>>174387674I don't know why I included random greentext. Must be tired. Anyways continued.
-Isaac finds Ellie and reveals to her that he killed Norton. She's devastated and refuses to talk to Isaac for a bit. Anyways the rest of the survivors need to reach the top of an icy cliff to get to a research facility where they can assemble the codex. The codex is the only way they can interact with the Machine.
-Isaac heads up first. He eventually finds a large transport cage and uses it to pull everyone up. Unfortunately before Santos can get off the cage the large Ice Spider returns and jumps aboard it. The weight starts putting stress on the cliff face everyone's standing on but Isaac tries to keep the cage up and save Santos. Carver cuts the rope, allowing the cage and spider to drop. Santos dies in the fall.
-This leaves Carver, Isaac, and Ellie as the last remaining survivors. Together they reach a large research facility that contains "Rosetta", the remains of an alien creature needed to complete the codex.
-After completing Rosetta, Isaac discovers that the moon is made up of the Alien creatures, combined into a giant ball of flesh. The Machine was created by the Alien's to freeze the moon and stop its growth. "Turn it off" and "Make us whole" are basically distress signals from the moon for someone to turn the machine off.
-At that moment Danik's men appear and capture everyone, forcing Isaac to hand over the completed Codex. Just before Danik can execute everyone Isaac forces a lethal gas purge of the facility. Isaac and Carver manage to escape but Ellie stays behind, leading them to believe she died.
-Isaac and Carver pursue Danik through the machine to prevent him from activating it. Isaac manages to recover the Codex from Danik and finds out from some of Doctor Serrano's research that the Machine can be calibrated to destroy the moon instead of thawing it.
-At the top of the machine Isaac finds Danik pointing a gun at Ellie. Danik demands the Codex.