Aperture workers

[altceva]

I was thinking...


While playing the game, we find out that Aperture Enrichment has been suddenly abandoned for no apparent reason. In the end, Glados says she released the neurotoxin gas and killed everyone. How did Glados dispose off the bodies?

I think she's lying. She didn't kill anyone, most probable people ran away scared of the Portal Storms.

And here's the proof: if she was to kill ALL the Aperture employers (let's say no one, not even the security guards at the gate outside didn't make it), then the scientist's relatives, families, and not the last... the authorities (army, police) would have been alerted and would have came to search the place, finding a "situation", in which a crazed mainframe computer took control and killed everyone. Glados would have been shut down and the facility cleared up (and possible closed).

People ran away, that's clear! And they weren't running away from Glados!

 

[Mech Man]

Hmm , quite an interesting idea you have there. But i think she was telling teh troofz , cause if she had killed everyone then no one would be able to alert the army , police ect. Also i think its hinted at that aperture was top secret like black mesa which would mean that if no one made it out or alerted anyone no one would know it even existed.

 

[altceva]

There are always a few people around who know about a secret base, it's not like everyone who knows about it must live inside the base. Also, any secret base would have a security force nearby, ready to be dispatched in case of tresspassing or accidents. Besides, if 100 people die suddenly, and at least some of them have families ("Bring your daughter to work day"?), families would be alerted if they would not come home. Families would call police.

Logically, I think it's impossible to eradicate a secret base from inside, especially when you have people (with families) working, not clones.


Oh, and please bring ideas about the bodies. Androids guided by Glados cleared the whole facility? Where are they? Why did't they stop Chell when she tried to kill Glados? I only saw a couple of fixed cannons and that's it.

 

[Pyroxic]

GLaDOS is just a distraught lonely (psychopathic perhaps) persona.

Perhaps she didn't kill them, but maybe she lied to try to get Chell to stay because she was alone.

 

[Mech Man]

Also , at the end GLaDOS attempts to kill Chell with the same toxin , which proves she definatly has the ability to do so.

 

[VortigauntLover]

We really didn't go through that many areas of Aperture Science. There was probably no one in the areas...

 

[altceva]

Also , at the end GLaDOS attempts to kill Chell with the same toxin , which proves she definatly has the ability to do so.

Ok, then please explain the bodies. Neurotoxin gas doesn't dissolve bones and clothes.

 

[G(ordon)-man]

Ok, then please explain the bodies. Neurotoxin gas doesn't dissolve bones and clothes.

Yes, its name is neurotoxin and it, as the name implies it will maybe eat you up from inside.

 

[kineaesth]

Yes, its name is neurotoxin and it, as the name implies it will maybe eat you up from inside.

'A neurotoxin is a toxin that acts specifically on nerve cells (neurons), usually by interacting with membrane proteins such as ion channels.'

Obviously you have a firm understanding if sciance.

 

[altceva]

Yes, its name is neurotoxin and it, as the name implies it will maybe eat you up from inside.

Eeerrr... I don't think so. Neuro means its main target is the nervous system, especially neurons. Toxin means poison for living cells. Neither stopping neurons activity, neither poisoning your body will "eat you from inside". It's not acid.

And besides, if something can melt clothes and bones, then I presume it also melts floors, chairs, tables, computers and stuff. But no, everything else is allright, I didn't see any melted room, not even a single object...

 

[G(ordon)-man]

I ment it will eat you up "mentally" or sumthing. I'm no Kleiner!

 

[shotgun]

I reckon she did kill people aftler looking at the twisted writings on the wall.

 

[G(ordon)-man]

Those writings didn't existed before the massacre of AS.

 

[shotgun]

Exactly. GLaDOS made survivors feel as lonely as she did; note the "Companion Cube" with hearts over it and the cube over a women's body. That GLaDOS bitch made people crazy and loney, which more likely led to there horrible deaths.

 

[Mech Man]

Im well aware it wouldnt dissolve all of the matter , but she could have easily disposed of them with some other method , acid sprays or something i dunno. The point is she has already demonstrated that she can so theres no need to question it if we have proof.

 

[altceva]

Chell didn't die. The gas may be just a bluffing, Glados didn't prove anything.

 

[ellimanest]

Chell didn't die. The gas may be just a bluffing, Glados didn't prove anything.

If the counter runs out, you die. Then again that is probably not the anything to go by as it is not the real ending just as sliding into the fire pit is not. Your theory makes alot of sense actually, it would explain the lack of bodies and how come they're where no investigations into employees sudden dissapearences.

A side thought, did Chamber 16 with the Companion Cube contain observation booths? The test seems a little dark, even for Aperture Science.

