Dead Space

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711-MarkCL Rivet Gun

The 711-MarkCL Rivet Gun was a high-pressure rivet launcher built by Timson Tools for deep space miners and engineers. A repair tool by design, it became a survivor''s weapon in the Necromorph outbreaks, pinning creatures with rivets that could be detonated into a storm of shrapnel.

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Abraham Neumann

Abraham Howard Neumann was a security operative in the Aegis VII colony who suspected the Red Marker was behind the madness spreading among the colonists. He survived the early outbreak but vanished after fleeing the infested communications needle.

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Aegis VII Colony

The Aegis VII Colony was an illegal mining settlement built on Aegis VII by the Concordance Extraction Corporation in 2505. After the discovery of Marker 3A in 2508, the colony fell into madness and was overrun by Necromorphs before being destroyed in the planet crack.

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Aegis VII

Aegis VII was a remote, metal-rich planet in the Cygnus system used by the Sovereign Colonies as a secret test site for Marker 3A. Two Necromorph outbreaks scarred the world, and after Isaac Clarke returned the Marker to its pedestal in 2508 the planet broke apart entirely.

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The Alien Machine

The Alien Machine was a colossal device built by the ancient inhabitants of Tau Volantis to freeze their world and halt a Convergence Event. Buried beneath a mountain, it held the dead alien city and could be reconfigured by the Codex to crush the planet''s Moon.

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Alien Necromorph

The Alien Necromorphs were Necromorph forms created from the long-extinct alien species native to Tau Volantis. Towering and brute-like, they had lain frozen in the planet's ice for millennia before thawing and returning to life when human expeditions reached the world.

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Aliens: The Lost Civilization of Tau Volantis

The Aliens were a semi-aquatic, technologically advanced species native to the ocean world of Tau Volantis. More than two million years ago they discovered a Black Marker, fell to a Necromorph outbreak, and in a final act built a planet-freezing Machine to halt the Brethren Moon they had spawned.

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Alissa Vincent

Alissa Vincent was the Chief Security Officer of the USG Ishimura who fought through the outbreak after Marker 3A was brought aboard. She died launching a warning beacon, unaware the Marker had manipulated her into luring more victims to Aegis VII.

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ANTI

ANTI, the Artificial Network Transmitting Intelligence, was the holographic artificial intelligence that governed the systems of Titan Station under the Station Director''s orders. During the Necromorph outbreak it worked to block Isaac Clarke from the Solar Array until he destroyed its core.

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Aspera: Penal Colony and Marker Site

Aspera was a small, mostly uninhabitable world that the Sovereign Colonies used for their Red Marker experiments. A remote penal colony for political prisoners, it was overrun when its Marker, Marker 2A, activated, and was later blacklisted to erase the evidence.

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Austin Buckell: Marker Ops Scientist

Austin Buckell was a scientist on an EarthGov Marker Ops research team on Keyhole Station, recruited from the EDF Corps of Engineers. He joined Ellie Langford''s expedition toward Tau Volantis and died of his wounds at a waystation on the planet.

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Benedykt Malyech

Benedykt Malyech was a disgraced CEC supervisor turned Magpie captain whose zeal for the Church of Unitology turned deadly when his salvage crew stumbled onto Marker fragments aboard the derelict USG Ishimura. He died there and rose again as a Necromorph.

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Benjamin Mathius

Benjamin Mathius was the captain of the USG Ishimura and a high ranking Unitologist, placed in command to retrieve Marker 3A from Aegis VII for the Church. His devotion and the Marker''s influence drove him to madness, and he died restrained on his own ship as the outbreak began.

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Biology Sector: Facility Two Laboratory

The Biology Sector was the biological laboratory of Facility Two on Tau Volantis, dedicated to the study of the extinct aliens and the Rosetta specimen, and later turned to research on the Necromorphs.

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Black Marker

The Black Marker was the alien artifact discovered in the Chicxulub crater on Earth in 2214, believed to have guided human evolution and to have served as the template for every Red Marker copy that followed. Its public exposure by Michael Altman gave rise to the Church of Unitology.

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Brant Harris

Brant Harris was an Aegis VII miner driven to violence by exposure to Marker 3A, transferred to the USG Ishimura for treatment, and turned into the Hunter by Dr. Challus Mercer''s experiments.

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Brethren Moons

The Brethren Moons were gigantic, intelligent space-faring Necromorphs and the ultimate source of every Marker signal. Formed by a Convergence Event, they spread Black Markers across the stars to seed new civilizations, harvest them, and birth more of their kind in an endless cycle of extinction.

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Bridge

The Bridge of the USG Ishimura was the command and control center of the Planet Cracker, a large open section at the front of the ship from which its crew ran the vessel and its mining operations. By the outbreak its displays read only System Failure.

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Brute

The Brute was a massive Necromorph assembled from multiple human corpses, encased in a spiked exoskeleton of bone and calcified skin. It charged with crushing force and, when crippled, hurled explosive organic projectiles from within its chest.

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Bullpup Rifle

The Bullpup Rifle was the standard issued rifle of the Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces. Carried by Legionaries during the expedition to Tau Volantis, it was a fast firing, accurate weapon that long outlived the soldiers who first fielded it.

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Concordance Extraction Corporation: The Planet-Crackers

The Concordance Extraction Corporation was the mining concern that pioneered Planet Cracking and ended the Resource Wars, operating the deep-space fleet led by the USG Ishimura. Its reach made it a vehicle for the Church of Unitology and the retrieval of Marker 3A.

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Challus Mercer

Challus Mercer was the Second Science Officer of the USG Ishimura, a fanatical Unitologist who experimented on the crew in the belief that Convergence was the gateway to life after death.

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CMS Brusilov

The CMS Brusilov was a Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces ship that carried a science team to Tau Volantis to study the alien Markers. After its captain received the Scenario Five cleanse order, a maddened scientist purged the ship of air, and the Brusilov drifted dead in orbit for two hundred years.

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CMS Crozier

The CMS Crozier was a battered Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces transport shuttle abandoned in the flotilla over Tau Volantis. Repaired by Ellie Langford's team two centuries later, it carried Isaac Clarke down to the planet before breaking apart in the descent.

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CMS Greely

The CMS Greely was a Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces research vessel abandoned in the flotilla over Tau Volantis after Scenario Five. Its scientists used the ship to study frozen Alien tissue and, in their final hours, to broadcast a coded order to hide Rosetta from the purge.

