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With a new Half-Life game right around the
corner- wait… *shuffling papers* this can’t
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be right…
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Hmm, I guess it is.
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With Half-Life: Alyx right around the corner,
we here at Suggestive Gaming figured now would
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be a good time to take a look back at the
currently known timeline of the events in
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the Half-Life Universe.
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This includes the Half-Life games, their various
expansions and episodes, as well as the Portal
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games and their various surrounding media.
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Do note that for the events covered in the
original Half-Life game, we will be illustrating
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them using the recently completed fan-remake
by the Crowbar Collective: “Black Mesa”,
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simply because, well… selfishly, I just
wanted to play that one.
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Now, without further ado, this is what you
need to know about Half-Life.
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Our story begins in the 1950s with the establishment
of the Black Mesa research corporation, as
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well as their rivalry with the unorthodox
corporation and former shower curtain manufacturer
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Aperture Science over various government contracts.
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Decades later, in the 1980s, the companies
remain neck-and-neck in competition, with
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the two developing similar, but separate “portal”
teleportation technologies.
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Aperture then begins development on their
“Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System”,
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or GLaDOS: an artificial intelligence which
they hope will help accelerate research into
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the portal technology.
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Sometime in the 2000s, GLaDOS is turned on,
however, she instantly becomes self-aware
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and takes control of the Aperture Science
Enrichment Center, pumping it full of deadly
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neurotoxin to kill her creators.
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Some scientists survive, however, and install
a “Morality Core”, which prevents her
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from using the gas again.
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They then start her on a permanent cycle of
“testing” the portal tech with the surviving
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Aperture Science employees in hopes to perfect
it before Black Mesa can.
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On the morning of May 16th, the Black Mesa
researchers begin to test their “Anti-Mass
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Spectrometer”, a machine designed to study
crystals retrieved from the recently discovered
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borderworld: Xen, which Black Mesa scientists
were able to travel to using their experimental
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portals.
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Due to Dr. Gordon Freeman’s tardiness, the
team in the Black Mesa facility’s Sector
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C decide to use the extra time for further
preparation.
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This includes increasing the power of the
Anti-Mass Spectrometer past it’s 90% safety
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buffer.
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One researcher, Dr. Rosenberg, protests this
decision to his colleague Dr. Richard Keller,
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but Keller explains that the directive came
directly from Black Mesa Administrator Wallace
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Breen.
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Doctors Gina Cross and Colette Green are then
tasked with retrieving the Xen crystal sample
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to bring to the Anti-Mass Spectrometer’s
chamber just as Gordon Freeman arrives to
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work.
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As Gordon rides a tram to Sector C, he is
observed by a mysterious man in a blue suit.
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This man, known only as the G-Man by others,
continues to monitor Freeman as well as the
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other Black Mesa employees.
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Also on his way, Freeman encounters Doctors
Isaac Kleiner and Eli Vance.
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Vance expresses his own concern about the
experiment, given that the stress of the additional
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power is already causing havoc and breaking
equipment.
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Gordon dons a Hazardous Environment, or HEV
suit and enters the chamber to begin the experiment.
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Around this time, security guard and friend
of Gordon’s, Barney Calhoun, arrives at
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the facility to begin his work on the “Blue
Shift” in Sector C.
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Meanwhile, Dr Cross delivers the crystal to
the chamber, and Gordon begins to insert it
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into the device.
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At this moment, Eli Vance is contacted by
the G-Man, who tells him to “prepare for
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unforeseen consequences”.
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Despite this warning, he allows Gordon to
insert the crystal, and almost immediately,
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a Resonance Cascade occurs, causing a rift
to open between Xen and Earth, allowing several
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alien creatures to teleport into the facility.
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Gordon is then forcefully teleported to various
locations around Xen, before returning back
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to the test chamber and losing consciousness.
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Elsewhere, Barney Calhoun is traveling in
an elevator, which crashes due to the power
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surge in the facility, causing him to lose
consciousness as well.
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Gordon soon awakens and leaves the chamber
to find Eli Vance, who sends Gordon to head
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to the surface to find help.
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He heads off, finding a crowbar on his way
which he uses to fend off the various invading
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Xen forces.
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Meanwhile, Doctors Cross, Green, and Rosenberg
head to the surface themselves, and reach
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a communication room where Rosenberg sends
out a distress signal to the military, who
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send in the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit,
who are not only instructed to eliminate any
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alien threat, but also any and all facility
employees to cover up the incident.
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Among these soldiers sent to the facility
is a Corporal Adrian Shephard and his team,
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whose heliplane is shot down by a Xen aircraft,
and they also lose consciousness.
