in a world where there's no human resource department to co-ordinate the galleries and concerts? On Alterra worlds, psychometric testing and specialized digi-training makes the most of everyone's talents.'

Max Zoinkoff: 'I started out in marketing for Alterra Survival Systems. It was good work, but I thought I could do better. I set up my own company, developing bespoke code for the Seamoth so it could operate in open space, not just underwater. I sold up to Alterra ten years ago and now it's one of the most widely used vehicles in the galaxy. Now I'm on the board of directors, and I haven't looked back.'

George said, 'An average day for me starts at 10am. I live in a controlled habitat on Terra 17, so everything I need is less than five minutes away. I'm a naturally empathetic person, so I took work as a companion. I spend my days visiting clients, talking with them, learning about them, paying them the attention that everyone needs and deserves, and like most people on Alterra worlds I'm lucky enough to earn a living doing things I enjoy.'

Kaz says, 'We're lucky. We're free. We have jobs. There are trans-govs out there that do everything with robots, or where weapons are legal, you know?'

Jamie had this to say: 'I design artificial worlds, including some of the most popular factory defaults. To do what I do you need to know what people really want. They want excitement, adventure, new experiences, to be whoever they want to be. My job is to make that happen. There are people who say we spend too much time escaping our lives and not enough time making them better. Those people are usually from outside of Alterra space.'
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' from [[w:c:subnautica:Wrecks|Grassy Plateaus Wreck]]
}}

|Alterra Launches the Aurora=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Alterra Launches the Aurora
|image=
|description=
PHASEGATE ANNOUNCED FOR THE ARIADNE ARM: ALTERRA LAUNCHES THE AURORA

The furthest reaches of inhabited space are due to expand, as Alterra Corp launches a newly-constructed capital ship, carrying a phasegate bound for the Ariadne Arm.

The Aurora will travel from spacedock on the edge of Alterra space, making hundreds of consecutive phasegate jumps through nine different trans-gov authorities, and arrive on the far side of the Ariadne Arm in three months' time. From there the command crew will pilot the ship beyond the final phasegate, arriving in the next solar system approximately 18 months later.

There the elite team of engineers will begin a 6 month construction project on the new phasegate, a multi-trillion credit investment. In the absence of existing infrastructure in the region, the vessel is equipped with advanced thermal and nuclear power facilities.

Alterra Corp. currently operates 9% of all phasegates in the galaxy. If the Aurora's mission is successful Alterra will have outmanoeuvered a cabal of Mongolian corporations, operating a range of outposts and mines in the region.
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' in the [[w:c:subnautica:Aurora|Aurora]]
}}

|Aurora Auxiliary Mission Orders=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Aurora Auxiliary Mission Orders
|image=
|description=
- Mission: Search & Rescue<br />
- Target: Crew of the Mongolian vessel 'Degasi'<br />
- Last known position: Vicinity of planet 4546B, Ariadne Arm<br />
- Contact: Mongolian Emissary Jochi Khasar, Aurora Passenger Quarters

Mission brief:<br />
A Mongolian vessel, the 'Degasi', disappeared almost a decade ago, carrying with it a high ranking Mongolian chief. Corporate insurance has purchased passage aboard the Aurora for Emissary Khasar, and your orders are to make every reasonable effort to locate and retrieve the Degasi crewmembers, without compromising the primary mission. Confirming the fate of the crew will aid Alterra's diplomatic efforts with the Mongolian councils.

