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==Setting Lore==
The Dead Space universe is set in a far-flung future where humanity has colonized the stars, but is also experiencing a population boom to the point that resource harvesting has become incredibly vital for its future survival. To the point that there now exists a category of ships called "Planet Crackers", who literally rip uninhabited worlds deemed unfit for colonization apart to break them down into the raw minerals needed to feed the ever-hungry civilization (can someone say [[Leagues of Votann]]?). No alien life has been discovered in the entire galaxy, and most religions have died out - the only thriving religion is a totally-not-Scientology cult called "Unitology", which claims legitimacy from a mysterious, alien-crafted "Marker" that was supposedly discovered on Earth by their prophet, Altman, and which preaches about the need to preserve the bodies of the dead for a coming Rapture-like event when the minds and souls of the living and the dead will be merged into a single harmonious whole.

Things are about to go horribly, ''horribly'' wrong.

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It turns out there's a reason why there's a whole lot of "Dead Space" out there. Whenever a spacefaring civilization hits critical mass and goes off to try and colonize the stars, they would inevitably discover Markers.  The series is coy on ''who'' exactly created the Markers to begin with, but the result is always the same: the species that discovers the markers succumb to a Necromorph infestation, and either die out to provide biomass to create a Brethren Moon, or worse, ''call existing Brethren Moons in the area to the unlucky species home world to accelerate the process''.