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Dr. Rosenberg is quickly captured by the arriving
HECU forces, but Barney Calhoun awakens and
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reaches the surface, finding and freeing Rosenberg.
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He then assists the doctor with finding the
A-17 Prototype Test Labs to hopefully use
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a prototype teleportation device to escape
the facility.
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Meanwhile, Gordon discovers the HECU’s presence,
and quickly learns that they are not there
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to help him and his fellow scientists.
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He then fights through their forces and reaches
the surface, only to discover that the military
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has begun airstrikes on Black Mesa, forcing
him to immediately retreat back down into
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the facility.
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Doctors Green and Cross then work with Dr.
Keller once again, who instructs them to prepare
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a satellite delivery rocket for launch, which
along with a prototype displacement beacon,
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can reduce the effects of the Resonance Cascade
and partially close the rift.
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They are able to disable the rocket’s lockdown,
allowing it to be launched, but are unable
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to trigger it themselves, as the HECU arrives
and takes over the control room.
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Meanwhile, Barney and Rosenberg are able to
escape the facility by using the teleporter,
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but not before Barney is trapped in a temporal
harmonic reflux, causing him to travel between
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Xen and Black Mesa, much like Gordon did earlier.
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However, he luckily ends up outside the facility,
finding Rosenberg along with fellow scientists
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Walter Bennet and Simmons, and they all escape
safely in a Black Mesa SUV.
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Afterwards, Gordon spends the rest of the
day fighting through the various forces of
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Xen and the HECU to restore power to the Black
Mesa facility and reach the control room of
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the rocket prepared by Green and Cross.
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He clears out the HECU forces and launches
the rocket, allowing Green, Cross, and Weller
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to activate the displacement beacon, successfully
lowering the effects of the resonance cascade.
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Green and Cross are caught in their own harmonic
reflux, but end up back at Black Mesa with
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Weller, where they rest and wait out the aftermath.
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Elsewhere, the US Government realize the HECU’s
cleanup operation is failing, and decide to
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deploy a Black Ops strike team to detonate
a Mark IV Thermonuclear Device to destroy
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the entire facility and any evidence.
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After the Black Ops’ arrival, two Vortigaunts
(one of the invading species from Xen) teleport
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to Black Mesa and fight their way through
the government forces to retrieve and recover
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a collection of Xen crystals.
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Soon after, Gordon is ambushed and captured
by the HECU, stripped of his weapons and equipment,
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and thrown into a trash compactor to die.
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He escapes this fate, however, and reaches
Black Mesa’s secret Advanced Biological
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Research Lab, where he finds the various Xen
species contained for study and experiments,
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revealing that Black Mesa was aware of Xen
and it’s creatures far before the resonance
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cascade.
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Meanwhile, Corporal Adrian Shephard awakens
in a Black Mesa medical facility, where he
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was taken by friendly Black Mesa employees
unaware of the HECU’s actual mission.
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He makes his way to the surface, where he
learns of the HECU’s new command to extract
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from the facility in order to escape before
the nuclear blast.
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As he makes his way to an evac helicopter,
however, he is stopped by the G-Man, who closes
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a door in front of him, causing the nearby
oblivious soldiers to leave without him.
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Shepard then makes his way back to the facility
to search for another way out and finds his
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fellow squadmates who help him proceed through
the facility, where he eventually reaches
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the Lambda Complex around the same time Gordon
Freeman does.
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Freeman learns that the Lambda Complex was
where the Black Mesa staff was initially studying
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the teleportation technology that first took
them to Xen.
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Scientists holding themselves up in the complex
inform Gordon that the displacement beacon
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couldn’t fully close the rift between the
two worlds because of a powerful being on
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the other side keeping it open.
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Shepard then enters the complex just as Gordon
jumps into the teleporter to destroy the being
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controlling the portal.
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As he does, Alien Controllers teleport in
from Xen, which Shepard is forced to deal
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with.
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He then enters a temporary portal and teleports
to Xen himself, where he finds a Displacer
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Cannon which he uses to teleport around Xen
and Black Mesa, fighting a new invading species
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called Race X.
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On Xen, Freeman fights his way through the
powerful creatures there, coming across the
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remains of the HEV suit clad scientists who
had teleported there to study the world before
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him.
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He eventually comes upon an Alien Grunt cloning
facility operated by enslaved, and seemingly
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friendly Vortigaunts.
