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Do you remember at the end of HL when the G-man is touring around Xen with you explaining (cryptically) what you've just accomplished, and there's the one scene with the dead soldiers and destroyed tanks?
I always assumed that this had meant that the army (whether under orders from G-man or whoever) had attempted to invade Xen but was failing. So it looked to me as though it were suggesting that although the game would make you think that the Xen aliens were invading our universe, in fact we had invaded theirs first and they were simply retaliating.
Now I've also given thought, since according to the new theories it seems Earth and Xen weren't really at war (hasty generalization, I know), that maybe those destroyed Earth forces were really just the G-man's earlier brute force attempt to kill the Nihilanth that failed, before he decided that a single man could get in where an army had failed.
Either way, that scene has always left me wondering, particularly with these new theories that are arising. What do you guys think?
I always assumed that this had meant that the army (whether under orders from G-man or whoever) had attempted to invade Xen but was failing. So it looked to me as though it were suggesting that although the game would make you think that the Xen aliens were invading our universe, in fact we had invaded theirs first and they were simply retaliating.
Now I've also given thought, since according to the new theories it seems Earth and Xen weren't really at war (hasty generalization, I know), that maybe those destroyed Earth forces were really just the G-man's earlier brute force attempt to kill the Nihilanth that failed, before he decided that a single man could get in where an army had failed.
Either way, that scene has always left me wondering, particularly with these new theories that are arising. What do you guys think?
