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Shade70uk
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A few of my opinions on the 7 hour war.
First, Earth was betrayed by its leading scientist. The political leaders of Earth would have listened to Breen, who, 'seemed' to have all the answers.
Breen told the United Nations to surrender, and they, unfortunately, believed him. He probably sprouted off to the Politicans the same sorta crap he was saying in HL2, that is how they are here to help & improve us, they mean no harm blah blah.
In my opinion, there was no HUGH invasion of Earth. The combine probably teleported a few striders, mechs etc and wiped out some of the US...eg New York (UN Building burning), Washington etc. With Breens betrayal and lies, plus the obvious technological advantage they had over us, must poliiticans would have given in without a fight, especially after all the problems the Portal Storms would have caused previous to the invasion.
My reasoning behind this is that (1) everything you fight in HL2 seems to be build on Earth, the Citadels (and Nova Prospekt) seem to be building the striders, synths & Combine troopers.
2) The difficulty the Combine have in teleporting...to teleport one Person to their dimension needs hugh amounts of power (basically the power produced by a whole Citadel) --- compare this to the 'standard' Xen teleport.
3) For me, the Combine DO NOT control Xen, or, even had any knowledge of it until the betrayal of Mossman/Breen. This is due to the fact Earth Telportation is completely dependant on Xen. If the Combine had control of Xen, they wouldnt have needed Mossman to steal the designs for the Xen teleporter, and would have been transporting Troops/Striders instead of using Drop Ships.
4) The game guide says how the Combine werent aware of Earth until AFTER the Portal storms started. This is what attracted them to Earth. For me the Combine is from a different dimension from either Earth or Xen, but once the Storms started (which were caused by the Resonance Cascade at BMRF) they managed to somehow to contact Dr Breen, arrange a plan and then teleport a small force to Earth.
This scenario means the Combine wouldnt have needed a large force to defeat Earth.
Look at the British Empire during the 19th Century - the Brits build one of the biggest empires ever using the same sort of Tactic. Show your technological superiority, make grandiose promises and con the Leaders.....hey presto, youve conquered a whole country without really having to fight much. Of course when the country in question doesnt back down, usually it gets bloody and sometimes even the army with technological superiority can get beaten (eg in the Zulu wars) - Ive got a feeling if Breen had'nt betrayed Earth one of two things would have happened. Earth would have either beaten off the invaders (which was possible as the Combine had very limited teleport abilites to there own dimension and reinforcement/resupply would have been limited) or the Combine would have destroyed Earth completely (would have been to 'expensive' for them to conquer)
Anyhow thats my two cents
First, Earth was betrayed by its leading scientist. The political leaders of Earth would have listened to Breen, who, 'seemed' to have all the answers.
Breen told the United Nations to surrender, and they, unfortunately, believed him. He probably sprouted off to the Politicans the same sorta crap he was saying in HL2, that is how they are here to help & improve us, they mean no harm blah blah.
In my opinion, there was no HUGH invasion of Earth. The combine probably teleported a few striders, mechs etc and wiped out some of the US...eg New York (UN Building burning), Washington etc. With Breens betrayal and lies, plus the obvious technological advantage they had over us, must poliiticans would have given in without a fight, especially after all the problems the Portal Storms would have caused previous to the invasion.
My reasoning behind this is that (1) everything you fight in HL2 seems to be build on Earth, the Citadels (and Nova Prospekt) seem to be building the striders, synths & Combine troopers.
2) The difficulty the Combine have in teleporting...to teleport one Person to their dimension needs hugh amounts of power (basically the power produced by a whole Citadel) --- compare this to the 'standard' Xen teleport.
3) For me, the Combine DO NOT control Xen, or, even had any knowledge of it until the betrayal of Mossman/Breen. This is due to the fact Earth Telportation is completely dependant on Xen. If the Combine had control of Xen, they wouldnt have needed Mossman to steal the designs for the Xen teleporter, and would have been transporting Troops/Striders instead of using Drop Ships.
4) The game guide says how the Combine werent aware of Earth until AFTER the Portal storms started. This is what attracted them to Earth. For me the Combine is from a different dimension from either Earth or Xen, but once the Storms started (which were caused by the Resonance Cascade at BMRF) they managed to somehow to contact Dr Breen, arrange a plan and then teleport a small force to Earth.
This scenario means the Combine wouldnt have needed a large force to defeat Earth.
Look at the British Empire during the 19th Century - the Brits build one of the biggest empires ever using the same sort of Tactic. Show your technological superiority, make grandiose promises and con the Leaders.....hey presto, youve conquered a whole country without really having to fight much. Of course when the country in question doesnt back down, usually it gets bloody and sometimes even the army with technological superiority can get beaten (eg in the Zulu wars) - Ive got a feeling if Breen had'nt betrayed Earth one of two things would have happened. Earth would have either beaten off the invaders (which was possible as the Combine had very limited teleport abilites to there own dimension and reinforcement/resupply would have been limited) or the Combine would have destroyed Earth completely (would have been to 'expensive' for them to conquer)
Anyhow thats my two cents
