Inter-dimensional teleportation is largely unknown to humanity. As for stopping the portal storms, I don't think we could have. I believe Brabbit's point was that we didn't *have* the manpower, even though we would have wanted it. Instead they plan to hold on to earth with a combination of mass surveillance, strict pollicing and brutal terror (Ravenholm).Īwesome read. However they don't want to destroy humanity, we're useful to them. They conquered earth with sheer firepower, giving the people and choice between submission and annihilation. The Combine begins integrating humans into their millitary and harvesting earth's resources. Breen as their representative, he starts recruiting troops to form a security force. Civilization was on the brink even before the invasion, now, utterly blindsided, Earth surrenders.

He says the Combine offer peace if humanity will only lay down their weapons and allow them to assume control. Wallace Breen (a prominant figure in the defense against the portal storms) claims to be in contact with the invaders. Most millitary units are overwhelmed by gunships and hunters before they even realise what's happening.Īs the onslaught unfolds a certain Dr. Earth attempts to resist but they are completely unprepared and can't match the firepower of the killing machines. Clouds of gunships blot out the sun, columns of striders march into the cities. From the citadels issue forth a swarm of insectoid bio-mechanical machines. Then one day the centers of all the major cities collapse into giant sinkholes, they are replaced with mile-high towers of blue metal, seemingly appearing from nowhere. The world's millitary is largely focussed on defending these urban centers and many bases are abandoned or cut off. Gradually society starts to collapse and starving people flee to the safety of the largest cities. Populated areas are able to deal with this but rural areas are overun with bullsquid, antlions and headcrabs.

Half-Life 2 was originally supposed to have an opening that detailed what happened in the years since Black Mesa.įirst off the portal storms get worse and worse, random aliens from xen start appearing all over the earth's surface.

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