URSULA CONTACT

[subnauticmods]

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URSULA CONTACT
URSULA is usually available for brief contact. Consider this her inbox. Although she may be busy ICly doing something at the time, she can usually spare some time to answer something.

Alternately, you can link to a thread where she is being called upon. Note that she may ignore these calls or contacts dependent on her mood. Don't worry if she ignores you once or twice, as she will sometimes comment on open posts or make broadcasts to everyone.

Please label the day and time of the contact in the subject header.

For those curious, her voice sounds similar to this.

If any players wish to contact Naoko and her group, they are free to use this page. They will have to take the three hour trip by air or sea as there is currently no long-range communication in place for them. Please specify in the header that it is Naoko you are trying to reach and not URSULA, in this case, as well as labeling the date you are contacting the group.

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[subnauticmods]

Yes of course you may! Hello, Chihiro, how may I help you?

[onethousen]

[ ... she smiles? At least a little. ]

I wanted to ask... do you knew how big this planet is compared to Earth?

[subnauticmods]

This planet is called a Super-Earth. It has a radius of 1.6 times that of Earth. It inhabits what we refer to as the Goldilocks Zone around its home star, meaning it is capable of conditions similar to that of Earth.

[onethousen]

Wow. Um, thank you!

[ Her eyes widen as she tries to imagine the sheer size of this planet. Even bigger than Earth? ]

Is that Goldilocks like the little girl and the bears?

[subnauticmods]

It is, yes! It's named that because Goldilocks needed something in the middle of extremes, not too hot or cold. While life has been found to exist in many forms in many places, when we look for something similar to us, it should have similar conditions.

[onethousen]

That makes sense. That was all I wanted to know, too! At least for right now. I was talking with D.Va and realised neither one of us knew how big this whole world was, or how much we've explored.

... How much have we looked at so far?

[ Like. Have they at least covered Japan's worth. Right? ]

[subnauticmods]

Hmm... If I had to judge roughly, we've covered an area within a 100 mile radius. To put that in perspective... At its widest, Japan is 143 miles from one side to the other.

[onethousen]

[ URSULA you manage to hurt her heart a little, though in a mostly good way. Chihiro actually ends up holding both her hands over her sternum, pressed against her chest. Ah... hearing her country's name from someone else (other than her roommate) just kind of hits hard for a kid seriously not used to being away from home. ]

I see... that's really big.

[ To her. To her it is really really big. Compared to a whole world though... ]

We've got so much more left to investigate. Are we really supposed to look at a whole world? I feel like that's going to take a really long time...

[subnauticmods]

Oh, no no! Certainly not the whole world. Just a small sliver of the world. We still have so much around us and below us to look at after all!

[onethousen]

Below us?

[subnauticmods]

Oh yes, I mean, the ocean is very deep. There's always more to discover by going deeper.

[onethousen]

Is it safe for us to go lower, though? Um... I mean, don't people kind of... we can't handle it? I don't even know if robots can. Or... what about cameras? Robot-submarine cameras?

[ Really it's just not sounding appealing to dive down deep into the darkness without... safety plans. That and she maaaay be thinking "what was that thing about the Titanic." Big movies just a few years ago for her! ]

[subnauticmods]

Oh yes, we have the technology to safely go lower! We might need to build waystations or other, smaller bases as settling points so people can work easier in those depths instead of always coming back here. But it would be possible! And very safe, I promise.

[onethousen]

You promise promise? Because I don't want anyone getting hurt if it's important that we go down really deep.

[ This feels like such a bad idea, and psychologically, being trapped under all that pressure in the darkness confined to a small space as the only safety had against the immenseness of what looms overhead...

... it's not a very natural position for most people to find themselves in. Or most humans to find themselves in. Chihiro visibly squares her shoulders. ]

If we're making this world okay for people to live on, URSULA, what's down there that we need to find?

[subnauticmods]

I promise promise. I don't have a heart to cross but I cross my metaphorical heart for you.

As for what's there, there might be important resources. It's easy to forget how much people need to live. Humans spend so much time working hard just to gather all the resources they need. We can salvage for a while up here but there might be important plants, minerals, metals and gases down lower.

Why, just think of how much goes into making a simple notebook! We would have to do so much right now to make a notebook. But the more resources we have, the more we can build to create easier ways of living.

[onethousen]

I see... though, URSULA? Have we asked the planet how it feels about that? Or... thought about if we should do all of that?

[subnauticmods]

Hmm, well, it's a planet but I understand what you mean. I think humans have a habit of not asking for permission. I don't think Earth ever got much of a say in anything, for example.

[onethousen]

Yeah. I guess.. I feel like Earth had humans, and humans helped give life to a lot of things, but we also helped to hurt things. Even the things we made. So... we need to be responsible. I'm just not sure what that means here, when um. Yeah. I'm not sure what it means.

[ She pauses. ]

URSULA-san, do you know about the dreams people have here?

[subnauticmods]

I do know about them. I'm unable to experience them myself though since I can't sleep or dream.

[onethousen]

Have people talked about how things look like over there?

[ She's not sure where to aim a questioning look, so she just... keeps doing as she's been doing. ]

[subnauticmods]

They've said it's quite beautiful and sometimes dangerous.

[onethousen]

Mm, it's both, I think. Have they talked about what this place looks like from there? I don't know what the best words are to say... it's like seeing a scar on this place. It's a scar that gets better when more of the natural stuff comes in, but it's really jarring to see compared to what's natural here.

[subnauticmods]

That's so strange... I wonder why? Scars are usually from something with a great impact. That fits with a ship crashing of course. Sometimes burns scar too if I remember correctly.

[onethousen]

I'm not sure. Maybe the world doesn't know how to recognise things that can't sing along with it?

[ Singing is not the word she really wants, but the sense of unity in the dream world is hard for her to translate. ]

It might be like... scars on the heart. Like when something hurts you really badly, but it's not like your body got hurt. Just here.

[ She holds her hand over her heart. ]

[subnauticmods]

A scar on your heart... That's very poetic. I suppose it means emotional damage? I'm not sure how you fix something like that though. But if you say it gets better with nature, then you might actually know how to fix it after all.