Detail I loved when I discovered it fuckin' around: I put infectected fish in a tank with healthy fish and saw the infection spread. Then I put a glowy peeper in (before I discovered why they were glowy) and saw them all cured. Was awesome!
They also talk to each other through a network, so they probably just kept talking, but yes, also because they aren't fully organic and are just sentience from data in a mainly organic shell (for Al-An at least, I don't know about the others)
@@Omniscient_AIi think that network probably shuts down foreign attempts at the telepathy. Or they simply couldn’t hear her call due to their brain structures. Maybe the Emperor got lucky that a more primal species found her.
The thing is, the sea emperor could easily skewer any leviathan that gets in their way, but they are peaceful creatures, (and the leviathans are smart enough to leave them alone)
@@nyarlathotepthecrawlingcha969 the alpha species, the current apex predator. Or any other species that live deeper past the edge of the abyss. For all we know the large Ghost Leviathans and Void Chalicerates are at the bottom of their food chains in there.
I like the headcanon of the Sea Emperor's roommate creatures being told to shut the fuck up and behave via telepathy. Straight mom behavior so that everyone could live in peace XD
There are no other sea emperors meaning that the babies would have to mate with each other and all future generations would have lots of deformities from the inbreeding.
I always thought of the seemingly throw away line of "The visions are getting worse" from Bart as just delirium taking hold of him from the infection and never as the Sea Emperor talking to him, but now that I've heard it...that makes perfect sense. The revelation has my jaw on the floor.
Bart had so much potential man. It’s a shame what happened to the degasi crew. I hope Marguerite has a role to play in subnautica 3, and I hope Riley comes back as well. Imagine if the two of them met
Something else to consider here. Bart was extremely intelligent and thoughtful young man, surely he would have been willing and able to help the sea emperor like Riley does. However, in his last message it seems like Bart wasn't able to understand the telepathic messages from the sea emperor. They were vexing to him as just "visions." However, the logs say that Bart had neural implants and his education was at least partly a digital upload to his brain. What if those implants were somehow interfering with the sea emperor's telepathy and that's why he wasn't able to interpret the visions?
@@escaped_cephalopodDefinitely a well-earned nonstandard Game Over imo. Like you're stranded on an alien planet, dying of an alien disease, any rescue that came and will come gets shot down by the same alien quarantine enforcement that shot you and yours down, and this alien prisoner who's been keeping the planet alive for a millennium asks you to help her help you, and you kill her unborn kids, her one reason to live? Kinda deserved it.
Id hate to imagine that when they tried to go out and save the planet, attempting to get past the void, they ended up meeting ghost leviathans and losing some, or a worse leviathan had sea emperor for dinner
And just a human and a random superfish stoped the thing Also in below zero we managed to farm it safely making it possible to eradicate khaara from the galaxy
I think the main reason the architects were unable to hear the Sea Emperor's telepathy is because she didn't want them to know how to hatch her eggs. Since she is clearly not only sentient but also very clever she likely found out what they had done to her babies and didn't want them to harm any more of them so she waited until a safe person (Riley) showed up
There was a bit well played irony after dealing with these hostile creatures in your journey that the biggest creature in the game is actually the only friendly being you meet.
sea emperor is probably one of my favourite characters in fiction fought to cling to life for so long just to ensure that life on the planet would still be around to be saved when someone arrived who could help hatch the eggs any time i reach the hatching cutscene i usually spend way too long hanging around with her just to say goodbye before leaving so she can finally have her well earned rest
She’s my favorite creature in the game and I actually kinda have to say the same to for the best mama ever I mean she’s just one of my if not favorite characters in fiction
They most likely didn't have enough time on their hands to build more research facilities in 4546B, that's the same reason why they didn't try waiting for the eggs to hatch.
To be fair the fact that the Sea Emperor is quite friendly probably helps. They are probably talking about the fact that hostile Leviathans are too big to effectively contain. Like one Sea Dragon Leviathan heavily damages their research facility from outside, imagine the catastrophe that will happen if it gets inside.
It is explained why the architects couldn’t hear the sea emperor. In her line “For what they tried to take, I give to you freely” showing she likely simply didn’t tell them because of the enslavement she endured from the architects
Maybe the architect weren't able to hear the sea emperor due to lacking a physical body, mind or something It is pretty cool that the sea emperor essentially saved the planet's life
Yeah that’s what I was thinking after playing below zero. Since they are made out of both biological and mechanical parts and there minds can be uploaded and put into storage I just thought that it was a more mechanical mind that the sea emperor couldn’t speak with telepathically. That or she wasn’t tuned into the right radio frequency in their heads lol.
