What Happened To All The Other Life Pods In Subnautica? | Subnautica Theory

One of the questions I am most frequently asked is what happened to the other life pods that launched successfully from the Aurora. There were 50 total life pods on the Aurora, meaning that each life pod was designed to house roughly 3 of the over 150 people on board the Aurora. 25 life pods on the starboard side were compromised when the ship was struck by the Quarantine Enforcement Platform, but all 25 of the life pods on the port side launched successfully. However, the player can only find 9 destroyed life pods in Subnautica.

This means only 10 of the 25 life pods, including your own, can be found within the crater. So what happened to all the other life pods that launched successfully from the Aurora? Let's find out...

Music by: Simon Chylinkski
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:46 Possibility #1
3:11 Possibility #2
3:50 Possibility #3
5:40 Possibility #4
6:14 Possibility #5
7:16 Possibility #6
7:51 Possibility #7
8:57 Possibility #8
9:26 Possibility #9
9:50 Outro

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[mikeysoto]

If a life pod landed in the void, they just have to survive until their pod goes 8, 192 meters and they will be teleported to the surface next to Ryley's escape pod

[sandboxsawyer]

How scary would it be if you landed in the void sinking deeper and deeper untill your pod Is crushed by the water pressure/ and or you are eatin

[enderlane]

Imagin waking up to your life pod just sinking into a dark abyss just hearing the roars of ghost leviathans and just dying of starvation or hunger or your life pod getting crushed by the cold pitch black waters knowing there is almost no chance for your survival

[SpaceCadet]

I sometimes think it would be cool to find a hidden life pod somewhere in the void with a very interesting voice log or something.

[NoriFound]

I believe that the warpers had at least one kill under their belt as I’m fairly certain that at one point when you receive a radio message about the warper it says they are looking for 9 targets and that number later dials down to just the player so I do think it could be possible for a warper to have some sort of part in the demise of the other survivors

[phantomtoxin]

It would be funny if a life pod hit a leviathan in the face as it crashed

[greymon]

I always thought that most that were deployed missed the crater and ended up in the void. I bet a lot of lifepods were destroyed in an explosion or by debris. This shows how lucky Riley really is, his lifepod was functioning, landed in the crater, AND landed in the shallows away from Warpers

[DonQuixoteTheGremlin]

"This is Lifepod 20, We've hit the surface of the planet. The PDA is saying the planet is highly water based. The scans are showing infection in the water, but our suits should be able to withstand it, at least until extraction. Lifepod 14 has landed close to us, the survivor from there is swimming to us with the seaglide. [Distant yelling] [ghost screech] [chomp]. [Frantically yelling] There is something out there... I've lost sight of lifepod 17's crew. [Ghost screech] [loud metal crunching] We are not going to make it, [nervous breathing] that...thing ate 17" (PDA: hull breach detected floatation systems offline) "OUR LIFEPOD IS DAMAGED, IF YOU FIND THIS LIFEPOD, GET OUT...[crunch]"

if one landed in void.

[bighmm]

Some lifepods might have landed in the dunes and got buried after the crash landing of the Aurora

[simonvermout]

You know its a good game when even the void itself feels like a big feature

[volcanic]

“After 8 hours the only surviving person on the planet was Riley Robinson”


That sentence is oddly terrifying.

[daKwolf]

Possibility #7 is most plausible. Draw a 1ft × 1ft square on the ground beside your house, climb onto the roof, then drop 25 marbles in the direction of the square. Chances are very few will land in the square.

[wigligigly]

I know the answer, the plot armor on the life pods wasn’t strong enough.

[The_Goose]

I have an idea about how riley might've survived aside from landing in the safe zone.
If you check the little screen near the lifepods solar chargers you can see that it says "Outgoing radio communications offline" This could be why riley wasnt hunted down by like a warper or something. They could not find him

[quinnsandjideh]

One possibility that I haven’t seen is the possibility that one of the life pods landed not in the void and not in the crater but perhaps in another area with livable conditions. If this is the case for any life pod then there are 4 different possibilities that could have occurred, those being: 1. The life pod and the person inside could have been killed at some point during planetfall. 2. The person landing in a resource-poor area and being unable to create anything besides food and water. 3. Their blueprints all got deleted due to damage like Riley and they were too far from the Aurora to be able to scan wreckage and thus could only build the most basic of things. 4. Their blueprints were not deleted and they were able to make a rocket, this however could have gone 1 of 2 ways, the first outcome of this is that they launched before the quarantine enforcement platform was disabled and were shot out of the sky, or they could have saw the Sunbeam get shot down and postponed their launch until seeing Riley launch off with his rocket then they successfully launched and got to go home.

[grubhunter]

I personally believe that all of these happened to a few each, but my original thought was that they landed in the void. Great video!

[Unrestrainable_K]

Ok but like, he sounds 13, but has the IQ of a damn 40 year old, this is illegal

[WildBoyYaboi]

What we know according to some calls:
Ozzy: attacked by sand shark
CTO: drowned or got killed by radiation
Lifepod 4: attacked by reaper leviathan
Lifepod 7: Might of been badly damaged, and hull breached
Khasar: maybe attacked by boneshark
Lifepod 3: died by stalkers

Well, this is according to distress calls

[rayflecs]

" The only thing I see is darkness, an infinite void of darkness and horrifying creatures, I just see creatures going around me waiting to attack, I would be just a little snack for them [ Pressure at maximun tolerable level ] I think this is the end, if anyone finds this in this horryfying place, I just want to say, get outta here, now. [ Inminent colission with massive creature ] [ Ghost Leviathan Screams ] [ Static ] "

[frenchtoast]

Imagine if in below zero you found Lifepod 25 or something but it was abandoned and it was kind of like the other survivor