The COMPLETE Subnautica Timeline

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When you think of Subnautica, its lore, timeline, and universe probably crosses your mind less than the biomes, environments, leviathans, and technology. But since Subnautica 2 is dropping next year, I figured I’d take a deep dive into this surprisingly dark universe to get all of us up to speed for the next Subnautica game.

Obviously there are MASSIVE spoilers for both Subnautica and Subnautica: Below Zero.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:57 Architect Era
8:02 The Expansion, The Charter, and the Federation
9:28 The Mercury II Disaster
14:35 The Degasi
22:41 Subnautica
30:57 Subnautica: Below Zero

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Music Used:
Deep Rock Galactic (Original Game Soundtrack) Volumes I + II
Subnautica Original Game Soundtrack
Subnautica Below Zero Original Game Soundtrack

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38 thoughts on “The COMPLETE Subnautica Timeline”

  10. Often goes unnoticed but why does Riley owe Altera any money at all.?
    Lifepod rental.? He has made everything he uses by building the items using molecular samples from natural materials, flotsam & jetsam (Scrap) that he found lying around the place, on a workbench powered by the sun which plucked atoms from the air to replicate the item he needed. Leading to the philosophical question of..
    Will there ever be a time survival won't revolve around cash.? Lol.

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  16. I saw some dumb YouTube short that was like "there's no evidence earth exists in the Subnautica universe, what if it actually got destroyed or something!" And I'm like… did you play the game? Or read the lore?

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  20. 30:49 I don’t think alters killing Riley would be a very good explanation lore wise. As it feels like it would completely diminish your efforts and feeling of accomplishment from the first game. Especially since Riley was silent most people could ascribe themselves too him and I feel it would be a real kick in the nuts, oh you know that guy that you saw this beautiful and wondrous world for the first time through and put massive amounts of efforts so you could escape the dire situation you’d been forced into? Yeah well dead.

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  21. Imagine being Riley, after surviving alone on an unknown planet with a bunch of Leviathan and damn alien creatures attacking him but, still managing to cure the whole planet which that Super intellect aliens couldn't do. then When he escape from that nightmare planet and going to planet which homeword of his species with hope he will safely be there, and guess what?? he got executed 😂😂

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  35. I think there’s a databank entry about the inventor of the seamoth that implies something along the lines of “If someone does something that massively increases Alterra’s profits they immediately get promoted to Alterra’s board of directors.” I think the discovery of a plethora of hyper advanced alien technologies would count as something that would boost Alterra’s profits significantly, which means Riley would be promoted to the board of directors.

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  36. after playing subnautica and below zero, i can confirm that al-an is an idiot and if he just obeyed what his superior or whatever whole events that subnautica and below zero took place in would not have happened.

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  37. 37:18 – That isn't just any reaper skull, but THE reaper skull! The very same reaper that Marguerit subdued and brought to the base she shared with the Torgals in the deep grand reef; the one she then killed, and used as a makeshift raft/food supply to survive in as she drifted across the planet to sector 0. Her logs about that time are morbid AF, but I kept wishing she'd written more.

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