If the combine are so evolved that they cant use there eyes, why rely on mossman?

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Why is she so important on the teleportation front - the combine have surely mastered it - why is she needed?
 
azz0r said:
Why is she so important on the teleportation front - the combine have surely mastered it - why is she needed?

I'd assume they can only teleport between universes, not between locations on a world. As for Mossman, they probably want the technology ASAP, and hiring her is probably faster than developing it themselves.
 
i think the real question is if they're so evolved why does gordon freeman utterly kick their asses?
 
because thats his fate.

A measly scientist thought would be captured and killed or better yet transported to somewhere offworld to be experimented on. Not hired.
 
You would think that being a scientist, Gordon would object to the wholesale slaughter of alien life forms. Thankfully this is not your ordinary egghead. He kind of reminds me of Dr. Quest (of Johnny Quest) on Barry Bonds approved steroids!
 
azz0r said:
Why is she so important on the teleportation front - the combine have surely mastered it - why is she needed?

I'm not sure if I understand the logical progression in your question.
The fact that the controlling species of the Combine has become so terribly dependant on technology that their eyes and other organs have become vestigial does not logically imply that all of their technologies are so advanced. Scientific advance is based upon fortuitous happenstance, as much as it is on genius and experience, and it is made fairly clear during the progression of the plot that the Combine's existing teleportation technology works on entirely different principles to that developed on Earth.
Hence, it might be that they would have never developed a working intradimensional teleporter from the basis of their existing interdimensional technology, purely as an accident of the course of their scientific advancement. (To be more speculative, the Combine may actually be scientifically stagnant by this point in time - they certainly seem to invest a lot of energy in acquiring biological matter from other dimensions, rather than making their own biotechnological advances...)
 
Yes, their teleportation technology seems to more closely resemble that of the Race-X... a huge window into another universe, instead of the small, pointlike teleportals that are used by the Xen and humans, and seem capable of instantaneous lower-energy teleportation between both points on a planetary surface and points between worlds (though it's not always instantaneous, just look at the accident with the Combine's newer variety of teleporter in Nova Prospect).
 
Like Dr. Mossman explains, the combine haven't developed local teleportation yet. The only reason the rebels can use it is because of Xen, they're dependant on Xen as a loop.

During the Black Mesa incident, you'd teleport to Xen, after which you'd then proceed to your intended destination. Now, you only loop around Xen instead of completely stopping, which the Combine haven't figured out yet.
 
where does mossman explain this? BME?

I'd like to get a transcript of all the teleport technology quotes, it wasn't something I paid much attention to during the game... I'll play it again fairly soon though.
 
aoanla said:
the Combine may actually be scientifically stagnant by this point in time
Yet they unrelentingly claim to be the way of progress… I love what valve did… crafting them as such an impersonal enemy... Being oppressed was never so much fun!
 
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