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The reason the advisors are sticking those tentacle things in people is to get DNA to make breen a new host body?

Unlikely I know, but meh.
 
No, just no.

For one, if they were gathering DNA, why let it spray all over the place? Seems apparent to me they use it for sustinance and possibly to gather information.
 
It's for information. Yes I know nobody wants to believe it because they find it to be derivative of Starship Troopers but it's all but confirmed after Mossman's transmition is watched by everyone.
 
Vectyr said:
The reason the advisors are sticking those tentacle things in people is to get DNA to make breen a new host body?

Unlikely I know, but meh.
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Why can't they just be sticking tentacles in people for no reason? They do it on Star Trek all the time.

And please title your topics more descriptively in future. It's not very helpful to anyone when there's 50 topics all called "What if...". No-one knows which one they're looking for.
 
LandStander said:
It's for information. Yes I know nobody wants to believe it because they find it to be derivative of Starship Troopers but it's all but confirmed after Mossman's transmition is watched by everyone.
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Why's that? Eli is ALIVE at that point...
 
Cheomesh said:
Why's that? Eli is ALIVE at that point...
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True but after you replay the game the conversation between him and Kliener becomes more relevant.

[Not an exact transcription]

Eli: If the Combine get a hold of her [Mossman] They'll tear out everything she knows. There will be nothing left. We have to go after her.
Kliener: Wait Eli. Mossman may know the particulars about the Borealis but you, you know everything about the resistance! We can't afford you falling into their hands.

This IMO means that if Eli is captured the combine will know everything there is to know about the resistance because they will be able to extract it by force. I don't think Kliener was suggesting that if Eli was caught he would disavow everything he knows under torture.
 
We've had this duscussion. It's about 40/60 in favor of not having that happen.
 
Yeah.
They have like, a ****load of synth humans, metrocops and stalkers, and even then God knows how many prisoners.
Yet noo, they want Eli's dna.
 
Or they could harvest DNA from one of the thousands of overwatch soldiers or dead rebels.
 
I don't really know why I'm posting here...

Anyways, even if the advisors didn't have tons of usable DNA in their (mechanical) hands and this theory had any sense whatsoever, I don't think they could care less about Breen's welfare right now.
 
The combine didn't seem to care much for breen anyway..
and we don't know if he's dead.
 
LandStander said:
It's for information. Yes I know nobody wants to believe it because they find it to be derivative of Starship Troopers but it's all but confirmed after Mossman's transmition is watched by everyone.
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Seconded. Sure it takes an idea from Starship Troopers, but the whole thing looks like a brain bug anyway. My point being that since they are psychic/telekenetic, if they wanted to just kill him, they would rip him in two
like that resistance soldier after the advisor breaks out of his pod in ep2

Yeah, they dont need DNA either. They probably still have enough DNA at Nova Prospect. Probably more antlions too.

Though this does pose an idea that there will be a mass invasion of white forest and similar resistance forces, what with them knowing everything that Eli knows.
 
Seems to me that the Advisors just feast on human neural material. Nothing said in the Mossman transmission implies that they'll LITERALLY suck the information out of your head.

I mean, clearly they already got inside Gordon and Alyx's heads, I would tend to think that they'd need a person alive in order to read their mind.

How did they know where White Forest was, after all?
 
How do you know that Eli wasn't alive while the tentacle was in the back of his neck? We didn't see how deep it went in. The advisor could just have been paralizing him.
 
DerbyDriver1985 said:
Seems to me that the Advisors just feast on human neural material. Nothing said in the Mossman transmission implies that they'll LITERALLY suck the information out of your head.

I mean, clearly they already got inside Gordon and Alyx's heads, I would tend to think that they'd need a person alive in order to read their mind.

How did they know where White Forest was, after all?
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I think it does which is why they are more than a little scared that Eli wants to go after her himself.
I don't know that the advisor can read thoughts through telekinesis. Sure they can attack people but so far there is nothing to suggests(other than the fact that they have a highly evolved minds) that they have this ability.
The scene at the silo got me thinking. I wonder if the implants the overwatch undergo allows for the advisors to control them when in the vicinity. After all, when the silo doors are closing they just run mindlessly into your automatic rifle fire right after we see an advisor hovering above.
 
riomhaire said:
Or they could harvest DNA from one of the thousands of overwatch soldiers or dead rebels.
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not trying to agree or disagree with the topic here, but
Eli's DNA would be more important than a dead rebel's, you could make a body of some kind from that DNA sample and pretend Eli is once again alive, that way you could infiltrate into wherever you want in the rebel's organization way easier
again, I'm not trying to agree or disagree with anything here.
 
Hmm why would that advisors kill Eli....since he knows everythink about the resitence. sooo they must have the ablitiy to suck the knowledge out of peoples minds or why else would they kill him...
 
No, they're not sucking up information. Otherwise they would have already sucked out his brains when they had him at nova prospekt... remember, they had him in their grasp? His brains would be long bye bye if indeed all the info about the resistance was gained (or even a small portion) from one sucking. This sounds wrong...

barnacle porn anyone?
 
Not necessarily, Attilla. Remember the scene towards the end in Breen's office? Breen wanted Eli alive because he was the only one (besides Gordon, perhaps) who had sufficient authority to convince the Resistance to give up the fight in the streets. That was how Breen had intended to defuse the situation.

As for the TC's theory, I really don't think the Combine care what happens to Breen now. As I understand it, he never had any real power anyway, he was just their human puppet whose job it was to pacify the masses and prevent them from rebelling, something he failed drastically to achieve. So, no longer having any need for their human face the Advisors have taken direct control.

On the other hand, assuming Breen did survive the explosion at the end of HL2, the Combine may have put him into the host body of an Advisor (like it's hinted in EP1), but if so I don't know what their plans for him are, how is he any use to them now? If he isn't why would they bother offering him a way out?
 
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