Gabe Weller

Gabriel "Gabe" Weller was a veteran of the Resource Wars and a former P.C.S.I. security officer aboard the USG Ishimura who survived the Necromorph outbreak that swept Aegis VII in 2508. He later settled on Titan Station with fellow survivor Lexine Murdoch, whom he married, and joined EarthGov's Titan Station Security Force, before the station fell to a third outbreak that cost him his life. His story is closely bound to that of his wife, Lexine Weller, and the immunity that made her a target.

A soldier aboard the Ishimura#

Little was recorded of Gabe Weller's life beyond the fact that he and Nathan McNeill had served together in the Resource Wars, after which he became a security officer assigned to the USG Ishimura. He was among the P.C.S.I. officers sent down to Aegis VII to recover the bodies of the colony's suicides from its morgue, and there he reunited with his old friend McNeill, now a detective. When Gabe and a rookie named Private Karklins reached the morgue with McNeill, they found the bodies missing and were attacked by infected personnel.

Surviving Aegis VII#

The effects of Marker 3A plunged the whole colony into chaos as civilians and soldiers turned on one another. Gabe, McNeill and Karklins fought through the violence until Karklins, succumbing to the Marker's influence, attacked Gabe and was killed by McNeill in self-defense. Barricaded in the P-Sec headquarters, the two officers heard a strange transmission telling them to shoot the limbs from the things attacking the building, advice that proved true when they killed their first Necromorph. They found the weeping Lexine Murdoch hidden in the control room, and though Gabe objected to her joining them, McNeill accepted her. Fighting their way through the Megavents toward the shuttle bay, the group lost companions to the creatures and to a falling shuttle that destroyed most of the bay, before Gabe and the CEC executive Warren Eckhardt managed to pilot the survivors off the planet.

The Ishimura and the truth about Lexine#

Their shuttle made for the Ishimura, only to be denied docking and fired upon, forcing Gabe and Eckhardt to crash on the hull and lead the group across open space to an airlock. Aboard the planet cracker they found the infection had already spread, and they fought through the ship's decks and sewers, weathering quarantine, ambushes and the loss of more companions. In the flight bay Gabe discovered that Eckhardt was a high-ranking Unitologist, sent to Aegis VII to find a subject immune to the Marker, whom he had identified as Lexine. Eckhardt shot Gabe after revealing his plan to take her to the Church, but a Leaper killed the Unitologist before he could finish. Gabe grabbed his pistol and killed the creature, then told McNeill and Lexine of the betrayal while leaving out Lexine's true importance. He and the others escaped the Ishimura as it fell, and Gabe, against his own disbelief, set course for Titan Station.

Sergeant on the Sprawl#

After Aegis VII, Gabe became a security officer on Titan Station, rose to the rank of sergeant, and married Lexine, serving on the Sprawl for three years. When the station fell to the Necromorphs because of the Site 12 Marker, all of its security teams were mobilized, and Gabe, a sergeant on Bravo Team, was sent into the Titan Mines to deal with the creatures at their presumed origin. His team was swiftly wiped out save for the soon-infected Corporal Price, and realizing the Sprawl was lost, Gabe warned Lexine and fought through the station to reach her.

Sacrifice in the shuttle bay#

Emerging from the Mines, Gabe was betrayed by his superior, Colonel Victor Bartlett of Alpha Team, who meant to follow Hans Tiedemann's orders to eliminate the station's key subjects. Each time Lexine contacted Gabe about her position in the hospital, she inadvertently led Victor to her, and Victor reached and captured her first, intending to kill her. Two Oracles intervened, knocking Victor unconscious and taking Lexine away under orders higher than Tiedemann's to keep her alive, but the Necromorphs killed the Oracles, and Gabe found Lexine fleeing into a gunship in the hospital shuttle bay.

To let the ship lift off, Gabe, the only one wearing a space suit, volunteered to open the airlock by hand and told Lexine to stay aboard. Just as he reached the control panel, Victor appeared with a live grenade; Gabe fended him off, but the blast severed his right leg and breached his helmet. Bleeding out, he told Lexine he would not make it but could still give her and their unborn child the chance to escape. He destroyed the final failsafe on the airlock, opening it and launching her ship clear of the station, and died of blood loss and vacuum exposure after a final "I love you." EarthGov recorded his status as deceased and collected his remains for study.

A hard man with a softer side#

During the incidents on Aegis VII and the Ishimura, Gabe was a hardheaded bull of a sergeant who showed little patience for those he judged weak, the foil to the kindhearted Nathan McNeill and ready to pick a fight with almost anyone. He trusted no one but McNeill and, above all, wanted to get out alive, even if it meant cutting loose what he saw as weak links. His military instincts had been dulled by years aboard a corporate mining vessel, and his overestimation of his own skills sometimes left him exposed, while under pressure his temper led to grave errors of judgment. Yet there was a softer side beneath the hard edge, plainest in his bond with Lexine: though he first thought her a hindrance and was willing to leave her behind on Aegis VII, the two grew close over the years that followed and married.