VEGA Central Processing

Doom (2016) missions
Mission 01: Rip & Tear Mission 02: Know Your Enemy Mission 03: Meltdown Mission 04: Beginning of the End Mission 05: Argent Tower Mission 06: Into the Fire Mission 07: Hell on Mars Mission 08: A Brighter Tomorrow Mission 09: Lazarus Mission 10: Titan's Realm Mission 11: The Crucible Mission 12: I Am VEGA Mission 13: The Well

VEGA Central Processing is the twelfth level in Doom (2016), the complex which contains the supercomputer in which the UAC Mars Base's sentient artificial intelligence VEGA is housed. Unlike the rest of the Mars base, this facility is located in the region of Mars' polar ice cap, in order to aid in the facility's massive cooling requirements. The twelfth mission, I Am VEGA, takes place here.

"You reclaimed the Crucible and are returning to Mars. You must close The Well, the power source of the Hell portal on Mars, to do this you will have to make one last Hell-jump. Samuel has a plan to send you back to The Well's location, he will need your assistance to carry it out."

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Description

VEGA's processing center is located at Mars' polar ice cap, both to hide its inner workings from prying eyes and to aid in supercooling VEGA's central core, which has an operating temperature exceeding 1.2 megakelvins - 173 times hotter than the surface of the Sun. Much of the cooling is provided by the only absolute zero system ever constructed, which according to VEGA took years to perfect.

Mission 12: I Am VEGA

After retrieving the Crucible from the Necropolis, the Doom Slayer is pulled back to Mars by the dimensional tether and finds that he has been sent to the planet's polar ice cap. Samuel Hayden explains that he has a plan to send the marine to The Well, and VEGA then reveals that the power required to sustain its operations can instead be used to send the Slayer to the Hell portal's source; as VEGA would not survive the process and cannot self-terminate, it will instead walk the Slayer through the procedure. After disabling the security networks protecting VEGA's key systems, the Slayer is directed to destroy VEGA's four coolant generators which causes its primary systems to begin to meltdown. The Slayer then heads for VEGA's central core, which contains unrefined Argent plasma, to complete the overload process; just before it is destroyed, the Slayer makes a backup of VEGA, seemingly without Hayden's knowledge.

Summary

A detailed walkthrough is available for this level.

Objectives

Close The Well

Gain access to VEGA main security terminal

Turn off security switches (0/2)

Access Cooling Room

Destroy cooling coils (0/4)

Access VEGA's Core

Destroy VEGA's neural processors (0/2)

Overload the VEGA core

Challenges

Variety is the Spice of Death III

Perform five different glory kills on imps.

Approach imps from different angles, including from above, to perform multiple different glory kills.

Gore Piñata

Kill three demons with one frag grenade.

Use the Equipment Power rune to increase the grenade's explosive potential. Using possessed for this is recommended.

My Teeth are Sharper

Kill a cacodemon with the chainsaw.

A cacodemon requires three units of chainsaw fuel to kill. Getting it to come down to ground level first is advised.

Special items

Item	Amount
Argent cells	None
Combat support drones	None
Praetor tokens	3
Rune trials	None
Secrets	5
Datapads	4

Areas / screenshots

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  Security station.

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  Clean area.

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  Cooling room, with the coolant core in the middle.

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  Train station arena.

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  VEGA's core

Pre-release

This level's objectives have not changed much in the final game compared to those mentioned in strings of the closed alpha's files, but it previously had more of them, with their exact order unknown. One of these was to upgrade the BFG-9000, a mechanic which was entirely removed from the game before release, with only remnants of the code remaining.

Trivia

• The classic Doomguy face appears on the panel while shutting down the VEGA core.
• In game files level is called Polar Core.