with a new half-life game right around
the corner we get wait what it's camp
right huh I guess it is with half-life
Alex right around the corner
we here at suggestive gaming figured now
would be a good time to take a look back
at the currently known timeline of the
events in the half-life universe this
includes the half-life games their
various expansions and episodes as well
as the portal games and their various
surrounding media do note that for the
events covered in the original half-life
game will be illustrating them using the
recently completed fan remake by the
crowbar collective black mesa simply
because well selfishly I just wanted to
play that one now without further ado
this is what you need to know about
half-life our story begins in the 1950s
with the establishment of the Black Mesa
research corporation as well as their
rivalry with the unorthodox corporation
and former shower-curtain manufacturer
Aperture Science over various government
contracts decades later in the 1980s the
companies remain neck-and-neck in
competition with the two developing
similar but separate portal
teleportation technologies aperture then
begins development on their genetic
life-form and disk operating system or
GLaDOS and artificial intelligence which
they hope will accelerate research into
the portal technology sometime in the
2000s GLaDOS is turned on however she
instantly becomes self-aware and takes
control of the Aperture Science
Enrichment Center pumping it full of
deadly neurotoxin to kill her creators
some scientists survive however and
install a morality core which prevents
her from using the gas again they then
starter on a permanent cycle of testing
the portal tech with the surviving
Aperture Science employees in hopes to
perfect it before Black Mesa camp on the
morning of May 16th
the Black Mesa researchers begin to test
their anti-mass spectrometer a machine
designed to study crystals retrieved
from the recently discovered border
world Xen which black mesa scientists
were able to travel to using their
experimental portals due to dr. Gordon
Freeman's tardiness the team in the
Black Mesa facilities sector seed
decided to use the extra time for
further preparation this includes
increasing the power of the anti-mass
spectrometer past its 90% safety buffer
one researcher dr. Rosenberg protests
this decision to his colleague dr.
Richard Keller but Keller explains that
the directive
directly from Black Mesa administrator
Wallace Breen doctors Gina cross and
Colette green are then tasked with
retrieving the Xen crystal sample to
bring to the anti mass spectrometers
chamber just as Gordon Freeman arrives
to work as Gordon rides a tram to sector
C he is observed by a mysterious man in
a blue suit this man known only as the
g-man by others continues to monitor
Freeman as well as the other black Mesa
employees also on his way Freeman
encounters doctors Isaac kleiner and Eli
Vance Vance expresses his own concern
about the experiment given that the
stress of the additional power is
already causing havoc and braking
equipment Gordon Don's a hazardous
environment or HEV suit and enters the
chamber to begin the experiment around
this time security guard and friend of
Gordon's barney calhoun arrives at the
facility to begin his work on the blue
shift in Sector C meanwhile dr. cross
delivers the crystal to the chamber and
Gordon begins to insert it into the
device at this moment Eli Vance is
contacted by the g-man who tells him to
prepare for unforeseen consequences
despite this warning he allows Gordon to
insert the crystal and almost
immediately a resonance cascade occurs
causing a rift to open between Xen and
Earth allowing several alien creatures
to teleport into the facility Gordon is
then forcefully teleported to various
locations around sin before returning
back to the test chamber and losing
consciousness
elsewhere Barney Calhoun is travelling
in an elevator which crashes due to the
power surge in the facility causing him
to lose consciousness as well
Gordon soon awakens and leaves the
chamber to fight Eli Vance who sends
Gordon to head to the surface to find
help he heads off finding a crowbar on
his way which he uses to fend off the
various invading Xen forces meanwhile
doctors cross green and Rosenberg head
to the surface themselves and reach a
communication room where Rosenberg sends
out a distress signal to the military
who send in the hazardous environment
combat unit who are not only instructed
