History Headscratchers / DoomEternal

* At the start of the Mars Core mission, when the Slayer is walking through the Phobos Base command centre, you can hear MissionControl being informed that "Corporate tells us to let them through", with a second person responding with "Wait, why?"

Now, by "corporate", we can assume they meant the UAC, given this is a UAC base. But as this base is fighting against the demonic invasion, they cannot be the UAC faction that turned cultists, so they must be ARC-affiliated. But then, why are they looking for authorisation from "Corporate" on what to do. And why are they so surprised that corporate is telling them to let the demons through, given that by this point, UAC's demonic affiliation should be known to everyone.

If by "Corporate", they meant the ARC-affiliated UAC faction led by Hayden, why is ARC telling them to "let the demons through"? Surely, a "commence retreat" type of statement like the one we heard at the ARC base would make sense if ARC decided the base is lost.

So what is going on? Is this some weird holdover from an earlier draft when the UAC's affiliation was less clear?

** His goal was to kill Grav and leave. Killing any more Sentinels would not only make no progress in the mission, they'd actively hunt the Slayer down or even try to kill him on the spot.

** The Slayer took the Dark Lord's orb because he already knew that killing him would also kill all demons outside of Hell. As for the other orb, it contained VEGA's physical form AKA the impostor Father who the Maykrs started crediting with Davoth's creations to try and cover up that they betrayed the real Father and caused him to turn into a genocidal demon god.

** He more than likely planned it all out. If Doomguy never became the Slayer nor was found by the Hell Priests, his revenge would never come to pass. And while the Spider Mastermind, the Icon of Sin, the Mother Demon and more may have led the forces of Hell over the years, in the end they all had to come from somewhere...

* It's stated multiple times in the codex entries of ''The Ancient Gods: Part 2'' that Davoth masterminded the creation of the Slayer "in his image", from manipulating the Khan Maykr into creating the Divinity Machine to planting the seeds of doubt within Samur's mind that ultimately gave rise to the Slayer. Are we also led to believe that the events leading up to Doomguy becoming the Doom Slayer were also preordained by Davoth as well?
Were the events of ''The Ultimate Doom'', ''Doom 2'', ''Doom 64'' and everything in between all orchestrated to ensure that Doomguy would end up falling into the hands of the Sentinels and inevitably assuming the role of the Slayer? Or was it just extremely poor luck on Davoth's behalf that, out of all the Argenta warriors that Samur could've shoved into the Divinity Machine, it was the one angry foreigner whose previous experiences with Hell have manifested into an absolute zero-tolerance stance on anything remotely demonic in origin or association?

** [[spoiler: The Ancient DLC has the answer: it was the Dark Lord.]]

** Because the Sentinels largely still follow HonorBeforeReason. Even though they are leading Hell's forces, the Hell Priests are still highly ranked members of Sentinel society and direct agents of the Maykers who the Sentinels worship. Novik apparently is unwilling to break his own people's ancient laws.