Degasi Seabases

The Degasi Seabases are habitats constructed by the three survivors from the Degasi, a spacecraft that crashed on Planet 4546B about a decade before the Aurora. There are three such bases found within the game world, two of which have several sub-bases in their surroundings. All of the bases are in various states of disrepair.

The player can find several abandoned PDAs scattered around the bases, which gradually reveal the fate of the survivors. Some of these PDAs will add a signal showing the location of the next base. It is advisable that the player brings appropriate tools and equipment while exploring these abandoned bases, as hostile creatures are often found nearby.

The Degasi Seabases are also a major source of Blueprints for Seabase equipment and modules, both through scanning their component parts and by locating Data Boxes inside them.

Locations

There are 3 Seabases with 1 being separated into 3 parts. There is one base on the Floating Island split into 3 parts, the first being the main part and the other two being observatories atop mountains. Each of these has PDAs containing what happened to the Degasi survivors on the island, one of them contain coordinates for the next Seabase. The second is in the Jellyshroom Caves. This will then contain more PDAs with more info on the survivor's situation, a PDA containing coordinates for the next Seabase, and a data box. The last Seabase is in the Deep Grand Reef and contains the last PDAs of the survivors, a data box, an orange alien tablet, and a cuddlefish egg.

Floating Island Base (Base 1)

Overview

The first seabase built by the Degasi crew, consisting of one main base in the center of the Floating Island with two small observatories on each of the peaks.

The Degasi crew built the central main base first, later adding the observatories to allow Bart Torgal to study the environment. Under Bart's guidance, they constructed a small farm on the east of the island, consisting of several exterior growbeds which were stocked with Marblemelons and Chinese Potato Plants. At some point Bart appears to have repurposed one of the Observatories as an ersatz greenhouse, with an Interior Growbed placed inside it.

Extreme weather conditions and a lack of resources caused tension among the group, forcing them to leave the habitat and set up a new one in the Jellyshroom Cave. At some point a landslide buried part of the central base and severely damaged the rest of it, being the likely reason for their departure from the island.

Interior

Main Base Inside the Multipurpose Room there is an abandoned PDA on the Desk and a Purple Tablet beside it. The room also contains wall planters. The path to its hallway is blocked by a boulder, so it can only be accessed via a broken window.

Along the path, passing the spotlight and towards inside the broken T Compartment, a Supply Crate can be found. Down the ladder another abandoned PDA can be found on the floor. In this hallway, another Supply Crate and another abandoned PDA can be found beside a rusty Bulkhead.

Outside, there are several exterior growbeds with fully-grown Marblemelons and Chinese Potato Plants. Southeast of the main base, another abandoned PDA can be found lying on the ground in front of a small archway.

Observatory A Inside on the left, there is a Supply Crate with an abandoned PDA beside it. In the Observatory, there is an Interior Growbed containing a variety of plants, including a Lantern Tree.

Observatory B Inside there are two Composite Plant Pots, one with a Chinese Potato Plant and one with a Marblemelon. In the Observatory, there is a chair and a desk with an abandoned PDA on it.

Data Downloads

“ PAUL: This island is a godsend! Look out of the window. No predators... Fresh food... MARGUERIT: No building materials... nothing left of the ship... And your kid says we're gonna starve without more growbeds. Speak up, kid. BART: It's true, father. The natural growth rates are too slow to keep supporting us. MARGUERIT: All I'm sayin' is, ocean's got us surrounded. No use hiding. Sooner or later we'll get our feet wet. PAUL: The rest of your life may have been a fight, Maida, but I've made my decision. You want to forfeit your emergency pay to take a swim, go ahead. MARGUERIT: Believe me, I'm thinkin' on it. ” —Degasi Voice Log #1 - Habitation Location

“ PAUL: Son, I said wait for the storm to pass. Your life's more valuable to me than a plant patch. BART: You stopped being in charge when the ship you were captaining sunk! PAUL: I'll stop being in charge when you take charge of yourself! MARGUERIT: Say, Chief. Chief! PAUL: What?! MARGUERIT: Do you know how to drain those growbeds of 40 tons of storm water? Or how to conjure food from the air? PAUL: I know how to prioritize. MARGUERIT: I'm just sayin', if that's so, what's your boy's life worth to you today, if tomorrow you're gonna be so hungry you start wondering what he tastes like? Let him go deal with the plants. PAUL: Son, go deal with the plants. [Bart Torgal has disembarked the habitat.] PAUL: Interfere with my family again and when rescue arrives I will leave you here. Do you understand me? MARGUERIT: No rescue coming, Chief. Not in time. And no stayin' here, neither. This rain keeps falling, sooner or later this place'll be buried. Only choice we got is whether to get buried with it. ” —Degasi Voice Log #2 - Storm!

