History Headscratchers / DeadSpace3

* Is this game really asking me to believe that no one on the mining colony thought to send probes to the broken moon, just to see if anything of value was on it? They would have figured out it was made of meat almost immediately. Sure, they probably wouldn't have actually done anything about it... except talk about it in their omnipresent audio and text logs. Seems to me like "hey, we have the only moon in the galaxy made entirely of meat" would be a great conversation piece.

* Feeders are the result of humans ingesting necromorph flesh due to lack of food. However, the flesh was still infected and proceeded to warp them into necromorphs, presumably killing them in the process. Meat is often cooked at certain temperatures to remove bacteria and viruses. What I want to know is did they actually cook the flesh first before eating it or did they just eat it raw? Considering the toughness of the disease, would cooking it over a long period of time be able to kill it? What happens if the necromorph flesh were to be cooked when reanimation and death were very recent?

* Why the hell did Carver hand over the Codex to Danik? I mean, he said himself that he wanted to finish it, to see the threat eliminated, yet he just shot all of that straight to hell! "There's more than one kind of right." The hell does that mean? If he really wanted to play hero, he could have shot Danik while Isaac stasised both him and Ellie. The entire ending is Carver's fault because he did what he did, but WHY?

*** Another possibility is that the original Moon was formed by a species that ''willingly'' underwent Convergence (minus necromorphs) as a way to increase their own power. That Moon then began spreading Markers, produced internally, to other planets to create more Moons. The Brethren Moons mention being part of a "network", which suggests that their minds are linked and that the more of them there are, the more powerful the group as a whole is.

* Tucker Edwards made tally marks on the floor. This probably represents how many days he survived. [[http://deadspace.wikia.com/wiki/Tucker_Edwards According to the wiki]], the tally comes out to 3,870 days. That's over ten years and seven months. The wiki brings up some good points about how it is strange that this is possible. (From most possible to least possible.) How did Edwards stay uninfected and how did the necromorphs not find and kill him by breaking in the vents? It's not like the explosives in the vents were very powerful if you can melee them. How in the world did Edwards entertain himself? Was it that he took up writing or did he use the computers for that? Finally, after a few days, everyone else was probably dead and Tucker stayed there for ten years? He's a pilot and there was a shuttle, however crappy, in the aft of the ship he could've used to escape, so why didn't he just leave? Even if he had just waited a year or even a few months, the necromorphs probably would've been dormant by then.

*** Now that the game is out, it's the "desperation" explanation. Turns out, Necromorphic flesh is edible, but it tended to drive its eaters insane over the course of weeks. Eventually, they all died, and became the Feeders.

** As for why the Aliens all died out, remember that their empire had Markers everywhere. At that point, it's likely that most colonies faced CripplingOverspecialization, with entire planets relying on food imports from lightyears away. Even if the Necromorphs didn't reach them, there would still be hordes of zealots and murderous insane that could do the job. If they destroyed enough infrastructure, starports, held genocides, or even began to use [=WMDs=], their civilization would easily have be reduced past the point of recovery, likely dying out slowly over the next few centuries.

** As for why the Aliens all died out, remember that their empire had Markers everywhere. At that point, it's likely that most colonies faced CripplingOverspecialization, with entire planets relying on food imports from lightyears away. Even if the Necromorphs didn't reach them, there would still be hordes of zealots and murderous insane that could do the job. If they destroyed enough infrastructure, starports, held genocides, or even began to use [=WMDs=], their civilization would easily have be reduced past the point of recovery, likely dying out slowly over the next few centuries.

** Look at the moon again, specifically the hole part, and you can see what looks like layers. Convergence events are triggered by reaching a threshold of available biomass, and ''X'' numbers of bodies are in one layer. The absolute minimum crates a small sphere, and with more biomass more layers are made, each wrapping around the other one (which is why the Moon looks damaged, the layer it was on wasn't completed. Presumably, the potential Titan Convergence Moon would have been smaller, due to having only around 800,000 people, but by then that Moon would just travel to other population centers, eat them and grow, and continue until it would be invincible against any attack and eat the rest of mankind.

* One of the Alien Artifacts gives you a log wherein Dr. Serrano claims that there is much evidence that the alien civilization that lived there were not bound to that planet but in fact had a large interstellar empire. So how did a convergence event that hadn't spread beyond one planet and the flash-freezing of said planet kill them all? Did every alien in the galaxy return to Tau Voltanis before the convergence event to witness the activation of the Marker and/or to help fight the necromorphs? It seems really unlikely to me that a widespread space-faring civilization could have been wiped out by a plague and sudden ice-age that only affected one planet.

* Now that we know that convergence is when a Marker sucks up all the organic matter on a planet to form a moon-sized necromorph, doesn't that imply that the convergence event that nearly occurred in Dead Space 2 was doomed to fail regardless? The Sprawl had a population in the single digit millions. That's a lot of dead bodies but not enough to form a brother moon. What happens when a Convergence event doesn't grab enough bodies? Does the half-formed moon hunt down more settements to absorb until it completes itself? Or maybe that's how a Hivemind is formed?

* Was there ever any explanation given for why the Marker in the first game actively helped you contain the necromorphs and emitted a "Dead Space" field that could suppress them when amplified by the pedestal, while the Markers in the sequels instead emit a signal that powers the necromorphs and are working to spread the necromorph infections and initiate convergence events?

** The few aliens operating the machine didn't have a functional codex, so the only option available were "Freeze the planet," and hope that someone would bring a codex to finish the job. The Aliens probably expected some other Aliens to come from their own planets to do so, not several millenia and an entirely different civilization to do so.

** It's mentioned in DeadSpace2 that Unitologists don't believe in cremation or burial, and instead freeze their dead for "Convergence" (hence why the Unitology church had a cryolab in DeadSpace2). It also explains why there's bodies everywhere (such as the food freezers) on Tau Volantis, and why they even had specially marked body coffins in stock.

* The machine was all done. Why didn't the Aliens just turn it on instead of freezing their planet?