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** The relationship is a bit complex but works as follows.
*** The Marker sends out a signal that passively converts any dead tissue into necromorph flesh. This includes dust made of skin cells, hair or other body trimmings, and any other organic material that is deceased without exception.
*** This flesh in then generates a viral agent allowing the next stage of the infection to take hold. By some means it gets into a living being creating a singular necromorph usually an infector, note the presence of a corpse can skip this initial phase by converting directly to a necromorph. The virus also allows necromorph infections to spread passively beyond the limits of the Marker signal.
*** The necromorphs serve one of two functions, kill people to create corpse or inject the virus into corpses to created more necromorphs which would go on to kill more people. Any necromorph physically disabled by damage goes dormant either being reco figured for another purpose or melting into more necroflesh.
*** All of this leads to a Convergence event once a critical mass of corpses has been created which merges all those necromorphs into a singular planet sized being with a consiousness of it's own. This is a Brethren Moon, a galactic apes predator, that then generates a new Marker and deposits it onto a suitable world to begin the cycle anew.
*** The Marker sends out a signal that passively converts any dead tissue into necromorph flesh. This includes dust made of skin cells, hair or other body trimmings, and any other organic material that is deceased without exception.
*** This flesh in then generates a viral agent allowing the next stage of the infection to take hold. By some means it gets into a living being creating a singular necromorph usually an infector, note the presence of a corpse can skip this initial phase by converting directly to a necromorph. The virus also allows necromorph infections to spread passively beyond the limits of the Marker signal.
*** The necromorphs serve one of two functions, kill people to create corpse or inject the virus into corpses to created more necromorphs which would go on to kill more people. Any necromorph physically disabled by damage goes dormant either being reco figured for another purpose or melting into more necroflesh.
*** All of this leads to a Convergence event once a critical mass of corpses has been created which merges all those necromorphs into a singular planet sized being with a consiousness of it's own. This is a Brethren Moon, a galactic apes predator, that then generates a new Marker and deposits it onto a suitable world to begin the cycle anew.
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** Also of note, canonically being stabbed by an infected is not the only way to become a necromorph. The infector is just the fast way while being exposed to Marker signal will slowly convert any deceased tissue into necromorph flesh. That process is what converts dust made from dead skin cells into that meat moss that gets everywhere in each game. Those corpses leftover from the SCAF cleanup which was done based on the idea of a traditional infection converted into necromorphs slowly over time locked away never needing to move until Isaac and Carver disturbed them.
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** Besides, at this point one more ship filled with necromorphs is [[BolivianArmyEnding quite frankly]], [[EldritchAbomination the least]] [[KillEmAll of Earth's problem's right now.]]
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** Besides, at this point one more ship filled with necromorphs is [[BolivianArmyEnding quite frankly]], [[EldritchAbomination the least]] [[KillEmAll least of Earth's problem's right now.]]
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** Based on evidence from the entire franchise, including the prequel books, it may be that the markers have some sort of fail-safe program in them to try and prevent a "Premature Convergence" from occurring. We know that the ultimate purpose of the markers is to induce a civilization into creating lots of marker copies and spreading them among their population until a convergence can occur and a Brother moon forms, and it occurs when a civilization reaches it peak. So it would make sense that the markers would want a civilization to "fully mature" before activating the convergence, so in a less than ideal situation the markers may try to discourage the species from spreading the necromorphs until a more ideal time. This could explain why the Aegis VII marker wants to be placed back on the pedestal, so it can make the necromorphs and the hive mind go dormant until the "proper" time, and it also jives with details from the prequel novel Martyr, where some of the hallucinations produced by the Black Marker try to warn civilians and scientists away from the marker and to NOT start convergence, and the marker signal falls silent once it gets Altman to understand that it wants to be replicated. Overall, it seems that a lot of the issues that occur in the series are because the marker signals have a difficult time communicating with the human brain. It's mentioned in Dead Space 2 that it compels smart people to want to replicate it, but it drives less intelligent people insane, and Altman in the prequel novel likens the Marker hallucinations to an alien intelligence desperately trying to communicate with beings that are too different to really understand it. Seems that things do not go smoothly with the markers and humanity because the markers cannot effectively communicate their intentions to us without us being driven insane and/or misunderstanding them.
