History Headscratchers / DeadSpace3

** It is possible that we have no idea what Stasis does to the human body, of note remember that in game nobody has been "stasised" except from GameplyAndStorySegregation towards enemy combatants, my theory is that Issac/Carvers' stasis modules are actually overpowered, due to (in Issacs' case at least) being jury-rigged from a medical grade stasis unit, for all we know stasis actually causes something akin to complete organ shutdown in the manner Issac uses it. just a theory however but it would at least make sense of why the numerous times Issac/Carver didn't just Stasis a problem, like Norton or Danik.

** Suddenly this sounds a lot like JurassicPark, with the Unitologists filling in as Nedry.

** 1) Sovereign Colonies is as old as EarthGov's cover-up and even if not had independently discovered the Markers. 2) They saw that markers, aside from potentially false uses as a power source, were driving people nutso and that while their opponents in EarthGov were corrupt enough that billions of deaths are utterly irrelevant to their interests, S.C.A.F. and their civilian counterparts in the Sovereign Colongies government wholeheartedly disagree with that thinking.

--> '''Norton''':[[spoiler: "(Firing warning shots at Carver) [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold STAND DOWN SERGEANT]]!(Turns to Isaac) [[ItsAllMyFault THIS IS ALL YOUR FUCKING FAULT]]! [[EveryoneCanSeeIt SHE DOESN`T LOVE YOU]]!"'''*Bang*''']]

* It's been 3 games. Are we ''ever'' going to learn anything more about Isaac's parents? The hidden data log at the end of the NewGamePlus in the first game gave us a lot of tantalizing plot fodder: his dad was a SpaceMarine who was classified as [[NeverFoundTheBody "missing in action"]] after going on a top-secret mission. His mother became depressed her husband's disappearance and turned to Unitology as a form of solace, and ended up ruining the family's finances by giving it all to the church. To date, she sounds like she is still alive, though she seems to be estranged from Isaac (as her reckless spending forced Isaac to go to a [[SuckySchool low-ranked university]] instead of more [[IvyLeague prestigious institutions]] that he actually was qualified for). Those details alone sound like they could go in very interesting directions.

*** 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 (for a given definition of "[[TechnicallyLivingZombie dead]]"), and became the Feeders.
*** It is heavily implied that the people in charge of the supply depots deliberately sabotaged their own food, and that others susceptible to the Markers were compelled to eat necromorph flesh. It's also entirely possible that they deliberately ''contaminated'' the food supplies with their own tissue - judging by the wall messages saying "eat of us".

*** That's great up until he has to worry about food, or when a Necromorph finally comes by and kills him (see the first game's arg: one of the ship hand's did find a nice place to hole up in, but eventually the Necromorphs figured out he was there and spent the next several hours breaking his door down).

*** The necromorphs will just get reinfected later, so as long as they don't actively destroy the entire body, they should realize the Necromorph will come back hours later.

*** It might be over-generalizing to assume this for all of them, but even if it is, cognitive dissonance and DoubleThink probably cover the rest. It goes without saying that indisputable evidence isn't always enough to change someone's beliefs, religious or otherwise. A common example, almost a cliche at this point, is someone citing Leviticus to condemn homosexuals and then being asked if they actually follow any of the other mandates in Leviticus, most of which would land someone living in western society in jail. The response is usually rationalization, not a concession that this is a hole in the logic of following a religion.

