What would Earth be like post-Combine?

[deathcheckedin]

If the Combine do in fact fall in Episode 3 how will the planet recuperate after?

 

[Mech Man]

If the Combine do in fact fall in Episode 3 how will the planet recuperate after?

Well there would definitly be more cities to recapture from the combine , unless there was world wide riots and street fighting and even so there would be combine remnants. Plus you still have xen wildlife roaming about. On top of that extensive reconstruction efforts would be needed and some form of government (likely put in place by Black Mesa survivors like kleiner) and the vorts may return to farming antlions , but what we need to remember is that the combine may try to take Earth a second time some how , remember they are an empire spanning the entire universe with an unknown amount of planets under their rule. It is unlikely the combine will be completely destroyed in Ep3 and even so , a larger / secondary threat may be introduced (or more likely introduced in HL3).

 

[Otto-Grainer]

I remember this posted on Steampowered very recently so I can't be bothered copying and pasting.
It won't be a Utopia, most definitely.

 

[gFrohman]

You're going to have everyone looking for someone to lead, most likely Gordon and/or Alyx, but there may be some folks wanting to either vie for power or some wanting to bring back their nations (return or Germany, US, France, etc.), or who knows - people may just start from scratch and create their own nations. The world governments are non-existent, but someone's going to have to take charge.

 

[Herr Mike]

Humanity, once unified against the alien threat, will be fractured and conflicted once again! We will learn that in the end, our greatest enemy is...ourselves!

That's the standard sci-fi scenario, anyway.

 

[swan_song1973]

if we do end up besting the combine by the end of ep3, i think itd be cool if the gman end talk showed the earth going back to the way it was, sort of a reversal of that one intro they showed in raising the bar where the earth degenerates.

 

[Full Life 1?]

A new game will be born. Half-City 2! Rebuild your civilization in an animated world, while attempting to fight of combine attacks and Xen fauna!

But seriously, they probably will have to travel around the world to liberate other cities, and it may take a long time to completely rid the threat of the combine.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Well the food chain would be forever changed due to some extintion

Can houndeyes be domesticated as guard dogs?

 

[gFrohman]

Are antlions edible?

 

[Otto-Grainer]

Well the food chain would be forever changed due to some extintion

Can houndeyes be domesticated as guard dogs?

You don't want them to blow the whole place up.

 

[Riddler]

I think that things would develop into some pseudo-modern tribal civilization.

 

[Otto-Grainer]

Very likely for a time, unless a man of hope, perhaps Freeman, steps up as a leader to unite them, but that's more likely
a position of a Vortigaunt instead.

 

[Maestro]

Mad Max.

'Nuff said.

 

[FISHY CRACKERS]

Tits will inevitably go up, bombs will inevitably go off, and Gordon Freeman is going to be jobless, praying to a god he's never believed in that something else will come by and try to destroy humanity so he can kick it's ass.

 

[Futuro]

It would totally suck, humanity would have to deal with an alien invasion THEN a zombie apocalypse and monsters....

 

[Emelyn]

Id imagine that the cities of the world would still lay in ruins. Wild creatures everywhere, and only a remnant population of humans remain. Some of them would have been leaderless and would keep fighting amongst themselves for the remaining resources. It would be a bleak existence until someone forms a cohesive government. It would be an interesting setting, like a post apocalypse. The combine were the only form of government holding civilization together. It would be interesting to see the remaining humans form a society and try to hold off the remaining xen creatures. Maybe even a new storyline and plot, not at all related the the previous games.

Another question would be, what would happen to the leaderless combine forces left on earth. Would they continue to resist or would they surrender and coexist with the humans. Because technically, they were once humans.

 

[Maturin]

Ruined urban areas and invasive species everywhere.

...basically a mix of Hawaii and Detroit.

 

[FlamboyantPencil]

I doubt the humans would want to co-exist with anything the Combine gutted and stuffed with robotics and such. I know I wouldn't want to bunk with a Combine elite.

 

[tesher06]

Probably scary as heck. I wouldn't want to be in that position thats for sure.

 

[Otto-Grainer]

Well you knows, you may just well be in the near future.

 

[GiRoX]

Well there would definitly be more cities to recapture from the combine , unless there was world wide riots and street fighting and even so there would be combine remnants. Plus you still have xen wildlife roaming about. On top of that extensive reconstruction efforts would be needed and some form of government (likely put in place by Black Mesa survivors like kleiner) and the vorts may return to farming antlions , but what we need to remember is that the combine may try to take Earth a second time some how , remember they are an empire spanning the entire universe with an unknown amount of planets under their rule. It is unlikely the combine will be completely destroyed in Ep3 and even so , a larger / secondary threat may be introduced (or more likely introduced in HL3).

Well, if they are an empire, then there must be many other planets and species in the same situation as us. So in that case, other captive species would have rebeled and maybe even defeated the Combine on their planet. Then those species would help us get rid of and keep away the Combine.You could then connect that with the Gman, but then thats just another Gman theory right? And then the small rebels would grow into a force to compare to the Combine.

But thats just a bunch of random thoughts I put together really fast

 

[EmrenTheGeneral]

It will be bad(AHA!)

 

[Darkjigglypuff]

Combine would be all like "wtf hax", and humanity would be all like "GTFO", and then Combine would be all like "F*** u noobs, we dun need ur crap earth", and then vorts would be like "LOL VORTISENCE."

And then the lack of an ecosystem cahes up to everyone and humanity starves.

 

[Hobopro]

A pretty, yet dangerous place.