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Gordon fights his way through the Alien Controllers
in the facility, and finds a giant portal
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which he enters to find the creature responsible
for the rift’s control, as well as the leader
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of the Xen forces and enslavor of the Vortigaunts:
the Nihilanth.
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Upon noticing Freeman’s arrival, the powerful
figure begins to attack, and the two engage
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in battle.
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Meanwhile at Black Mesa, Shepard learns of
the thermonuclear device and fights his way
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through the Black Ops forces to find and disable
the bomb.
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However, his efforts are for naught, as he
soon sees the G-Man reactivating the bomb
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as he goes to leave.
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Unable to return to stop him, Shepard is forced
to leave and finds a giant Race X Gene Worm
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attempting to enter a portal into Black Mesa.
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Shephard is able to destroy the creature to
prevent it’s invasion, causing it’s portal
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to explode and knock him out.
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When he awakens, Shephard finds himself on
a heliplane, much like the one he arrived
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at Black Mesa in.
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The G-Man greets him just as the nuclear bomb
destroys Black Mesa in the distance.
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The G-Man then teleports them to an unknown
location, claiming that he has to keep Shephard
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imprisoned in an isolated location at his
“employer’s” request, due to his knowledge
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of the events that transpired.
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The G-Man then escapes through a portal, and
Shephard is left alone in the void.
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Meanwhile, Gordon battles and kills the Nihilanth.
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In its Death, Gordon is teleported out of
its lair and is overwhelmed by an explosion
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which freezes time.
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Emerging from the frozen blast is the G-Man
once again, who finally speaks to Freeman.
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He reveals that thanks to Freeman, he and
his “employers” now control the Xen borderworld.
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He then extends a job offer from his employers,
teleporting Gordon to a tramcar in the void.
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Gordon then accepts the job, and enters a
portal, after which the G-Man praises his
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decision, stating that he will see him up
ahead before putting him into a statis sleep.
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After the events at Black Mesa, Portal Storms
begin to rage across Earth, causing small
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interdimensional rifts to open across the
planet, bringing forth a large number of life
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forms from Xen.
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While the various Governments on Earth are
distracted with fighting off these forces,
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The Combine, an extremely powerful inter-dimensional
empire that had initially chased the Nihilanth
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and it’s creatures to Xen, arrive in droves
to invade Earth.
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The United Nations declare war on the Combine,
but it only lasts seven hours, as the Combine
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proves too powerful of a foe.
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Former Black Mesa administrator Wallace Breen
then negotiates Earth’s surrender with the
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Combine, allowing humanity’s survival at
the cost of a lifetime of enslavement.
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Breen is then appointed as a puppet ruler
for the Combine Advisors, and takes the role
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of Earth Administrator.
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Additionally, the Vortigaunts arrive on Earth,
now free of their own enslavement.
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Owing an eternal gratitude to Gordon Freeman,
the Vortigaunts are convinced by Eli Vance
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to join Humanity in creating an underground
resistance to fight, and ultimately overthrow,
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the Combine.
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Shortly after the Combine invasion, in the
Aperture Science Enrichment Center, GLaDOS
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is now seemingly “alone” in the facility.
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One of the last surviving employees, scientist
Doug Rattmann, gets a hunch about an initially
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rejected test subject named Chell.
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Due to her extreme stubbornness and tenacity,
Rattmann instead moves her to the top of the
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list of potential test subjects, hoping she
would be able to take down the increasingly
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violent and sadistic AI running the facility.
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He then goes into hiding, finding various
“dens” throughout the facility where he
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takes refuge, slowly slipping into madness
caused by his now untreated schizophrenia.
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GLaDOS then awakens Chell from stasis sleep,
and begins running her through tests using
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the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device,
promising her cake upon successful completion
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of all of the tests.
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However, Chell soon discovers some of Rattmann’s
dens, finding various messages and warnings
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about GLaDOS deceptions and true intentions,
notably that the cake is a lie.
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GLaDOS also tortures Chell by providing her
with a Weighted Companion Cube as a friend,
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but forcing her to incinerate it after the
test is complete.
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Chell completes all of the tests successfully,
and afterwards GLaDOS leads her into a pit
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of fire.
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Chell is able to escape, however, and begins
to traverse her way through the empty offices
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and halls of the abandoned facility.
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Eventually, she reaches the Central AI Chamber,
where she finds GLaDOS’s mechanical chassis
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hanging from the ceiling.
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Chell is then able to outsmart the AI, using
the portal device to redirect turret missiles
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at GLaDOS, removing and destroying her personality
cores.
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After GLaDOS’s hardware is destroyed, a
portal opens and transports Chell and the
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remains of the chassis outside to the facility’s
parking lot.