Mission Details:<br />
- Aurora is due to perform a slingshot maneuver around 4546B (category 3 ocean planet) approximately 13 months post-launch<br />
- This will bring the ship within range of the Degasi's last known position<br />
- Additional aquatic and all-terrain vehicles have been included in the Aurora's cargo package for this mission<br />
- Degasi crew manifesto has been distributed to senior employees in a separate message
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' in the [[w:c:subnautica:Aurora|Aurora]]
}}

|Aurora Black Box Data=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Aurora Black Box Data
|image=
|description=
- Initiated slingshot maneuver around planet 4546B<br />
- High velocity energy pulse detected on planet surface<br />
- Emergency distress signal sent to Alterra listening buoy via long-range comm relay<br />
- Impact detected: Lifepod bays on starboard side compromised; outgoing communications compromised<br />
- Emergency evacuation initiated<br />
- Manual piloting transferred to Captain Hollister<br />
- Lifepods 01-25 launched successfully<br />
- Entering planetary atmosphere<br />
- Massive impact registered, drive core shield compromised<br />
- Emergency bouncebacks received from 8 lifepods on planet surface<br />
- Human lifesigns detected over long range at T+8hrs: 1<br />
- Personnel unaccounted for: Non-Essential Systems Maintenance Chief Ryley Robinson<br />
- Alterra HQ rescue solution received at T+8hrs to [High priority terminal in Captain's Quarters]<br />
- Monitoring equipment failed at T+13hrs
|source=Download from ''Data Terminal'' in the [[w:c:subnautica:Aurora|Aurora]]
}}

|Aurora Engineering Drone - Log=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Aurora Engineering Drone - Log
|image=
|description=
[Exiting sleep mode. Loading voice recognition. Engineer Berkeley and Chief Technology Officer Yu identified.]

BERKELEY: Drone, get me a propulsion cannon.

[Repulsion cannon retrieved]

CTO YU: Hey, Berkeley! Install that circuit box with that repulsion cannon and you'll punch a hole in the cargo bay.

BERKELEY: Damnit, drone, I said PRO-pulsion, not RE-pulsion. Recalibrate sensors!

[Sensors recalibrated]

CTO YU: Sensors aren't the problem. I tweaked the program. It's like you now, it doesn't like being told what to do.

BERKELEY: Drone, I know-

CTO YU: His name's Albert now.

BERKELEY: Albert. I know it's not your fault, but it would really help me do my job if you'd bring me what I asked for. Thanks for your time.

[Propulsion cannon retrieved]

BERKELEY: Thank you. Now go away.

[Entering hibernation mode]

BERKELEY: Boss, this hobby of yours isn't making my job any easier. Or safer.

CTO YU: Maybe so, but it's all that's stopping me from being so bored I take a spacewalk in my skivvies.
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' in the [[w:c:subnautica:Aurora|Aurora]]
}}

|Aurora Scanner Room Voice Log=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Aurora Scanner Room Voice Log
|image=
|description=
OFFICER KEEN: The way I see it no one's to blame here.

UNIDENTIFIED CREW 1: He gave me the wrong co-ordinates!

UNIDENTIFIED CREW 2: She didn't give me clear instruction!

OFFICER KEEN: Okay, I'll rephrase: you've been equally incompetent. Now, we've lost time, but we're closer to the planet, so if the Degasi's out there the scan should pick it up.

UNIDENTIFIED CREW 1: Why are we even helping the Mongolians? They're the competition.

OFFICER KEEN: Enjoy your shore leave on Sanjei Station? Like having fuel in the tanks? Thank the Mongolians. We run the scans, we show them we didn't find anything, and we say thanks for the free dinner. Clear?

UNIDENTIFIED CREW 2: Sir, there's something odd on the surface scan here.

OFFICER KEEN: Turn that recorder off!
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' from [[w:c:subnautica:Wrecks|Northwestern Mushroom Forest Wreck]]
}}

|Captain's Log=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Captain's Log
|image=
|description=
Loading program: CraigMcGillSimulator.vrat

Size: 1 player (Cap'n 'Hot Dog' Hollister)<br />
Map: Boreal 9<br />
Resources: Normal

Your are exploring a quiet alien backwater when the ship you arived here in implodes. It must be the aracnid kidney-poachers! Quick, what will you do?<br />
[Search the crash site]<br />
->[Farm alien plants]<br />
{Use the tectonic de-imploder (unavailable)}

That's just what Craig McGill would do. After foraging for some hours you have collected a number of potentially farmable foodstuffs. Which will you sustain yourself with?<br />
[Stankroot]<br />
[Tree-roaches]<br />
->[Starwal eggs]

While the starwal eggs are nutritious, the lifecycle of these vast, space-fering creatures is much too slow to sustain a farm, and besides, their mother is extremely angry with you.<br />
[Fight the starwal]<br />
[Apologize to the starwal]<br />
->[Accept your fate]

Craig McGill knows that there is no reasoning with a mother scorned. You are not so much torn apart as swallowed whole and disintegrated. The atoms you thought were YOU are gradually redistributed in service of the starwal's continued survival.

