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This article is about the Sea Emperor Leviathan. You may be looking for the Ocean Dragon Leviathan.

The closest translation of the alien symbol for this specimen is 'bounding main emperor'. Os samples from deceased leviathan specimens indicate some potential for Kharaa immunity. Single specimen captured for study at purpose-congenital emperor containment facility, synthetic in volcanic region at depth 1200m.

― PDA, Data Downloads

The Sea Emperor Leviathan is the largest of the living Leviathan course fauna establish within the crater in Subnautica. It is sapient and telepathic, merely unlike near Leviathans, it is not aggressive.

Appearance

The Body of water Emperor Leviathan is colossal, having a stocky, entirely armored body and is predominantly pale brown in color, with shades of greenish. Its tentacles are adorned with bright cyan bioluminescent "bulbs."

The animate being'south head is comparatively small, and quite peculiar in shape (meet "Trivia" below for more than), featuring 2 striped antennae with glowing green lures atop its snout, two large mandibles on each side of its rather small-scale mouth, and a glowing hollow between these mandibles. It has four binocular optics, glowing cyan in colour.

The Body of water Emperor Leviathan's posterior consists of seven long, yet slim tentacles catastrophe with large tentacular clubs, with the largest being in the eye, surrounded by the half-dozen smaller tentacles.

Unlike the Ocean Dragon Leviathan, the Bounding main Emperor Leviathan doesn't have true graspers; instead, its forelimbs are two massive, paddle-like arms, similar to some paddles used by turtles, primarily used for stabilization while pond and peradventure used for defense force against predators.

Information technology too has a hole in the back with an unknown purpose, virtually likey for creating enzyme 42 or laying eggs.

Behavior

Despite its gargantuan size, the Bounding main Emperor Leviathan'due south diet consists solely of micro-organisms filtered from the water, much like real-life Baleen whales and Blueish whales.

Information technology'southward suggested that in the past these creatures would have traveled in small herds in the bottom of the trenches (that beingness the Crater Edge), occasionally coming to the surface to feast on the microorganisms in the shallower water. When the Kharaa Bacterium was released onto the planet, many creatures died, destroying the food source of the species.

The Body of water Emperor Leviathan is capable of telepathic speech, which it uses to communicate with the thespian at various locations around the earth. Whenever it communicates with the player, the screen becomes distorted in a similar way to when a Warper teleports the actor, or a Mesmer hypnotizes the player.

The Sea Emperor Leviathan will beginning contact the player telepathically either sixty minutes later on attempting to conciliate the Quarantine Enforcement Platform or twenty minutes after reaching the Disease Research Facility (whichever happens first). It will contact the role player again soon after they have obtained the Blueish Tablet, and again upon inbound the Lava Lakes. It volition continue to interact with the player upon entering the Aquarium, telling them what they need to do in order to hatch the eggs. After the player inserts an Ion Cube into the Incubator Device, the Sea Emperor Leviathan will speak to the player, and will move to the left side of the Alien Arch, and blow away the sand, uncovering the Curvation that the player can employ to admission the Arch outside of the Quarantine Enforcement Platform.

Upon entering the aquarium, the Bounding main Emperor Leviathan volition climb up onto a platform to observe and speak to the player, so descend back down. It will too lookout the actor intently if they are nigh the Incubator Device or the aquarium Arch, quickly spinning around and coming to a residue on the aquarium's floor.

Story

The captive Ocean Emperor Leviathan is the final remaining adult of its species and a parent to at least seven eggs. The 5 eggs which yet remain must exist hatched at some point in the story. The creature is approximately two-thousand six-hundred years sometime, having massively surpassed its species' natural lifespan. Information technology is possible that the Aquarium has some form of life back up system in place that allowed the captive Sea Emperor Leviathan to live to such an advanced age, every bit it was noted that i-thousand 6-hundred was already old.

About all of the Bounding main Emperor Leviathans died when the Kharaa Bacterium was released as it killed off their nutrient source, leaving only the one captive adult and the eggs it was discovered with. As the only source of Enzyme 42 on Planet 4546B, the Sea Emperor Leviathan and its children are the keys to cure the Kharaa Bacterium.

The Precursors studied the concluding surviving Sea Emperor Leviathan in hopes of finding a cure using its natural product of Enzyme 42. Still, due to its weakness, perhaps old age or affliction, studies conducted showed that it was non a viable source of Enzyme 42 every bit the enzymes it produced was as well unstable and only reverted symptoms temporarily. Afterward the Precursors could not find a fashion to hatch its eggs naturally, they took three into the dissection room of the Main Containment Facility and experimented on them, cutting all of them open and removing the fetus from one of the eggs. One other egg was taken to the egg lab, where it was also tested on. Nevertheless, they could find no mode to cause the hatching process to trigger naturally, and juveniles built-in outside of the natural conditions could not produce suitable enzymes. They resorted to attaching the eggs to an Incubator Device to keep the eggs live while they worked on more means to hatch them. Before long subsequently this, the Disease Enquiry Facility was destroyed, releasing the Kharaa Bacterium, causing all Arches to the facility to be closed and initiating the planetary quarantine.

