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* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode begins as your typical ''Quake II'' military sci-fi episode, but slowly delves into something similar to a ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' episode, with a more LovecraftLite vibe. The unnamed marine is anything but [[Characters/QuakeRanger Ranger]], though, and fails to see the end of the day.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode begins as your typical ''Quake II'' military sci-fi episode, but slowly delves into something similar to a ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' episode, with a more LovecraftLite vibe. The unnamed marine is anything but [[Characters/QuakeRanger Ranger]], Ranger, though, and fails to see the end of the day.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode begins as your typical ''Quake II'' military sci-fi episode, but slowly delves into something similar to a ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' episode, with a more LovecraftLite vibe. The unnamed marine is anything but [[Characters/QuakeRanger Ranger]], though, and fails to see the end of the say.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode begins as your typical ''Quake II'' military sci-fi episode, but slowly delves into something similar to a ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' episode, with a more LovecraftLite vibe. The unnamed marine is anything but [[Characters/QuakeRanger Ranger]], though, and fails to see the end of the say.day.
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* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeEpisode1DimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "[=E1M2=]: Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil is awakened! Find a way out!"]]. And the next level is "[=E1M7=]: Chthon's House" in all but name.

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* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeEpisode1DimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "[=E1M2=]: Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil is awakened! Find a way out!"]]. And the next level is "[=E1M7=]: Chthon's House" The House of Chthon" in all but name.
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Operation: Darkest Depths is the last of the operations in ''Call of the Machine''. This time, it's up to an unnamed marine the task to retrieve the Strogg Disc in a location resembling the Stroggos moon.

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Operation: ''Operation: Darkest Depths Depths'' is the last sixth of the six operations in the ''Call of the Machine''. This time, it's up to Machine'' expansion that comes with the 2023 remastered version of ''VideoGame/QuakeII''.

It puts you in the role of
an unnamed marine in charge of finding the task to retrieve the last Strogg Disc in a that contains the necessary data about the location of the Strogg Maker. He lands in a Strogg temple resembling the Stroggos moon.
''The Reckoning''[='=]s moon levels.



* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode begins as your typical ''Quake II'' military sci-fi episode, but slowly delves into something similar to a ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' episode, with a more LovecraftLite. The unnamed marine is anything but [[Characters/QuakeRanger Ranger]], though, and fails to see the end of the say.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode begins as your typical ''Quake II'' military sci-fi episode, but slowly delves into something similar to a ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' episode, with a more LovecraftLite.LovecraftLite vibe. The unnamed marine is anything but [[Characters/QuakeRanger Ranger]], though, and fails to see the end of the say.



* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeEpisode1DimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil is awakened! Find a way out!"]]. And the next level is "[=E1M7=]: Chthon's House" in all but name.

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* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeEpisode1DimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "Castle "[=E1M2=]: Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil is awakened! Find a way out!"]]. And the next level is "[=E1M7=]: Chthon's House" in all but name.
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* EasyLevelTrick: Let's just say that it's way easier to take down Modir here than it was to take down Chthon back in ''Quake''. All you need to do is to make the whole mechanism work once.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode begins as your typical ''Quake II'' military sci-fi episode, but slowly delves into something similar to a ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' episode, with a more LovecraftLite. The unnamed marine is anything but [[Characters/QuakeRanger Ranger]], though.
* EasterEgg: The last secret in "Too Deep" has a pair of bunny photos.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode begins as your typical ''Quake II'' military sci-fi episode, but slowly delves into something similar to a ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' episode, with a more LovecraftLite. The unnamed marine is anything but [[Characters/QuakeRanger Ranger]], though.
though, and fails to see the end of the say.
* DownerEnding: The marine fails to escape from the area at the end of the mission.
* EasterEgg: The last secret in "Too Deep" has a pair of bunny cat photos.



* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeEpisode1DimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil has awoken."]] And the next level is "[=E1M7=]: Chthon's House" in all but name.

