humanity is doomed this is something i've been thinking about lately, while playing half life 2 i started thinking about the resistance's "victories", and how they didn't seem like victories anymore, and how Gordon and the resistance destroyed humanity's future. Basically I think the Combine are like the Covenant from Halo, an empire composed of several species, and each of them is part of a hierarchy in this empire, the elite commands the empire and the lower positions are the workforce, serving in military positions and manual labor, humanity was almost in this position, if it weren't for Dr. Breen, I believe that what Breen wanted to do in Half Life 2 was to make humanity part of the elite of the Combine, and it is possible to see that in the game he tries to please the adversaries as much as possible, he tries to destroy the resistance and take their local teleportation technology which is something that the Combine don't have, he tries to make humanity follow the customs and prin…
