Nathan McNeil

Nathan McNeil, or Detective MacNeil is the main protagonist of Dead Space: Extraction. He's a P-Sec officer who worked on the Aegis system, but after the inital outbreak leads a group of survivor out of the place, aboard the Ishimura.
== Biography ==
=== Resource Wars ===
Nathan is a war veteran, during the campaign of Scorpio 6, he managed to save his friend Gabe Weller from a firefight after the latter was wounded. After his service for the war, he is assigned as a Detective on the Aegis Colony. 
=== The Second Aegis VII Incident ===
Getting notable reports about a man going nuts on the mining area, Nathan leads a group of P-Sec down to the place to prevent chaos, he was forced to shoot Sam Cadwell, putting a end to his killing spree. Following that, Nathan became a lead detective on the case regarding Caldwell. 
A week later, Nathan was still resreach about Sam, he reunites with his fellow allies, Gabe Weller who is serving as a officer aboard the Ishimura. Alongside Weller and his team, Nathan went on the retrieve the bodies of the Union Square incident from the colony morgue. When Nathan, Weller and Karklins reached the morgue, they found it empty and started searching for information regarding the bodies' transfers. During their resreachs, several colonists turn aggressive and forced Nathan to gun them down. 
Reaching the P-Sec headquarters, they witnessed the colony in complete chaos, nearly everyone seemed to be suffering the same symptoms just like Sam did before. A rookie who is also exposed to the marker ambushes both McNeil and Weller, forcing Nathan to put him down. In desperations for a escape, Nathan and Weller barricaded themselves within the headquarters. 
== Trivia ==
* Nathan is voiced by Joseph May.
* The fact that he effortlessly used the weapon with his left hand may suggest that McNeill is ambidextrous, and is plausibly the first ambidextrous protagonist of the series.
* Nathan is the only officer tries to escape the Ishimura with a group of peoples. 
* Nathan's severed hand likely is the hand featured on the Dead Space boxart. If it IS, it is likely a retcon as Extraction was released after the original game.
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