VEGA

VEGA is an artificial intelligence which is responsible for operation of the UAC Mars Base in the Doom. It is initially cooperative with Dr. Samuel Hayden in assisting the Doom marine in his missions. It is capable of analyzing the Praetor suit and enabling some of its latent functionality, resulting in advancements in combat capability and maneuverability.

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VEGA was designed by Dr. 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 maintains a core of the energy which exceeds the temperature of 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 refuses to reveal the actual meaning of the letters.