Disability Superpower: Istvan's mental problems protect him from the Marker's usual insanity effects, and actually allows him to communicate with the Marker to some degree.Covers Always Lie: Neither Jensi nor anyone runs into a gigantic Necromorph depicted on the cover.It's not shown as a good thing though, every bad thing that happens to Jensi is from protecting his brother, who is too far gone to really appreciate it, and he would be better off forgetting about Istvan. Big Brother Instinct: Jensi for Istvan, even though Jensi is the younger brother.

He shows signs of paranoid schizophrenia, and some obsessive-compulsive disorder. Ambiguous Disorder: Istvan's mental disorder is unclear.Jensi travels to Aspera as Necromorphs start to break out.ĭead Space: Catalyst provides examples of: Jensi meanwhile gets a tip from his friend Henry Wandrei, a supervisor at the prison, of his brother's location. Briden and his team discover that Istvan is not affected by the Marker's presence. As is customary with Markers, it's presence is causing people to hallucinate, mutilate, and kill themselves. One day, Istvan kills a local politician (though he says he was told the gun would shoot red dye) and is sent to a prison colony on the planet Aspera for political prisoners.Ĭoincidentally, Aspera is also home to a secret research facility that is building a Marker, led by fervent Unitologist Dr.

The only person he will listen to is his younger brother Jensi, who has taken care of his brother since they were kids. Istvan Sato has always had mental problems, like hearing voices, seeing patterns everywhere, zoning in and out of reality, and a mild case of Lack of Empathy.

Although it takes place before the first Dead Space game, it has no major connection to any other story in the series or Dead Space: Martyr, Evenson's other Dead Space novel. Dead Space: Catalyst is a Tie-In Novel set in the Dead Space universe, written by B.K.

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