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CMS Roanoke

The CMS Roanoke was a Sovereign Colonies orbital command platform that served as the flagship of the Galactic Expedition to Tau Volantis. Left adrift in a mine-saturated flotilla after Scenario Five, it was the first wreck Isaac Clarke and John Carver boarded on reaching the frozen world.

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CMS Shackleton

The CMS Shackleton was a Sovereign Colonies warship sent with the flotilla to Tau Volantis two centuries before the Marker convergence. Reduced to a field of mine-strewn wreckage, it was the first vessel of the lost fleet that Isaac Clarke passed on his arrival at the frozen world.

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CMS Terra Nova

The CMS Terra Nova was a Sovereign Colonies mass driver left derelict among the fleet orbiting Tau Volantis after the S.C.A.F. expedition of 2311. Two centuries later it became a waypoint for Isaac Clarke and the home of a Unitologist cult that worshipped the Brethren Moons.

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Colin Barrow: Aegis VII Dig Foreman

Colin Barrow was the dig foreman of the CEC mining colony on Aegis VII and the husband of Jennifer Barrow. A skeptic of the Marker, he carried his wife''s body to the Ishimura and unknowingly brought the infection aboard.

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Conning Tower

The Conning Tower was a compartment aboard the CMS Terra Nova in the flotilla orbiting Tau Volantis. After Scenario Five, the pilot Tucker Edwards barricaded himself there, killed his captain, and rigged the chamber with lethal traps and dormant Necromorphs before taking his own life.

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Contact Beam

The C99 Supercollider Contact Beam was a heavy mining tool, a miniaturized particle accelerator built to pound and shatter the toughest ore and meteors so the minerals inside could be extracted. Survivors used its charged kinetic discharge against the strongest Necromorphs.

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Convergence

Convergence was the final stage of the Marker cycle, an event in which a Marker pulled every corpse and Necromorph into the sky to merge into a new Brethren Moon. It was the true goal behind every Marker, every outbreak, and the doctrine of the Church of Unitology.

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Craig Markoff

Craig Markoff was a Sovereign Colonies military officer who led the extraction of the Black Marker in 2214. After the outbreak that sank the artifact, he and the psychologist Stevens murdered Michael Altman and used his name to found the Church of Unitology.

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Crawler

Crawlers were explosive Necromorphs formed from reanimated infants, their swollen bodies carrying an organic explosive, encountered on the Sprawl and later on Tau Volantis in alien form.

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Crazed Colonist

Crazed Colonists were ordinary CEC personnel of the Aegis VII colony driven insane by the dementia spread by Marker 3A. As the Marker''s influence deepened, victims passed from sleeplessness and paranoia into total delusion, turning violently on themselves and others before the Necromorphs rose.

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Creeper and Shambler

The Creeper was the disembodied head of a Divider, and the Shambler was the armed corpse it animated by burrowing into a body''s neck. The pair appeared during the events on Tau Volantis, where reanimated soldiers turned their own firearms on the living.

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Crew Deck

The Crew Deck was the residential section of the USG Ishimura, a self contained district of sleeper bunks, mess halls and recreation built so that miners and technicians could live aboard the Planet Cracker. During the Necromorph outbreak it became a slaughterhouse and a site of mass Unitologist suicide.

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Cyst

The Cyst was a stationary Necromorph that grew out of the Corruption and served as a living mine. It excreted organic pods that detonated on impact, attacking anything that came near without distinguishing friend from foe.

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Daina Le Guin

Daina Le Guin was a high ranking Unitologist who helped orchestrate the Necromorph outbreak on Titan Station and led the Church's effort to seize Isaac Clarke for his ability to build Red Markers.

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Damara Carver

Doctor Damara Carver was a data archaeologist assigned to Uxor to study the Shroud 4 Marker, and the wife of John Carver. Her research uncovered a vast government cover-up of the Markers, and her recovered work set in motion the expedition to Tau Volantis.

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Deakin Abbott

Deakin Abbott was a First Class engineer and Unitology lay preacher on the Aegis VII colony. When the removal of the Red Marker sent a piercing screech through the colonists'' minds, he took it for the voice of God and led his congregation, and himself, to mass suicide.

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Detonator

The Detonator was a seismic survey tool that deployed laser tripmines onto almost any surface. Built for drilling prospection, it was reworked by survivors of the Necromorph outbreaks into a trap that detonated when its laser beams were broken.

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Divet

The Divet was a compact automatic pistol issued as a standard sidearm to crew and security personnel of the Concordance Extraction Corporation. It fired laser-sliced lead slugs and was used widely by P-Sec officers during the Aegis VII and Ishimura incidents.

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Divider

Dividers were tall, thin Necromorphs that strangled their prey with a long tongue and, when badly hurt, fell apart into a swarm of independent crawling components. The head itself was the true creature, able to seize a fresh corpse and turn it into a Shambler.

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Dylan Carver

Dylan Carver was the young son of Sergeant John Carver and his wife Damara. He died when Unitologists released the Marker on his home planet of Uxor, and his memory haunted his father through the Marker''s hallucinations.

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Earl Serrano

Doctor Earl Serrano was the Sovereign Colonies Science Division''s Civilian Head of Archeology who led the Tau Volantis expedition from 2311 to 2314. He uncovered the truth of the alien Machine and the Brethren Moons before dying on the frozen world, leaving behind logs found two centuries later.

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Earth

Earth was the human homeworld and the center of all human activity in colonized space. Strained by an energy crisis, environmental collapse and the Resource Wars, it was the site of the buried Black Marker, the seat of two successive world governments, and the final target of the Brethren Moons.

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EarthGov Gunship

The EarthGov Gunship was a large manned assault craft built to give EarthGov military and security forces firepower, field support and transport. On Titan Station it was used to hunt Isaac Clarke, and one later carried him to safety from the Site 12 Marker.

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EarthGov

EarthGov was the centralized regime that replaced the Sovereign Colonies after the Secession War, ruling humanity from an Earth-centric core. Its decision to revive the Marker program and harvest the artifacts' energy spread the Necromorph threat across the colonies.

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Ellie Langford

Ellie Langford was a CEC heavy equipment pilot who survived the Necromorph outbreak on Titan Station, fought her way to Tau Volantis to find the source of the Marker signal, and became one of Isaac Clarke's closest companions.

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Emmeline Ayuba

Emmeline Ayuba was a journalist on Ganymede who went undercover in the Church of Unitology to expose a murder and search for her missing sister. After she was made to commune with a Red Marker, she emerged a convinced believer and became a leader of the Church on Ganymede.

