(Side note: Aftermath shows that Aegis VII also survived the explosion.) The necromorphs turned into the sludge (as stated by audio logs in Dead Space 2), so Nicole doesn’t have to fight to survive anymore, and the Necro-Nicole is a hallucination caused by Isaac being insane as revealed in Dead Space 2.ĭead Space Salvage spoilers ahead: At this point, the Ishimura drifts aimlessly into space, with almost non-existent systems, and is later retrieved by a group of Magpies (The Main cast of Dead Space: Salvage). In Dead Space 2, it is revealed that after Isaac killed the Hive mind, the Ishimura survived the planet’s explosion, which means that Nicole is still on board at this point. The real Nicole is actually back on the Ishimura fighting for her life, because the marker’s influence is no longer protecting her. Naturally, this leads to Isaac having to do everything, as Nicole really isn't there. This makes Nicole useless to The Marker, and it chooses the easier option of causing Isaac to hallucinate Nicole and get him to do what it wants. Of course, by Chapter 11, she has managed to fight the Marker's influence, just like Isaac did in Dead Space 2. After all, she is giving Isaac the Marker's advice of "make us whole". The transmissions of Nicole on the other hand are hallucinations cause by the Marker to get Isaac to trust Nicole. The Hive Mind knew this, and that's why it sent the necromorphs to kill her in this scene. The logical extension of this is that in Chapter 7, Nicole really is opening the door, but Nicole is insane due to the Marker. However, in her unconscious state, the Marker has less resistance from her subconscious and it drove her insane. Maybe the Marker was affecting her, maybe she didn't see what the contents of the syringe were, or something else happened but the end result was that she survived. She sends a message out to Isaac to show how much she loves him, and injects herself with a poison to complete the message of her suicide.Įxcept that in the midst of everything, she grabbed the wrong syringe. Nicole isn't dead.During the Necromorph attack of the Ishimura (Naturally after we see her in Extraction), Nicole decides to take her own life so that she doesn't have to live through the ordeal. While the Marker/Seal combination in Dead Space 1 was relatively consistent, presumably because it was a fairly high quality copy, the Titan Marker was much more confused, presumably because it was more poorly made. This has caused the two psychic entities to be partially merged, despite their diametrically opposed natures, and thus, essentially, schizophrenic. The real problem arises from the fact that copies of the Marker were made- imperfect, man-made copies that didn't understand the fundamental makeup of the combined artifact, and thus recreated both the original Marker and the additional seals in unison, as a single piece. The psychic influence from the seal is much more complex but narrow- it can only affect one or two people at a time, and it gives them complex hallucinations of dead loved ones that give them advice or guidance. The Hive Mind psychic influence tends to be basic but broad- it makes everyone in the radius suicidal and violently psychotic, so that there are more dead bodies. There is the Marker's Necromorphic Hive Mind, which wants to spread the Necromorph infection, and then there is what was placed there by the precursors, which wants to contain the Necromorphs. The reason why the psychic influence of the Marker seems so contradictory is because there are, in fact, two distinctly different entities present. The Dead Space effect helps keep the Necromorphs contained while it is buried, so that none of the bacteria or worms and whatnot that come in direct contact with the marker get converted. The carvings on the outside, which describe the Necromorph DNA, are basically a hazardous material warning, complete with a detailed description of the contents, and which human researches only tend to be able to partially translate (continually missing some of the important bits, like "Recommended Containment Protocols" and "Why you shouldn't let this get loose"). For whatever reason, these precursors couldn't or wouldn't destroy the Black Marker, and instead, they sealed it away on Earth- modifying it with the external carvings, the base, and some other things which create the Dead Space effect and the additional psychic effects (see below). The Marker is Sealed Evil in a Leaky CanSo, however many millennium ago, the Black Marker and it's Necromorph-generating properties existed, and was fought against by some form of precursors.
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