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Wallace did not know how his previous incarnation, the original Dr. The BreenGrub, despite occupying a position of relative power in the Combine hierarchy, seemed nervous and frightened of me in particular. At some point, the Combine had saved out an earlier version of his consciousness, and upon his physical demise, they had imprinted the back-up personality into a biological blank resembling an enormous slug. Breen was not as we had last seen him–which is to say, he was not dead. We determined that we must put ourselves into position to board it at the instant it became completely physical.Īt this point we were briefly detained–not captured by the Combine, as we feared at first, but by minions of our former nemesis, the conniving and duplicitous Wallace Breen. The vessel was oscillating in and out of our reality, its pulses were gradually steadying, but there was no guarantee it would settle into place for long–or at all. Mossman had provided were not coordinates for where the sub was located, but instead for where it was predicted to arrive. The aliens had erected their compound to study and seize the ship whenever it materialized. This bizarre phenomenon initially seemed an effect caused by an immense Combine lensing system, Alyx and I soon realized that what we were actually seeing was the research vessel Borealis itself, phasing in and out of existence at the focus of the Combine devices. But as we stealthily infiltrated the Combine installation, we noticed a recurent, strangely coherent auroral effect–as of a vast hologram fading in and out of view. Of the Hypnos itself there was no sign…or not at first. What we found instead was a complex fortified installation, showing all the hallmarks of sinister Combine technology. Mossman has provided, and where we expected to find the Borealis. The next thing I clearly recall is our final approach to the coordinates Dr. The following hours spent traversing the frigid waste in a blizzard are also a jumbled blur, ill-remembered and poorly defined. It is still unclear to me exactly what brought down our little aircraft. Vance, Alyx and I boarded a helicopter and set off for the Arctic a much larger support team, mainly militia, was to follow by separate transport. Therefore, immediately after the service for Dr. Either way, the arguments were moot until we found the vessel. Others on our team disagreed, believing that the Borealis might hold the secret to the revolution's success. Eli had felt strongly that the Borealis should be destroyed rather than allow it to fall into the hands of the Combine. Judith Mossman, which we believed to mark the location of the lost research vessel Borealis. We had the Arctic coordinates, transmitted by Eli's long-time assistant, Dr. It was the strong belief of his brave daughter, the feisty Alyx Vance, that we should continue on as her father had wished. And yet, once Eli had been buried, we found the strength and courage to regroup. The Research & Rebellion team was traumatized, unable to be sure how much of our plan might be compromised, and whether it made any sense to go on at all as we had intended. To begin with, as you may recall from the closing paragraphs of my previous missive, the death of Eli Vance shook us all.