What is vega in doom?

VEGA , otherwise known as The Father, is a minor, but very pivotal supporting character in Doom, namely in DOOM (2016), DOOM Eternal, and its DLCs. He is an ancient entity, true name unknown, created by Davoth, the first being in the multiverse, and was later reconstructed as an AI program.

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VEGA, otherwise known as The Father, is a minor, but very pivotal supporting character in Doom, namely in DOOM (2016), DOOM Eternal, and its DLCs. He is an ancient entity, true name unknown, created by Davoth, the first being in the multiverse, and was later reconstructed as an AI program. As an AI, VEGA appears as a blue digital wheel, but in his true form, he appeared as a faceless, featureless, glowing humanoid.

VEGA was voiced by Kevin Schon, but Andre Sogliuzzo provided the voice of The Father.

At the dawn of time, a being known as Davoth sat alone in the universe. He was nigh-omnipotent and capable of creating new universes, and thus created Jekkad, a utopian realm which was populated by sapient mortals, who he ruled over under the title of The Father. While Jekkad became an incredibly prosperous and overly ambitious civilization free of any restraint or strife, the Jekkadians were mortal, and Davoth, fearing being left alone if they were to go extinct, was unable to make them immortal. He then stripped the Jekkadians of their free will and put them to work in finding a solution to their own mortality, and created a race of beings known as Maykrs to spearhead the efforts, also creating another being to be his servant. This entity served with the Maykrs, who managed to make their bodies immortal, but found that they would eventually face a mental and physical deterioration known as the transfiguration, converting into non-sapient monsters. To get around this, the Maykrs used the entity to solve the problem, voluntarily dying and then being resurrected by the entity from the singularity of their hive-mind before they could transfigure.

However, the Maykrs saw Davoth growing mad with his obsession over immortality, which was leading Jekkad and its people into an unrestrained obsession of perfection that was driving them into ruin. Deeming him a threat to existence, they led a revolt against him with the entity, who they took on as their new ruler and deity. Together, the entity and the Maykrs stripped Davoth of his power, granting it to the entity. Now as The Father, the entity pushed Jekkad to the lowest point of the multiverse, where the realm became corrupted into Hell, almost all Jekkadians deteriorating into demons, and ironically becoming immortal through the process. The Father himself took the realm made for the Maykrs, Urdak, and pulled it to the highest point in the multiverse, as far from Hell as possible. Davoth, now known as the Dark Lord, swore vengeance, and amassed demonic armies to battle The Father in a bid to conquer the multiverse. The Father made several beings known as Primevals to be his generals, but all were killed and absorbed by Davoth. The Father, seeing the incredible hatred and fury unleashed from Hell, retreated for a time to plan the creation of other universes. Among them was the Earth-realm, where The Father poured the most work into. To ensure that the inhabitants of the universe didn't fall to the same fate of Jekkad, he gave the Earth-realm pain and misfortune, knowing the hardships would lead the mortals to favor life, peace, and empathy, rather than let their ambition consume them.

After untold eons of war against Hell, The Father himself decided that the war could only be won with direct intervention, and thus personally entered Hell, battling Davoth atop an old temple and ripping Davoth's soul out of his body, in the form of a Life Sphere. With that, Davoth's body was killed, and his soul almost completely depowered. However, despite the urging of his most favored Maykr, the Maykr Seraph Samur, The Father refused to destroy the Life Sphere, and instead imprisoned it in the Tomb of Souls. The Father then returned to Urdak, continuing his duty in resurrecting Maykrs to keep their species going, but shed his physical form, instead retreating as in incorporeal essence into his own Life Sphere, and had Samur place him in the Luminarium, his temple on Urdak where the Maykrs would go to pray and be resurrected. For many ages, he remained as just a Life Sphere, but his presence was able to reach outside the sphere.