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* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeEpisode1DimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil has awoken."]] is awakened! Find a way out!"]]. And the next level is "[=E1M7=]: Chthon's House" in all but name.
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* FissionMailed: The ending of the unit has a tortured Marine in front of a door, and the screen telling "Contact lost. Mission Failed."

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* ContinuityNod: The name of the levels "Too Deep" and "Too Greedy" are a decomposite version of ''[[VideoGame/QuakeI Dimension of the Machine's]]'' "Too Deep, Too Greedy" from the Dimension of the Astrologers.

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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
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The name of the levels "Too Deep" and "Too Greedy" are a decomposite version of ''[[VideoGame/QuakeI Dimension of the Machine's]]'' "Too Deep, Too Greedy" from the Dimension of the Astrologers.Astrologers.
** "Fatalism" is [[Recap/QuakeEpisode1DimensionOfTheDoomed "E1M7: Chthon's House"]] from ''Quake'' in all but name and boss, with a huge Shambler named Modir as Chthon.



* FinalBoss: Modir, a huge Shambler half-sunk into the lava in "Fatalism".



* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeEpisode1DimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil has awoken."]]

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* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeEpisode1DimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil has awoken."]]"]] And the next level is "[=E1M7=]: Chthon's House" in all but name.
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* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeEpisodeIDimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil has awoken."]]

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* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeEpisodeIDimensionOfTheDoomed [[Recap/QuakeEpisode1DimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil has awoken."]]
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* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeDimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil has awoken."]]

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* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeDimensionOfTheDoomed [[Recap/QuakeEpisodeIDimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil has awoken."]]
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* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeIDimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil has awoken."]]

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* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeIDimensionOfTheDoomed [[Recap/QuakeDimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil has awoken."]]
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* WhamShot: Not only there are ancient ruins telling about Shub-Niggurath. At one point, the unnamed marine crosses a portal in "Too Greedy" which looks too similar to those in ''Quake''. He ends up in [[Recap/QuakeIDimensionOfTheDoomed the beginning of "Castle of the Damned"]], with a Shambler at the other end of the bridge. Then the screen cuts to [[WhamLine "An ancient evil has awoken."]]

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* MidBoss: A Super Tank called "Overburden".

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* MidBoss: MidBoss:
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A Super Tank called "Overburden"."Overburden" at the end of "Too Deep".
** Another Super Tank called "The Underminer" at the end of "Too Greedy".
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* SecretLevel: "Turbine".

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* SecretLevel: "Turbine"."Turbine", accessed from shooting a Commander's Head plate in "Too Greedy".
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode begins as your typical ''Quake II'' military sci-fi episode, but slowly delves into something similar to a ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' episode, with a more LovecraftLite. The unnamed marine is anything but Ranger, though.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode begins as your typical ''Quake II'' military sci-fi episode, but slowly delves into something similar to a ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' episode, with a more LovecraftLite. The unnamed marine is anything but Ranger, [[Characters/QuakeRanger Ranger]], though.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode begins as your typical ''Quake II'' military sci-fi episode, but slowly delves into something similar to a ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' episode, with a more LovecraftLite. The unnamed marine is anything but Ranger, though.
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* ContinuityNod: The name of the levels "Too Deep" and "Too Greedy" are a decomposite version of ''[[VideoGame/QuakeI Dimension of the Machine's]]'' "Too Deep, Too Greedy" from the Dimension of the Astrologers.
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* EasterEgg: The last secret in "Too Deep" has a pair of bunny photos.
* FlunkyBoss: Overburden is accompanied with two Tanks.
* MidBoss: A Super Tank called "Overburden".
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Operation: Darkest Depths is the last of the operations in ''Call of the Machine''. This time, it's up to an unnamed marine the task to retrieve the Strogg Disc in a location resembling the Stroggos moon.

The unit comprises the levels "Too Deep", "Too Greedy", "Fatalism" and "Turbine".
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