Her knowledge of necromorphs from her time on the Ishimura, although limited, would be enough for her to make her way to one of the many escape shuttles that left during the evacuation that Tiedemann ordered. If, on the other hand, Nicole was not Patient Six, then odds are that she escaped from the mental institute where all the Patients were held in the original outbreak, similar to how Stross escaped as well. If she was, then the odds of her surviving The Sprawl are nil, given that Patient Six couldnt "feed, drink, or even bathe herself".
Since Patient Six from Dead Space 2 is revealed to be female, it would be unknown if Nicole was Patient Six or not. Someone recognizes that she could be useful in studying the Markers influence on people, and Director Tiedemann makes her one of the patients in his plan to save The Sprawl by the research grants supplied by rebuild the Marker(s), along with Isaac and Stross. While restoring the Ishimura, Nicole makes herself known, either by accident or because she heard someone. Of course, a science team is sent aboard to investigate the evidence left by the Marker, because the Marker is a powerful thing. Since the cover-up regarding Aegis VII is a terror attack, Earth Gov restores the Ishimura to working condition to show the people that they wont be influenced by terrorists, including installing an escape pod to replace the one that Hammond used to suck out a necromorph in Dead Space 1, which Isaac then later uses to escape the Ishimura in Dead Space 2. They eventually find marker shards on the hull of the Ishimura and start spoiler: killing themselves, but the Shards dont bother Nicole, since they are small enough that they can only be a problem to people if they touch the Shards, which the Magpies did and Nicole didnt.Įarth Gov eventually finds the Ishimura and takes it back to the Sprawl. When the Magpies board the Ishimura, Nicole doesnt know it due to that systems and the Magpies never found Nicole before, or during, the bloodbath, since the Ishimura is over 1.5 kilometers long. (Side note: Aftermath shows that Aegis VII also survived the explosion.) The necromorphs turned into the sludge (as stated by audio logs in Dead Space 2), so Nicole doesnt have to fight to survive anymore, and the Necro-Nicole is a hallucination caused by Isaac being insane as revealed in Dead Space 2.ĭead Space Salvage spoilers ahead: At this point, the Ishimura drifts aimlessly into space, with almost non-existent systems, and is later retrieved by a group of Magpies (The Main cast of Dead Space: Salvage). In Dead Space 2, it is revealed that after Isaac killed the Hive mind, the Ishimura survived the planets explosion, which means that Nicole is still on board at this point. The psychic influence from the seal is much more complex but narrow- it can only affect one or two people at a time, and it gives them complex hallucinations of dead loved ones that give them advice or guidance. The Hive Mind psychic influence tends to be basic but broad- it makes everyone in the radius suicidal and violently psychotic, so that there are more dead bodies. There is the Marker's Necromorphic Hive Mind, which wants to spread the Necromorph infection, and then there is what was placed there by the precursors, which wants to contain the Necromorphs. The reason why the psychic influence of the Marker seems so contradictory is because there are, in fact, two distinctly different entities present.
The Dead Space effect helps keep the Necromorphs contained while it is buried, so that none of the bacteria or worms and whatnot that come in direct contact with the marker get converted. The carvings on the outside, which describe the Necromorph DNA, are basically a hazardous material warning, complete with a detailed description of the contents, and which human researches only tend to be able to partially translate (continually missing some of the important bits, like "Recommended Containment Protocols" and "Why you shouldn't let this get loose"). For whatever reason, these precursors couldn't or wouldn't destroy the Black Marker, and instead, they sealed it away on Earth- modifying it with the external carvings, the base, and some other things which create the Dead Space effect and the additional psychic effects (see below).
The Marker is Sealed Evil in a Leaky CanSo, however many millennium ago, the Black Marker and it's Necromorph-generating properties existed, and was fought against by some form of precursors.
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