Absinthe
The Freeman
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I know this probably doesn't deserve it's own topic, but after seeing this pic...
http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/media/gamesradar/HL2oct2004_03.jpg
...I've been thinking, maybe THAT is what the Combine are. No, not necessarily that bloody lump of meat in the chair (that's more of a transitional stage), but it does look like some serious freakin' surgery was going on in that chair.
Now, I've always had the idea in my head that the Combine are, judging from what we've seen so far, a biomechanized force that assimilates City 17 and its inhabitants. Just like the Citadel itself is slowly eating away at the city, the actual Combine forces themselves are actually incorporating the citizens into their ranks through that kind of twisted surgery seen in that pic above.
It would certainly explain the name: the combination of the biological and the mechanic.
Of course, I'm only assuming that some kind of surgery was going on in that picture. Maybe it was just torture. I could be wrong.
http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/media/gamesradar/HL2oct2004_03.jpg
...I've been thinking, maybe THAT is what the Combine are. No, not necessarily that bloody lump of meat in the chair (that's more of a transitional stage), but it does look like some serious freakin' surgery was going on in that chair.
Now, I've always had the idea in my head that the Combine are, judging from what we've seen so far, a biomechanized force that assimilates City 17 and its inhabitants. Just like the Citadel itself is slowly eating away at the city, the actual Combine forces themselves are actually incorporating the citizens into their ranks through that kind of twisted surgery seen in that pic above.
It would certainly explain the name: the combination of the biological and the mechanic.
Of course, I'm only assuming that some kind of surgery was going on in that picture. Maybe it was just torture. I could be wrong.
