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"THE HEART OF 'THE SPRAWL'."
—Hospital slogan
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Titan Memorial Medical Center logo.

The Titan Memorial Medical Center was a medical facility located on Titan Station. Around 2508, EarthGov installed secretive laboratories in the psychiatric wing of the facility under the umbrella of Project Telomere.

History[]

EarthGov Facilities[]

"Chairman Donovan, this is Doctor Brooks. I've said this many times, and I'll say it again. I don't like the secrecy behind the new labs they've installed in the psych wing. It's been three years, and we don't have the faintest clue what's going on. Such secrecy has no place in an open and free society. Their networks are so isolated that we can't even tell they have one, let alone shift through it to see if anything unethical is taking place right under our noses. If we don't get some traction on this soon, I'm going to go to Tiedemann, and insist on a formal review of these policies."
—Dr. Brooks[1]
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Titan Memorial Medical Center map.

Around 2508, after the Aegis VII incident, EarthGov ordered new laboratories to be installed in the Medical Center's psych wing in order to study their Project Telomere patients.[1]

Pre-Outbreak[]

"Please refer all registrants complaining of anxiety and/or psychological problems to the other hospitals in the area. We're booked and running low on mood-elevating medications. With the recent CEC layoffs and the increased tensions between Unitologists and EarthGov, I thought that was enough of a spike in cases. This new wave is something entirely different."
—Dr. Brian Alpers, Department of Psychology[2]

Events leading up to the Necromorph outbreak in 2511 suggest that the hospital's patients and staff had been experiencing Marker-related symptoms before the incident. The hospital personnel had begun to experience a spike in anxiety and psychological issues that were considered unusual.[2] To compound the situation further, the added element of undisclosed medical experiments performed on the psych patients by EarthGov for Project Telomere revealed that they had become combative, frightened and agitated due to being forced to take certain drugs that suppressed their memories.[3]

Outbreak on the Sprawl[]

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The Medical Center during the Necromorph outbreak.

Titan Memorial was overrun by Necromorphs by the initial start of the outbreak.[4] The telltale signs of chaos and death were written across the walls and general environment of the hospital; incomplete surgeries, bodies hanging limp in wheel chairs and patients left in their beds to die all suggested the hospital staff were overtaxed by infected and living civilians looking to the hospital for help during the evacuation ordered by Director Hans Tiedemann. Franco Delille later entered an already ruined psych ward to extract Isaac Clarke for the Church of Unitology.[5]

Franco's mission was only partially successful; Isaac was freed from the confinement of his Stasis, but was left to escape the hospital on his own after Franco was killed by an Infector. Sprawl Security roamed the halls, on the look out for the "key subjects" Tiedemann wanted eliminated; they were systematically picked off by the Necromorphs inhabiting the hospital. Foster Edgars was the only hospital staff encountered physically unscathed by the incident before he committed suicide in front of Isaac. Aside from Isaac, Nolan Stross and Lexine Weller resided inside the hospital before and during the outbreak. Lexine was in the middle of a fertility examination when her husband, Gabe, warned her of the danger and urged her to escape.[6] By virtue of the chaos, Stross may have been allowed to escape his cell.

Stross was able to escape the lockdown while Isaac was forced to find another route out of the complex. Lexine remained hidden in the psych ward, hiding from the Oracles and Victor Bartlett, waiting for the arrival of Gabe.[7] Gabe seemed to have arrived at the hospital only moments after Isaac had killed a Tripod and headed for Titan Heights. The state of the hospital had worsened by the time Weller entered; the Corruption and number of Necromorphs (enhanced and standard) were spreading at an incredible rate. With the sacrifice of his life, Lexine was able to escape the hospital and Titan Station in a gunship.

Like the other environments on the Sprawl, the hospital was destroyed when the station exploded.

Trivia[]

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Render of a piece of medical equipment in Dead Space (2023) beloging to the Titan Memorial Medical Center.

  • In Dead Space (2023), several items and pieces of medical equipment scattered around the USG Ishimura have the logo of the Titan Memorial Medical Center, suggesting that the Medical Center provided supplies for the Ishimura prior to its mission to Aegis VII.

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