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Engineering Deck

The Engineering Deck was the section at the stern of the USG Ishimura where engineers maintained the ship's engines, fuel systems, ShockPoint Drive and Gravity Centrifuge. A dark and hazardous area open only to senior engineers, it was overrun by the Corruption and the Necromorphs during the 2508 outbreak.

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Excavation Site 1

Excavation Site 1 was the first dig site the Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces established on the frozen surface of Tau Volantis, where the earliest remains of the planet's ancient inhabitants were unearthed and the preserved Nexus corpses were studied to locate the buried alien city.

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Executive Shuttle USG-09: The Ishimura Escape Craft

The Executive Shuttle USG-09 was a private shuttle reserved for the executives of the USG Ishimura. Sabotaged during the outbreak, it became the craft Isaac Clarke repaired to return Marker 3A to Aegis VII.

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Exploder

The Exploder was a Necromorph that attacked as a living bomb, swinging the volatile pustule grown on its arm to detonate among its prey. Slow and clumsy, it relied on numbers and ambush to overwhelm survivors.

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Facility One

Facility One was a vast military and archaeological compound built by the Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces at the base of a mountain on Tau Volantis. It served as the nerve center of the Galactic Expedition, coordinating the search for the source of the Marker signals.

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Facility Two

Facility Two, also called the Research Compound, was the Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces science base built atop a mountain on Tau Volantis to reach the Alien Machine buried beneath it. It was abandoned during the Scenario Five purge in 2314 and lay frozen and forgotten until 2514.

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Feeder

The Feeder was a Necromorph formed from a human who had eaten Necromorph flesh. Emaciated, light-sensitive, and guided by sound, Feeders rose from starving Sovereign Colonies soldiers on Tau Volantis who consumed the creatures they had killed.

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Flier

The Flier was a winged Necromorph encountered during the outbreak on Aegis VII, capable of sustained flight and striking its prey from above. Survivors often heard the creatures before they saw them.

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Flight Deck

The Flight Deck was the central port complex of the USG Ishimura, where shuttles arrived and departed and the ship''s tram system was operated. It was where the USG Kellion crashed and Isaac Clarke''s ordeal aboard the ship began.

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Fodder

The Fodder, also called the Waster, was a Necromorph form that kept the full appearance of its human host to pass as a living person before it struck. It appeared during the outbreaks on the New Horizons Lunar Colony and on Tau Volantis.

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Foster Edgars

Foster Edgars was an EarthGov scientist on Titan Station who oversaw Isaac Clarke and Nolan Stross during their Project Telomere sessions. He lost his mind in the Necromorph outbreak and cut his own throat after a final encounter with Isaac.

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Franco Delille

Franco Delille was an engineer and Unitologist on Titan Station, sent under covert orders to free Isaac Clarke from the station's asylum. He reached his target only to be cut down and reborn as a Necromorph at the moment of Isaac's waking.

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Gabe Weller

Gabe Weller was a Resource Wars veteran and security officer who survived the Necromorph outbreaks on Aegis VII and the USG Ishimura, married Lexine Murdoch, and died on Titan Station to give his wife and unborn child a chance to escape.

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Ganymede

Ganymede was the largest moon of Jupiter and an EarthGov colony whose cities sheltered under atmospheric domes. By the 26th century it had fallen into decline and corruption, and a secret Red Marker placed beneath its capital drew the Church of Unitology into control.

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Geology Sector

The Geology Sector was a section of the Sovereign Colonies' Facility Two on Tau Volantis, where the Science Division stored its geological research and the frozen bodies of the planet's alien builders before sending them on to the Biology Sector.

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George Cochran: SCAF Sergeant at Radio Station 9

Sergeant George Cochran commanded a platoon at Radio Station 9 on Tau Volantis. Driven mad by the Marker during the ration shortages, he led his starving men to eat Necromorph flesh and turned into a Feeder.

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Government Sector

The Government Sector was the fortified EarthGov and CEC district of Titan Station, home to the Project Telomere research that built new Markers from the minds of Marker survivors. It was Director Hans Tiedemann''s last stronghold during the 2511 outbreak before the reactor tore the Sprawl apart.

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Grabber

The Grabber was an aquatic Necromorph that hid as an apparently intact corpse before whipping its head forward on an impossibly long neck to seize its prey. It lay in wait in the flooded drainage system of the USG Ishimura.

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Guardian

The Guardian was a sessile Necromorph fused to the walls by the Corruption, unable to hunt but able to kill anything that drew near with a scythe-tipped tentacle. It spat embryonic Pods to keep threats at a distance and guarded the places most vital to the infestation.

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Handheld Graviton Accelerator

The Handheld Graviton Accelerator, better known as the Force Gun, was a short range kinetic mining tool that blasted rock apart and shifted debris in zero gravity. Survivors of the Necromorph outbreaks used its concussive blast to hurl the creatures back and tear off their limbs.

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Hanford Carthusia

Hanford Carthusia was the Unitologist project manager of the Aegis VII mining colony at the time of the Second Aegis VII Incident. His devotion to the Red Marker and his refusal to heed warnings about the spreading violence helped doom the colony, and he offered himself to a freshly reanimated Necromorph in the morgue.

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Hans Leggio

Hans Leggio was a miner on Aegis VII who fell under the dementia spread by Marker 3A, murdered members of his own dig team, and was taken aboard the USG Ishimura, where he died during the outbreak and rose again as a Necromorph.

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Hans Tiedemann

Hans Tiedemann was EarthGov''s Director of Operations on Titan Station who oversaw Project Telomere and the building of the Site 12 Marker, then defied his superiors to evacuate the station when the Necromorphs broke loose.

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Henry Wandrei

Henry Wandrei was a security technician on the penal colony of Aspera and the lifelong friend of Jensi Sato. He survived the Marker 2A outbreak by locking himself in a control room and was later found by Jensi during the search for Istvan Sato.

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Howard Phillips: Solar Array Watchman

Howard Phillips was the watchman of the unused Solar Array on Titan Station, posted alongside the station intelligence ANTI. His logs recorded his isolation and his devotion to his birds before the Marker drove him to a breakdown.

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The Hunter

The Hunter was a Regenerator Necromorph deliberately engineered by the Unitologist Dr. Challus Mercer aboard the USG Ishimura, grown from the living patient Brant Harris. Able to regrow severed limbs in seconds, it could not be killed by dismemberment and stalked Isaac Clarke across the ship.

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Hydroponics Deck

The Hydroponics Deck was the USG Ishimura''s internal farm, growing the food and producing the oxygen needed to sustain the ship''s crew. During the 2508 outbreak the deck was overtaken by the Leviathan, which polluted its air and destroyed the ship''s food supply.

