Bestowed with the Property of "Faster Than Light"

These images clearly displayed the interior of the biological research center outside the settlement, another facility isolated by multiple energy fields and physical barriers.

On a loading platform, numerous R&D Department and Biological Department personnel in heavy, fully enclosed white protective suits were orderly directing large automated mechanical arms and transport robots.

These mechanical units were unloading specially made, silver-gray sealed containers that radiated an icy chill from several newly arrived vertical takeoff and landing transports bearing Imperial biohazard control markings.

The exterior of every container was painted with highly conspicuous black-and-yellow markings denoting the highest level of biological hazard, along with the warning: "Extradimensional Sample · Extreme Danger."

Sealed within the containers were the most valuable spoils that the Imperial Warriors Legion had collected from front-line battlefields throughout the "Dead Space" universe—Blood Moon tissue samples still carrying faint energy fluctuations, Necromorph remains of varied forms that retained a degree of biological activity, and Marker fragments that continued to exude an ominous aura even after being shattered.

Under strict surveillance and multiple security protocols, these blasphemous biological samples filled with unknown dangers were carefully escorted by automated carriers into the Biological Center's laboratories, which possessed the highest level of protection and containment measures.

There, the most advanced analytical instruments and top researchers had long been ready to conduct the most detailed and thorough dissections, analyses, and tests. Their core objective was to precisely extract the unique biological signal signatures, energy fluctuation spectra, and consciousness contamination—

The specific frequency of that consciousness contamination, if it existed at all.

Halsey's sharp gaze swiftly swept across the preliminary scan data and spectral analysis charts continuously refreshing across the screen. Her eyes gleamed with the focus and excitement unique to a scientist facing an unknown challenge.

She gently flexed her slender fingers, her knuckles