The paper details Breen's negotiations with the Combine for Earth's surrender. Breen was then declared 'Interim Administrator' by the Combine, a position that served little more than a political puppet ruler.Д¬lipping from a newspaper labeled 'The Times' found in Half-Life: Alyx. Breen managed to negotiate peace by 'saving' the remainder of humanity at the cost of their freedom. The United Nations then authorized Breen to negotiate peace with the invading extraterrestrial empire by any means necessary. Wallace Breen had discovered a way through unknown means to communicate with the Combine directly. They used the Portal Storms as a means of transporting their forces all around the Earth at the same time.ДЄccording to a statement in a newspaper, ' Government's abilities to protect their citizens had been stretched to the breaking point by the time the more coordinated Combine force arrived.' This statement suggested that the Combine had sent a smaller force ahead of the main army to soften Earth's defenses.ДЇrom the same article, the United Nations Secretariat Building in New York was reported to have been heavily damaged from projectiles from space during the war, suggesting that the Combine may have used orbital bombardments.Дuring the war, the former Black Mesa administrator, Dr. The Combine used a combination of superior technology and numbers to overwhelm the Human forces. They caught the human population by surprise and defeating all of its armed forces in only seven hours.

By the time of the Combine invasion, most governments on Earth were weakened by the Portal Storms.ДЄttracted to Earth by the dimensional rift caused by the Black Mesa Incident, the Combine, a vast alien empire, launched an invasive force that overpowered the planet by using the now conquered Xen, a crossroads of different dimensions and its Portal Storms on Earth. except this time we won't last seven minutes!'ДЄfter the war ended, local militias and other resistance groups sprung up to combat the Combine's garrison force.ДЄs the Portal Storms between Xen and the Earth raged across the planet, spreading Xen life forms across Earth, this caused the planet's populace to move into cities for protection. In Episode Two, Eli states that if the Superportal matures, ' it'll be the Seven Hour War all over again. The war itself is never discussed directly in Half-Life 2 but mentioned briefly by Eli Vance in Black Mesa East looking at a small corkboard featuring several annotated newspaper cutouts and images that cause him to reminisce about the events during the war.

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