Half-Life. A Bedtime Story.

[XJR]

It's all about the technology. Gather round children and I will tell you a little story.

The sun is rising on a brand new day, and the combine are pissed off.

The combine are like "Sheet mangs, we need local teleport tech." They could be so much more efficiant! So they go and call up one of their inter-dimensional advisors (Pun un-intended.) That happens to be the Gman's 'Employers'. They are like, "Whatever you say Combs but we want something in return you deal?" They deal. Lets assume that the Gman's Employers know about humanity before the Combine do. Perhaps they know about them from Black Mesa's Survey teams in Xen?

Anyway, they put the combine in touch with the Gman and he acts as their advisor and contractor. The Gmans like "So whaddya want." The combine explain they need local teleport technology. They dont list a reason - and they don't need to. This is business. If the price is right nobody gives a crap.

So the Gman goes and does all his paperwork - paperwork being setting up Black Mesa with a bad crystal and possibly manipulating the science teams to ensure the anti-mass speccy-magic-laser device has more than enough juice that would create a breach between Xen and Earth - and he succeeds. Now all the combine need is a rocket in orbit with a particular satellite system. Problem is, humans have contingency plans and shit. Damn, now the military are all over Gmans hard work - but wait a moment. Who the hell is this guy? Some ginger-pony-tailed weirdo is killing EVERYTHING. So the Gman's all like, "Aight" and he manipulates the scientists to direct Freeman to the rocket pad and launch it. Freeman deals with that situation so well that Gman's employers begin to raise eyebrows.

Something comes across the minds of the Gman's employers. You see over in Xen land, theres this gigantic flying baby which shoots portals. Local portals - Local to Xen. (Ephiphany!) But anyway, the combine evidently tried probing Nih' and all the rest. They need science - not nature! Besides with him gone the Gman and his employers could control Xen. So it was settled the Gman had nothing else to do around this time anyway, so we went to work manipulating paths, making Freeman travel to Xen to kill the big baby. Should he succeed, the Gman's company get to keep Gordon and would inadvertantly control Xen. A bonus!

So Gordon does his stuff and gets put to sleep by Gman. Fast forward however many years it was to Half-Life 2. AND GODDAMN IT MAN, Turns out the combine wanted to keep Xen! But Gman's employers never thought to ask - they also wanted to study nihilanth more. Oh dear. This has soured the deal. The combine no longer want to pay up. Bad for buisness. Gman's employers are all like "Lets reverse this deal. NO MONEY. NO TECH. DON'T WASTE MY MOTHAF***IN' TIME! (Scarface.)". What a hilarious misunderstanding - now Earth is in pieces and it's all for nothing. Except... the combine are so close to taking the human's local teleporter tech - Gman's employers start panicking.

They wake Gordon and set him on a path to assault the Combine and remove them from Earth. Gordon does exactly what the Gman wants him to do - He joins the resistance and continues to spit in the face of the Combine eventually starting a war yardy yardy yar....Think about it. At the end of Episode 2 - With the citadel destroyed, the super-portal closed how will the combine get that knowledge back to the other side? I'll tell you.

B - O - R - E - A - L - I - S

And that my children is a story for another night.

*Closes book*

 

[tabernumse]

That was beautiful. And extremely interesting. I'm impressed.

The advisors being G-mans employers actually make sense, considering Eli was killed shortly after expressing his desire of talking about "our mutual friend". As the advisors do not wish for the humans to know more about them or their employee (G-man), they make sure to kill Eli (who they didn't really need for anything, as opposed to Gordon), before Gordon could have a chance to get a clear understanding of what is going on.

The advisors want you (Gordon) to be confused. They want him to be a mayonette of their interests.


We need more discussions like this.

 

[Danny_ZQ]

you sir have opened my eyes.

 

[MFL]

No, I'm not going to add my own speculation here. Not in this sacred place. I am just going to appreciate.
*holds XJR warmly*

 

[Mogi67]

You know, as much as I want to know who or what the Gman is, I would be perfectly fine if we're kept in the dark after EP3/Half-Life 3 as far as his identity goes. it'd almost be like a david lynch film

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

The advisors want you (Gordon) to be confused. They want him to be a mayonette of their interests.

a mayonette of their interests.

mayonette

Dude you should have just went with "puppet"

 

[ríomhaire]

"Damn, now the military are all over Gmans hard work"

If Opposing Force is anything to go by the military were getting their orders from the g-man.

 

[Danny_ZQ]

"Monsters for sure, but fo' real, who ordered this operation anyway?" -HECU

 

[Remus]

Now I'm really confused... I always thought the advisors were basically the leadership class of the Combine, not a different faction and the G-Man's mysterious employers.

The interdimensional corporate warfare idea does make sense though, and fits with what little we know so far.

 

[tabernumse]

Dude you should have just went with "puppet"

I am from Denmark... Sorry.

 

[morgs]

We need more discussions like this.

This forum has had 8 years of discussions like this.

 

[tabernumse]

This forum has had 8 years of discussions like this.

Sure, but interesting discussions and unique theories like this in the forums, has been declining agressively throughout the last 2 years.
Some people are sick of "speculating and overanalysing", and think it's pointless. I am not one of these people.

 

[Eejit]

Sure, but interesting discussions and unique theories like this in the forums, has been declining agressively throughout the last 2 years.

We've heard them all many times before.

 

[Adabiviak]

Man... too much Borderlands 2... I read that in Tiny Tina's voice.

Anyway, that's a fine yarn. I always figured the Advisors were the, uh, 'parents' of the Combine. Advisors as a third party is interesting, if hard to swallow (the Combine sure seem to be looking after them more than would seem likely if they were just consultants, but it could work). It seems like the Advisors could have been taking a more direct role in stopping the Combine if this was the case too, but perhaps as 'businessmen' it makes more sense to have their (distant and hence no connection to them in case the G-man gets 'caught') agent get it done with his new nerd/assassin.

With this in mind, this would give a different meaning to the mental 'attacks' that the Advisors lay on people and almost (accidentally because this Advisor was a noob?) to Gordon and Alyx (who's also apparently one of these pawns).