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Breen was in contact with the Combine during the war, but how long was he in contact with them before the war? Chances are he would have fed them intelligence on where our military command centers would be, as well as locations of major population centers and national capitals. It's likely the Combine had help from the inside. Having multiple portals popping open and spewing out intelligent, armoured, trained forces is quite another.ģ. It's one thing to deal with the occasional random portal spitting out a bunch of antlions. The Combine attack caught us by surprise. Even if some areas managed to respond fast enough to get a few hits in, other areas would have folded with soldiers dying before they even knew they were at war.ģ. Given the account above on how the Seven Hour War went down, our military forces went from having to defend against headcrabs and bullsquids to fighting overwhelming forces and weapons pouring from within our city centers. The Combine attacked all regions simultaneously. Even assuming the Vortigaunts were completely candid about their knowledge of Combine technology (and given the way they speak, that's questionable), we would need to perform tests against Combine materials and train against Combine tactics in order to be effective. Our soldiers and generals would not have known this beforehand. Yes, our best weapons could probably stand up to the Combine tech. If the G-Man - or whoever he's really working for - had further knowledge and technology, he withheld it for his own reasons.Īs for the concept that Earth's militaries could have defeated the Combine during the initial invasion, let me be extremely skeptical of that assertion.
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It's a safe bet all notes and equipment were lost in the explosion. At the end of Half Life: Opposing Force, the mysterious G-Man detonates a nuclear bomb, destroying the facility. Yes, Issac Kleiner and Eli Vance got out of there, but a lot of scientists did not - either they were killed by the aliens, or by the US military. Most of the scientists involved with the Lambda project did not survive. I expect that further research into inter-dimensional portals may have resumed after the Black Mesa incident, but any project that started to halt the portal storms would have had to start from scratch because:Ģ. While the Lambda project allowed for exploration of Xen, we didn't venture any further into the Combine's territory before they took note of us and tried to invade Black Mesa.
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Inter-dimensional teleportation is largely unknown to humanity. As for stopping the portal storms, I don't think we could have. I believe Brabbit's point was that we didn't *have* the manpower, even though we would have wanted it. Instead they plan to hold on to earth with a combination of mass surveillance, strict pollicing and brutal terror (Ravenholm).Īwesome read. However they don't want to destroy humanity, we're useful to them. They conquered earth with sheer firepower, giving the people and choice between submission and annihilation. The Combine begins integrating humans into their millitary and harvesting earth's resources. Breen as their representative, he starts recruiting troops to form a security force. Civilization was on the brink even before the invasion, now, utterly blindsided, Earth surrenders. He says the Combine offer peace if humanity will only lay down their weapons and allow them to assume control. Wallace Breen (a prominant figure in the defense against the portal storms) claims to be in contact with the invaders. Most millitary units are overwhelmed by gunships and hunters before they even realise what's happening.Īs the onslaught unfolds a certain Dr. Earth attempts to resist but they are completely unprepared and can't match the firepower of the killing machines. Clouds of gunships blot out the sun, columns of striders march into the cities. From the citadels issue forth a swarm of insectoid bio-mechanical machines. Then one day the centers of all the major cities collapse into giant sinkholes, they are replaced with mile-high towers of blue metal, seemingly appearing from nowhere. The world's millitary is largely focussed on defending these urban centers and many bases are abandoned or cut off. Gradually society starts to collapse and starving people flee to the safety of the largest cities. Populated areas are able to deal with this but rural areas are overun with bullsquid, antlions and headcrabs. Half-Life 2 was originally supposed to have an opening that detailed what happened in the years since Black Mesa.įirst off the portal storms get worse and worse, random aliens from xen start appearing all over the earth's surface.