

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.