Would you like to continue?<br />
[Yes]<br />
->[No]
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' in the [[w:c:subnautica:Aurora|Aurora]]
}}

|Chinese Potato Plant=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=[[w:c:subnautica:Chinese Potato Plant|Chinese Potato Plant]]
|image=Chinese Potato-0 (BZ).png
|description=
The Chinese potato is common throughout the China Territories, where synthetic foods are still stigmatized, and there remain large tracts of arable land on which to grow fresh produce. Genetically designed prior to the Expansion, this plant is highly adaptable to different environments, and a staple of new colonies galaxy-wide.

Assessment: Edible
|source=[[Scanner|Scan]] [[w:c:subnautica:Chinese Potato Plant|Chinese Potato Plant]]
}}

|Damage Report=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Damage Report
|image=
|description=
Leviathan detected at facility perimeter, closing at high speed.<br />
Exterior anchor cable impacted with massive force.<br />
Exterior anchor system buckling, facility sinking.<br />
Collision with sea floor.<br />
Breaches detected in containment unit 7 (leviathan eggs).<br />
Immediate specimen destruction protocol initiated.<br />
314 specimens destroyed. 1 specimen unaccounted for.<br />
Evacuating staff to off-site sanctuaries.<br />
Planetary quarantine protocol initiated.

WARNING: Infected individuals may not leave the planet.
|source=Download from ''Alien Data Terminal'' in the [[w:c:subnautica:Disease Research Facility|Disease Research Facility]]
}}

|Join Alterra's Board of Directors=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Join Alterra's Board of Directors
|image=
|description=
It's not about money. That's what every director on Alterra's board has told me - and I believe them. Profitability is just an interim measure of success: power and status are the real goals.

Make enough profit for Alterra Corp. and you'll be recognized by the most powerful businesspeople in the universe. Establish a company that obliterates the competition and - after compulsory buyout - you can be promoted to the Board of Directors.

Perks include:<br />
- Travel: Free use of company phasegates<br />
- Entourage: Personal assistants for every facet of your life<br />
- Longevity: automatic organ replacement<br />
- Alterra: Get what you deserve
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' from [[w:c:subnautica:Wrecks|Blood Kelp Trench Wreck]]
}}

|Kharaa Contagion Profile=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=[[Kharaa Bacterium|Kharaa Contagion Profile]]
|image=
|description=
This terminal contains extensive data regarding the bacterial contagion identified as 'Kharaa'.

Discovery: First encountered during routine network expansion on outer worlds.

Pandemic Development: Network error resulted in routine quarantine procedure failure. Contagion was uploaded to, and spread quickly through, the core worlds. Confirmed deaths: 143 billion individuals.

Bacterial Mechanisms: Attaches to healthy living cells and mutates the basic genetic structure.

Symptoms: Stage 1: Gradual immune system failure. Stage 2: Green skin lesions and flu-like symptoms. Stage 3: Unpredictable alterations to biological structure. Stage 4: Complete shutdown of executive function.

Emergency Steps Taken: Core worlds quarantined. Bacterial samples distributed to isolated disease research facilities for vaccine development.

Treatment procedure: Unknown.
|source=Download from ''Alien Data Terminal'' in the [[w:c:subnautica:Disease Research Facility|Disease Research Facility]]
}}

|Lifepod 12 Medical Officer Danby's Crew Log=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Lifepod 12 Medical Officer Danby's Crew Log
|image=
|description=
I'm not really a doctor. I know that's what my ID says, but I never have been. Cheated the medical exams. What does a doctor these days need to know about manually resetting bones? When was the last time a top surgeon actually cut someone open? That's what the robots are for!