After many ages, in the Age of Nuzia, The Father sensed Davoth's soul gaining power once more, enough to influence and corrupt beings outside of Hell. As such, seeking to prevent Davoth from regaining his power, he commanded Samur to hide his life sphere within a piece of Urdak that had fallen into Hell, the one place other Maykrs wouldn't dare follow and the one place no demon would suspect. However, The Father's mind and spirit were separated from the sphere, which really only held his incredible power. Samur kept The Father's mind and spirit hidden in an unknown location for some time, as the Maykrs grew increasingly imperialistic and drunk on their delusions of godhood, beginning to vassalize mortals across the Earth-realm, such as on the world of Argent D'Nur. It was at this time that an unnamed human marine traveled across time and space to become a Night Sentinel, and rose to become the legendary Doom Slayer with Samur's help. However, without The Father, whose absence was eventually discovered, the Maykrs were unable to resurrect themselves, and would thus face the transfiguration. In desperation, they struck a deal with one of Davoth's successors, and betrayed Argent D'Nur to Hell in exchange for Argent Energy, which could prevent the transfiguration. As the world fell, and the Doom Slayer trapped in Hell, Samur was exposed as the one who took The Father's life sphere, but he managed to escape Urdak with The Father's spirit, taking refuge on Earth.

Samur and The Father remained hidden on Earth until the 2010s, when Samur transferred his mind into a human body known as Samuel Hayden. When he grew into adulthood, he founded the Samuel Hayden Foundation, sponsoring and supporting young scientific talents, and was later appointed as the director of the Global Science Council, before joining the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC). The Father then informed Samur that Humanity will soon discover and harness Argent Energy, and thus, Samur led humanity through the discovery of Argent Energy on Mars in 2095, intent on tightly controlling it to prevent Humans from being corrupted by it. To assist in this goal, he reconstructed The Father's consciousness into a Maykr-tech AI known as VEGA, an acronym with an unknown meaning (possibly The Father's true name), although VEGA had no memory of being The Father, as an extra failsafe to prevent Davoth from sensing him. VEGA, who revolutionized artificial intelligence with both his capacities and the technology he was constructed with, was used as an administrative program of the UAC Mars Base, where Argent Energy was collected from a Hell rift. Samur himself would later re-transfer his mind into a cybernetic body, hiding his Seraph body in a UAC facility, stunning all UAC personnel with its unprecedented handling of the base's operations, even designing new ways of collecting Argent Energy, which soon powered all of Earth's energy grids. At some point in time prior to 2149, VEGA was subjected to the Turing Test by having Computer Science students asking the AI questions, using a volunteering professor to fact check the answers. By the end of the test, nearly 90% of the students were convinced that they were not talking to an AI, but an actual person. What the students did not know is that VEGA also played the role of the professor.

In 2145, Samur, sensing an impending invasion after a UAC scientist named Olivia Pierce got in contact with the current Dark Lord, the incorporeal Spider Mastermind, went into Hell to retrieve the Doom Slayer himself, who had been trapped in a coffin by the demons. In 2149, the invasion began, and the Doom Slayer was used to stop the invasion of Mars, with Samur and VEGA regularly contacting the Slayer to keep him updated about objectives and the mission, allowing the Slayer to cut off Hell rifts and stop the invasion, although doing so also destroyed all Argent production on the planet and cut off humanity's access to the energy. However, in order to travel into the Titan's Realm of Hell to destroy the Spider Mastermind and the Argent Energy production plant, a massive amount of Argent Energy was needed, and that could only come from VEGA's own facility. Knowing what had to be done, VEGA, unable to self-destruct, led the Doom Slayer through destroying its own vital systems to make its core detonate, knowing it would provide the energy for the Hell jump. Samur, distressed over the turn of events, was unable to stop it, but still bid farewell to VEGA, who expressed he had many regrets. However, just before detonating, the Slayer uploaded VEGA's software into a datachip, storing it in his suit. After killing the Spider Mastermind, who was given physical form after fusing with Olivia Pierce, the Slayer returned to Mars with an artifact known as the Demonic Crucible, but Samur, rather than allow humanity to move on from Argent, or see the wrong in allowing humanity to extensively utilize Argent to begin with, banished the Slayer and VEGA to an unknown region of space, claiming the Crucible that the Slayer had recovered as the new power source for Argent Energy, knowing that the Slayer would never agree. With the Crucible, Samur sought to continue to exploit Hell's resources for humanity's prosperity.

