Post by Biff on Nov 10, 2017 18:57:22 GMT
Introduction - The Black Mesa Incident - 2000
In the early months of the year 2000 sample GG-3883, a Xen crystal, was brought into a testing room within the Black Mesa Research facility. It was here that a Resonance Cascade was accidentally triggered by Scientists, one of these individuals being "Dr. Gordon Freeman". This would be the one mistake that would one day lead to all of Earth's misfortunes.
The Resonance Cascade allowed extreme amounts of extraterrestrial creatures to teleport from their world, named by field Researchers only as Xen, to Earth. These organisms varied in shape, size, and intelligence - and when the alarms were sounded it was no surprise that the U.S.A government sent in marines to contain the situation. Their idea of "containing" the incident at Black Mesa involved clearing the entire site of any and all personnel in an attempt to stop any sort of contamination and/or knowledge of the Black Mesa Incident reaching the outside world. For this reason, the majority of the soldiers seen within Black Mesa were reported to be wearing gas-masks.
Black Mesa was a complete ruin. Soldier's and creatures beyond the imagination of any human were slaughtering their way through Black Mesa only to get at one another's throats. If not for the actions of "Dr. Gordon Freeman" the invasion of Earth by the creatures of Xen was the only foreseeable future for Earth. As Freeman made his way through the Black Mesa facility with the sole aim of reaching the Lambda complex the military did not see his actions in the same heroic light that his fellow scientists and colleagues saw. Instead they took every precaution they could to stop him from reaching the far end of the Black Mesa facility, but somehow he still made it.
Upon finding the Lambda complex, Gordon Freeman was assigned the role of teleporting to Xen itself and finding the source of the aliens power. This in-fact turned out to be the gargantuan that was Nihilanth. This huge creature was the thing holding open the portal between Xen and the Earth. Upon killing it, Gordon Freeman closed the portal and with it freeing the Vortigaunt race from Nihilanth.
The Scientists who saw Freeman enter the portal were able to see first-hand the portals dotted around the Black Mesa Research facility close, but they never saw Freeman return. There has been no report of him since. There are however multiple eye-witness accounts of a strange looking figure doning a Blue suit within the facility. He, or his body was never found at the facility and most believe this to be an image conjured up by the mind in a moment of terror or a conspiracy to only heighten the story of the Black Mesa incident.
The Seven Hour War - 2020
Twenty years after the Black Mesa incident, a huge portal opened above Earth's outer atmosphere. Spine-chilling noises came from the rip in the sky and the ground shook as if something grew ever closer. Only moments after the portal opened, huge Gunships travelled through the tear in the sky, raining hell down upon everyone below.
The United Nations was put immediately on code red and an interstellar war began. A war that would last no more than seven hours. For once in the known history of Earth, all people of all cultures and ideologies went shoulder to shoulder as allies in a war they were doomed to lose. The fighting was brutal and very little of the Earth's population survived. The invaders knew exactly what they wanted from Earth. They knew that there was nothing the humans could do about their invasion and they even knew exactly how many people they needed alive. The rest were only mouths to feed in their dark future awaiting mankind.
After seven hours the war was officially over after Wallace Breen negotiated Earth's surrender for which he was awarded power. All remaining military personnel on Earth were rounded up like cattle and sent to one of the first structures the invader's built on planet Earth - soon to be referred to as the "Combine" by Earths remaining populace. It was here that these men and women were converted into the Overwatch Transhuman Arm. These Soldiers had been implemented with mechanical parts and an emotion inhibitor. They may have been 90% human but after their conversion there was nothing human of them left.
The Aftermath - 2020
The Seven Hour War left Earth in a ruin. There was nothing now standing in the way of the Combine, or as they liked to call themselves - The Universal Union - from beginning to drain every resource from the world.
The centrepiece of the Union's evil was not embedded in their invasion of Earth or even in converting the Military of Earth into emotionless beasts: They committed mass genocide of the world's ageing population, physically and mentally disabled, and killed every last child they could find on Earth. For their reason for leaving exactly one third of the population alive was because they knew exactly how many healthy citizens they needed to work in their new World Government. This is why all citizens left alive were between the age of 20 and 49 - They did want mouths to feed that could not work like the rest.