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** Based on evidence from the entire franchise, including the prequel books, it may be that the markers have some sort of fail-safe program in them to try and prevent a "Premature Convergence" from occurring. We know that the ultimate purpose of the markers is to induce a civilization into creating lots of marker copies and spreading them among their population until a convergence can occur and a Brother moon forms, and it occurs when a civilization reaches it peak. So it would make sense that the markers would want a civilization to "fully mature" before activating the convergence, so in a less than ideal situation the markers may try to discourage the species from spreading the necromorphs until a more ideal time. This could explain why the Aegis VII marker wants to be placed back on the pedestal, so it can make the necromorphs and the hive mind go dormant until the "proper" time, time. The Red Marker experiments were conducted on off world colonies for a reason, to minimize their impact on earth, and it they only had small colonies of probably a few thousand people to spread the infection to; not the most ideal situations for convergence. It also jives with details from the prequel novel Martyr, where some of the hallucinations produced by the Black Marker try to warn civilians and scientists people away from the marker and to NOT start convergence, and the marker signal falls silent once it gets Altman to understand that it wants to be replicated. Overall, it replicated. Evidence seems to suggest that a lot previous Necromorph outbreaks were caused by human error in spite of what the issues that occur in the series are markers want, because the marker signals have a difficult time communicating with the human brain. brain. It's mentioned in Dead Space 2 that it compels smart people to want to replicate it, but it drives less intelligent people insane, and Altman in the prequel novel likens the Marker hallucinations to an alien intelligence desperately trying to communicate with beings that are too different to really understand it. Seems that things do not go smoothly with the markers and humanity because the markers cannot effectively communicate their intentions to us without us being driven insane and/or misunderstanding them.
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** Based on evidence from the entire franchise, including the prequel books, it may be that the markers have some sort of fail-safe program in them to try and prevent a "Premature Convergence" from occurring. We know that the ultimate purpose of the markers is to induce a civilization into creating lots of marker copies and spreading them among their population until a convergence can occur and a Brother moon forms, and it occurs when a civilization reaches it peak. So it would make sense that the markers would want a civilization to "fully mature" before activating the convergence, so in a less than ideal situation the markers may try to discourage the species from spreading the necromorphs until a more ideal time. This could explain why the Aegis VII marker wants to be placed back on the pedestal, so it can make the necromorphs and the hive mind go dormant until the "proper" time, and it also jives with details from the prequel novel Martyr, where some of the hallucinations produced by the Black Marker try to warn civilians and scientists away from the marker and to NOT start convergence, and the marker signal falls silent once it gets Altman to understand that it wants to be replicated. Overall, it seems that a lot of the issues that occur in the series are because the marker signals have a difficult time communicating with the human brain. It's mentioned in Dead Space 2 that it compels smart people to want to replicate it, but it drives less intelligent people insane, and Altman in the prequel novel likens the Marker hallucinations to an alien intelligence desperately trying to communicate with beings that are too different to really understand it. Seems that things do not go smoothly with the markers and humanity because the markers cannot effectively communicate their intentions to us without us being driven insane and/or misunderstanding them.
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** It's implied that the Necromorphs are working on faulty information from the Moon, kill, make more Necros, trying to start convergence, The Moons actual messages isn't to try and ''start'' a convergence event to make a new moon, but to get to the Machine and turn it off to finish The Dormant Moon's own Convergence, but because of the moon being dormant they only have an echo of "Make us Whole" to go on, it's like if someone left a message on an crap answering machine, and instead of getting "don't bring eggs" you get "@$%}...Bring Eggs"
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** This is actually explained in game, the Markers give off a low level psychic compulsion to create more Markers, as evidenced by Isaac in 2, even if you don't want to create Markers, it will make you, even by causing hallucinations claiming you are going to destroy the Marker, also, an audio log in 2 is about a scientist waking up and finding he had made tiny markers out of materials in his bedroom, ''in his sleep''.
