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One thing people often make a mistake when making Seven Hour War related art is the inclusion of Combine Overwatch. The Overwatch were created after the war, using the remnants of the Earth's various militaries and brainwashing and doing various experiments upon them. The Combine occupation of Earth began in the aftermath of the Seven Hour War, some time after the Black Mesa Incident. Former Black Mesa administrator Wallace Breen managed Earth's surrender, thus allowing the Combine to seize power. He was then declared Interim Administrator of Earth, a largely symbolic position.
See full list on combineoverwiki.net. The campaign of this mod takes place during the Seven Hour War. You mostly command armies of Combine Synths and Advisors, but on some levels you will play as the Human Armies, and on special levels you get to play as a Gonarch commanding Headcrabs, or as Glowing Antlion Guardians commanding Antlion Colonies.
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Wake up[edit]
Rise and shine, Mister Freeman. Amnesia for mac download. Rise and.. shine. Not that I.. wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one is more deserving of a rest, and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until.. well, let's just say your hour has.. come again. The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mister Freeman. Wake up and.. *smell the ashes*.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.200.211.203 (talk) 17:21, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Freedom[edit]
Shouldn't it be 'at the cost of their freedom,' as the citizens paid with their freedom?
Theories stated as fact[edit]
'These portal storms attracted an alien empire known as the Combine that defeated all of Earth's armed forces in only seven hours.'It is unknown what attracted the Combine to Earth. This is theory, not fact.Also, they didn't defeat Earth's forces in 7 hours; Doctor Breen surrendered after 7 hours (though I doubt that the humans would have held out much longer.
'There is some indication that Breen, who was also the administrator of Black Mesa, mentioned but never seen in Half-Life, intentionally arranged the disastrous resonance cascade..'To me this seems to imply that that is the story as Valve have written it, though it is only theory.
- I don't have access to Raising the Bar or the strategy guide at the moment, but I remember seeing it said somewhere that the portal storms attracted the Combine to Earth. Also, Breen's surrender meant defeat for humanity. It's just trivial semantics, really. The second quote is a theory, yes, and it could stand to be reworded to reflect that more. Nufy8 23:50, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Spoilers[edit]
Might be a good idea to tag this as a potential spoiler article.
- Done. Nufy8 03:14, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Breen's relation with the Combine at Black Mesa[edit]
There's absolutely no evidence to suggest that the Combine made a deal with Breen for him to intentionally cause the resonance cascade. The official Prima game guide states that the Combine were attracted to Earth by the portal storms, and these portal storms were caused by the death of the Nihilanth. This, of course, contradicts the idea that the Combine could have contacted Breen beforehand because they had no knowledge of the planet prior to this. The crystal sample used in the experiment had no special significance. It was just an ordinary Xen crystal from Xen. There are several located in the Black Mesa Research Facility from expeditions into the borderworld. None came from the Combine. The reason scientists talking to Gordon state 'he [the Administrator] went through some lengths to get it,' is because they, like Gordon, were not aware of the teleportation experiments being done in Black Mesa, much less of Xen itself, as they were lower-level researchers. One scientist even tells Gordon he's not authorized to know about the teleportation labs later in the game. Obviously, being given a specimen from an alien world without knowing this fact would make some people assume that great lengths were taken to get it. In addition, the official Prima guide says that Breen was never a man to seek the spotlight, which makes it unlikely that he orchestrated a large scale disaster and near destruction of the human race just so he could become the head of a puppet government. I'm removing this speculative and largely incorrect paragraph. MarphyBlack 05:46, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
About the speedy deletion[edit]
This is a legitimate article covering information of a significant event that took place (unseen to the player) in the Half-Life storyline. I believe that the tag was misplaced unintentionally by Tom Edwards. He also tagged Black Mesa Incident, Raid on Black Mesa East, and Battle of City 17, which are three recently created articles that do meet the definiton of fancruft (As well as covering information that is already covered elsewhere, thus making them redundant). The other three articles are what should be taken into concern, not this one. MarphyBlack 01:18, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Game set twenty years after HL1?[edit]
I was reading the article and it mentions that there's evidence that the game takes place around twenty years after HL1.. but in HL2 Episode One, Dr. Kleiner mentions that the anti-reproduction fields have been around for ten years. That's the first (and possibly only) clue regarding the length of Gordon Freeman's disappearance / forced stasis I've seen in the games so far. So, who's got the right idea here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.143.125.18 (talk) 05:57, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
- I seem to remember him saying 'a few decades'..--68.81.129.46 (talk) 21:24, 6 April 2008 (UTC)Guest
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- 'Dr. Breen.. He's the Administrator of this whole vile business now. He ended the Seven Hour War by managing Earth's surrender. The Combine rewarded him with power.'