to eliminate any alien threat but also
any and all facility employees to cover
up the incident among these soldiers
sent to the facility is corporal Adrian
Sheppard and his team whose heliplane is
shot down by his
an aircraft and they also lose
consciousness dr. Rosenberg is quickly
captured by the arriving hecu forces but
Bharti Calhoun awakens and reaches the
surface finding and freeing Rosenberg
he then assists the doctor with finding
the a17 prototype test labs to hopefully
use a prototype teleportation device to
escape the facility meanwhile gordon
discovers the HEC use presence and
quickly learns that they are not there
to help him and his fellow scientists he
then fights through their forces and
reaches the surface only to discover
that the military has begun airstrikes
on Black Mesa forcing him to immediately
retreat back down into the facility
doctors green and cross then work with
dr. Keller once again who instructs them
to prepare a satellite delivery rocket
for launch which along with a prototype
displacement beacon can reduce the
effects of the resonance cascade and
partially close the rift they are able
to disable the Rockets lock down
allowing it to be launched but are
unable to trigger it themselves as the
hecu arrives and takes over the control
room meanwhile Barney and Rosenberg are
able to escape the facility by using the
teleporter but not before Barney is
trapped in a temporal harmonic reflux
causing him to travel between Xen and
black mesa much like Gordon did earlier
however he luckily ends up outside the
facility finding Rosenberg along with
his fellow scientist Walter Bennett and
Simmons and they all escape safely in a
Black Mesa SUV afterwards Gordon spends
the rest of the day fighting through the
various forces of zen and the hecu to
restore power to the Black Mesa facility
and reach the control room of the rocket
prepared by Greene and cross he clears
out the hecu forces and launches the
rocket allowing Green cross and Willard
to activate the displacement beacon
successfully in lowering the effects of
the resonance cascade Green and cross
are caught in their own harmonic reflux
but end up back at the Black Mesa
facility with Weller where they rest and
wait out the aftermath elsewhere the US
government realized the HEC use cleanup
operation is failing and decide to
deploy a black ops strike team to
detonate a mark 4 thermonuclear device
to destroy the entire facility and any
evidence after the black ops of rival to
vortigaunts one of the invading species
from Xen teleport to black Mesa and
fight their way through the government
forces to retrieve a recovery
action of Zen crystals soon after Gordon
is ambushed and captured by the HEC you
stripped of his weapons and equipment
and thrown into a trash compactor to die
he escapes this fate however and reaches
black mesas secret advanced biological
research lab refines the various Zhen
species contained for study and
experiments revealing that black mesa
was aware of zen and its creatures far
before the resonance cascade meanwhile
corporal Adrian Shepherd awakens in a
black Mesa medical facility where he was
taken by friendly Black Mesa employees
unaware of the HEC use actual mission he
makes his way to the surface where he
learns of the HEC use new command to
extract from the facility in order to
escape before the nuclear blast as he
makes his way to an evac helicopter
however he is stopped by the g-man who
closes the door in front of him causing
the nearby oblivious soldiers to leave
without him
Shepard then makes his way back to the
facility to search for another way out
and finds his fellow squad mates who
help him proceed through the facility
where he eventually reaches the lambda
complex around the same time Gordon
Freeman does Freeman learns that the
lambda complex was where the Black Mesa
staff was initially studying the
teleportation technology that first took
them to Xen scientists holding
themselves up in the complex and form
Gordon that the displacement beacon
couldn't fully close the rift between
the two worlds because of a powerful
being on the other side keeping it open
Shepard then enters the complex just as
Gordon jumps into the teleporter to
destroy the beam controlling the portal
as he does alien controllers teleport in
from Xen which shepard is forced to deal
with he then enters a temporary portal
and teleports to Xen himself where he
finds a displacer cannon which he uses
to teleport around Xen and black mesa
