Valve deliberately set Portal 2 far into the future so as to sever nearly all ties with the Half-Life fiction that aren't purely backstory. And although the story ties exist, the series really should be considered two separate universes. You can find the former holding area of the Borealis in Portal 2 in an old abandoned area of Aperture Science.
In Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Judith Mossman discovers the Borealis which an Aperture Science research vessel that is said to hold some extremely powerful secret technology and locating it will most likely be one of the main goals in Episode 3. Portal 1 takes places during or following the Combine invasion of Earth as GLaDOS explains to Chell that she is all that is keeping the Combine from entering the facility. Aperture built GLaDOS for the purpose of rapidly testing new portal technology to keep pace with Mesa, although apparently they built it now so that Cave Johnson could scan his mind onto a disc but whatever, who is switched on and completely locks down the Aperture Science compound on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day just a few days prior to the Black Mesa Incident which is the beginning of Half-Life. The idea of how GLaDOS managed to make this happen, as it must have been her doing, is endlessly intriguing to me.Black Mesa was Aperture Science's direct competitor for government funding. I hadn't really given it much thought until about a week ago, but Aperture was never found by the Combine at all. People also ask, Are Black Mesa and Aperture Science rivals?īlack Mesa is a scientific research corporation in the Half-Life universe and the main competitor to Aperture Science. The salt mine is composed of nine vertical shafts, each at least 4000 meters deep and hundreds of meters in length. Subsequently, question is, How far down is Aperture Science?. It is unknown if the same complex is used during the time Aperture was a shower curtain manufacturer. View full answerīuilt in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA sometime after the founding of Aperture Science in 1943, the Aperture Laboratories is the main headquarters for the company. Aperture Science, Inc., often simply referred to as Aperture Science or simply Aperture, is an American scientific research corporation whose laboratories and administration are located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
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