

Lo and behold, a necromorph outbreak occurs, everyone dies, and the Sovereign Colonies cover up the incident and seal off the system. It also reanimates dead tissue which forms into necromorphs who all function in accordance with the will of the Hivemind seeking to gather more dead tissue to increase it's own mass.ĭeeming the benefits of sustainable energy worth the risk of a necromorph outbreak, the Sovereign Colonies reverse engineer the marker, create a new one, and send it to a colony on Aegis VII to test it's functionality.

The signal also creates hysteria, hallucinations, dementia, and psychosis for everyone within a certain vicinity of the marker. This marker emanates a signal that can be harvested as a sustainable energy source. In 2214, an alien artefact (dubbed the "marker") is discovered in the Gulf of Mexico by the Sovereign Colonies (predecessor of EarthGov).