When I first watched the sea emperor die I pause and said “you…you ok their sea? Oh dear god is she dead?” The I took a closer look and realised she was dead and I got sad
My theory is that the Sea Emperor felt resentmet towards the architecs. In some of the dialoges it has with the player it mentions: "I will give you freely what the others tried in vain to take" and "To you, I give the secret willingly", revealing that even with the world ending, it saw the architects as "unworthy" beings, or at least not deserving to know how the enzymes worked. Why? Let's remember that the Sea Emperor is pretty inteligent, to the point of being phylosophical and undersating how it's chamber worked, being aware that it conected to the outside sea through pipes and that the big thing in the middle was a portal. It even knew the specifics on how to make the enzymes to fully imitate the perfect breeding conditions for it's eggs. It had both intelligence, counciousness and a sense of morality. It's possible that it tried to communicate with the architects through it's psychic powers, but the architets weren't able to get the message. Chances are the Sea Emperor TRIED to communicate with the through other ways but the architets treated it like a regular animal that just happened to be useful, and far from trying to get it's help they simply use it like a resource and nothing else. Having no regard for it's life, it's eggs, or any other life. The Sea Emperor probably took notice and decided to not cooperate with them, and instead trying to find it's own way to solve the problem while being confined. That's probably how it realized it could send peepers with small portions of the enzyme. Then we came to the planet and we could actually understood it, and the game unfolded from there
14:19 ITs explained in sub zero that the architects are already a communal organism, AL-AN specifies about "Imagine a thousand strings, each playing its own range of notes, none louder than the others. Each one builds harmony-a continuous thrum in the background of existence. I am now a lone string in search of familiar harmonies". . i think this wither drowned out the sea empress's telepathy or made them incompatible.
*I believe that she's not the only one, there's a bunch of Sea Emperors around.* My theory it's that they live very deep, and only come to surface to lay eggs, where she got captured. Probably there's a bunch more, buuuut they live where the Ghost Leviathans live, so made sense the Architects never went to find another one...
and at minimum with the cut early content from below zero the baby sea emperors have all grown up healthy and happy meaning. the potential for the species to return exponitially is now possible even if wild sea emperors are near extinct.
Now I personally don’t realllllly believe this due to kharrah this most likely is not true remember that if they were did exist kharrah would be gone and the planet saved but since there is still kharrah she is the last one left and saying that it’s just that part look at below zero the frozen levithan got kharrah so yes she is the last one but she did hatch her eggs and there will be more when they reproduce
I have a theory on what the sea emporers arms where for, they where probably used for defence and it was probably this atack method that inspired the main attack method for the warper.
Are you gonna do creature analysis videos on every creature in subnautica? It’d be really cool if you did, I’ve been obsessing over the crabsquids, mesmers, and BoneSharks (A deep dive into the Peeper space program would also be cool, as today I learned they make great projectiles)
Man, I thought I knew Subnautica's lore pretty well, but there are a lot of things you went over that I simply overlooked in my playthroughs or didn't connect the dots on lol Anyways, great video! I just now found your channel through this one, but I love your editing style and look forward to seeing more!
Sea Emperors look like the Sea Dragons big cousins, I mean “Sea Emperor” “Sea Dragon” even the names are similar, with both of them having 7 outer tentacles and one larger middle tentacle. I’ll stop there since if I didn’t I would go forever and also I don’t think it should be to hard to see any similarities with a good look at both of them. Only other thing that I want to say, is that I find it absolutely amazing that Peepers saved the entire planet of 4546B😂
The Architects had a sort of mostly cybernetically augmented physical form that they effectively downloaded into. They couldn't understand the telepathic communications because they were effectively a collective digital consciousness for the most part, and their biological neurology wasn't sufficient for the Sea Emperor to make contact. It should also be worth noting that the Architects didn't "die" as they were a sort of hive mind of cybernetically augmented beings with most of their mind uplaoded to a sort of neural engramatic storage. Though it is unknown if the storage in these areas survived, but a note hints that they were effectively uploaded to whatever network they were using. The telepathy aspect is also hinted by other organisms in Subnautica, such as the Mesmer, which directly controls your actions through a series of lights it releases. It's likely that this emerged several times on the planet but it's just we only see two examples of organisms that can influence neuronal firing in another. The Sea Emperor's are ridiculously long lived, and given their ability to communicate (which might be the furthest form of an underwater method of communication like what we see in Cetaceans taking the next step by directly influencing the brain, though you probably couldn't do this across an entire planet if it depended on mirror neurons lol) were probably as intelligent as human's, if not moreso, but did not need technology due to their size (perhaps instead cultivating the ecosystem by gaining understanding how it works over a very long life).
When Kharaa first was accidently leaked into the world of 4546B, you'd think the existing population of sea emperors alive then would have produced enough enzyme 42 to have curbed the bacteria's devastation. Especially when you consider it only took 5 juveniles under two years to eliminate Kharaa from the entire planet (except what was found in the frozen leviathan in Below Zero.) Also, I'm wondering if in future games we learn that Kharaa isn't just a naturally discovered bacteria, but that it was an intentional biological weapon created by a rogue faction of the Architects or by one of their interstellar rivals. It could even have been designed as a type of panspermia since it rewrites DNA. Maybe it was created to seed planets and rewrite existing life to mirror the form of its originators as a way to propagate their species. Only it didn't always do that as intended or it mutated to instead act as a deadly pathogen. Since the PDA hints that the Cuddlefish may not be indigenous to the planet, maybe it's a surviving member of that other sentient, well meaning species who accidently unleashed Kharaa on the galaxy while attempting to colonize it.
The sea emperors could indeed give off a low telepathic signal, that could be how they live in such deep waters such as the void, especially the juveniles, that could stop leviathans like the ghost leviathans from attacking them.
