Board Thread:Roleplay Lore/@comment-8785285-20160924203029

Since i'm going to be doing a Half Life 2 RP soon, i'm going to make a thread detailing Half Life and Half Life 2.

Half Life to Half Life 2=

It all started on an average day of someone named Gordon Freeman, a scientist working at Black Mesa went to work, today he was assigned to use the HEV suit, an orange-black suit designed for otherworldly exploration, able to detect injury and number it by 'health'. Gordon took on the suit and went to the testing lab, where a large portal was kept designed for otherworldly travel, where it went fine until he put in the new crystal provided to them, which caused the portal to go ballistic, pulling creatures from the 'border world' Xen and placing them on Earth.

Gordon Freeman had fought his way past the aliens, gaining a proficiency with weaponry, eventually getting to Xen through another experimental portal which was designed for emergency. There, he had fought his way past even more aliens than before and had eventually reach Nihilanth, a giant alien overseer of Xen. After defeating Nihilanth, Gordon was taken to a strange dimension, where someone, nicknamed G-Man, whom had provided Black Mesa with the crystal causing the whole mess, had 'hired' Gordon, and placed him into stasis.

Many, many years pass, and in that time, a new race had discovered Xen, and through the ballistic portal storms which still happened without the portal, although at a lesser rate, which had caused humanity to stay in cities and rarely anyone left the walls. Said new race was the Combine, or rather, not race, empire. The Combine Empire had discovered Earth, and in a simple seven hours, it was fully taken over by the Combine, showing their advanced technology. They used a technology called synth technology to defeat Earth, synth technology was the act of taking creatures or humans and making them mechanical, providing them with a new kind of soldier.

Over time, a resistance had rised up, the resistance was eventually named in mass as 'Lambda Resistance', comprised of all the survivors of Black Mesa and those who had managed to get away from Combine watch and become a 'rebel', so to speak. The resistance used guerilla tactics against the Combine, and rarely engaged in large-scale battles, as the Combine had endless reinforcements, or atleast, thats what it seemed like.

As the Combine had recalled a majority of the synths they used in conquering Earth, they left only two, and some more. The two most main ones are Hunters, and Striders. Striders could be seen in the city sometimes, a gigantic, tripod-like beast with a pulse rifle and chargable beam that can destroy structures instantaneously making them a force to be reckoned with. The Hunter on the other hand, was three-legged aswell, but not as tall, as they were a black-blue color, and had multiple eyes. They were extremely agile and were equipped with a pulse rifle, along with having legs able to stab through someones body, and were primarily deployed in the Outlands, a nickname for the outside of the cities, and were swarming with rebels.

The Combine needed new kinds of soldiers as they could not rely on their synths for protection of the planet. They had first, made a new force called 'Civil Protection', a sort of corrupt police force to keep the citizens in check, while experimenting with a form of synth-like technology, transhuman. As the Civil Protection rose in power, another division was made, this one acting like a military. These were called Overwatch, or less commonly known as 'Overwatch Transhuman Arm', or OTA. This meant that they were not completely human anymore, and were more or less, mindless soldiers for the Combine, they were equipped with suits and armor of the sorts which completely annihilated the rebels. Two of them could have taken out a group on their own as long as the environment was not in the resistance's favor. There was also a subdivision, the Elites, and much more rarer, the Elites had one eye like a cyclops and a white-red styled armor. They more commonly used the AR2, a pulse rifle developed by the Combine. There was also another subdivision in the subdivision, called the Combine Assassins, however they were scrapped as a concept. They were supposed to wear Elite-like armor and be comprised of the female subjects for the Overwatch, but they had simply scrapped it and went with the original plan.

Eventually after growing these new forces very far and wide, placing some Overwatch in the Outlands with the Hunters to take out smaller rebel outposts, Gordon Freeman had been awoken from stasis by G-Man, and placed on a train to City 17, the home of the Administrator, his old boss, Wallace Breen. Gordon had made his way up the apartments and to Kleiner's, an old acquaintance of his lab, where he had a much clearer explaination and met Alyx Vance, a companion on his journey.

Eventually after a teleportation failure, where it was supposed to teleport him to Eli's lab, another old acquaintance, he was stuck going through the hard route to his lab, slaying several Combine to get to his Lab. (just going to say this, yes, massive timeskip, my arm is getting tired and i dont wanna write how he kept killing combine.)

Once he was there, he was introduced to the Gravity Gun, a new weapon developed by Eli designed for using the props around him to solve all of their problems. The day Gordon had got there, someone leaked the information, and Combine shortly after, attacked the base, where everyone had to evacuate and Gordon had to go through Ravenholm, a zombie infested trap-town inhabited by one insane priest, Father Grigori. He had met up with Grigori who had led him out of town and gave him a shotgun, he stumbled into the mines after getting out of Ravenholm which was, surprise, infested with more zombies.

After getting out of the mines, he was in an abandoned train yard, where the Combine had planted snipers to try and delay Gordon, but to no avail. He had gone up the road to find Combine attacking a rebel warehouse. Gordon had gained the pulse rifle for the first time, and had fought through the barricades to get to the rebel warehouse, where one of the rebels, Winston, got hit with a pulse rifle. After treating Winston, the rebels helped Gordon contact Alyx through radio, where he had learned Eli has gotten captured, and that Alyx intends on saving him, at Nova Prospekt.