*** That said, it's not clear that SCAF had a sizeable contingent of Unitologists; most of the Unis you hear about in the first two games from logs tend to be rather obvious in their devotion (Challus Mercer, Kyne, Captain Mathius etc), whereas you don't get that in ''3''. The SCAF motto does translate to "For God and the Colonies" or similar, but there's very little Unitologist-specific religious references by the SCAF (nothing regarding Altman, for example). While they are there looking for Markers, it's purely scientific, whereas a Unitologist would be flipping out over the multitude of divine relics on the planet; I got the feeling that Unitology didn't became enshrined as the dominant religion until after [=EarthGov=] won the war (keep in mind, theres substantial overlap between the upper echelons of both organizations).
**** That being said, there is still no evidence for or against other religions still existing, just that Unitology is the fastest growing religion there is. Keep in mind that religions say the same thing today and they are usually referring to a percentage increase of their previous numbers which is misleading. Say Unitology grew by a hundred percent margin in its first year. That could be going from 100 people to 200. So, yeah, they could be growing the "fastest," but that doesn't mean much in that context.

*** [[spoiler:In the last level of the game, the Brethren Moon throws what looks like a (fleshy) Marker at you. Thing is; necromorphs pop out of them. That means that Brethren Moons can create Markers. The Black Marker could be a Marker created from a Brethren Moon.. This also means that a Brethren moon may have visited (Earth?) at some point in the past.]]
**** [[spoiler:That just raises another question! If the Brethren Moons make Markers to cause others to make Brethren Moons, how did the first Brethren Moon come about?]]
**** Now, I have no idea, but the Necromorph in its basest form is some kind of bacterium with virus-like properties. Who knows where it came from? It might have been a science experiment GoneHorriblyWrong. It might have been part of a planet's biosphere that an ancient spacefaring species accidentally gave access to the stars. The thing is, we don't know, and we don't exactly ''need'' to know. That's something for the expanded universe to explain, and chances are there's no way anyone in the Dead Space character lineup, living or dead, that could know.
***** So it's entirely possible the virus was the result of a random mutation in an alien disease that cascaded into making the first Convergence Event? What kind of aliens were they, Leviathans? Flood? the Engineers from Prometheus?
*** Another possibility is that [[spoiler: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.]]

*** Possibly FridgeBrilliance. Perhaps the description refers not to the model, but the longer-running series of suits. Perhaps the same company that made the [=CEC=] [=RIG=] from ''1'' was from a centuries old company, and also created the Antique [=RIG=] from ''2'' that was an older model of Engineering suits. Presumably, that same company also invented the [=RIG=] technology. Think of it like the Volkswagen Beetle: the original model is old, and the series has been redesigned constantly, but each carries the legacy of the "Beetle." The Engineering suit is just the latest in a long series.

*** The Titan Station outbreak was more of a FalseFlagOperation. Unitologists had infiltrated [=EarthGov=] so thoroughly that their upper echelons were filled with Unitology's upper echelons. Unitlogists played both sides; they authorized the rapid creation and distribution of Markers before the risks were apprent, then they had a specialist (Vandal from ''Mobile'') release preserved specimens and then fooled her into opening the gates to the residential area, while also stonewalling containment efforts to maximize how many people were infected.

*** Suddenly this sounds a lot like JurassicPark, with the Unitologists filling in as Nedry.

*** Before anyone asks, it really makes no sense for [[IncendiaryExponent players to burst into flame upon contact]]. It's probable that the programmers just gave it fire's coding as an environmental hazard, and called it a day.
*** Also, the suits lying around that level actually seems like a bit of FridgeBrilliance and FridgeHorror. If an airtight [=RIG=] offers no protection, it's likely that a trenchoat and cask masks will be the same. But I also recall that workplaces often install fake thermostats that serve only to fool workers that they changed the temperature, so presumably S.C.A.F. did the same. They serve only to make the staff feel safer, but if a situation actually called for gassing, it would be more important to contain the threat than saving anyone inside.

*** Dr. Serrano's logs explain the [[BenevolentPrecursors benevolent aliens]] left behind a language crash-course. This might have just been good planning, but it can also be taken as a sign that they expected to be wiped out. But, it is convenient for the sake of the story that they were able to build a city-size doomsday device and not put what was literally the final piece into place.