I still like to hold onto the hope a few groups of Sea Emperors with the Enzyme 42 producing mutation did manage to survive the outbreak. They probably had to be more spread than before, but perhaps there might still have been enough microscopic lifeforms to feed a few small groups.
Does that mean from what I was just listening to that is the karaa goes dormant doesn’t that mean that I mean character once going back to earth could potentially gain the cooler again meaning that he could infect his entire planet?
The architects probably werent able to hear the emperors call because they are half machines and do not have brains in a way needed for the telepathy as we see the architect body in subnautica below zero
You'd think that the architects would be able to analyze the sea emperor DNA and find the gene for enzyme 42, then insert that gene into a bacterial plasmid for mass reproduction like what we've done with insulin. Aren't the architects supposed to be a super technologically advanced race? Also, I find it odd that a single bacteria species is so deadly across so many different species from so many different planets. Oh well. The Subnautica story is cool enough that I won't begrudge such plot holes. And who knows, maybe alien biology is just that different from Earth biology (although that's such a copout).
Well there might some problems with you see the khara isn't any old bacteria in fact it has some extremely terrifyingly fasy mutation rate Like a virus and along with that we've already seen bacteria evolve to be completely immune to most antibiotics maybe the architects did discover a cure for one variant but there were thousands more per day along with that I have a sneaking suspicion that enzyme 42 is an enzyme designed to kill all bacteria as such it made it capable of killing khara even with it's mutation rate even more evidence to back this up is in the brain eating ameoba which never evolved to fight against the immune system but it can completely ignore most modern treatment methods and kill you suoer fast
I think that the reason why the architects couldn't hear the emperor's attempts at telepathic communications was most likely due to the component of the brain that the sea emperor interacts with in order to communicate was to heavily altered with technological augmentation and thus the sea emperor's voice fell on Deff ears.
I don’t know if it’s just for being part of the sequel or not, I assume it is since you use Alan’s design for the Precursors, but just in case it’s implied the reason the Sea Emperor wasn’t heard by any of the Precursors is because they work like a hive mind with every thought and voice echoing in their head, one extra voice would be unnoticeable especially with a population as big as theirs.
I was once playing subnautica and i got ine of those telephaty „cutscenes“ and it tripped me out extremely because i tought it was that ine creature that tricks you into going towards it
How the Emperor Juveniles could be more fun: - Obviously, they make sounds 🔊 and depending on what they feel. - Can haul large amounts of cargo!📦 - Help find minerals by blowing 🌬️ at the ground to reveal them.💎 - Each juvenile is unique! e.g the one in the most friendliest environment has barnacles and a reef 🪸 on the back like the reefback leviathan while another in the most hostile environment has some gnarly battle ⚔️ damage around their body from fending off off attackers and some missing tentacles and eyes that would soon regenerate. - They can communicate 🗣️ telepathically 🔮 but not as good as the ancient sea empress since they're younger. - 🐕Petting animations!🐈 Cuz I think that's cute!❤ - You can hitch a ride 🏇 by grabbing either of the 4 head structures. 3:33 - Or you can build some sci-fi advanced saddle to control their movement. - You can hide 🥷 in their mouth in case a predator 🦈 is stupid enough to approach you despite being around a massive creature. - You can play🤽 with them to make them happy and put a collar🔔 with their name on. - Protects you from other aggressive leviathans like blocking their view to you. - Sleeping animations. - Their body armor 🛡️ gives them massive defense but their eyes are a weakness - Enzyme 42 can be yummy 😋 but I'm not an expert 🤔 - Last but not least, you can create some chainsaw⛓️ 🪚 tusks 🦣 that are worn on their heads if you want them to do more damage! What else could your think of to make them more fun?
Most of these is pet stuff which doesnt fit the emperor imo, but making sounds should be a given, and getting a ride holding onto their head, and finding minerals with them sound like genuinely fun activities that also make sense in the gameworld.
i thought i understood this game's lore but this video made me truly understand the lore and made me wanna play it again 😅 love your videos man keep it up💪
I thought the reason the architechs didn't know about the enzymes was that she didn't want them to know about it, she only gave it to riley as he wasnt taking her hostage but setting her babies free
So we've seen the fiercest, the largest, loudest and the scariest, how long until you discuss the creatures who are the opposite in some regards, smaller, friendlier and or harmless?
4:52 nah…. I guarantee the sea emperor is not naturally a filter feeder. But it’s Psychic power means that anything it kills it probably feel it’s pain. So since they’re sentient, it’s obvious they’d choose to filter feed instead.
I think the reason that the other creatures in the tank don’t attack is because the tank has plentiful food supply’s for the predators, and because the Sea Emperor has some physic effect on them.
I always name and color my vehicles after the creatures in the game, and the Neptune Rocket, the one that saves my life and brings me home, is always called Emperor. ❤
I have a theory is probably because in Subnautica Below Zero that architects can be alive since they can detach the body so it kind of looks like there are a cyborg
The reason the sea emperor says it couldn't produce the enzyme is because she was forced to, she complained the architects didn't respect the natural flow of its production and therefore couldn't get it. She also says the architects didn't listen to her, likely because they were desperate.
the species could have been truly grand allies of humanity consiering its sole survivor was of such high moral caliber only wanting to help its young and feeling zero ill will towards its own inprisoners.
mabey the arcitects could hear the sea emperor but the sea emperor never gave them the recipe in the first place keep in mind the sea emperor never gives you the recipe until you activate the teleporter.
