Al-An

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Would you like your memories of me removed as well?

― Al-An after his new body is crafted

Al-An, also referred to as Alan, is a member of the The Architects who is present as a character in Subnautica: Below Zero.

When Kharaa broke out, Al-An's mind was stored away, while his architect body was destroyed. Al-An appears to be unique in that his mind has remained conscious unlike other stored minds which are in a dormant state.

Story

Al-An, like the rest of his species, had their consciousness uploaded to a Data Hub. Their physical body was likely disposed of afterwards, although for an unexplained reason, Al-An's mind remained intact, capable of thought and speech, unlike the other Architects encountered in The Crater. At some point in time, he sent a distress signal to Marguerit Maida, but she didn't answer the distress call. He sent a distress signal to the Alterra employees, but when found him and tried to communicate with him, he actively hid himself from them, claiming that their motivations didn't align with his. When Robin Ayou approaches his Data Hub, she can hear his distress signal. Robin enters the facility, and offers to download Al-an into her PDA. Al-an misunderstands and thinks Robin's equipment is part of her body, and accepts her help. Al-an get's downoaded into Robin's head/cerebral cortex.

Following the transfer, Robin will have to find and scan parts of Al-An's Vessel throughout the story, including an Architect skeleton, Architect tissues and Architect organs, which can be found at the various Architect Caches laying around Sector Zero. Even between the transfer to Robin's head and getting transferred into a new body, Al-an speaks with Robin a lot. Once Robin has all the blueprints and materials, she can construct a body for Al-An at the Fabricator Base. It is revealed there, that he disobeyed the directive from his network when collecting the Sea Dragon eggs. That resulted in the mother of the eggs destroying the laboratory in which its eggs and Kharaa was experimented on, thus setting the Kharaa loose. He says, that it was his mistake that Kharaa was released onto 4546B.

Personality

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Relationships

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Gallery

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  Final concept art of Al-An by Pat Presley

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  Concept art of Al-An's mechanical arms by Pat Presley

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Trivia

• The name "Al-An" or "Alan" is likely a play on the word "alien".
  • The name “Al-An” was a combination of Alterra’s assigned name for his species which was “Almanac” and what Al-An refers to as his “seed code” which is “An”. However the name Almanac has been changed to Architects so the future meaning of this name is currently unknown.
• It was previously stated by story writer Tom Jubert that the Architects would not be seen. Ironically, it would be Jubert who later unwittingly revealed the existence of Al-An on the developers’ public Trello board.