Mars (DOOM 2016) Planetary Profile

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So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. 
May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you 
again.
Corrax Entry 7:17

                                      

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Hell, in the year 2146. It ain't on Earth, it's on Mars. Or at least, it will be. For the Portal Master has made an interesting plan here. The world shall stay as it is, and the factions shall be dropped on it; but things will be normal.

Well, as normal as they are on Mars, where not only does one need to worry of vicious sandstorms coming by and ripping the skin off your bones, but also of the very occasional demonic incursion (Yes, demons exist. Everyone on Mars knows this, and doesn't especially mind) and the fact that if you go out into the Martian Wastes alone, you might fall through a Dimensional rift and into Hell itself. Add in a megacorpoation-turned-satanic-cult, and things are already dangerous enough.

And in a weeks time, just enough time for the reasonable factions to look around the world and realize how terrifying it is, the Hellwave shall leap out from the Lazarus Labs and envelop the world. And true carnage shall be unleashed.

===Geography===

Surprisingly enough, Mars is actually not that bad. Oh sure, it's not a place you could take a vacation on, but in no small part due to extensive terraforming, Mars now has a sustainable atmosphere, Earth(ish) gravity and actual weather. That weather being vicious sandstorms that could shred the skin off you as if you were a piece of wood under the worlds most extensive piece of Sandpaper, and the fact that the UAC officially states a 'buddy' system is to be in place, due to the fact that this universe and that are a bit intertwined, meaning you could be out in the plains of Mars and abrutply you'd be in Hell.

Thankfully, there's enough Argent fuelled installations across the planet that falling into the other universe shouldn't be too likely. But if it does happen...

Hell itself meanwhile is just Hell. Floating islands in an impossible ocean of sulfur like air, continents and plateaus and steppes of sheer rock and acidic liquids, Hell is a generally shitty place to the surprise of nobody, rife with volcanic activity and, of course, Demons. The only sign of civilization in Hell is that of Argent D'nur and other lesser worlds dominated by Hell, parts of their geography and civilization having been swallowed into the afterlife. There nothing terrifically advanced, and are generally just stone cities with maybe some magitech here and there, long neglected and now useless.

===Third-Party Factions===

UAC (Union Aerospace Corporation)

UAC
Weaponizing Demons for a Better Tomorrow!

Yes, that actually is their motto. The UAC, headed by the extremist-with-the-best-intentions Samuel Hayden, revels in their insanity. With incredibly advanced technology fueled by demonic innovation, the UAC has found a way to tap into Hell (specifically a part of it called 'The Well') and extract/purify energy from it. An energy they have named Argent Energy. How potent is this stuff, you ask?

A hand sized battery of Argent Energy can run a city (and this is as in Blade Runner styled cities) for several months.

Very.

So, to these ends, the UAC and its personnel at Mars (numbers are unknown, but 64% of their personnel became Possessed, and the Possessed will number in at 61'413 when Doomslayer wakes up) became very keen on Mars. Employees become members of a pseudo-religious organization that is the UAC, known as 'Acolytes' in a three-tiered system. The harvesting of human souls is not only something the UAC does, but encourages its workers to do so. Their recommendation if demons come to kill you is, if you can't escape (by walking, because running will make it worse) then you are to sit down and calmly accept your fate so your dissection can become more insightful. Hell, the UAC even takes its military personnel, implants them with a jetpack/rocket launcher combo along with an Argent Accumulator, kills them (with their consent) and resurrects them as demons that are filled with an undying venegance and hatred of everything.

Yes, really! The Revenants are willing test subjects (although research of this specific caliber is headed by Lazarus Labs, which is in an installation highly classified and has secretly gone full demonic cult- that's to say, more demonically inclined then allowed)! And that's even beginning to talk about how the UAC also captured Mancubi and made them into Cyborgs in a botched attempt of control, or how they got the corpse of a very powerful Demon, remade it and gave it an Argent Accumulator/Rocket Launchers/GIANT FUCKIN' LASER CANNON for the sake of nothing but curiosity (again, all Lazarus Labs- UAC proper had, at its worst, tested out in weaponize Argent Energy, with results like the impossibly good Chaingun, Plasma Rifler and Hologram Grenades (good for humans), and the power-ups (incredibly dangerous for humans).

