The Black Marker, also known as the Prime Marker, was an alien artifact discovered in the Chicxulub crater on Earth in 2214. We'll live on, not as men, but as God.' - Jacob Arthur Danikįootage of the Black Marker being pulled to the surface off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It will lift us up from our miserable existence and we will become one united in body and united in spirit. You may be looking for the overview page, Black Marker (Marker variant) ' As promised by the prophet Michael Altman, the Black Marker has a plan - for all of you. Though with the side quest last conversation they had it does make sense still for him to volunteer at the opportunity to go to the Ishimura and try to talk to Nicole in person where she couldn't hang up on him.This article refers to the Black Marker found on Earth. (That does make more sense of how Isaac didn't watch the video to the end, no privacy on the Kellion, I wouldn't want to watch something that weird and sad surrounded by strangers- Though he was obsessed with rewatching the first part of the video though over and over, so.)įeels like they made everything happen way too quickly in the supplemental material in 2008, I liked my idea of the last farewell from Nicole being the reason why Isaac would volunteer to go to the Ishimura in the first place, but apparently he was already on board en route before Nicole sent it.

I suspect the writers were a bit stretched thin, doing Extraction, Downfall, the 2008 game, some other extra material, the timeframe when reading all of that seems very dense, like I didn't know they had it so that Nicole sends the message WHILE Isaac is already en route with the Kellion to fix their comms, like why didn't they address that in 2008? Have Hammond, Kendra comment on the fact that that's the first transmission they've gotten in a while. Sounds a bit messy I admit, but that's what I found when googling 'how did nicole send a message in dead space' My theory is that when Vincent did that all messages that were pending were sent out at once and thus Eckhardt and Nicole's messages got through.

In the last scene of the movie Vincent sends out a signal booster thing(not sure what it was) which allows for a brief window of communication. Origineel geplaatst door AdeptusAstartes40K:Comms were indeed ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up by the time Extraction happened but the game takes place in the same timeframe as the movie Downfall.

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