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Timeline of Important Events in the HL Universe :-

Before HL:
1) Vortigaunts enslaved by controllers (using Nihilanth)
2) Combine invade the Vortigaunt homeworld
3) Vorts escape to Xen using Nihilanth's abilities
4) Black Mesa scientists piss off Nihilanth and his lot.

During HL:
5) Breen recklessly conducts a dangerous test
6) Shit hits the fan - resonance cascade!
7) Wild aliens from Xen sucked into Black Mesa
8) Soldiers sent to silence the facility and protect it's secrets
9) Nihilanth sends troops to permanently stop human incursions into Xen
10) Race-X decides to take advantage of the dimensional tear and invade earth
11) Scientists close the tear on earth's side using the satellite
12) Freeman sent to kill Nihilanth, succeeds
13) Shephard stops Race-X by killing the Gene worm
14) Black Ops are sent to nuke BMRF. Ultimately Gman finishes the job himself.

Intervening Years:
15) Nihilanth's death triggers portal storms. Earth gets f*cked.
16) Vortigaunts are freed, but most are stranded on earth
17) Combine notice earth during the resonance cascade, and are enticed by the human teleportal technology
18) Citadels appear on earth, 7 Hour War, earth surrenders.

During HL2:
19) Gordon is released. Black Mesa survivors rebuild a local teleporter
20) Mossman betrays them by building the same thing for the Combine
21) Mossman leads Breen to BME in exchange for Eli's safety
22) Gordon and Alyx destroy the Nova Prospekt teleporter while trying to free Eli
23) Mossman takes Eli to the Citadel for safe keeping.

A Week Later:
24) Resistance is gaining strength with Barney in charge
25) Breen realises that Eli is useless while he has Mossman
26) Breen tries to kill Eli, Mossman double-crosses him
27) Gordon destroys dark fusion reactor ans stops Breen
28) Gman puts Gordon back in stasis before the explosion.

Episode One:
29) Vortigaunts save Alyx, free Gordon from the Gman's control
30) Combine portal network has temporarily shut down
31) Resistance leaders head to White Forest to meet up with another team
32) Citadel destroys itself and sends a data packet to some Combine controlled universe

Episode Two:
33) The rebellion spreads worldwide since all Citadels have lost power
34) Gordon meets the second research team at White Forest
35) Kleiner launches a satellite to close the superportal left behind by the City 17 explosion
36) Mossman gets in trouble while searching for the Borealis, Eli dies.

I have only included what I think are the most important events, the ones that shape the plot. Apart from minor details like the collapse of the suppression field, Did I miss any points? Or do any of you guys disagree on any of these? If you have another theory, post away!
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You are wrong.

20 and 21 should be in the other's position.

I have no idea where you got 33 from. The first half of 36 should be between 30 and 31.
 
9) Nihilanth sends troops to permanently stop human incursions into Xen

Actually I think he sent them to invade earth because Xen is just a border world and incapable of sustaining life for long. Earth on the other hand is rich in resources.
 
However, despite a few discrepancies, that's pretty damn good.
 
Nice, but...

"The rebellion spreads worldwide since all Citadels have lost power"


That would be too convenient.
 
Nice, but...

"The rebellion spreads worldwide since all Citadels have lost power"


That would be too convenient.
I based that off of the fact that every Dark fusion reactor on earth has shut down or at least suffered critical damage (disclosed in Episode 2).

This would leave all the Citadels in a weakened state, and I think people would be stupid not to use this opportunity to rebel against the combine.
 
This would leave all the Citadels in a weakened state, and I think people would be stupid not to use this opportunity to rebel against the combine.

How are people supposed to know a barely visible reactor and off-world communication is offline?

2) Combine invade the Vortigaunt homeworld

I'm not sure about this one. I think something like that would have been a long, long time ago.

17) Combine notice earth during the resonance cascade, and are enticed by the human teleportal technology

Hate to be pedantic, but that's probably not why they invaded.
 
Don't forget G-man saving Alyx in Black Mesa during the Resonance Cascade. It's a minor part of the HL story but has the potential to be huge, with the G-man's relationship with Alyx and all.
 
Don't forget G-man saving Alyx in Black Mesa during the Resonance Cascade. It's a minor part of the HL story but has the potential to be huge, with the G-man's relationship with Alyx and all.
I've tried to avoid minutiae about the characters in the game. Ep 3 will reveal if such things are ultimately important.

