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===The Doctor's Recommended Sleeping Pill: One Tactical Nuke===

In Bungie's previous game, ''Pathways Into Darkness'', in the spring of 1994, aliens rudely interrupted a meeting in the Oval Office. They introduced themselves as the Jjaro, and warned the President and his staff that in a matter of days an ancient godlike being known as the W’rkncacnter would wake up from its prison under an ancient pyramid in the Yucatan peninsula (that only manifested as a part of the W'rkncacnter's dreams) and destroy Earth. To prevent the planet from cracking like an egg (among other eldritch horrors), mankind had to prevent it from waking up, and the Jjaro suggested that the sufficiently powerful explosion, like a nuclear bomb, while not killing it, would put it back to deep sleep (and bury it under several million tons of rock for good measure). Special Forces were sent with the mission to descend into the deepest level of the pyramid, arm the tactical nuke, and get out. All but one marine was killed in the beginning of the operation; the lone survivor continued the mission, stumbling upon the remains of a Nazi expedition that sought to harvest the being's power for the Reich, the bodies of a team of Cuban treasure hunters, and his own Special Forces teammates (having a crystal that lets him speak with the dead helps). Against all odds, he managed to complete his mission, and soon after our hero disappears from the face of the Earth.