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[[folder:Religion and Atheism]]
So it seems that in the modern day of Dead Space, atheism is the norm and Unitology is the last major religion left. There may be hold-ons to begone days (mostly because Visercal didn't want this to turn into a religious debate), but they are minor or unimportant to the two major powers. Major General Mahad seems to be religious, though, and his religion seems to be some form of Christianity based on his reference to God. Unitology shouldn't exist yet as it was invented by some Earth Gov executives, at least, I think. So if that's the case, was Earth Gov responsible for the abandonment of religion or was it a natural process after SCAF was destroyed. It makes sense that Earth Gov may have encouraged atheism as a form of control especially once Unitologists started infiltrating the government. The Unitologists wouldn't want any competitors to their own religion. As humans are naturally inclined to seek out spiritual meaning, religion will probably never truly die and being the only religion left would benefit Unitology greatly. After all, the downtrodden and dissatisfied elements of society will always seek out spiritual meaning and guidance. Is there anything that explains how the main 3 religions, Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam, mostly died out or, at least, lost influence while Unitology formed a monopoly on belief or is this unexplained?
[[folder:Religion and Atheism]]
So it seems that in the modern day of Dead Space, atheism is the norm and Unitology is the last major religion left. There may be hold-ons to begone days (mostly because Visercal didn't want this to turn into a religious debate), but they are minor or unimportant to the two major powers. Major General Mahad seems to be religious, though, and his religion seems to be some form of Christianity based on his reference to God. Unitology shouldn't exist yet as it was invented by some Earth Gov executives, at least, I think. So if that's the case, was Earth Gov responsible for the abandonment of religion or was it a natural process after SCAF was destroyed. It makes sense that Earth Gov may have encouraged atheism as a form of control especially once Unitologists started infiltrating the government. The Unitologists wouldn't want any competitors to their own religion. As humans are naturally inclined to seek out spiritual meaning, religion will probably never truly die and being the only religion left would benefit Unitology greatly. After all, the downtrodden and dissatisfied elements of society will always seek out spiritual meaning and guidance. Is there anything that explains how the main 3 religions, Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam, mostly died out or, at least, lost influence while Unitology formed a monopoly on belief or is this unexplained?
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** The possibility of them knowing about the moon is probably higher than them not knowing. After all, it's existence might explain why Major General Mahad was so ready to start a Scenario 5 cleanup. Imagine you have a 97% completed berthen moon hanging over your head that could kill all of humanity, you got a full blown Necromorph infestation, and you have a scientist who insists he can "stop this". You may just say "fuck it" and kill everything just to be sure. After all, the Markers are known for tricking people into helping them when you think you are working against them or working towards your own interests. Mahad may have even believed that Serrano was right and they could stop it, but do you really wanna take that chance? After all, it seemed like you would have to do a dozen things in the middle of a Necromorph infestation to turn the machine fully on, but only do one thing to turn it off and doom humanity. Meanwhile the marker is driving all of your men and all the scientists insane. Are you really going to trust a scientist who "figured it all out" at the very last possible second? What are the chances that he ISN'T being manipulated by the most manipulative entity in the known universe? That machine turns off for one minute and it's over. Let's not poke the giant space god hanging above our heads and just play it safe, huh? Of course, we know now that he was wrong, but the general didn't and he was probably deep in a sunk cost fallacy. "Well, I already had 95% of the survivors killed and I don't want to think that I did that for no good reason, so I'm just going to shoot this kid that Serrano is giving orders to. They could both be compromised anyways."
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** It's also possible that he just figured escape was pointless. While a Lieutenant is still relatively low ranked, he was still a member of the SCAF military and the SCAF was busy being annihilated in a civil war that would be won by the orgization that formed Earth Gov. Riding back to Earth or any other colony in a ship broadcasting SCAF codes using SCAF channels could've marked him for death by the new government. Plus, if SCAF did survive, it was his superiors that ordered his death and the deaths of the fleet. Riding back home with SCAF in charge would lead to them vaporizing his ship to prevent Necromorph infection. For him, "better the devil you know" might be in full effect. Finally, while he didn't want to die, maybe he also didn't want to risk the infection coming back with him. After all, the Scenario 5 situation can be solved just as well if the survivors chose self-exile instead of death (assuming they could keep their sanity like Tucker could).
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** The Pack in ''Awakened'' don't resemble the Dead Space 2 kind. They look mummified and oddly proportioned. They're either aliens or old SCAF soldiers put back together poorly.