Samon, I think I'll stick to my own speculation until Valve says I'm wrong. :p
 
On the other hand, Breen's show has been off for a week and a half. Without him telling people how it's so nice collaborating, I'd imagine a lot of restlessness.
 
Well...Your right...But....




WTF is this thread about...
 
On the other hand, Breen's show has been off for a week and a half. Without him telling people how it's so nice collaborating, I'd imagine a lot of restlessness.

Well if it hasn't been renewed for another season it'll simply go on to do repeats.
 
Well if it hasn't been renewed for another season it'll simply go on to do repeats.


I dunno, how long would it take to notice Breen's on syndication? I doubt the Combine print TV guides.
 
You are wrong.

20 and 21 should be in the other's position.

I have no idea where you got 33 from. The first half of 36 should be between 30 and 31.
What he said.

Everything else seems to be spot on though, as far as I know. Impressive timeline vikram.
 
Before HL:
1) Vortigaunts enslaved by controllers (using Nihilanth)

I doubt it's that simple. I like to imagine a caste system evoling between the species over time.

2) Combine invade the Vortigaunt homeworld
3) Vorts escape to Xen using Nihilanth's abilities
4) Black Mesa scientists piss off Nihilanth and his lot.


During HL:
5) Breen recklessly conducts a dangerous test

More like the g-man gives Eli and Breen a dangerous sample, but in their greed for knowledge they both recklessly conduct the test.

6) Shit hits the fan - resonance cascade!
7) Wild aliens from Xen sucked into Black Mesa
8) Soldiers sent to silence the facility and protect it's secrets

It seems from OP4 that soldiers had a mission planned well in advance of the resonance cascade occuring. At least two months prior.

9) Nihilanth sends troops to permanently stop human incursions into Xen
10) Race-X decides to take advantage of the dimensional tear and invade earth

Race X probably shouldn't be dwelt uppon to much, but I think they probably had similar motivation to Nihilanth's lot. We see baby shocktroopers being studied in Black Mesa, putting Race X on Xen and being pissed off by the humans aswell.

11) Scientists close the tear on earth's side using the satellite
12) Freeman sent to kill Nihilanth, succeeds
13) Shephard stops Race-X by killing the Gene worm
14) Black Ops are sent to nuke BMRF. Ultimately Gman finishes the job himself.

Just nit-picking here: The Black Ops were sent in a bit before that. But obviously the nuke didn't go off until after Freeman and Shephard were done.

Intervening Years:
15) Nihilanth's death triggers portal storms. Earth gets f*cked.
16) Vortigaunts are freed, but most are stranded on earth
17) Combine notice earth during the resonance cascade, and are enticed by the human teleportal technology
18) Citadels appear on earth, 7 Hour War, earth surrenders.

During HL2:
19) Gordon is released. Black Mesa survivors rebuild a local teleporter

The building of the teleporter happened well before Gordon was released.

20) Mossman betrays them by building the same thing for the Combine
21) Mossman leads Breen to BME in exchange for Eli's safety
22) Gordon and Alyx destroy the Nova Prospekt teleporter while trying to free Eli
23) Mossman takes Eli to the Citadel for safe keeping.

Order here needs a small bit of adjustment.

A Week Later:
24) Resistance is gaining strength with Barney in charge
25) Breen realises that Eli is useless while he has Mossman
26) Breen tries to kill Eli, Mossman double-crosses him
27) Gordon destroys dark fusion reactor ans stops Breen
28) Gman puts Gordon back in stasis before the explosion.

Episode One:
29) Vortigaunts save Alyx, free Gordon from the Gman's control
30) Combine portal network has temporarily shut down
31) Resistance leaders head to White Forest to meet up with another team
32) Citadel destroys itself and sends a data packet to some Combine controlled universe

Episode Two:
33) The rebellion spreads worldwide since all Citadels have lost power
34) Gordon meets the second research team at White Forest
35) Kleiner launches a satellite to close the superportal left behind by the City 17 explosion

Correction, Magnusson launches a satellite to close the superportal.

36) Mossman gets in trouble while searching for the Borealis, Eli dies.
Mossman had already gotten in trouble a good bit before that. Remember that we recieved the transmission in the second chapter of EP1.
 
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