Zellio, please don't let our zealots drive you out. We haven't had an intelligent dissenter in a long while, so our arguments are mostly just restricted to screamed discussions about which way Houndeye knees bend (or whatever).
Not to insult painstaking, heated arguments about fanon; I love...
No; synths were originally all pre-existing conquered species modified over long periods of time, and the Overwatch are slowly being synth'd also IIRC.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Anyways: as far as science can tell, we didn't wipe out that many species on our way up.
This says that the colossal insects were due to a higher level of oxygen; the lack of other flying creatures may have also played a role.
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Missed this post.
No. It was not. It was the costume for the hot female "black-ops"-esque Combine Assassin, who, like you said, got wiped away. No arctic there; find your theories elsewhere.
Raising the Bar really is a great book.
So... did you invent the name "Aleph universe" to refer to the (as far as I know) undescribed place that Breen was going, or did you rip it from the Datafiles? Or somewhere else?
If you got it from a semi-canon source, could you please expound on these findings for those of us who aren't master...
Wow. That is some awesome experimentation. However, you listed ten weapons with insufficient ammo, while there are six turrets. Were these to be combined so that no excess damage would be wasted (i.e. not using a 30-damage weapon on a 5-health turret), could all six turrets be destroyed with...
You aren't using a broad enough description of "resource." The Combine don't need rocks; as you said, they can get massive amounts of rocks from planets not covered with people. What the Combine really want is the sum total of our evolution and science. In short, the Combine come to inhabited...