fighting a new invading species called
race X on Xen Freeman fights his way
through the powerful creatures there
coming across the remains of the HEV
suit clad scientists who had teleported
there to study the world before him he
eventually comes upon an alien grunt
cloning facility operated by enslaved
and seemingly friendly vortigaunts
Gordon fights his way through the alien
controllers in the facility and finds a
giant portal which he enters to find the
creature responsible for the wrist
control as well as the leader of the Xen
forces an enslaver of the vortigaunts
the nihilanth
upon noticing Freeman's arrival the
powerful figure begins to attack and the
to engage in battle meanwhile at Black
Mesa Shepherd learns of the
thermonuclear device and fights his way
through the Black Ops forces to find and
disable the bomb however his efforts are
for naught as he soon sees the g-man
reactivating the bomb as he goes to
leave unable to return to stop him
Shepherd is forced to leave and finds a
giant race x-gene worm attempting to
enter a portal into Black Mesa Shepherd
is able to destroy the creature to
prevent its invasion causing its portal
to explode and knock him out when he
awakens Shepard finds himself on a
heliplane
much like the one he arrived at Black
Mesa the g-man greets him just as the
nuclear bomb destroys Black Mesa in the
distance the g-man then teleports them
to an unknown location claiming that he
has to keep Shepherd imprisoned in an
isolated location at his employers
request due to his knowledge of the
events that transpired the g-man then
escapes through a portal and Shepard is
left alone in the void meanwhile Gordon
battles and kills the Nylund
in its death Gordon is teleported out of
its lair and is overwhelmed by an
explosion which freezes time emerging
from the frozen blast is the g-man once
again who finally speaks to Freeman he
reveals that thanks to Freeman he and
his employers now control the Xen border
world he then extends a job offer from
his employers teleporting Gordon to a
tram car in the void Gordon that accepts
the job and enters a portal after which
the g-man praises his decision stating
he will see him up ahead before putting
him into a stasis sleep after the events
at Black Mesa portal stars begin to rage
across earth causing small
interdimensional rifts to open across
the planet bringing forth a large number
of life forms from Xen while the various
governments on earth are distracted with
fighting off these forces the combine
and extremely powerful interdimensional
Empire that had initially chased the
nihilanth and its creatures design in
the first place arrive in droves to
invade earth the United Nations declare
war on the combine but it only lasts
seven hours as the combine proves too
powerful of a foe former Black Mesa
administrator Wallace Breen then
negotiates earth surrender with the
combine
allowing humanity's survival at the cost
of a lifetime of enslavement Breen is
then appointed as a puppet ruler for the
combine advisors and takes the role of
Earth administrator
additionally the vortigaunts arrived on
earth now free of their own enslavement
owing an eternal gratitude to gordon
freeman the vortigaunts are convinced by
Eli Vance to join humanity in creating
an underground resistance to fight and
ultimately hopefully overthrow the
combine shortly after the combine
invasion in the Aperture Science
Enrichment Center GLaDOS is now
seemingly alone in the facility one of
the last surviving employees scientists
doug rattman gets a hunch about an
initially rejected test subject named
Chell due to her extreme stubbornness
and tenacity
Ratman instead moves her to the top of
the list of potential test subjects
hoping she would be able to take down
the increasingly violent and sadistic AI
running the facility he then goes into
hiding finding various dens throughout
the facility where he takes refuge
slowly slipping into madness caused by
his now untreated schizophrenia GLaDOS
then awakens Chell from stasis sleep and
begins running her through tests using
the Aperture Science handheld portal
device promising her cake upon
successful completion of all of the
tests however Chell soon discovers some
of rat man's dens finding various
messages and warnings about Gladys's
deceptions and true intentions notably
that the cake is a lie GLaDOS also
torches Chell by providing her with a
weighted companion cube as a friend only
forcing her to incinerate it after the