After going down the roads infested with Antlions, a new type of alien creature, he had eventually found another rebel base after he had fought through several Antlion and one of their subspecies, the Antlion Guard. After retrieving a Pheropod from the Guard with the help of a Vortigaunt, he had gained the ability to control the Antlions, as the Guard notified the creatures who only saw through feeling through this could be organized. He had begun a raid on Nova Prospekt where he had broken in with the Antlions who, with the help of the Pheropod, were able to assist Gordon, and as Gordon made his way down after killing dozens of Overwatch, had finally met with Alyx on the trainyard where new arrivals came to Prospekt.

They had worked on sending Eli to the experimental teleportation room, where upon the way, had found out Mossman was working for the Combine the whole time, and was feeding them info, which caused Black Mesa East, Eli's lab, to get attacked the day Freeman arrived. Alyx, filled with rage, had confronted her, and forced her to operate the teleporter, when, some Overwatch attacked and gave Mossman the chance to teleport to the Citadel with Eli, taking him hostage. Even more filled with anger, Alyx operated the teleporter alone, as the teleporter rebooted, she teleported the two of them to Kleiner's lab, where they found out the teleporter was delayed a whole week before arriving, and that the Uprising against the Combine, had begin, due to the explosion at Prospekt after they teleported was taken as a signal to start fighting against the Combine.

Massive war ensused in City 17, as Gordon had fought his way through several Combine, meeting up with Barney along the way, an old acquaintance, he got into the Citadel to save the now captured Alyx and Eli. After getting all the way up to where they were held, he went into a trap, and had all his weapons stripped, but the Gravity Gun superpowered with Combine energy. After having a little confrontration with Breen, Mossman took Alyx's EMP tool, and then betrayed Breen, getting Gordon, Eli, and Alyx freed, as Breen had used the superpowered Gravity Gun to stun them while he escaped to tell the Advisor, a member of the species that rules the Combine, that everything was going wrong. Eventually, Gordon took the superpowered Gravity Gun and had fought his way through the Combine, finding the core, which was causing a portal to the Homeworld of the Combine to spawn, allowing for reinforcements. Gordon had destroyed the Core, and it had resulted in a massive explosion, stopping the portal and closing it. Before Gordon had died, G-Man had froze time somehow and came to converse with Gordon, taking him from where he was, in danger, to stasis yet again. The fate of the rest is unknown.

I kinda went overboard and did the WHOLE story of Half Life 2, but i hope you liked it.


 * -|Timeline=

Black Mesa Incident > Portal storms randomly popping up and causing everyone to go into the cities, where portal storms did not occur -> Combine discovers Earth, and discovers its full of potential candidates for some of the perfect expendable soldiers, along with its massive amount of minerals -> Combine conquers Earth in the Seven Hour War > Civil Protection is quickly made to keep citizens in check, while OTA is worked on in secret, its first soldiers being soldiers in the military who were captured > Civil Protection is a massive organization now, and the cities are in order, and OTA is an official program, but not known by many people, still relatively secret --> OTA has many soldiers and everything is going smoothly - for the combine atleast -> Sometime around the previous times, resistance is formed, and it becomes a big resistance with a singular identity, Lambda. ---> Lambda Resistance grows in power in secret, labs are created all over the cities. --> Combine discovers Lambda Resistance, starts dispatching soldiers to try and root them out > Rebels are being crushed, though not at the pace the Combine would like it, and Gordon Freeman arrives on the train -> Following events of the story.


 * -|Factions & Races=

Lambda Resistance 

Humans - You know who these guys are.

Vortigaunts - An alien race from Xen who were enslaved by Nihilanth, and after the Freeman had killed him, the Vortigaunts were forever in humanity's debt.

Neutral

Zombies - A mutated human being, created from another specimen called Headcrabs, who had came to Earth from Xen.

Antlions - They work for whoever has the Pheropod, and take on a yellow-green black appearance, they are capable of aerial assaults, but they can only see based on sound and motion, which is why they're so clumsy.

Xen Creatures - A majority of other Xen creatures, such as the Bullsquid or Houndeye. They fight everyone, no matter who they are.

Combine

Human - You know who these guys are.

Transhuman - Modified human beings with alien DNA, they have been stripped of many functions and solely rely on the Combine to keep them alive

Synth - Organic-Mechanical hybrid machines, ranging from gunships, dropships, striders, hunters, and many, many more. These make up the primary Combine army, but they are presumably hard to make, so they had put in Transhumans as their primary front-line.

Advisor - The tacticians behind the Combine, and their leaders. They command Breen on his objectives, and have telekinetic powers, they can also absorb memory and knowledge by sticking their tongue into someones brain. They can cause heavy headaches just by being around, move you around using telekinesis, and can cause hallucination. They are, however, very fragile and are simple slug beings, their only hands being robotic, so they're easy to take out, but only if they dont take YOU out first.

Thats all for now, ill probably be introducing an Arsenal section, but now my arm is REALLY starting to hurt. 