Gun ship,strider, look like alien to me!

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Ok the gun ship has a wierd flying flat alien thing look. And the strider looks like its an alien fused with a robot, and the drop ship looks like a flat wiener with a gun and a sak full of sea men (combine)
 
That's because they are alien They are made up of alien organic matter and merged with Combine technology. I thought the fact that they were alien was pretty obvious. :bonce: I don't know about you, but I've never seen Gunships or Striders on Earth.
 
huh? what's the point?

it's not even a question
 
specialmax said:
...alien fused with a robot...
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You've pretty much answered your own question. Striders, Gunships, Dropships, Shield Scanners, Crab Synths and Mortar Synths all belong to a race called Synths. The Combine previously conquered the Synths, and then enhanced them with their technology through forceful evolution. Before they were assimilated by the Combine, the Synths were self-replicating robot-like creatures that evolved. It is likely that the Combine used the Synths as the primary invading force during the 7 Hours War, as the Overwatch and Civil Protection units wouldn't have been established yet (since they are human-derived - and that process wouldn't have started until after Earth's surrender).
 
The synth were very peacefull before the combine invaded them.
 
sfc_hoot said:
You've pretty much answered your own question. Striders, Gunships, Dropships, Shield Scanners, Crab Synths and Mortar Synths all belong to a race called Synths. The Combine previously conquered the Synths, and then enhanced them with their technology through forceful evolution. Before they were assimilated by the Combine, the Synths were self-replicating robot-like creatures that evolved. It is likely that the Combine used the Synths as the primary invading force during the 7 Hours War, as the Overwatch and Civil Protection units wouldn't have been established yet (since they are human-derived - and that process wouldn't have started until after Earth's surrender).
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I think you may be a little mistaken. Strider, gunships, dropships etc don't all necessarilly come from the same race, and that race is not called "synths." The combine could have found striders on a completely different planet from where they found the shield scanners for all we know. They become synths once the combine integrate them and enhance them with technology, SYNTHesizing animal and machine.
 
Or they could have created Striders completely, couldn't they?
 
And the combine, look like people lol. I think the metrocops are also people, but, they wear a different hat so I dunno. The citadel looks like a rectangle ,with people inside of it, and maybe is made of metal.

Great thread, by the way.
 
Mechagodzilla said:
And the combine, look like people lol. I think the metrocops are also people, but, they wear a different hat so I dunno. The citadel looks like a rectangle ,with people inside of it, and maybe is made of metal.

Great thread, by the way.
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Have you noticed how the headcrabs look the same as the headcrabs in half life 1, but the black ones dont??











:p
 
Oh em eff gee dudes ITS BIOMECHS I tried to make one but i just ended up with a dead cat with a flashlight in its head!!11!!one
 
lol........ The synths in the model viewer looked like a headcrab robot thing....
 
No it dosn't.

I think the Prima guide states the the Striders etc. are Synths and that they were conquered by the Combine.
 
synths are not a species on its own...they are called synths because they are SYNTHetic. now maybe the species that they combine the mech with was taken over, but "synth" is not a race/species.
 
DarkStar said:
I think you may be a little mistaken. Strider, gunships, dropships etc don't all necessarilly come from the same race, and that race is not called "synths." The combine could have found striders on a completely different planet from where they found the shield scanners for all we know. They become synths once the combine integrate them and enhance them with technology, SYNTHesizing animal and machine.
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If they're from different worlds, then why do they all look the same? Beige skin, for instance. I think Synths consist of different species (striders, gunships etc), but they all come from the same race/planet - that explains why they all share similar appearances. And when I say "appearance", I'm referring to the unmodified parts of the synths, not the technology that the Combine have enhanced them with.

It's just like Xen in a way, you have Vorts, Bullsquids, Houndeyes, Gargs etc. They're all different species, but they all come from the same race/world. I think it's the same with the Synths.
 
I should make a webpage on biology of creatures in the HL universe.
 
FireCrack said:
I should make a webpage on biology of creatures in the HL universe.
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Great idea,so we won't have so much useless threads lying around here...... :hmph:
 
Hehe, I tried to doing that ages ago. but it sucks....to many typos and gramatical errors, and bullsh1t ;). but you can have a look anyway: www.freewebs.com/jandor

Oh, and it's a freeweb site as well..it has nothing going for it :) .
 
Barnacle has been "Coming Soon" for two months now ;)#

I might actually finish it soon, I've changed my mind about some things on the site, so I may update it.
 
Not a bad site,enjoyed reading through the pages,if you can just keep it more alive :|.
 
