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.
Jennifer Barrow was a Concordance Extraction Corporation geologist on Aegis VII and the wife of dig foreman Colin Barrow. She led the team that uncovered Marker 3A, and after the artifact drove her to take her own life, her reanimated body became the first Necromorph glimpsed aboard the USG Ishimura.
The Red Marker#
Little was known of Jennifer Barrow before her employment by the CEC on Aegis VII. At some point she became a geologist and married Colin Barrow. She led the dig team that discovered Marker 3A, and she was the first to recognize that Aegis VII had been visited by humans before, noting rock scarring that matched the work of an E-34 drilling rig, a piece of hardware that had not been used in two hundred years. Shortly after the discovery, Jennifer fell ill, succumbing to the dementia that spread throughout the colony.
The second Aegis VII incident#
Following the planet crack and the intense electromagnetic surges that cut off communications, Colin hurried home to see whether Jennifer was safe. He found her instead in a catatonic state. She had covered the interior of the room with Marker symbols and was cutting those same symbols into her skin with her fingernails. To her husband's horror, she then slit her throat with a rock saw and took her own life.
Aboard the Ishimura#
Colin refused to accept Jennifer's death and carried her body to the shuttle in which he had arrived, intending to take her to the orbiting Ishimura. During his takeoff an Infector entered the shuttle unnoticed. As Colin crash landed in one of the ship's bays, Jennifer's transformed body attacked and killed him. By the time the security officers arrived, the Necromorph that had been Jennifer was already gone, moving through the ship. As it passed through a vent, Dr. Terrence Kyne caught sight of it through an opening, and it stared back before disappearing. The encounter led Kyne to warn Captain Benjamin Mathius that something was seriously wrong.
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