Apologies, however you are incorrect, karrah had existed previously, and was brought to 4546-B by architects to hopefully find a cure. However the architects had taken a Seadragon egg and the research center was destroyed by the Seadragon mother, causing an outbreak of the karrah bacterium.
If the sea emperor wasnt friendly then it would be absolutely terrifying... imagine if it could make you go insane by constantly whispering
Horror spin off incoming?
It was originally supposed to be hostile
Wasnt it suggested to be dangerous in one of the first trailers?
@@Kuba_plays_games yes but then they made the sea dragon (which is why they kinda look similar)
"Die. Now die. Now die."
"Dead. They are all dead."
"Rot. Rot away."
ideas for evil spooky voices
Detail I loved when I discovered it fuckin' around: I put infectected fish in a tank with healthy fish and saw the infection spread. Then I put a glowy peeper in (before I discovered why they were glowy) and saw them all cured. Was awesome!
So cool!
I was just thinking about trying that to see what would happen lol
I think the reason the architects couldn’t hear the Sea Emperor’s telpathy is because they’re not organic. They are data given sentience and bodies.
They also talk to each other through a network, so they probably just kept talking, but yes, also because they aren't fully organic and are just sentience from data in a mainly organic shell (for Al-An at least, I don't know about the others)
@@Omniscient_AIi think that network probably shuts down foreign attempts at the telepathy.
Or they simply couldn’t hear her call due to their brain structures. Maybe the Emperor got lucky that a more primal species found her.
Isn't it just because she didn't talk to them
@@AstralArbourSys no she mentions how the others were "ignorant to her call" probably since they couldn't hear her
yeah. they basically thought no animal could know as much or even more than them
The thing is, the sea emperor could easily skewer any leviathan that gets in their way, but they are peaceful creatures, (and the leviathans are smart enough to leave them alone)
I think it's more that Sea Emperors secrete a substance that calms nearby organisms.
Any that we know off. We still want to know what the alpha in the void looks like >:)
@@TaskForce-ql3bxthe what in the void?
@@nyarlathotepthecrawlingcha969 the alpha species, the current apex predator. Or any other species that live deeper past the edge of the abyss. For all we know the large Ghost Leviathans and Void Chalicerates are at the bottom of their food chains in there.
Yeah the PDA entry for ghost leviathans says they “never stop growing” so maybe that’s why no other leviathan has the balls to go into the void
I like the headcanon of the Sea Emperor's roommate creatures being told to shut the fuck up and behave via telepathy. Straight mom behavior so that everyone could live in peace XD
Valid
The sea emperor is a tragic tale, but at least it managed to get a happy ending. Thanks for doing justice for this amazing creature!
There are no other sea emperors meaning that the babies would have to mate with each other and all future generations would have lots of deformities from the inbreeding.
i love the sea emperor she just wants her children to have a good life
Dude me to she is good mom that was all she wanted r:i:p sea emperor the best leviathan mom
Typical mothers wish children have good life (I also love the sea emperor)
imagine being so strong that your feces can stop a planet ending bacteria
@@Andro7017 lol it sounds so funny when you phrase it like that but that's basically what happened
I always thought of the seemingly throw away line of "The visions are getting worse" from Bart as just delirium taking hold of him from the infection and never as the Sea Emperor talking to him, but now that I've heard it...that makes perfect sense.
The revelation has my jaw on the floor.
Bart had so much potential man. It’s a shame what happened to the degasi crew. I hope Marguerite has a role to play in subnautica 3, and I hope Riley comes back as well. Imagine if the two of them met
In polish language he tells that future isn't bright
See, I've made that connection ever since I discovered the sea emperor's telepathy on my playthrough.
And it still freaks me out.
Something else to consider here. Bart was extremely intelligent and thoughtful young man, surely he would have been willing and able to help the sea emperor like Riley does. However, in his last message it seems like Bart wasn't able to understand the telepathic messages from the sea emperor. They were vexing to him as just "visions." However, the logs say that Bart had neural implants and his education was at least partly a digital upload to his brain. What if those implants were somehow interfering with the sea emperor's telepathy and that's why he wasn't able to interpret the visions?
I think in earlier betas the Sea Emperor was friendly unless you damaged her eggs, in which case she'd kill you.
Reasonable
@@escaped_cephalopodDefinitely a well-earned nonstandard Game Over imo. Like you're stranded on an alien planet, dying of an alien disease, any rescue that came and will come gets shot down by the same alien quarantine enforcement that shot you and yours down, and this alien prisoner who's been keeping the planet alive for a millennium asks you to help her help you, and you kill her unborn kids, her one reason to live? Kinda deserved it.
I hope that ability to make animals calm in their presence is working when they’re born cause it’s rough out there on 4546B.
