What the FUCK were they actually experimenting for at Black Mesa? What was Freeman supposed to be doing that day?

What the FUCK were they actually experimenting for at Black Mesa? What was Freeman supposed to be doing that day?

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Antimass spectrometer. Like mass spectroscopy, but for exotic Xen samples.

Black Mesa overall was a massive research house working on everything from rocket propulsion technology, to industrial robotics, to advanced weapons research. The main bread and butter at the time of the incident however was teleportation..

Gordon Freeman's thesis was that basically certain crystalline structures held the properties that THEORETICALLY in certain conditions when bombared with science shit, would cause the crystalline structure to "resonate" which would create acess to alternate dimensions and allow the manipulation of physical space, i.e the key to teleporation. This thesis was what got him hired to Black Mesa. As of his thesis, these crystalline structures didn't actually exist and were only theoretical (he was a theoretical physicist) but Black Mesa had already accessed alternate dimensions via Xen and got it hands on Xen crystals which in fact held some of these properties, the more pure the crystal the stronger these properties.

Gordon was basically working in Anomalous Materials, which meant that they recieved classified materials and did experiments that previously only existed in theoretical physics. Suitably, they had the unique "Anti-Mass Spectrometer", a device that specifically tests and analyzes anomalous non-real materials that Black Mesa had acquired. The test on the day of the incident was intended to use the Anti-Mass Spectrometer, which would basically test an impossible object that would take other equipment decades within less than an hour. The crystal material was entirely pure, which meant that it stood to be a huge key to their research if everything went to plan.

However, on the day there was a combination of a coincidental facility wide system crash, the spectrometer being pushed well beyond the safe limits of what it was meant to do (105% compared to its safety limit of 90%) due to administrative pressure and an untested and unprecedented unstable anomalous material.

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Penis enlargement experiment.

Quality post.

I'd also like to clarify if black mesa already had access to Xen prior to the Unforseen Consequences.

The sample is seemingly delivered by g-man, but you find plenty of dead hev-clad people in xen. Perhaps they were teleported in but perished, unable to come back?

The most high level classified areas of Black Mesa already had limited contact with Xen and were bringing back artifacts and samples. That's where the crystals and other "anomalous materials" were coming from. They even had been studying the large sea shark thing for a week before the incident and lied to the research team stating it had been taken from the challenger deep.

Effectively the Lambda Labs and their ilk were getting Xen artifacts and lying to the lower classified branches that studied them that they were taken from supernatural or exotic parts of the Earth. Total speculation but for example Gordon could have been under the impression that a previous crystal sample was taken from some deposit in a volcanic mine on some Pacific island or some shit.

G-Man just provided the most pure crystal sample to the team, and helped grease the gears that led to the administrator (Breen) putting massive pressure on the Sector C team to push the spectrometer beyond safs procedure.

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Black Mesa, at the time of Half-Life 1, probably very recently discovered how to teleport people into Xen. There's barely any human infrastructure. They were probably sending scientists in HEV suits to random points in Xen so they can chart it, and get some hands-on research.
Most of the scientists probably died to alien wildlife, falling from great heights, or simply just getting lost.

>The most high level classified areas of Black Mesa already had limited contact with Xen and were bringing back artifacts and samples. That's where the crystals and other "anomalous materials" were coming from. They even had been studying the large sea shark thing for a week before the incident and lied to the research team stating it had been taken from the challenger deep.

They captured specimens of alien grunts too and in the final cinematic it is implied that the US military invaded Xen, which might have taken place even before the catastrophe.

Based response. Thank you for putting in such effort, user.

Who would benefit from that 105% increase, anyway?

Teleportation.... sort of.

How did aperture master teleportation while Black Mesa couldn’t?

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Where the fuck is it implied that the military invaded Xen?

Based posts. Black Mesa Source digs a bit further into the facility's research of Xen. At the beginning there's a bit more of a pronounced human presense. Black mese equiptment and even a small forward research base.

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It's common practice to go beyond 100% when it comes to test shit in any field.

I think it's pretty obvious that the pressure to run the test at that level came from whoever G-Man associates with, or just G-Man himself

>Black Mesa is a massive but still down-to-earth complex run by a man who demonstrates both meekness and disregard for others at once

>Aperture has Cave Johnson

Ezpz, next question

It's not Black Mesa Source, user. It's illegal to call it that. Valve will send Gabe Newell with a gun to enforce license statements.

I feel like their Xen is pretty close to what Valve wanted for it.

Black Mesa's administrator, Breen, was convinced by G-Man that it was necessary. Either convinced or pressed in some way.

The gman's final talk where there's a quick look at soldiers lying in desert sands while Xen is in the background.
The military didn't invade Xen, Gman's just showing the fruits of Gordon's handywork in both dimensions

soul vs soulless

What's more surprising is that instantaneous, same-dimensional teleportation is something that still hasn't been fully figured out by other people far in the future. Even the Combine can't do it.

Would the earth be screwed if the combine find their facility, or would glados fight them back?

G-Magik.

This is why Dyson Spheres are a MASSIVE plot hole and are stupid to have, as cool as it sounds.

Aperture Science's "teleportation" and Black Mesa's were worlds apart.

