Any questions?

[Tollbooth Willie]

And now that we have all collectively broken the ego of a small child on the internet, the answer is the Aleph universe. The name is a throwback to the protagonist of Prospero, the Librarian Aleph.

How the f*ck.

 

[Captain M4d]

How the f*ck.

It's on the Combine OverWiki.

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Combine_Overworld

 

[Higlac]

Do your worst, willie. Act now while he's still in shock.

 

[Story]

i has a question about hl2 ep1 what is the man in the blue suit hes scaring me

G-G-G-G-G-G Unit.

 

[fishdbaz]

And now that we have all collectively broken the ego of a small child on the internet, the answer is the Aleph universe. The name is a throwback to the protagonist of Prospero, the Librarian Aleph.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but where in the games or in the writings of Marc Laidlaw is it this mentioned? As far as I can recall, the closest thing to a name for the Combine universe being mentioned is near the beginning of Episode Two when Magnusson refers to it as the "Combine Overworld".

 

[theotherguy]

And now that we have all collectively broken the ego of a small child on the internet, the answer is the Aleph universe. The name is a throwback to the protagonist of Prospero, the Librarian Aleph.

I thought it was a reference to the term Aleph_null in discrete mathematics, which is a term for "the smallest possible infinity." There are an infinite number of infinities, Alpehs null through infinity.

 

[Captain M4d]

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but where in the games or in the writings of Marc Laidlaw is it this mentioned? As far as I can recall, the closest thing to a name for the Combine universe being mentioned is near the beginning of Episode Two when Magnusson refers to it as the "Combine Overworld".

Refer to my link.

 

[Darkside55]

where in the games or in the writings of Marc Laidlaw is it this mentioned?

"Well, if you'd like to reconsider your involvement in the program, Eli, it would make a huge difference in how quickly we can make the Combine portals safe for human use. That way Alyx and even yourself might be able to travel to the Aleph universe with your faculties intact. That is our ultimate goal, after all: to move freely through the continuum. To make our incipient immortality worthwhile."

You may also be interested to note that the line Breen is delivering to Eli that you hear when you're being taken to his office, "...carbon stars with ancient satellites colonized by sentient fungi," and all that, before that, Breen mentions "36 zones beyond our own." The line was ultimately cut.

 

[MFL]

pwned

 

[kupocake]

"Well, if you'd like to reconsider your involvement in the program, Eli, it would make a huge difference in how quickly we can make the Combine portals safe for human use. That way Alyx and even yourself might be able to travel to the Aleph universe with your faculties intact. That is our ultimate goal, after all: to move freely through the continuum. To make our incipient immortality worthwhile."

Keep your crazy GCF apocrypha away from the impressionable minds of the forum, you heretic!