Antlion homeworld?

[Adabiviak]

This hit me while playing the game (again), and I couldn't find anything with a quick search, so let me know what the general concensus about this is. The Antlions are not from Xen. Assume that the Combine have never been to Xen (generally accepted, but not by all). The thumpers that keep the Antlions away are definitely Combine technology. Methinks the Antlions are from the Combine homeworld, or at least from one of the worlds that the Combine has overtaken, as they obviously know how to deal with them.

It's possible that the thumpers were made 'on the fly' because the Antlions (coming from Xen) were giving the Combine static on Earth, but I dunno.

From whence came the Antlions? The Vortigaunts are apparently quite familiar with them, using them for food, and knowing the ways of Antlion husbandry, so perhaps they did come from Xen.

Also, of all the three letter words that need to be searchable, Xen should be reason enough to adjust that (if possible).

 

[ríomhaire]

"The Antlions are not from Xen."
Yes I distinctly hearing remember Leon saying "It's breeding season for the antlions, who arn't from Xen" :|

"the Antlions away are definitely Combine technology."
As are the jeeps and helicopters I suppose :|

"Methinks the Antlions are from the Combine homeworld, or at least from one of the worlds that the Combine has overtaken, as they obviously know how to deal with them."
In what is probably the better part of 10 years they probably would have figured something out themselves.

"From whence came the Antlions? The Vortigaunts are apparently quite familiar with them,"
See above

Oh and BTW
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=1581445&postcount=825

 

[Polaris]

I think they are from some solid desert like (they are adapted to sand) dark (they haven't eyes) planet ...

 

[Asknoone]

Lay off with the :| Riomhaire.
This thread would be more suited to http://www.halflife2.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=51, really.

Anyway. Yes, the Thumpers are Combine tech, but after 10 or so years they have clearly had to adapt to defending against them, it is what they do.

 

[Adabiviak]

Just checkin', thanks!

 

[Jintor]

They're from Africa.

Xen Africa.

Maybe they're from Australia. Theys looks like fire-ants!

 

[Sam]

They aren't poisonous, theyfore they aren't from any kind of Australia.

Poison headcrabs on the other hand are.

 

[Jintor]

All our lizards are poisonous, but they get killed off by the spiders D:

 

[Uncle_Feet]

...the antlions are from Arrakis. After the Kwistaz hadderach turned off his thumper, and climbed up onto his Shi-Hulud, a swarm of antlions popped up and ate them both.
Just you wait 'til the combine unveil their hybrid/mechanical giant sandworms, with laser beams on their heads...!

 

[XANA]

yep jintor's right. its either the redback spider (close relative to the black widow) or the bird eater. maybe funnelweb. believe me, i know about animals that are naturally born with more than four legs. sk;ladc sorry blonde moment, i hit my knee on a corner. anyway, antlions are from earth. leon never mentioned anything about xen. ANYTHING! antlions can feel vibrations and dislike huge ones so they avoid them. im just going off with my own theory.

 

[Digamma]

Antloins are definetly from Xen. If I remember correctly(which I do) there are a few thumpers in one section of Xen. Exactly where I dont remember...

 

[Asknoone]

Yes, but just because they pound the ground in Xen does not mean they are thumpers. The Combine have not been proven to have been on Xen, so thats not really much of a link

 

[Digamma]

Ya, I saw that. But it doesnt actually say the combine werent on xen. It just says a threat chased them onto Xen. That doesnt mean the combine. Maybe its something else.

 

[Asknoone]

I think its pretty much a dead cert it is the Combine. Doug says they gave you the awareness that there was a larger threat, and you only glimpsed it. Clearly, in HL2, were shown the Combine.

 

[clarky003]

They would'nt of been chased there like the vort's , if they are from Xen they would be indiginous. The vortigaunt's are from some other unknown dimension I imagine perhaps the same as the antlion's..? seeing as they know them quite well.

Since the antlion's arnt in HL1 you cant really say weither their from Xen or not, they maybe from some other part of Xen or another world or dimension.

We have to remember the portal storms didnt just let Xen creatures through, the combine got to earth that way too.. who knows what other dimensions got caught up in the storm's, but in doug's story it may be revealed that they are from some other dimension that also got tangled up in the portal storms.

 

[TheGMan.]

Wow, you didn't play the level "Sand Traps", because the combine has no ****ing control or doesn't even know how to control the Antlions.

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

It has been speculated that the huge thing on the base of the citadel is a thumper, to keep the Antlions out of City 17. So maybe the Antlions are common on many planents/dimensions so the Combine put those on their Citadels. If this is true, they do know how to control the Antlions, but just not that good at it

 

[Adabiviak]

Curses - I just read/played something that made me sure the Antlions were from Xen, and I can't remember.

 

[Bull Goose Loony]

i think they came from starship troopers.

 

[clarky003]

well, imo the plot is clearly a bit deeper than everything coming from Xen, vorts arnt from xen and the combine arnt, Antlions werent on Xen when you visited the place, Xen is just the border world, so it's highly possible the Antlions are from the vorts dimension seeing as they know them quite well.

 

[Rizzo]

They are from Xen.

 

[clarky003]

Well I think you need some nice solid reasoning behind it as doug probably has already written into the story, it may be sorted out in later episode's or HL3 but its kindof daft to just say they are from Xen.. really its not known, they could be from Xen, the combine homeworld.. the vortigaunt's homeworld, or some other place entirely.

 

[Bull Goose Loony]

what makes you say they are from xen? they werent there in hl1, and the environment is completely different from their sandy preferences

 

[Rizzo]

Well... I gues they are from Xen Plus i read it in some thread somwhere... dont remember where

 

[dyst0pia]

It has been speculated that the huge thing on the base of the citadel is a thumper, to keep the Antlions out of City 17.

Possibly, but I do know that in the game guide it is stated that the bottom of the citadel is like a drill, continuously drilling deeper into the earth, while the citadel grows taller. Drill, thumper, nearly the same.

 

[Jintor]

what makes you say they are from xen? they werent there in hl1, and the environment is completely different from their sandy preferences

Uh, just because they weren't there in HL1 means nothing, same for the environment. Perhaps they were on a different part of the planet; perhaps they weren't there at all. Xen isn't just the bits you saw.

 

[ríomhaire]

what makes you say they are from xen? they werent there in hl1, and the environment is completely different from their sandy preferences

If all you saw off Earth was the Antartic you would think that it was inmposible for frogs to survive on Earth.

 

[mash]

Epiphany: Guys this is so sad it's not even funny.

 

[Bull Goose Loony]

If all you saw off Earth was the Antartic you would think that it was inmposible for frogs to survive on Earth.

well at least thats a theory based on available evidence, unlike simply saying "they are from xen."

 

[AndrewJ]

They are from the planet google, located next to yahoo and ask, on the side step of fart on the squared pineapple purples.

 

[ríomhaire]

well at least thats a theory based on available evidence, unlike simply saying "they are from xen."

And there is no eveidence to suggest they came from anywhere else.

 

[Eejit]

We don't know of an aliens which came to Earth other than those we saw on Xen, or those brought by the Combine (i.e. synths). Well, apart from Race-X, but Valve don't use them.

Since the Combine fight Antlions it's unlikely that they brought them.

Therefore Xen is by far the most likely explanation.

Gotta love logic.

 

[Bull Goose Loony]

well now that you pput it that way, i guess im pretty stupid.