 

[WriterforHire]

The rebellion would form as a sort of government. Though, with Eli dead, I am unsure who will be incharge, Kliener? Madison? Also, other rebellions around the world (if there are any) will also hold onto their own power, but whether they term their makeshift government as a new America, Europe, Asia, ect, would really be up to them. Either way, Earth will be inexplictedly altered. They will have to focus on rebuilding and starting anew while also trying to protect themselves from Xen wildlife, another Combine invasion - (And, by the way, there's no guarantee that the Combine won't simply exteriminate all of humanity this time around so to avoid any future "mishaps"), and dissent between various governments (Assuming its not a one-world order). Also, the Vortigaunts will have to find their place within human society, after all, humanity has found it so easy to be prejudice to other humans that are only slightly different from themselves - I can't imagine how they'll treat sentient alien lifeforms. Everyone Gordon meets welcomes the Vortigaunts with open arms, but what of the rest of the world?

There is also other unforseen factors that may play in - like how teleportation will effect the development of humanity - will it become mass produced, so any average Joe can have his own personal teleporter or will it be privatilized? Also, you have to realize that humanity will not be allowed to simply rebuild unchecked, I don't have a shadow of a doubt that GMan and his employers will be interested in how the aftereffects of the Combine Invasion play out on Earth. And whether they will aid or harm Earth's recovery is also unknown.

Needless to say...it'll all be one heck of a huge mess.

 

[Otto-Grainer]

Enormously, but it will have a major effect one day.

By the way, the name is Magnusson rather than 'Madision', just to be extremely obsessively specific. Also, I'd so be in favor of Vortigaunts running close in the Government when they try to reposition themselves. No doubt the same old biased and racism view will arise again, but I think they've done more than enough to have proven their worth of position, if they're so inclined, of course. They still have their own home with more traditional cultures hanging for them and I would not dare stand in their way.

 

[WriterforHire]

Enormously, but it will have a major effect one day.

By the way, the name is Magnusson rather than 'Madision', just to be extremely obsessively specific. Also, I'd so be in favor of Vortigaunts running close in the Government when they try to reposition themselves. No doubt the same old biased and racism view will arise again, but I think they've done more than enough to have proven their worth of position, if they're so inclined, of course. They still have their own home with more traditional cultures hanging for them and I would not dare stand in their way.

Ah, thanks for the catch.

However, I'm not entirely sure that it would be so easy for Vortigaunts to become ingrained into human society, much less be able to grasp onto political power so early on. After all, there are many people in real life who simply refuse to acknowledge the possibility that aliens exist, and such people tend to get cross when they are proven inexplictedly wrong. Also, tragedy seems to be a theme for the Vortigaunt race: they have been booted off their homeplanet (who knows, it might have even been destroyed) and they were enslaved by a crossdimensional empire. Having them be shunned upon fixing themselves in a new life on earth would fit that overall theme. Also, I can imagine that many humans would be terrorfied of Vortiguants, their powers are unknown, their Vortessence is unknown, and what man does not know scares them. Also I'll hate to imagine what would happen if the world at large knew that the first thing that the Vortigaunts did upon arriving on Earth was attack and massacre the scientists at Black Mesa. Even if they were enslaved at the time and had no choice, there would undoubtedly be some who would say that the Vortigaunts can not be trusted - no matter what they've done since then for the rebellion.

 

[Otto-Grainer]

Quite so. It's unlikely people will drastically change that much, though I am personally very much in favor of the good old Vortigaunts and would gladly work for them. And since Earth in general would likely hate them, I'd go to their own home, if they so wished.

After all, there are many people in real life who simply refuse to acknowledge the possibility that aliens exist, and such people tend to get cross when they are proven inexplictedly wrong.

Heh, they got a bit of explaining to do with a certain twenty year oppression, but true, some people can't handle such insecurity, even if they are born into it. Deep scars of instinct.

 

[The Mild Gatsby]

The industrial age has been squashed. So much has been lost that humanity will never recover. We used up all the easy resources prior to the invasion, and the Combine have directly and indirectly seen to the leveling of our infrastructure. We can't pick coal, oil, and gold off the ground. The technology to acquire what's left beneath the surface and to drill through the ocean floor has been nullified. Modern society is over, for good. The best we can hope for is to use the Resistance's technology to find some sort of equilibrium with what remains of our natural resources.

Perhaps humanity will use teleporter technology to leave the ruins of our niche in this dimension...although it will take a long time to build anything on the level of the Combine's intradimensional portal. Instead, perhaps humanity will utilize Mossman's prized entanglement tech to travel locally, interdimensionally, to another world (but where do we get the coordinates?). In either case, for a long, long time, we will stay on Earth and make do... and will this be so horrible?

Think of how dark it will be at night; just imagine, no glare from cities. It will be beautiful beyond imagining, if the flourishing Xen ecosystem fails to devour us in the absence of Combine protection.

 

[PorkPi]

Are antlions edible?

Well, you know headcrabs are probably edible. They look just like chicken.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Perhaps another police state will begin in order to retain order; the oppressed rise up, only to become the oppressor.

 

[unzubaru]

Perhaps this was G-Mans plan. Once the Combine are killed perhaps his "Employers" take over Earth? Saying they can provide long-term protection from the Combine?

 

[orzhovslodier]

The xenians will set up their own ecosystem on earth. If humans can eat xenian flesh, they'll survive. If they can't, they'll die. Alternatively, the combine that are not on earth will just nuke (or whatever sort of WMDs they have) us.

 

[G(ordon)-man]

There will be new capitalist states and Earth will return to oppression and slavery by these countries.

 

[The Monkey]

There will be new capitalist states and Earth will return to oppression and slavery by these countries.

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