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Mercer
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:58 am |
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Terrapin
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:11 am |
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It does indeed look as if they're comparing the two worlds. The real question is what they're looking for. A specific location, or a place meeting certain criteria? What I find odd is that, while the end of the portal we're on requires massive amounts of machinery and power to run (but can be disabled by pulling a single cable ;) ), no functional machinery of any kind is viewable on the other side.
We know Combine portals must have two ends - Alyx says at the end of HL2 that Breen "turned over control [of his portal] to the other side", and when the portal does open, machines can be seen on the other end. Yet this portal seems to only need one end to be operational, meaning it could theoretically open anywhere, at any time - literally. So perhaps those images were a map of the other world, and they were trying to find the best locations to go to.
Oh, and as for it being Earth... unlikely. Minerva refers to it as "that planet", meaning it differs from the planet we are currently on. But maybe I'm reading too much into two words.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:48 pm |
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Joined: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:28 pm Posts: 69 Location: Ithaca, NY, USA
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Last edited by Ace on Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:10 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Ace
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:57 am |
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Obviously much of my lengthy theory above relies on what I said about the 2 holographic images being mirror images of each other, so here they are, the lower one I've flipped horizontally as you can see. Clearly they're not identical, but maybe a slightly different perspective on the same thing. (though of course it's possible they're just taken from the middle of a symmetric hallway or something like that.) Why else though would these seemingly uninteresting images be up on the wall?
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lower one flipped horizontally, click for fullsize for better comparison
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L1ddl3monkey
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:47 am |
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Ace
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:26 pm |
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Ansob.
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:44 pm |
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:29 am |
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Screenshot from Someplace Else:
_________________ -Anything that happens, happens
-Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen
-Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, causes itself to happen again; though not always chronologically
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Mercer
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:49 am |
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Ace
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:54 am |
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Zetetic Elench
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:18 am |
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Bill Masen
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:28 am |
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The Combine never controlled that world beyond the portal. I think Minerva said that. I remember hearing it somewhere. But they also knew what it'd look like before they got there, because there's a pretty holo-globe that depicts the landscape. Yet, there were drop ships and advisor pods, you have to look carefully on one of the monitors, coming out of the portal. They must have been looking for something that wasn't on the scarred surface, or they wouldn't have had a reason to visit it.
I mean, except for playing with antlions.
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L1ddl3monkey
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:59 am |
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Yar Kramer
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:55 pm |
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Oh gods, I can only imagine what a time-travel themed Bio/System Shock game would be like ...
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