MAybe Glados was the one who helped the combine become pwerfull.
To begin with, if Glados is on board, sheâs completely frozen. If anything, the Combine is trying to thaw her out or at least trying to patch in on her software.
I hope she in on the Borealis though. Itâd interesting just to hear or see her in not in a Portal atmosphere.
Wasnât GlaDOS designed to be a fuel icing inhibitor? How could it be frozen then?
Itâs in the Episode 2 materials folder, under âEffectsâ.
Fuel Icing Inhibitors are apparently used on aviation fuels, rather than boats in the Arctic.
Regardless, I think that if GlaDOS does appear on the ship in some form, itâll probably be a cameo of some sort. Also, it may not be the GlaDOS we know from portal - possibly an earlier version or one thatâs been significantly damaged.
If Glados was on the Borealis, sheâd be buried beneath a mountain of ice, and she wouldnât have been activated at the time of departure.
Turn on your brain .
if glados wouldâve helped the combine then the combine wouldâve possesed the portal technology , which they donât , itâs safe to assume that they either canât use her , or are afraid , or donât know how
Or donât know sheâs there.
Is it that youâre all completely lacking in originality, or are you just expecting Valve to be unoriginal?
Think of something other then GlaDOS and the Portal Gun for fucks sake.
I would want a sort of merger of Portalâs and Half Lifeâs storylines.
Also, maybe a bit more G-Man?
This is right in line with what I think.
Youâre right. Even though Gordon is traveling towards an Aperture Science cargo ship, Glados should be the last thing on our minds.
As a storyteller, you donât want to just introduce something new at every corner. Things have to tie in with themselves and others. If in Episode 3 we have a complete lack of Glados or portal technology, even a lack of mentioning them, itâd be rather disappointing to a degree.
Pull your own speculations and originality out of your bitter ass instead of sneering at everything. Because thatâs all you seem to do.
itâs kind of hard with the picture of borealis plans taped to my retinas you knowâŚ
Whenever I do, the conversation always goes back to Glados, the portal gun, or chell. Iâm just saying try something new for a change.
Dias, seriously. When was the last time you posted something speculative regarding HL2, Ep3, Portal, and such? My posting knowledge only spans about 3-4 weeks, and even with that, nothing is coming to mind.
Iâm not trying to sway this thread, I just have a thing against the ones that really have nothing productive or interesting to say.
Probably because this is a continuation of a topic that was here before the forum crash.
Iâve always been a fan of the idea of the Borealis housing some sort of time machine. It has strong ties with the gman, explains why the resistance and the combine would want it so much, and seems incredibly plausible with the Borealis being so similar to the Eldridge.
But thatâs just one possibility.
As much as I love the concept of time travel, I think itâd play rather sloppy into the HL storyline. To just throw it into Ep3, the end of the Combine story arc, would be kind of a cop-out.
The reason why so many peeps, including me, go back to Portal when the subject f the Borealis comes up is because Aperture was primarily focusing on portal technology. And now, the Combine have no way of getting home. The Advisors are desperate and are going to run out of fresh brains to suck out so theyâre clawing at the only thing capable of transporting them back home. But ehh I do hope there is no portal gun on board.
Well, it could be a portal backwards through time, portal just means doorway by definition. Also it would technically allow the combine to either go back home, back when the the citadel was still up, and possibly stop gordon then, or go back even further, and alter history. Any way you slice it, if you use it or destroy it, the combine are pretty much finished.
Yeah, I know the concept of time travel seems overused, but then again so does evil alien invaders. Itâs all about how well they pull it off. (And Iâm talking about it as a plot element, not a gameplay mechanic.)
i totally agree with you dias , itâs mostly expected that âgoing back in timeâ is gonna happen , itâs like the reverse of that time you teleported and arrived a week later .
Ah yes, it sends you back in time and space and you end up in the tram in Black Mesa on your way to work, to the test chamber, inserting the crystal⌠The circle is complete! 
And thatâs why thereâs a mod called Black Mesa.