A basic timeline that outlines the stuff this Mod is based on, most of this stuff based of valves original story of what happened in between the HL's, the one at
http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/timeline.htm and the one that this mod revolves around
-0yrs after HL - HL ends
-0.1yrs after HL - Portal storms begin
-0.2yrs after HL - 14.5 earthquake devistates the west coast of North America, Many parts of it are separated from the main land and end up as hundreds of little islands.(quake caused by portal storms)
-0.2yrs after HL - surviving population of california + other nearby areas flee to new city quickly being formed just east of the San Andreas fault line, the new coast line.
-0.2yrs to 6yrs after HL - Within 6 years the city had grown to a metropolis, becasue of the huge influx of people from devistated areas.
-0.3yrs after HL - America puts up its famous 40 days of resistance to try and stop the invadeing combine, call to all other nations to help.
-0.37yrs after HL - All nations but America and Great Britin have either surrendered or been defeated by the combine.
-0.4yrs after HL - Great Britin surrenders
-0.412yrs after HL - Americas last great force is dispatched, it is the last force marshaled against the combine. all that remain are rebel unions around the world.
-4yrs after HL - Combine rename citys, the city, formally "Wing City", becomes City 6.
-6.2yrs after HL - Combine Forcefully start project in City 6, the project aims to generate a better human for transformation into combine soldiers. Combine hope that humans have a better understaning of there own bodys and can better achive results using technology provided by the combine. Gragg is made supervisor of the lab in which this project is taking place.
-7yrs after HL - Gragg removed as supervisor. relocated to City 36(Huston)
-8yrs after HL - After repeated failures, a risky move is taken by the project manager, use a mutated bacteria to spread the mutational enhancements throughout the body, it fails and leaks into the ventalation system of the lab. Lab emplyees are protected by biosuits.
-8.000001yrs after HL - bacteria mutates in out of lab conditions and speads to the city. infects city residents. infected people are adversly affected by the new mutation of it. Many bodily hormones and stimulents are produced in such extream quatitys that people lose all higher brain functions, increases in things like testostorone make them extreamly violent, and extream levels of adrenaline give infectees enhanced stengh, speed, and endurence. beacause of loss of all higher brain functions, pain becomes less of an issure to infectees, and reports are heard of them functioning for a short time after loseing parts of there brains and other vital organs.
-8.05yrs after HL - Combine completly quarentine most of the city, successfully containing the out break. all people attemting to leave are shot. many people have already escaped though, incluing most of the team that worked on the project.
-8.3yrs after HL - Administator Breen cancels plan to destroy the city. scanners are converted to cammeras and live broadcast is one of the 2 channels citizens have to watch, effectivly becoming the only thing on TV besides Breen-casts. People who have done anything against the Combine or against the law, who are not of any use in a place like Nova Prospekt, are thrown into the city to die. effectivly making it the first reality show in 8 years(and the only thing of any entertainment value in most citizens lives)
-aprx 8.5 yrs after HL - Name Problem-Reaction-Kill is given to the show by the public, name spreads and sticks.
-9.5yrs after HL - All people involved in the project are rounded up and either thrown into city 6 or killed. Gragg is thrown into the city.
-10yrs after HL - HL? begins
damn, why do I always end up double posting, even thouh my posts are like a week apart?