Soon, a violent outbreak spread across the colonies of the planet, killing and converting its population into monstrosities of the Marker's will. However, soon the aliens would discover the artifact was sentient and it would reveal its true intentions. The aliens built faux markers across the planet's surface in hopes of generating more energy for their uses. Soon the planets inhabitants began to worship the strange artifact, as it promised the aliens a new and effective source of limitless energy and gave the race a shining beacon of their future. Sometime in their lifetime, they discovered an ancient alien artifact on their planet, a Black Marker. Sometime more than two million years ago, the aliens existed on the vast water covered planet of Tau Volantis and were an advanced species both technologically and socially. Further investigation of Tau Volantis centuries later by the Dead Space series' main protagonist Isaac Clarke revealed that the aliens hadn't created the Marker at all and were merely another of its victims. A Marker had also been uncovered on Earth in the year 2214, leading the Earth Government and Sovereign Colonies to believe that the inhabitants of Tau Volantis were responsible for creating the Markers to begin with.

Among the ruins also existed evidence of the presence of a Marker, an artifact that not only generated high levels of exploitable energy, but also held the power to reanimate dead organic matter in the form of monstrous undead abominations referred to as Necromorphs.

Before Tau Volantis was discovered, humanity had never found any evidence that intelligent life had ever existed anywhere apart from Earth, but numerous structures, machines and fossilized remains were found on the planet, indicating that the inhabitants were intelligent and highly advanced both technologically and socially.

In the Dead Space universe, the remains of an unnamed alien species are discovered on the frozen planet of Tau Volantis.

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