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Brethren Moon

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Brethren Moon - The Brethren Moons, sometimes referred to as Brother Moons, Blood Moons or Necromoons, are gigantic, highly intelligent, space-faring Necromorphs and the source of the Marker signal. They are the result of a Convergence Event and are believed to be the final stage in the Necromorph life cycle. Due to their agenda, the Brethren Moons are the central antagonists of the entire Dead Space franchise.

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The Brethren Moons, also known as Blood Moons,[2] are a species of moon-sized necrotic lifeforms that have spread throughout the universe with but a single goal in mind: to consume all organic life. This blood-mad crusade against biological life has gone on for countless centuries, leaving entire star systems completely devoid of even the most basic microbial life. Though the goal of the Moons and the Markers is ultimately that of reproduction, they appear to regard their existence and goal as divine and inevitable[3] and their status as that of a "God", referring to the eradication of a species as their "ascension".[1] Additionally, they display a seemingly religious reverence for death.[4]

The Moons reproduce by producing Black Markers within themselves, which they then eject and allow to travel through space at sub-light speeds before impacting a suitable host world.[5] In the case of Earth, the Black Marker was carried inside of an asteroid that struck the Yucatán Peninsula around 65 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs. It is believed by Unitologists and individuals affected by Marker Dementia that the Markers themselves are responsible for encouraging the evolution of sentient species through an altered version of their signal,[6] with the ultimate goal of creating a species intelligent enough to build Red Markers.[7]

After a host world has been reached, the Black Marker will fall dormant for a time, "awakening" only once the dominant lifeform of the host planet has achieved a certain level of technological advancement.[8] The Marker then broadcasts an electromagnetic signal that severely affects intelligent beings, manifesting as homicidal or suicidal tendencies in those of a more simple mindset, or as a compulsion to replicate the Markers through artificial means in intellectuals.

The Marker signal appears, at first, to be a seemingly limitless source of electromagnetic energy, which drives intelligent species to create Red Markers, copies that are then inevitably distributed throughout their territory.[9] However, the signal has another function which remains dormant for a brief period after its discovery: it can alter the necrotic tissue of dead organisms at the molecular level, causing corpses to reanimate and become Necromorphs; relentlessly hostile bio-recombinant creatures which then spread like a pandemic. Ideally, due to the presence of Markers in nearly every major population center, containing these outbreaks becomes nearly impossible.

After the Necromorph infestation has claimed a sufficient amount of biomass around a Marker, the Marker may initiate a Convergence Event, the "birth" of a Brethren Moon. This event can be triggered by a Black Marker or by the Red Marker copies, although the latter require their "makers" to be killed and absorbed in order to fulfill Convergence.[3][10] Once a Convergence Event begins, all Necromorphs and any other dead tissue within the Marker's area of influence are flung into the stratosphere, where they begin to form into the biological core of a new Moon. The Moon later absorbs fragments of its host world to form a protective shell of rock around its vulnerable center.[11][12]

It is currently unknown what happens to the Moon once it absorbs all life upon its birth world, but it is believed that the newborn Moon will travel to the nearest source of organic life to continue feeding before falling into a state of torpor: asleep, but at the same time alert for any sign of potential prey.

Dr. Earl Serrano speculated that all life between the origin of the Brethren Moons and humanity's home system has been extinguished by them, mixing the genetic material of countless species across the universe into their uniform biomass. This proposed an uncommon answer to the Fermi paradox: Humanity never had the opportunity to contact aliens, not because they didn't exist, but because a massive and lethally invasive hyper-predator absorbed most, if not all, of the organic life within our galaxy (and possibly beyond), leaving much of it in a state of "dead space."[13] Serrano also discovered that the Moons are linked to one another through a telepathic network spanning the universe, which they use to communicate as the Markers' influence affects other sentient species, leading them to build more Markers, continuing to expand the network.

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