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However, shortly after, a “Party Escort
Bot” arrives to drag Chell back inside the
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facility, immediately placing her in a stasis
sleep.
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Shortly after, Doug Rattmann finally escapes
the facility, just in time to see Chell being
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dragged by the Party Escort Bot.
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Feeling responsible for Chell’s fate, Rattmann
re-enters the facility, finding her long-term
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relaxation room, where she is in stasis sleep.
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He is soon met with opposition, however, and
is hit by a bullet from a turret.
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Knowing his only chance to save Chell would
be to ensure her life-support remains active,
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he crawls to a local workstation and redirects
her room’s power source to the facility’s
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reserve grid.
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This ensures her survival, but puts no end-date
on her cryogenic sleep, meaning she will stay
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asleep indefinitely.
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He then crawls into a Relaxation Vault and
falls asleep.
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Years later, around twenty years after the
Black Mesa incident, Gordon Freeman is awoken
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by the G-Man on a train car inbound to City
17.
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At the trainstation, Gordon is captured by
Combine Overwatch forces, but is intercepted
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by an undercover Barney Calhoun, who has infiltrated
the opposition.
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Barney leads Gordon to safety, and sends him
off to find Dr. Isaac Kleiner’s lab.
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As he heads out, however, he gets caught in
the middle of a Combine Overwatch raid.
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He is almost captured, but is soon saved by
a young woman: Alyx Vance, none other than
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Eli Vance’s daughter.
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Alyx leads Gordon to Kleiner’s lab, and
there, Kleiner reveals his own teleporter
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built to quickly transport members of the
underground Resistance.
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They decide to use it to send Gordon and Alyx
to Black Mesa East: a resistance base and
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research facility where Eli Vance is leading
the group’s scientific research.
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Kleiner gives Gordon a new and improved version
of his HEV suit, and the pair set up the teleporter
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to send Alyx to Black Mesa East.
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After a successful teleportation, Gordon enters
the machine to be sent next.
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However, Kleiner’s defanged pet head crab
(one of the hostile creatures from Xen), named
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Lamarr, leaps onto the machine, causing it
to malfunction.
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Gordon is then teleported to various locations,
including Wallace Breen’s office at the
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Combine’s monolithic central building called
the Citadel.
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Breen sees Gordon and immediately recognizes
him, alerting his Combine superiors, the Advisors,
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of his return.
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Gordon is finally teleported outside Kleiner’s
lab, and the scientist turns off the teleporter
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to leave him there.
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Barney meets with him and gives him the crowbar
he used during the Black Mesa incident, and
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instructs him to use the canal system to reach
Black Mesa East and find Eli and Alyx.
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Gordon then fights his way through the Combine
and other alien forces to make his way, witnessing
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the G-Man once again observing his progress,
He is soon met with opposition from a Combine
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Hunter Chopper.
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Using an airboat provided to him by the resistance,
he is able to fight it off and eventually
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reach Black Mesa East.
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There, Gordon meets Dr. Judith Mossman, another
researcher at the resistance base, before
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he is reunited with Eli Vance, who fills him
in on the events that transpired since the
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Black Mesa incident.
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Alyx then takes Gordon outside to demonstrate
the Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator, or
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the Gravity Gun: a handheld device with the
ability to manipulate physics.
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She also introduces her giant mechanical pet:
Dog.
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Gordon plays with Dog using the Gravity Gun,
but their fun is cut short when the Combine
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arrives and launches a raid on Black Mesa
East.
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As they re-enter the facility, a ceiling collapses,
and Alyx and Gordon are separated.
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Alyx instructs Dog to take Gordon to the path
to Ravenholm in order to escape.
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Gordon makes his way to Ravenholm, and finds
it mostly abandoned; however, he soon finds
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several humans turned by parasitic Headcrabs
into zombie-like creatures.
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He also finds the town to be filled with various
elaborate and deadly traps aimed to kill these
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zombies.
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Shortly after, he meets the town’s sole
inhabitant, and the creator of the traps:
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Father Grigori, who helps Gordon fend off
the Zombies and make his way through the town
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to find a mine that will take him back to
City 17.
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Refusing to leave his town, Grigori continues
to distract the Zombies, entering a burning
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crypt, leaving his fate unknown as Gordon
leaves the town.
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Afterwards, Gordon learns that Eli was captured
and taken to the Combine run Nova Prospekt
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detainment facility.
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He then begins to travel along Highway 17
to find him, meeting Colonel Odessa Cubbage
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along the way, who equips him with an RPG
to take down an approaching Combine Gunship.
