He was staring at the broken sea dragon skeleton when his PDA screen shattered into a cascade of green code. A message appeared, not in English, but in raw hexadecimal.
ERROR: ENTITY "PLAYER" NOT FOUND. INITIATING ANTI-TAMPER. igg games subnautica
He couldn't move his right arm. He couldn't open his base. The lifepod was just a wireframe in the distance. The triangle glided forward, silent and absolute. He was staring at the broken sea dragon