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"Shephard, you're alive! Listen, we've been cut off pretty bad and orders are coming down to pull out. Repeat: Pull Out! Heard they've got other plans for Black Mesa now. If you can make your way through the transit system you can probably reach the surface where we are pulling out. Good Luck! Over."
―HECU Officer[src]
 

HECU Radios are used by the HECU to communicate within the Black Mesa Research Facility during the Black Mesa Incident.

Overview[]

Commonly found at choke points or camps, it gives the HECU insight on the battlefield, issuing orders, requesting backup, relaying information regarding battles and enemies or any allied soldiers being wounded or killed. Adrian Shephard uses them to listen to gain vital information on other soldiers' whereabouts and what his next move should be. Gordon Freeman and Barney Calhoun cannot use the radios in the conventional sense and only destroy them by using weapons or crowbar. The radio also only creates a static ticking sound [information regarding Colette Green and Gina Cross needed]

Radios are roughly cube shaped with a dark blue electronic display, a dial, a small speaker and commonly come with one or two antennas. It informally precedes the Resistance radios featured in Half-Life 2 and its episodes.

Adrian Shephard cannot destroy radios to prevent the player from being unable to learn what to do next. Other playable characters can destroy them at the player's own leisure, however.

Transcript[]

Half Life[]

  • Next to the Tactical Map during Surface Tension: "Come in, Cooper! Do you copy? Forget about Freeman! We're abandoning the base! If you have any last bomb targets, mark them on the Tactical Map! Otherwise, get the hell outta there! Repeat: we are pulling out and commencing air strikes! Give us targets or get below!"

Opposing Force[]

The transmissions are all done by different unnamed HECU soldiers.

  • During Welcome to Black Mesa chapter, at the Osprey crash site. "Shephard, you're alive! Listen, we've been cut off pretty bad and orders are coming down to pull out. Repeat: Pull Out! Heard they've got other plans for Black Mesa now. If you can make your way through the transit system you can probably reach the surface where we are pulling out. Good Luck! Over."
  • TBA
  • TBA
  • During the Vicarious Reality chapter, in ventilation control room. "X-Ray Zulu, are you there? We need backup in the waste sector! Some sort of worm creature! Tower and Eddy are down and I've lost contact with the rest of the squad! We need backup now! NOW, damn it, NOW!"
  • TBA
  • TBA

Trivia[]

  • The texture for the main panel of the radio is also used throughout Black Mesa for generic control panels.
  • All radios will break with 3 hits from a crowbar. This doesn't apply to those in Opposing Force.

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