Li proposes selling the Marker shards, which prompts Malyech to assault her.

While they discuss the fate of the crew, Malyech shows them the pieces of the Marker. Jessica decides to salvage the ship for parts and gathers the crew at the bridge. When he wakes up, he takes the shards and goes to the Ishimura. Gatura Okeke, Stefan and Jessica explore the ship while Malyech investigates crystals on the side of the ship, which turn out to be Marker fragments but when he gets too close to them, he blacks out and has a nightmare of being chased by an Hunter-like Necromorph. It is devoid of people or Necromorphs but is instead full of an organic sludge.

The Ishimura is heavily damaged with most systems nonfunctional or malfunctioning. They manage to use gravity tethers to hold the Ishimura in position and begin boarding. The Ishimura is shocked into their position and destroys their Nest with its captain, Bellevin, and damages the Hunter Moon, a ship commanded by Jessica Li and Stefan Schneider. We return to the perspective of the Magpies, who are using a shockring to transport eggs (clumps of minerals) to their Nest (a large storage ship) when they get an odd reading. In addition, they are joined by the Oracles, who take control of the situation. He is under orders to find the Marker and the Ishimura, both of which they are unable to locate. In the meantime, EarthGov's Defense Secretary David Chang arrives at the Aegis VII blockade. His adjutant, Julia Copland, comforts him before directing their attention to a motherlode of minerals.

It is lost somewhere in deep space, and both the Government and a powerful religious sect called ' Church of Unitology' believe it may still hold the Red Marker, believed to be an alien artifact that promises great power for either side, and both will stop at nothing to reach it first!' -Amazon's official summary for Salvage Plot synopsis Ĭaptain Benedykt Malyech of the Magpie ship Black Beak is chased in the halls of the Ishimura by a multitude of Necromorphs and subsequently turns into one before waking up. Official summary ' The USG Ishimura, the most famous of the Planetcracker class starships, is flung from orbit around Aegis VII after the disastrous events of Dead Space.

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