īackground Description " As I documented earlier in my Thought Diary, the events on New Horizons Lunar Colony left my faith shaken. A militant sect of religious fanatics, they were actively deposing EarthGov authority throughout the galaxy, launching a violent campaign with the goal of "freeing" the Red Markers from the government's experiments in the name of nature. The Circle was an extremist arm of the Church of Unitology led by Jacob Arthur Danik. Join me as we take back our future - the future the Marker promises to us all." - Jacob Arthur Danik's speech to the members of the Circle. By liberating the Markers we can end this cycle of death and begin the cycle of rebirth. But nature has ways of correcting itself. They have taken our sacred relic and turned it into a disease. They tamper with the Markers – making blasphemous copies as part of their secret research programs. When our prophet Michael Altman spoke out against them, he was silenced.
Even so, it's cool to know (or at least reasonably theorize) that EA was thinking about it long before this remake saw the light of day." When the Black Marker was first discovered on Earth so long ago, the government at the time hid all evidence of it from us. The success of the Dead Space remake presumably makes similar updates of Dead Space 2 and 3, and maybe even more sequels beyond that, much more likely to happen. That theory is bolstered by the earlier discovery of another NG+ text log referring to the Sprawl, a space station on Titan that served as the setting for Dead Space 2. It's all very deep-lore stuff, but the general consensus is that the references to events that occurred in later Dead Space games means EA is planning to remake those games, too-or is at least open to the idea. "Order the living shepherd the dead" is taken to mean creating necromorphs and bringing them to convergence, while the second stanza is believed to be a reference to Tau Volantis, a planet in Dead Space 3 that was turned into a frozen wasteland eons ago in an attempt to halt a convergence event. Several people in the thread believe the opening lines are a reference to Oracles, a mysterious group of high-ranking cultists seen in the Dead Space 2: Severed DLC whose origins and motives are unknown. While the content of the message is easy to figure out, what it actually means is a different matter.