Seraphim's Complete (Mostly) Half-Life Theory
"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world."
"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world."
Introduction:
Well, this is my big attempt to synthesize a theory that covers both Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2, and (maybe, if I'm lucky) accurately predict some of Half-Life 3. I just completed HL2 a few minutes ago (actually about five minutes ago), and it's pretty much come together.
Let's start at the beginning.
Oh, yeah... I'm not going to bother using spoiler tags... so it's assumed you've played HL1, Op4, Blue Shift, and HL2 -- or at least don't care about knowing details.
The Beginning (Half-Life 1):
The beginning starts about a week before the Black Mesa incident. Why, you might ask? The G-Man visited Shephard's unit (Op4) and had them do these strange indoor training excersizes (as in, preparing them for Black Mesa.)
Thus, the G-Man knew about the event and was even planning it. You can see him convincing a scientist to go with him on it in the intro part of HL1, even though it was dangerous. But why would he do that?
Well, humans have been going to Xen for quite a while. For a long time, actually -- at least since the last major upgrade to the Black Mesa Facility (Blue Shift), which appeared to be several years old. Although we've seen transporters that go from Earth to Xen, it's implied that they're looking for a reliable "sling-shot" technique for point-to-point teleportation on Earth (Blue Shift, HL1)
In the BMRF, transportation was through portals that would use a Xen crystal to tear into the new dimension. Supposedly, the purity of the crystal affects the usefulness (HL1). From the designs shown in HL1 and expansions, the popular Xen transport model consisted of a laser thingy shooting energy into the crystal, which then opens up a portal. Of course, the anti-mass spectrometer triggered the extremely-pure sample to start teleportin' stuff all across Black Mesa.
But the G-Man knew this already. And that again begs the question... why would he do it? Because he wanted Freeman to defeat the Nihilanth. And why would he want to do that...?
This is the question we're left with at the end of Half-Life 1. The G-Man and his employers are obviously very happy with what you did, but you're never given an explanation.
Enter Half-Life 2.
Half-Life 2:
I won't summarize the plot of Half-Life 2, so I'll plunge in with my theory dead-on.
Right now, the main question is, "Who is the G-Man?"
My theory is that the G-Man is someone from another dimension... not Xen, not the Combine, not Earth -- but is obviously against the Combine.
You'll notice that freedom is a big theme in the Half-Life series. You gave freedom to the vortiguants in HL1, from the Nihilanth. But the Nihilanth also had chains on it. These chains were probably from the Combine, since they seem to live up to their name -- they go dimension to dimension, conquering races and adding them to their armies.
The G-Man is part of a dimension that opposes this. With the help of Gordon Freeman (The One Free Man), he tries to further this agenda -- which seems to be centered all around freedom.
I'll post more soon, but tell me what you think of what I have. This above was the bulk of it, but I have plenty more I'll post soon (about the vortigaunts, string theories, etc).