And the worst best part of this is how they do it all so casually. The UAC is a horrifying mega-corporation because, although they do plenty of terrifyingly absurd ideas, they do them all competently.

In short, to give you an idea of their mindset, lemme quote the good ol' SCP Foundation.

Remember this: the Foundation is not evil. We do not torture people "just because". We are against unnecessary cruelty. Which means somebody has to decide when cruelty is necessary. And that somebody is us.
It is important that you remember this. It is your second lesson. The Foundation does not rule the world. The Foundation serves the world. Do you understand what that means? Regardless of what the general population might think it wants, what we do, what the Foundation does, is in the overall best interests of that general population. Yes, I'm sure you did realize that already… but you haven't thought of the deeper implications. You've consoled yourself by thinking that all the torture and murder is for the greater good. This implies that there is a greater good… and a lesser good. It implies that there are multiple distinct goods, and that these can be quantified and compared. This is what we on the Ethics Committee do.

The UAC; What happens when you combine the SCP Foundation and Umbrella Corporation with the Ruinous Powers, and make them actually smart.

Be afraid, and do good business with them. For the time they're still here, that is.

HELL

They are Rage. They will be Brutal. Without mercy. 

Make no mistake, people. Hell is real, and so are Demons. And like any Demon, they are filled with an unending supply of Hate. They torture, they maim, they kill, they delight in the thought of crushing someones skull and hearing the desperate individual scream as their skull fractures and bone en lodges in their brain (which reminds me of a fun fact; the brain has no nerve endings, so you can't feel any pain from something tampering with it- unless you fuck up with the chemistry of it).

Demons only rarely enter the material realm, for the most part, unless a Gore Nest is able to be made. Gore Nests, being a kind of lesser thing of the Demonic hierarchy, act as gateways from this universe and into the next. They do this typically by influencing humans into summoning Lost Souls, which will turn the human into a Possessed (Basically a more nightmarish zombie). Of course, that's now what they're doing right now. No, at the moment, they're influencing Olivia Pierce to unleash a Lazarus Wave (pure, unfiltered daemonic energy) across the planet. This will corrupt/possess any average mortal lacking in willpower, and the demons, able to teleport anywhere on the planet at will,  will slaughter most of the remaining scientific survivors.

Of course, they aren't exactly expecting the factions that will be in place here... Now they fare with that is anyone's guess.

Also, a fun fact; the whole reason they're doing this is to resurrect a very powerful Demon, simply known as the Imperatrix; a conduit and instrument of the much larger demonic 'overmind' that controls and influences all Demons.

She's nasty.

 

===Important Individuals===

The Doom Slayer, The Doom Marine, The Hell Walker, The Unchained Predator...

DOOM GUY

I'm the man! I'm a bad man! How bad!? Real bad! I'm a 12.0 on 10.0 scale of badness!
More seriously,
But You... You will be worse.
Rip and Tear... Until it is done.

The history of the Doom Slayer is an uncertain one. Much of his history is left cloudy, but what is guessed is this:

The Doomslayers' Homeworld was a land known as Argent D'nur, a world besieged by the forces of Hell, and held back by the efforts of the Night Sentinels, a pseudo-religious organization imbued by terriuble creatures called 'Wraiths'.

Whom are ready to drop the best rap album in Hell.

That is, until a member of their order (forever known as 'The Hellmage', and who may have been Doomguy itself- the lore is vague) betrayed them in exchange for the life of his son back. Said son came back as a demon, and then the Night Sentinels were killed to the last.

Except one.

