The Secret Heroes of Revolution | The Resistance | Full Half-Life Lore
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- The Resistance is a large movement with the aim to overthrow The Combine from Planet Earth after they had invaded and conquered the world 20 years ago. While secret to The Combine, the members of The Resistance fight hard every day simply to survive.
How did The Resistance form? What power and strength do they hide from The Combine and trapped humans of City 17 and who are the main members that help this vast group function? In this lore episode, I explore the formation of The Resistance, its members and the ultimate end goal in Half-Life.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
01:18 The Catalyst
02:19 The Arrival of The Combine
05:06 The Structure of The Resistance
08:55 The Symbol of Revolution
10:57 Settlements across The Wasteland
13:48 The Underground Railroad
15:43 Technology and Weaponry
20:53 The Fight for Power
23:33 The Return of Gordon Freeman
26:04 The Casualties of War
28:42 The Uprising
33:26 Legacy and Future
34:21 Ending
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I hope you enjoyed the video! It's a little late but it's longer than usual ☺
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I want to play Half-Life 2 again, after watching this video. Another great video. Thanks and what ever beer you suggest….I’ll have. 👍
Oh please, you have been one of the half-life TH-camrs that still posts and uploads. Love your content!
Mmmmm beer 30 🍺🍻. It's 5 o'clock somewhere. What would Jimmy Buffet do?
Hey Skyrionn You said Eli's pet but it's Kleiners pet
never mentioned vortiguants un any major way
I love the fact that the resistance acts cheesy and makes jokes sometimes even in times of crisis even tho they know they could die at any moment by anything, it's like they are just happy to be able to fight together
Well at least they have balls to fight the Dictatorship so it’s worth to die fighting
@@AlGhulkazim no, I meant I was expecting that they would be bit scared or so nervous or dead serious, like there is no time for jokes.. you are literally going to die...
@@Omega-jg4oq To be fair, cracking jokes can be a coping mechanism for anxiety so it's not that unusual
@@commanderkief maybe..
@@commanderkief Yep, I tend to do it when times are rough, also you can see it in movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger movies are a good example.
i just realised an intergalactic army that conquered a civilised planet in 7 hours was taken down by a nerd in an orange suit
Monke in orange suit vs alien race
Of course he won.
Gordon took down overwatch. If the combine sent a retaliatory strike force, itd be all over.
They were not taken down. Combine forces are infinite and Gordon is nothing compared to all the combine forces. Gordon just destroyed one citadel lmao.
@@abrahamlincoln2741 he took down the most important citadel
“Civilized”
25:27 I like how calm Breen is when gordon teleports into his office like “hey how you doin”
"How'd you get in here? Security!"
Hello
Breen busy on something else then freeman accidentally teleports: Hey how ya doin
Its freeman: wait, SECURITY
Gorgeous Freeman
@@LambdaMcSECURITY HELP HE CAUGHT ME IN 4K
I love how the Resistance fight for life for 20 years, trying to atleast have a fighting chance against The Combine, then Gordon showed up and take the earth back in a few weeks
It can take one person to change everything
I mean... It took one apple that fell to create different derivatives of mathematical arithmetics.
"The right man in the right place" is literally the opposite of why Gordon was placed in stasis in the first place. He triggered the problem so he's gonna fix it.
Or maybe, if you look into it further, everything was done to blame Gordon. The crystal he pushes into the antimass spectrometer blows up, but because the spectrometer was boosted, all because of the administration. Gman shows up in all of the HL stories as if he knew who would save humanity. Or maybe he knew of the capture he'd suffer at the hands of The Combine (in HL:Alyx) and wanted to mentally condition the most resilient human in the universe.
The resistance was growing at that time. Why do you think Gordon was brung out of stasis so many years after the Combine’s invasion? Because that was when the resistance was about to push into City-17.
Gordon was simply an ego-boost for the resistance.
Bro youtube recommended me this while it was 12 minutes old I am lucky.
I get so sick of this shitty algorithm
TH-cam did good today!
