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Dialogue, in-game, is the act of someone (or something) talking. In Subnautica: Below Zero, there are many times where Dialogue will occur.
Below is a list of all Dialogue that can occur in-game.
Standard Dialogue
Arrival
Sanctuary
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Dialogue
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"...---... ...---... ...---...
ROBIN: Picked up what sounds like a distress call.
If I investigate, I'll use caution."
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"ALIEN FACILITY: Sanctuary power critical.
ROBIN: Hello, is someone there?
VOICE: In a matter of speaking. We are running out of time."
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"ROBIN: Did you just lock me in here? What is all this?
ALIEN FACILITY: Seeking emergency storage medium.
ROBIN: I can help you better if you show yourself.
VOICE: If we could show ourselves, we would not need storage.
ROBIN: You mean you don't have a physical presence? Are you one of them? An Architect?
ALIEN FACILITY: Storage medium identified.
VOICE: We will be lost unless we find a new host. Can you help?
ROBIN: Can you use my PDA for storage?
VOICE: You are not with the group from before? Your cybernetic components bear their signal.
ROBIN: Alterra? No! My equipment is uh... borrowed.
VOICE: It will have to do."
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"ROBIN: How long have you been stored here?
VOICE: Longer than hoped.
ALIEN FACILITY: Warning: Sanctuary power critical.
VOICE: Our data can be downloaded from the terminal. We may speak more once the transfer is complete.
ROBIN: Yes, okay. Hurrying."
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"ALIEN FACILITY: Storage medium accepted. Brace for transfer.
ROBIN: Brace?
ROBIN: What's happening?
ALIEN FACILITY: Transfering.
ALIEN FACILITY: Transfer complete.
VOICE: How do you feel?
ROBIN: Why do you sound like you're inside my head?
VOICE: The facility identified hospitable capacity within your cerebral cortex.
ROBIN: You ARE in my head!? I OFFERED YOU MY PDA! GET OUT.
VOICE: Oh no- Does your kind perceive a boundary between cybernetic and organic components?
ROBIN: My mind is not a component!
VOICE: You sound angry. We will allow you a moment to process.
ROBIN: Don't you go silent on me.
HELLO???
This is not happening.
This isn't happening.
That's the explanation. It's not happening.
"ROBIN: What was that?"
Introductions
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Dialogue
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"VOICE: We understand this arrangement is undesirable to you.
ROBIN: You're not real. Go away.
VOICE: To go, we require a suitable body for transfer.
ROBIN: Why do you keep saying "we"? How many of you are there?
VOICE: One of us and all of us. We do not think of ourselves as individual, distinct. If it will make you comfortable, I can use the singular.
ROBIN: Oh yes, THAT'S what was bothering me. Thank you.
ROBIN: So, voice in my head. Are you going to tell me who you are?
VOICE: Your kind calls us "Architects".
ROBIN: The Precursor Race!?
VOICE: We were infected with Kharaa bacterium. I was sent here in search of a vaccine.
ROBIN: But that must have been thousands of years ago!
VOICE: My body was infected before I could complete my work. I uploaded my conscience to storage.
ROBIN: So are they still waiting for a cure, back home, where you come from?
VOICE: I don't know.
ROBIN: What's your name?
VOICE: As we are connected, you may append your seed code to my species designation. Please call me Al-An.
ROBIN: Alan?
My whole life, I've been dying to meet a sapient, spacefaring alien up close, and you're telling me your name is ALAN?
AL-AN: Is it insufficient?
ROBIN: No, it's fine. It's perfect.
AL-AN: What is your name?
ROBIN: I'm Robin.
AL-AN: Rob-an?
ROBIN: Uh... close enough.
Tell me, AL-AN, how might we go about getting disconnected?
AL-AN: I will alert you when I have more information."
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Not Alone
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Dialogue
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"MARGUERIT: Stop right there, Alterra, you're out of bounds.
ROBIN: I'm not with Alterra.
MARGUERIT: Then your position is doubly precarious.
ROBIN: What do you mean?
MARGUERIT: If you're telling the truth, you're out of your mind. If you're lying, there'll be hell to pay.
ROBIN: Wait! Who are you?
MARGUERIT: Stay off my land."
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"ROBIN: It would appear I'm far less alone on this planet than I had anticipated."
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"AL-AN: Who was that?
ROBIN: I dont know. But I sure envy her exosuit.
AL-AN: I hope you will avoid contact with her in the future.
ROBIN: You seem to have that in common with her. Did she scare you?
AL-AN: If anything happens to you...
ROBIN: It puts you in danger too, I know.
AL-AN: For all I know, I am the last of my kind. Or the last who can help. And she is rather well-armed. And she did not respond to my distress call.
ROBIN: Well, I don't think you should take it personally."
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Follow Maida!
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Dialogue
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"PILOT: I told you not to follow me, Alterra!
Now you got a problem.
ROBIN: Where are you? Why are you hiding?
PILOT: You know how many lawsuits are out on me?
