

The Red Marker started to envelop him, the energy vibrating Istvan to his core as his mind filled with what felt like "liquid fire". Meanwhile, Istvan blocked everything out and continued to approach the Marker, adoring it and admiring it. Both men were entranced by its unearthly glow, and Briden insisted that they start conducting tests on Istvan to determine his importance.

Istvan was then brought to the Marker 2A chamber, where Briden introduced him to the strange artifact. Briden, the scientists visited the prison and determined that Istvan was the man the signals had been pointing to. One of the prisoners who had recently arrived, Istvan Sato, began to see hallucinations of people he once knew, including his mother and the deceased politician Tim Fischer telling him about the "marvelous Convergence" and urging Istvan to "find" them.Įventually, the signals from the Aspera Marker as well as from the Kreemar Marker and the Aegis VII Marker began to converge in the penal colony, informing the scientists that something important to the Red Markers was located there. As Marker 2A was completed and began transmitting, the prisoners began to feel the effects from its signal, becoming erratic in their ways and slowly going insane. The research team was led by doctors Enoch Briden and Callie Dexter, the former being a member of the Church of Unitology much like several of the project's scientists. The copy sent to Aspera was called Marker 2A, and the planet was chosen due to its remote location and the presence of a penal colony whose inmates could be used as test subjects, if need be.

Eighty years after the Black Marker was first exhumed, under the Sovereign Colonies administration, the artifact was successfully reverse-engineered with at least three copies of it being created, which were sent to three remote planets: Aspera, Kreemar and Aegis VII. Īfter the discovery of the Black Marker in 2214 on Earth, the government began researching the extent of its capabilities and structure in the hopes of using it to discover a source of renewable energy, thus solving humanity's resource crisis. Marker 2A was a Red Marker that was created on the remote planet of Aspera under the Sovereign Colonies. Marker 2A shown alongside Markers 3A and 1A during a SCAF briefing. As you have done, Istvan." -Marker 2A speaking through hallucinations. We must call out louder, and hope for them to hear us and take us into themselves. We cannot live on this planet all our lives.
