Isaac Clarke
Isaac Clarke is a male human from the Fuyti Universe. He was a systems engineer working for the Concordance Extraction Corporation. In 2508 (1437 NE), he was part of the emergency maintenance team of the USG Kellion that was sent to the USG Ishimura to investigate and handle the ship's mysterious communications failure. After his contact with Marker 3A on Aegis VII resulted in him becoming a host for a self-replicating mental blueprint of the Markers with the aide of the Alliance of Nations to destroy the infection, however, Isaac became stranded in space before he was found in a crazed state by EarthGov.
For the next three years, Isaac was held in an asylum on Titan Station and was diagnosed with a unique form of dementia at the result of the exposure by the Marker, resulting in haunting visions of his deceased girlfriend, Nicole Brennan. His mind was harvested for Marker knowledge, providing blueprints which EarthGov used to create Marker copies, while memory-erasing drugs were used to keep the Marker's influence on his brain in check.
Years later, even after the destruction of the Site 12 Marker created by Isaac in the Battle of Titan Station and helping the Allies to find the source of the Markers, his mind was still not completely free from the Marker's signal. He experienced the effects of dementia once again when he was exposed to the Brethren Moons. But soon freed after its hold on him weakened, however more Brethren Moons began to become active across the galaxy, fully supporting the course of destroying them for good in the war for survival of his race.
He was also one of the soldiers that fend off Infected beings in the Infection War.
Biography[]
Aegis VII Incident[]
In 2508 (1437 NE) Isaac volunteered to be part of an emergency response unit that was attached to the USG Kellion. The crew was dispatched to the USG Ishimura. The ship was last reported orbiting Aegis VII on its illegal mission to crack the planet. Their mission was to investigate the distress signals that are sent by the ship and discover the reason behind the total communications blackout. Upon their arrival, the Kellion tried to hail the Ishimura to establish communications with the ship's crew, but was greeted with static messages. Unfortunately, as the Kellion tried to land on the Ishimura, the shuttle was severely damaged by a docking procedure malfunction and was forced to crash land into the landing bay. Due to the emergency crash land, the Kellion lost its port booster.
Shortly after disembarking from the damaged Kellion and noticing that the ship seemed to be deserted, the party was attacked by several unidentified entities in the Flight Lounge. Isaac was separated from the emergency response unit and avoided his pursuers by escaping in a nearby elevator. Trying to escape, Isaac came across another group with advanced suits and easily eliminated the creatures, accepting their help and revealed themselves as soldiers of the Alliance Joint Military under the command of Commander Cody. The AJM explained to him that they are familiar with the creatures from their previous encounters and rescued several survivors from the colony and few on the ship they could find, but also discovered they came from another universe. They tried to stop the Colonists by warning them of the danger but were too late and even the Ishiumara shared the same fate and tried to isolate the infection. Isaac tagged along with them for answers, these entities are revealed to be the Ishimura's deceased crew members that are being reanimated by a recombinant extraterrestrial infection known as Necromorphs and may have stumbled upon their universe in a great war over a thousand years prior to the event. Isaac thought they were insane had it not been for the Necromorphs, but needed to find the engineer, Computer Specialist Kendra Daniels and the team's commander, Zach Hammond who were the only survivors.
Still in touch with Kendra and Hammond via RIG, Isaac and his new friends aided in the Ishimura’s repair by fulfilling numerous tasks across the ship. Despite the Necromorph opposition, an S.O.S. beacon was eventually placed on an asteroid that was undergoing ore extraction and purged from the mining hold. The signal attracted the attention of a military vessel called the USM Valor. Despite Cody's reinforcements coming to their help in time, the crew of the Valor was slaughtered shortly after they recovered an Ishimura escape pod that was containing a Slasher, trapped and unintentionally jettisoned from the ship's Bridge by Hammond. Isaac could watch as the ship was blasted by an Alliance military vessel, unable to save possible survivors but to least put them out of their misery.
Joining the Alliance[]
Personality and Traits[]
Isaac Clarke harbored strong resentment and distrust toward Unitology. This resentment formed because of his mother, Octavia converted to Unitology and her subsequent psychological deterioration and brainwashing, causing her to liquidate the family estate to pay the Church, and later to kill Isaac's father and then herself. Isaac's hatred of Unitology only further increased when he discovered that the Church had taken his parents' bodies immediately after the murder-suicide and refused to return them or reveal where they were, denying Isaac closure. His grief led him to blame Nicole for his parents' deaths during a video call, angrily reminding her that she had claimed his mother was well enough to return home to them when she wasn't and telling Nicole that she might as well have killed them herself. However, he quickly realised what he had said and tried to apologise to Nicole, only for her to cut him off in response, leaving him feeling regretful and fearful that he had only isolated himself further.
Even three years later, after waking up with amnesia on the Sprawl, Isaac continued to suffer psychological torment from the apparition of Nicole, despite his efforts to ignore her and pretend like he had moved on. She eventually forced him to stop fighting her off by making him admit his true feelings: that he was still in denial because Nicole was his "everything", and he felt he would have nothing left to live for if he were to recognize that she was dead. After using the machine's "steps" and arriving at the base of the Site 12 Marker, Isaac was faced with the consequences of finally accepting the death of Nicole, being forced into a fierce mental battle against his inner demons and the Marker's influence which pushed him to commit suicide to complete the Convergence Event. Finally displaying the strength to stand up to the Markers, Isaac was able to fight for his life and succeed by mentally defeating the artifact.
Due to his experiences on the USG Ishimura and the betrayal of Kendra Daniels, Isaac was understandably reluctant to trust fellow survivors, particularly anyone associated with EarthGov or the Church of Unitology. However, he would still go out of his way to help others if the situation allowed for it. Isaac's distrust of EarthGov began with Kendra's betrayal and their interests in producing the Red Markers for energy purposes. He was constantly hunted by EarthGov forces on Titan Station who had been ordered to eliminate him along with the other subjects who were part of the Project Telomere. Even after escaping from Titan Station, he was still hunted and was forced to go underground to avoid being captured. After being apprehended by Robert Norton and John Carver on the New Horizons Lunar Colony, Clarke refused to help them partly because they were EarthGov soldiers.
Isaac was an empathetic individual and was consistently determined to save as many people as he could, even at the risk of his own life and regardless of his mental state at the time. Some examples include him activating a gunship so Ellie Langford could be rescued despite her protests - not wanting her to end up like Nicole. Isaac also protected Carver from the Necromorphs during Carver's hallucination confrontations in the Marker Containment labs on Tau Volantis.
Isaac showed empathy even for those who had attempted to harm him: attempting to save Kendra Daniels from the Hive Mind despite her earlier betrayal.."
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Nicole Brennan[]
Nicole was Isaac's girlfriend and been in a loving relationship, but his love for Nicole deeply by his outright refusal to face the fact that she was dead, finding himself unable to watch the end of her final message despite, deep down, knowing her true fate. This state of denial appears to have also been fueled by his immense feelings of guilt, as he believed he was responsible for her death due to having encouraged her to accept the Ishimura job. Isaac's inability to face the truth ultimately made him easy to manipulate by Marker 3A, as its visions of Nicole and promises of reuniting them allowed it to fulfill its goals of using Isaac's mind in order to be replicated.