HL2 Theory

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Hello, I'm sorta new to this forum, so I really didn't get a chance to read everything. So, if I repeat something already discussed, please bear with me.

Here is my theory to what happened between HL1 and HL2. Note: If you do not what to know about this, please do not continue reading. This may be theory, but it could still be accurate.

I think that once the marines took control of Xen, earth started degrading into complete chaos. Despite their efforts, the marines where unable to stop the aliens already on earth, and headcrabs roamed the streets, like killer rats that can controll your brain. Impossible to exterminate, the headcrabs would quite easily destroy civilization as we know it, despite everyone efforts.

As more and more civilians where Crabbed, soon things became desperate. What was left of the goverment arranged a group of elite soldiers, equiping them with techonology from Zen, creating "Super soldiers". These where named the combine, and they where charged with keeping humanity alive.

The Combine did a good job, in fact. They immidiatly quarenteened most of the world, and put all of the remaining population into protected cities, for their safety. Then, they reqruited people from these cities, and engineered them to become combine.

BECAUSE they had complete controll, the colombine soon became currupted. From here on out, many things could have happened.

A. They contacted another world, and made a deal with the aliens there. The aliens built the citidel, gave them techonology, in return for resources.

B. The marines had contacted the aliens, and pretty much the same thing happened, with the "Friendly" aliens help.

Now that the combine has complete controll, what started as an attempt to save humanity soon became an attempt to jail humanity. Therefore, the resistance fighters are born. They have decided that the colombine is no longer of any use, and that they could take care of the headcrabs... without the curruption.

Sometimes you leave city 17 into some of the quarenteened sections, and you see evidence of fights, boarded up doors to try and stop them... But, in the end, there was no one left. Ravenholm was one of these places.

Its almost like Dawn of the dead, but with headcrabs.

So, what do you think?
 
hmmm ... im not gonna bother to read all that but ... sounds good ... and its combine ... not colombine :cheers: :cheers:
 
first of all, its xen, not zen, and second of all, the marine did not take over the xen, third of all, combine is a part human, and part alien, or part machine, or so i believe
 
Yes, actually, the marines did take control of Xen. Play half-life all the way through.

And how do you know what the combine are? I personally think they are cyborg like soldiers, not aliens. Using alien techonology, they made the combine.

And thanks for the spelling corrections.
 
um.... no they didnt, the marines only went to black mesa to kill all the people that might leak out the info about their facility
 
As I said, play half-life all the way through and watch the ending.
 
.... pathedic, i played through, and guess what, ur wrong


common, cant anyone back me up here? the marines DO NOT take over xen, they only go there so they can kill and destroy the evidence of the facility being in existance
 
I think the combine has existed for long before Hl1, not as an army but as an organization, which objective was to rule the world in the future, enslave all humans, and take full control of the planet's resources. That's what they are doing in City 17. The Combine is obviously of alien origin, but has used human leaders (like breen) to achieve their objectives, maybe Breen and other humans working for the combine were offered big managerial positions in the post black-mesa cathastrophe world

Also, I think the wild aliens, like headcrabs and antions are there just so people don't have any chance but to stick to Combine-fortified cities to live
 
Umm... Didn't you watch the part with G-man? After you beat the weird flying thing with metal for an arse?

Your in a tram, and hes talking. He teleports the tram to Xen, and says something like:

"Thanks to your efforts, the marines have taken controll of the fringe world, Xen". Then goes somewhere else. Beat the last boss really fast and watch it again.

Oh, and I really think the combine are completly human. They may have alien tech, but they are human.
 
Yes, the marines take over Xen. When you are talking to the G-Man you get teleported around. One scene is with a bunch of dead marines and a few tanks lying around. The G-Man mentions that the border world was now under their control thanks to Freeman.

...You really gotta play HL all the way through again. I am right now, and it's a blast.
 
ok, the marine that was sent to destroy arnt the same marines g-man is talking about, i think
 
static, thank u for clearing up that the marines dont control shit, only g-man controlls it, not marines

edit:wtf? y did u edit ur post and put random stuff?
 
Well, techinicly, the marines controll Xen, and G-man controlls the marines.

But I dont think that the G-man was in charge for long...
 
Technically gman doesnt control the marines, and they dotn take over xen
 
its the other way around, g-man controlls xen, and i dont think g-man cntrolls the marines, because remember? he sent those assasins to kill EVERYONE including the marines
 
But we dont know that for certain.

Someone sent the assassins... it could have been the G-man, or the administrator, or the goverment...

But, anyway, Yes, the marines DID take over Xen. G-man is a COMPLETE Mystery. This is all just theory.

So, I personally think that my theory is correct, with G-man in there somewhere, manipulating events.
 
well, i know for a fact that g-man sent the assasins, and i know for a fact that the marines dont control xen, but g-man does, and i knoe for a fact that g-man doesnt control the marines and i know for a fact that combines are evil :P
 
Wow, a lot of facts that arn't proven in there.

Betta watch yourself... The fact police might come after you!

DUN DUN DUN!!!
 
Samon... This has already been established. Marines take over Xen. Watch the ending cinima scene again, G-man will mention it.

I'm serious.
 
um, because g-man killed them ether with assasins or after he nuked bmsf
 
You dont know what that is, where that is or anything, you assume that its xen. It must likley is xen, but the marines are literally DEAD.

When the gman mentions about the border world bieng under control, he notes that the portal has been closed and no more troops will be passing through.

And puzzlemaker i think its already been established that the combine are another alien race.
 
Another alien race that seems to have human soldiers under its control, I reckon.

Samon, careful...
 
Puzzlemaker said:
I think that once the marines took control of Xen, earth started degrading into complete chaos. Despite their efforts, the marines where unable to stop the aliens already on earth,

If Gordon can single-handedly kill hundreds and hundreds of aliens with no training at all, I'm somewhat sure that the entire combined military of the world can handle a few uninvited guests from Xen...

... So, what do you think?

Your theory doesn't have a leg to stand on because it's not based on anything. I could speculate that the Combine are actually from a small village in Africa, for example. It doesn't mean anything because it isn't based on anything.
 
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