The Brethren Moon Necromorph Type Explained (Dead Space Remake Lore)

The Brethren Moons, also referred to as the Brother Moons or Blood Moons, are a race of gigantic, necrotic alien lifeforms, and are the originators of the Markers, the Marker signal, and the Necromorph monsters.
They are believed to be the final stage in the Necromorph life cycle.
Due to their agenda, the Brethren Moons are the central antagonists of the Dead Space franchise, and are referred to in the Dead Space remake
The Moons are literal moon-sized creatures, with the surface acting as a protective shell concealing a mass of tentacles which reach thousands of miles in length.
Within the centre of the creature, is the main head. This head has five colossal yellow eyes, resembling those of the Hive Mind and the Ubermorph.
Hanging from the entrance of the mouth is a mass of tissue consisting of eyes, tentacles, a fang-lined slit and a circular sucking mouth. This smaller head is capable of interacting with the smaller objects that are about to be ingested by breaking the raw materials down and engaging any stubborn living prey.
The Moons are sentient organisms possessing a level of consciousness and intellect practically unimaginable to Human beings.
They communicate via a form of telepathic signal, and are also capable of causing hallucinations by using their telepathic abilities.
During the hallucinations where they spoke to Isaac and Carver through their "Prophet", The Cult Leader, they displayed a kind of Hive Mind mentality by referring to themselves in the plural. The Moons appeared to regard themselves as immortal, omnipotent, and divine by referring to themselves collectively as a "God".
The process of a new Moons creation begins with the Moons making Black Markers, which travel through space inside asteroids before impacting a suitable host world.
In the case of Earth, the Black Marker was carried inside the asteroid that struck the Yucatán Peninsula around 65 million years ago.
After a host world has been reached, the Marker will fall dormant, reactivating only once the dominant lifeform of the planet has achieved a certain level of technological advancement; that is, once they’ve exhausted their home-worlds natural resources, and need to venture into space to find more.
The Marker then announces itself by broadcasting an electromagnetic signal, making it appear to the prey-species to be a limitless source of energy.
This signal will drive intelligent species to create Marker copies that are then inevitably distributed throughout their territory.
However, it has another function which remains dormant for a brief period after its discovery: It can alter the necrotic tissue of dead organisms at the molecular level, causing corpses to reanimate and become Necromorphs; relentlessly hostile bio-recombinant creatures which then spread across the surface of the affected planet like a disease.
Due to the presence of Markers in nearly every major population centre, containment becomes all but impossible.
After Necromorph infestation has claimed the majority of a planet's population, the accumulated Markers initiate a Convergence Event, the “birth” of a Brethren Moon. Once the Convergence event begins, the Black Marker will rise and draw all Necromorphs and any other dead tissue along with quantities of the planet’s crust towards itself, where they all combine with the marker to form into the biological core of a new Brother Moon.
The creature is fully awakened when the last of the species used to create it has been absorbed, along with the planet's entire biosphere. It is currently unknown what happens to the Moon once it absorbs all life upon its birth world, but it is believed that the newborn Moon will travel to the nearest source of organic life to continue feeding.
Earl Serrano speculated that all life between the origin of the Brethren Moons and humanity's home system has been extinguished by the Moons, mixing the genetic material of countless species across the universe into their uniform biomass.
This proposed an uncommon answer to the Fermi paradox: Humanity never had the opportunity to contact aliens, not because they didn’t exist, but because a massive and lethally invasive hyper-predator absorbed most, if not all, of the organic life within our galaxy, leaving much of it in a state of "dead space".
Serrano also discovered that the Moons formed a network that spanned the galaxy, which they used to communicate as the Markers' influence affected other sentient species, leading them to build more Markers, continuing to expand the network.
Two million years ago on an alien planet called Tau Volantis, a Convergence event and the creation of a new Moon were interrupted when the aliens that it

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