It's a running beat throughout the mission's four or so hours. Carver asks in disbelief if they were saved by aliens. Neither of them are sure what's going on or how they survived, nearly breaking the fourth wall and admitting just how ludicrous the premise of this add-on is. At the outset, Clarke and Carver find themselves back where much of Dead Space 3 took place: the surface of Tau Volantis. We were told the moon must be destroyed to stop the necromorph menace once and for all. In Dead Space 3's final moments, Clarke demolishes the moon orbiting Tau Volantis and brings it crashing through the planet's atmosphere. Because these key elements of the fiction are incongruous with the universe's established logic it's increasingly hard to take anything presented with more than a grain of salt. But the narrative's still not freed from the shackles of an over-complicated story that changed key aspects of the series fiction seemingly for the hell of it.
On one hand, Awakened is the polar opposite of Dead Space 3: the objectives are focused and simple. Whether or not this is a good thing, I'm unsure. Narratively, it takes this deceit and runs. That Awakened, the first downloadable add-on mission, is an epilogue to the main game's story only reinforces this disregard for plausibility. The stinger at the end of the credits is a distress call from protagonist Isaac Clarke after he somehow survives floating in space with no helmet or air supply. Before the final boss fight, supporting character and co-op buddy Sergeant John Carver unceremoniously exits stage-right to somewhere and isn't heard from again. Defying all logic, characters returned from the dead or survived impossible circumstances afforded by plot-holes big enough to pilot a deep-space mining frigate through. One of Dead Space 3's biggest problems was that its story stopped taking itself seriously in the last act and did double backflips over the pink megalodon in the room. The dead don't stay dead in the Dead Space series.
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