pour les gens que ça intéresse l'origine de l'épidémie :
The DNA patterns covering the surface of the Black and Red Markers are the codes for the viral organism that creates the Necromorphs, an infection noted in logs as a "recombinant life form". According to data logs, the first known Necromorph infection was during the reverse engineering project of the Black Marker, which subsequently created the Red Marker. The Marker was relocated to Aegis VII hundreds of years ago by the original Aegis VII doctors. They had set up the lab on a deserted planet so they could test the Marker and its effects well away from any outposts of human civilization. The Aegis VII doctors copied and recreated the life form using the DNA patterns listed on the Markers. Initially the "recombinant lifeform" existed only in a petri-dish and remained dormant, the lifeform is described as being a thin pink organic tissue. The lifeform did not react to any of the doctors' tests, and was deemed a failure. However, one day, a doctor did not fully decontaminate himself when entering the lab and a few dead skin cells fell into the Petri dish. As such, the infection by the recombinant lifeform immediately activated and reanimated the dead skin cells.
The Red Marker actually inhibited the necrotic flesh testing and it was then that the scientists noticed that it produced an apparent "dead space" field, inhibiting the Necromorph infection from spreading.
Soon afterwards, an accident similar to the Petri dish incident resulted in the infection of two doctors. They were promptly quarantined, where they soon died and shortly after infection, the two doctors transformed into the very first Necromorphs (one doctor became a Leaper, the other an Infector). When the Leaper pierced a ventilation shaft it promptly attacked the other doctors, which the Infector then began transforming. This caused the Aegis VII outbreak to commence.
While it is known that all of the doctors on Aegis VII were killed, very little is detailed on what events transpired after the creatures escaped. A log reveals that, after the initial catastrophe began on Aegis VII, one of the doctors had a "vision" where he has the idea of constructing a pedestal to broaden the signal the Marker is emanating, thereby containing the Necromorph Hive Mind and all infection present on the planet. Since the Marker is found hundreds of years later on its pedestal on the barren surface of the planet, it is suggested that they were successful.
There are four unique Necromorphs: the Leviathan, Slug, Spider, and Urchin which are all large and grotesque blobs of flesh that utilize their tentacles to attack. How they are created and from what is unknown, but they may be independent organisms or an extreme offshoot of the Brute Necromorph (i.e made from combining several different corpses). The Leviathan may be created from the Corruption, as it seems to merge with part of the ship's hull.
There is a low probability that the Necromorph virus is a natural occurrence, as it is attributed to the Black Marker or to the reverse-engineered Red Marker based upon it, though the exact nature of the relationship between the Necromorphs and the Black Marker, and by extension the religion Unitology which was built around the latter, is impossible to determine.
et une transcription d'une transmission sur l'apparition du premier infector :
Type: Text
Characters: Dr. G Abernathy, Dr. Clifton(deceased), Dr. Hogan(deceased)
Chapter: 12
Can be found: Backstory Log Reward for Completing Game
Transcript:
RECOVERED FILE
Personal Log: Dr. G. Abernathy, automated
transcript
(Restricted access - Maximum encryption)
Day three of quarantine for the former Drs. Clifton and Hogan. The infection is spreading quickly through Dr. Clifton. Dr. Hogan appears unaffected at this time.
The chest of the corpse has started to expand, like it's taking a deep breath. Something appears to be happening under the surface of the skin. The body is convulsing - a yellowish briny liquid bursts from the mouth accompanied by choking noises. There's a crunching noise as the throat bulges and the jaw collapses. The head is splitting apart... reforming now into what appear to be a proboscis and feelers. The chest splits along the centre now as the flesh stretches and expands outwards; the organs, bone and muscle bend inwards. The internal organs contort and reorganize themselves into an odd structure central to which is a massive bladder. The bladder is filling with a liquid, some of which can be seen spilling from the proboscis. I can only assume the two are connected.
The legs are quivering as the flesh peels away and meshes with the flesh from the chest region. There is a sudden snap halfway through the process as one leg bends backwards. More quivering now and the other leg has snapped at the knee. The changes appear to be slowing now... it starts to sit up, the body is convulsing, the legs flopping. It is trying to take its first step, uneasy as first... but now it is adapting quickly. A half-dozen steps and it seems to be perfectly at home with the new, contorted form.
The spattering on the glass is making observation difficult. It appears that Dr. Hogan's legs are elongating, somehow flaying themselves and now twisting with a mixture of his own internal organs into a single appendage, like some sort of tail. His face is contorted, his jaw clenching and unclenching... several jaw-like appendages are emerging from his ever widening mouth. His mouth no longer appears able to accommodate the change... his head is splitting, seams bursting...
And almost instantly, he is perched on his hands, shifting his weight from one palm to the other. He's pacing, circling the room and... he appears to be watching me! He sees me! No, he's fixated on the ceiling now... Oh God no, he's leaping at the vent! With his powerful tail-like appendage, he's striking at the reinforced covering, trying to get it open! I must warn the others!
Recording end!
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Cette Donnée Historique est écrite lors de la toute première infection, 150 ans avant Dead Space 1, quand des scientifiques ont recréés la bactérie, et que deux d'entre eux, après avoir oublié de se laver les mains, sont entrés en contact avec elle.