 

[MacBowes]

I think that you're right about people abandoning the place for a couple reasons. Number one, if she had let out a neurotoxin it would have killed everyone inside within minutes. Also, as stated many times, the bodies of scientists would have been everywhere. Not only that, but if GLaDOS was to have let a neurotoxin throughout the facility, surely the scientists (at least the less cowardly ones) would have done everything in their power to shut her down. While playing throughout the game I didn't see anything that would have indicated that they were trying to do so. Personally, I believe that she has simply gone insane because of loneliness over many years. There are some loopholes, however, such as; why are there any people (i.e., the daughters) still there / alive? I mean, surely they would have been with their parents all day and I don't imagine that they would have just left their kids behind. This to me seems like some sort of 'intervention' by a higher-power, maybe GLaDOS, maybe not.

One theory I have is that when the resonance cascade started, GLaDOS, who I'm sure would have had some part in safely escorting everyone outside, attempted to teleport everyone out (or forced them out via some teleport room). Being a computer, she was unable to see why leaving the daughters behind would be a big deal to the scientists, so she decided to just get out everyone that was important to her (the scientists). This would explain how all the scientists got out and why there was no sense of a struggle, and why the daughters were left behind. The only loophole I see is that there may not be a mass-teleportation device of some sort.

 

[ChiliFan]

Didn't they install the morality core after she'd flooded the centre with neurotoxin?

 

[MacBowes]

Didn't they install the morality core after she'd flooded the centre with neurotoxin?

I'm pretty sure that the 'morality core' wasn't real. It was just her lying again.

 

[Pyroxic]

I'm pretty sure that the 'morality core' wasn't real. It was just her lying again.

Then I guess that first core you destroyed was nothing but a ball with an eye.

 

[altceva]

As I said, I think people ran away because of the portal storms. Glados, suddenly alone, reactivates Chell in desperate need of company. Her morality core, unchecked by human specialists, takes some wrong decisions which Glados, as an enitity, is somewhat aware of. So, she started denying the truth, making up stories and basically lying.

I think Glados is also lying about the other test subjects. Let's say there were others, like Chell. Do they all follow the same way Chell did? No, because, we break glasses and push grates for the first time, which means no one has been there before. We clear entire rooms of turrets, these turrets can't be placed back every time, there aren't any turret placing devices in the ceiling or in the walls. Also, do they all survive the tests? None of them dies shot by the turrets? We don't see dead people in orange suits with portal guns beside them. I think Chell is the only test subject left alone in the entire Enrichment. Now, I don't think Aperture would deliberately keep people in stasis (see the eliptic "bed" in Chell's cell in the begining) for experiments. If they would, the subjects probably offered themselfves volunteers for various tasks. Before running away and clearing the whole facility, the workers activated (as in woke up) all the subjects and tooke them on the surface. Probably Chell's stasis device was jammed or something, or they just simply forgot about her. Glados wakes her up and starts doing a test, the only one test. She then tries to keep remind you of "the other test subjects" just to give you the idea of "normality" and "standard procedure". She tries to convince you that you're doing what the others have done too...

 

[Lobster]

I reckon the androids disposed of the bodies, I bet she had a whole army of walking iPod androids that ran out of juice one day... y'know maybe.

 

[altceva]

But wait, they ran out of juice just before the last test subject... and with their last drop of power they all joined together for a bath in the acid pool, because they knew they are no further useful.

 

[banana_f]

glados said that "they" installed a morality core to stop her from filling the lab with a deadly nerotoxin. if she did kill every one, then who installed the morality core?

 

[Lobster]

glados said that "they" installed a morality core to stop her from filling the lab with a deadly nerotoxin. if she did kill every one, then who installed the morality core?

Pehaps when GlaDOS did it, the other members of AS came and liquidated the base, but GlaDOS was to important and expensive to just dismantle, so they sealed the base forgetting about the sleeping test subjects that were due for testing prior to the incident, and the combine invasion cut short any plans they had to go back.

Since the invasion GlaDOS has been periodicly waking the subjects one at a time, some have become trapped in various chambers for months or even years living off beans!, and now almost a decade later its Chells time!

Just a theory.

 

[shotgun]

Lobster's theory is the greatest theory I've read. Easy. Simple. Complex and it makes sense.

 

[Mech Man]

Lobster's theory is the greatest theory I've read. Easy. Simple. Complex and it makes sense.

Contradiction much? But yes lobsters theory seems very plausable based on the little we know of AS.

 

[The_E]

Hmm , quite an interesting idea you have there. But i think she was telling teh troofz , cause if she had killed everyone then no one would be able to alert the army , police ect. Also i think its hinted at that aperture was top secret like black mesa which would mean that if no one made it out or alerted anyone no one would know it even existed.

The police and army were busy fighting the combine

 

[Mech Man]

Not exactly true , we dont know when in the time line portal occours. But i suppose either way there would be no one there because before the incident wouldnt make sense as aperture was alive and kicking then (they were activly competing for weapons contracts against BM) durin the disaster would mean no police or military like you said and after... Well i doubt the combine would be too happy about it.