At an unspecified time, the Sea Emperor Leviathan managed to train Peepers to employ the Alien Vents to distribute Enzyme 42 to the surface. Under the Body of water Emperor Leviathan's command, Peepers traveled through the Alien Vent, bringing flora seeds to the aquarium, and leaving with small amounts of Enzyme 42 which they distribute at the surface. This arrangement allowed a small amount of life to survive on the planet.

After its eggs are hatched, the captive Bounding main Emperor Leviathan volition play with its children and then directly them to the Arch leading just exterior the Quarantine Enforcement Platform which they volition get out through. The captive volition begin dying before long afterward, as information technology has used the last of its strength to play with its babies.^[1]

Dialogue

Telepathic Contact Dialogue

I am what... y'all seek. Want to... assist you.

Aquarium Telepathic Contact Dialogue

Are you hither... to play? Others came hither once. They built these walls. They played... alone. They bored me. Now they're gone. And instead... we have you. Nosotros are curious whether you swim with the current, or fight against information technology as they did.

My young want to hatch. To play outside this identify. Nosotros have been here then long. The others built a passage to reach the world outside. I asked them for this freedom, only they could not hear me. If you help the states, I volition give you freely what the others tried in vain to take.

With the passage you take opened my young can exit this place. Only first they must feel the fourth dimension is correct and break free of their shells. This is what the others could not force from me. To you, I give the secret willingly.

My young are swimming for the shallows. I give thanks yous. Their liberty is my end. What volition it be like, I wonder, to go to sleep and never wake upward? Perhaps next we meet I will be an bounding main electric current, conveying seeds to a new land... Or a animal so minor it sees the gaps between the grains of sand. Farewell, friend.

End Sequence Dialogue

What is a moving ridge without the body of water? A beginning without an stop? They are dissimilar, but they become together. Now y'all go among the stars, and I fall among the sand. We are dissimilar. Only nosotros get... together.

Information Banking concern Entries

SPECIMEN SIZE CATEGORIES Have BEEN Adjusted Upwards TO Suit THIS SPECIES 1. Feeding & Digestion Conflicting enquiry data indicates that despite its size this species feeds entirely on microorganisms it filters from the water, which themselves depend on a complicated ecosystem of establish and animal life. 2. Reproduction Large, ovary-like organs are carried in the creature's middle section, suggesting that like other species on this planet it produces eggs, withal internal scar tissue indicates probable infertility. 3. Enzyme 42 The emperor manufactures Enzyme 42 within its tum cavity to break downwardly its food, and will occasionally expel it into the surrounding waters. This substance was found to neutralize the furnishings of the bacterium, and its presence in the ecosystem today would explain how life on the planet survived the outbreak. It would remain to be explained by what mechanism the enzyme is being delivered. 4. Health Comparative analysis of size and metabolic rates indicates the specimen captured by the researchers was approximately one,600 years one-time. Extensive internal and external scar tissue advise it had lived well in excess of the peak lifespan for its species. Cess: While a healthy emperor specimen may have held some potential as a cure, it is unlikely any research subjects survived quarantine procedures.

Available biological data has been used to synthesize the furnishings of the alien bacterium on the sea emperor'southward natural lifecycle. This creature probable lived and moved in small herds around the planet's sea trenches, coming to the surface to feed off the huge volumes of microorganisms in the shallower waters. Family size would be strictly express by available nutrient supply. Offspring would likely split off at a young age to form their own herds elsewhere. Given their sparse population, mating and egg-laying were likely exceptional, perhaps a once in a lifetime event. The species probable had a preferred environment for egg-laying - in fact, successful hatching may depend on such conditions. Given the rarity of this event, it is impossible to calculate those conditions precisely. There is no bear witness to back up the assumption that all members of the species were immune from the conflicting bacterium. Fifty-fifty if this is so, in that location is evidence that introduction of the bacterium decimated life on the planet, and this would have had catastrophic effects on the emperors' food supply and survival rate. The symbiotic relationship between this specimen and other lifeforms likely developed as a straight effect of the bacterial infection. Those lifeforms which learned to keep the emperor live survived with its help. This may explicate the vast tracts of lifeless ocean in a rough perimeter effectually the emperor'southward location.

