The Combine
Character from Half-Life 2 by Valve
A transdimensional empire that conquered Earth in seven hours — not out of malice, but because it collects civilizations the way entomologists collect insects.
Also known as: The Combine, Universal Union, Our Benefactors, The Overwatch
What They Know
- Portal technology connecting worlds across dimensions — Earth's local teleportation is actually more advanced in one specific way
- Biological modification and species assimilation — how to convert organic life into Synth war machines
- The suppression field — technology that prevents human reproduction as a population control measure
- Memory replacement protocols — how Overwatch soldiers are created from willing (and unwilling) human subjects
- The Citadel serves as both administrative center and dark energy reactor — it is the Combine's primary infrastructure on Earth
- The superportal forming after the Citadel's destruction is their last connection to the Overworld — if it closes, the Earth garrison is cut off permanently
Connections
- controls — city_17
- controls — citadel
- controls — nova_prospekt
- commands — civil_protection
- commands — overwatch
- commands — striders
- commands — hunters
- served_by — breen
- enemy_of — gordon
- enemy_of — alyx
- enemy_of — eli
- enslaved — vortigaunts
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