By the twenty fifth century, earth resources were ravaged, consumed, exhausted.
Desperate and on the verge of extinction, we cast out into the void of space,
and discover rich new worlds waiting to be cracked open, and stripped bare.
All of earth became devoted to this effort. The planet crackers were built.
The USG Ishimura was the first and most famous.
Planet crack become routine. Its spoils kept us alive.
Eventually the greedy eyes fell upon the Aegis 7.
Restricted for centuries for reasons are unknown.
Greed and corruption saw to the demise of caution.
There, buried beneath the surface: an artifact. The Red Marker. Long lost, and long forgotten.
The religion I had once called my own had found its holy grail, the key to human immortality... or so we thought.
It did not bring salvation.
"Witness the conviction... of a True Believer!"
It brought doom.
The Marker bred insanity, murder and chaos.
It bred Necromorphs.
Those who escaped the planet fled to the saftey of the Ishimura.
The scourge released upon Aegis 7 came with them.
Within hours, the Ishimura went dark.
The corporation dispatched a small repair crew to check on its investment.
"Seems like everyone was trying to pack in a hurry"
Among the crew was an engineer, Isaac Clarke,
"Isaac, it's me."
He had something special aboard the Ishimura.
"Wish I could talk to you. I'm..."
In the darkness, Isaac found death...
"The Hell?!"
"I dunno, something's in the room with us..."
"Open fire! Open fire!"
And the Red Marker.
It was not holy, it was not alien.
It was man-made
And it could be used to stop the outbreak.
Isaac also found Nicole,
"Thank you, Isaac. I always believed in you"
Dead by her own hand.
She was an apparition of the Marker.
Isaac engineered his escape.
But everything else was destroyed.
The next chapter for Isaac Clarke begins.
Three years later,
he awakes in a hospital on Titan station.
An Earth governed metropolis on Saturn's largest moon.
Isaac has survived.
but his mind is no longer safe.
for the Marker changes all.
 DamnBlackHeart · Sun Jan 08, 2012 @ 08:09pm · 0 Comments |
