Eli Vance

"You can't raise the resolution to 105% Breen!" - Eli

## Biography

Eli Vance is a Black Mesa employee under the field of Physicist, his family shortly moved to the Dormitories after applying for his reserved spot. The Administration was highly impressed of Eli's graduate from Harvard University, being the top of his class and top of the entire school for his understanding of physics and teleportation technology, and wanted to personnally fund his career with limitless materials for his scientific projects. Many to this day wonder if Eli will ever finish any of his Project as he tends to start others before completion.

## Early Days in Black Mesa

As Dr. Vance started his career at the Facility, he seems confused and lost around the entire facility except Sector C and F which are the two main sectors Eli can be found in. While getting his family settled in one if he colleagues introduced himself, Dr. Issac Kleiner. As they spent time together Kleiner kept mentioning one of his students had been working here for a few months and is apart of the Survey team, Gordon Freeman. When they got the time they both often planned how they will make the next breakthrough with their technology, including starting on an prototype teleporter that could and only limited from traveling from one dimension to another. While they were on break Eli, Issac, Gordon, all explained what they have been doing, Gordon and Kleiner were surprised on what Eli was building, athought Gordon wanted to be a hand with the project, it was above their paygrades and didn't have enough clearance. They all agreed to keep quiet on the project until the release date of 1998.

## Later days of Eli

Within the first three years of working here he had found a Security Guard named Barney Calhoun, they often alert each other on if there's anything that's abnormal or need help with something. By 1995 Gina has offered Eli a private HEV training course. After completing the course Gina had installed an HEV suit and Container in his lab for his use. When the Survey Team and some of his Colleagues had started the expedition of his new scientifically outbreak, Xen. As they used his prototype and entered Xen for the first time, they were amazed on how lively their atmosphere, they spent weeks recording, and discovering new things about Xen. When they returned with multiple speciem and got an idea to use a abandoned part of the facility to build a Anti Mass Spectrometer. Eli, he was quickly promoted to Head Researcher, and given Level 5 access. After receiving this reward he used his new found access to get more compatible material and started to work on an teleporter that could get somebody from A go B *under a second* when he got a shackled vortagaunt to test it, the Administrator watching this was stunned to see that the creature had teleported behind Eli without anything malfunctioning, Wallace had promoted Dr. Vance to Director of Sector C and given Level 7 Access which permitted him everywhere but Sector B. After getting the Black Mesa National Scientific Reward for best scientist of 1990's and because

## Information & Side-Facts

* Able to time travel and be his hl2 self (don't ask how he just does it)
* Generally hates most people who claim they hold all the power
* Somehow traveled back to 2003 and took place as the new Eli
* Copperman was here
* Randy was also here were coool