Doctors these days read diagnoses off of computer readouts. For that, I'm perfectly qualified.

But what good is it when I'm not connected to the main network? I'm bleeding. I've got glowing green pustules growing on my hands. I run a self-scan and it tells me I've got skin irritation. The only thing I studied in medical school was how to lie convincingly. What the hell do I know how to treat an alien disease?

I think I'm actually going to die down here.
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' from [[w:c:subnauticaDestroyed Lifepods|Lifepod 12]]
}}

|Lifepod 17 Crew Log=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Lifepod 17 Crew Log
|image=
|description=
Ozzy's log. It's the day of the crash. I don't know what the heck is happening. I'm scared and I'm not going outside. There are shadows in the water under the hatch but I can't tell if they're rocks, or aliens, and there's weird looking caves nearby.

The Aurora was carrying everything needed to build the phasegate: mobile vehicle bays, bioreactors, propulsion cannons... It had a cinema. There-there was a zero-G gym. My cafe. I don't understand how we're here now. I don't know why no one's coming for me.
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' from [[w:c:subnautica:Destroyed Lifepods|Lifepod 17]]
}}

|Lifepod 19 Second Officer Keen's Crew Log=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Lifepod 19 Second Officer Keen's Crew Log
|image=
|description=
To all crew - If you are reading this then you have followed the automatic distress signal broadcast by this lifepod's onboard computer, contrary to my orders. I have been forced to evacuate. Your orders are to disregard my safety and attempt to reach the designated rendezvous co-ordinates at the nearest landmass. I hope to see you there.
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' from [[w:c:subnautica:Destroyed Lifepods|Lifepod 19]]
}}

|Relationship Contract Legal Recording=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Relationship Contract Legal Recording
|image=
|description=
WILSON: Listen, I know I don't have the right to make demands of you, but I need you to understand that I want to change our arrangement.

FOURNIER: I hear what you're saying and I will try to respect it. How would you like to change it?

WILSON: I would like to reduce our contact hours.

FOURNIER: How much further can we do that?

WILSON: To zero.

FOURNIER: You're dumping me?!

WILSON: I'm changing the terms of our relationship.

FOURNIER: How is it still a relationship if we don't see each other?!

WILSON: It's a relationship of a kind. You have so many expectations.

FOURNIER: I feel you just want to spend more time with that dumb guy and his dumb robot suit.

WILSON: That's not a feeling, it's a judgment. And I feel hostility in what you're saying. Perhaps your jealousy is a sign that you need to take another look at your business model. Why can't you just be happy for me?

FOURNIER: I am happy for you! And I'm happy for all the guys in the Prawn bay! I'm just not happy for me.

WILSON: This is why I want to change our arrangement.
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' in the [[w:c:subnautica:Aurora|Aurora]]
}}

|Sea Emperor Egg Casing=
|Sea Emperor Egg Casing=
{{Databank
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=[[w:c:subnautica:Sea Emperor Leviathan Eggs|Sea Emperor Egg Casing]]
|name=[[w:c:subnautica:Sea Emperor Leviathan Eggs|Sea Emperor Egg Casing]]
|image=
|image=
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|source=[[Scanner|Scan]] ''Preserved Egg Casing'' in [[w:c:subnautica:Primary Containment Facility|Primary Containment Facility]]
|source=[[Scanner|Scan]] ''Preserved Egg Casing'' in [[w:c:subnautica:Primary Containment Facility|Primary Containment Facility]]
}}
}}

|#default = (No target detected)
|Sweet Offer=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Sweet Offer
|image=
|description=
From: Huggins<br />
To: Wilson

You're telling me you've been on this rig more than a year and you never took a ride on the outside? Well now, you've only gone and gotten yourself a friend with the keys to a GIANT FRICKING ROBOT SUIT. We've plain got nothing to do 'til we get starside to work on the gate. You want to taste the stars you've only got to say - my spare Prawn suit's got your name on it. You don't know what power feels like 'til you've crushed an asteroid with your bare, heavily mechanically-augmented hands. Wanna play catch with a passing meteor? Come by Cabin no.1. Code's 1869.
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' in the [[w:c:subnautica:Aurora|Aurora]]
}}

|Surveillance Log, Leisure Deck B=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=Surveillance Log, Leisure Deck B
|image=
|description=
[Suspicious key word 'religious' detected. Beginning automated recording.]