I wouldn't worry about that too much, they get big fast
Id hate to imagine that when they tried to go out and save the planet, attempting to get past the void, they ended up meeting ghost leviathans and losing some, or a worse leviathan had sea emperor for dinner
Considering how it plunged several planet's ecosystem to near extinction, I guess it could explain why
I didn’t know the kharaa killed so many, that’s actually impressive in a twisted sort of way
What a K/D ratio!
@@iAletho *gets bitten by random insect on alien planet* "Plus 143 billion assists!"
You should read the pda files. Everything is learned from them
And just a human and a random superfish stoped the thing
Also in below zero we managed to farm it safely making it possible to eradicate khaara from the galaxy
@@abandoned.connector, _video games for ya, baby_
Peepers are the true MVPs man. They may get attacked but they form a symbiosis with our Big Space Mama, saving everyone on the crater
Remember ya'll, this all started because of some curious architect kicking ONE rock.
Dude that was a metaphor, I'm pretty sure they didn't actually kick a rock 😭
Nah, kharaa was hiding under a stone
@@Sonic_Kpebble*
A cut part of below zero included a mission were you find not fully grown sea emperors and you send the enzyme to space with a rocket
I think the main reason the architects were unable to hear the Sea Emperor's telepathy is because she didn't want them to know how to hatch her eggs. Since she is clearly not only sentient but also very clever she likely found out what they had done to her babies and didn't want them to harm any more of them so she waited until a safe person (Riley) showed up
They explicitly couldn't hear her. She *_tried_* communicating with them.
@helixsol7171 Ohh, sorry I didn't remember that lol, thank you for telling me ☺️
@@queenal5940
No problem ☺
Sea emperors were the biggest creature to ever exist.
Gargantuan leviathan: alow me to introduce myself
Good thing those humongous predators died out or are just few in number or else It'd be a planet full of Jormugandrs!
The big skeleton is an adult. There's a smaller skeleton somewhere else.
@@Agent16.9it's a adolescent garg
@@dwyanecelestial7354 They probably live far from land, in the deepest parts of the void.
Void leviathan: H E L L O👹👹👹
There was a bit well played irony after dealing with these hostile creatures in your journey that the biggest creature in the game is actually the only friendly being you meet.
well there's the cuddlefish but i get your point lol
sea emperor is probably one of my favourite characters in fiction
fought to cling to life for so long just to ensure that life on the planet would still be around to be saved when someone arrived who could help hatch the eggs
any time i reach the hatching cutscene i usually spend way too long hanging around with her just to say goodbye before leaving so she can finally have her well earned rest
❤
You must not see a lot of media than
@@nolifejohnson5129 it's his opinion, and i agree with him.
She’s my favorite creature in the game and I actually kinda have to say the same to for the best mama ever I mean she’s just one of my if not favorite characters in fiction
Architects: The Leviathans are too big for study.
Also Architects: *Makes huge aquarium for Leviathan*
They most likely didn't have enough time on their hands to build more research facilities in 4546B, that's the same reason why they didn't try waiting for the eggs to hatch.
To be fair the fact that the Sea Emperor is quite friendly probably helps. They are probably talking about the fact that hostile Leviathans are too big to effectively contain. Like one Sea Dragon Leviathan heavily damages their research facility from outside, imagine the catastrophe that will happen if it gets inside.
The main reason the Sea Emperor couldn’t communicate with the Architects is most likely because their brains were mechanical
The hammer head shape that the sea emperor has could be a form of senser like what hammerhead sharks have
Hammerheads use it for locating prey. Makes more sense for those structures to have telepathic output/resonance or something
It is explained why the architects couldn’t hear the sea emperor. In her line “For what they tried to take, I give to you freely” showing she likely simply didn’t tell them because of the enslavement she endured from the architects
Maybe the architect weren't able to hear the sea emperor due to lacking a physical body, mind or something
It is pretty cool that the sea emperor essentially saved the planet's life
Yeah that’s what I was thinking after playing below zero. Since they are made out of both biological and mechanical parts and there minds can be uploaded and put into storage I just thought that it was a more mechanical mind that the sea emperor couldn’t speak with telepathically. That or she wasn’t tuned into the right radio frequency in their heads lol.
Or because they see eachother as the same and communicate very different from humans and sea emperors
When I first watched the sea emperor die I pause and said “you…you ok their sea? Oh dear god is she dead?”
The I took a closer look and realised she was dead and I got sad
keep up the work man i dont even play subnautica anymore but i love watching your content
Thanks Halfchicken! Glad to see you're still around :)
My theory is that the Sea Emperor felt resentmet towards the architecs. In some of the dialoges it has with the player it mentions: "I will give you freely what the others tried in vain to take" and "To you, I give the secret willingly", revealing that even with the world ending, it saw the architects as "unworthy" beings, or at least not deserving to know how the enzymes worked. Why?
Let's remember that the Sea Emperor is pretty inteligent, to the point of being phylosophical and undersating how it's chamber worked, being aware that it conected to the outside sea through pipes and that the big thing in the middle was a portal. It even knew the specifics on how to make the enzymes to fully imitate the perfect breeding conditions for it's eggs. It had both intelligence, counciousness and a sense of morality.