A catalog of information on the organisms previously contained within the alien facility. A number of entries have been translated. Small Herbivore Gamma: This entry seems to reference the common peeper. Shows no immunity to infection - decease commonly occurs within 4 days. Shows symptom remission on exposure to Enzyme 42, simply symptoms quickly recur. Shows advanced learning behaviors. Shows some capacity to transmit enzymes to other specimens. Leviathan Embryos: Adult specimen too large to study in containment. Egg specimens acquired from nesting site. Embryos testify no signs of immunity - death commonly occurs within 3 weeks. Modest sample of eggs has been retained for connected, high priority inquiry on leviathan hatching mechanisms. Large Carnivore Theta: Off-site lab established to study remains. Shows some potential for immunity to infection, but concrete remains so far proved insufficient for full reconstruction. Unidentified Leviathan: This leviathan species has been assigned designator 'Sea Emperor'. Bone samples from emperor specimens indicate some potential for kharaa immunity. Single specimen captured for study at purpose-built containment facility, synthetic in volcanic region at depth 1.4km. Assessment: While it is unlikely that the emperor specimen is still contained within the facility described, information technology may be possible to acquire further data there on the aliens' attempts to develop a vaccine.

Achievements

Spoiler alert: The post-obit section contains story related material.
	Optimal Wellness Cure the infection How to obtain: The player must communicate with the Sea Emperor Leviathan and hatch the Sea Emperor Infants in order to obtain Enzyme 42. The player must complete the entire healing cutscene in order to obtain the achievement.

Gallery

Front view

Dorsal view

Side view

Bioluminescence

Ditto, side profile

Rear view

The Sea Emperor Leviathan pond around its enclosure

The Body of water Emperor Leviathan speaking to the histrion through telepathy

The Ocean Emperor Leviathan greeting the thespian when he enters the Aquarium

The Sea Emperor Leviathan sitting in the Main Containment Facility when the player approaches the Incubator Device

The Bounding main Emperor Leviathan blowing sand abroad from the Aquarium arch to reveal information technology to the role player

The Sea Emperor Leviathan nearly the end of its life

The Sea Emperor Leviathan slowly dying after its children leave the aquarium

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Idle animation

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More than animations

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Dialogue voiceover

A slight variation upon the erstwhile artwork

Earlier, unused Concept Art for the Sea Emperor Leviathan

Concept art for Sea Emperor telepathy

Trivia

• The Ocean Emperor Leviathan's dialogue suggests that the species are philosophical, if not religious. It references a concept similar to reincarnation by saying "Peradventure next nosotros meet I will be an ocean current, conveying seeds to new lands... or a fauna so modest it sees the gaps between the grains of sand".
  • This dialogue also suggests a great understanding of the natural world on the part of the Ocean Emperor, as it understands what an body of water current is and the roles they play in nutrient distribution in the oceans.
• Early concept art of the Sea Emperor Leviathan depicted it with big, clawed graspers on the ends of its artillery, resembling those of a Sea Dragon Leviathan. This idea was afterward replaced by the paddle-like limbs they now take.
  • Despite being depicted significantly smaller than the Sea Dragon Leviathan in concept art, the Bounding main Emperor Leviathan was e'er intended to exist the largest creature in Subnautica.
  • The Sea Dragon Leviathan was created as an aggressive reskin of the Body of water Emperor Leviathan.
• The Sea Emperor Leviathan's dialogue suggests that the Precursors were unable to "hear" its telepathy, as they did not hear its pleas to permit its young go gratuitous.
• Sure developmental notes refer to the Sea Emperor Leviathan as the "Emperor Leviathan", and refer to added animations to "bite" and "attack".^[2]
  • Diverse documents also refer to the Sea Emperor Leviathan every bit the "Grand Leviathan".
  • All Sea Emperor audio files exist within the folder "Magistrate", suggesting some other developer proper name. This folder also contains roar sounds, which are higher-pitched versions of Reaper Leviathan roars, which further suggest that the Sea Emperor was at one point ambitious.
• The Sea Emperor Leviathan closely shares many of its features with real-life animals: a head shape slightly like to that of many hammerhead sharks, and paddle-like arms, resembling those of the light-green sea turtles.
• The opening judgement of the databank entry suggests that Sea Emperor Leviathans are the largest living species identified in the Subnautica universe.
• It is possible that the Ocean Emperor Leviathan attempted to communicate with Bart Torgal, equally he had described seeing visions before his death, presumably the same visions that Ryley Robinson had received during his explorations.
• It is currently impossible to browse the Sea Emperor Leviathan, and equally a result, it does not have a fauna databank entry. Instead, the entry is obtained from a Precursor terminal.
  • It is also impossible to attack the Sea Emperor Leviathan.
• The Sea Emperor Leviathan species is the merely known circuitous brute species on 4546B known to reproduce asexually, in dissimilarity to other known species which reproduce by sexual reproduction as they are simultaneous hermaphrodites, excluding simple fauna species such every bit the Amoeboid which reproduce via longitudinal fission.

References

1. ↑ http://imgur.com/a/vVcxn
2. ↑ https://trello.com/c/37zdy3CI/4561-emperor-leviathan-animations Dated June 16, 2015.

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