KHASAR: I find a tendency amongst Alterrans to think not only that you have it best, but that yours is the only way to have it at all. In the Mongolian States we have the freedom to work for ourselves.

CREWMEMBER: Hey, most of us are contractors! Jo owns her own company!

KHASAR: Whose ship are you living on right now? Yours, or Alterra's?

CREWMEMBER: You'd do well to remember whose ship YOU'RE on, Mongolian.

KHASAR: According to my religious beliefs, this ship belongs to us all. We're all part of the same system, the only difference between us is where we choose to draw lines.

CREWMEMBER: Wise words for someone from a cowboy corporation fighting over rocks in the far reaches of space.
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' from [[w:c:subnautica:Wrecks|Grand Reef Wreck]]
}}

|The Charter=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=The Charter
|image=
|description=
Definitions:<br />
Trans-gov - An independent authority in de facto control of at least one solar system and phasegate.<br />
Citizen - A person who consents, consciously or implicitly, to the authority of a recognized trans-gov.<br />
The Charter - The full legal contract agreed upon by 37 separate trans-govs, and summarized herein.<br />
The Trans-System Federation (TSF)- Military police charged with enforcing the terms of the Charter; independent of, but funded by, the trans-govs.<br />
Trans-System Phasegate - Any permanent installation which enables warping of spacefaring vessels between solar systems.

Trans-gov Principles:
1. Each trans-gov is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others:<br />
a. Each has the right to own phasegates and planetary infrastructure<br />
b. Each has an obligation to share phasegate access with other trans-govs on fair terms at no cost to themselves<br />
c. Each has an obligation to financially maintain and comply with the TSF<br />

2. Each trans-gov has the right to self-government, subject to the restrictions laid out below:<br />
a. No trans-gov may develop weapons and technologies outlawed in appendix 91<br />
b. No trans-gov shall engage in population abuse
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' from [[w:c:subnautica:Wrecks|Bulb Zone Wreck]]
}}

|Trans-Gov Profile: Alterra Corp.=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=[[Trans-Gov]] Profile: [[Alterra Corporation|Alterra Corp.]]
|image=
|description=
One of largest suppliers of spacefaring technologies and consumer electronics in the federation
* The official supplier of the TSF
* Consistently ranked amongst the Galaxy's best employers
* Began life as a defense manufacturer in the mid-22nd century
* National Motto: 'Get what you deserve'

Although most trans-govs can trace their roots back to earth, Alterra - literally meaning 'by earth' - is the only one brazen enough to take its name.

During the Expansion, Alterra supplied arms to all sides, acquiring and housing a vast colonist workforce, and making the transition from manufacturer to coprorate state. Alterra's threat to cease trade was one of the turning points in the conflict, bringing about the end of hostilities and the signing of the Charter.

Today Alterra has a ban on all weapons within its borders, although loopholes exist for law enforcement officers and manufacturers / exporters. The corporation has learnt that violence is most profitable when conducted between customers rather than employees.

Free enterprise within Alterra space is encouraged, but competition is tight, and all goods exported offworld must be Alterra branded. Profitable businesses are bought out by the state, owners ascending to the Alterra Board of Directors. Well-known Alterra technologies such as the Cyclops submersible originated with such private enterprises.

