Isaac realises that the flesh-eating creatures (which appear to be mutated versions of the ship's crew) can only be stopped if they're dismembered, giving our protagonist a means to defeat this mysterious foe. In their first encounter with the creatures, Chen is killed and Isaac is separated from his allies, fleeing deeper into the ship.Īfter escaping an initial swarm of necromorphs, Isaac finds a small workshop where he tracks down a Plasma Cutter and a message scrawled in blood on a wall: ' Cut off their limbs'. After investigating the vessel, Isaac, Hammond, Daniels and Chen are attacked by nightmarish monsters known as necromorphs.

They're surprised to find nobody responds to their extravagant entrance, and it doesn't take long to deduce why. The responding officers arrive at the mining ship but, due to a malfunction, crash their vessel into the Ishimura's docking bay. Isaac has additional skin in the game as his wife, Doctor Nicole Brennan, is stationed aboard the ship, working on a mysterious project. Receiving a distress beacon from the USG Ishimura, engineer Isaac Clarke (our lead protagonist), Senior Security Officer Zach Hammond, Computer Specialist Kendra Daniels, Corporal Johnston and Corporal Aiden Chen are sent to board the ship and discover the source of the distress call. However, this seemingly routine planet-cracking mission appears to have met a hitch, and that's where we come in. In Dead Space's dystopian far future, humanity has exhausted Earth's natural resources, creating ships like the Ishimura to harvest other planets for their resources. Our tale takes place in the year 2508 aboard the USG Ishimura an elite spaceship known as a ' planet cracker' that has the ability to mine planets.

If you want to find all of the logs and discover the Ishimura's darkest secrets for yourself, check out our Text and Audio Logs Guide for a breakdown of their locations.

It's worth noting that a lot of Dead Space's story is explained via audio and text logs.

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