@@imonke5303 this is fine 2 days ago I had a recommendation of a dog ending a cat that’s when you have to get sick of it
@@SonOfTheDevil666 I mean I hate it for the lack of good content it suggests, rarely ever does its job anymore
same i got recommended it after 2 days
half life gameplay: solve puzzles and shoot hostile enemies
half life lore:
*but you didn't have to cut me o-*
I don't think Half-Life: Alyx is set in another universe. It is the branching point where the G-man changes the timeline.
Exactly, i hate when shows or games decide to resume the media by representing by another "universe". This is what i hated about Undertale and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Really hope its simply the timeline's shift due to G-Man's influence
I just don't consider it canon.
This. The events of Alyx always happened in canon, it’s just that the ending of Episode 2 was retconned to have been prevented. That’s all.
@@TheAlienGangster The story is hot garbage but what do you expect? Valve didn't even make the game because you know... they don't make games anymore.
the timeline now is ducked up beacuse of half-life alxy
Can we just take a moment to praise how deep the universe of Half-Life is. The series only has three games(counting the episodes as one) and in three games we got so much world building that we can still talk about it 5 years later.
The world is so deep. The more videos I cover, the more I learn too!
Too bad the rest of it was thrown out of canon with Half-Life Alyx, though I imagine it was a reaction to Epistle 3, like a tantrum, against Laidlaw, but I don't have evidence for that opinion.
@@harrietr.5073 It was necessary for Valve to do a rewrite of the canon. I doubt Gaben blames Laidlaw for publishing Epistle 3, but it's unquestionable that Epistle 3 severely hampered any efforts to revive the Half Life franchise. So, Valve had to work around Epistle 3 and they had the perfect tool to do so: the G-Man.
Plus, HL:A really only rewrote Epistle 3. Half Life remains canon and Half Life 2 likely also remains mostly unchanged judging from the ending of HL:A.
@@zettour. How was it necessary? Laid law couldn't get his story out, decided to write it up for the fanbase himself, then the Half-Life team go and undo Laidlaw's story officially.
Don't you see a connection?
Because you might have a source that contradicts me, so, let me ask:
Your source, please.
@@harrietr.5073 I'm not comprehending what is so difficult here, nor what requires a source. Half Life 3 could no longer be created because Epistle 3 exists. The only way HL3 development can continue is if Epistle 3 is retconned, otherwise the player base will already know everything about HL3.
Laidlaw wasn't given official permission to write Epistle 3 because Valve was still developing HL3; it was just in limbo. That doesn't mean Valve hates him for writing it and they are famously lenient of this type of behavior even concerning their intellectual property. It's just objectively true that Epistle 3 made a continuation of the HL franchise difficult. Plus, Epistle 3 itself isn't a very satisfying conclusion to the story, as evidenced by community responses as well as Valve when they talk about the narrative following the long hiatus after HL2: Episode 2
It is also interesting to note that the Combine genetically engineered the headcrabs to create the fast and poison headcrabs for use in their mortars
jokes on them it backfired
@@OsnoloVrach Yeah, especially that part where the Overwatch has to fight fast zombies, I loved that part!
@@teopazdrijan1008 yeah, talk about ironic
The xen creatures would be a good next half life lore video, especially the guys found in opposing force
Some of the ones found in Opposing Force are not from xen. I'm not sure about what they are called but i remember it had the letter X at the end
I could absolutely look into Race X
@@Skyrionn that would be awesome !
@@Skyrionn yes please
oh lol
I always assumed the Lambda was meant to be indicative of the Lambda complex in general, since it’s where the work on teleportation was conducted, and where Gordon was sent into Xen.
"Gordon had fought his way through the black mesa facility, saving as many black mesa personnel as he could"
Gordon: *Awkwardly looks away*
I’ve always looked for a video focused on the Resistance from Half-life 2. Thank you for making one
Happy to help! It was a long but fun one to make
i think the coolest and move overlooked part of the 7 hour war is how little of an army the conquering forces actually were compared to the full scale combine empire. it was no more than a task force honestly. it would have had to been an american independence like victory where the combine simply couldn’t care to give attention and resources to earth anymore. not even the added fact that most deaths were due to the xen creatures and storms, meaning there were already vastly fewer humans on earth than before. the combine simply showed up and demanded subjugation and showcased just a portion. it seemed like no more than a scouting brigade. there’s a reason why the portal being shut of in ep2 is such a big deal because that is victory. the combine were simply cut off from earth. there is no destroying the combine.