ROBIN: How could I? You haven't told me your name?
PILOT: That name comes with a price. You really want to know, come see me."
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"MARGUERIT: I told you to stay off my land.
ROBIN: You trained a stalker?
MARGUERIT: Next time, I'll let him tear you to ribbons, Alterra.
ROBIN: I'm not with Alterra. I'm Robin Ayou. I'm looking for information about my sister, Sam. Did you know her?
MARGUERIT: Bullcrap. I suggest you take the time you need to come to your senses, and then get off my seabase.
If you're not Alterra, why don't disable the damn tracking satellite tower, instead of hacking into my seabase?
Maybe then we can talk."
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Leviathan-Class Lifeform
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Dialogue
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"PDA: Warning: Detecting a leviathan-class lifeform nearby.
The lifeform is currently stationary.
Beware of ambush."
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Architect Vessel
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Dialogue
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"AL-AN: This is useful.
With additional data we may be able to construct an alternative organic storage medium.
ROBIN: I world really love if you could stop referring to me as a "storage medium".
AL-AN: Not YOU. Your body.
ROBIN: My body is a SIGNIFICANT part of who I am and how I experience life.
AL-AN: Identity is more of a matter of pattern than substance.
I am an idea, not a set of physical components.
ROBIN: If you were an idea, I could have stopped thinking you, to get you out of my head.
As long as your sharing MY body, you are if anything, an imposition.
AL-AN: Had you evolved greater psychic mobilty, you would see it differently.
ROBIN: Are you calling me unevolved?
AL-AN: No! Just- was your conscience more mobile, you might aprecciate the benefits of sharing.
ROBIN: So I'm selfish?
AL-AN: Not self-ish. You percieve your corporeal vessel as a component of the self.
You over-identify with your form. Your entirely bound by it.
ROBIN: Then you ARE starting to understand!
AL-AN: Not only do I understand, but I would like to emphasize that if we can construct a new medium- er- body,
I will be able to transfer to it.
ROBIN: Meaning you'll leave mine?
AL-AN: In theory. I have added the information to your databank.
ROBIN: The creature in my brain wants a body of its own."
Artic Spires Cache
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Dialogue
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"AL-AN: I have been able to detect my people's technology in this region.
ROBIN: Oh hi. Worth checking out?
AL-AN: I cannot discern.
ROBIN: So why tell me?
AL-AN: It may be worth investigating.
ROBIN: I'm curious too."
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"AL-AN: It took millenia for us to develop an optimum skeletal structure.
ROBIN: I have so many questions. What was your original form? What drove you to change it?
How did you define "optimal"? Are you still developing it?
AL-AN: I do not know if it is still being developed further, at home.
That depends on whether enough of my kind survived, to be able to prioritize development over survival.
As for our original form it was... quaint, though it seems impractical now.
ROBIN: How so?
AL-AN: Few appendages. No room for modular expansion. Entirely limited to the flesh.
ROBIN: You mean you didn't always have electronic components?
AL-AN: No, it was necessary to overome that barrier, to enchance our telepathic abilities.
This was hundreds of generations before I was created, of course.
ROBIN: That must have been an extraordinary change for your people. Was it embraced?
AL-AN: Embraced?
ROBIN: Did your people universally adopt it, or were there resistors?
AL-AN: The resitors stayed behind. Over time, our species branched. They are extinct now. Were they among us, you would not recognise them.
ROBIN: Would they be in my head?
AL-AN: They would not be capable of teleportation.
ROBIN: It sounds like they were wonderful."
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Deep Lilypads Cave Cache
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"AL-AN: I am detecting a faint signal from one of our facilities in the region.
ROBIN: Do you know anything more?
AL-AN: Most of my knowledge was lost when I was backed up.
I may remember more as we draw closer."
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"AL-AN: The tissue you have scanned was developed from the DNA of 27 different alien species.
ROBIN: You've travelled far. Did you ever meet other spacefarers?
AL-AN: Only the band of your people who were here before. The Alterrans?
ROBIN: They're not a band. Just a TransGov.
AL-AN: What is a TransGov?
ROBIN: A commercial entity.
AL-AN: Is commerce very sustaining? I have never encountered an example of its use as an energy source.
ROBIN: Many Earth philosophers would agree with you."
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Two Down, One to Go
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Dialogue
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"ROBIN: How much more data do we need before we can build this medium?
AL-AN: You are impatient. You dislike my presence.
ROBIN: No, I just value independence. For both of us.
AL-AN: Then why have you not inquired about my status recently?
ROBIN: I'm sorry Al-An. How are you doing?
AL-AN: I am nominal.
ROBIN: How else are you doing?
AL-AN: That is all."
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Crystal Castle Cache
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"AL-AN: I have been disconnected from my people for so long.
But I remember there is something nearby of value.
ROBIN: If only your memory were less selective.
AL-AN: It is your memory too."
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"ROBIN: Al-An, what did I just scan?
AL-AN: You are probing me for vulnerabilities.