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Eventually, Gordon fights and defeats an alien
Antlion Guard.
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Afterwards, a Vortigaunt extracts a pheropod
from the creature, giving it to Gordon and
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allowing him to control Antlion forces to
aid him in his fight against the Combine opposition.
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Gordon reaches Nova Prospekt, and meets up
with Alyx.
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There, they find a recording of Mossman talking
with Breen, revealing that she had been a
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spy working with him in some capacity.
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Alyx and Gordon track down Mossman and confront
her, but she insists that she only acted to
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protect Eli and their work.
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Alyx refuses to listen, retrieving her father
from captivity and forcing Mossman to use
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a teleporter the Combine built based on the
research supplied by Mossman to take them
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all back to Kleiner’s lab.
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However, Mossman is able to take Eli and teleport
them to the Citadel, leaving Alyx and Gordon
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behind to fight off Combine forces as they
prepare the teleporter to take them to Kleiner’s
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lab.
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However, when they use it, the teleporter
explodes as they do, destroying the facility.
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Once they arrive in Kleiner’s Lab, Gordon
and Alyx are informed by the doctor that their
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teleportation wasn’t instant, and the two
had been missing for a week.
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Kleiner reveals that in that time, the resistance
began their Uprising, taking the destruction
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of Nova Prospekt as the signal to strike.
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Gordon then takes Dog and the pair leave Alyx
and Kleiner to escape the city while they
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head out to aid in the battle.
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Dog is separated from Freeman and carried
away by a Combine dropship, but Gordon is
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able to meet up with Alyx, who is later captured
and taken to the Citadel.
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Gordon then finds Barney, and the two fight
towards the Citadel where they find Dog searching
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for Alyx.
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Dog is able to open a passageway for Gordon
into a Citadel, and he enters to search for
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Alyx and Eli.
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Inside, Gordon uses a transport pod designed
for Combine Stalkers (resistant humans that
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are transformed into lifeless husks by the
Combine) to traverse through the facility.
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Eventually, Gordon comes across a weapon confiscation
field, which destroys his weapons, save for
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the Gravity Gun, which causes the field to
malfunction and instead charge the Gravity
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Gun and Gordon’s suit with the “dark energy”
the Combine uses as the basis for their weaponry.
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After he fights his way through the facility
and enters another pod, however, he is discovered
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by Breen, who transports the pod to his office.
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There, he is met by Mossman, who apologizes
and leads Gordon to Breen, who is mid-conversation
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with Eli.
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Breen tries to convince Eli to join him, but
Eli refuses on moral principle.
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Breen then brings in Alyx to use as a bargaining
chip, threatening to send all three of them
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through a Combine Portal to their Overworld.
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However, Mossman intervenes and releases Eli,
Alyx, and Gordon from captivity.
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Breen then takes the Gravity Gun and Flees
to head to the portal to the Combine Overworld
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to escape.
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Alyx and Gordon leave Eli and Mossman (who
escape the Citadel using Breen’s escape
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pods) and the pair give chase, witnessing
Breen talking to his Combine masters before
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he runs off again, leaving the Gravity Gun
behind to be retrieved by Gordon.
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He then makes his way to the Dark Energy reactor
as the portal begins to open.
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Gordon is able to destroy the reactor, causing
a giant explosion, seemingly killing Breen.
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The G-Man arrives and freezes time, congratulating
Gordon on his continued success, and revealing
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that he has received other “interesting
offers” for Gordon’s work.
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Sometime after these events, a group of Vortigaunts
appear and rescue Alyx, as well as separating
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Gordon from the G-Man.
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The pair are then brought out of stasis by
the Vortigaunts and teleported to the outside
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of the Citadel.
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They reunite with Dog and contact Eli and
Kleiner, who reveal that the Citadel’s Core
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is about to explode, threatening to destroy
all of City 17 as well as everyone in it.
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Alyx and Gordon then head back into the Citadel
to try to stabilize the core to stop it’s
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explosion.
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There, they find a recording of Breen’s
final conversation with his Combine masters
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that they interrupted, in which it is revealed
that they evidently wanted to transport him
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using some kind of “host body”.
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Afterwards, they see an image of a Combine
Advisor, and encounter a kind of telepathic
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effect before an Advisor Pod is sent through
a tube beneath them.
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They are able to reach the Citadel Core, and
are able to stabilize the core and delay the
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explosion.
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Afterwards, Alyx finds intel that the Combine
intended on allowing the explosion to signal
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off-world Combine forces of the current crisis
on Earth.