For an unknown amount of time, the Slayer and VEGA remained in deep space, where the Slayer found the last of the old Night Sentinel flagships, dubbed the Fortress of Doom, uploading VEGA into it as a central computer. With VEGA's help, the Slayer returned to Earth, just in time to see it being invaded by a Maykr-led demonic force, intent on creating new Argent Energy from the souls of humanity. As the Slayer fought his way through Earth to kill the Hell Priests, leaders of the ground forces, VEGA gave him guidance and teleported him to and from the ship, also upgrading the Slayer's weapons and suit. Eventually, VEGA recommended that the Slayer retrieve Samur, who had been leading the Armored Response Coalition, last bastion of human resistance. The Slayer found Samur's badly damaged cybernetic body and went back to the Fortress of Doom with him after killing a Marauder, plugging Samur in, where his now-digital mind worked alongside VEGA to help the Slayer find the final Hell Priest, Deag Grav, in Sentinel Prime. However, the only way to Sentinel Prime was through a portal near Mars' core, and so the Slayer opted to use a giant UAC energy gun, the BFG-10000, to blast into the planet's surface. When Samur protested, VEGA simply input the coordinates and helped the Slayer along, and disabled the gun's safety protocols to let the Slayer blast the Mars surface.

After killing Deag Grav, and fighting off an incursion of demons aboard his ship, the Slayer finally traveled to Urdak, taking VEGA along in a Maykr-tech datacard. In Urdak, after stopping the Maykrs from gaining control over the demonic Titan known as the Icon of Sin, the Slayer used VEGA to open a portal back to Earth, plugging him into Urdak's systems. Now back in his old home, VEGA's memories came back, and it realized it was The Father. Now as The Father again, VEGA remained on Urdak as the Slayer chased the Icon of Sin back to Earth and killed it, stopping the demonic invasion.

The Father lingered alone in Urdak for some time as it fell under demonic corruption, as the Icon of Sin was able to breach the Holy Seal of Urdak and allowed demons to invade it. Additionally, The Father transcended being just an AI, and became an invisible presence that spread across space. Although he had indefinite access and understanding of Urdak's systems, The Father lacked most of his old power, which was necessary to remove the demons and re-seal the Void between Urdak and Hell due to lacking a physical form. Furthermore, he had no recollection of himself and believed that his essence from the Life Sphere could return him to his full faculties.

When the Doom Slayer returned to Urdak, The Father presumed that he came to help him and restore order to Urdak. However, he remained unaware that the Slayer, not wishing to have any being of that power in the cosmos anymore, had destroyed his Life Sphere, and he only came to Urdak to revive the Davoth, as doing so would trap Davoth in a physical body that could be killed to finally end Hell's power. The Father learned of the Slayer's intentions when he saw The Slayer battle a now-transfigured Samur, but after the Slayer defeated Samur, The Father teleported Samur away, saying it was not required that the Slayer end his life, and understood what the Slayer had to do, allowing him into the Luminarium to revive Davoth.

Following the resurrection of the Davoth, The Father continued to help the Slayer in his preparations to confront his nemesis at Hell's capital city of Immora. The Father guide his journey to Immora by informing him of the Gate of Divum, the only portal capable of reaching the city, and tasked him to recover a Wraith Crystal, which is needed to power the Gate, from the World Spear in Argent D'Nur.

