

Badass Army: Although not without taking significant losses in the process, and despite being populated for the most part with New Meat, the fact that they were familiar with the infected to the point that they had managed to not only figure out and dedicate a portion of their combat manual to eliminating them, but openly research them to the point that they were tacking dead Necromorphs onto the walls and vivisecting them heavily hints, if not states outright that the S.C.A.F were fighting a fierce ground war with the undead for a fairly long time and holding their own well enough that they were still carrying out their archaeology operations as well, all while the Brethren Moon in orbit and the countless Markers in and around the planet played their usual trickery with them.They're obviously all dead by the time Isaac visits, but the specifics of how they died are quite the mystery.

The military attachment present for the Sovereign Colonies expedition to Tau Volantis, 200 years prior to the events of Dead Space 3.