- ― Eli Vance[src]
The Seven Hour War was a brief but decisive confrontation between the Combine and the governments of Earth, ultimately leading to a large human death toll and the Combine occupation of the entire planet.
Overview[edit]
The war itself is never discussed directly in Half-Life 2, but it is mentioned briefly by Eli Vance in Black Mesa East. Looking at a small corkboard featuring several annotated newspaper cutouts and images, including a photo of a visibly damaged United Nations Secretariat Building in New York City, causes him to reminisce over the events during the war. In Episode Two, Eli later states that if the superportal matures, 'it'll be the Seven Hour War all over again.. except this time we won't last seven minutes!'.
Very little is known about the war except that it began within a matter of days after the Black Mesa Incident[1] while Portal Storms raged across the Earth. These disturbances spread Xen life forms across the world, causing populations to move into cities for protection. Attracted to Earth by the dimensional rift caused by the Black Mesa Incident, the Combine, a vast alien empire, launched an invasive force that overpowered the planet by using the now conquered Xen - a crossroads of different dimensions - and its portal storms on earth, catching the human population by surprise and defeating all of its armed forces in only seven hours.[2] It was after this that Dr. Wallace Breen, former Black Mesa Research Facility administrator, negotiated a surrender, leading to a subservient and meager existence for Earth's remaining human population under the oppressor and 'saving' the survivors at the cost of their freedom. Breen was appointed administrator of Earth but remained under the control of the Combine. According to newspaper clippings seen in Half-Life: Alyx, Breen notified the UN that he had determined how to communicate with the Combine, and with no further will to resist, they gave him the carte blanche to surrender on behalf of humanity. Some time after the war, the Resistance was formed to combat the new Combine leadership.
Half-Life 2 begins an undisclosed number of years after the war after the rule of the Combine has been firmly established. There is, however, some evidence from the Half-Life 2: Episode One official website indicating that Half-Life 2 takes place nearly two decades after the Black Mesa incident.[3] Such a time frame is logically consistent with the aging of the series' characters between Half-Life and Half-Life 2. It also explains why there are no children in the game, the Combine having set up a reproductive suppression field a short time after the war to prevent any further reproduction for approximately twenty years until the events of Episode One, the suppression field being disabled after the damage the Citadel had sustained.
The exact manner in which the Combine forces invaded and conquered Earth during the war has not been revealed, but Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar describes a concept where Citadels were to be teleported directly to Earth. Once they had landed inside human cities, they began deploying Combine armies from within:
- 'There was an illusion of safety, for a time. And then the Citadels appeared. It happened in a split second, all over the world. A chunk would disappear from the center of a city, to be replaced an instant later by one of these.. headquarters for the Combine. Invasion Central.'
- ― Eli Maxwell[src]
Behind the scenes[edit]
The name of the conflict is a reference to the Six-Day War, which occurred between June 5 and 10, 1967 in the Middle East and resulted in heavy casualties of Arab forces and a decisive victory of Israel.[4]
Gallery[edit]
- The Times' front page following Earth's surrender.
- The Terminal discusses Breen's negotiations and ongoing Portal Storms.
- Alyx's marked globe following the Combine's rule as seen in her hideout.
References[edit]
Seven Hour War Song
- ↑ 1.01.1Marc Laidlaw on the time between the Black Mesa Incident and the Seven Hour War (January 29, 2020)
- ↑Marc Laidlaw Vault on the Steam Users' Forums (archived)
- ↑Summary of Half-Life and Half-Life 2 on the official Half-Life 2: Episode One website (April 9, 2006) (archived)
- ↑'No, it was more meant to echo the 6 Day War.' @marc_laidlaw on Twitter
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