The crew of the Valor have not fared well.

* How did Hammond get onto the Valor without an air tank and gravity boots? The only visible route was through an exposed, gravity-free airlock. rather interesting how an entire new mutation formed between the attack on the Valor and Isaac's arrival, particularly considering that the bacterial route for Necro infection seems to take a while. How'd they get there? There was only the one Necro, and Slashers can't insta-infect organisms. Twenty minutes, and the marines were dead.

* There were eighty bunks in the barracks. Kendra, however, refers to it as the 'USM Valor'. * Isaac's journal refers to the ship as the 'USG Valor'. * Considering that CEC containers are scattered all over the Valor, the developers didn't bother to reskin the lockers company is probably spread into multiple fields, not just mining, and supplies the military in some capacity.

And yet, they're not making any arrests when the miners go into forbidden systems. * The CEC must be a fairly influential organization, if the Earth government is spying on them. Maybe my 'Space CIA' gag wasn't so far off the mark. * There's a discrete 'Special Ops' that serves as an intelligence-gathering organization. * There's some kind of significance to the terms '3343' and 'Spaceborne'. * The military has three internal divisions - Navigation, Weapons, and Engineering. Considering that alien life seems like a revelation, and that Hammond makes reference to 'patrols', I would assume that there are some rogue humans (pirates, colonists, whatever) roaming around the outer reaches of space. * If there's an organized military force, there must be someone to fight. * Earth is still the cornerstone of the human civilization. * Considering that both the Ishimura and the Valor have logos with Japanese script (I'm not sure if it's kanji, katakana, or romanji - I don't speak the language), it's probably a society founded by a mix of Eastern and Western influences. Admittedly, you have to read between the lines, but it's still there. Interestingly, this chapter tells us a hell of a lot about the backstory of the Dead Space universe. I have never seen such a well-informed crew botch a mission so terribly. Shockpoint to Aegis system, move to position out of local scope ranger and await signal from Ishimura to confirm location. If Marker 3A has been recovered, infection by a lethal organism is a credible threat. Special Ops has confirmed the system but has been unable to provide the planet location. They are believed to have recovered Marker 3A. CEC vessel USG Ishimura in breach of government order.

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