Do we know when the Borealis disappeared? Before Half Life 1?
Perhaps it was the G-mans first attempt at a resonance cascade. Or he meant to make it disappear in order for it to be there by Episode 2. He’s pretty good at thinking down the road.
The exact time of the Borealis’ disappearance is totally ambiguous. I think it was probably coincident with another major event (ie. GLaDOS’ Activation, Resonance Cascade, Seven Hour War)
I don’t think Black Mesa could have been a ‘Plan B’. G-Man freaking adores Gordon :3 He’s too major in the Half-Life storyline to have originally not been involved, something G-Man would have totally forseen.
Unless he was the spare plan for Gman when his first protégé died. Who knows ?
I was never under the impression the G-man had planned Gordon’s involvement, or his random superman complex he gains after the resonance cascade. I thought he thought of him as just another scientist.
The fact that he single handedly killed the Nihilanth could surely never of been predicted, even by the G-man.
No I’m fairly sure Gordon was a bonus.
But yeah, we don’t actually KNOW. So this is still all speculation.
From the way that they tell it in Ep2, the Borealis disappeared some time ago. It became legendary almost. I, personally, place the Borealis’ disappearance (as well as part of the drydock) to be sometime around the resonance cascade (possibly caused, in part, due to that).
But that’s my own little pet hypothesis. Who knows for certain?
[COLOR=‘Black’](Gabe does.)
It would have to be a good deal before the resonance cascade. If it happened at the same time, it wouldn’t exactly stand out enough or be old enough to be referred to as “legendary.”
I’ve said it once & I’ll say it a thousand time It’s all based on the Philadelphia Experiment / Project Rainbow.
You’re forgetting though, Dias, that Episode 2 takes place perhaps up to twenty years after the Black Mesa Incident. Certainly enough time to make a the story legendary in their minds.
Logically speaking, it likely disappeared a few months to a few years before the resonance cascade. It was during this period of time that Aperture Science and Black Mesa were competing to develop the first working teleportation technology. In theory, it could have happened anytime from the time Cave announced their project in 1976, up until GLaDOS finished developing Aperture’s portal technology, which apparently happened after the Black Mesa Incident.
However, it’s more likely that the Borealis’s disappearance happened prior to the cascade, as Kleiner, Eli, and Mossman would be more likely to know about it and cement its status as “legendary”. On the other hand, it’s also likely that it wasn’t too far in the past, as Aperture’s progress was not substantial until closer to the cascade. Also, it stands to reason that the Borealis’s disappearance could have been the result of a test that was poorly conducted in their rush to beat Black Mesa, or a failed test of GLaDOS’s, which would put it closer to the resonance cascade also.
It is definitely based on the Philadelphia Experiment legend, but its an Aperture vessel, so its disappearance would not be quite that long ago.
Pardon the necropost, but the whole cybernetic race thing is looking more likely than ever. From the ARG, it appears GLaDOS is infecting other computer systems like a virus. Plus, there’s the creepy “Tell them everything is fine” bit. From what I’ve seen from the twitter feeds and the infected users, Aperture brand androids are taking over peoples’ lives, Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style.
Ok almst everything in that article was really out there, but that is what velve lets us do, interpret their games in out own way, I could say that the halflife/portal universe and the Left4 dead universe are just parrelel universes if I wanted to, same goes for counter strike or day of defeat. Sure it might be dumb but there is nothing stoppoing those ideeas. The reason the Borealis dissapeared was because of the technology inside it, the super technology yet to be discovered. It is already obvious the technology has to do with teleportatrion, maybe even through time, maybe it teleported the borealis into the Space Between Spaces
maybe will know the story of Borealis’s when EP3 out.
Apologys for the bump, but just wanted to add my 5 cents.
(SPOILERS AHEAD!)
After playing Portal 2, I noticed something interesting, Cave Johnson comments how Black Mesa has been stealing Technology from them. The validity of that comment can be disputed as well as the canonical value of the image of the Gravity Gun, and H.E.V. Chargers in the Portal Lab Rat comic.
But this added with the picture of two (presumably) Black Mesa scientists standing infront of the Borealis makes me wonder to what extent what kind of communication has been had with Aperture Science and Black Mesa.
Maybe reading too much into it? Maybe it’s just a convenience. Thoughts?