The Aegis VII Marker's creators seemingly managed to escape centuries ago, and now it can't initiate Convergence like Mercer wants. He states that he seemingly managed to communicate with the Marker about this, and the answer he got was: "The makers must be absorbed." This means that, as was implied at the end of Dead Space 2, Red Markers can't actually start Convergence unless they merge with their creators. In it, Mercer wonders why Convergence hasn't happened yet despite all the bodies on the Ishimura. Why doesn't the Marker start Convergence? Well, this is answered pretty directly in the text log found in Mercer's room. With the rewrite of his personality in the remake, Mercer is now obsessed with making the Marker start Convergence, to the point that his death scene is now him literally begging for Convergence, to no avail. So to clear up the misconceptions, here's what the remake tells us:įirst, we've got Mercer's character. Why does it want to go back to Aegis VII? Why does it want to go back to its base ? Those are elements that we've been improving by building on top of elements of that are coming from the book or later elements in Dead Space 2.Īnd it turns out, the remake does answer this pretty definitively, and yet every time this question has been asked in this sub since it came out, people still get the lore completely wrong, with people claiming "this Marker isn't like the others" and "it doesn't want Convergence" and getting upvoted. As stated in an interview from October:Īlso, something we enhanced a bit compared to the original, is what the Marker wants. However, the developers for the remake were aware of this, and did rectify this issue.
If you were to ask fans of the franchise, you'd get a different answer every time, because the truth is there was no "official" answer, as the lore wasn't thought out at the time, so all we could do was speculate based on what came after. So, for nearly 15 years, there were discussions about what the Marker's goal was in the original game, and why it wanted to be returned to Aegis VII.