Union Aerospace Corporation
The Union Aerospace Corporation is a business that features in Doom.
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History
Original
The Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) was a company founded on Earth in 2015 by Thomas Kelliher though its roots dated back much further.
The interplanetary UAC operate radioactive waste facilities on Mars and its moons, Phobos and Deimos. The UAC's biggest supplier, the US military, used the bases on Phobos and Deimos for secret research projects, including establishing a teleportation gateway between to the two moons. However, tests on living volunteers grow increasingly unstable as the test subjects either disappear or go insane. Eventually, demons from Hell invade through the gateway on Phobos, while Deimos simply disappears from orbit. On Phobos, the last survivor of a team sent from Mars to investigate the situation where they had to go through the demon controlled remains of the base. They came to be teleporting to the UAC base on Deimos which was revealed to be hanging over Hell itself.
In the aftermath, the UAC was put under new management and strict government control. Now based on the moon of Io, the corporation conducts more experiments into teleportation with heavy military supervision; demons invading through teleporter gateways are quickly destroyed by troops in entrenched positions. However, the demons instead choose to attack in a techno-magical spaceship, evading the UAC's defences and slaughtering the occupants of the base. The player is the commander of the marines stationed on the moon, and upon returning to the base to discover it in ruins, decides to avenge the deaths of the base's personnel. It was then refounded on Earth where its scientists develop a Quantum Accelerator, a device aimed at quickly closing teleportation gateways at the first sign of demonic invasion. Although the device initially performs well, UAC scientists eventually open too many gateways for the device to cope with, and the UAC complex is overwhelmed by the forces of Hell when the device fails to close the last gateway. The demons seize control of the device and ready another invasion force in the base. The player, a marine who rushes to the base and arrives ahead of the rest of the military, sets off into the base to reclaim the Quantum Accelerator and close the gateway.
Doom 3
Increased focus was placed on the importance of the UAC research being conducted by the Delta Labs division, specifically research under the guidance of Malcolm Betruger. A great deal of the UAC’s research seems to be focused on teleportation, which is shrouded in secrecy. As the player progresses through the game, it emerges that the UAC have even been retrieving specimens (most of them were corpses of imps they had found) from the dimension that they uncovered in their experiments. The labs that contained many of these specimens held: the head and spine of a Hellknight, a still alive Imp, a Revenant, and more severed bodyparts of Imps.
Reboot
In 2095, the UAC conducted a geological survey mission on Mars where they discovered the Argent Fracture and the resultant energy emitted from it. Within a year, the company established an outpost to extract Argent plasma from the Fracture and producing Argent Energy which became the primary power source for humanity thus enriching the UAC.
Overview
In appearance, UAC was a multi-planetary conglomerate that was based on Earth.
Branches of the company included:
- Union Aerospace Offworld Research Division :
- Union Aerospace Military Division :
- Union Aerospace Science Division :
- UAC Marines :
- UAC Today :
In emergency situations, the UAC were known to employ a Level 5 Breach as well as quarantine procedures if an unknown outbreak threatened a facility. When there are personnel that are missing then, typically, a Code Black was initiated.
The multi-planetary conglomerate maintained radioactive waste facilities on Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos.
Employees
- Thomas Kelliher : a male human who founded the Union Aerospace Corporation in 2015 although the company's root goes back much further.
- Ian Kelliher :
- Samuel Hayden :
Notes
- The Union Aerospace Corporation was created by id Software where it featured in the setting of the Doom universe.
In other media
Films
- In Doom, the Union Aerospace Corporation appeared in the setting of the 2005 live-action film. The UAC held a base on Mars known as the Olduvai Research Facility with Ark travel linking their Earth based facilities with those on the red planet.
Appearances
- Doom:
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