Talk:Seven Hour War

message: Rise and shine, Mister Freeman. 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)
thread_title: Wake up

message: "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)
thread_title:  Theories stated as fact 

message: Might be a good idea to tag this as a potential spoiler article.
:Done. Nufy8 03:14, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoilers 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Breen's relation with the Combine at Black Mesa

message: 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)
thread_title: About the speedy deletion

message: 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)
replies: text: I seem to remember him saying "a few decades"...--68.81.129.46 (talk) 21:24, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Game set twenty years after HL1?