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well, I just finished Half-Life 1. And as best as I can tell, this is what I think happened:
Breen and the G-man were both working for the same group. This group (I believe they're humans. A secret society, like the illuminate). The G-man is higher up, but not the top (he talks about his employers at the end). Actually, the G-man probably recruited Breen, although Breen is simply a pawn. Anyway, just before you go into the test chamber, they tell you enthusiastic the Administrater is about this sample and getting this test to turn out, and it sounds pretty sinister. Breen was definitely in on it from early one. Anyway, the way we know that Breen and the G-man were on the same side is that Breens people (black mesa staff) were infiltrating Zen, and the G-man tells us at the end that they've been trying to conquer Zen for some time.
Anyway, I don't think the combine had anything to do with Black Mesa. The combine fight with a variety of conquered species, genetically and robotically manipulated into wierd friekish monsters. However, in black mesa we pretty see just the aliens from Zen (the vortigons are clearly from the same planet as the big amored guys with the bee-shooters, and the gargantuas. For awhile I was thinking that the headcraps were an exception(they don't seem to go with the other zen aliens), but then I remembered fighting their mother on Zen, the big horse-crab monster with the hanging eggsack. All of the aliens we see in black mesa seem to fit very well into Zen as indiginous creatures. And the only case of alteration is the bee-shooters being spliced onto the arms of those armored guys, which apparently was being done by humans in black mesa so I really don't think we can blame the combine for that.
It's clear that Gordon did something nice for the vortigons (good enough for them to forgive him for slaughtering hundreds of them with the shotgun, eh?). I believe that he liberated them, not from the combine, but from the nihilith. For awhile I was thinking that the nihilith may be another example of combine manipulation, 'cause that crystal for a brain is pretty wierd, but then I remembered fighting all those little nihiliths (who's heads also open up), and so I think they're just that way naturally. After Gordon liberated the vortigons from another Zen race (nihiliths are clearly from the same planet as vortigons), they simply see this as another chance for Gordon to free them from their new oppressors, the combine.
I think the G-man's employers are simply a group of humans pursuing universal conquest. They over took the gateway dimension, and started going after other worlds. I believe that this is how they stumbled on to the combine. The combine, also interested in galactic conquest, but a little more experienced at it, went ahead and conquered earth, and so the G-man's plans backfired.
Breen went ahead and negotiated the surrender, not because he was in league with the combine from the beginning, but because he's a power-hungry old man willing to sell out to whoever looks like the winning team.
So Gordon is called in to remedy the problem, and that brings us up to halflife 2.
As for speculation about G-man's super powers... I noticed in the Lamda Core level that you see G-man use one of Black-Mesa's teleporters. Why would he do that if he really had all these super powers? He definitely seems to be more confident in using the teleporters than everyone else, but maybe he's just in the know about the cutting edge stuff that the scientists are doing? What he does at the end of HL2 may simply be ten-years worth of technology growth since black mesa.
Anyway, this may be all wrong. Hopefully Half-Life will be a trilogy, and not an ongoing series, so we can find out eventually. But this is what I've come up with so far.
oh, one more question to speculate: If g-man's people had total control of Zen, and the nihilith was killed, then why were the zen creatures still transporting over to earth? I don't have an answer for this one.
Breen and the G-man were both working for the same group. This group (I believe they're humans. A secret society, like the illuminate). The G-man is higher up, but not the top (he talks about his employers at the end). Actually, the G-man probably recruited Breen, although Breen is simply a pawn. Anyway, just before you go into the test chamber, they tell you enthusiastic the Administrater is about this sample and getting this test to turn out, and it sounds pretty sinister. Breen was definitely in on it from early one. Anyway, the way we know that Breen and the G-man were on the same side is that Breens people (black mesa staff) were infiltrating Zen, and the G-man tells us at the end that they've been trying to conquer Zen for some time.
Anyway, I don't think the combine had anything to do with Black Mesa. The combine fight with a variety of conquered species, genetically and robotically manipulated into wierd friekish monsters. However, in black mesa we pretty see just the aliens from Zen (the vortigons are clearly from the same planet as the big amored guys with the bee-shooters, and the gargantuas. For awhile I was thinking that the headcraps were an exception(they don't seem to go with the other zen aliens), but then I remembered fighting their mother on Zen, the big horse-crab monster with the hanging eggsack. All of the aliens we see in black mesa seem to fit very well into Zen as indiginous creatures. And the only case of alteration is the bee-shooters being spliced onto the arms of those armored guys, which apparently was being done by humans in black mesa so I really don't think we can blame the combine for that.
It's clear that Gordon did something nice for the vortigons (good enough for them to forgive him for slaughtering hundreds of them with the shotgun, eh?). I believe that he liberated them, not from the combine, but from the nihilith. For awhile I was thinking that the nihilith may be another example of combine manipulation, 'cause that crystal for a brain is pretty wierd, but then I remembered fighting all those little nihiliths (who's heads also open up), and so I think they're just that way naturally. After Gordon liberated the vortigons from another Zen race (nihiliths are clearly from the same planet as vortigons), they simply see this as another chance for Gordon to free them from their new oppressors, the combine.
I think the G-man's employers are simply a group of humans pursuing universal conquest. They over took the gateway dimension, and started going after other worlds. I believe that this is how they stumbled on to the combine. The combine, also interested in galactic conquest, but a little more experienced at it, went ahead and conquered earth, and so the G-man's plans backfired.
Breen went ahead and negotiated the surrender, not because he was in league with the combine from the beginning, but because he's a power-hungry old man willing to sell out to whoever looks like the winning team.
So Gordon is called in to remedy the problem, and that brings us up to halflife 2.
As for speculation about G-man's super powers... I noticed in the Lamda Core level that you see G-man use one of Black-Mesa's teleporters. Why would he do that if he really had all these super powers? He definitely seems to be more confident in using the teleporters than everyone else, but maybe he's just in the know about the cutting edge stuff that the scientists are doing? What he does at the end of HL2 may simply be ten-years worth of technology growth since black mesa.
Anyway, this may be all wrong. Hopefully Half-Life will be a trilogy, and not an ongoing series, so we can find out eventually. But this is what I've come up with so far.
oh, one more question to speculate: If g-man's people had total control of Zen, and the nihilith was killed, then why were the zen creatures still transporting over to earth? I don't have an answer for this one.
