![]() ![]() They are unable to travel freely from place to place on Earth, because Xen is in the way. Front-runner possibilities are volatile portal technology, volatile Xen crystals, and something involving time travel.īlack Mesa scientists experience some success in their teleportation experiments and discover how to travel between Earth and the border world of Xen. The ship's cargo will be revealed in Episode Three. This is revealed in a pivotal conversation with Eli Vance in Episode Two, "Our Mutual Fiend". The Aperture Science research vessel Borealis disappears from its dry dock, taking part of its dry dock with it. ![]() Source is the Aperture Science website ( screenshot). This is after GLaDOS v1.07 has been released, but time was flowing backwards, so who knows? In response, work on GLaDOS, the Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, commences at Aperture. You can get to the 1.07a prompt by logging in as with the password "PORTAL".īlack Mesa Research Facility begins working on similar teleportation technology to the Aperture portals. The company is awarded an open-ended contract to continue the research.Ĭave Johnson has a user account created for him, or else his existing account details are transferred over from whatever internal computer system was in use at Aperture before this time.Īperture Science website ( screenshot 1, 2). Surprisingly, actual progress towards the portal technology is revealed during a Senate investigation of Aperture Science. The Self-Esteem Fund is mentioned once in Portal and provides the title of one of the tracks on the Orange Box soundtrack.Ĭonjecture: the Self-Esteem Fund is part of an effort to obtain a kidney for Cave Johnson. The Aperture Science Self-Esteem Fund For Girls is founded. Instead he is placed in cryogenic storage to await his needed kidney transplant. Terminally ill and believing that time is flowing backwards, Cave Johnson initiates research into (among other things) quantum portals through space.Ĭonjecture: Cave Johnson does NOT die at this point. Shephard is 22 according to the opening text of Half Life: Opposing Force. Gordon is 27 according to the opening text of Half-Life.Ĭave Johnson is exposed to mercury and becomes insane. ![]() The Eisenhower administration awards Aperture Science a contract to produce shower curtains for all US military branches except the Navy. Type LOGIN and then username CJOHNSON and then password TIER3 and then NOTES to view the timeline. To access the website sources, you can use the username and password seen in Test Chamber 17 in Portal. Several sources give Xen as a kind of refugee world and the Nihilanth and the vortigaunts as one of many groups of refugees on this planet, having come from somewhere else entirely.Īperture Science is founded by Cave Johnson, for the purpose of producing shower curtains.Īperture Science website ( screenshot). Occam's Razor would suggest that Xen is the Nihilanth's homeworld. The Combine invaded, placed a ruler (in Earth's case, Wallace Breen) and began co-opting the local dominant species' genetics to make hybrid human/Combine slaves/foot-soldiers (whom you spend the entirety of HL2 fighting). The political situation on Xen is presumed to be exactly like the political situation on Earth during Half-Life 2. The vortigaunts are in turn enslaved with the metal collars which they are seen wearing in the original Half-Life games. The Nihilanth, who may or may not already be the leader/ruler/tyrant/queen/mother of the vortigaunt race, is enslaved by the Combine and placed (possibly willingly) as a puppet ruler, leading the planet in the Combine's name. The dominant intelligent lifeforms on Xen are the vortigaunts. The Combine, an exceptionally advanced other-dimensional race of whom very little is currently known, attack the "border world" of Xen. My timeline is missing details from Half-Life: Decay, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, the Portal 2 ARG and Portal 2 itself, although it does have some idle conjecture that you might find interesting. It looks like the Combine Overwiki has a superior, more thoroughly researched Half-Life timeline. ![]()
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