


My thought is that there should be a second "Canceled Rescue Attempt" message that plays instead of, or before the "Two Days Away" message, something along the lines of "We've gotten a better look at the debris field, and it's too dangerous to risk a landing, so we're gonna have to head home. Stand back, we're approaching the landing site now. Elana 4:36pm Spoilers I finally found the key to saving the sunbeam One of the critical things that was missing from ALL of the guides I have read to saving the ship involves not answering ANY of the hails before you've found the cure. "I don't believe it, there's someone down there! Aurora survivor, we have your PDA signature! I don't know how you walked away from that wreck, let alone survived since then, but we'll be happy to bring you onboard and hightail back to federation space.

Cross your fingers the weather holds, and don't leave us waiting. We've made orbit, and scans have found a landing site on the planet that's only rated hazardous. You couldn't have picked a less convenient parking spot, but we'll be in touch as soon as we have a landing spot for you. We're scanning the planet for dry land as we speak. We've covered more than half the distance, so hold on in there. "Sunbeam, broadcasting to all survivors of the Aurora. Sunbeam out." *talking to crew* "What else can I say? We're a six seater and we aren't even slightly equipped to handle this? Our pilot last attempted a planet landing in the academy simulator? It's a bad situation, but so are all the alternatives." We just picked up a massive debris field at your location. We'll send our data to Alterra as soon as we can. We've tracked your distress signal, but your ship's left a giant debris field up in orbit, we can't attempt a landing. Damn charter's going to have us wasting our profit margin running errands for Alterra."ġB, Canceled Rescue Attempt: "Aurora survivors, this is trading ship Sunbeam. See what the long-range scans pick up in the meantime. Aurora, I'm on the far side of the system, it's going to take more than a week to reach your position, do you still need our assistance? Over. They run out of engine grease, they send an SOS: you offer to help, they don't pick up. Originally posted by Subnautica Wiki:First Contact:ġA: "This is Avery Quinn, of trading ship Sunbeam.
