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If you have not played the Half-Life Blueshift expansion that Gearbox and Valve released back in spring of 2001 but plan on playing it eventually, you most like should skip this. Then again, it wasn't very good, so perhaps I'm doing you a favor. :smoking:
Anyway, perhaps people remember the last task Barney faced in the game - gunning down grunts while Dr. Rosenberg and the other surviving scientists in that area of the facility used a xen relay teleport to escape to a parking lot on the far side of Black Mesa.
The teleportation portal that Rosenberg & co. put together took some damage from marine gun fire after the last scientist went through, just before it was Barney's turn to make the leap of faith himself.
To quote PHL's guide -
So he is lucky to have not been caught in an infinite loop, and was glowing green.
Seem familiar?
I believe that this "infinite loop" accounts for why Gordon has not aged in the ten years between Black Mesa and City 17. Whether it keeps you from aging due to being in another universe/dimension, or because he was modulated (think of the way phones, radios, or the internet works) and his particles were detached for ten years, Freeman hasn't aged.
On top of that, I don't think Freeman has actually "done anything" in the ten years since. He was "pending assignment" and I believe whatever GMan has you doing in City 17, ten years later and many miles from New Mexico, is what the "assignment" is. Valve has said that Freeman is just as clueless as the player is.
I think this means you stepped off the train car at Black Mesa, into an infinite loop controlled by Gman (or his employers), and has been released onto the train car heading into City 17's train station. Or as the schedule would indicate, the "tren" station, which could be in Romania. :afro:
So perhaps Gman and some of his employers are human. Human, and in possession of teleportation technology that keeps them from aging. How long has Gman been working them, and how long have they been keeping an eye on the affairs of Earth, Xen, and the universe the combine are from? Who knows.
I also have to wonder where Gordon's HEV suit would have gone in the meantime, since Gman pointed out that he had "earned" it.
But if I had all the answers this wouldn't be in the speculation forum. :naughty:
Anyway, perhaps people remember the last task Barney faced in the game - gunning down grunts while Dr. Rosenberg and the other surviving scientists in that area of the facility used a xen relay teleport to escape to a parking lot on the far side of Black Mesa.
The teleportation portal that Rosenberg & co. put together took some damage from marine gun fire after the last scientist went through, just before it was Barney's turn to make the leap of faith himself.
To quote PHL's guide -
So he is lucky to have not been caught in an infinite loop, and was glowing green.
Seem familiar?
I believe that this "infinite loop" accounts for why Gordon has not aged in the ten years between Black Mesa and City 17. Whether it keeps you from aging due to being in another universe/dimension, or because he was modulated (think of the way phones, radios, or the internet works) and his particles were detached for ten years, Freeman hasn't aged.
On top of that, I don't think Freeman has actually "done anything" in the ten years since. He was "pending assignment" and I believe whatever GMan has you doing in City 17, ten years later and many miles from New Mexico, is what the "assignment" is. Valve has said that Freeman is just as clueless as the player is.
I think this means you stepped off the train car at Black Mesa, into an infinite loop controlled by Gman (or his employers), and has been released onto the train car heading into City 17's train station. Or as the schedule would indicate, the "tren" station, which could be in Romania. :afro:
So perhaps Gman and some of his employers are human. Human, and in possession of teleportation technology that keeps them from aging. How long has Gman been working them, and how long have they been keeping an eye on the affairs of Earth, Xen, and the universe the combine are from? Who knows.
I also have to wonder where Gordon's HEV suit would have gone in the meantime, since Gman pointed out that he had "earned" it.
But if I had all the answers this wouldn't be in the speculation forum. :naughty:
