Secrets like experimental weapons, and the fact they were covering up the existence of aliens.

Why use Black Mesa? Couldn’t they just try and get the other people fired/demoted/cut their funding like normal bureaucratic power struggles? And why execute research scientists who have little to do with any of this deep state shadow war bullshit? And why wouldn’t they want the satellite stopping the Xen invasion from being launched? Is it because they were fighting over which faction gets ownership of Xen?įrom what I can tell, there were two main reasons for the HECU's actions.ġ: Black Mesa was home to a number of important government secrets. But this theory still seems like it has a lot of holes. The situation possibly being exacerbated by G Man. Generals and admirals and spies taking sides, using Black Mesa as grounds for some fucked up shadow war. My guess is that the entire situation can be seen as a sort of mini-civil war coup or power struggle between the “dark” factions of the US military. That’s not even taking into account the double cluster fuck, when the super elite black ops soldiers start killing off the HECU marines. Why kill them only after the resonance cascade? Wouldn’t it be useful to keep the experts alive to help deal with this inter dimensional crisis?Įven if they absolutely had to die in the interest of security or whatever, I’m sure they could wait a few hours or days, while keeping them under close watch.

Why were the HECU marines ordered to kill all the scientists on the spot? Wouldn’t it be easier to tell them they were being “rescued”, gather them into one area for “quarantine” and am for a comprehensive headcount, then execute all of them?Īnd for that matter, why were they ordered to kill the scientists in the first place? They were already working at a top secret facility and already knew about Xen and aliens and whatnot.

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