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From Combine OverWiki, the Half-Life Wiki

This is the queue for featured articles scheduled to appear on the Main Page every week. The dates listed indicate when they will be showcased.

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[edit] May 18, 2009 - Gordon Freeman

Doctor Gordon Freeman is the silent protagonist of most titles in the Half-Life series. He is a theoretical physicist who is forced to defend himself and the human race against hostile aliens and other enemies following an experiment gone wrong. In the process, he becomes an almost mythical resistance hero, eventually becoming one of the leaders of an uprising against the alien invaders.

[edit] May 25, 2009 - Alyx Vance

Alyx Vance is one of the main protagonists of Half-Life 2, Episode One and Episode Two. She is portrayed as a woman in her early to mid twenties, and is a prominent figure in the Resistance against the rule of the Combine.

[edit] June 1, 2009 - Kleiner's Lab

Kleiner's Lab is a City 17 location seen during the chapters "A Red Letter Day" and Entanglement of Half-Life 2. It is a small laboratory hidden in the workshop of a decrepit warehouse, home to Dr. Isaac Kleiner for some time until the uprising in and eventual destruction of the city. The lab also houses Kleiner's teleport, which he has been developing as an alternative and safer route to Black Mesa East.

[edit] June 8, 2009 - Weather Control

The Weather Control, also known as Weather Station, is a location and chapter cut from Half-Life 2. It was to be set between the Kraken Base and Skyscraper chapters, being the second and last location of the third day.

[edit] June 15, 2009 - The G-Man

The G-Man, or simply G-Man, is a key, yet mysterious and enigmatic character in the Half-Life series. Referred to as a "sinister interdimensional bureaucrat", he is known to display peculiar behavior and capabilities beyond that of a human and his identity and motives remain almost completely unexplained. He plays the role of an overseer and eventual employer, watching over Gordon Freeman and other characters as the series progresses.

[edit] June 22, 2009 - Skyscraper

The Skyscraper, also known as Vertigo or Palace, is the generic name of a City 17 location and chapter cut from Half-Life 2 and an informal predecessor for the Overwatch Nexus. Being the first location of the fourth day, it was to be set after the Weather Control chapter, and to be the first chapter of the street wars.

[edit] June 29, 2009 - Borealis

The Borealis is an Aperture Science research vessel introduced in Half-Life 2: Episode Two. According to Isaac Kleiner, Aperture was working on a promising project, but in their rush to beat Black Mesa for funding, they neglected ordinary safety rules and it appears that the ship simply disappeared with parts of her dry dock, which earned her an almost legendary stature. It is assumed that the Borealis contained an immensely powerful and dangerous secret.

[edit] July 13, 2009 - Rail-based transportation

Rail-based transports such as trains, trams, monorails, railway tracks and train stations are recurring themes throughout the Half-Life series. At numerous points in every one of the games (excluding Portal), the player encounters one or more moving or stationary engines, lone carriages, or full-length coupled trains. There are also several instances where the player must cross or follow railway tracks, either on foot, non-rail vehicle, riding in or on the train itself, or by use of an electric monorail, the latter a prominent feature in the original Half-Life game.

[edit] July 20, 2009 - Judith Mossman

Doctor Judith Mossman is a scientist who plays an integral role in the Half-Life 2 series. She is a cunning and manipulative double agent, aiding both sides during the Uprising but eventually siding with the Resistance. Later on she discovered in an unknown Arctic location a secret and powerful project that could be used against the Combine, in a vanished ship named the Borealis. She is portrayed as a Caucasian woman in her forties.

[edit] July 27, 2009 - Gina Cross

Doctor Gina Cross is a Black Mesa scientist who first appears as the holographic assistant for Gordon Freeman in the Black Mesa's Hazard Course and then later as one half of the protagonist team involved in the Black Mesa Incident in Half-Life: Decay.

[edit] August 3, 2009 - City 17 Trainstation

The City 17 Trainstation is the first City 17 location visited by Gordon Freeman in Half-Life 2. A passenger train station used by the Combine to link with other cities and Nova Prospekt, it appears in the chapters Point Insertion, "A Red Letter Day" and Anticitizen One.

[edit] August 10, 2009 - Eli Vance

Doctor Eli Vance is a brilliant physicist and researcher, an African-American man apparently in his late fifties or early sixties with short gray hair, a beard and moustache. He wears a prosthetic leg to replace his left leg beneath the knee, which was lost when he was attacked by a Bullsquid while helping Isaac Kleiner climb over a barrier to get into City 17.

[edit] August 17, 2009 - Bullsquid

The Bullsquid is a bipedal, highly aggressive creature that appears throughout the Black Mesa Research Facility due to the dimensional rift. Bullsquid are able to survive, if not thrive, in environments that are unfriendly or even toxic to humans, including sewers and pools of radioactive, chemical, or biological waste. On Xen, Bullsquids are found drinking from pools of an unknown liquid that has healing properties for humans and Vortigaunts.