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They then find another recent recording, this
time from Mossman (intended for Eli, but intercepted
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by the Combine).
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She claims to have found the location of a
mysterious “Project” before her and her
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team are attacked by the Combine and a yet-unseen
creature called a Hunter.
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The transmission then cuts suddenly.
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Alyx takes a copy of the transmission, and
her and Gordon then board a train to escape
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the facility once again.
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While the train crashes, the two are able
to escape the wreckage and fight their way
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through City 17, eventually meeting up with
Barney, who is taking a group of survivors
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to a train station to escape the city.
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After fighting through very strong Combine
opposition, BGordon and Alyx are able to lead
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Barney and the Survivors to safety before
boarding a train themselves and leaving the
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City.
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Just as they escape, the Citadel explodes,
decimating City 17 in its wake.
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The shockwave also causes Alyx and Gordon’s
train car to overturn, and the pair are once
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again knocked out.
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Alyx is able to recover and use the gravity
gun to free Gordon from the wreckage of the
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train.
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They look out to the ruins of City 17 and
see a superportal above the remains of the
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Citadel.
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Suddenly, a portal storm occurs, and Alyx
and Gordon use a path it opened to enter a
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mine shaft.
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They reach a communication building, where
Alyx is able to contact Eli and Kleiner, currently
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stationed at the White Forest resistance base.
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When Alyx mentions the recording from Mossman,
Dr Magnusson, the base’s leader, then enters
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the call and demands they bring them the recording
as quickly as possible.
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Afterwards, they are found by the Combine,
and Alyx is attacked by a Hunter, critically
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wounding her.
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A Vortigaunt arrives just in time to keep
Alyx alive, and it carries her to a small
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Resistance outpost nearby.
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There, Gordon and two other fighters, Griggs
and Checkley, protect the Vortigaunt and his
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brethren while they heal Alyx.
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Unfortunately, they are unable to fully restore
her health without an Antlion larval extract,
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and Gordon and the Vortigaunt that saved Alyx
then head off to retrieve it and bring it
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back to them.
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While the Vortigaunts are distracted healing
Alyx, the G-Man appears to Gordon once again,
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explaining that he had saved Alyx from the
Black Mesa incident due to her importance
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in his plans, despite Breen’s objections.
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He then instructs Gordon to get her to White
Forest, and instructs Alyx to relay a message
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to Eli: “prepare for unforeseen consequences”.
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Alyx awakens, fully healed, and the Vortigaunt
then takes her and Gordon to the surface,
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where they witness a militia of Combine forces
heading towards White Forest.
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Gordon then retrieves a car while being covered
by Alyx and the Vortigaunt, and brings it
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back to them.
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Alyx and Gordon then leave in the car, separating
from the Vortigaunt, who returns to his brethren
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to hunt the Combine Advisors escaping in their
pods.
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On their way to White Forest, Alyx and Gordon
stop at a radio tower to try to contact the
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base to warn them about the approaching Combine
ambush, however, they are attacked by Hunters,
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which Gordon is able to defeat.
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Afterwards, they notice that their transmission
is being blocked by the Combine Advisors.
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They continue on, but soon find a crashed
Advisor pod on the side of the road.
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Upon finding it, they start to again encounter
the telepathic effects they experienced when
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they witnessed the Advisor inside the Citadel.
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They enter a nearby barn and find an Advisor
inside.
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Gordon and Alyx attempt to destroy it’s
life support system, but it emerges from its
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cocoon-like structure and telekinetically
pins Gordon and Alyx to a wall, attacking
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and almost killing Gordon before an explosion
causes the creature to flee.
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Alyx and Gordon then fight their way through
more Combine attacks, eventually meeting up
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with Dog and reaching White Forest.
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There, they reunite with Kleiner and Eli,
and they all meet with Dr Magnusson.
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Magnusson reveals that they plan to launch
a rocket using the data Alyx retrieved at
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the Citadel, along with the satellites Gordon
originally helped launch during the Black
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Mesa incident, which they hope will close
the Combine superportal.
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After fending off another attack, Gordon and
Alyx return to Kleiner and Eli to watch Mossman’s
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message.
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In it, she reveals that the mysterious project
she found was the “Borealis”, an Aperture
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Science ship carrying an unknown powerful
technology that had long since mysteriously
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disappeared from it’s dry dock.
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Kleiner and Eli then get into a disagreement
on what should be done with the Borealis,
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with Kleiner seeing value in using the technology
for good, while Eli believes that something
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of its power would only lead to another incident
like Black Mesa.