A man who slaughtered enough demons to become one of the divine, but was too tainted by his revenge to ascend. So, a Seraphim descended on from high and imbued the Doom Slayer with incredible power. And so the Doomslayer strode out with his gift, harnessing the powers given and absorbing those of Hell, to lay his vengeance down on the creatures of the Nine Circles. One of these creatures was The Titan, a massive conglomeration of the souls he had killed, that strode across battlefields with ease and was the epitome of a God, of sorts.

This is what the aftermath looked like of that fight.

There's what's left of The Titan.

Presumably this fight against the Titan went like this;

And so he continued for impossibly long lengths of time, killing Demon after Demon after Demon, becoming the most dreaded concept to creatures that the literal nightmares of humanity. And than a Demon unnamed "for his heresies" gave him fucking Power Armor known as The Praetor Suit. Essentially invincible to conventional weaponry, it made him stronger, faster and generally more of a freight train than he already was.

The Doom Slayer was only finally defeated when he entered a Demonic Temple and its priests dropped the building on him to knock him out, entombing his unconscious body in a Magic Sarcophagus to put him in 'eternal torment'. This being Doomguy, who is a man of few words and thoughts, is taking all the mental abuse the demons throw at him and essentially just wading through it and generally having a nice nap.

Then, in 2146, the UAC made an expedition to the Kadingir Sanctum (where the Sarcophagus is), nabbed the Preator Suit and Sarcophagus and returned to Mars to do SCIENCE!

And now the Doomguy sleeps, only to be awaken in the inevitable Hellwave of Argent Energy. And... well....

And the wicked shall scream. Not only because Doomguy has an assault rifle with 50 call ammunition (uranium coated) and rockets (and doubles as a sniper rifle), a plasma rifle that vents out its discharged plasma in a splattering wave, a shotgun that can double as a grenade launcher (or fire three shots at once), a rocket launcher that has missiles that can explode and keep going to explode again, a railgun (that can double as artillery), an energy pistol with unlimited ammo, a double barreled shotgun (uranium coated bullets the size of his power armored thumb), a chaingun that can split into three chainguns (all uranium coated .50 call bullets)) and a gun that seeks out demonic energy and makes that energy explode (although all of these are a boost, no doubt), but because of this.

The Doom Slayer is like an RPG Character. That is to say, the more he kills, the more powerful he becomes overall. He is The Demon (and than John was a demon), and he will ascend their hierarchy and break it apart with his bare hands to have his vengeance.

May the Dark Gods weep at the chaos to come. Because, best of all? All of that stuff I said? He's not a mindless berserker. He is very much intelligent and morally standing-

But don't try and do anything evil or justify it for 'the greater good'. He doesn't really like that.

...

Oh, also, he likes to fistbump the little toys of him that are scattered across the world.

Cute, I know.

Olivia Pierce

Thank you for your services. May you rot in Hell.

Olivia Pierce is the Head of Biochemical research at the Argent Facility. Educated at Strasbourg with a first class honors degree in Biomechanics and Genetics, she joined her former mentor Samuel Hayden on Mars to head up the Lazarus Project. A few months after arriving at the Argent Facility, Olivia was diagnosed with acute idiopathic scoliosis. 

The cause of this deformation is unknown. Given the option of being permanently wheelchair bound or undergoing an experimental augmentation procedure, Olivia chose the surgery. After several months in seclusion Olivia reappeared on her feet with a new titanium exoskeleton grafted into her spinal column. Although the exoskeleton allows Olivia to stand and move on her own, it causes excruciating pain. Olivia refuses any pain management medication for fear it will cloud her mind.

Samuel saw Olivia as a protege. He sponsored her during her formal graduation, and was the driving force behind her promotion to the Global Science Council. Olivia made her fortune as one of the founders of the NanoStruct Aerospace & Defense Systems, in part thanks to a sizeable donation from Samuel. Olivia's career blossomed, and Samuel eventually offered her the freedom to design and run her own cutting edge laboratory by joining the UAC. Olivia refused, citing that she had no interest in "the energy business".

Before joining the UAC, Olivia was open to discussion about her endeavors and beliefs. She was known to have been an avid world traveler, served a 2-year tour of duty with the Global Science Council, and even spent time serving as a missionary in South America - which she noted was a "spiritual but frivolous pilgrimage".

