Imagining the Combine version of Reddit where one of them posts "The humans should be thanking us for giving them teleporters but they're too savage to appreciate it" and gets a million upvotes
Imagining the Combine version of Reddit where one of them posts "The humans should be thanking us for giving them teleporters but they're too savage to appreciate it" and gets a million upvotes
I always got the impression that people got shuffled around based on the whims of the combine and the breen administration, lots of citizens mentioning stuff like that in the train station.
I somehow missed that during all my playthroughs. Guess that's another point for the "the Combine are European colonizers" pile.
To add to my speculation, likely the Portal generated by the resonance cascade meant that the Black Mesa area became prime real estate for the fatcat slugs and they moved the riff raff out. Gentrification strikes again :kitty-cri:
Yeah, its just odd that apparently every surviving member seems to have gathered in the vicinity of city 17, I dont remember that being a specific plotpoint or anything so its probably just narrative convenience.
It would still be a cool part of the story to explore somehow, setting up the resistance and all that.
Yeah it's probably just for the plot, but one could imagine that the Vortigaunts or G-Man helped things along, guiding people to the location where they could help Gordon the most.