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Would someone please tell me?

posted 14 years ago by solidsnake1231
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I will state that I didn't pay a seond of my time to read the TEXT LOGS, but I don't know if they even explain my question. I did watch the video logs and I listened to the audio logs.

How did the Necromorphs become a part of the story? I watched the movie, & it only made it worse. Originally, I thought that the marker turned people into Necromorphs, but then I saw that flying necromorph thing that transforms dead people into necromorphs, so that idea was dead by chapter two of the first game. So I thought: what is the marker really for?

I do remember that plot twist at the end of chapter 11 where Kendra reveals that she's a government agent & that the marker is man made. What else does she say?

Are the marker and Necromorphs not connected at all? If they are, what is the connection?

[–] django_ss 14 years ago

you're not supposed to know everything yet, that's why there's a sequel coming out.

but i think it's like this,
scientists find alien made marker on earth
they go to aegis 7 and experiment on regenerating tissue or something
experiment shows the cells reanimate dead tissue
scientists build their own marker
something bad happens
the marker keeps the necromorph hive mind at bay until the usg ishimura takes it out of aegis 7

[–] KDlala 14 years ago

Big time spoilers in case anyone reading needs the warnings XD

Kendra reveals the Marker in the game, movie, and comic is not, in fact the actual Black Marker the Unitologists worship but a government made copy that has been reverse engineered (they reversed the markings). They put it on the planet (and we can assume allowed a colony to be established there) to observe its effects.

One of the key things regarding the necromorphs and the Marker is they can only infect the DEAD, which means first off they need to go about making themselves some dead bodies. The Marker does this by using hallucinations and mind tricks to manipulate people into suicide and homicide so the flying necromorphs can start infecting the bodies and turning them into other necromorphs. Where the flying creatures come from I'm not entirely sure but I think they somehow come out of the stuff that grows on the walls and in the vents.
But the driving force behind everything is the Marker.

[–] clmryan47 14 years ago

Where do all the other monsters come from though, including the pregnants, babies, scorpion tailed enemies, brutes and the enormous boss enemies in the game such as the Hive Mind itself?

[–] texhnohaxor 13 years ago

The variations of the necromorphs are just that: variations.

Different mutations within the genetic code, probably even has something to do with a persons own genetic makeup.

As for where it started, i remember reading somewhere on the wiki that one of the scientist just started to change into one, the infecter to be exact, as that was the 1st necromorph they had ever seen.

[–] slipknotmaggot666 12 years ago

The babies were obviously human at one point and somehow died and became infected. The Ishimura is a big ship so obviously there is an infirmary onboard and there's obviously some people getting freaky in their rooms. The others are all just different versions of necromprophs. Besides it beats just having to fight the same ones over and over again.

[–] BigBirdtheBum 13 years ago

The marker doesnt want to cause the an incident, it is technically the good guy. Thats why it urges isaac and dr klyne to return it to Aegis VII so it can stop the infection.

EDIT: it causes the insanity as a defence mechanism basically saying "see what i can do dont *beep* with me". But at the same time it does cause a *beep* of dead bodies to appear, and appears to inspire Unitologists to commit acts for the necromorphs. So lets hope some of this will be expalined in dead space 2.

[–] Moesislak 13 years ago

Did the original marker do this on Earth? Do the Unitologists worship this one because it's just like the one they worship on earth?...cause otherwise it doesn't make sense why they worship something they've never seen.

[–] BigBirdtheBum 13 years ago

The original marker did the same thing on earth. Originally the first marker was worshipped due to it being an alien artifact, and the fact that the amrker made peopel go crazy (Dead Space: Martyr). Most of the first Uniontologists were killed during a necromorph outbreak on earth. The governemnt basically sets up the unitologist relgion after the incident and kills michael altman, essentially making him a martyr.

I expalined it pretty poorly, so go on dead space wiki and read a bit, some great pages there.

[–] sirjeal 13 years ago

I actually feel like the Original Marker was more sinister then the Red Marker. The original Marker overrall wanted to cause Necromorph outbreaks... but there were some people who resisted the effects, like Altman, and for some reason the apparitions that he saw wanted him to destroy the marker. (The apparitions for others wanted them to die and join the convergence, AKA scientist sticking his arm with Necromorph goo.)

The Red Mark (reverse Engineered and modified.) I feel was created for repelling the Necromorphs and keeping them in check. (The opposite of the original.) That's why more of the apparitions wanted the marker to be moved back into place and so forth, and why it repelled Necromorphs.

-Spoilers about Dead Space 2 below.-

It seems that the marker in Dead Space 2 that's man made is more like the original on a larger scale.

[–] dgk-all-day 13 years ago

Well in the novel it was more broad with how the Marker effected people. However many people were effected by the Red Marker in the same fashion as the original and carried out suicides, murders, etc. While I believe there is a difference between the two, I don't think the Red Marker is less sinister than the Black Marker. This is also with consideration to when the Red Marker saved Alissa Vincent from a Necromorph onslaught. On the other hand, maybe the Red Marker had a premanition about her sending a distress becon and message that would obviously lure people. Thats a big speculation though.

sorry I tuned you out

[–] Symarip 11 years ago

I know it's old, but man your post is too funny if you're religious. :P

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