Source: http://www.aperturescience.com/

The calendars all had 1980's dates inside the game.

Is it safe to assume this incident happened waaaay before Black Mesa?

Also, is your main character possible to be Alyx's mom? The picture of Alyx, Alyx's mom, and Eli make me think this to be true.

Thoughts?

pandar wrote:
I think that the copyright of GLaDOS and the calendars were meant to show that Aperture Science had been around longer than Black Mesa. I'll have to double check my facts but I was lead to believe that the timeline of Portal matches up somewhat with the happenings of Half-Life 1. The next episodes of Half-Life 2, which I already eagerly await, are bound to explain much more about the relation of Aperture and Black Mesa.

Pandar, I wanted to mention, "hi! waves" i've played in a few games of tf2 w/ you on and off, getting a blasted by your rockets time and again.. haha

y-aji wrote:
i've played in a few games of tf2 w/ you on and off

My steam friends name is "brysonator", but all other games I go as pandar. If I'm still the pandar of your tf2 nightmares then awesome.

y-aji wrote:
Supposedly, according to my brother, he found some kind of timeline on aperature science that details their career.
I thought it was funny, in their early years, supposedly, they designed revolutionary curtain rods among other silly things.

If you go to http://www.aperturescience.com, type LOGON.
Username : cjohnson
Password : tier3

Then, either type DIR for directory or NOTES to go directly to the timeline you're speaking of.

On the other hand. There were no corpses or anything left behind so you could assume someone cleaned up the mess. Unsure this could have been GLaDOS, so my statement might not hold true.

I agree with you Robinson. The calendars and/or radios doesn't mean anything in my opinion, since GLaDOS killed the personnel, and no-one know s how long ago that happend. Also, regarding the corpses thing, GLaDOS might have other robots/minions that we haven't met yet that removed them. Or perhaps all that toxic waste is the remains of the former personnel .

Anyway, my money is on that Portal is played out sometime before Half-Life 2's story began.

• Nezerv

You will be linked to a youtube video. Sadly, it's removed.

I dunno about any of you guys, but I didn't see a single scientist or even a engineer or janitor or anything at all while outside the testing facility... Makes ya wonder what the writers of valve have in store for future installations of the "Valve Universe".

Granted that the portal technology was perfected... It would seem that she could have "portalled" the left overs of scientists and engineers into that incinerator to be euthanized....

Could that actually be a decent prequal to Portal's current installment?!?!?!?

Damnit, my UIN+L Number keeps changing when I try to memorize it.

f0rkz wrote:
Also, is your main character possible to be Alyx's mom? The picture of Alyx, Alyx's mom, and Eli make me think this to be true.

Wikipedia wrote:
Alyx is the daughter of Dr. Eli Vance. Her mother, Azian[citation needed], can be seen in a family photograph in Black Mesa East with the face of Alyx's voice actor, Merle Dandridge. Azian lived in the facility's dormitories with Alyx, but died during the Black Mesa incident.

Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyx_Vance

Also, from the fact that at one point GLaDOS says that "You wouldn't like what's going on out there," I get the feeling that the events of Portal took place during or after the Seven Hour War. I have no real proof for this, but I want it to be true.

Hober wrote:
Also, the fact that at one point GLaDOS says that "You wouldn't like what's going on out there," I get the feeling that the events of Portal took place during or after the Seven Hour War. I have no real proof for this, but I want it to be true.

Me too! If that was revealed, it would be awesome.

I think that the Borealis ship that is shown at the end of EP2 is the place where GLaDOS resides. It makes sense considering the whole spiel Eli gives about how "that type of power should not be used, we must destroy it". Obviously referring to the portal gun? Also the reference of how the ship "simply disappeared", another easy reference to portals.

Needless to say, the next episode of Half-Life 2 is going to be damn fun.

WOW it was always there and I never noticed it!

That's what I like about Half-Life, the mysteries, and the solutions afterwards!

msleeper wrote:
I think that the Borealis is carrying a large-scale version of the portal technology, which the Combine want because they don't have anything like it (as alluded to by Alyx and Mossman in HL2), and having it would make transport between their worlds easier and faster, not to mention "cheaper" (since they had to blow up the fucking Citadel to try and open one).

(spoiler)
Precisely. Hopefully Valve makes it a tad less predictable than that. I may have missed something during the game, but I'm really curious as to what those weird giant flying maggot things are that kill Eli.