test is complete
Chell completes all of the tests
successfully and afterwards GLaDOS
leaves her into a pit of fire Chell is
able to escape however and begins to
traverse her way through the empty
offices and halls of the abandoned
facility eventually she reaches the
central AI chamber where she finds
GLaDOS is mechanical chassis hanging
from the ceiling Chell is then able to
outsmart the AI using the portal device
to redirect turret missiles at GLaDOS
removing and destroying her personality
cores after GLaDOS as hardware is
destroyed a portal opens and transports
Chell and the remains of the chassis
outside to the facility's parking lot
however shortly after a party escort bot
arrives to drag Chell back inside the
facility immediately placing her in
stasis sleep
shortly after doug rattman finally
escapes the facility just in time to see
Chell being dragged by the party escort
but feeling responsible for chels fate
Ratman re-enters the facility finding
her long term relaxation room where she
is in stasis sleep he is soon met with
opposition however and is hit by a
bullet from a turret knowing his only
chance to save Chell would be to ensure
her life support remains active he
crawls to a local workstation and
redirects her rooms power source to the
facility's reserve grid this ensures her
survival but puts no end date on her
cryogenic sleep meaning she will stay
asleep indefinitely he then crawls into
a relaxation vault and falls asleep
years later around 20 years after the
Black Mesa incident Gordon Freeman is
awakened by the g-man on a train car
inbound to city 17 at the train station
Gordon is captured by combine overwatch
forces but is intercepted by an
undercover Barney Calhoun who has
infiltrated the opposition
Barney leads Gordon to safety and sends
him off to find dr. Isaac Kleiner's lab
as he heads out however he gets caught
in the middle of a combine overwatch
raid he is almost captured but is soon
saved by a young woman
Alyx Vance none other than eli Vance's
daughter Alex leads Gordon decliners lab
and their kleiner reveals his own
teleporter built to quickly transport
members of the underground resistance
they decide to use it to send Gordon and
Alex to Black Mesa East a resistance
base and research facility were alive
ances leading the group scientific
research
kleiner gives Gordon a new and improved
version of his HEV suit and the pair set
up the teleporter to send Alex to Black
Mesa East after a successful
teleportation Gordon enters the machine
to be sent next however Kleiner's
defanged pet headcrab one of the hostile
creatures from Xen named Lamar leaps
onto the machine causing it to
malfunction Gordon is then teleported to
various locations including Wallace
Breen's office at the combines
monolithic central building called the
Citadel breehn sees Gordon and
immediately recognizes him alerting his
combine superiors the advisors of his
return Gordon is finally teleported
outside Kleiner's lab and the scientist
turns off the teleporter to leave him
there
barney meets with him outside and gives
him the crowbar he used during the Black
Mesa incident and it's trucks him to use
the canal
to reach Black Mesa East and find Eli
and Alex Gordon Lin fights his way
through the combine and other alien
forces to make his way witnessing the
g-man once again observing his progress
he is soon met with opposition from a
combine hunter chopper using an airboat
provided to him by the resistance he's
able to fight it off and eventually
reach Black Mesa East there Gordon meets
dr. Judith Mossman another researcher at
the resistance base before he is
reunited with Eli Vance who fills him in
on the events that transpired since the
Black Mesa incident Alex then takes
Gordon outside to demonstrate the
zero-point energy field manipulator or
the gravity gun a handheld device with
the ability to manipulate physics she
also introduces her giant mechanical pet
dog Gordon plays with dog using the
gravity gun but their fun is cut short
when the combine arrives and launches a
raid on Black Mesa East as they reenter
the facility a ceiling collapses and
Alex and Gordon are separated alex
instructs dog to take Gordon to the path
to Raven home in order to escape Gordon
makes his way to Raven home and finds it
mostly abandoned however he soon finds
several humans turned by parasitic
headcrabs into zombie like creatures he
also finds the town to be filled with
various elaborate and deadly traps aimed
to kill these zombies shortly after he
meets the town's sole inhabitant and
creator of the traps father Grigori who
helps Gordon fend off the zombies and
make his way through the town to find a
mind that will take him back to city 17
refusing to leave his town grigory
continues to distract the zombies
entering a burning crypt leaving his
fate unknown as Gordon leaves the town
afterwards Gordon learns that Eli was
captured and taken to the combine run
Nova Prospekt detainment facility he
then begins to travel along Highway 17
to find him meeting Colonel Edessa
cuppage along the way who equips him
with an RPG to take down an approaching
combine gunship eventually Gordon fights
and defeats an alien antlion guard after
words of vortigaunt extracts a fara pod
from the creature giving it to Gordon
and allowing him to control the antlion
forces to aid him in his fight against
the combine opposition gordon reaches
Nova Prospekt and meets up with Alex
there they find a recording of Mossman
talking with Breen revealing that she
had been a spy working with him in some
capacity
Alex and Gordon tracked down Mossman and
confront her but she insists that she
only acted to protect Eli and their work
Alex refuses to listen retrieving her
father from captivity and forcing
Mossman to use a teleporter the combine
built based on the research supplied by
Mossman to take them all back to
Kleiner's lab however Mossman is able to
take Eli and teleport them to the
Citadel leaving Alex and Gordon behind
to fight off combine forces as they
prepare the teleporter to take them
decliners lab however when they use it
the teleporter explodes as they do
destroying the facility once they arrive
in Kleiner's lab Gordon and Alex are
informed by the doctor that their
teleportation was an instant and the two
had been missing for a week kleiner
reveals that in that time the resistance
began their uprising taking the
destruction of Nova Prospekt
as a signal to strike Gordon takes dog
and the pair leave Alex and kleiner to
escape the city while they head out to
aid in battle dog is separated from
Freeman and carried away by a combine
dropship but Gordon is able to meet up
with Alex who was later captured and
taken to the Citadel Gordon then finds
Barney and the two fight towards the
Citadel where they find dogs searching
for Alex dog is able to open a
passageway for Gordon into the Citadel
and he enters the search for Alex and
Eli inside Gordon uses a transport pod
designed for combine stalkers or
resistant humans that are transformed
into lifeless husks by the combine to
traverse through the facility eventually
Gordon comes across a weapon
confiscation field which destroys his
weapons save for the gravity gun which
causes the field to malfunction and
instead charge the gravity gun and
Gordon's suit with the dark energy the
combine uses as the basis for their
weaponry after he fights his way through
the facility and enters another pod
however he is discovered by Breen who
transports the pod to his office there
he is met by Mossman who apologizes and
leads Gordon to Breen who is mid
conversation with Eli Breen tries to
convince Eli to join him but Eli refuses
on moral principle Breen then brings in
Alex to use as a bargaining chip
threatening to send all three of them
through a combine portal to their
overworld however Mossman intervenes and
releases Eli Alex and Gordon from
captivity Breen then takes the gravity
gun and flees to head to the portal to
the combine / world to escape Alex and
Gordon leave
Lyonne Mossman who escaped the Citadel
using brings escape pods and the pair
give chase
witnessing Breen talking to his combine
masters before he runs off again leaving
the gravity gun behind to be retrieved
by Gordon he then makes his way to the
dark energy reactor as the portal begins
to open Gordon is able to destroy the
reactor causing a giant explosion
seemingly killing Breen the g-man
arrives and freezes time congratulating
Gordon on his continued success and
revealing that he has received other
interesting offers for Gordon's work
sometime after these events a group of
vortigaunts appear and rescue Alex as
well as separating Gordon from the g-man
the pair are then brought out of stasis
by the vortigaunts and teleported to the
outside of the Citadel they reunite with
dog and contact Eli and kleiner who
reveal that the Citadel's core is about
to explode threatening to destroy all of
city 17 as well as everyone in it Alex
and Gordon then head back into the