“ MARGUERIT: You see, Chief? You brought us to this sodden planet. Told us we'd see a lush payday. Now what do we got, some 6 weeks later? A dead crew. A habitat that's half buried. Food washed away. PAUL: I suppose the executive decisions would be better left to someone with your extensive experience of hitting people in the face? MARGUERIT: I know enough not to take unscheduled detours to uncharted planets. That's something you don't want to learn the hard way. PAUL: Easy to judge a decision in hindsight. Harder to come up with a plan of your own. MARGUERIT: Got one already. We take what we can carry and hunker down in a cave somewhere. I scouted a site. Couple hundred meters deep. Lots of metal deposits. PAUL: How do you imagine we'd live? MARGUERIT: With ready access to building materials? Like damn queens. Couple of water filters, a bioreactor, fresh fish... But Chief, we'll eat seaweed salad and drink our own piss if that's what it takes. All that matters is: do you got something better? PAUL: Send the coordinates to my PDA. I'll review your proposal. ” —Degasi Voice Log #3 - Aftermath

“ PAUL: What is that thing? MARGUERIT: I don't know. I found it outside, in the sand. PAUL: Part of another ship? MARGUERIT: None I've ever seen. BART: It's not even scratched. PAUL: Don't fool around with it, it might be worth something. MARGUERIT: Stand down, Chief, if it were going to crumble to dust it woulda done so when I picked it up. BART: It's glowing. PAUL: We're not the first people to come to this planet. MARGUERIT: People. Maybe. Could be aliens. Could be the damn sea monsters for all we know. One thing for sure: we ain't gonna find out by stayin' here. ” —Degasi Voice Log #4 - Curious Discovery

“ Chief's log, five weeks since the crash. The only other survivors are my son, Bart, and Maida, the cut-price mercenary I commissioned for the journey. After days drifting in the lifepod, rain hammering the roof, the weather cleared and we washed up here. I had Maida salvage the Degasi wreck, set Bart to finding us a stable source of food. His education is paying off sooner than I'd anticipated. Our only problem is Maida. She says the weather's going to turn. I say she's finding excuses to risk our lives. I imagine she's not gone a week in her life without a physical altercation, and she's itching for a fight. In every judgment she makes things go from bad to worse. If she had my experience she'd have more faith. Humans have spent millennia specializing in how to shackle nature to our will. This planet won't cause us any new problems. My one task now is to keep us alive, as comfortably as possible, until the insurance company arranges rescue. In this part of space that could be months, or even years. ” —Paul Torgal's Log #1 - Marooned

“ This is the first time I've seen sunlight in months. After all that time in the deep I'd been dreaming of it. Now that I'm back here, I'm finding it hard to enjoy alone. Father was right: we should never have left this place. We shouldn't have gone so deep. They do not want us down there. Despite my best efforts ill-health is taking hold of me. The visions are getting worse. Marguerit and father are now part of the ecosystem of this incredible planet. It's reassuring to know that when I go, I'll join them. Until then... well, there's always the view. ” —Bart Torgal's Log #3 - Return From the Deep

Achievement

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Spoiler alert: The following section contains story related material.

Seaside Living with an Ocean View Find the Degasi habitat on the floating island

How to obtain: The player has to discover Degasi Seabase on the Floating Island.

Jellyshroom Cave Base (Base 2)

Overview

The second Seabase built by the Degasi crew, located within the Jellyshroom Cave. Away from the main base, four smaller outposts are present: most are just bare Foundations, while the furthest has a couple of destroyed Modules. These each have small amount of resources and/or Fragments. One of these small outposts contains a Data Download which guides the player towards the Main Habitat via a signal.

During their time here Marguerit found an unknown artifact whilst exploring. They came to realize that whatever shot down the Degasi would also do the same to a rescue ship. Marguerit was determined to investigate further, much to Paul's disapproval.

The seabase proved to be structurally unsound and the Degasi survivors eventually abandoned it, moving on to construct the Deep Grand Reef base. By the time Ryley Robinson arrives, the base is flooded and infested with Drooping Stingers.

Exterior

Outside of the entrance, an abandoned PDA can be found on the ground near the giant Jellyshroom. Containers located outside the base will often have Stasis Rifle fragments inside them, and Fragments of the Thermal Plant and Nuclear Reactor can spawn on the ground in front of the base as well.

Interior

A spotlight can be found near the entrance. Inside the broken I Compartment there is an abandoned PDA. Inside the Multipurpose Room, there are several chairs, desks and a Water Filtration Machine on the wall directly opposite the entrance. Two abandoned PDAs can be found.