Lexine Weller

Lexine Weller, born Lexine Murdoch, was a grade two CEC surveyor on the Aegis VII colony and one of the few people to survive the Necromorph outbreaks aboard the colony and the USG Ishimura. She later married fellow survivor Gabe Weller and lived on Titan Station, where she endured a third outbreak. Her brain proved seemingly immune to the dementia and hallucinations the Markers caused, an immunity that also shielded those near her, and which made her a person of interest to both EarthGov and the Church of Unitology though she herself never knew of it.

A surveyor on Aegis VII#

Lexine lived with her father, an extraction engineer, on the Aegis VII colony, and worked as a grade two surveyor. Before the disaster she had entered a relationship with the engineer Sam Caldwell, and she contacted him by RIG transmission shortly before his team was sent to remove Marker 3A from the excavation site, telling him of a surprise she had planned. As the colony descended into mass murder and insanity, she reached him again during the massacre in the Megavents, her voice the last thing he heard as he lay dying after restoring the colony's life support.

Surviving the colony and the Ishimura#

With Aegis VII overtaken by the Necromorphs and her father missing, Lexine hid inside the P-Sec building until she was found by Detective Nathan McNeill and the P.C.S.I. security officer Gabe Weller. Over Weller's objections, McNeill brought her along, recognizing her as Caldwell's girlfriend, and the group fought through the colony and the Megavents to reach a shuttle, escaping the planet as the Hive Mind emerged. Their shuttle made for the USG Ishimura, only to be denied docking and fired upon, and they crash-landed on the ship's hull and crossed open space to an airlock.

Aboard the Ishimura the survivors found the Necromorph infection had already spread. Throughout the ordeal Lexine suffered nosebleeds, headaches and a recurring sense of being watched, and during a quarantine examination the doctor Nicole Brennan noted her unusually high blood pressure and brain activity that was off the charts. The group fought through the ship's decks and sewers, losing companions along the way, and Lexine was briefly dragged underwater by Swarmers and presumed dead before the Hydroponics doctor Karen Howell found and protected her. Reunited with the others, she helped them reach the flight bay. There it was revealed that the CEC executive Warren Eckhardt was in truth a Unitologist Overseer, and that Lexine's immunity to the Marker had made her a person of interest to the Church, which he had meant to bring her to without her ever knowing why. Eckhardt was killed before he could do more, and Lexine and Gabe escaped the Ishimura as its last survivors, watching their companion Nathan succumb to his wounds and reanimate before Lexine killed him.

Life on the Sprawl#

Lexine and Gabe became permanent residents of Titan Station after surviving Aegis VII and the Ishimura, while the two incidents were publicly blamed on a doctor named Isabel Cho. The couple kept silent about what they had witnessed. Aware of Lexine's immunity, EarthGov began monitoring them through the Oracle Program, keeping its distance to avoid drawing their suspicion. The project relied on Lexine's ability to reproduce: if she bore a child, capturing both mother and child to study whether her immunity had passed on was made a high priority. Over the next three years Lexine and Gabe married, she took his name, and they lived without incident until they decided to conceive.

The Sprawl outbreak and Gabe's sacrifice#

When the outbreak struck the Sprawl, Lexine was at a fertility session in the Titan Memorial Medical Center, and Gabe, fighting through the Titan Mines, warned her by RIG to reach their shuttle. Unable to push through the panicked crowd, she lost contact with him more than once, and he warned her that Colonel Victor Bartlett and the Sprawl security force meant to kill her on Hans Tiedemann's orders. As Lexine fled to the Psych Ward, her RIG conversations let Victor track her exact location, and he reached her first and took her hostage. Before he could kill her, two Oracles intervened, knocking him out and revealing that they answered to an authority higher than Tiedemann and wanted Lexine taken alive; they fled with her, telling her that Gabe's purpose was done.

The Oracles were attacked and transformed in the hospital shuttle bay, and Gabe arrived to kill them and order Lexine onto the gunship. As he worked to open the airlock so the ship could lift off, Victor returned with a live grenade; Gabe knocked him down, but the blast killed Victor and severed Gabe's leg. Unable to help her husband, Lexine watched as he destroyed the final failsafe on the bulkhead doors, launching her ship clear of the station before he succumbed to his wounds. Her status on EarthGov's files was recorded as missing, and she was marked a primary target with an immediate termination order if she was ever found.

A will of her own#

Through every ordeal Lexine showed a strong will, often using it to keep Nathan McNeill, Warren Eckhardt and Gabe Weller from turning on one another, though she rarely proposed a course of action herself. She grew close to McNeill and showed genuine concern for him, a bond Gabe was the first to notice, teasingly calling the pair lovebirds. For all the deaths around her, she clung to hope for her companions even when others gave them up for lost, and she came to blame herself for the losses she could not prevent, never knowing that her own mind was the very thing the Church and the government were willing to destroy whole stations to possess.