*** Which still doesn't explain why humans never found any of their structures on uninfected planets. Supposedly, they only died a few thousand years after the event occurred. The game mentions millions of years, but that's how long it took them to discover the Markers, not how long ago they died off. Still, that would mean their structures could have disappeared as shown in Series/LifeAfterPeople, but they KNEW the Markers existed and attempted to warn other species of the threat. They couldn't establish some beacon or machine on another planet to draw attention to the fact? Even if they had a few years before extinction, surely they would have been smart enough to realize that once the other species arrived on their frozen planet, Tau Volantis, that the alien species could fall under Marker influence and that they should be warned BEFORE they got there if at all possible. Nothing is ever found of their supposedly huge civilization.
**** IIRC, Seranno never said there was evidence that the Aliens had spread all over the galaxy, that was just a theory of his, considering the same thing was happening to humanity. Even if they did have a huge civilization and no evidence was found of it... well space is really freaking big, so it's not that surprising.

* In the prologue, we see SCAF personell using fully functional R.I.G.s and holographic display systems. The same is true of the other "vintage" suits you find on Tau Volantis. However, the Suit Kiosk description for the [[spoiler: CEC Engineering Suit]] states that it was among, if not the first to use that kind of technology. Is the [[spoiler: Engineering Suit]] really that old? Also, why do the 200 year old suits have [[CollapsibleHelmet collapsible helmets]], while all the suits from VideoGame/DeadSpace - set 200 years on, have standard helmets?

AND that Brethren Moons [[spoiler: Actually need Earth for anything. Unless our Moon is a Brethren Moon as well.]]

** Not sure if that's rhetorical or not. But if we're assuming that what happens in ''Awakened'' is actually happening, and not some crazy hallucination that a dying Isaac is having "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"-style, then [[spoiler: Earth is being devastated by multiple Brother Moons while the population is chomped by Necromorphs, and who knows what is about to happen with Isaac and Carver.]]

** Could you be more specific?

* [[spoiler: Just what was up with the ending to the Awakened DLC?!]]

** That's... a really good question. I have a few theories; 1) Given that the Moon was shown sucking parts of the planet during Convergence, it's possible the outer shell is actually made of rock to disguise it (though since it's incomplete, it doesn't explain how they would miss the massive hole that would likely be filled with flesh). 2) Since the military were dead set on finding the source of the Marker signals, it's possible and fairly likely that they focused all their efforts on unlocking the secrets of Tau Volantis since that was where the massive amounts of Marker signals were coming from. 3) It's possible they did send probes over, but the Moon's Marker EMP effects (which they do have, check the original ending for Dead Space or Dead Space Liberation) could have shut them down before they got close enough and those could have been dismissed as effects from the Marker signals. 4) The Markers could have been sending subtle signals into everyone's brains saying "this is a normal moon, nothing unusual about it, just go turn on the Machine on the planet instead." 5) They ultimately did record that in their logs, but when Scenario 5 was enacted, they destroyed most of the information about it. #5 seems like the most likely event though all of them are admittedly rather weak justifications.

** That's... a really good question. I have a few theories; 1) Given that the Moon was shown sucking parts of the planet during Convergence, it's possible the outer shell is actually made of rock to disguise it (though since it's incomplete, it doesn't explain how they would miss the massive hole that would likely be filled with flesh). 2) Since the military were dead set on finding the source of the Marker signals, it's possible and fairly likely that they focused all their efforts on unlocking the secrets of Tau Volantis since that was where the massive amounts of Marker signals were coming from. 3) It's possible they did send probes over, but the Moon's Marker EMP effects (which they do have, check the original ending for Dead Space or Dead Space Liberation) could have shut them down before they got close enough and those could have been dismissed as effects from the Marker signals. 4) The Markers could have been sending subtle signals into everyone's brains saying "this is a normal moon, nothing unusual about it, just go turn on the Machine on the planet instead." 5) They ultimately did record that in their logs, but when Scenario 5 was enacted, they destroyed all information about it.