When Olivia did finally leave NanoStruct it came as a shock to the scientific community. She relinquished a position of sizeable power and control to work at an isolated outpost 140 million miles from earth. A former colleague of Olivia's at NanoStruct stated that Samuel sent her an artifact recovered near the Argent Fracture, after which she became obsessed with joining the UAC. A few weeks later, she accepted the offer and became the leader of the Lazarus Project, working directly under Samuel Hayden.

Since moving to Mars she has become a recluse, cutting off friends and family to focus on her secretive work on the Lazarus Project. She is rarely seen outside of the lab and no longer attends board meetings or any UAC press events. Past colleagues of Olivia's have noted that this behavior may just mean that she has something spectacular to reveal in the near future.

That spectaulcar something being the fact that she has opened the gates to Hell (presumably across every planet in human space; the Argent Tower shoots a constant stream of energy which is transmitted to all colonies in the solar system and beyond; presumably with the Wave, the Demons struck elsewhere as well), and that she is going to ascend into a God thanks to a deal with the Demons.

Which is true. She will ascend in a God. That is to say, when she ends up in Hell, they will torture her, mindrape her and ultimately kill her in the most excruciating way possible, with her body melting amongst the souls of everyone else and forming into the Imperatrix.

She probably should've taken her meds.

But that's the future. Right now, she's still 

Samuel Hayden

I am not the villain in this story. I do what I must because I have no choice.

Standing in at 3 metres tall and having lived for roughly 200+ years, Samuel Hayden is the success story of the UAC. He was a genius in life, a shining beacon for scientific progress. The kind of man who gets the Nobel Prize a dozen times over, which he did (well, he got it once, but still). And than, he was diagnosed with Brain Cancer.

But he still had so much to do.

So, he replaced most of his brain with Argent fueled machinery, placed the brain in side an invincible 3-metre tall mecha (which he designed specifically to look like how it does because 'the world may one day need a hero') and spent the rest of his days on Mars, leading the UAC to be the superpower it is today. He makes the regulations, is treated as a pseudo-divine figure by his employees and is the shining beacon of light to the Solar System and universe at large.

And he'll do anything (within reason, of course) to ensure the betterment of mankind. 

In short, for his characterization? Think Ozymandias, but an Ozymandias that doesn't need to resort to scare tactics to make the world unified.

And if Ozymandias was a 3-meter tall badass robot. And at the end of the day, that's what really matters.

VEGA

The most advanced technological construct known to mankind, VEGA is the success story of the UAC. Fuelled by Argent Energy, VEGA is the A.I that allows for suchy massive complexes on Mars to actually exist and function without needing such massive oversight. With a network that reaches out for miles and giving off temperatures 178 times hotter then the surface of the Sun (reined in by the only Absolute Zero coolant to ever exist), he is essentially the most incredible combination between magic and science possible.

He's also programmed to emulate a middle-aged English teacher, and thus acts in the highly competent and polite, but firm, personality befitting the role.  A blind study was conducted with Computer Science (Of the Global Science Council, i.e the smartest people in the known universe) students to see if VEGA would pass the Turing test. The students was instructed to ask a series of questions to both VEGA (via sat-link) and a mathematics professor from MIT to see if they could tell which one was the computer. 92% of the students thought they were both human. only 8% detected that VEGA was a computer.

VEGA also played the Professor.

Danger Status:4/5: Mars is a dimensional hazard through it's very connection to Hell, as can be seen by the fact that you can walk outside across the fields of Mars, and you might end up in Hell, to say nothing of the fact that Demons have a chance to appear at random (not many Demons; mostly Imps, Lost Souls and maybe a Hell Knight under normal circumstances, with Pinkies and Mancubus' being able to get 'tethered' in by UAC deep in the labs). Add in the fact of the incoming wave of horrifying mindrape, and the Doomslayer attacking all those who are evil, and suddenly this is a very dangerous world indeed.