In the case of Earth, the Black Marker was carried inside an asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula around 65 million years B.C. “The Moons consumed new worlds by sending out Black Markers which travelled through space and impact upon planets. I’m pretty sure this was also commented on in the game as well. “The Brethren Moons, though their origins are unknown, are a series of moon-sized creatures throughout the galaxy that consumed all organic life they encounter through the use of their Markers.” They weren’t created to cull the numbers and prevent civilizations from expanding, no but I believe that they would want them to expand, to gain better space travel to help spread their signal, and for them to grow desperate for more resources and “infinite” energy, just as Earth and other alien races wanted. The Brethren Moon’s are THE Apex Predators, nothing is above them in that universe, unless you’re Issac Clarke that is. While yes, Earth was mining planets to gather their resources, who’s to say that the extinct alien races weren’t doing the same, yet even more so with their technology? The Markers were created for one single purpose, to send their signals to cause insanity in weaker minded beings, and to make creators for the more intelligent ones. I’m not sure how serious you are with this post but.ĭid you forget how they assimilated all life in the universe, and at the end of DS3 how they were going to do the same to Earth? Too bad they're absolutely fucking TERRIFYING. Brethren Moons may actually improve the ability for the universe to harbor life, and may even act as archives of converged civilizations. In conclusion, I believe Brethren Moons are a necessary predator to keep massive resource-hungry civilizations from destroying entire planetary systems. It is also possible that the Moons act as a sort of archive - those civilizations that are converged into a Moon may still have a consciousness in the biological mass of the Moon, ensuring that their unique society and culture is recorded, at the cost of individuality. By harvesting a civilization that has grown too large, the Moons ensure proper controlled culling in order to allow life to flourish as time goes on. Without them, prey species run unchecked, resulting in a natural decline of an ecosystem's genetic diversity and ability to harbor life. We know that predators are incredibly important in an ecosystem. This prevents premature harvesting of civilization that hasn't yet reached a destructive state. The ability to replicate Markers, and importantly the ability to spread its infection, is only possible when a people have attained a certain level of technology. In my opinion, the Markers themselves are a failsafe to prevent converging a civilization in its infancy. Those hungry enough for resources will likely replicate the structures, leaving their civilizations across space ripe for convergence. When a civilization grows large and advanced enough, their exploration will undoubtedly result in them finding a Marker. Perhaps the way Brethren Moons reproduce is an indicator of their creator's original plan. ![]() I believe the Brethren Moons were created by an intelligence that realized how unsustainable interstellar civilizations would become with time, and how their hungering for resources would ultimately ruin the ability for other intelligent civilizations to develop later. As they digest more and more resources through planet-cracking, they are rapidly increasing entropy and ironically destroying the ability for the galaxy to harbor life in order to keep their populations alive. Humanity and its needs are increasing at an exponential rate. Ultimately, humanities' hungering for resources is a massively destructive force that is jeopardizing entire planetary systems. The trilogy shows how humanity is expanding at an alarming rate, even going as far as dismantling entire planets to sustain their populations. As humanity explodes in population thanks to the advent of FTL drives and gravitron mastery, so too do their resource needs vastly increase. Environmental themes are a common occurrence in the Dead Space trilogy.
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