Sunbeam
The Sunbeam was a passing bulldog class cargo ship captained by Avery Quinn that picked up the distress signal sent by the Aurora. It's significantly smaller than the Aurora, seating only six people.
The player will start receiving transmission from Avery on board the Sunbeam via the Communications Relay some time after the player has started exploring the planet. The ship alerts the player to its imminent arrival, until it gives a forty-minute warning of its eventual landing on the Mountain Island. It will give you a Signal with the landing coordinates.
The Sunbeam's Failed Rescue
The Sunbeam had planned to land on the Mountain Island to rescue the player. However, before it was able to land, the Quarantine Enforcement Platform activates, weaponizing itself and shooting the Sunbeam down, as it did with the Aurora. As the Sunbeam is extremely smaller than the Aurora, which was shattered into a massive amount of debris, the Sunbeam is entirely obliterated, and all of its crew members are killed, and its debris rains down afterwards. Though it may be possible to deactivate the cannon before the Sunbeam arrives, nobody has ever done so, and if they have, they have not shared it. No wreck of the Sunbeam can be found on the map.
Gallery
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The Sunbeam in game
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- Badaboom
Work in progress animation showing the destruction of the Sunbeam
- SN Sunbeam 09
Updated Subnautica FX
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Trivia
- The Sunbeam destruction event is able to be viewed by typing 'precursorgunaim' into the console.