It's possible that it tried to communicate with the architects through it's psychic powers, but the architets weren't able to get the message. Chances are the Sea Emperor TRIED to communicate with the through other ways but the architets treated it like a regular animal that just happened to be useful, and far from trying to get it's help they simply use it like a resource and nothing else. Having no regard for it's life, it's eggs, or any other life. The Sea Emperor probably took notice and decided to not cooperate with them, and instead trying to find it's own way to solve the problem while being confined. That's probably how it realized it could send peepers with small portions of the enzyme.
Then we came to the planet and we could actually understood it, and the game unfolded from there
Wow.
Fascinating.
I had no idea the story was this complex and deep.
Thank you for taking the time to narrate and animate this terrific story.
14:19
ITs explained in sub zero that the architects are already a communal organism, AL-AN specifies about "Imagine a thousand strings, each playing its own range of notes, none louder than the others. Each one builds harmony-a continuous thrum in the background of existence. I am now a lone string in search of familiar harmonies".
. i think this wither drowned out the sea empress's telepathy or made them incompatible.
*I believe that she's not the only one, there's a bunch of Sea Emperors around.*
My theory it's that they live very deep, and only come to surface to lay eggs, where she got captured. Probably there's a bunch more, buuuut they live where the Ghost Leviathans live, so made sense the Architects never went to find another one...
and at minimum with the cut early content from below zero the baby sea emperors have all grown up healthy and happy meaning.
the potential for the species to return exponitially is now possible even if wild sea emperors are near extinct.
But if there are no other sea emperors left other dan them dan they are doomed to die out
Sea Emperors reproduce asexually, meaning there won’t be any inbreeding. The species will be back :)
Now I personally don’t realllllly believe this due to kharrah this most likely is not true remember that if they were did exist kharrah would be gone and the planet saved but since there is still kharrah she is the last one left and saying that it’s just that part look at below zero the frozen levithan got kharrah so yes she is the last one but she did hatch her eggs and there will be more when they reproduce
@@proffesor_axolotl All species on the planet can reproduce on their own as long as environmental conditions are right
I have a theory on what the sea emporers arms where for, they where probably used for defence and it was probably this atack method that inspired the main attack method for the warper.
The subnautica lore king is back 💪
Back from the depths!
@@iAletho we need bladder fish lore
@@aydenmumm3676 Yes, it is very important
@@aydenmumm3676 I agree
Riley: I AM NOT YOUR DAD
Baby sea empires: Dad
No one talking about how he perfectly transitioned into the credits?
Just imagine telling your Alien boss that Planet you left 1000 years ago is now cured
I NEW IT!! Sea emperors are relatives with sea dragons!
Those aliens fucked up when they decided to fuck with a mothers eggs specially when that mother is a fucking dragon.
It feels like i am watching national geographic, but it is subnatica. Thanks for the amazing video.😮😊
Thats exactly why I like it😂
Are you gonna do creature analysis videos on every creature in subnautica? It’d be really cool if you did, I’ve been obsessing over the crabsquids, mesmers, and BoneSharks (A deep dive into the Peeper space program would also be cool, as today I learned they make great projectiles)
Man, I thought I knew Subnautica's lore pretty well, but there are a lot of things you went over that I simply overlooked in my playthroughs or didn't connect the dots on lol
Anyways, great video! I just now found your channel through this one, but I love your editing style and look forward to seeing more!
I’ve been waiting for a while to get this video!
Glad it’s here, amazing video : )
Also, remember that sea emperor's can reproduce asexualy. Her babies will keep reproducing and repopulating~
Sea Emperors look like the Sea Dragons big cousins, I mean “Sea Emperor” “Sea Dragon” even the names are similar, with both of them having 7 outer tentacles and one larger middle tentacle.
I’ll stop there since if I didn’t I would go forever and also I don’t think it should be to hard to see any similarities with a good look at both of them.
Only other thing that I want to say, is that I find it absolutely amazing that Peepers saved the entire planet of 4546B😂
MAN THIS GUYS BIG BRAIN I DIDNT EVEN THINK OF USING INFORMATION FROM SUBNAUTICA BELOW ZERO AND SUBNAUTICA
I love your videos on Subnautica! They never get tiring to me!
The Architects had a sort of mostly cybernetically augmented physical form that they effectively downloaded into. They couldn't understand the telepathic communications because they were effectively a collective digital consciousness for the most part, and their biological neurology wasn't sufficient for the Sea Emperor to make contact.
It should also be worth noting that the Architects didn't "die" as they were a sort of hive mind of cybernetically augmented beings with most of their mind uplaoded to a sort of neural engramatic storage. Though it is unknown if the storage in these areas survived, but a note hints that they were effectively uploaded to whatever network they were using.
The telepathy aspect is also hinted by other organisms in Subnautica, such as the Mesmer, which directly controls your actions through a series of lights it releases. It's likely that this emerged several times on the planet but it's just we only see two examples of organisms that can influence neuronal firing in another. The Sea Emperor's are ridiculously long lived, and given their ability to communicate (which might be the furthest form of an underwater method of communication like what we see in Cetaceans taking the next step by directly influencing the brain, though you probably couldn't do this across an entire planet if it depended on mirror neurons lol) were probably as intelligent as human's, if not moreso, but did not need technology due to their size (perhaps instead cultivating the ecosystem by gaining understanding how it works over a very long life).