The second phase of the Union's plan was to begin the mass construction of entire cities to house the new "citizens" of the Universal Union. The Combine came to Earth for its resources, meaning that only what was needed was used to create these cities. The majority of these cities were placed in Russia, with large plots of land readily available to the Union. Many of these cities were created around the old infrastructure of the World to reduce the resources used and to house the population as soon as possible in an attempt to stop any sort of uprising.
These Cities showed the people of Earth exactly how much Power the Union had. In only weeks after the Seven Hour War, Cities with huge dark walls around their perimeter and huge Pillar-like buildings dauntingly placed over them were present on the Earth's surface. Any thoughts of hope were shattered before people's eyes, but where most saw defeat, others saw a new start...
The Reign of The Universal Union - 2021
Citizens were allocated identification cards and assigned a random city somewhere is the world. Upon arrival by train, citizens were met by Overwatch Forces and lead into large sectors where their new "Administration" would greet them. The Administration were hand-picked by the Union from Earth's populace to act as the new government upon Earth, even though they had no real power over anything and were seen by the Combine as nothing more than puppets. After lectures on the importance of the Union, citizens were assigned homes within the city and their new, oppressed lives began.
Certain citizens applied to be a part of the "Civil Protection". This was a world police designed by the Union so that the majority of their better-trained Overwatch forces could focus more on the pockets of resistance that had emerged in different corners of the world. Citizens who were successful in applying for Civil Protection status were given basic training both physically and mentally and sent out onto the streets to enforce the Union's law.
From the Union's reign also sprouted the Civil Workers Union. These citizens were put in-charge of organising the work force of the cities as it quickly became apparent to the Union that if nothing was done then the populace would starve. So members of The Civil Workers Union were automatically given a red-tier loyalist status and moved to better accommodation within their assigned city.
The present day - 2024 onwards
Four years after the Combine's invasion of Earth, all cities have been constructed, and the people have all been given identities within the Universal Union. The resistance is still roaming the untouched wilderness in places the Union has yet to destroy on their conquest to bleed Earth dry. But within the cities, people lose hope, the Civil Protection rule the streets and very little has been heard of about the so called resistance behind the towering walls they are kept behind like prisoners.
People's only option is to wait. Who knows what the future holds?
In the early months of the year 2000 sample GG-3883, a Xen crystal, was brought into a testing room within the Black Mesa Research facility. It was here that a Resonance Cascade was accidentally triggered by Scientists, one of these individuals being "Dr. Gordon Freeman". This would be the one mistake that would one day lead to all of Earth's misfortunes.
The Resonance Cascade allowed extreme amounts of extraterrestrial creatures to teleport from their world, named by field Researchers only as Xen, to Earth. These organisms varied in shape, size, and intelligence - and when the alarms were sounded it was no surprise that the U.S.A government sent in marines to contain the situation. Their idea of "containing" the incident at Black Mesa involved clearing the entire site of any and all personnel in an attempt to stop any sort of contamination and/or knowledge of the Black Mesa Incident reaching the outside world. For this reason, the majority of the soldiers seen within Black Mesa were reported to be wearing gas-masks.
Black Mesa was a complete ruin. Soldier's and creatures beyond the imagination of any human were slaughtering their way through Black Mesa only to get at one another's throats. If not for the actions of "Dr. Gordon Freeman" the invasion of Earth by the creatures of Xen was the only foreseeable future for Earth. As Freeman made his way through the Black Mesa facility with the sole aim of reaching the Lambda complex the military did not see his actions in the same heroic light that his fellow scientists and colleagues saw. Instead they took every precaution they could to stop him from reaching the far end of the Black Mesa facility, but somehow he still made it.
Upon finding the Lambda complex, Gordon Freeman was assigned the role of teleporting to Xen itself and finding the source of the aliens power. This in-fact turned out to be the gargantuan that was Nihilanth. This huge creature was the thing holding open the portal between Xen and the Earth. Upon killing it, Gordon Freeman closed the portal and with it freeing the Vortigaunt race from Nihilanth.
The Scientists who saw Freeman enter the portal were able to see first-hand the portals dotted around the Black Mesa Research facility close, but they never saw Freeman return. There has been no report of him since. There are however multiple eye-witness accounts of a strange looking figure doning a Blue suit within the facility. He, or his body was never found at the facility and most believe this to be an image conjured up by the mind in a moment of terror or a conspiracy to only heighten the story of the Black Mesa incident.