Citadel to try to stabilize the core to
stop its explosion there they find a
recording of Breen's final conversation
with his combine masters that they
interrupted in which it is revealed that
they evidently wanted to transport him
using some kind of host body afterwards
they see an image of a combine advisor
and encounter a kind of telepathic
effect before an advisor pod is sent
through a tube beneath them they're able
to reach the Citadel core and are able
to stabilize it and delay the explosion
afterwards Alex finds Intel that the
combine intended on allowing the
explosion to signal offworld combine
forces of the current crisis on earth
they then find another recent recording
this time from Mossman intended for Eli
but intercepted by the combine she
claims to have found the location of a
mysterious project before her and her
team are attacked by the combine and a
yet unseen creature called a hunter the
transmission then cuts suddenly
Alex takes a copy of the transmission
and her and Gordon then board a train to
escape the facility once again while the
train crashes the two are able to escape
the wreckage and fight their way through
city 17 eventually meeting up with
Barney who was taking a group of
survivors to a train station to escape
the city after fighting through very
strong combine opposition Gordon and
Alex are able to lead Barney and the
survivors safety before boarding a train
themselves and leaving the city just as
they escape the Citadel explodes
decimating city 17 in its wake the shock
wave also causes Alex and Gordon's train
to overturn and the pair are once again
knocked out Alex is able to recover and
use the gravity gun to free Gordon from
the wreckage of the train they look out
to the ruins of city 17 and see a super
portal above the remains of the citadel
suddenly a portal storm occurs and Alex
and Gordon use a path that opened to
enter a mineshaft
they reach a communication building
where Alex is able to contact Eli and
kleiner currently stationed at the white
forest resistance base when Alex
mentions the recording from Mossman dr.
Magnuson the bases leader then enters
the call and demands they bring them the
recording as quickly as possible
afterwards they are found by the combine
and Alex is attacked by a hunter
critically wounding her a vortigaunt
arrives just in time to keep Alex alive
and it carries her to a small resistance
outpost nearby there Gordon and two
other fighters Griggs and check Lee
protect the vordigan and his brethren
while they heal Alex unfortunately they
are unable to fully restore her health
without an antlion larva extract and
Gordon the vortigaunt that saved Alex
then head off to retrieve it and bring
it back to them
well the vortigaunts are distracted
healing Alex the g-man appears to Gordon
once again explaining that he had saved
Alex from the Black Mesa incident due to
her importance in his plans
despite Bereans objections he then
instructs Gordon to get her to white
forest and instructs Alex to relay a
message to Eli prepare for unforeseen
consequences Alex awakens fully healed
and the vortigaunt then takes her and
Gordon to the surface where they witness
a militia of combine forces heading
towards white forest Gordon then
retrieves a car while being covered by
Alex in the Vorta gan and brings it back
to them
Alexson Gordon then leave in the car
separating from the four daguan it
returns to his brethren to hunt the
combine advisors escaping in their pods
on their way to white forest Alex and
Gordon stop at a radio tower to try to
contact the base to warn them about the
approaching combine ambush
however they are attacked by hunters
which Gordon is able to defeat
afterwards they notice that their
transmission is being blocked by the
combine advisors they continue on but
soon find a crash advisor pod on the
side of the road upon finding it they
start to again encounter the telepathic
effects they experience when they
witnessed the advisor inside the Citadel
they enter a nearby barn and find an
advisor inside Gordon and Alex attempt
to destroy its life-support system but
it emerges from its cocoon like
structure and telekinetically pins
Gordon and Alex to a wall attacking an
almost killing Gordon before an
explosion causes the creature to flee
Alex and Gordon then fight their way
through more combine attacks eventually
meeting up with dog and reaching white
forest there they reunite with kleiner
and Eli and they all meet with dr.