When Kharaa first was accidently leaked into the world of 4546B, you'd think the existing population of sea emperors alive then would have produced enough enzyme 42 to have curbed the bacteria's devastation. Especially when you consider it only took 5 juveniles under two years to eliminate Kharaa from the entire planet (except what was found in the frozen leviathan in Below Zero.) Also, I'm wondering if in future games we learn that Kharaa isn't just a naturally discovered bacteria, but that it was an intentional biological weapon created by a rogue faction of the Architects or by one of their interstellar rivals. It could even have been designed as a type of panspermia since it rewrites DNA. Maybe it was created to seed planets and rewrite existing life to mirror the form of its originators as a way to propagate their species. Only it didn't always do that as intended or it mutated to instead act as a deadly pathogen. Since the PDA hints that the Cuddlefish may not be indigenous to the planet, maybe it's a surviving member of that other sentient, well meaning species who accidently unleashed Kharaa on the galaxy while attempting to colonize it.
I love how informative the video is but its also full of memes, art and other hilarious moments!
I like the architects idea of "if it tries to come just blow it the hell up"
Imagine if the aggressive version of the Sea Emperor would pretend to be friendly, lure you to it's lab to try and eat you.
The sea emperor is so chill that I would just hang out with him
Don't mean to be that guy but he is a she
(Don't read if you don't want spoilers) And also Al-an from below zero leaded that Sea emperor -project.
>Lives 260% of normal species lifespan
>Instantly dies when job is finished
>Refuses to elaborate
The sea emperors could indeed give off a low telepathic signal, that could be how they live in such deep waters such as the void, especially the juveniles, that could stop leviathans like the ghost leviathans from attacking them.
I still like to hold onto the hope a few groups of Sea Emperors with the Enzyme 42 producing mutation did manage to survive the outbreak. They probably had to be more spread than before, but perhaps there might still have been enough microscopic lifeforms to feed a few small groups.
I got the impression that the Sea Emperor wasn't willing to talk to the Architects due to their treatment of her
Does that mean from what I was just listening to that is the karaa goes dormant doesn’t that mean that I mean character once going back to earth could potentially gain the cooler again meaning that he could infect his entire planet?
The architects probably werent able to hear the emperors call because they are half machines and do not have brains in a way needed for the telepathy as we see the architect body in subnautica below zero
Seeing how the architects treated the sea emperors make me happy they nearly went extinct because damn, poor big mama.
the sea emperor is also in the game's trailer (i think the early access one?) and seems to roar at the end of it.
She was originally gonna be a hostile leavithan
You'd think that the architects would be able to analyze the sea emperor DNA and find the gene for enzyme 42, then insert that gene into a bacterial plasmid for mass reproduction like what we've done with insulin. Aren't the architects supposed to be a super technologically advanced race? Also, I find it odd that a single bacteria species is so deadly across so many different species from so many different planets.
Oh well. The Subnautica story is cool enough that I won't begrudge such plot holes. And who knows, maybe alien biology is just that different from Earth biology (although that's such a copout).
Well there might some problems with you see the khara isn't any old bacteria in fact it has some extremely terrifyingly fasy mutation rate Like a virus and along with that we've already seen bacteria evolve to be completely immune to most antibiotics maybe the architects did discover a cure for one variant but there were thousands more per day along with that I have a sneaking suspicion that enzyme 42 is an enzyme designed to kill all bacteria as such it made it capable of killing khara even with it's mutation rate even more evidence to back this up is in the brain eating ameoba which never evolved to fight against the immune system but it can completely ignore most modern treatment methods and kill you suoer fast
The Sea emperor probably just didn't want to let the Architects know how to hatch them to protect them
I love how in subnautica lore, fish poop is the key to saving the galaxy
✨Sparkly✨ fish poop
I think that the reason why the architects couldn't hear the emperor's attempts at telepathic communications was most likely due to the component of the brain that the sea emperor interacts with in order to communicate was to heavily altered with technological augmentation and thus the sea emperor's voice fell on Deff ears.
Alrighty.. I am gonna try to bet again..
5$ that the Squid Shark is next.
(Also, great video!)
Squid shark video would be AMAZING
Wait so If the crater only survived because of the Emperor, how is there life in sector Zero?
You should do a mini series with 3 smaller creatures per episode like rock punchers squidsharks and ice stalkers just a suggestion
Cause I dont think theirs any leviathans left
I'll keep it in mind Sealord!
bro can insert reason for new viewers to watch multiple videos in a row, E P I C
Fish raised inside an ACU are also passive. I think they are passive simply because it was in an enclosed.
I don’t know if it’s just for being part of the sequel or not, I assume it is since you use Alan’s design for the Precursors, but just in case it’s implied the reason the Sea Emperor wasn’t heard by any of the Precursors is because they work like a hive mind with every thought and voice echoing in their head, one extra voice would be unnoticeable especially with a population as big as theirs.
5:07 bottom right of the underwater volcano
I was once playing subnautica and i got ine of those telephaty „cutscenes“ and it tripped me out extremely because i tought it was that ine creature that tricks you into going towards it
Why does the thumbnail remind me of Kamakarus
How the Emperor Juveniles could be more fun:
- Obviously, they make sounds 🔊 and depending on what they feel.