Yeah
Now I'm waiting for them to come back
And take us seriously this time
It WILL not end well
Yes and compared to that the remaining units on Earth in the game are even weaker and fewer than the ones seen in the 7 hour war.
Humans could've lasted possibly months against the combine, but we were tired, drained, and focused on Xen. And when this powerful factions arrives and demands us to join them, it was a way for us to let them take care of Xen for us
@@Breached18 They're an interdimensional empire which implies that they are atleast a type 5 civilization. What can we do against that? How can we hold them off if they outnumber, out-tech and outgun us so badly, reinforced by the fact that they are MUCH more competent than us?
@@Breached18 You know, the Combines invasion probably happened only a few days or weeks after the Black Mesa incident. Earths military forces would not suffer that much damage in such little time, especially when there are dozens of other armed organisations and militias fighting alongside them. Xen isn’t powerful enough to do that.
While what happened to the teleporter test cat was never directly mentioned, it can be assumed that the cat was disintegrated, as that's the same thing that happens when you break the mini teleporter in kleiner's lab.
Honestly, given how they talk about it, I feel like it’s gotta be a bit more scarring than just disintegration.
If it was disintegration, barney wouldn't mind that much as it just dissapear it might be worse, i've seen a model somewhere its a cat model which is, REALLY REALLY f*ked up, i've also saw it on i forgot the channel name but it has colonel on it
he said he heard the meows in his dreams, implying that the cat died slowly and painfully in the same room as him.
mabye it was only partially teleported, causing fatal injuries.
It's actually kind of amusing how many people Gordon accidentally gets killed
“ The Combine's gonna feel the squeeze“
And they did.
You accidentally called Lamarr Eli’s pet headcrab
I made that mistake consistently through the video and fixed it during editing. One got away!
28:57 the best way of combat
Well what are you waiting for Gordon? A hug?
Yes... ;-;
No :(
It's funny... if you know what to look for you can really tell that those little expository newspaper articles about things like Earth's surrender were written by a novelist and not a journalist.
They don't follow that rule where a newspaper article always gives you the most relevant pieces of information first and then fills in background information after. They read more like a piece of a novel.
The main difference between articles and narration is that an article, which these aren't, is meant to be read by someone who lives in the same world where it's published. Narration, which these are, is directed towards a reader who lives in a different one. :)
In short, they're written to tell the game's story and you can smell storyteller all over them XD
im glad more light is shown on the resistance, they were really the reason gordon won
at so many times gordon couldnt progress without the resistance
I love you’re videos, it really gives me a good vibe, I really miss the conscripts and juggernauts
The best kind of vid to watch after midnight while it's raining outside
I did post this one kinda late. Glad it worked well for you!
it's snowing outside help me
@@akdeleS4 that works too! Haha
Very well done! I’ve watched countless half life lore videos and this one by far was one of the best. Hell I didn’t know the black Mesa incident was on may 16th! Well done and keep it up! I love learning this stuff and I can guarantee plenty of others do too!
Thanks so much for the kind words! I put a lot of time and effort into them and will continue to do so!
I'm really enjoying these videos. They give me an entire different perspective on the lore of Half Life. It's really easy to miss a lot of the details you describe in your videos while you're playing the game, as they are not blatantly obvious. Keep up the good work!
I always focused on the resistance by you now i have know more about my favorite team 🖤
Combine are so much cooler
Another great video. Love the detail, length and visuals. Keep them coming
Don't forget to reload, doctor freeman!
Follow Freeman!
“Occupated” @ 13:11
I’ve heard of occupied & occupation but never occupated. Which is very fitting since there has never been a global occupation quite like how The Combine occupated the entirety of earth.
Occupated
Thank you for your videos. Going through something. Your voice and half life and how you put together everything. Has really helped in this time of need. Thank yo I for giving a guy some peace. ❤
Thanks for another amazing video, Skyrionn!
