Isaac has additional skin in the game as his wife, Doctor Nicole Brennan, is stationed aboard the ship, working on a mysterious project. Receiving a distress beacon from the USG Ishimura, engineer Isaac Clarke (our lead protagonist), Senior Security Officer Zach Hammond, Computer Specialist Kendra Daniels, Corporal Johnston and Corporal Aiden Chen are sent to board the ship and discover the source of the distress call. However, this seemingly routine planet-cracking mission appears to have met a hitch, and that's where we come in. In Dead Space's dystopian far future, humanity has exhausted Earth's natural resources, creating ships like the Ishimura to harvest other planets for their resources. Our tale takes place in the year 2508 aboard the USG Ishimura an elite spaceship known as a ' planet cracker' that has the ability to mine planets. If you want to find all of the logs and discover the Ishimura's darkest secrets for yourself, check out our Text and Audio Logs Guide for a breakdown of their locations. The Brethren Moon then reveals its formation by broadcasting a signal to its brothers, calling them to come eat the remains of the planet.It's worth noting that a lot of Dead Space's story is explained via audio and text logs.

Parts of the planet are absorbed into the moon along with its biosphere, giving it its colossal appearance. Once most of the world's inhabitants have been infested, the Markers will initiate a signal and begin the Convergence, in which a new Brethren Moon is created by the merging of the world's living, dead, and Necromorph tissue which flies into the stratosphere and fuses. Unknown to the species, the signal also has another purpose, altering necrotic tissue at the molecular level thereby reanimating corpses known as Necromorphs. Upon landing on a world, a Marker transmits an electromagnetic signal, attracting any indigenous species to the Marker, whom experience dementia or a compulsion and desire to artificially research them and create new Markers Red Markers.

Necromorphs 🐙 Brethren Moons are Lovecraftian living planetoids and the cosmic horror element in the fictional universe of the Dead Space video game franchise.īrethren Moons are moon-sized creatures that exist throughout the known cosmos, possessing vast telepathic and telekinetic powers, whom are the creators of the Black Markers which are sent across the universe, landing on various planets.

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