Assuming the Nihilanth isn’t a one-off creature and does have other beings like it in existence, I think it’s possible that the other Nihilanths were used by the Combine for local teleportation.
Maybe the Combine hunted the Nihuilanths species and turned them into snyths for ez teleportation, leaving them sterilized and leaving the Nihilanth as the last of his kind pure
Imagine fighting a Nihilanth synth. Though I will say that what's most likely is that they somehow extracted their portal-making-thingamacrystals and killed them off. They are too big and it would be inneficient. Also, if the combine won't sinthfy a vorty they won't sinthfy a space baby.
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He is the last of his species.
Yeah, I think I remember Mark Laidlaw saying as far as the Nihilanth was concerned, his people were killed off long ago.
Maybe the Combine hunted the Nihuilanths species and turned them into snyths for ez teleportation, leaving them sterilized and leaving the Nihilanth as the last of his kind pure
Imagine fighting a Nihilanth synth. Though I will say that what's most likely is that they somehow extracted their portal-making-thingamacrystals and killed them off. They are too big and it would be inneficient. Also, if the combine won't sinthfy a vorty they won't sinthfy a space baby.
Yeah true, they’d probably do the same treatment we see to vorts in half life alyx