Dead Space (Vidya)

Dead Space is a video game series inspired by the 1982 cult classic Horror/Science-Fiction movie "The Thing", Lovecraftian horror, and The Flood from Halo. It revolves around Isaac Clarke, a space engineer, and his mission to stop the Necromorphs, a type of Mutant Undead created by a Xeno Bacteria similar to the Cell-Kin, which are psychically controlled by Atropus-like organic planetoids composed of assimilated Necromorph-ified species. The series is composed of 3 main games, a few side games, and a reboot of the first game.

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.

Necromorph Forms

The most common types of Necromorphs include the Slasher, Infector, Leaper, and Pregnant, but a multitude of them exist. Similar to how every Ork spore contains the entirety of the genetic information of the Orkoid Biosphere, the Marker contains every type of Necromorph's information, written as a symbol upon it. It forcibly but slowly reconstructs the flesh of those corpses within its sphere of psychic influence into a Necromorph, and Infectors can reanimate those outside of it much quicker by injecting the bacteria directly into a corpse.