LandStander
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Anyone who has played Half-Life 2 will immediately notice the barrels marked "explosive" littered all over in convenient locations throughout the game. How could we make sense of this?
Well the combine have seized the earth and are mining it for it's precious resources. Among these resources is very likely oil, coal, etc. Humanity is no longer harvesting these materials yet there are a number of things such as electricity, heat sources and the like that are required for people to live in the controlled cities. So how does the combine solve this? A cheap but highly volatile chemical, fuel (whatever) that is very adaptive in powering primitive machinery but useful in little else. Unfortunately the Combine in their infinite wisdom forgot to set up a DPW. So, where do they store this unstable substance? Everywhere and anywhere. Accidents probably result in high numbers of death annually but it is unlikely that the combine care much.
Well the combine have seized the earth and are mining it for it's precious resources. Among these resources is very likely oil, coal, etc. Humanity is no longer harvesting these materials yet there are a number of things such as electricity, heat sources and the like that are required for people to live in the controlled cities. So how does the combine solve this? A cheap but highly volatile chemical, fuel (whatever) that is very adaptive in powering primitive machinery but useful in little else. Unfortunately the Combine in their infinite wisdom forgot to set up a DPW. So, where do they store this unstable substance? Everywhere and anywhere. Accidents probably result in high numbers of death annually but it is unlikely that the combine care much.