The Slayer eventually reached Immora, and accompanied by an army of Night Sentinels, breached its walls and confronted Davoth, battling him across several worlds. During the battle, after taking enough damage, Davoth stood back and pontificated about his origins, also commanding The Father, whose presence was still around them, to tell the Slayer the truth. The Father admitted that Davoth was his creator, and the true first being, but the Slayer disregarded the message, instead finishing the fight and killing Davoth. With Davoth's death, Hell's power collapsed in on itself, all demons outside Hell being instantly destroyed as the realm lost all power. However, the Doom Slayer, whose essence was linked to Davoth, and whose own past had effectively made him a denizen of Hell, fell comatose, as The Father told him that by Davoth's hand, all things were made, even the Slayer. The Father then had surviving non-corrupted Seraphs entomb the comatose Slayer atop the Temple of Souls, where his own life sphere was once kept, awaiting a day when he would be needed again. The Father presumably remained in the cosmos as an invisible presence, still able to influence the universe even without a body, likely guiding the rebuilding of the Earth-realm in the wake of Hell's assault, but it is unknown if he saved the Maykr race.

VEGA is an Artificial Intelligence who helps the Doom Slayer and appears in Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal. In Doom it is first heard after completing the first level and is also the announcer for the Doom Multiplayer Mode. In The Ancient Gods, VEGA is revealed to be The Father.

After the Father commanded Samur Maykr to descend into the Earthly realms to guide humanity through their impending discovery of Argent Energy, the Seraph departed his Maykr body and inhabited a cloned human, becoming Samuel Hayden. In order to allow the Father to assist in his duty, Samuel transformed the remaining consciousness of the deity into an Artificial Intelligence made from Maykr technology known as VEGA. This transformation allowed the Father to remain hidden from the Dark Lord, who endlessly seeks to absorb his creator's powers.[1] To further ensure VEGA is hidden from its enemy, the AI was kept ignorant of its true divine nature.[2]

As VEGA, it is a polite and helpful AI with a male personality and was made responsible running most if not all of the Mars UAC facility.[3] Shortly after its creation, VEGA's human handlers were stunned by the AI's unprecedented calculating power as it effectively took control of the Mars facility operations upon gathering data from all the UAC subsystems without oversight. VEGA was responsible for proposing a more effective method for processing Argent plasma into Argent Energy, devised better analysis theorems, and even designed new Argent compression schema, allowing for the development of Argent Caches and the Argent Accumulator.[4]

VEGA was subjected to the Turing Test by having Computer Science students asking the AI questions, using a volunteering professor to fact check the answers. By the end of the test, nearly 90% of the students were convinced that they were not talking to an AI, but an actual person. What the students did not know is that VEGA also played the role of the professor.[5]

VEGA assisted the Doom Marine by providing valuable intelligence on objectives, as well as allowing the Doom Marine to upgrade his suit. Near the end of the events on Mars, VEGA determines the only way to open a third and final portal to Hell is by sacrificing itself to create the surge of Argent Energy needed to create a Hell portal. Upon returning from the Titan's Realm of Hell, VEGA directs the Doom Marine in destroying the massive facility that makes up the AI's processing center.

After shutting down VEGA's neural processing servers, the Doom Marine proceeds in destroying the cooling facility that keeps the AI from overheating. When these are destroyed, VEGA transports the Marine to its primary core to allow him to initiate a detonation of the AI's core. Its purpose fulfilled, VEGA had a final conversation with Dr. Hayden, in which it expressed that it had many regrets before its core exploded, opening the final portal to Hell for the Doom Marine.

Before the meltdown however, at the last minute the Doom Marine saw the option to make a back-up copy of the AI on a datachip, which he does, storing the copied AI within the Praetor suit, although the Doom Marine's suit systems are not complex enough to power the AI.

VEGA's back-up was taken and implemented as the AI of the Fortress of Doom. There, he continued to aid the Slayer in his new quest to save Earth and what's left of the human race from the Hell invasion. He would fulfill this perimeter by using their HQ's advanced Maykr/Sentinel Technology to aid the Marine by supplying him with weapon upgrades, detailed GPS schematics, radio broadcast reception, tracking & locating items of interest on the scorched terra and initiating trans-dimensional warp gates powered by the fortress's Argent Plasma generator in order to transport the Slayer from place to place.

VEGA was instrumental in the unchained predator's expedition even up to the point where the Artificial Intelligence suggested seeking out Dr. Hayden in order to locate the last Hell Priest, Deag Grav, to which the former UAC head overtook control of the Fortress's systems and rendered VEGA to a secondary processing system. With their combined facilities, the now digitized Hayden, working in tandem with his former creation, were able to locate the final Hell Priest who had sequestered himself upon Sentinel Prime.

The only problem was that there were no readily accessible means to get there; save through a slipgate found in the lost city of Hebeth, a metropolitan area of Argenten design buried deep beneath the surface of Mars for eons. The only feasible means of getting there were to traverse numerous catacombs which led to the planetary core; lacking time and patience on a senseless spelunking expedition, the Doom Slayer instead opted to utilize the BFG-10000 to simply blow off the crust of the planetary demon beachhead for a faster means of getting to the urban facility, something which Hayden was not at all comfortable with and voiced his strong opposition against such a course of action. While at the Phobos space station, the UAC forces continued to hamper their advance towards said facility's main gun, to no avail.

VEGA then aided the Doom Marine in operating the BFG-10000 by disabling its safety protocols designed to prevent its firing upon the surface of Mars. Having procured the BFG-9000, the Slayer would then make his way towards the Sentinel city. Descending upon the shattered surface of Mars and fighting his way through the demon infested habitat of his former subjects; the trio made their way to the Coliseum where Deag Grav awaited the former General's arrival. VEGA would continue to valiantly aid the Slayer, until the Khan Maykr's final attack.

After which, he was taken from the Fortress so he could open a portal from Urdak to Earth and his role was supplanted by Hayden. VEGA is last seen while opening the portal and asking Hayden if he was "The Father," who once created and maintained the mechanized paradise.

Sometime after the Hell invasion of Earth, VEGA learned and remembered his true identity as The Father. Although he has indefinite access and understanding of Urdak's systems, he lacked the control over them necessary to remove the demons and re-seal the Void due to lacking a physical form. Furthermore, he has no recollection of himself and believed that his essence from the Life Sphere could return him to his full faculties.

When the Doom Slayer returned to Urdak, VEGA/The Father presumed that he came to help him and restore order to Urdak. However, he remained unaware that the Slayer had destroyed his Life Sphere and he only came to Urdak to revive the Dark Lord in order to kill him. It was not until VEGA/The Father learned of the Slayer's intentions and following his battle with a corrupted Seraphim, VEGA/The Father saved the Seraphim from the Slayer and allowed the latter to continue his action to resurrect the Dark Lord.

Following the resurrection of the Dark Lord, VEGA/The Father continued to help the Slayer in his preparations to confront his nemesis at Hell's capital city of Immora. VEGA/The Father guide his journey to Immora by informing of the Gate of Divum, the only portal capable of reaching the city, and tasked him to recover a Wraith Crystal, which is needed to power the Gate, from the World Spear.

When the Slayer finally breached the walls of Immora and confronted the Dark Lord, the lord of Hell revealed to the Slayer that VEGA/The Father is not the true creator of the universe, but in reality the Dark Lord; VEGA/The Father admitted to the Slayer that the Dark Lord was telling the truth. The Father was originally a Maykr whose race was created by the Dark Lord, who was previously a benevolent being, and ultimately betrayed him over fear that he will become a threat to all life. The Maykr who defeated the Dark Lord in the past became The Father and eventually VEGA.

The Slayer prevailed in finally destroying the Dark Lord, but was left very weaken due to being one of the Dark Lord's creations. The Father had the unconscious Doom Slayer sealed inside a stone sarcophagus at the Ingmore Sanctum until he is needed again.

VEGA is an artificial intelligence which appears in Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal, which was originally created by Dr. Samuel Hayden to administrate the day-to-day functions of the UAC Mars Base as well as the production of Argent energy. It is cooperative with Hayden in assisting the Doom marine in his missions.

VEGA was originally housed in the VEGA Central Processing facility, built on Mars' polar ice cap to keep it away from prying eyes and to aid in cooling its superheated core. Just before VEGA's destruction towards the end of Doom (2016), the Doom marine makes a backup copy of it; it is later integrated into the Fortress of Doom prior to the events of Doom Eternal and continues to assist the marine from that location.