I think the Gargantua is Synth or something synthetic. Combine use some bio-engineering and other technology for create new species and creatures (mayby Headcrabs is created by Combine).
 
Sieg said:
Great idea,so we won't have so much useless threads lying around here...... :hmph:
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Yes, these facts have been confirmed numerous times, but it keeps the board alive, and its not exactly harming anyone. I don't mind answering people's questions. As long as it's not idiotic.
 
He has a point, I think we have run out of things to speculate, so where just re-hashing the old stuff ;)

When i get my first job, and my boss shouts at me i'll quit
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Yeh, sure *cough*never been in the real world*cough*.
 
Jandor said:
He has a point, I think we have run out of things to speculate, so where just re-hashing the old stuff ;)



Yeh, sure *cough*never been in the real world*cough*.
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:laugh:

Thats from someone i know, and he sometimes says some odd things, and lives in a sort of fantasy world...

ontopic: I don't mind re hashing, not everyone got half life 2 around the time of release
 
I'm not one to deny living in a fantasy land, but, that is a very silly comment and anyone who has ever had a job knows that, that comment is rubbish.

I daydream about punching my boss in the face, but I dont do it really ;).

Yeh, re-hashing allows for a fun debate from time to time, however, people should use search before posting, if its months and months old, post it again.
 
I didn't know that was your website Jandor, I want you to change it so it corespond with my theory, I mean, who are people going to believe, a guy with a thread, or a guy with a webpage. ;(
 
Hmmm, I think I'm going to make a thread about it. then people can write articles about the empty sections and tell me what they think is wrong about the current ones. Yeh...thats a good idea.

Plus, what is your theory?
 
I think that the RtB theory is correct. My thoughts:

The synths were a replicating semi organic/robot race, and as such would have an extremely fast rate of evolution. Originally, as with all races, the synths had ONE BASIC FORM (if you look at the combine adapted synths, you see that they share many characteristics). After the combine enslaved them, they found that the synths high rate of evolution and organic/robot nature meant that they were easy to manipulate and combine with their own technology. They split the synth 'genetic tree' in many direction, with striders, gunships, mortar synths etc.

It would be sensible to keep some 'original' synths somewhere as a basic design to adapt, so the combine probably have many synth in their original form (the one they were discovered in) at various locations.

I dont believe that any of the scanners are synth, they merely use some synth-based technology. They share few characteristics with the synth.

the word 'synth' is just used as a name for their race as we view it. It looks/is by OUR definition, Synthetic.
 
cabbs said:
It would be sensible to keep some 'original' synths somewhere as a basic design to adapt, so the combine probably have many synth in their original form (the one they were discovered in) at various locations.
Actually, as the Combine are so technically advanced, they might as well just record the gene-sequence on their interstellar database, for easy downloading and cloning.

-Angry Lawyer
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I don't get it, everyone says the Synth are Organic/Robotic, yet, Organic material isn't the impression I get from a name that is short for Synthetic, I think they are entirely robotic, with nanites for cells, code for genes, etc. They evolve like animals, slowing gaining new 'DNA' from corrupted files or perhaps even wilfully changing and upgrading the code.

Actually, They do look slightly Organic, I'm not sure....anyway, I'm going to mull it over.
 
The impression I got of the Synth is that they are simply the Combine's success record to date - they are the races that the Combine have Combined. Essentially they are now more robotic than animal, yet they were animal once. It doesn't seem like a very Combine thing to do to make robots, but make them into the shape of animals just for coolness or style.

RtB quote (partial):
"...possibly once organic creatures that the Combine had enslaved and converted during previous invasions"

-Dhabih Eng
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It says nothing about them being one single species, and it does mention invasion*s*, plural, so I reckon they're all from different places. RtB does however say that they are now self-replicating, and evolve. Easy way of defining "Synth" is not to think of them as any kind of race, but just think of them as all of the Combine's non-humanoid weaponry (excepting APCs, choppers, etc).
 
Laivasse said:
but just think of them as all of the Combine's non-humanoid weaponry (excepting APCs, choppers, etc).
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That makes headcrabs synths!
 
ríomhaire said:
That makes headcrabs synths!
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It's pretty obvious what I meant. Just substitute "weaponry" for "forces" if it's so hard to swallow.

I said "weaponry" because Combine forces are weaponry - a Combine soldier is not the Combine, it is a weapon used by the Combine. Likewise Synths.
 
I don't think it was at all obvious what you meant ;) .
 
I say the synth are biorganic. Imagine a normal arganism that just so happens to be able to secrete mettaloid armour and create internal functioning electrical components.
 
Sounds like a Cyborg to me, but thats to cliched, so Valve called them Synths.
 
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