Kleiner mentions that the anti-reproduction fields have been around for ten years. I was reading the article and it mentions that there's evidence that the game takes place around twenty years after HL1. MarphyBlack 01:18, 3 December 2006 (UTC) Game set twenty years after HL1? The other three articles are what should be taken into concern, not this one. He also tagged Black Mesa Incident, Raid on Black Mesa East, and Battle of City 17, which are three recently created articles that do meet the definiton of fancruft (As well as covering information that is already covered elsewhere, thus making them redundant). I believe that the tag was misplaced unintentionally by Tom Edwards. This is a legitimate article covering information of a significant event that took place (unseen to the player) in the Half-Life storyline. MarphyBlack 05:46, 27 July 2006 (UTC) About the speedy deletion I'm removing this speculative and largely incorrect paragraph. In addition, the official Prima guide says that Breen was never a man to seek the spotlight, which makes it unlikely that he orchestrated a large scale disaster and near destruction of the human race just so he could become the head of a puppet government.

Obviously, being given a specimen from an alien world without knowing this fact would make some people assume that great lengths were taken to get it. One scientist even tells Gordon he's not authorized to know about the teleportation labs later in the game. The reason scientists talking to Gordon state 'he went through some lengths to get it,' is because they, like Gordon, were not aware of the teleportation experiments being done in Black Mesa, much less of Xen itself, as they were lower-level researchers. There are several located in the Black Mesa Research Facility from expeditions into the borderworld. It was just an ordinary Xen crystal from Xen. The crystal sample used in the experiment had no special significance. This, of course, contradicts the idea that the Combine could have contacted Breen beforehand because they had no knowledge of the planet prior to this. The official Prima game guide states that the Combine were attracted to Earth by the portal storms, and these portal storms were caused by the death of the Nihilanth. There's absolutely no evidence to suggest that the Combine made a deal with Breen for him to intentionally cause the resonance cascade. Nufy8 03:14, (UTC) Breen's relation with the Combine at Black Mesa Might be a good idea to tag this as a potential spoiler article.Дone. The second quote is a theory, yes, and it could stand to be reworded to reflect that more. Also, Breen's surrender meant defeat for humanity. I don't have access to Raising the Bar or the strategy guide at the moment, but I remember seeing it said somewhere that the portal storms attracted the Combine to Earth. To me this seems to imply that that is the story as Valve have written it, though it is only theory. 'There is some indication that Breen, who was also the administrator of Black Mesa, mentioned but never seen in Half-Life, intentionally arranged the disastrous resonance cascade.' This is theory, not fact.ДЄlso, they didn't defeat Earth's forces in 7 hours Doctor Breen surrendered after 7 hours (though I doubt that the humans would have held out much longer. It is unknown what attracted the Combine to Earth. 'These portal storms attracted an alien empire known as the Combine that defeated all of Earth's armed forces in only seven hours.' Shouldn't it be 'at the cost of their freedom,' as the citizens paid with their freedom? The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.

No one is more deserving of a rest, and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until. wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. 5 Breen's relation with the Combine at Black Mesa.

The seven hour war