Aperture Science's tech was massively impractical and expensive. Not only was it a limited portal shape, but it only worked on pre-set up surfaces. Surfaces that literally required fucking moon rocks to construct and layer. So not only do you need to aim and shoot a gun at a location within aim and eyesight, but it also has to be set up in advance with materials that require a moon mission to build. They were working on incredible stuff with the Borealis but we know how that went.

By comparison Black Mesa's tech could teleport anyone and anything to anywhere and every in space at a moment's notice without limitation, even to other dimensions.

Apertures tech was groundbreaking and interesting, but with the exception of the Borealis it was basically useless beyond a gimmick by comparison to Black Mesa.

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It wasn't an experiment and I'd assume nobody past the test chamber staff actually knew anything about it. Gman explicitly pulled strings so the cascade would happen and nobody asked questions or looked deeper into it because mental fuckery a la "prepare for unforseen consequences", or Breen putting a ton of pressure on sector C over it with or without k owledge of how shit was gonna go.

>it only worked on pre-set up surfaces
I didn't like this retcon in Portal 2, even though it did set up the ending, which was kind of cool.

>Carry a portal gun outside at night
>You now have the fuck-everyone-in-my-vicinity button ready to be pressed if litterally anything doesn't go the way you want it to go.

LOVING all the HL lore talk. I should come to Yas Forums more often.

>Lambda core
>Almost ready to go to xen
>jump into the portal
>Game bugs out and never change levels
>Happened 3 times

I know i can just start a new chapter on xen but what a bunch of retards, 10 years developing XEN and the ship the game with bugs.

Only if the floor is moondust

That's just the G-man messing with the world around you, Xen does not have earth sands.

Study crystals with negative mass properties. Keep up brainlet.

HELLO GORD-

It does make sense as to why Aperture didn't just immediately make Black Mesa's efforts irrelevant and also why they invented portal technology in the 70s but it didn't really make a world changing impact and led to their stagnation into the year 2000. The ingenious but massively esoteric technology is also a great fit for Aperture IMO.

my god
what are you doing

You're seeing a very rare quality thread desu. It barely makes it worth sifting through this shithole.

AAAUGH
STOP
NO!!!

You can use ropes to get out of PITS!

how did freeman end up in the train at the start of 2 after being trapped in a void in 1's ending
t. never bothered to play it to the end

Thank you user

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I'm going to need your passport, sir.

There's been quite a few half life lore threads recently, is it just because of Alyx?

Got placed there by G-Man

Holy shit, the idea that Black Mesa had a research wing that was theoretical physicists actually being able to test previously impossible theoretical stuff in real life through supernatural origins is fucking kino.

Pocket moondust
Thats what I was tryna say yeah

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Fuck this thread for reminding me how fucking good the half life universe was, they even did what marvel did with the avengers movies before them, and with fucking vidya

wow
that seems anticlimatic and kind of boring

So Gordon is the one to fuck over Earth since he wanted to push into that research and not really G-man or the crystal he brought in

I like how much of it hinges on Black Mesa just happening to have a crystal from another dimension just lying around.

G-man of course, that set motion to hl2 and whatever happens after hl2

Gordon dies, on 2 its a clone.

I thought Gman supplied the material or manipulated something so the resonance cascade would occur

Alyx and the final version of Black Mesa. Also there was a weird eruption of HL1 memes recently so it's been on people's brains.

Have fun getting moonrock poisoning dummy

Two things to know about Aperture's portal tech:
>Their research is not as refined, nor as far as Black Mesa's. Their portal technology can only teleport you from 1 place in eye-sight to the other, and only if both surfaces are poison-moon-dust.
>It costed them an absolutely murderous fucktonne of dough to get to that point because Cave Johnson does not understand basic corporate financing
Aperture couldn't develop portal tech further because Cave's retardation caused them to bankrupt when they only dipped their toe in the pond.

The Combine only assimilate. Have you seen Stalkers and all those other things that are part of it? They take out everything necessary to conduct research, or at least, effective research. I wouldn't be surprised if they got their crude teleportation tech from a subjugated species, and have just been using that ever since.

>requires a moon mission
>can just portal directly onto the moon from Earth

see
The G-Man provided the crystal, it wasn't just lying around at Black Mesa.

Was?

Is a bug in the original where the skybox doesn't change, look it up

TPBP

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Gordon was recruited at such a young age because his doctorate/PhD was something he worked out/researched that Black Mesa was actively working on. Gordon himself wasn't massively important to the research, the idea of crystal "resonance" and therefore the understanding of the concept of resonance cascade are in part connected to him, but part of the meme of Black Mesa was that all of its staff were massively overqualified. Gordon is 100% working in the right sector but all he basically does is push samples into the machine and types up the report afterwards.

G-Man did set things in motion by providing the specific crystal sample that triggered the cascade. It was entirely or at the very least the most pure crystal they had come across (which meant it had the highest potential for teleportation or "resonance" to other dimensions) but was also massively unstable as a result. G-Man providing this and also his own meddling elsewhere (you see him arguing with someone prior to the experiment) also led to the Administrator demanding the Sector C team push the spectrometer beyond safe parameters in a very Chernobyl like fashion.

I got in fine, maybe something wrong with your setup?

Boot strap device, user.

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Gordon, did you not hear me? Start the rotors, please.