Alexander_Q
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Pre Half Life 1:
Black Mesa (BM) and Aperture science (AS) are working on similar portal technology. AS has infiltrated the military via assassinating all opposers with poisoned shower curtains. They have also created a sentient AI called GLaDOS. GLaDOS suggests to C Johnson that they kill all of the scientists, who are in fact more of a hindrance to science than anything. AS hold a "bring your daughter to work day", to which C Johnson, the quite insane CEO of the company, brings his daughter Chell. During this event, GLaDOS floods the facility with deadly neurotoxin, killing all of the scientists, but leaving the daughters who are in a secure chamber with C Johnson. GLaDOS then erases their minds and puts them to work in the portal test chambers. The goal is to find a script that, when implanted into a mind, would make the ultimate wielder of the portal gun.
Half Life 1:
While these experiments are going on C Johnson infiltrates rival company BM to learn more about their portal technology, with the goal to use it to improve his own. He discovers that BM have successfully engineered a portal that seems to go much further than the AS portals - they have even discovered an alien race. Under GLaDOS's instruction, C Johnson, hereafter known as the G-Man, attempts to sabotage BM by causing a resonance cascade by delivering a particular kind of crystal to a particular test chamber, which results in an alien invasion. GLaDOS even helps out by hacking the BM computer systems and causing them to shut down. G-Man then employs the use of his military to try and contain the alien invasion.
Pre Half Life 2:
The Combine invade the earth via thousands of portals. The G-Man observes this phenomenon, and realises that the technology the Combine are using is a combination between the AS and BM technologies. He concludes that what BM was able to achieve was actually a portal through TIME, not through SPACE like the AS portals. This leads him to the understanding the the Combine are the future of the human race; if the original timeline were to take place uninterrupted by portal technology, GLaDOS would have enslaved humanity, then conquered the galaxy, melding human DNA with whatever alien races she discovered along the way. In time, the resulting "Combine" would have forgotten their origins - the Combine Homeworld is in fact a few thousand years into the future of earth. It also becomes apparent, after the results of GLaDOS's test, that the mind within Chell that successfully defeated GLaDOS was the best mind to implant into the future Combine soldiers - she had proved to be the best wielder of portal technology.
Half Life 2:
The G-Man sees the errors of his ways, and indeed what would have happened if he had continued to obey GLaDOS. And so, he decides to employ the help of Gordon Freeman to destroy the Combine and any iterations of GLaDOS on earth.
Half Life Episode One:
To this end, he leads Gordon to destroy the Combine Citadel...
Half Life Episode Two:
...And puts him on a path to destroy the icebreaker Borealis, which contains the last surviving iteration of GLaDOS after the combine invasion, which will, in the future, potentially evolve into The Combine. G-Man tells Alyx to deliver a message to Eli "prepare for unforeseen consequences" in an attempt to make Eli suspicious of the Borealis, and then gives The Combine the location of Eli in the hope that Eli will be killed and thus make his daughter Alyx more inclined to fulfill his final wishes - to destroy the Borealis and the final GLaDOS. The G-Man hopes that this will make the Combine future an impossibility, and reverse the invasion. He cannot, however, be sure.
Black Mesa (BM) and Aperture science (AS) are working on similar portal technology. AS has infiltrated the military via assassinating all opposers with poisoned shower curtains. They have also created a sentient AI called GLaDOS. GLaDOS suggests to C Johnson that they kill all of the scientists, who are in fact more of a hindrance to science than anything. AS hold a "bring your daughter to work day", to which C Johnson, the quite insane CEO of the company, brings his daughter Chell. During this event, GLaDOS floods the facility with deadly neurotoxin, killing all of the scientists, but leaving the daughters who are in a secure chamber with C Johnson. GLaDOS then erases their minds and puts them to work in the portal test chambers. The goal is to find a script that, when implanted into a mind, would make the ultimate wielder of the portal gun.
Half Life 1:
While these experiments are going on C Johnson infiltrates rival company BM to learn more about their portal technology, with the goal to use it to improve his own. He discovers that BM have successfully engineered a portal that seems to go much further than the AS portals - they have even discovered an alien race. Under GLaDOS's instruction, C Johnson, hereafter known as the G-Man, attempts to sabotage BM by causing a resonance cascade by delivering a particular kind of crystal to a particular test chamber, which results in an alien invasion. GLaDOS even helps out by hacking the BM computer systems and causing them to shut down. G-Man then employs the use of his military to try and contain the alien invasion.
Pre Half Life 2:
The Combine invade the earth via thousands of portals. The G-Man observes this phenomenon, and realises that the technology the Combine are using is a combination between the AS and BM technologies. He concludes that what BM was able to achieve was actually a portal through TIME, not through SPACE like the AS portals. This leads him to the understanding the the Combine are the future of the human race; if the original timeline were to take place uninterrupted by portal technology, GLaDOS would have enslaved humanity, then conquered the galaxy, melding human DNA with whatever alien races she discovered along the way. In time, the resulting "Combine" would have forgotten their origins - the Combine Homeworld is in fact a few thousand years into the future of earth. It also becomes apparent, after the results of GLaDOS's test, that the mind within Chell that successfully defeated GLaDOS was the best mind to implant into the future Combine soldiers - she had proved to be the best wielder of portal technology.
Half Life 2:
The G-Man sees the errors of his ways, and indeed what would have happened if he had continued to obey GLaDOS. And so, he decides to employ the help of Gordon Freeman to destroy the Combine and any iterations of GLaDOS on earth.
Half Life Episode One:
To this end, he leads Gordon to destroy the Combine Citadel...
Half Life Episode Two:
...And puts him on a path to destroy the icebreaker Borealis, which contains the last surviving iteration of GLaDOS after the combine invasion, which will, in the future, potentially evolve into The Combine. G-Man tells Alyx to deliver a message to Eli "prepare for unforeseen consequences" in an attempt to make Eli suspicious of the Borealis, and then gives The Combine the location of Eli in the hope that Eli will be killed and thus make his daughter Alyx more inclined to fulfill his final wishes - to destroy the Borealis and the final GLaDOS. The G-Man hopes that this will make the Combine future an impossibility, and reverse the invasion. He cannot, however, be sure.
Discuss.
