Yeah, you may as well have followed the advice above as, no doubt, what you are about 2 read will bore you immensely. Don't blame me if you wake up in an hour with a keyboard imprint on your face and memories of perhaps the worst piece of English literature. Ever. Seriously.
P.S. I would like to thank everyone I know and all the "fabulous" people here on HL2.net, especially the ones who came up with some of the "facts" I am about to espouse.
City 17: The rebellion
During the cold war, the former United Soviet Socialist Republics military research centres would be great buildings with ornate sculptures on a grand scale to confuse passing spy planes. Slowly apartment blocks were built around the main structures to stop buses carrying employees from getting stuck in the backcountry roads leading to the centres.
These conglomerations of building were eventually given names, which inevitably were called cities with a number attached to their ends to tell them apart.
In the same search for anonymity, City 17 was built by the Administration somewhere in Eastern Europe. Originally it was to continue the studies into teleportation that took place at Black Mesa, New Mexico, but what is assumed to be an accident resulted in an investigation into time travel.
An enemy to the citizens of City 17 appeared when the tests into teleportation started, and soon the Administration let its cyborg army, called the Combine, patrol the streets of the new city.
Combine soldiers held true to basic human form, and their gas-masked presence was reassuring with the bout of attacks by the new creatures falling after the combines appearance. The Combine basically policed the city, ensuring that nobody sabotaged the Administrations efforts or informed the outside world of the happenings of the city.
But hearsay obviously did escape from the city, and soon a new faction arrived, claiming to know the elusive history of the Administration and the creatures which they called the Xen.
The band of self proclaimed freedom fighters started an armed uprising against the Administration and their Combine army. Marshall law was declared and all who were suspected of supporting the rebellion were shot or sent to containment centres indefinitely.
P.S. I would like to thank everyone I know and all the "fabulous" people here on HL2.net, especially the ones who came up with some of the "facts" I am about to espouse.
City 17: The rebellion
During the cold war, the former United Soviet Socialist Republics military research centres would be great buildings with ornate sculptures on a grand scale to confuse passing spy planes. Slowly apartment blocks were built around the main structures to stop buses carrying employees from getting stuck in the backcountry roads leading to the centres.
These conglomerations of building were eventually given names, which inevitably were called cities with a number attached to their ends to tell them apart.
In the same search for anonymity, City 17 was built by the Administration somewhere in Eastern Europe. Originally it was to continue the studies into teleportation that took place at Black Mesa, New Mexico, but what is assumed to be an accident resulted in an investigation into time travel.
An enemy to the citizens of City 17 appeared when the tests into teleportation started, and soon the Administration let its cyborg army, called the Combine, patrol the streets of the new city.
Combine soldiers held true to basic human form, and their gas-masked presence was reassuring with the bout of attacks by the new creatures falling after the combines appearance. The Combine basically policed the city, ensuring that nobody sabotaged the Administrations efforts or informed the outside world of the happenings of the city.
But hearsay obviously did escape from the city, and soon a new faction arrived, claiming to know the elusive history of the Administration and the creatures which they called the Xen.
The band of self proclaimed freedom fighters started an armed uprising against the Administration and their Combine army. Marshall law was declared and all who were suspected of supporting the rebellion were shot or sent to containment centres indefinitely.