Glad you enjoy it! There's more to come!
So glad I found this channel. Awesome video 😩❤️
Ive been binge watching these series, they're so good!
i love this kind of videos thanks for this my man
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the kind words!
You picked some great video clips to tell the story - Well done
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice man this is gonna make your channel known
Hope so!
Half An Hour Video?
Hell yeah
Glad you liked it!
Been binging these Half-Life videos, keep it up!
You are the only youtuber to get the combine lore right, atleast the multidimensional part
My like and comment
Edit: Have been re-playing half life from black mesa to episode 2 while watching your series. I have been really enjoying your take on what happened. really gets me going to enjoy it. Thank you for your work!
I love how most of us already know this lore, it’s just fun to watch it again. Good shit!
Thank you so much, it was a treat to my brain.
Thank you! Too kind :D
Amazing video! FANTASTIC editing and you told everything to a t 👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much 😁 Too kind!
Awesome! Love your Half-Life lore content! :)
Thanks so much! I'm glad you do.
Amazing video as always!
Too kind!
This is a really good video to listen to while making a ,,7 hour war" diorama
Wouldn't be a half life 2 lore video without the mysterious cat incident being mentioned
it's always about the cat
An absolutely amazing video
you gotta respect this guy he spends alot of time making all these half life lore videos and they are all amazing
What if Gordon Freeman lost his glasses 🤔?
Then all of humanity would fall
Makes me want to go back and play back through it all!!
Go for it!
Absolutely love this channel
Thanks so much. I appreciate it!
Brilliant vid buddy, really enjoyed it
BEER ME!
this video is so well made
Very factual, i love the speculation as well
this video made me sub ur awesome bro
Love watching these videos with food
I'm glad you enjoy them!
Another awesome video
I legit thought this was gonna be a FLC video but this is good as well.
I'm not sure what a FLC video is but I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this
Thanks for your support!
amazing video!
Glad you think so! Thanks for the support!
You take some creative liberties with some aspects of the story, but good video!
I can listen to this in the car now :3
Perfect! Drive safe and avoid Striders.
@@Skyrionn And rollermines!
Absolutely love this one
I like to pretend I'm watching these for a history class
the ONLY history that MATTERS n
One thing that kept me thinking after watching your videos: I have never felt playing as a scientist when playing half life. Gordon’s role is very specific .
I feel the same. He feels like a warrior and never as a scientist
I like how the citizen seen on the left T-poses as a CPU (Civil Protection Unit) gets zapped by a voretagont here at 28:57 XD
thanks you for repeating information you can get from the game itself without much thinking. Its not like ppl who watch such videos actually played them or something
God damn notification off again ( although i clicked on the bell to get notified , your videos are the most i am alerted this time period , luckly i missed you only 11 hours so talk later )
TH-cam is shady sometimes. I hope you enjoyed it. It was longer than normal but it was a big topic! :D
Very good video
Thanks so much! Really appreciate it
Love your videos
Bro you deserve a billion subscribers
Too kind! It's nice to see your name popping up regularly. I appreciate the continued support.
And just all of the combine units or synths, are just like humans, they're under custody and are used for fighting or transporting. It'd be nice to work with rogue combine soldiers or rogue synths.
There can't be rogue combine soldiers and synths since they brainwash them and delete their memories, so it's impossible for the to be disloyal to the Combine.
@@canyongoat2096 Yeah, I said I wish we could. But, the Combine grunt would probably be the only one capable, since they're less modified than Other units. Though it'd be difficult still.
“Saving as many people as he could”
literally every person that had played half life: wait
A lil request, If you want you could make a half life decay lore.
I have considered Decay but I would just have issues capturing footage for it. I haven't looked for a pc port so there may be hope
@@Skyrionn there’s a mod for it on moddb
As a fan of historical lore and sci fiction lore, I like that you used the term Underground Railroad for a escape or retreat from tyranny. I think Sci Fiction wide and god forbid if that ever happened in our universe, that is what it would be called simply because of the familuarity in history.
great vid
Thank you!