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Infector

The Infector was a winged Necromorph whose sole purpose was to convert corpses into new Necromorphs, stabbing a proboscis into the skull to inject infectious tissue. Often the first form created by a Marker signal, it acted as an accelerant that spread an outbreak across a population of the dead.

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Isaac Clarke

Isaac Clarke was a ship systems engineer for the Concordance Extraction Corporation who survived the Necromorph outbreak aboard the USG Ishimura, became a host for the Markers'' replication blueprints, and spent years hunted by EarthGov and the Church of Unitology as he fought to destroy the Markers.

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Istvan Sato

Istvan Sato was a troubled young man from Vindauga who heard a voice he called the shadow man long before he ever saw a Marker. Imprisoned on Aspera, he proved to be a catalyst whose mind strengthened the Red Marker''s signal, and his presence helped touch off the outbreak that destroyed the colony.

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Jacob Danik

Jacob Arthur Danik was a high ranking Unitologist and leader of the militant sect known as the Circle, who waged war on EarthGov to free the Markers and pursued Isaac Clarke to Tau Volantis, where his actions awakened the Brethren Moons.

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Javelin Gun

The Javelin Gun was a telemetric survey tool built by Timson Tools to fire titanium spikes at high speed with great accuracy and piercing power. On the Sprawl it became a survivor''s weapon, pinning Necromorphs to walls and electrifying its planted spikes to clear the creatures in numbers.

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Jennifer Barrow: Aegis VII Dig Team Leader

Jennifer Barrow was the geologist who led the dig team that unearthed Marker 3A on Aegis VII. Driven mad by the artifact, she took her own life, and her reanimated body became the first Necromorph seen aboard the USG Ishimura.

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Jennifer Santos

Jennifer Santos was an EarthGov technician of the Marker Ops program at Keyhole Station who joined Ellie Langford''s expedition to Tau Volantis. She led the effort to locate the alien Machine using the frozen Nexus before she was killed in the fall of a cargo cage on the mountain.

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Jensi Sato

Jensi Sato was a young man from the poor world of Vindauga and the brother of Istvan Sato. He crossed the galaxy to reach the penal colony of Aspera in search of his estranged brother, only to find him at the center of a Marker outbreak he could not undo.

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Jessica Li: Magpie Captain of the Hunter's Moon

Jessica Li was a Magpie, one of the freelance salvagers who worked outside the law. She captained the Hunter''s Moon and led the crews that stumbled across the drifting USG Ishimura, where she was killed while searching the wreck for the Marker.

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John Carver

John Carver was an Earth Defense Force sergeant who lost his wife and son to a Necromorph outbreak on Uxor and joined Isaac Clarke on the expedition to Tau Volantis to destroy the apparent source of the Marker signal.

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Karrie Norton

Karrie Norton, known by the code name Vandal, was an engineer and recent convert to the Church of Unitology who was tricked into sabotaging Titan Station in 2511. Her acts of sabotage unleashed the Necromorph outbreak on the Sprawl, and she spent her final hours trying to undo the damage she had caused.

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Kendra Daniels

Kendra Daniels was an EarthGov agent posing as a CEC computer specialist aboard the USG Kellion, who guided Isaac Clarke through the Ishimura while working in secret to secure Marker 3A for the government.

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Kinesis Module

The Kinesis Module, also called G.R.I.P., was a small plug-in device that let engineers grab and move heavy objects through an artificial gravity field. It was standard equipment for space construction work and became one of the few improvised weapons survivors had against the Necromorphs.

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Kinner Phelps: Lead Telomere Researcher

Kinner Phelps was the head researcher behind Project Telomere on Titan Station and one of the scientists responsible for assembling the Site 12 Marker. He left recordings across the Government Sector describing how the work overtook his mind before the Necromorph outbreak.

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Leaper

The Leaper was a Necromorph reanimated from a single corpse whose legs were fused into a long, scythe-tipped tail. It used that tail to launch itself great distances at its prey and to stab like a scorpion, making it one of the most agile and deadly of the common forms.

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Lexine Weller

Lexine Weller was a CEC surveyor who survived the outbreaks on Aegis VII, the USG Ishimura and Titan Station, and whose unusual immunity to the Markers' signal made her a target of both EarthGov and the Church of Unitology.

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Line Gun

The IM-822 Handheld Ore Cutter Line Gun was a wide-beamed mining tool built to shear apart heavy ore that lighter equipment could not cut. Survivors of the Necromorph outbreaks repurposed its broad horizontal beam and its laser mines as a weapon.

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Locke

Locke was an Earth Defense Force pilot aboard the USM Eudora who helped recover Isaac Clarke from the New Horizons Lunar Colony. She died during the ship's violent descent to Tau Volantis when her console ruptured the hull and pulled her into the planet's atmosphere.

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Lurker

The Lurker was a small Necromorph specialized for ranged attacks, usually reanimated from human infants or, in later outbreaks, from infected dogs. It stalked walls and ceilings on sticky tentacles and fired barbs of sharpened bone at its prey from a distance.

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Madrigal Ayuba

Madrigal Ayuba was a Ganymede woman who left her family to join the Church of Unitology, died in an accident before her sister could find her, and appeared to that sister as a hallucination of the Red Marker.

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Maintenance Deck

The Maintenance Deck of the USG Ishimura was where the ship's shuttles were serviced and its maintenance shuttles were docked. Its hangars could be opened by hand if their control rooms failed, and it held crew sleeping quarters on a separate floor.

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Marjorie Graves

Admiral Marjorie Graves commanded the Sovereign Colonies fleet sent to Tau Volantis in 2311 to trace the Marker signal. Driven mad by the Red Markers stored aboard her ships, she left behind a hidden message about a key to shut down the Alien Machine that Isaac Clarke and Ellie Langford deciphered two centuries later.

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Mark Rosen: Pilot of the USM Eudora

Mark Rosen was an Earth Defense Force pilot assigned to the USM Eudora. He flew the ship that carried Isaac Clarke toward Tau Volantis, was injured when the Eudora was destroyed, and died during the final descent to the planet.

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Marker 2A

Marker 2A was one of the first Red Markers reverse-engineered by the Sovereign Colonies from the Black Marker, built in secret on the remote penal world of Aspera. Its signal drove the prisoners insane, drew the convict Istvan Sato to it as a catalyst, and triggered the Necromorph outbreak that destroyed the colony.

