Whats the transmission? (SPOILER)

[elrasho]

Alyx made a copy of this transmission thing, what is that? And at the end when ur on teh train leavin city 17 alyz says "the reactor is blowing up, the transmission is being sent" what does she mean by that? Isnt the transmission some data sent via satalites?

 

[ríomhaire]

Where you not paying attention at the core?

 

[elrasho]

Not really coz i was so shocked at how good the game looks! please can someone explain it to me, is it some video call involving Dr Breen??

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Not really coz i was so shocked at how good the game looks! please can someone explain it to me, is it some video call involving Dr Breen??

The transmission is some kind of message, be it video or simple text, probably sent to the Combine homeworld. The contents are unknown.

 

[Revenge]

However, the contents were important enough that the combine were intentionally blowing up the citadel in order to send it (and in the process, turning city 17 and the surrounding landscape into one gigantic crater)

 

[elrasho]

THANKS!! So the combin successfully blew it all up at the end then! cool

i get it all now. I reckon Breen and the G-Man are workin on summat big. BUT I hope the gman turns out to be a good guy and helps Gordon out

 

[Asknoone]

i get it all now. I reckon Breen and the G-Man are workin on summat big. BUT I hope the gman turns out to be a good guy and helps Gordon out

G-man has no interest or connection with Breen. Breen was the administrator of Earth, Earths 'representitive' of the Combine. In HL2, he was toppled. This satisfied the G-man to the extent that he extracted Gordon.

G-man is Gordon's employer. Both the Combine and Breen are aware of this, and Freeman and his abilities. Breen is out of the picture now - whether he be alive, dead, crippled, transported into a fat slug...it doesn't matter. He failed the Combine.

I firmly believe G-man is a bad guy. He manipulated Gordon into shaking the Combines presence on Earth, and left Alyx for dead. Whatever he does next is not good news for anybody, especially Gordon.

 

[Tamer17]

How does blowing the citadel help the combine to send their transmission?

 

[Asknoone]

When Gordon destroyed Breen's reactor he shut down all Combine portals on Earth, and sent their communications system into total chaos. Now they are stranded, and the only way to get the transmission off is by (I assume) re-routing the Core's energy to send it off to another universe so that the Combine can pick it up. The core goes into meltdown, the Citadel is destroyed.

It isn't practical, but they have no choice.

 

[elrasho]

Thanks for the info. Gman is a cool charachter though. I reckon Gordons gonna "do him over" in the final episode. I think that transmission has discriminative evidence about Gman that the combine can use to overcome him

 

[Asknoone]

I think the message is something to do with humanity, to be honest. Right now, the G-man isn't their main problem.

But hey, there is a war going on out there....there are so many other factions.

 

[Sufferin-rebel]

I don't think Gman is a "evil" guy... He seems like a Person who wants a Job done... if lives have to be wasted, they have to be wasted.. but only to secure a brighter future..

 

[Asknoone]

I don't think he's interested in a bright future. He has a goal, that split into several goes, and everyone in his way is a bystander - and he uses what he needs, and utilizes what he has perfectly.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

I don't think he's interested in a bright future. He has a goal, that split into several goes, and everyone in his way is a bystander - and he uses what he needs, and utilizes what he has perfectly.

But is he a pure evil guy, or is he a "Breen"-evil guy? For example, his actions/inaction at Black Mesa may or may not have caused the combine to be drawn to earth, but may also have freed the Vortigaunts, his interference at the start of HL2 may or may not cause more suffering for human kind, but it did kick the combine in their preverbial nuts. Yes he's enslaving Gordon, yes he does whatever the hell pleases him or his employers, but he seems more like a "the end justifies the mean"-kinda man than someone who can simply be called "a bad guy". His end might not invole the humanity's salvation, but he's still played a part in what was ultimately a very bad thing for our enemies. The enemy of my enemy etc...

 

[Asknoone]

I don't think he's about "The end justifies the means", I think whatever happens due to the actions he has took are not of his concern. Whatever else stems from his overall goal is simply not an issue, and he really doesn't care or take any note whatsoever.

The reactor was about to blow in Alyx's face. "Oh well."

Unless that is what you were saying.
I don't think he's Breen evil, because I believe whatever he has planned is not going to aid in anything but his own goals.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

I don't think he's Breen evil, because I believe whatever he has planned is not going to aid in anything but his own goals.

Of course not, but is his goal world domination, enslavement of the human race or the downfall of the combine empire?
I'm not arguing he wouldn't do anything, including accidentally or intentially killing lots of civilians, but is his goal something that humans will benefit from as a side effect?

 

[Asknoone]

Possibly. Either way, I don't think he has any interest in humanity - other than the fact that we are able to take the fight back to the Combine. G-man manipulated Gordon not just out of his seemingly unstoppable nature, but because of his will, his intellect and his ability to adapt to any terror his enemies turn against him. (Thanks Kleiner. )

 

[Sufferin-rebel]

I don't think he's about "The end justifies the means", I think whatever happens due to the actions he has took are not of his concern. Whatever else stems from his overall goal is simply not an issue, and he really doesn't care or take any note whatsoever.