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Kleiner leaves to assist Magnusson with the
rocket, and just after he does, the G-Man
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appears on a screen behind Alyx for a moment.
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When he disappears, Alyx delivers his message
to Eli to “prepare for unforeseen consequences”.
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This takes Eli off guard, and in confidence,
reveals to Gordon that he knows of their “mutual
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friend”, and tells Gordon that he had delivered
the same message to Eli at Black Mesa, and
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also reveals that the Xen crystal sample that
caused the Resonance Cascade was provided
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by the G-Man himself.
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Magnusson then enters and interrupts the conversation
with a warning that the giant, walking Combine
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Strider forces are advancing on the base,
and instructs Gordon to use the “Magnusson
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Device”, a sticky bomb that he can launch
at and destroy the creatures.
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He then heads out and successfully uses them
to fend off the Strider attack.
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Back inside the base, the team regroups, and
Eli tells Gordon that he believes the G-Man’s
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warning to be in regards to the Borealis,
and instructs Gordon to destroy the ship,
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promising to explain more later.
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He then expresses his pride and gratitude
to Freeman, likening him to a son.
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The group are then able to successfully launch
the rocket, which works in closing the superportal
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and preventing the Combine from calling in
further reinforcements from their homeworld.
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Alyx then leads Gordon to a helicopter hangar
to retrieve a chopper to fly to Mossman at
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the Borealis, while Eli follows.
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At the hangar, however, they are ambushed
by two Advisors, who again pin Gordon and
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Alyx to the wall.
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They then capture Eli, who gives one final
warning to destroy the Borealis, no matter
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what it takes.
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He then tells Alyx he loves her, and to look
away before an Advisor impales his brain,
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probing his mind and instantly killing the
man.
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An Advisor then moves to grab Alyx, but Dog
arrives and fights off the Advisors, causing
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them to flee which frees Alyx and Gordon.
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Alyx then rushes to her lifeless father, and
caresses his body as she weeps.
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This is the last we see of Gordon and Alyx’s
story, at least for now, but we do have one
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more to tell…
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More than 50,000 years in the future, Chell
is finally awoken from her stasis sleep by
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Wheatley, a bumbling personality core who
hopes to receive Chell’s help escaping the
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Aperture Science facility after it’s reserve
power was lost.
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Wheatley leads Chell to a chamber containing
an escape elevator, but she soon finds the
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remains of GLaDOS’s lifeless chassis.
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Wheatley attempts to route power to the elevator,
but instead accidentally awakens GLaDOS.
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Upon awakening, she immediately recognizes
Chell and resents her for killing the AI.
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She then crushes Wheatley, tossing him aside
before leading Chell to her old discarded
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Dual-Portal handheld device.
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GLaDOS then forces Chell to go through test
chambers once again, as the AI scrambles to
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repair the broken-down facility.
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During her testing, Wheatley appears to Chell,
hiding from GLaDOS, but revealing he survived
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his encounter with her.
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A few test chambers later, Wheatley and Chell
are discovered by GLaDOS and are forced to
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make their way through the back halls of the
facility to escape.
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On their way, Chell discovers a science project
exhibit left over from the “Bring Your Daughter
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to Work Day” when GLaDOS began killing Aperture
employees.
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Interestingly, one of the “potato power”
projects is credited to a girl named Chell,
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indicating a potentially deeper tie between
Chell and Aperture.
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Chell and Wheatley then decide to sabotage
GLaDOS’s defenses by causing the turret
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assembly line to produce defective turrets,
as well as cutting off her supply of neurotoxin.
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Chell and Wheatley return to GLaDOS’s chamber,
and when she tries to kill them, she fails
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due to their meddling.
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Due to GLaDOS’s corruption and Wheatley’s
presence, a transfer of Wheatley into GLaDOS’s
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body is initiated.
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While GLaDOS tries to stop this, Chell is
able to initiate an override and successfully
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complete the transfer.
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Afterwards, Wheatley sends Chell on the elevator
to the surface, but quickly changes his mind,
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seemingly corrupted by his new power.
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He then puts GLaDOS into one of the Potato
Power experiments as an act of embarrassment.
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She then reveals that Wheatley was designed
by Aperture Science engineers to be a moron,
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installed onto her to potentially diminish
her intelligence so she would no longer be
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able to outsmart and kill her creators.
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This pushes Wheatley over the edge, and he
destroys the elevator, causing Chell and GLaDOS
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to begin a deep, deep fall into the depths
of the facility.