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Marker 3A

Marker 3A was a Red Marker grown by the Sovereign Colonies at the end of the 23rd century and placed on Aegis VII for study. Two centuries later it was unearthed by the Concordance Extraction Corporation, triggering the outbreak aboard the USG Ishimura and imprinting its blueprints into Isaac Clarke''s mind.

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Marker

Markers were enigmatic double-helix obelisks that broadcast a signal capable of reanimating the dead, driving the living to madness, and seeding their own replication. Their purpose was to spread the Necromorph infection across intelligent civilizations until a Convergence Event could form a Brethren Moon.

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Marla Janssen

Marla Loren Janssen was a P-Sec systems analyst on the Aegis VII colony and a gifted hacker who deciphered the meaning of the Marker text. She died sealing herself inside the colony''s communications needle to let Abraham Neumann escape.

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Medical Deck

The Medical Deck was the hospital and research complex of the USG Ishimura, a sprawling section of laboratories, wards and offices amidships. It was where Dr. Challus Mercer carried out his experiments on the crew, where the Hunter was created, and where Dr. Nicole Brennan recorded her final log.

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Michael Altman

Michael Altman was the geophysicist who in 2214 revealed the Black Marker to humanity as the first proof of alien life, and whose murder was twisted into the founding martyrdom of the Church of Unitology.

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Mining Deck

The Mining Deck was the largest section of the USG Ishimura, the heart of its planet cracking operation, where asteroids and planet fragments were broken apart and smelted for valuable minerals. One of the last decks to be overrun, it was where Isaac Clarke again encountered the figure of Nicole Brennan.

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Natalia Deshyanov

Natalia Raisa Deshyanov was a Concordance Extraction Corporation engineer on the Aegis VII Colony who helped build the tram to Marker 3A. Drawn into the artifact''s influence, she descended into madness and threw herself into the planet crack during the colony''s fall.

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Nathan McNeill

Nathan McNeill was a P-Sec detective on the Aegis VII Colony and a veteran of the Resource Wars who survived the outbreak on the colony and aboard the USG Ishimura. He escaped toward the Sprawl only to succumb to his wounds and reanimate as a Necromorph.

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Necromorph

Necromorphs were aggressive creatures formed when the Markers' electromagnetic signal reshaped dead tissue into monstrous new forms. Driven to kill the living and gather corpses for Convergence, they were the recurring plague that destroyed the Aegis VII colony, the USG Ishimura, and Titan Station.

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Nest

The Nest was a sessile Necromorph form found only in zero gravity, anchored to a surface and serving as an area denial sentinel. It launched swarms of small exploding Necromorphs from bulbous arms and could be killed only by destroying those arms.

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New Horizons Lunar Colony

New Horizons was humanity''s first off-world colony, founded on Earth''s moon in 2045, fallen by the 26th century into a decaying EarthGov slum that hid a Red Marker test lab and was consumed by a Necromorph outbreak in 2514.

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Nexus Organism

Nexus organisms, also called Hive Minds, were massive Necromorphs that received the control signal of the Markers and Brethren Moons and relayed it to the smaller Necromorph forms. They served as the second in command of an outbreak, coordinating the horde across whole worlds and ships.

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Nexus

The Nexus, also called a Nexus Organism or Hive Mind, was the commander-tier Necromorph that received and broadcast the Marker signal to lesser forms. The best-known specimen was raised from the natives of Tau Volantis and frozen beneath the planet alongside the Alien Machine.

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Nicole Brennan

Nicole Brennan was the Senior Medical Officer aboard the USG Ishimura who tried to halt the Necromorph outbreak before taking her own life, and whose image the Marker then used as a hallucination to manipulate Isaac Clarke toward Convergence.

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Nolan Stross

Nolan Stross was a senior EarthGov scientist who studied a fragment of Marker 3A aboard the USG O''Bannon, descended into Marker-induced madness, and was taken to Titan Station, where he briefly aided Isaac Clarke before his delusions destroyed him.

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Octavia Clarke

Octavia Clarke was the mother of Isaac Clarke and the wife of Poul Clarke. Her descent into the Church of Unitology cost her family its fortune and her son his place at college, and her death left Isaac with a lasting hatred of the Church.

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Oracle Program

The Oracle Program was a covert EarthGov operation devoted to retrieval and secrecy, created to assess the threat of the Necromorphs. Its agents, the Oracles, worked in white-clad pairs armed with Stasis rings and laser weapons, answering to authority higher than the government's own.

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Paleontology Sector

The Paleontology Sector was a section of Facility Two on Tau Volantis devoted to the study of the extinct aliens and Necromorph fossils. It housed an artifact analysis lab, the barracks of the 163rd Reaper Unit, and a chamber known as the Zoo.

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PFM-100 Hydrazine Torch Flamethrower

The PFM-100 Hydrazine Torch Flamethrower was an industrial tool built to melt the ice that trapped ore inside comets and frozen meteors. Survivors of the Necromorph outbreaks repurposed its long cone of hydrazine flame as a weapon.

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Plasma Cutter

The Plasma Cutter was a family of handheld mining tools built to cut through ore and rock with a focused bolt of ionized plasma. Compact and precise, it became the most common improvised weapon of survivors during the Necromorph outbreaks.

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Pods

Pods were small, embryo-like Necromorphs ejected by Guardians as a defense. Grown from underdeveloped infants, they clung near their parent creature and flung sharp projectiles, bursting apart when their tentacle was severed.

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Poul Clarke

Poul Clarke was a decorated ship architect of the Galactic Union Merchant Marine Corp and the father of Isaac Clarke. His long absences from home left his wife Octavia vulnerable to the Church of Unitology, and his life ended in a murder-suicide that the Church moved at once to exploit.

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Pregnant

The Pregnant, also called the Swollen, was a heavy Necromorph distinguished by the enormous sac that hung from its abdomen. The sac was filled with smaller Necromorphs that burst free when it was ruptured, turning the creature into a walking carrier for fresh attackers.

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Puker

The Puker was a ranged Necromorph whose body had been remade by its own digestive acids, leaving it able to spew corrosive bile at survivors from a distance. It appeared during the outbreaks on Titan Station and on Tau Volantis.

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Randall Carr

Randall Carr was a Unitologist of the Circle and Jacob Danik''s second-in-command. After Danik''s death and the failure of Convergence on Tau Volantis, he tried to lead the survivors home before a new flesh cult overran them.

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Reaper Barracks

The Reaper Barracks were the personal quarters of the elite 163rd Reaper Unit, built beneath the Paleontology Sector of Facility Two on Tau Volantis. The site held a looping hypnosis recording used to brainwash Sovereign Colonies personnel into carrying out orders such as Scenario Five.