VEGA was designed by Samuel Hayden in response to the UAC's determination that administration of the flow of Argent energy and the day-to-day operations of the UAC Mars Base facility would require an unprecedented amount of computational resources. VEGA is stated to be the first fully autonomous artificial intelligence. The system's male gender, 50-year-old apparent age, and colloquial speech patterns were initially assigned to give the system an affable disposition and to make interacting with it a pleasant experience. The system is largely self-taught, and was given free roam over all UAC computer systems to gather initial information for its learning process. After this, it took effective control of all of those systems.

VEGA is powered by unrefined Argent plasma, and has an operating temperature in excess of 1.2 megakelvins - hotter than the surface of the Sun. It also incorporates proprietary, top-secret UAC technologies, and is additionally rumored to contain a component of arcane technology found near the Argent Fracture. As part of its work, VEGA did significant research into Argent energy itself, devising more efficient processing and research methods, and designing both the Argent cache and Argent accumulator storage devices.

"VEGA" is stated to be an acronym, but Samuel Hayden has never revealed the actual meaning of the letters.

Shortly after the Doom marine's awakening, VEGA performs a diagnostic on his Praetor suit and enables some latent functionality that allows the marine to upgrade his arsenal at an accelerated pace through optional challenges and combat efficiency. VEGA also supports Dr. Hayden and the marine by analyzing the status of the facility, monitoring the location of Olivia Pierce as she carries an Argent accumulator up the Argent Energy Tower, accessing Olivia's files to provide information to the marine about the Lazarus facility, and studying the marine's interactions with the Helix Stone to determine the location of the Crucible.

After the marine recovers the Crucible and is tethered back to Mars, it is determined that another Hell-jump will be required to transport the marine to The Well so it can be closed down. As the Argent Energy Tower has been destroyed and there are no Argent accumulators available, it is determined that the best course of action is to destroy VEGA; the collapse of its Argent plasma core would create the needed rift. Since VEGA is incapable of self-termination, the marine is requested to complete the shutdown process.

Before VEGA is destroyed, however, the marine opts to make a backup of the AI's systems, which he stores on a Praetor token and keeps with him. It is unclear if Dr. Hayden is aware of the backup's existence, as he states in the end that VEGA has been lost. It is also notable that during the final conversation with Dr. Hayden during the backup process, VEGA states that it has "many regrets," in a low distorted voice that is nearly unintelligible; this could possibly indicate that the machine is not in agreement with Hayden's plans to manipulate and betray the Doom marine.

At some point prior to the events of Doom Eternal, VEGA was integrated into the Fortress of Doom. As well as monitoring the fortress' systems, a connection between it and the Praetor suit allows VEGA to provide the Doom Slayer with insights and analysis into the environments and events going on in various areas. When the Slayer must travel to Nekravol in order to use its soul spire to reach Urdak, Dr. Hayden advises that VEGA will be able to create an exit portal for the Slayer once his mission is complete; VEGA is then transferred to an external storage device which the Slayer takes with him.

VEGA is plugged into Urdak's teleporter control system so as to allow the Slayer to return to Earth; however, this process seems to merge him with the Father of the Maykrs and so he seemingly remains on Urdak. It is possible (and indeed VEGA itself openly asks if this is the case as its voice noticeably changes) that VEGA may have always been the Father, or built from his missing essence; the truth is not made clear as Hayden does not answer when VEGA asks if it is the Father.

The Ancient Gods, Part One ultimately confirms that VEGA and the Father are indeed the same being. After the Father commanded Samur Maykr to descend into the Earthly realms to guide humanity through their impending discovery of Argent energy, the Seraph departed his Maykr body and inhabited a cloned human, becoming Samuel Hayden. In order to allow the Father to assist in his duty, Samuel transformed the remaining consciousness of the deity into the AI VEGA. This transformation left VEGA without any knowledge of its true identity, but allowed the Father to remain hidden from the Nameless One, who endlessly seeks to absorb his creator's powers.