Magnussen Magnussen reveals that they
plan to launch a rocket using the data
Alex retrieved at the Citadel along with
the satellites Gordon originally helped
launch during his Black Mesa incident
which they hope will close the combine
super portal after fending off another
attack Gordon and Alex returned to
kleiner in Eli to watch mossman's
message in it she reveals that the
mysterious project she found was the
borealis and Aperture Science ship
carrying an unknown powerful technology
that had long since mysteriously
disappeared from its drydock kleiner and
Eli then get into a disagreement on what
should be done with the borealis with
kleiner seeing value in using the
technology for good while Eli believes
that something of its power would only
lead to another incident much like Black
Mesa kleiner leaves to assist Magnussen
with the rocket and just after he does
the g-man appears on a screen behind
Alex for a moment when he disappears
Alex delivers his message to Eli to
prepare for unforeseen consequences this
takes Eli off guard and in confidence he
reveals to Gordon that he knows of their
mutual friend and tells Gordon that he
had delivered the same message to Eli at
Black Mesa and also reveals that the Xen
crystal sample that caused the resonance
cascade was provided by the g-man
self Magnusson then enters and
interrupts the conversation with a
warning that the giant walking combine
strider forces are advancing on the base
and its trucks going to use the
Magnusson device a sticky bomb that he
can launch at and destroy the creatures
he then heads out and successfully uses
the device to fend off the Strider
attack back inside the base the team
regroups and Eli tells Gordon that he
believes the g-man's warning to be in
regards to the borealis and instructs
Gordon to destroy the ship
promising to explain more later he then
expresses his pride and gratitude to
Freeman likening him to a son the group
are then able to successfully launch the
rocket which works in closing the super
portal and preventing the combine from
calling in further reinforcements from
their homeworld Alex then leads Gordon
to a helicopter hangar to retrieve a
chopper to fly to Moscow at the borealis
while Eli follows at the hangar however
they are ambushed by two advisors who
again pin Gordon and Alex to the wall
they then capture Eli who gives one
final warning to destroy the borealis no
matter what it takes
he then tells Alex he loves her and to
look away before an advisor impales his
brain probing his mind and instantly
killing the man an advisor then moves to
grab Alex but dog arrives and fights
them off causing them to flee which
frees Alex and Gordon Alex then rushes
to her lifeless father and caresses his
body as she weeps this is the last we
see of Gordon and Alex's story at least
for now
but we do have one more to tell more
than 50 thousand years in the future
Chell is finally awoken from her stasis
sleep by Wheatley a bumbling personality
core who hopes to receive chels help
escaping the Aperture Science facility
after his reserve power was lost
Wheatley leads Chell to a chamber
containing an escape elevator but she
soon finds the remains of Gladys's
lifeless chassis Wheatley attempts to
route power to the elevator but instead
accidentally awakens GLaDOS upon
awakening she immediately recognizes
Chell and resents her for killing the AI
she then crushes Wheatley tossing him
aside before leading Chell to her old
discarded dual portal handheld device
GLaDOS then forces child to go through
test chambers once again as the AI
scrambles to repair the broken down
facility
during your testing Wheatley appears to
Chell hiding from GLaDOS
but revealing he survived his encounter
with her a few test chambers later
Wheatley and Chell are discovered by
GLaDOS and are forced to make their way
through the back halls of the facility
to escape on their wage hell discovers a
science project exhibit left over from
the bring-your-daughter-to-work day when
GLaDOS began killing aperture employees
interestingly one of the potato power
projects is credited to a girl named
Chell indicating a potentially deeper
tie between shell and aperture Gellin
Wheatley then decide to sabotage GLaDOS
as defenses by causing the turret
assembly line to produce defective
turrets as well as cutting off her
supply of neurotoxin Gellin Wheatley
returned to Gladys's chamber and when
she tries to kill them she fails due to
their meddling due to GLaDOS his
corruption and Wheatley's presence a
transfer of Wheatley into Gladys's body
is initiated while GLaDOS tries to stop
this Chell is able to initiate an
override and successfully complete the
transfer afterwards Wheatley sends Chell
on the elevator to the surface but
quickly changes his mind seemingly
corrupted by his new power he then puts
GLaDOS into one of the potato power
experiments as an act of embarrassment
she then reveals that Wheatley was
designed by Aperture Science engineers
