Does UAC have territorial disputes?

[printz]

Since UAC is heavily armed and backed by the Military, it means they need to defend themselves from a threat. But that threat can't be the foregone Demons, as it can be seen how badly they were prepared for that. This makes me wonder if there was a hostile country with its own state funded company of space exploration. Too bad id didn't explore that, but they probably didn't want any trouble or banning their game internationally, and Carmack helped not to care about details... 

[HQDefault]

I mean, it does make a certain amount of sense. They probably don't have much security on Phobos, just enough to deal with potential stowaways and whatnot. But we do know that they have a large squadron of Marines (who seem to be some weird legal grey-area between government Soldiers and Independent Mercenaries) stationed on Mars' surface. I think it would make sense that there are some foreign powers that might be politically tense with the UAC, so some government security is clearly warranted.

 

That's not a bad idea.

[Sunnyfruit]

They are here to dispose of nosy visitors and any possible rebellion, Half-Life style. You can call it political if you see the UAC as a State within the State, like the cyberpunk megacorporations.

There is not much background for Doom 1 and 2 unfortunately, but in 3 and 2016, the UAC was openly playing with Hell creatures. Samuel was playing stupid but he knew about the Argent accelerator in the Cyberdemon and didn't show a glimpse of guilt about it. Same goes for 64 or Plutonia if you consider these canon.

Note aside, I wish the hitscanners were called "Corrupted Humans" instead of "Former Humans", because that's what I thought they were when I played it as a kid. Sedentary ghosts aren't too scary.

[Gez]

In the classic titles, the UAC actually just lent its facilities to the army, and it's the military that's doing teleportation research.

 

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You're a marine, one of Earth's toughest, hardened in combat and trained for action. Three years ago, you assaulted a superior officer for ordering his soldiers to fire upon civilians. He and his body cast were shipped to Pearl Harbor, while you were transferred to Mars, home of the Union Aerospace Corporation.

The UAC is a multi-planetary conglomerate with radioactive waste facilities on Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos. With no action for fifty million miles, your day consisted of suckin' dust and watchin' restricted flicks in the rec room.

For the last four years the military, UAC's biggest supplier, has used the remote facilities on Phobos and Deimos to conduct various secret projects, including research on inter-dimensional space travel. So far they have been able to open gateways between Phobos and Deimos, throwing a few gadgets into one and watching them come out the other. Recently however, the Gateways have grown dangerously unstable. Military "volunteers" entering them have either disappeared or been stricken with a strange form of insanity--babbling vulgarities, bludgeoning anything that breathes, and finally suffering an untimely death of full-body explosion. Matching heads with torsos to send home to the folks became a full-time job. Latest military reports state that the research is suffering a small set-back, but everything is under control.

 

In Doom 3, the marines seem to be there also for the teleportation experiments, even if it's the UAC that brings the technology to do them. It's marines that serve as volunteers; and they've also been used to explore Hell and capture and bring back specimens. So the higher-ups certainly know what's going on; it's just they weren't ready for Hell's denizens to start pouring forth uncontrollably.

 

The latest titles just seem to do away with the army entirely. Now it's all UAC, all the time.

Edited October 31, 2020 by Gez

[Martin Howe]

On 10/31/2020 at 7:02 AM, HQDefault said:

But we do know that they have a large squadron of Marines (who seem to be some weird legal grey-area between government Soldiers and Independent Mercenaries) stationed on Mars' surface.

You mean a kinda 'colonial' marines? Hmm, not such a good idea, I seem to remember that idea was tried before and didn't end well :p :p

[Solmyr]

Before reading the manual i assumed that massive corporations such as the UAC had small private armies to keep their installations safe from strike teams sent by other rival companies or terrorist attacks from greenpeace, space pirates and shit.

Edited November 1, 2020 by Solmyr

[Kool Belzero]

3 hours ago, Solmyr said:

Before reading the manual i assumed that massive corporations such as the UAC had small private armies to keep their installations safe from strike teams sent by other rival companies or terrorist attacks from greenpeace, space pirates and shit.

That stuff sounds like a great zandronum mod waiting to happen 

[Solmyr]

@Kool Belzero it kinda does sound like a good zandronum mod, the closest thing we have to that is All Out War 2. 

[P41R47]

On 10/31/2020 at 3:53 AM, printz said:

Since UAC is heavily armed and backed by the Military, it means they need to defend themselves from a threat. But that threat can't be the foregone Demons, as it can be seen how badly they were prepared for that. This makes me wonder if there was a hostile country with its own state funded company of space exploration. Too bad id didn't explore that, but they probably didn't want any trouble or banning their game internationally, and Carmack helped not to care about details... 

Yes, its called AGM, but don't tell anybody... its a secret!
Not much is know about it, there are rumors on experimenting on people, transforming them in grotesque creatures mostly by accident, as they were trying to enhance them an gave them super human abilities.

But its all too hazy and shadowy, some overplane visflows are making it impossible to communicate with the AGM facilities.

Some say, just a rougue marine escape from their experiments...

But no one knows for sure.

The search for Freedoom is always the hardest thing...

[rustygizzard]

the doom 2016 multiplayer kinda explores this, although not mentioned in the game, the different armors are different factions as mentioned in the artbook.

[Tetzlaff]

I can imagine they have territorial disputes on Mars with another mega corporation: