Luther Johnson

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> Luther Johnson,

## Functions / Belongings

### Rank / Occupation

* Sector K 'Temporal Mathematics' Scientist

### Equipment

* HEV Suit
* HEV Timebase Arm Band

## Game Information

### Voiced by

None

**Dr. Luther Johnson** is a the main protagonist of the single-player modification *Life's End*. Working at the Black Mesa Research Facility as a Temporal Mathematics scientist, Luther finds himself fighting to survive after an experiment went horrible wrong.

## Biography

### Background

Little to nothing is known about Luther's past, except that he has an unspecified Ph.D.

### Life's End

10 minutes before the resonance cascade begins, Luther arrives at his place of work but has a lingering bad feeling about the particular day. Shortly after being fired by his boss, Omstein, Luther experiences a quantum event and is quickly subjected to a Xen infestation. A guard unlocks a nearby door for Luther to acquire a HEV Suit, a crowbar and a pistol to defend himself, Luther also witnesses Omstein being killed when two vortigaunts teleport into his office and attack him with their charged electrical attacks.

Luther then treks through the facility in hopes of escaping, facing off against Xenian aliens and, eventually, the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit. Reaching the surface, he spots a Xenian UFO destroy a nearby building and faces off against more aliens.

He eventually reaches the office of Dr. Squire, where a secret wall compartment opens after pressing a button under Squire's desk. It reveals a small teleporter, which creates a portal that Luther goes through.

Fighting through more soldiers and aliens, Luther is eventually subject to hallucinations when a gas pipe breaks. These abnormal visions do not last long however and Luther wakes up in a medical area. Pressing on, Luther fights through the condemned Sector L and experiences more hallucinations after a piece of machinery breaks. It is here where Luther envisions himself in a boxing match against aliens and participating in a show named 'Star Trek' where he helps respell a space zombie invasion.

Waking up, Luther battles more HECU and sees the Xenian UFO once more destroying another building. He eventually reaches an old decommissioned teleporter lab and, with the help of two scientist, gets the teleporter functioning. It eventually malfunctions however and is destroyed, transporting the three scientists and part of the lab into the borderworld. Jumping through another portal, Luther is teleported to Earth Outpost One, where he activates another teleporter and returns to Black Mesa.

He stumbles upon a small group of Black Mesa personnel using a teleporter to escape. Before Luther and the remaining security guard can use the teleporter, the HECU break into the room and a fight ensues. Once again fighting through the complex, Luther ends up in his original workplace and decides to use the Time Labs to escape. He asks a surviving scientist for the code to the entrance.

Arriving at a new section of the facility, he briefly battles more aliens and an elite military detachment. Luther also uses a machine to arrive in an alternate universe for a short moment to pick up a key card for use in the Time Labs, here he also encounters the native Gordon Freeman. Getting the equipment up and running, Luther goes through the new portal.

Instead of escaping, however, Luther experiences a temporal shockwave and briefly travels to various points in time, including: his initial arrival at Sector K, ancient Greece, Skynet Labs and eventually an unknown location at an unknown time, though the time lock is now stabilized. Luther travels into a building in the bizarre location and sees the scientist who helped him escape now in a coffin. After encountering aliens who seem to be watching him, Luther mysteriously dies and ends up in the other coffin.

Luther finds himself in Hell, which is being guarded by vortigaunts. The G-Man tells Luther that they won't be working together before teleporting away, Luther also encounters the previous scientist and Omstein. He then steps into his cell whilst hearing the Nihilanth tell him that he can never know the truth.

## Behind the scenes

* If the player enters third-person mode, Luther is fully modelled with a HEV Suit.

## Trivia

* The name of the protagonist, Luther Johnson, is a reference to the name given to the African-American scientist model, Luther.

## References

1. ↑ Life's End | Half-Life Modified Universe Wiki | Fandom