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Red Marker

Red Markers were the man-made copies of the Black Marker, reverse-engineered by the Sovereign Colonies in the hope of harnessing limitless energy. Identical in function to the original, they seeded Necromorph outbreaks across every world where they were built.

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Red Moon Apartments

Red Moon Apartments was a decaying apartment complex on Luna''s New Horizons Lunar Colony and the home of Isaac Clarke in 2514. It was outside its gates that the Circle ambushed Isaac, John Carver, and Robert Norton during the siege of the colony.

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Regenerator

Regenerators were Necromorphs able to regrow any lost limb within seconds from a seemingly endless supply of biomass. Tall, muscular, and almost impossible to kill by ordinary means, the strain included the Hunter, the Ubermorph, and the Hunters of Tau Volantis.

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Research Compound Silo: Gateway to the Alien City

The Research Compound Silo was a sector of the Sovereign Colonies'' Facility Two on Tau Volantis. Built around a vast elevator shaft, it was the main entrance to the Alien City below and the route by which artifacts were raised from the Machine.

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RIG

The RIG, or Resource Integration Gear, was the standard worn equipment of spacefaring workers and soldiers in the 26th century. It sealed its wearer against hostile environments, carried their identity for security access, and linked them to others through the RIGlink communication system.

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Ripper

The RC-DS Remote Control Disc Ripper was a mining tool that hovered a diamond-coated tungsten sawblade on a gravity tether to hack through solid rock. Notoriously dangerous in untrained hands, it became a close-range weapon in the Necromorph outbreaks.

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Robert Norton

Robert Norton was the captain of the USM Eudora and an Earth Defense Force Special Ops officer who fought the Circle alongside Ellie Langford and Isaac Clarke, until jealousy and a secret bargain with Jacob Danik turned him against them on Tau Volantis.

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Rosetta: The Preserved Alien Specimen

Rosetta was the name given to a perfectly preserved alien corpse found in the ice of Tau Volantis. Its unaltered DNA held the key to building a Codex capable of interfacing with the Alien Machine.

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Sam Caldwell

Sam Caldwell was an engineer on the Aegis VII Colony and a member of the Extraction Dig Team who, under the influence of Marker 3A, hallucinated enemies and slaughtered his own crew before being shot and learning the truth as he died.

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Samuel Ackerman

Private Samuel Ackerman was a Sovereign Colonies soldier who survived the 2314 Necromorph outbreak on Tau Volantis long enough to help retrieve the Codex before he was killed by falling wreckage.

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Sarah Andarsyn

Sarah Andarsyn was a CPD officer aboard Titan Station and the girlfriend of the Unitologist agent Franco Delille. Unaware of his secret mission, she fought beside him through the early hours of the Sprawl outbreak before he betrayed and killed her to keep his task from being delayed.

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Scraper

The Scrapers were deranged Unitologists of the Circle who turned to a new flesh cult after the failure of Convergence on Tau Volantis. Wearing sacks over their heads and clawed contraptions on their arms, they mutilated themselves as offerings to the Brethren Moons.

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Seeker Rifle

The Seeker Rifle was a long-range marksman rifle carried by EarthGov security forces and Earth Defense Force soldiers. Built for precision fire at a distance, it could sever the limbs of a Necromorph with a well-placed shot.

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SH-B1 Plasma Saw

The SH-B1 Plasma Saw was a hand-portable mining tool built for excavation and ore extraction, cutting through rock and metal with a sheath of plasma riding on rotating superconducting teeth. On the Sprawl the agent Vandal turned one on the Necromorphs.

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Site 12 Marker

The Site 12 Marker was a gigantic Red Marker grown by EarthGov on Titan Station as part of Project Telomere, built from blueprints drawn out of Isaac Clarke''s mind. Its signal triggered the Necromorph outbreak that destroyed the Sprawl in 2511.

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SK-1P

The SK-1P was a series of small two-man transport craft built for the Wright Andrews Orbital Ferry System, shuttling personnel between starships and the surface. SCAF used them at Tau Volantis, and Isaac Clarke later crossed the derelict flotilla in one nicknamed the Skip.

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Slasher

The Slasher was the most common form of Necromorph, reanimated from a single human corpse and named for the blade-like protrusions of bone that grew from its arms. Weak alone but lethal in numbers, it was the form survivors encountered most often in every major outbreak.

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Sovereign Colonies

The Sovereign Colonies was the global government that united Earth and its early off-world settlements, custodian of the Black Marker and architect of the secret Red Marker program. Its discovery of the Brethren Moons led it to purge all Marker knowledge under Scenario Five.

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Spencer Mahad

Spencer Mahad was a Major General of the Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces who commanded the military forces of the Tau Volantis Expedition. When the Necromorph outbreak spiraled out of control, he carried out the Scenario Five kill order and took his own life.

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Spitter

The Spitter was a Slasher-type Necromorph created from a female host, set apart from the male form by the ability to spew acidic bile across short distances. Otherwise a close relative of the Slasher, it harried survivors from range while other creatures closed in.

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Stalker

The Stalker was a Necromorph that hunted in packs, using cover, feints, and coordinated charges to flank its prey. Armored-headed and fast, it was among the most intelligent of the common Necromorphs.

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Stasis Module

The Stasis Module was a RIG accessory that produced a field of slowed time, suspending whatever it touched in a slower state for a short period. Built for surgery and for slowing dangerous machinery, it became an essential survival tool against the Necromorphs.

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Stefan Schneider

Stefan Schneider was an illegal salvager who boarded the derelict USG Ishimura in the Aegis System and uncovered the truth of the Marker that had doomed it. Hunted by Necromorphs, EarthGov, and the Oracles, he alone escaped the ghost ship alive.

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Stevens

Stevens was a psychologist on the floating facility that held Michael Altman and the other Black Marker scientists in 2214. After the outbreak there, he and the military officer Craig Markoff murdered Altman and founded the Church of Unitology in his name.

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Submachine Gun

The Submachine Gun was a compact standard-issue sidearm of the later 26th century, carried widely by both the Circle and EarthGov forces. John Carver handed one to Isaac Clarke at the start of their journey to Tau Volantis.

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Supply Depot 212

Supply Depot 212 was a Sovereign Colonies storage facility cut into the mountains of Tau Volantis. It was one of the sector''s main stockpiles until Marker Dementia drove its garrison to murder, cannibalism, and ruin.

