Dead Space category
Locations
48 entries tagged Locations, 48 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at USG Ishimura and Tau Volantis.
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4- Aegis VIIAegis 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.
- Aegis VII ColonyThe Aegis VII Colony was an illegal mining settlement built on Aegis VII by the Concordance Extraction Corporation. 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.
- Artifact Storage: S.C.A.F. Vault in the Alien MachineThe Artifact Storage was a storage section built into the S.C.A.F. modified area of the Alien Machine on Tau Volantis. It held the calcified skeletons of the extinct aliens, recovered items from the dig, and the infected remains of the Deep Dig Team personnel.
- Aspera: Penal Colony and Marker SiteAspera 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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2- Biology Sector: Facility Two LaboratoryThe 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.
- BridgeThe 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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4- Cassini Towers: Unitologist enclave of Titan StationCassini Towers was an apartment complex on Titan Station that housed the Church of Unitology and the faith's most devoted followers. When the Necromorph outbreak began, untold numbers of its residents took their own lives in ritual suicide, and Isaac Clarke passed through its halls into a trap laid by Daina Le Guin.
- CEC Facility: Titan Station's Shipyard and Industrial ComplexThe CEC Facility was the Concordance Extraction Corporation's base of operations on Titan Station, a sweltering complex of heavy machinery, fuel storage, and the shipyard where the USG Ishimura lay docked. During the Sprawl outbreak it became a Necromorph killing ground and was finally consumed with the rest of the station.
- Conning TowerThe 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.
- Crew DeckThe 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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3- EarthEarth 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.
- Engineering DeckThe 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.
- Excavation Site 1Excavation 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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3- Facility OneFacility 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.
- Facility TwoFacility 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.
- Flight DeckThe 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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3- GanymedeGanymede 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.
- Geology SectorThe 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.
- Government SectorThe 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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4- Maintenance DeckThe 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.
- Mars: the second hub of the Sol systemMars was one of the most heavily settled worlds after Earth, a planet of corporations, docks and shipyards centred on the city-state of Mars Capita. Its independence riots in the late twenty fifth century were extremely violent, and they shaped a generation of Martians who left the planet afterward and turned up on colonies across settled space.
- Medical DeckThe 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.
- Mining DeckThe 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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2- Paleontology SectorThe 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.
- Ptolemy Station: the triangulation post of the Sovereign ColoniesPtolemy Station was the orbital facility the Sovereign Colonies built to trace the master signal that every Marker was receiving. Its findings commissioned the expedition to Tau Volantis, its staff was written out of existence by Scenario Five in 2314, and two centuries later its pylons were fired one last time before the USM Eudora blew the station apart.
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3- Reaper BarracksThe 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.
- Red Moon ApartmentsRed 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.
- Research Compound Silo: Gateway to the Alien CityThe 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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2- Solar Array: Titan Station's Decommissioned Power PlantThe Solar Array was the original power source of Titan Station, a ring of collector dishes left to decay after fusion reactors replaced it. Isaac Clarke reactivated it during the Necromorph outbreak, and Hans Tiedemann then turned its focused beam into a weapon that cut the station in two.
- Supply Depot 212Supply 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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11- Tau VolantisTau Volantis was a frozen planet 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.
- Tau Volantis Debris Field: graveyard of the S.C.A.F. flotillaThe Tau Volantis Debris Field was the wreckage of the Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces flotilla, scuttled by its own command in 2314 under the Scenario Five directive. Sown with hundreds of thousands of homing mines, it hung in a stable low orbit for two centuries, destroying the ships that came looking for it in 2514.
- The Alien MachineThe 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.
- The ConcourseThe 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.
- The Inverted City: the underside of Titan StationThe Inverted City was the colloquial name for the bottom half of the Public Sector of Titan Station, a district of towering buildings that hung beneath the Upright City and shared its structures floor to floor. It was wiped out by the Necromorph outbreak before the rest of the Public Sector fell, and it was destroyed outright when the station exploded.
- The SprawlTitan 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.
- Titan Elementary SchoolTitan 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.
- Titan Memorial Medical CenterThe 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.
- Titan Station Church of Unitology: chapel of the faithful on the SprawlThe Titan Station Church of Unitology was a chapel devoted to Unitology on the Sprawl, entered through the Cassini Towers apartment complex. When the Necromorph outbreak of 2511 swept the station, its congregation died by ritual suicide and rose again as Necromorphs, and Isaac Clarke was forced through its infested halls into a trap laid by Daina Le Guin.
- Tram SystemThe 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.
- Tripod's Nest: the Corruption growth that housed the Sprawl's TripodsThe Tripod's Nest was a large formation of the Corruption grown inside the Fuel Mega Storage area of the CEC Facility on Titan Station, shaped to accommodate the station's Tripods. Isaac Clarke destroyed it by pitching explosives into the surrounding fuel tanks, taking the nest, its residents and most of the facility with it.
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2- USG IshimuraThe 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.
- Uxor: the colony where the Circle opened its warUxor was an EarthGov colony world chosen to host Marker Shroud 4, one of the shielded test sites at the heart of the government Marker program. In 2514 the Circle stripped the shroud away with a single guided strike, and the outbreak that followed set Sergeant John Carver on the road to Tau Volantis.