The Seven Hour War - 2020
Twenty years after the Black Mesa incident, a huge portal opened above Earth's outer atmosphere. Spine-chilling noises came from the rip in the sky and the ground shook as if something grew ever closer. Only moments after the portal opened, huge Gunships travelled through the tear in the sky, raining hell down upon everyone below.
The United Nations was put immediately on code red and an interstellar war began. A war that would last no more than seven hours. For once in the known history of Earth, all people of all cultures and ideologies went shoulder to shoulder as allies in a war they were doomed to lose. The fighting was brutal and very little of the Earth's population survived. The invaders knew exactly what they wanted from Earth. They knew that there was nothing the humans could do about their invasion and they even knew exactly how many people they needed alive. The rest were only mouths to feed in their dark future awaiting mankind.
After seven hours the war was officially over after Wallace Breen negotiated Earth's surrender for which he was awarded power. All remaining military personnel on Earth were rounded up like cattle and sent to one of the first structures the invader's built on planet Earth - soon to be referred to as the "Combine" by Earths remaining populace. It was here that these men and women were converted into the Overwatch Transhuman Arm. These Soldiers had been implemented with mechanical parts and an emotion inhibitor. They may have been 90% human but after their conversion there was nothing human of them left.
The Aftermath - 2020
The Seven Hour War left Earth in a ruin. There was nothing now standing in the way of the Combine, or as they liked to call themselves - The Universal Union - from beginning to drain every resource from the world.
The centrepiece of the Union's evil was not embedded in their invasion of Earth or even in converting the Military of Earth into emotionless beasts: They committed mass genocide of the world's ageing population, physically and mentally disabled, and killed every last child they could find on Earth. For their reason for leaving exactly one third of the population alive was because they knew exactly how many healthy citizens they needed to work in their new World Government. This is why all citizens left alive were between the age of 20 and 49 - They did want mouths to feed that could not work like the rest.
The second phase of the Union's plan was to begin the mass construction of entire cities to house the new "citizens" of the Universal Union. The Combine came to Earth for its resources, meaning that only what was needed was used to create these cities. The majority of these cities were placed in Russia, with large plots of land readily available to the Union. Many of these cities were created around the old infrastructure of the World to reduce the resources used and to house the population as soon as possible in an attempt to stop any sort of uprising.
These Cities showed the people of Earth exactly how much Power the Union had. In only weeks after the Seven Hour War, Cities with huge dark walls around their perimeter and huge Pillar-like buildings dauntingly placed over them were present on the Earth's surface. Any thoughts of hope were shattered before people's eyes, but where most saw defeat, others saw a new start...
The Reign of The Universal Union - 2021
Citizens were allocated identification cards and assigned a random city somewhere is the world. Upon arrival by train, citizens were met by Overwatch Forces and lead into large sectors where their new "Administration" would greet them. The Administration were hand-picked by the Union from Earth's populace to act as the new government upon Earth, even though they had no real power over anything and were seen by the Combine as nothing more than puppets. After lectures on the importance of the Union, citizens were assigned homes within the city and their new, oppressed lives began.
Certain citizens applied to be a part of the "Civil Protection". This was a world police designed by the Union so that the majority of their better-trained Overwatch forces could focus more on the pockets of resistance that had emerged in different corners of the world. Citizens who were successful in applying for Civil Protection status were given basic training both physically and mentally and sent out onto the streets to enforce the Union's law.
From the Union's reign also sprouted the Civil Workers Union. These citizens were put in-charge of organising the work force of the cities as it quickly became apparent to the Union that if nothing was done then the populace would starve. So members of The Civil Workers Union were automatically given a red-tier loyalist status and moved to better accommodation within their assigned city.
The present day - 2024 onwards
Four years after the Combine's invasion of Earth, all cities have been constructed, and the people have all been given identities within the Universal Union. The resistance is still roaming the untouched wilderness in places the Union has yet to destroy on their conquest to bleed Earth dry. But within the cities, people lose hope, the Civil Protection rule the streets and very little has been heard of about the so called resistance behind the towering walls they are kept behind like prisoners.
People's only option is to wait. Who knows what the future holds?