Considering the continued existence of ghosts and reapers, it's likely that occasionally the reapers chase the juveniles to the dead zone, where they become food for the ghosts.Īlright, I know there's a lot of extrapolating, assuming and stitching together unrelated facts happening here, but it's fun to consider the symbiosis between these ridiculous creatures anyway. Due to the presence of this super predator, they stopped going down to the lost river, instead hunting and guarding closer to the surface for anything they can get their claws on. Although their eyes may be fine for picking up the bioluminescent ghosts, and their claws perfect for grabbing and damaging them, they've got nothing on the hard sea dragon, which has the huge advantage of having arms. This puts them on the map for another predator, the sea dragon leviathan. They go to where the ghosts lay their eggs, waiting there for any juveniles to come out. Their face claws adapted to the purpose of grabbing and quite possibly breaking though the ghost's outer layer to get to the snackable insides. The reapers learned to stop hunting the adult ghosts and instead focused on the juveniles, which are less socially structured and often guard a territory on their own. However, the ghosts developed a social system and hunted in packs, giving them the edge over the reapers. Through natural competition with the ghost leviathans, they both developed specialized senses for the dark environment that they lived in. Like the ghost leviathans, they hail from the dead zone. So after all that, here's what I'm suggesting: Reapers are not native to the vulcano that Subnautica takes place in. It's large grabbers also suggest that it is built to hunt something bigger than unlucky peepers or stalkers. It is possible the reaper has these completely black eyes because it is native to a place with very little light, such as the dead zone. It absorbs it all, so no light bounces back, making them look black. The reasons our pupils are black is because your eyes aren't meant to let light get out. When you hear it's cry, it knows where you are. They scream so analyze their surroundings. Just a little clearing up for those who don't know: reapers use echolocation. What other leviathan do we know that has advanced perceptive capabilities? Well, the game specifies the dead zone is home to leviathans, but it doesn't say which leviathans. What do they need this for then? If they were just preying on things that wander into the dead zone, they really wouldn't need to hunt together. Although they're beyond the reach of light, they're never too far away from each other and ready to come at eachother's battlecries. They work together and have advanced methods of observation. This hints that the ghost leviathans have some form of social culture. It helps them locate each other, as well as notice prey entering their territory almost immediately from beyond the veil of darkness. My guess: Those hammerhead like appendages actually function to increase their perception, much like in real hammerheads. They're not starved for food, or they would be competing instead of cooperating. On top of that, where whales have huge mouths to let in as much krill as possible, Ghosts' mouths are relatively tiny. They don't seem very aggressive towards each other though, as they often attack together. They will come at you, Just a tiny live form, almost instantly as soon as you enter their territory.
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Needless to say, unless the dead zone is wáy more densely packed with microscopic life than our oceans are, I doubt a full size ghost leviathan could very well live off of microscopic live.Īnother clue that they prefer larger organisms is in their build and behavior.Īdult Ghost leviathans are extremely aggressive and perceptive.
Like, 4 times as large as the average largest whale on our planet, the blue whale.īlue whales eat Krill, which are way larger than microbes. The game doesn't really show off scale very well, but ghost leviathans are huge. That one is fairly simple.īut for the dead zone, the game gives us only two real options: either microbes, or other leviathans. I've been wondering, if nothing lives in the dead zone, then what do the ghost leviathans eat there?ĭown in the lost river it's pretty easy to presume they just eat fish.
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