[edit] August 24, 2009 - Victory Mine

The Victory Mine is an abandoned mining area located in the Outlands, visited by Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance during their journey to White Forest. Early on, Alyx is injured by a Hunter and Gordon must go deep inside the mines in an Antlion colony to retrieve larval extract to save her.

[edit] August 31, 2009 - The Fisherman

The Fisherman is a character who appears only in Half-Life 2: Lost Coast as the guide to Gordon Freeman, setting him on his task to take out the local Combine presence.

[edit] September 7, 2009 - Kraken Base

Kraken Base is a location and chapter cut from Half-Life 2. It was to be set between the Borealis and Weather Control chapters, being the first location of the third day.

[edit] September 14, 2009 - Manhack Arcade

The Manhack Arcade is a City 17 area cut from Half-Life 2 that was to be visited in the first chapters of the game. It was to be located in a business/entertainment area, between the Trainstation Plaza and Kleiner's Lab.

[edit] September 21, 2009 - Combine Factories

The Combine Factories (also known as "garage" or "industrial") is a City 17 area cut from Half-Life 2 that was to be seen in the first chapters of the game, between the City 17 Trainstation and the Trainstation Plaza. It was originally to be accessed from the back of the City 17 Trainstation, although Gordon was to first pass through the area while arriving to City 17 on its train. The player was then to proceed to the Trainstation Plaza and see the trainstation main facade.

[edit] September 28, 2009 - Conscripts

The Conscripts is a human Combine unit cut from Half-Life 2. They were to be the remains of the former Earth forces requisitioned and unwillingly reincorporated into the Combine units as low rank human Combine soldiers, even lower than the Civil Protection. They were to be headed by Captain Vance.

[edit] October 5, 2009 - Armored Personnel Carrier

The Armored Personnel Carrier (also known as APC) is a Combine armored transport used by Overwatch and Civil Protection units.

[edit] October 12, 2009 - Black Mesa East

Black Mesa East is a Resistance base located at the Wasteland end of the Canals outside of City 17, opposite to a dam, its generating station and its reservoir, and right next to the abandoned mining town of Ravenholm. Black Mesa East is where Doctor Eli Vance, Doctor Judith Mossman, Alyx Vance, and many other Resistance members, including several Vortigaunts, used to live before its destruction.

[edit] October 19, 2009 - Borealis (cut location)

The Borealis, originally known as the Hyperborea, is a location and chapter cut from Half-Life 2. It was to be set between two other cut locations, the Air Exchange and Kraken Base, and to be the last location of the third day, visited during the night.

[edit] October 26, 2009 - Cremator

The Cremator is a transhuman enemy cut from Half-Life 2. "A Combine janitor of sorts", it was originally intended to clean the city from corpses and (possibly) fight the player occasionally.

[edit] November 2, 2009 - Air Exchange

The Air Exchange, also known as Air Conditioner, AirEx or Combine's atmospheric reprocessor, is a location and chapter cut from Half-Life 2. It was to be set after the Depot, at the end of the Coast chapters, and before the Borealis, as the penultimate location of the third day. Prototyped and having most of its maps made, it was never finalized to let the team concentrate on areas more fruitful for gameplay.

[edit] November 9, 2009 - Shorepoint Base

Shorepoint Base, also known as Shorepoint, is a Resistance base that appears at the end of the Half-Life 2 chapter "We Don't Go To Ravenholm..." and at the start of the chapter Highway 17.

[edit] November 16, 2009 - Station 7

Station 7 was a Resistance Underground Railroad station located at the end of the Wasteland part of the Canals leading out of City 17. It is seen at the beginning of the Half-Life 2 chapter Water Hazard.

[edit] November 23, 2009 - St. Olga

St. Olga is a location cut from Half-Life 2 and reused in the technology demo Half-Life 2: Lost Coast.

[edit] November 30, 2009 - Adrian Shephard

Corporal Adrian Shephard is a 22-year old US Marine Corporal assigned to the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit from the Santego Military Base, Arizona, where he was trained by Drill Instructors Dwight T. Barnes and Sharpe, and the silent protagonist of Half-Life: Opposing Force. He is one of the men sent in the Black Mesa Research Facility to kill the Xen invaders and later silence the witnesses, especially a scientist named Gordon Freeman, as part of a classified mission. Early in the game, Shephard finds himself separated from his unit and ends up fighting for his life only, aided by fellow Marines scattered around the facility and Black Mesa employees.

[edit] December 7, 2009 - White Forest

White Forest is a major Resistance base located in the Outlands, North of City 17.

