Hester's hideous injuries required her to be fitted with a prosthetic left arm, left leg, left ear, and left eye and the medical expenses left her hugely indebted to Parthenope, which could repossess the prosthetics for non-payment. The explosion left thirty-one survivors, including Hester, all of whom were rescued by cargo ships belonging to Parthenope Enterprises, which has mining operations in the asteroid belt. Tragically, an anti-expansion terrorist group blew up Symposium en route, killing almost all the passengers and destroying Vanguard. Vanguard had a quirky streak as well, and liked to take on the shape of a praying mantis, resulting in its nickname Bug. To aid in exploration, Marley and her colleagues had built an AI called Vanguard, whose complex mind and innumerable lifetimes' worth of learned experience would be invaluable for reconnaissance and research. It was to be a research colony, for scientific exploration and discovery. She was one of two hundred people aboard the spaceship Symposium, on their way to establish the first human settlement on Saturn's moon Titan. In this atmosphere, AI specialist Hester Marley was looking forward to a bright future. Dead Space opens in the distant future, when humans have inhabited Mars Įxploration of moons in the outer solar system is ongoing Īnd rich corporations are mining planetoids in the asteroid belt.Ī rebellion by discontented residents of Mars has been subdued, and the horrific weapons used in that conflict have been outlawed.
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