"New Little" Odessa?

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It's pretty easy to see where the "Odessa" part of that base's name comes from. What about the rest of it? Did Col. Cubbage have some offspring somewhere (suppression field notwithstanding)? Or did his cowardly nature cause him to be demoted from his original position in charge of Big Old Odessa?
 
maybe Odessa's father was also named odessa so people called him "little odessa" and one of the rebel outposts along highway 17 that have come under combine control was the original little odessa when they lost that outpost their new location was called new little odessa... its a stretch but reasonable
 
Didn't people use that as a hint for Odessa being the location of (read: partial inspiration for) City 17?

The Highway 17 Coastline resembles nothing so much as the Crimea near the Russian naval base and Ukrainian seaport of Sevastopol.
 
Odessa is a city in the Ukraine. Little Odessa is a Russian/Eastern European area in New York.
 
Didn't people use that as a hint for Odessa being the location of (read: partial inspiration for) City 17?

The Highway 17 Coastline resembles nothing so much as the Crimea near the Russian naval base and Ukrainian seaport of Sevastopol.

I have to disagree here. I'm pretty sure that City 17 is somewhere in Europe, near Russia. That's what I've heard repeatedly. That all the graffit that's sprawled on walls, the words on gas stations and other buildings, and other such details like that seem to point to a strong Eastern European setting. Also, just because a city is called "New Little Odessa" Doesn't mean that city is in the same country as the original "Odessa." Take New York, for instance. New York City isn't part of the same country as York, which is a city in Great Britian. The same goes for New Mexico, save that Mexico isn't a city but a country itself.
 
^New Little Odessa was a rebel base, not a city or a town.

And you are right, City 17 is in a post-communist country, possibly Bulgaria.
 
City 17 doesn't have a "true" location that is hidden, but I see what you're saying.

Eastern Europe indicates style and inspiration, not location. The strongest case is for Sofia, Bulgaria. Bulgaria itself borders the Black Sea. Ukraine is its Black Sea neighbor.

That's not much of a geographical difference. Ukraine is not to so distinct, to my knowledge, from parts of Eastern Europe, at least in terms of Half Life's vague depiction. And some parts of Half Life are not inspired by Europe at all, like the rugged coastline and the Pacific Nortwest forests of Episode 2. Likewise, some people say it could be in Russia itself, but if you step over the Urals, Russia suddenly qualifies as Asia.

It's a Frankenstein environment, City 17. It has the style of Sofia and it's mountain, Vitosha, the coast and maritime infrastructure of Sevastopol, and the Ravenholm of Riga, Lativa. It also shows some hardcore Soviet architecture and industry, which you don't see in Sofia.
 
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