[edit] December 14, 2009 - Overwatch Standard Issue Pulse Rifle

The Overwatch Standard Issue Pulse Rifle (OSIPR), also known as Overwatch Pulse Rifle, Pulse Rifle, AR2 Pulse Rifle or AR2, is a weapon manufactured by the Combine.

[edit] December 21, 2009 - Isaac Kleiner

Doctor Isaac Kleiner is one of the main characters of Half-Life 2 and its episodes. An archetypal 'absent-minded genius scientist', he is a prolific author of several works on teleportation and interdimensional travel, and one of the few survivors of the incident that took place in the Black Mesa Research Facility. Later on, he becomes a key (if somewhat self-conscious) leader of the Resistance against the Combine, and a prime member of the Resistance science team.

[edit] December 28, 2009 - Barney Calhoun

Barney Calhoun is one of the main characters of the Half-Life series. He was a security guard at Black Mesa before becoming a key Resistance leader.

[edit] January 4, 2009 - Black Ops

The Black Ops, sometimes hyphenated to Black-Ops and sometimes referred to as Black Operations, are a commando group of trained government assassins briefly seen in Half-Life and later expanded upon and featured in Half-Life: Opposing Force. Working independently of the HECU, they invade the Black Mesa Research Facility to conceal any evidence of the Resonance Cascade, killing all living things inside the base, whether they be Black Mesa employees, HECU soldiers, or Xen lifeforms, and eventually destroying Black Mesa itself altogether through use of a nuclear weapon.

They are divided into two groups: the Female and Male Black Ops, also known as Female and Male Assassins.

[edit] January 11, 2009 - Timeline of the Half-Life series

A timeline of the Half-Life series can be made by gathering known dates. Several retcons having been made since the release of the first game, because it is still being written as of today (2009), and because technological limitations have changed in the intervening time, a complete official Half-Life series timeline will probably never be made, since it could probably make the writers contradict themselves and limit their creativity for possible subsequent episodes. Despite of that, general events can be organized in a chronological order, around known dates.

[edit] January 18, 2009 - Houndeye

The Houndeye is a tripedal creature appearing in the Black Mesa Research Facility during the Black Mesa Incident.

[edit] January 25, 2009 - Stanley Rosenberg

Doctor Stanley Rosenberg was an employee of the Black Mesa Research Facility. He can be seen in Half-Life: Decay with Dr. Richard Keller at his side. In Half-Life: Blue Shift, Barney Calhoun helps him and two of his colleagues escape from Black Mesa.

[edit] February 1, 2009 - The Wasteland

The Wasteland, also known as The Wild or The Scrapland, is the area surrounding City 17, both being the two main locations of Half-Life 2.

[edit] February 8, 2009 - Combine Power Generator

Combine Power Generators are Dark Energy-powered generators used by the Combine. They are mainly found within the Citadel, but can also be found in certain locations in City 17, such as the Overwatch Nexus, the plaza visited in the Half-Life 2 chapter Anticitizen One, or near the White Forest Inn, in the Outlands.

[edit] February 8, 2009 - Black Mesa Science Team

The Black Mesa Science Team is the overwhelming majority of Black Mesa's population. With the Black Mesa Security Force, it is one of the most important bodies of the Black Mesa Personnel.

[edit] February 15, 2009 - Black Mesa Security Force

The Black Mesa Security Force is the main component of Black Mesa's support personnel force. With the Black Mesa Science Team, it is one of the most important bodies of the Black Mesa Personnel.

[edit] February 22, 2009 - City 17 Underground

The City 17 Underground is a series of dark underground tunnels, parking lots and storage areas introduced in Episode One.

[edit] March 1, 2009 - Synth

Synth is the term for a class of alien creatures turned into war machines, and one of the several species that make up the Combine organization. They are officially described as "self-replicating robots that evolve", "created or taken over by the Combine and enslaved during their conquests and wars." Most Synths seem to possess both organic and robotic characteristics, suggesting that they may be the cyborg derivatives of alien races that were previously enslaved by the Combine and assimilated into its armed forces.

[edit] March 8, 2009 - Arne Magnusson

Doctor Arne Magnusson is the leader of White Forest. He is a grey-haired stocky Caucasian man who looks to be in his early sixties. He is a former member of the Black Mesa Science Team and one of the few survivors of the Black Mesa Incident, and an important orchestrator of the Resistance.

[edit] March 15, 2009 - Civil Protection

Civil Protection is essentially the Combine thought police of all urban areas on Earth, including City 17. Its officers are named "Metro Cops", while the spelling "Metrocops" is also used. "CPs" is mostly used by the Citizens and Resistance members to refer to Metro Cops. The entity uses the term "Metropolice" (the original term), and the subtitles "MetroPolice". The Overwatch Voice simply uses the term "Protection".

[edit] March 22, 2009 - Hydra

The Hydra is an enemy cut from Half-Life 2 during the later stages of the game's development.

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