The Combine's Secret Prison | The Vault | Full Half-Life Lore

The Vault is regarded as one of The Combine's most secretive weapons and pieces of technology in the wasteland after their invasion. On Alyx Vance's journey, she discovers The Vault and the prisoner contained inside. How does this ship function, what powers it and who did The Combine intend to use it against during their war with the resistance and meddling forces from other worlds?

Who lives within The Vault, how did they get there and how did the Combine create such a magnificent ship? In this episode, I went to the Quarantine Zone in the land Half-Life to explore the secrets that the prison holds, how the prison runs and what eventually happened to it.

Timestamps
00:00 Intro & Background
02:41 The Formation
04:46 The Exterior
06:56 Power Source
08:22 The Interior
12:55 The Fall of The Vault
17:28 Closing Thoughts
19:11 Ending

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[aportorak]

12:42 The Alyx Devs confirmed in commentary mode that the waves of energy is the G-man actively trying to escape

[splunkmastah]

"Gordon... Freeman?"

"Oh, Miss Vance. You wouldn't need all of that to imprison Gordon Freeman"

Chills. I hope we're getting more Half-Life soon.

[ElysiumCreator]

I thought the vortigaunt energy is what kept him in place, cause they were able to do the same in HL2 Episode 1

[alexis_electronic]

Have to say: G-Man definitely LET himself get captured.

[Caffintor]

According to the information deciphered by Eli, the Vault was constructed around the building GMan was found in and, if not stated specifically, implied that it wasn't moved from that spot. If that's true, the Combine didn't choose the location for the Vault. It just worked out that it was in the QZ.

[conebride]

The narrator: "The combine assigned their strongest and most capable transformed humans to guard..."
The scene: *front combine stands up and combine behind him immediately starts shooting right through their head, then stops as the front combine squats again*

[swindle]

Breen: "I must mirror the sentiment of our benefactors and so I let the question fall to you: How have you failed? The man you have failed to capture let alone kill is by all means just that! An ordinary man..."
Combine soldier: "Okay, asshole, maybe WE need to remind YOU that this 'Ordinary Man' you have us after single-handedly put an end to the Resonance Cascade."

[BYTE]

Before HL:A fans commented on Combine being incompetent and here they are, captured the man who can retcon the game.

[The_Future_isnt_so_Bright]

The G man's employers being Valve, makes him the greatest 4th wall breaking character of all time. He is a God . So the combine captured God.

[Snoogen]

I love how the more we learn about the combines abilities, the more monolithic they seem. They are a perfect example of cosmic horror, something so alien, we don't even have the language necessary to explain how unfathomable they are.

[qfdnsze]

I’m not really sure that he’d be able to escape whenever he wants. In developer commentary they confirmed that the waves of energy was the Gman trying to escape, and we know that while Gman is powerful, so are the vortigaunts, since they were able to hold back the Gman in episode 1. Why would they be able to hold back the Gman in episode 1 and suddenly not be able to in alyx? Just some thoughts.

[Milankov]

11:35 ''Combine has assigned their strongest and most capable transformed humans'' Combine proceeds to teamkill his mate from behind

[MK-ldil]

There’s a popular theory that he let himself be captured to recruit past alyx due to Gordon being protected by the vorts

[AsparagusVideo]

In this day and age, it's dang near impossible to create images and moments in games that actually stick with you. They did it with Half Life... Half Life 2... Episode 2... and now they did it again years later w/ Alyx. Incredible.

[frasermitchell]

Liked how they made his brief case a part of his act. Also love him as a more involved character and agent as the series progresses. Enjoyed this

[HalTheBot]

Imagine how much of a badass plot twist it would've been if Shephard was in the Vault.

[thomashsiai]

The most underrated Chanel I’ve ever seen, you deserve more

[orange]

This was a great video. There's a lot of valid points here. I agree on the G-Man interview part that you mentioned. I theorize that G-Man could have escaped at ANY time. He simply wanted to test Alex. We all know Adrian Shepard, Gordon Freeman, And Alex are just pawns that stuck out to G-Man. He obviously didn't take interest in in Barney, despite spotting him once(maybe just a cameo).

On other note Alex and the aforementioned two, probably stuck out to him. They were definitely seemed hyper intelligent. They were excelled in killing powerful alien entities and their minions they could fight other humans as well, and use alien weaponry and regular weaponry. Probably from the G-Man's view. They were unusual pawns in what ever he was doing and his "Employers".

For me it's kind of hard to tell who's side the G-Man is on, or his intentions. We just know he's at odds with the combine.

[sonofeyeabovealleffoff]

The G-Man is the only life-threatening opponent that the combine face. Freeman was merely his weapon.
And now Freeman is truly free. Alyx has taken his place within the employ of the G-Man.

[JackJonValois]

I didn't even know how to approach putting this in a presentative form for this mystery in my mind. Dr. Breen knew about the Gman but I wonder if that was entirely private from his combine masters. Fascinating that they formulated something to even capture the gman or predicted where he would be. I assume the prison hovered over where the gman was at one point and used the tractor beam to trap him in a building.