![]() ![]() ![]() I liked it, I liked that it fitted well with what I already knew about the Dead Space world. His death is used to start the Church up officially & his discovery of how to replicate the marker is taken. The discovery starts a chain of events resulting in him become an unwanted saint of a new religion that worships the marker & his eventual martyrdom to ensure he never tells the truth of what the marker does. The story is set around the character Michael Altman who first discovers a signal that suggest something is buried deep under the earth’s crust in a water filled crater. I knew that the marker could send people different ways, towards murder & violence, towards insanity & suicide or towards cult-esqe reverence. With details about the effect the marker has on people & how that leads to a necro-morph outbreak the book does a good job of helping me understand it better. ![]() In Dead Space 2 I was surprised to see just how much influence the Church had & I am glad this book deals with that subject. ![]() The Dead Space games have been very vague about the origins of the marker & light on details about the religion that has sprung up around it. Eventually succeeding in Dead Space 3 as the Bretheren Moons are seemingly about to devour the Earth.Īll of that carnage over the years, just because one man 300 years ago tried to warn everyone.Set way before the first game this prequel deals with the discovery of the black marker & the origins of the Church of Unitology. Plus, over time the government's own creation would be its downfall as the Unitologists would continually try to trigger Convergence. Ironically, this also allowed the Church to be able to open its arms to anyone with a passing grudge against the government, allowing them to commit horrible terror attacks with ease and at short notice. Now Unitologists believe their savior was assassinated after his big proclamation at Washington DC and that the EarthGov should never be trusted. This allowed them to be formed into a malleable, dogmatic structure over the next 300 years as the true events were warped and misled until they turned into something completely different. As well as solidify the Unitologists under a Martyr figurehead. In the end, the death of Michael Altman was a plan enacted by the EarthGov military to cover up their attempts to weaponize the Markers effects. ![]()
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