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AlbatrossofTime
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MY THEORY OF XEN LIFEFORM METAMORPHOSIS
note: This theory is based off of the various species seen in HL1,
which means any new species in HL2 will not be included.
Gonarch (gives birth to...)
|
Baby Headcrab (develops into full-grown... )
|
Headcrab (seeks a host... grabs a human... infestation begins and...)
|
Zombie (Zombie matures (if it doesn't meet Gordon) into...)
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Alien Slave (the slaves with the most potential (or just random slaves)
| develop into...)
Alien Controller (and finally, the cream of the crop turn into...)
|
Nihilith.
This would be the basic metamorphosis pattern IF the headcrab finds a host.
If the headcrab does NOT find a host I would imagine it would go something like this:
Gonarch
|
Baby Headcrab
|
Headcrab (if the head crab does not find a host it would over time grow
| into what it naturally would turn into if humans were not
| involved)
Gonarch
The other specied assosciated with Xen, the bullsquid, the houndeye, the tentacle, the barnacle, and the ichthyosaur, I assume are the local fauna.
I personally believe that the garg is a metamorphosis of the snark, IF the snark is left in the cocoons we saw all over the place in the beginning of Forget about Freeman.
The alien grunt I believe is a artificially created construct of the Xen "whatever the heck really controlls the Xen", seeing as how none of the other species on the Xen world went through the packaging plant seen at the later Xen levels and the lack of the ability to speak English as the other
aliens (slaves, Nihilith, controllers) could.
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Seeing as how, according to my theory, the transcendance of the Gonarch species into the Nihilith species ABSOLUTELY depends upon the headcrab finding a HUMAN host, some very important questions are called to mind. How can this happen? Supposedly, the Xen lifeforms evolved on Xen, which may be in a completly different dimension then the human race's, or at least farther away than the average distance of a headcrab leap. This creates a paradox. Nothing evolving in a seperate ecology can really have the kind of symbiosis demonstrated by the interaction between headcrab and human. Only Nihilith and some of the controllers seem to have any sort of teleporting ability (I am assuming Nihilith transported the aliens seen in HL1 into the area's in which they were), and seeing as how headcrabs need humans to reach this stage of their metamorphisis, the headcrabs could have no interaction with humans at all. This would be like opening a crate with the crowbar inside. Could the Xen lifeforms really have been DEVELOPED by humans on Earth as some kind of human-race killer? Or could I truly be a long-winded babbeler? Or could something fishy be at work, something we can not even think of yet?
I invite you all to explore this and bring up any other matters of this sort you care to deal with. If we are to know the true nature of the Xen species, the true nature of the new aliens we will be dealing with, and the true nature of the story of the alien invasion of Earth, we will have to sort through these sort of questions.
I look forward to it.
note: This theory is based off of the various species seen in HL1,
which means any new species in HL2 will not be included.
Gonarch (gives birth to...)
|
Baby Headcrab (develops into full-grown... )
|
Headcrab (seeks a host... grabs a human... infestation begins and...)
|
Zombie (Zombie matures (if it doesn't meet Gordon) into...)
|
Alien Slave (the slaves with the most potential (or just random slaves)
| develop into...)
Alien Controller (and finally, the cream of the crop turn into...)
|
Nihilith.
This would be the basic metamorphosis pattern IF the headcrab finds a host.
If the headcrab does NOT find a host I would imagine it would go something like this:
Gonarch
|
Baby Headcrab
|
Headcrab (if the head crab does not find a host it would over time grow
| into what it naturally would turn into if humans were not
| involved)
Gonarch
The other specied assosciated with Xen, the bullsquid, the houndeye, the tentacle, the barnacle, and the ichthyosaur, I assume are the local fauna.
I personally believe that the garg is a metamorphosis of the snark, IF the snark is left in the cocoons we saw all over the place in the beginning of Forget about Freeman.
The alien grunt I believe is a artificially created construct of the Xen "whatever the heck really controlls the Xen", seeing as how none of the other species on the Xen world went through the packaging plant seen at the later Xen levels and the lack of the ability to speak English as the other
aliens (slaves, Nihilith, controllers) could.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Seeing as how, according to my theory, the transcendance of the Gonarch species into the Nihilith species ABSOLUTELY depends upon the headcrab finding a HUMAN host, some very important questions are called to mind. How can this happen? Supposedly, the Xen lifeforms evolved on Xen, which may be in a completly different dimension then the human race's, or at least farther away than the average distance of a headcrab leap. This creates a paradox. Nothing evolving in a seperate ecology can really have the kind of symbiosis demonstrated by the interaction between headcrab and human. Only Nihilith and some of the controllers seem to have any sort of teleporting ability (I am assuming Nihilith transported the aliens seen in HL1 into the area's in which they were), and seeing as how headcrabs need humans to reach this stage of their metamorphisis, the headcrabs could have no interaction with humans at all. This would be like opening a crate with the crowbar inside. Could the Xen lifeforms really have been DEVELOPED by humans on Earth as some kind of human-race killer? Or could I truly be a long-winded babbeler? Or could something fishy be at work, something we can not even think of yet?
I invite you all to explore this and bring up any other matters of this sort you care to deal with. If we are to know the true nature of the Xen species, the true nature of the new aliens we will be dealing with, and the true nature of the story of the alien invasion of Earth, we will have to sort through these sort of questions.
I look forward to it.