 

[ríomhaire]

As I said, I think people ran away because of the portal storms. Glados, suddenly alone, reactivates Chell in desperate need of company. Her morality core, unchecked by human specialists, takes some wrong decisions which Glados, as an enitity, is somewhat aware of. So, she started denying the truth, making up stories and basically lying.

I think Glados is also lying about the other test subjects. Let's say there were others, like Chell. -What about the Ratman and the scriblings?

Do they all follow the same way Chell did? No, because, we break glasses and push grates for the first time, which means no one has been there before. We clear entire rooms of turrets, these turrets can't be placed back every time, there aren't any turret placing devices in the ceiling or in the walls. -Many of the walls and ceiling pannels have hyrdolics so that they can move. This is frequenty shown, includings in ones that, if closed would just look like another flat section of the wall, such as the broken piece of wall leading to the Ratman's lair in the livefire turret course.

Also, do they all survive the tests? None of them dies shot by the turrets? We don't see dead people in orange suits with portal guns beside them. -Or maybe the centre was created with a built-in way of cleaning up the place.

I think Chell is the only test subject left alone in the entire Enrichment. Now, I don't think Aperture would deliberately keep people in stasis (see the eliptic "bed" in Chell's cell in the begining) for experiments. -I don't understand how the fact that Chell has a bed proves that Aperture wouldn't keep people in stasis.

If they would, the subjects probably offered themselfves volunteers for various tasks. Before running away and clearing the whole facility, the workers activated (as in woke up) all the subjects and tooke them on the surface. Probably Chell's stasis device was jammed or something, or they just simply forgot about her. Glados wakes her up and starts doing a test, the only one test. -To many assumtions for this theory to work.

She then tries to keep remind you of "the other test subjects" just to give you the idea of "normality" and "standard procedure". She tries to convince you that you're doing what the others have done too... -Why?

 

[ellimanest]

If you look at the morality core, it has a dot either side of its eye. Curiosity eye has 2, cake eye has 3 and anger eye 4. So doesn't that mean they installed those parts after or with the morality core which was installed when she went nuts. Either that or they thought they'd leave one out just incase something important should go there, I wonder which is more likely.

 

[Van Kayne]

riomhaire has it.

Just because all the puzzles have not been done yet, doesn't mean we're the first to do them. This is a scientific research facility. They would reset the puzzles after every participant.

Also, just because the machinery is not apparent, doesn't mean it's not there. The very walls, floors and ceilings of the Enrichment Center's test rooms can change and realign themselves, according to the parts that we see in game and what they say in the commentary.

Hell, I even had a suspicion for a while that we don't actually go from one test chamber to another, but that the whole test chamber re-organises itself into the new configuration while you're in the "elevator". I don't think so anymore, because of Ratman jamming the walls open, writing on the walls etc.
But it's still logical that GLaDOS has the ability to reset the rooms to pristine condition, somehow (Androids? An army of cleaners? Snakey arms with hoses and brushes that come out of hidden panels? These are Things Man Was Not Meant To Know).

 

[creepy_thing]

There was the android assault course so maybe she used some androids to get rid of the bodies.

 

[Satans_Offspring]

You have a pretty good theory there.

Heres mine: Chell is the child of Cave Johnson (or some other Aperture worker) & was put in the 'Recovery Annex' (I think its called?) after GLaDOS tried to kill everyone for here safety or something, then she grew up & played through Portal, killed GLaDOS & is now outside awaiting Portal 2. - At the start of Portal 2 some people (that were in a gas free chamber or something for protection from GLaDOS) will come running out of the Facility & ask if she's alright or something & then they will leave Aperture & find that they are right near White Forest (did you notice at the end of Portal when u land in the car park where it looks like?) & then they will meet Gordon or Something.

Yeah

 

[ajezard]

I think some people survived the flooding, installed the morality core and the other thingys, cleaned everything up, and then glados killed them and they are in room that is unreachable in the game. and as for the test subjects, they were in those beds when it was flooded, and the toxins couldnt get them.

 

[Parky]

glados said that "they" installed a morality core to stop her from filling the lab with a deadly nerotoxin. If she did kill every one, then who installed the morality core?

then who was phone?

 

[ríomhaire]

I have a confession to make everyone. I was phone.

 

[Godron]

Well some people must have survived, otherwise there would be no-one left to install the morality core. Perhaps someone shut her down before everyone died, or perhaps she couldn't gas the entire complex. I didn't notice any gas vents in the test chambers. Either way, presumably the survivors are the ones who cleared all the bodies out. Eventually they all fled when the Combine came, possibly because there was no more food coming in, so they would have starved to death if they stayed. But that doesn't explain why they left the test subjects in stasis...

Yeah, my theory sucks.

 

[JBails]

Can I just ask how GLaDOS cut the phone line on the Red Phone?? i mean...the wire connecting teh earpiece to the dialing thingy were broke...a robot couldnt do that...so there must be someone else??