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At the bottom, Chell watches GLaDOS get snatched
away by a bird, and she begins to search her
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way through the bowels of the facility, finding
it to contain the old Aperture Science facility.
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Inside, she hears various recordings of Aperture
founder and CEO Cave Johnson explaining the
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history of the company and its facilities
and experiments, including the portals and
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various “gels” with physics altering effects.
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One investment was $70 million worth of moon
rocks, which are grounded up.
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They proved to be great conductors for the
portal gun to create portal surfaces, but
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prolonged exposure caused Cave to fall deathly
ill.
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Chell finds GLaDOS and saves her from the
birds, and the pair put aside their differences
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to take on the common goal of stopping Wheatley
before he destroys the facility.
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As GLaDOS begins to hear the records of Cave
as well, however, she somehow recognizes his
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voice, despite having never heard it before.
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She then begins to mimic Cave’s assistant,
Caroline, during a recorded conversation between
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the two.
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When Chell finds a portrait of Cave and Caroline,
GLaDOS recognizes them and is overwhelmed.
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In order to regroup, she turns herself off
for the time being.
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Chell also finds another startling discovery
in the Aperture facility: a dry dock for the
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Borealis, with the ship nowhere to be found.
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Chell then hears another recording of Cave
during his last days, where he instructs his
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engineers to research artificial intelligence
so they could transfer his mind into a computer
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to preserve it.
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He then proclaims that should he die before
they can do so, he wants Caroline to take
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over the facility, even if she disagrees,
and states that she could take his place as
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an AI as well.
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GLaDOS then develops a plan to present Wheatley
with a paradoxical phrase that should cause
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his logic processors to fail and disable him.
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However, when they reach him and present the
paradox, it has no effect, due to his programming
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to deliberately not think.
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00:31:03,580 --> 00:31:07,860
Wheatley then succumbs to the scientist’s
AI design to forcefully test subjects, and
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he sends Chell and GLaDOS through tests of
his own, lazy design.
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However, as he discovers an increasing tolerance
to the “high” provided from successful
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00:31:16,419 --> 00:31:21,510
testing, he reveals that he found a new subject
to test (in the form of a robotic test subject)
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before leading Chell into a spike-filled trap.
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00:31:24,630 --> 00:31:28,309
Chell is easily able to avoid this trap and
make her way to Wheatley’s chamber.
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There, GLaDOS sends in corrupted personality
cores, which Chell is able to attach to Wheatley,
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raising his corruption level and triggering
another core transfer.
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When Chell goes to press the button to complete
the override, Wheatley reveals that he actually
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foresaw this outcome and sabotaged the button,
which explodes.
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Chell survives the explosion, and notices
the moon through a hole in the crumbling facility.
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She grabs the portal device and shoots a portal
onto the moon, causing her, Wheatley, and
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everything else in the room to get sucked
into the vacuum of space.
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Chell grabs on to Wheatley, still connected
to the facility, but GLaDOS detaches Wheatley
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and pulls Chell back through the portal, closing
it and stranding Wheatley in space.
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Chell awakens later to see the two robots
Wheatley planned to test on: named Atlas and
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P-body.
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GLaDOS, now back in her body and in control
of the facility, thanks Chell for helping
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00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,789
her re-discover Caroline deep inside of her
programming.
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She then deletes Caroline, seemingly returning
to her old ways.
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However, she decides that despite her best
efforts, she has been unable to kill Chell,
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and likely will never be able to.
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00:32:30,509 --> 00:32:34,110
She decides that if she can’t kill Chell,
the next best thing she can do is get rid
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of her.
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She then finally grants Chell her freedom,
sending her up the elevator, where she is
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serenaded by an opera of Turrets.
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Outside, Chell steps into a bright cornfield.
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Behind her, GLaDOS sends out her incinerated
Weighted Companion Cube before slamming the
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door shut, leaving Chell outside for good.
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Meanwhile, in space, Wheatley admits his regret
while floating in space, hoping to one day
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go back so he can apologize.
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00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:03,720
Afterwards, GLaDOS tests on Atlas and P-Body,
eventually using them to discover a vault
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deep within the facility, which is revealed
to contain hundreds of still alive human test
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subjects, whom she kills within a week of
testing…
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This is where we leave the Half-Life and Portal
universe, until we revisit the events between
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the Half-Life and Half-Life 2 with Half-Life
Alyx this month.
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00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:24,470
And while Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw has
revealed his plans for an Episode 3 (which
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I’ll link in the description) maybe one
day we’ll finally get a fully realized conclusion
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to Gordon Freeman’s story.
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Hey guys, thanks so much for watching this
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