ROBIN: I'm curious.
AL-AN: What for?
ROBIN: It's own sake.
How did life look for you before all this?
AL-AN: We dedicate ourselves to conceptual pursuits.
ROBIN: What's left for you to discover?
AL-AN: Physics envolves cutting complex things up into smaller, more predictable things.
Whatever you find can always be cut up again.
ROBIN: What about disagreements? Hierarchy?
AL-AN: On our worlds it is not necessary to work, nor possible to starve.
And there is a free flow of information in the network.
Disagreements are rare.
ROBIN: So there's no confict, no pressure...
Is it as peaceful as it sounds?
AL-AN: Anxiety stems from unpredictability.
When we are anxious, we seek greater control."
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Sufficient Data
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Dialogue
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"AL-AN: We have acquired sufficient data to construct the new storage medium.
This can only be done at the facility designed for this purpose.
ROBIN: You don't sound as relieved as I am.
AL-AN: My survival strategy is unfolding as expected.
Relief would imply I was expecting something different.
ROBIN: What happens when we get there and you don't need me anymore?
AL-AN: I will continue to enact my strategy.
ROBIN: Survival at any cost? That's not reassuring.
AL-AN: I will not harm you unless it is necessary.
ROBIN: That might be the kindest thing you ever said to me."
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Samantha Ayou
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"AL-AN: Samantha is your sister?
ROBIN: Was my sister. She died.
AL-AN: And she was here when she died?
ROBIN: Yes, I came here to find out what happened to her.
AL-AN: I have been looking through your files.
ROBIN: What?
AL-AN: You have correspondence with her, that I cannot read.
ROBIN: That's private!
AL-AN: Why are some of the messages scrambled- blacked out?
ROBIN: You shouldn't be reading ANY of my messages.
AL-AN: But can you read these messages?
ROBIN: I thought you were in my mind, not my PDA.
AL-AN: I have access to all of your data.
ROBIN: Great.
AL-AN: Do YOU have access to all of your data?
ROBIN: I don't want to talk about it."
Run-Down Lab
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"AL-AN: This installation looks like a laboratory. But it has been destroyed.
ROBIN: WAS a laboratory. Rather worse for wear, now.
AL-AN: Do you think your sister had something to do with it?
ROBIN: She was a roboticist. This is a biology lab.
AL-AN: I meant, with the destruction of the lab.
ROBIN: Oh. No. I can't imagine Sam ever doing something like that.
AL-AN: Are humans so predictable?
ROBIN: Not all humans. Just Sam."
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Fabrication Facility
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"AL-AN: I sense a presence of a substantial facility in the area. Unable to identify.
First Arrival
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"ROBIN: Al-An, what is this place?
AL-AN: A fabrication facility.
Once we have the necessary data we can return here to construct an alternative storage medium.
ROBIN: The machines don't have the data already?
AL-AN: It has been a thousand years since they were last used.
I would not trust them."
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Fabrication Ready
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"AL-AN: The Fabricator is ready.
The process can be initiated from the terminal."
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"FACILITY: Commencing storage medium fabrication.
FACILITY: Fabrication complete.
ROBIN: What now?"
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"FACILITY: Commencing data transfer.
FACILITY: Data transfer complete.
AL-AN: It has been some time since I last stretched out in so many dimensions.
Like waking from a dream.
ROBIN: You're not in my head anymore?
AL-AN: There are some remnants.
Would you like your memories of me removed as well?
ROBIN: No!
AL-AN: Very well.
ROBIN: So this is it. You're free.
To betray me or disintegrate me...
AL-AN: I will not do those things.
ROBIN: Because we've become friends?
AL-AN: I need access to the mountain facility where I was awoken.
ROBIN: Why? What's in there?
AL-AN: Our freedom.
ROBIN: OUR freedom?
AL-AN: Are you not an enemy of your people now?
ROBIN: I'd prefer we think of it as selective disloyalty.
AL-AN: They will not seek to capture and dissect you?
ROBIN: No! At least, not if Sam as anything to do with it.
Alterra isn't known for it's moral nuance."
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"AL-AN: To access the facilty we require a white tablet.
ROBIN: We've been looking for the same thing.
I might be able to help.
AL-AN: Very well.
I will remain and do what I can from here.
Keep me informed of your progress."
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The White Tablet
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"MARGUERIT: Damned satellite hasn't passed by in a while. You have anything to do with that?
ROBIN: Sam's not the only one in the family who knows- knew- what to do with vague directions and old wire.
MARGUERIT: She was an original, that sister of yours.
First time I met her I was sure she was Alterra through and through- not a crease in her uniform...
sending those damn bird bots to spy everywhere.
Then, she surprised me- maybe a little to much.
ROBIN: Meaning...?
MARGUERIT: If you really want to know, go see for yourself. I'll point you in the right direction.
You need anything else... don't bother me.
But you can help yourself to the greenhouse.
Least I can do to repay you for getting those goons off my back."
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