Led by the ship's Captain, Caleb Campbell, the survivors reached a temporary safe spot and were at a loss about what to do next.

The Necromorph infection quickly spread to the entire ship, leaving only a handful of survivors fighting for their lives. The damaged O'Bannon in a debris cluster left from Aegis VII.Īs the O'Bannon's crew focused on damage control and repairing the ShockPoint Drive, the Marker shard recovered from Aegis VII manipulated Nolan Stross into using the body of a deceased crew member in his study of the shard. The resulting shockwave and debris hit the O'Bannon, severely damaging the ship and disabling its ShockPoint Drive. As a consequence, the unstable Aegis VII exploded, killing almost all of the planetside teams.

Moments later, he had a psychotic breakdown and took the other team members to be monsters harming his daughter, causing the destruction of one of the stabilizers in the struggle. One of the team members eventually found a shard of the Marker and started hallucinating about his lost daughter. As Stross was already a part of the O'Bannon's crew, the government arranged to have the First Responder sent in after the loss of the USG Ishimura Stross was secretly tasked with retrieving pieces of Marker 3A with the help of a team of engineers and conduct research on the recovered fragments.Īfter the O'Bannon launched several stabilizers onto the planet, search teams were sent to the surface to seek out any remaining fragments of the Marker.

During that time, he was also clandestinely a part of EarthGov's secret investigation into the Markers. Prior to the mission to Aegis VII, Nolan Stross had been working as the Chief Research Scientist aboard the USG O'Bannon for a little over a year.

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