The reactor was about to blow in Alyx's face. "Oh well."

Unless that is what you were saying.
I don't think he's Breen evil, because I believe whatever he has planned is not going to aid in anything but his own goals.

I think Breen was honest when he said "Preserving the Species.." I mean without him, The combine wouldn't of bothered letting us humans in, they'll just restrain us and toss us into a Compact Nova Prospekt machine

 

[Asknoone]

Ultimately we'd have all been assimilated into the Combines military machine, or rather, become slaves. It was going to happen, Breen just allowed it to become gradual, and he preserved whatever was left of humanity after thier onslaught. I don't look at Breen as our saviour.

Breen was going to escape, retain his freedom and spent the next...eternity (he'd have become adapted by the Combines immortality technology) in another universe induldging in scientific endeavours.

 

[kamikazeCow]

Intresting posts about the gman in here, guess we will have to wait and see what he does for ep 2, and 3. As to what was in the transmission, i think a simple SOS was it.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Intresting posts about the gman in here, guess we will have to wait and see what he does for ep 2, and 3. As to what was in the transmission, i think a simple SOS was it.

...they destroyed the citadel so they could inform their homeworld that the citadel had been destroyed?

 

[Asknoone]

"Guys were having to blow up our own shit here to tell you, that were in big shit! I don't know whether you realised all portals were down, the communications sytem just isn't there or what - WE NEED HELP LOL!"

 

[Llama]

Am I the only one that thinks Breen was sent in that final transmission along with the data Alyx had a copy of?

 

[VortigauntLover]

Why would they send destroy the Citadel to transport Breen?
Besides, that wasn't physical stuff that was being transmissioned. I believe it was just an energy signal or something.

 

[Asknoone]

Am I the only one that thinks Breen was sent in that final transmission along with the data Alyx had a copy of?

Yes, because it is ridiculous.

 

[Llama]

I guess that means Im still a Newb...
*cries*
Actually, im going to question this. Why is it so ridiculous

1.) We think Breen was in the Advisor cacoon thing
2.) The last we saw of it was it moving upwards...possibly like Breens pod did
3.) No one knows what was being transported on the Citadel, because no one was close enough

Okay, I admit, unlikely, but it should still be possible.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Probably it was some kind of special orders as per what to do with Earth from now on. Telling the combine to destroy earth (unlikely, would make for a short Episode 2), send more troops (likely), focus more attention on capturing the teleportation tech, send more supplies, send another citadel etc etc.
Also Samon, apostrophes are your friends. (were having to)?

And Llama, it is ridiculous because how did Alyx download a copy of Dr Breen?

 

[Dsty2001]

I have a feeling there is something on Earth very important to the Combine, and maybe that is what Mossman is looking for in the artic?

 

[Black Op]

Telling the combine to destroy earth (unlikely, would make for a short Episode 2

It wouldn't make for a short episode at all. That just gives Freeman more targets to destroy unless the Combine have some sort of Death Star like superweapon. Which in that situation, he would destroy anyway.

At any rate, that transmission packet probably includes a lot of junk. Strategic blueprints on how to wipe out all Earth life and strip as much of the Earth as possible, current Resistance assessments, and the status of Anticitizen One along with final proof of their Administrator's survival.

 

[ríomhaire]

I just realised "...which continue to this day..."
The window is open for the Combine!

 

[Reginald]

Am I the only one that thinks Breen was sent in that final transmission along with the data Alyx had a copy of?

There's a clone of Breen in her data stick? :O

I'm pretty sure the transmission was confirmation of something. There is something about the way the Citadel is blowing up because of it. Confirmation that Gordon is a threat, confirmation that Earth is really worth invading, confirmation that something has been found on the planet.

I want to know why they are only sending it after communication links have been lost. The Combine Overworld already know that Gordon is on the loose and that a Resistance is rising, so it WILL be a new development.

 

[theotherguy]

I bet the transmission is something like, "reactor destroyed. Sector compromised by rebels. Possible involvment by (insert name of the gman's organization here). World now labled code 413 (or some other code which we will learn dramatically means something like, "take back control by any means necessary" or "conduct mass genocide" or "send in the big guns"

I could be completley wrong, of course.

 

[Llama]

Probably it was some kind of special orders as per what to do with Earth from now on. Telling the combine to destroy earth (unlikely, would make for a short Episode 2), send more troops (likely), focus more attention on capturing the teleportation tech, send more supplies, send another citadel etc etc.
Also Samon, apostrophes are your friends. (were having to)?

And Llama, it is ridiculous because how did Alyx download a copy of Dr Breen?

Okay, not what I meant I worded it badly

I did not mean Breen was in the data stick thing (or was copied by Alyx) I was thinking of the possiblity of Breen also being teleported out of the Citadel at the same time, while in his big advisor cacoon.

 

[hot564231]

Mossman did say that the "thing" was still alive and there was some parts of it around, a lifeform that could treatin the combine if action isn't takin to stop it? or did the combine make a half finished weapons that they can't leave behind or the rebels will see the end of the combine once and for all

 

[Rossell]

The Project and The Transmission are directly linked imo.