Forum:The Nihilanth

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So, especially since the mind-blowing introduction to Half-Life 2, when you learn Earth has been overthrown by a seemingly infinite, terrifying enemy, I've always wondered what part the creatures of Xen played in this ongoing saga. We know bits and pieces, such as they were possibly running from a greater enemy (the Combine) and that the Nihilanth itself controlled the creatures of Xen, but where did they originally come from? Was the Nihilanth a type of leader-race to the Vortiguants and others, or was it genetically altered like the synths? If so, how did it come to revolt, and why to the Vortiguants never speak of their servitude to the Universal Union, while they DO speak about their slavery to the Nihilanth AND their cultures focus on Antlion husbandry?

If the creature WERE aware of the Combine, why would it risk leaving the safety of Xen, which we assume the Combine could not or would not go, in order to attack humanity? Even more confusing, both Vortiguants and the Nihilanth are aware of the Gman, who is apparently NOT human, and despite the fact that humanity is responsible for stealing from Xen it is the Nihilanth who chooses to keep the portal into our world open even while knowing the Gman steers Gordon for his own goals, which appears the capture of Xen.

I suppose it is possible the Gman swaps sides depending on the paycheck, using Gordon to flush out the creatures of Xen and deal with them for the Combine, then using the one Free Man to clean up the mess he made by revealing humanity to the Combine and handing over Earth in the process.

So many questions when you look back, and my biggest one currently is; will we go back? I would love to see Xen with this new, shiny Source technology, and I bet there's a lot of advantages Xen has when dealing with the Combine, seeing as how it introduced us to this story, it gave us our allies, the Vortiguants, trained Gordon as an inter-dimensional badass, and lets not forget, it was a Xenian emitter that allowed Magnusson and Kleiner to destroy the brewing super-portal after they launched their rocket!I am the Alpha and the LAMBDA 06:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)