- Can haul large amounts of cargo!📦
- Help find minerals by blowing 🌬️ at the ground to reveal them.💎
- Each juvenile is unique! e.g the one in the most friendliest environment has barnacles and a reef 🪸 on the back like the reefback leviathan while another in the most hostile environment has some gnarly battle ⚔️ damage around their body from fending off off attackers and some missing tentacles and eyes that would soon regenerate.
- They can communicate 🗣️ telepathically 🔮 but not as good as the ancient sea empress since they're younger.
- 🐕Petting animations!🐈 Cuz I think that's cute!❤
- You can hitch a ride 🏇 by grabbing either of the 4 head structures. 3:33
- Or you can build some sci-fi advanced saddle to control their movement.
- You can hide 🥷 in their mouth in case a predator 🦈 is stupid enough to approach you despite being around a massive creature.
- You can play🤽 with them to make them happy and put a collar🔔 with their name on.
- Protects you from other aggressive leviathans like blocking their view to you.
- Sleeping animations.
- Their body armor 🛡️ gives them massive defense but their eyes are a weakness
- Enzyme 42 can be yummy 😋 but I'm not an expert 🤔
- Last but not least, you can create some chainsaw⛓️ 🪚 tusks 🦣 that are worn on their heads if you want them to do more damage!
What else could your think of to make them more fun?
Most of these is pet stuff which doesnt fit the emperor imo, but making sounds should be a given, and getting a ride holding onto their head, and finding minerals with them sound like genuinely fun activities that also make sense in the gameworld.
@@Shadow-hm3uq forgive me, for I was very silly
Do the babies actually grow into juveniles in-game? I've only ever seen them as babies around the alien quarantine area
i thought i understood this game's lore but this video made me truly understand the lore and made me wanna play it again 😅
love your videos man keep it up💪
I’ve heard theories that the protrusion or antlers might be the thing that gives sea emperors the ability to use telepathy once fully grown
I mean, sea emperors can literally tall in your language inside your head via telepathy, wth, of course they are fucking incredible
I loved the Shadow Leviathan ambush at the end.
Never thought they'd be intelligent enough to use telportation technology, but whelp, here we are.
A thousands years old civilization
That the one we see in game dies after the young are born....
Behavior that matches a lot of Octopus, as maddening as it is!
Hey wait isn't it a grown-up Lava Larva?
I thought the reason the architechs didn't know about the enzymes was that she didn't want them to know about it, she only gave it to riley as he wasnt taking her hostage but setting her babies free
14:20 architec seem to be sort of hive mind with robotic implant maybe the Sea Empror cannot communicate of that
She also says I will give you freely what other tried to take or something like that so I think even if she could she wouldn’t want to lol
How the Architects were mechanical enough not to understand telepathy but not mechanical enough to ignore Kharaa is a mystery.
The sea emperor seems vaugely humanoid- which I love! It's very interesting
So we've seen the fiercest, the largest, loudest and the scariest, how long until you discuss the creatures who are the opposite in some regards, smaller, friendlier and or harmless?
I love your videos man! ❤ keep up great work
I never thought a video about the Sea Emperor will make me sad
It’s weird how some of my favorite video game characters are a cowboy and a giant fish
4:52 nah…. I guarantee the sea emperor is not naturally a filter feeder.
But it’s Psychic power means that anything it kills it probably feel it’s pain.
So since they’re sentient, it’s obvious they’d choose to filter feed instead.
I think the reason that the other creatures in the tank don’t attack is because the tank has plentiful food supply’s for the predators, and because the Sea Emperor has some physic effect on them.
I always name and color my vehicles after the creatures in the game, and the Neptune Rocket, the one that saves my life and brings me home, is always called Emperor. ❤
i love your vids so much and i just love this game
Glad you enjoy it Galaxygamer :)
The sea emperor: is 1600 years old
The architects with their 2 braincells: LeTs KeEp It AnD nOt ChAnGe It
I have a theory is probably because in Subnautica Below Zero that architects can be alive since they can detach the body so it kind of looks like there are a cyborg
The reason the sea emperor says it couldn't produce the enzyme is because she was forced to, she complained the architects didn't respect the natural flow of its production and therefore couldn't get it. She also says the architects didn't listen to her, likely because they were desperate.
No one gonna talk about that one sea emperor feeding art representation he made???
the species could have been truly grand allies of humanity consiering its sole survivor was of such high moral caliber only wanting to help its young and feeling zero ill will towards its own inprisoners.
9:56 *the bladder fish spinning lol*
mabey the arcitects could hear the sea emperor but the sea emperor never gave them the recipe in the first place keep in mind the sea emperor never gives you the recipe until you activate the teleporter.
Apologies, however you are incorrect, karrah had existed previously, and was brought to 4546-B by architects to hopefully find a cure. However the architects had taken a Seadragon egg and the research center was destroyed by the Seadragon mother, causing an outbreak of the karrah bacterium.
When i firstly saw her i thought she was the final boss and starting attacking her with the suit
Those messages from her didn’t help elude her friendliness? Not even the one where she says she wants to help?
So do mesmers
@@lazy_guy_2525 ....... fair point