to be amaura installed onto her to
potentially diminish her intelligence so
she would no longer be able to outsmart
and kill her creators this pushes
Wheatley over the edge and he destroys
the elevator causing Chell and GLaDOS to
begin a deep deep fall into the depths
of the facility at the bottom Chell
watches GLaDOS get snatched away by a
bird and she begins to search her way
through the bowels of the facility
finding it to contain the old Aperture
Science facility inside she hears
various recordings of aperture founder
and CEO Cave Johnson explaining the
history of the company and its
facilities and experiments including the
portals and various gels with physics
altering effects one investment was
seventy million dollars worth of moon
rocks which are grounded up they proved
to be great conductors for the portal
gun to create portal surfaces but
prolonged exposure caused cave to fall
deathly ill Chell finds GLaDOS and saves
her from the birds and the pair put
aside their differences to take on the
common goal of stopping Wheatley before
he destroys the facility
as Gladys begins to hear the recordings
of cave as well however she somehow
recognizes his voice despite never
hearing it before she then begins to
mimic caves assistant Carolyn during a
recorded conversation between the two
when shell finds a portrait of cave and
Carolyn GLaDOS recognizes them and is
overwhelmed in order to regroup she
turns herself off for the time being
she'll also finds another startling
discovery in the aperture facility a dry
dock for the borealis with the ship
nowhere to be found
she'll then here's another recording of
cave during his last days where he
instructs his engineers to research
artificial intelligence so they could
transfer his mind into a computer to
preserve it
he then proclaims that should he die
before they can do so he wants Carolyn
to take over the facility
even if she disagrees and states that
she could take his place as an AI as
well GLaDOS then develops a plan to
present Wheatley with a paradoxical
phrase that should cause his logic
processors to fail and disable him
however when they reach him at present
the paradox it has no effect due to his
programming to deliberately not think
Wheatley then succumbs to the scientists
AI designed to forcefully test subjects
and he sends Chell and GLaDOS through
tests of his own lazy design however as
he discovers an increasing tolerance to
the high provided from successful
testing he reveals that he found a new
subject to test in the form of a robotic
test subject before leading Chell into a
spike filled deathtrap Chell is easily
able to avoid this trap and make her way
to Wheatley's chamber there GLaDOS ends
in corrupted personality cores which
Chell is able to attach to Wheatley
raising his corruption level and
triggering another core transfer when
shell goes to press the button to
complete the override Wheatley reveals
that he had actually foresaw this
outcome and sabotage the button which
explodes Chell survives the explosion
and notices the moon through a hole in
the crumbling facility she grabs the
portal device and shoots a portal on to
the moon causing her Wheatley and
everything else in the room to get
sucked into the vacuum of space
Chell grabs on to Wheatley still
connected to the facility but GLaDOS
detaches Wheatley and pulls Chell back
through the portal closing it and
stranding Wheatley in space
Chell awakens later to see the two
robots Wheatley plan to test on named
Atlas and p-body flatus now back on her
body and in control of the facility
thanks Chell for helping her rediscover
Carolyn deep inside of her programming
she then deletes Carolyn's seemingly
returning to her old ways however she
decides that despite her best efforts
she has been unable to kill Chell and
likely will never be able to she decides
that if she can't kill Chell the next
best thing she can do is just get rid of
her she then finally grants Chell her
freedom sending her up the elevator
where she is serenaded by an opera of
turrets outside shell steps into the
bright cornfield behind her GLaDOS sends
out her incinerated weighted companion
cube before slamming the door shut
leaving Chell outside for good meanwhile
in space Wheatley admits his regret
while floating hoping to one day go back
so he can apologize afterwards GLaDOS
tests sun atlas and p-body eventually
using them to discover a vault deep
within the facility which is revealed to
contain hundreds of still alive human
test subjects whom she kills within a
week of testing this is where we leave
the half-life and portal universe until
we revisit the events between half-life
and half-life 2 with half-life Alex this
month and while half-life writer Marc
Laidlaw has revealed his plans for an
episode 3 which I'll link in the
description and definitely recommend
checking out maybe one day we'll finally
get a fully realized conclusion to
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