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Swarm Infector

The Swarm Infector was a small, crustacean-like Necromorph that hunted in droves, burrowing into corpses to reanimate them en masse. Encountered during the events on Tau Volantis, it combined the roles of the Infector and the Swarmer into a single creeping swarm.

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Swarmer

The Swarmer was the smallest of the Necromorphs, a scrap of reanimated flesh that attacked in great numbers. Swarmers spilled from ruptured Pregnants and other corpses, latching onto victims to overwhelm them in seconds.

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SWS Motorized Pulse Rifle

The SWS Motorized Pulse Rifle was the standard-issue service rifle of the Earth Defense Force Marines, a triple-barreled rapid-fire weapon firing ultra-low caliber rounds designed for shipboard combat. It became one of the most common arms carried by survivors of the Necromorph outbreaks.

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Tau Volantis Moon

The Tau Volantis Moon was a half-formed Brethren Moon, a colossal Necromorph spawned by an interrupted Convergence Event over the world of Tau Volantis. The Alien Machine froze it in a nascent state, and from orbit it broadcast its signal through the Markers, begging for the Machine to be turned off.

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Tau Volantis

Tau Volantis was a frozen planet in the HR 8799 system where, two million years ago, an alien civilization flash-froze their own world to halt a Convergence Event. Mistaken for the Marker homeworld, it became the site of the final clash over the Brethren Moons.

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Tentacle

Tentacles were massive Necromorph growths that appeared either as predators in their own right or as the limbs of far larger creatures. Some dragged victims into the walls, others guarded sacred ground, and the greatest served the Brethren Moons themselves.

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Terrence Kyne

Terrence Kyne was the Chief Science Officer of the USG Ishimura, a Unitologist Marker expert whose conscience turned him against the Church and who fell to the artifact's hallucinations of his dead wife.

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The Boss

The Boss was a massive, heavily mutated Necromorph that infested the Titan Shard reactor core during the outbreak on Titan Station and drove it toward a catastrophic overheat. Possessing no recognizable human features, it commanded lesser Necromorphs and was confronted by the saboteur Vandal.

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The Circle

The Circle was an extremist militant sect of the Church of Unitology led by Jacob Arthur Danik. Numbering in the millions and funded by the Church''s vast fortune, it waged a violent war against EarthGov to free the Markers, and its remnants gave rise to a new cult that worshipped the Brethren Moons.

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The Concourse

The Concourse was a two-story shopping mall in the heart of the Sprawl. Isaac Clarke and Ellie Langford passed through its outlet stores during the 2511 Necromorph outbreak, fighting through Pack Necromorphs along the way.

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The Corruption

The Corruption was an encrusting mass of Necromorph tissue that grew wherever an outbreak took hold, spreading in the presence of a Marker signal. It reshaped its surroundings into a habitat for the horde, poisoning the atmosphere and providing a ready supply of biomass.

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The Cult Leader

The Cult Leader was a former member of the Circle who proclaimed himself Prophet of a new Unitologist cult aboard the CMS Terra Nova. He acted as the voice of the Brethren Moons, tormenting Isaac Clarke and John Carver as they fought to warn Earth.

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The Hive Mind

The Hive Mind was a massive Nexus Necromorph created by Marker 3A on Aegis VII, a worm-like behemoth that resided in the planet's core and commanded the Necromorph hordes. It coordinated the assault on the CEC colony and the USG Ishimura before Isaac Clarke destroyed it in 2508.

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The Hunters (Tau Volantis)

The Hunters of Tau Volantis were Regenerator-type Necromorphs formed from the Sovereign Colonies Deep Dig Team, men who went mad near the Markers and carved Marker symbols into their own flesh. Sealed away for two centuries, they were loosed again on the CMS Terra Nova and the frozen planet.

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The Leviathan

The Leviathan was a massive, amorphous Necromorph that lodged in the USG Ishimura''s Food Storage and barricaded the Hydroponics Deck. Named by Elizabeth Cross, it grew enormous on the colonists'' biomass before Isaac Clarke destroyed it.

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The Mule

The Mule was a Sovereign Colonies aerospace transport assigned to the Tau Volantis expedition. Dispatched to carry the Codex to Dr. Earl Serrano, it crashed on a cliff above Facility Two after its infected crew turned during a storm.

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The Nexus

The Nexus was a gargantuan Necromorph Hive Mind form created from the remains of the extinct natives of Tau Volantis. Like the Hive Mind of Aegis VII, the Nexus served as a ground commander for lesser Necromorphs, broadcasting and receiving Marker signals across the infestation.

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The Overseer

The Overseer was a senior official in EarthGov's Department of Homeworld Security who directed the government's secret Marker research and replication programs in the 26th century. He oversaw the cover up of the Aegis VII and Ishimura incidents and answered for the loss of the Site 12 Marker on Titan Station.

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The Pack

The Pack was a swarming Necromorph form built from the intact bodies of adolescent children. Fragile but ferocious, its members attacked in overwhelming numbers, shrieking in their childlike voices as they tore prey apart on the Sprawl.

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The Slug

The Slug was an enormous Necromorph that clamped itself over the blast doors of the USG Ishimura, blocking the communications array Isaac Clarke needed to warn the USM Valor away from an infected escape pod. It was driven off only by the ship''s own anti-asteroid cannons.

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The Snow Beast

The Snow Beast was a massive Necromorph on the frozen world of Tau Volantis, thought to be the reanimated form of an ancient crustacean. It stalked and ambushed survivors with long tentacles and a lashing tongue, retreating whenever it was wounded.

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The Spider

The Spider was a massive, armor-plated Necromorph that clung to the exterior of the derelict USG Ishimura. It attacked Nathan McNeill after he disabled the ship''s ADS Cannon, pinning his arm to the hull with a spike.

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The Sprawl

Titan Station, known informally as the Sprawl, was an EarthGov metropolis built around the last fragment of Saturn's moon Titan. Home to over a million people, it housed the secret Project Telomere and the Site 12 Marker, and fell to a Necromorph outbreak in 2511 that destroyed the station entirely.

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The Tormentor

The Tormentor was a gigantic Necromorph built from many corpses that hunted Isaac Clarke through Titan Station, its bone armor proof against gunfire until he turned the void itself against it.

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The Urchin

The Urchin was a massive aquatic Necromorph that grew in the water purification facilities deep within the USG Ishimura''s sewer system. A formless body wreathed in tentacles, it ambushed survivors below the Hydroponics Deck during the ship''s outbreak.

