Alright first off this thread is just a partial theory that i'm adding on to my theory about half life in general. Quick overview of my theory to this point(for a more detailed version i think there's another thread about it somewhere around the forums) The Combine and another unseen possibly more powerful uber race are in the middle of a tense, cold war like standoff and are in an arms race, massing resources and aguementing other species into their ranks in preperation for a conflict. The G-man, who i believe is an operative of this unseen race taking a more... suitable... form for his Earth operations, is engaging in cold war like espionage tactics against the combine. Throughout half life 2 he assisted Gordon Freeman in destroying a Citadel. With the destruction of this Citadel it is my belief that resistance world wide will take this as a sign to let all hell loose. This will loosen the Combines grip on the Earth and the theoreticle alien enemy of the combine will attempt to exploit this weakness by sending a massive invasion force. The combine however will also react to this weakness by saying to hell with overwatch and sending some of the most badass synths around in numbers to earth culminating in a massive world wide war between the exterrestrial forces.
This theory's fine but it doesn't do anything toward explaining the events of Half Life one. For a while I believed that Breen was in contact pre-resonance cascade with the combine and arranged through them to cause the RC in exchange for power and G-mans presence at the base during the RC could simply be explained by him trying to halt this from occuring but i eventually decided against that.
Then i came to a more reasonable conclusion about how the events of Half life 1 came about. What if G-man set this whole thing up from the beginning. What if G-man intended for the resonance cascade to happen in order to attract the attention of the resource hungry combine. What if he used Earth as a trap. By causing the RC G-man attracts the attention of the combine and lures them to Earth. Experience no resistance from the absolutly stunned governments of Earth the combine assume control in 7 hours. After aguementing the remanents of the worlds militaries into their ranks and getting situated the eventually let the overwatch and a few synth oversee their operation and move the main invasion force that was intially used else where. That's when the G-man brings Gordon out of Stasis. The rest is either history or has yet to be written.
It makes much more sense to me that G-man used Earth as a trap but i could be very very wrong. But the formation of this sub theory only adds to my anticipation of further expansions of the Half Life storyline.
This theory's fine but it doesn't do anything toward explaining the events of Half Life one. For a while I believed that Breen was in contact pre-resonance cascade with the combine and arranged through them to cause the RC in exchange for power and G-mans presence at the base during the RC could simply be explained by him trying to halt this from occuring but i eventually decided against that.
Then i came to a more reasonable conclusion about how the events of Half life 1 came about. What if G-man set this whole thing up from the beginning. What if G-man intended for the resonance cascade to happen in order to attract the attention of the resource hungry combine. What if he used Earth as a trap. By causing the RC G-man attracts the attention of the combine and lures them to Earth. Experience no resistance from the absolutly stunned governments of Earth the combine assume control in 7 hours. After aguementing the remanents of the worlds militaries into their ranks and getting situated the eventually let the overwatch and a few synth oversee their operation and move the main invasion force that was intially used else where. That's when the G-man brings Gordon out of Stasis. The rest is either history or has yet to be written.
It makes much more sense to me that G-man used Earth as a trap but i could be very very wrong. But the formation of this sub theory only adds to my anticipation of further expansions of the Half Life storyline.
