thedungeondelver
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Briefly:
After her father's funeral, Alyx Vance vows to commit herself to the task her father laid down before his death: locate and destroy the Borealis, a massive container ship previously owned by Aperture Laboratories. The ship is suspected to contain technology that would allow the Combine near-instantaneous time/space manipulation capability. In short, with it, they could rule the universe. Or universes. Alyx and Gordon travel to the arctic area where Dr. Judith Mossman last reported from (having located the ship) and the helo they're flying in is shot down.
Alyx and Gordon locate the Borealis, already in Combine hands. They call for a massive Resistance attack and, before it arrives, infiltrate the ship and fight their way through it. Along the way they locate Dr. Mossman and consult with her about the nature of the technology in the ship. Alyx wants to destroy it, Mossman claims that the technology Aperture Labs was working on can be utilized against the combine. Per the story, Alyx ends the conversation by killing Judith and telling Gordon that they have to use the ship as a weapon against the Combine homeworld (I'm assuming that thanks to modifications, the ship is capable of maneuver in space). Alyx gets Borealis moving, and they make an extra-spatial jump to where they think the Combine "home" is (whether or not it is in our universe even is left unanswered).
They program the ad-hoc drive system to make its fatal plunge into the Combine homeworld, but just as she begins to accelerate, time slows to a crawl. The G-Man appears out of nowhere and, with a smirk, escorts Alyx away, leaving Gordon to his fate. Time speeds back up, and as the corona of light around the Combine homeworld resolves into details, Freeman realizes that it - the "homeworld" is a massive Dyson Sphere. The impact of the Borealis won't even register for the Combine. It will be like blowing out a match. Just as Gordon realizes this, Vortigaunts appear and once again spirit him away.
He finds himself by the seaside, on what is presumably Earth, but in the distant, distant future. He is forgotten, his colleagues all dead now, and the Combine are still at war with the last shreds of humanity.
-fin-
Briefly:
After her father's funeral, Alyx Vance vows to commit herself to the task her father laid down before his death: locate and destroy the Borealis, a massive container ship previously owned by Aperture Laboratories. The ship is suspected to contain technology that would allow the Combine near-instantaneous time/space manipulation capability. In short, with it, they could rule the universe. Or universes. Alyx and Gordon travel to the arctic area where Dr. Judith Mossman last reported from (having located the ship) and the helo they're flying in is shot down.
Alyx and Gordon locate the Borealis, already in Combine hands. They call for a massive Resistance attack and, before it arrives, infiltrate the ship and fight their way through it. Along the way they locate Dr. Mossman and consult with her about the nature of the technology in the ship. Alyx wants to destroy it, Mossman claims that the technology Aperture Labs was working on can be utilized against the combine. Per the story, Alyx ends the conversation by killing Judith and telling Gordon that they have to use the ship as a weapon against the Combine homeworld (I'm assuming that thanks to modifications, the ship is capable of maneuver in space). Alyx gets Borealis moving, and they make an extra-spatial jump to where they think the Combine "home" is (whether or not it is in our universe even is left unanswered).
They program the ad-hoc drive system to make its fatal plunge into the Combine homeworld, but just as she begins to accelerate, time slows to a crawl. The G-Man appears out of nowhere and, with a smirk, escorts Alyx away, leaving Gordon to his fate. Time speeds back up, and as the corona of light around the Combine homeworld resolves into details, Freeman realizes that it - the "homeworld" is a massive Dyson Sphere. The impact of the Borealis won't even register for the Combine. It will be like blowing out a match. Just as Gordon realizes this, Vortigaunts appear and once again spirit him away.
He finds himself by the seaside, on what is presumably Earth, but in the distant, distant future. He is forgotten, his colleagues all dead now, and the Combine are still at war with the last shreds of humanity.
-fin-