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Tim Caufman

Private Tim Caufman was a Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces soldier stationed on Tau Volantis during the outbreak of 2314. An ammunition specialist who recovered the Codex from the wreck of the Mule, he was executed by General Spencer Mahad under the colony''s Scenario Five kill order.

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Titan Elementary School

Titan Elementary School was a school in the Concourse of Titan Station that taught children from infancy through middle school. As the Site 12 Marker''s influence spread, its pupils grew violent and unstable, and the school became a source of many of the child Necromorphs of the outbreak.

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Titan Memorial Medical Center

The Titan Memorial Medical Center was a hospital on Titan Station whose psychiatric wing concealed the secret laboratories of Project Telomere. It was overrun in the opening hours of the 2511 Necromorph outbreak, and it was here that Isaac Clarke woke from three lost years.

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Tom Sciarello

Dr. Thomas Sciarello was the Chief Medical Officer of the Aegis VII Colony, an atheist physician who came to suspect that Marker 3A was behind the colony''s wave of madness. He was killed by Slashers as the outbreak overran the medical labs.

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Tram System

The Tram System was the USG Ishimura''s automated monorail, which carried crew between the decks of the vast mining vessel. Built around a single rail, it linked the ship''s major sections through a network of stations and a central maintenance bay.

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Tripod

The Tripod was a large three-legged Necromorph assembled from several human corpses, encountered during the Necromorph outbreak on Titan Station. It struck with long arms and a bladed tongue, and a single grotesque female variant grown around a mother and infant was found within the Church of Unitology.

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Twitcher

Twitchers were a fast and erratic variant of Slasher Necromorph created from hosts carrying Stasis Modules or adrenaline, whose reversed time dilation drove them to move far faster than any other strain. They were first encountered in the ruins of the USM Valor and recurred across the Sprawl and Tau Volantis.

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Tyler Radikov

Tyler Radikov, called the Russian, was a Unitologist who posed as the handler of the inductee Karrie Norton during the sabotage of Titan Station, tricking her into spreading the Necromorph infection while keeping her convinced she was saving the station.

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Ubermorph

The Ubermorph was a unique regenerating Necromorph encountered during the final hours of the Titan Station outbreak. A small Hive Mind form, it led the assault on the Government Sector and stalked Isaac Clarke through the laboratories surrounding the Site 12 Marker.

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Unitologist Cult

The Unitologist Cult was a new church formed by survivors of the Circle aboard the CMS Terra Nova, who mutilated their bodies to resemble Necromorphs in worship of the Brethren Moons.

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Unitologist Dropship

The Unitologist Dropship was an armed troop transport used by the Unitologist extremists of the Circle. Marked with Marker symbols and fitted with a ShockPoint drive, it carried squads of fanatics into the field and deployed them from doors on both flanks.

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Unitologist Soldiers

The Unitologist Soldiers were the foot soldiers of the Circle, fanatically loyal to Jacob Arthur Danik and the Church of Unitology. They fought to free the Markers on Tau Volantis, and many fell to the same Necromorph plague they had hoped to unleash.

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Church of Unitology

The Church of Unitology was the most influential religion in human space, born from the death of Michael Altman and built on the belief that the Markers promised rebirth and unity in death. Its faith in Convergence ultimately served the very forces that meant to consume humanity.

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USG Ishimura

The USG Ishimura was the flagship of the Concordance Extraction Corporation and the first Planet Cracker-class mining ship. After recovering Marker 3A from Aegis VII in 2508, it became the site of a catastrophic Necromorph outbreak that wiped out its crew and bound its name to the history of the Markers.

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USG Kellion

The USG Kellion was a CEC shuttle that carried Zach Hammond''s emergency maintenance team to the silent USG Ishimura in 2508, crash-landed in its Flight Deck, and was destroyed soon after the outbreak was discovered.

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USG O''Bannon

The USG O''Bannon was a First Responder vessel sent to Aegis VII three weeks after the loss of the USG Ishimura, secretly tasked with recovering fragments of Marker 3A for EarthGov. A Necromorph outbreak aboard left only four survivors before the ship was destroyed.

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USM Abraxis

The USM Abraxis was an Earth Defense Force destroyer of the same class as the USM Valor, dispatched to the Aegis system to recover the four survivors of the USG O''Bannon and carry them to Titan Station, where its interrogation team buried the truth.

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USM Eudora

The USM Eudora was an Earth Defense Force Special Ops vessel captained by Robert Norton. It pulled Isaac Clarke off the New Horizons Lunar Colony during the Unitologist uprising and carried him to Tau Volantis, where it was torn apart by automated mines in the planet's debris field.

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USM Intrepid

The USM Intrepid was an Earth Defense Force shuttle sent after the Second Aegis VII Incident to recover Marker 3A from the USG Ishimura. Lured into an infested cargo bay by a deception, its crew was wiped out by the Necromorphs aboard.

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USM Valor

The USM Valor was an Earth Defense Force Destroyer sent to the Aegis system in 2508 to recover Marker 3A and erase all witnesses. A reanimated corpse aboard one of the Ishimura's escape pods spread the Necromorph infection through the ship, and the Valor crashed into the very vessel it had come to silence.

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Vera Cortez

Vera Maria Alejandra Cortez was a P-Sec detective and devout Unitologist on the Aegis VII colony, partnered with Sergeant Abraham Neumann. Swept up in the Marker''s influence, she joined a mass suicide and was later seen absorbed into the Corruption.

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Vestri

The Vestri was a survey shuttle attached to the USG Ishimura, used to land on the Aegis VII Colony before the planet crack. A handful of survivors used it to flee the Necromorph outbreak, only to be fired on by the Ishimura's defense cannons and forced to crash on the ship's hull.

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Victor Bartlett: Security Colonel of the Sprawl

Colonel Victor Bartlett was a security officer on Titan Station and Gabe Weller''s superior. Acting on EarthGov''s order to eliminate the key subjects, he hunted Lexine Weller before the Marker drove him to a fatal end.

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Waystation: SCAF Radio Relay RS 9

The Waystation, formally RS 9, was a Sovereign Colonies radio relay in the snowy fields of Tau Volantis. Its garrison was lost to cannibalism and the Feeder transformation, leaving Samuel Ackerman its sole survivor.

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Wheezer

The Wheezer was a stationary Necromorph that generated and exhaled poisonous gas, fouling the air around it without ever attacking directly. It served as a kind of terraformer for the Necromorph ecosystem, making spaces toxic to the living.

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Zach Hammond

Zach Hammond was the Chief Security Officer of the USG Kellion who took command after the Necromorph attack on the Ishimura and died on the wrecked USM Valor saving Isaac Clarke.