The fact that the combine rewarded good behaviour with inter course lol
How about the lore behind the G-Man, i havent seen that much about him on your channel. And in some of the comments i can see people mentioning Xen, more about that would be cool also. Maybe more on Xen technology and Alien Grunts and Controllers, i really liked those creatures of Half Life. I wish to see their comeback in Half Life 3. And wouldnt it be cool that Half Life 3 concludes its story on a Combine planet, where their main headquarters is located in an all out war between the Combine on the one side and Xen, RaceX creatures and humans on the other lead by Gordon Freeman, Adrian Shephard, Alyx Vance and Barney Calhoun. Maybe a colab between different characters, where a player could swith to one of them and finish one part of the puzzle while the other gets what he needs from it. It has to be done in a smart way though. A platformer game Brothers A Tale Of Two Sons comes to mind. But, Valve can take that concept and make something magnificent from it for the gameplay of HL3 in Source 2. I know they wont do anything if its not a revolutionary idea. And also about the story, the only conclusion to the this game that would blew everyones mind would be if Gordon sacrificed himself for the greater good, but not died. Maybe become some omnipotent entity like G-Man that could offer him a permanent employment with his employers, and could always watch over Alyx and the others as their protector. Of course "what" G-Man is should never be fully revealed, that would kill the mistery of Half Life. Maybe some exploration about that within Vortigaunt culture that Gordon would visit during the HL3 storyline to enlighten himself and gain new purpose. Meanwhile Shephard could negotiate with RaceX, while Alyx and Barney gather up the humanity to resist. That would be a great storyline. And very emotionaly impactfull. I just dont know how all of that would fit into a single game, but it would be cool to withness all that. Your channel is one of the best about Half Life content, keep up the great work.
Imagine what Gordon would look like without glasses 🤣
Love half life videos!!
There's more to come! Thank you :)
13:48 They call it the underground railroad as a reference to the movement to set Black people free from slavery
34:35 - I know you've watched a couple of videos by now...
Me: N... No... *sweats nervously*
This is epic!
I think that the combine's major mistake in their occupation of earth is that they use the trans-human arm of the combine overwatch to guard cities. They should've used other military assets instead of humans since we are so adept at fighting each other.
Humans are disposable, hence why
Probably it was less resource intensive to use humans against humans, they practically had to do nothing, we just messed up each other without doing any serious damage to them or any other of their millitary units. But yeah they greatly underestimated humanity or didn't even care that much about the occupation, probably they had more important tasks to focus on. The only thing they did care about was teleportation within world since they couldn't do it. But considering how wast their empire is, even this thing probably is just an insignificant thing to them in the grand scheme of things.
It's part of their conquering strategy. Using a species own strenghts against them. The error of the combine was not to use transhuman troops but their error was multi-layered. For one they underestimated the resistance and let them free reign on the coast for too long. Another part is that their forces were intended for occupational purposes and not full on war. Also combine soldiers are really nerfed compared to a resistance fighter lorewise.
Good video, and you help me learn about the HL 1 and 2
Awesome, thank you!
I wonder if other worlds have their own resistance, I think it perfectly feasible for that to be the case as even though lots of humans joined the combine though not all of them and I think it's possible that not all members of other species have joined the combine on their world's
I just realized why the Resistance wanted the Borealis ship.
It is used to travel between worlds.
This could lead to contact between other words and stage a Universal Uprising against Universal Union, causing them to lose control of everything.
John Freeman best rebel.
the best
22:15 A host of a parasite is the victim, not the parasite itself :)
You have a very nice voice to listen to.
You have nice words to read
@@Skyrionn Touché :P
Nice content
Nice comment
This channel is really underrated
Too kind
Humanity always clap back
Always.
I'd never noticed all the people in that green combine poster! What was the original image!?
This is 10 times better than the history channel
That's such a weird Gord model; there's loads more, even the HL:A model on the Gmod workshop. I have too many 😂
One of the models looks almost exactly like HL2 Gord from all the art, but wearing the Mark IV suit.
I think it would be a cool game idea to play as lambda cell operative
mmm yes 37 minute only of half life lore