Despite superficial similarities to national governments, the corporation's lawyers have always maintained that it has no legal obligation to its 'employees', but voluntarily elects to take on the roles usually served by a democratically elected government. This claim has not yet been tested in Federation courts.
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' in the [[w:c:subnautica:Aurora|Aurora]]
}}

|Trans-Gov Profile: Mongolian Independent States=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=[[Trans-Gov]] Profile: Mongolian Independent States
|image=
|description=
When the hostilities of the Expansion ceased, the tactical value of the hard-to-reach colony systems on the edge of the China Territories plummeted. Recouping from the war, the central government left them to starve. The systems in question declared independence, claiming their infrastructure as their own, and their intent to become self-sufficient.

Today the Mongolian States is seen as a relatively minor power on the outskirts of colonized space, yet it remains one of the fastest expanding trans-govs in the galaxy. There is little centralized control. In times of war, a defense force can be raised between the chief officers of the major planetary clan-corps.

Mongolian societies inherited their technologies from the Chinese, but incorporated the customs of their multicultural colonist base. Non-synthetic foods remain popular. Religion is a strong component of society, but the Mongolians take a relaxed view of competing faiths, believing gods to be universally and equally flawed. Mongolians will often be heard proclaiming, 'I believe in gods, so long as they don't try to command me.' If pushed to explain how they can believe in a god with no authority they will explain, simply, that all people are gods, and their authority is equally zero.
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' from [[w:c:subnautica:Wrecks|Grassy Plateaus Wreck]]
}}

|What Can We Learn From the Hive Mind of Strader VI?=
{{Databank (BZ)
|name=What Can We Learn From the Hive Mind of Strader VI?
|image=
|description=
How are the 'individuals' which make up a hive mind to be categorized? Are they merely dumb components of the larger, intelligent organism; or is the larger 'mind' merely a product of the independent organisms? Can it be both?

We define organisms by their traits, but find invariably that these traits depend on those of their environment. The concept of a tadpole is meaningless without the concept of the frog it will develop into. The idea of a predator is empty without an understanding of its prey. This begs the question: if we define everything by reference to everything else, what are have we actually explained?

An illustrative experiment was recently performed on the hive mind colony discovered on Strader VI. A device was placed outside the nest which would electrocute individuals approaching it. An ant colony would have lost many individuals before a basic danger signal was successfully communicated between them, resulting in 'learnt' avoidance of the device. Successful, but costly.

The Strader VI colony quickly formed into two factions:<br />
- One attempted to move the device by brute force, sacrificing individuals as they did so<br />
- The second attempted to cover the device in sand.

These two goals being mutually exclusive, a fight ensued. The first faction was beaten, in virtue of their reduced numbers. The device was safely buried, and the survivors called a truce. From the perspective of the individuals, this experience must have been horrific. From the perspective of the hive mind, a nagging problem had been overcome with the most effective solution. Which perspective is the 'correct' one?

I suggest that it is neither. By attempting to fit such entities into our rigid set of concepts we are painting onto the world a false impression of concreteness and meaning, which is a reflection of our concepts of ourselves.

We describe Strader VI individuals as 'attacking' one another, just as we describe microbes in the human body as doing the same. Yet the Strader colony, like the body, cannot be healthy as a whole without the 'aggressions' of its components. We describe neurons in the brain as being dumb, but brains as a whole as intelligent - but when an idea takes hold in the brain, and forces out inferior ones, do we describe this as an act of aggression? Do we mourn dead neurons?

When a philosophy, or a technology takes hold in human society... when wars are fought over them and people die... is that rightly seen as being good, or evil? This is not to undermine the meaning of our existence. From where we stand, our existence is very serious indeed. But is our civilization, and our universe, really any different from the colony on Strader VI? Is intelligence something limited to things of flesh and blood? Or is the universe truly one giant intelligent system, and we but amoeba blowing self-important potholes in its surface?

We would do well, as scientists, to remember that our goal is not to paint the world as we see it, but to see it as it truly is.
|source=Pick up ''Abandoned PDA'' in the [[w:c:subnautica:Aurora|Aurora]]
}}

|Databank2=
|DatabankSN=
|#default = (No target detected)[[Category:Broken databank]]
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