What Actually Happened During the Seven Hour War

An Half-Life Universe Event Called Seven Hour War Explained in an Animated Documentary Video.

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[Credits]
LEMMiNO - Nocturnal
LEMMiNO - Cipher
LEMMiNO - Firecracker

#HalfLife #Lore #HalfLife2

[qwellen]

I can’t belive president keemstar surrendered so quickly….

[Timerpoint]

Plottwist: This is a secret Valve account slowly teasing for Half Life 3

[epileptic_experience]

something that makes this even better is that defcon 1 mean military response in 6 hours, the WHOLE WAR lasted seven, before we could even react properly we were already losing

[djentspace]

I find it satisfyingly fitting that Kleiner does the narration for this video as in my mind he's the only person qualified and smart enough to actually explain the events leading up to and after the Combine's invasion.

[CharaGonzalez-ltyw]

I also doubt they would've conquered Earth by grausally making their way across individual continents. More likely they appeared in multiple areas of the globe simultaneously, paralysing our response

[silverspoon]

IRL it would be like:
- NATO holds meeting after meeting, gets totally wrecked without even starting a fight
- UN makes an attempt at coordinated resistance, resolution is vetoed by some random country because of anti alien violence activists

[andromeda]

the thing is, most people think that it's the combine soldiers (combine soldiers are human synths) who invaded earth. but it was actually the synths, like the gunship, dropship, hunter, or strider. its not like the combine invaded earth before, they just recently discovered earth during the portal storms. and the combine overwatch was issued after the occupation of earth

the combine probably also had some powerful synths in the overworld that we never got to fight in hl2

[Immovable_Object]

The map of NATO countries shown in the video shows countries that weren't part of the alliance by the time of the events in Half-Life.

[ProDoofus]

I'm gonna put this on a cd and send it to a far away relative with the note "I'm giving you a chance to prepare. You have limited time left."

[croakyvincent]

Bro cooked harder than the microwave back at Black Mesa!

[ummmhelp]

I don't really understand why the combine has a frontline, in my mind the seven hour war would have been the greatest paradrop in the history of the planet. it was 7 hours because combine troops and armor were teleported or airdropped on mass directly onto into relevant military and civilian infrastructure and within 7 hours most targeted positions were taken and humanity surrendered.
if they did have a frontline like in this video they'd need to move from Gibraltar to Moscow in less than 7 hours. Technology can be as advanced as you want but even an flight from those 2 positions takes 13 hours ignoring all the taking of land needed, I couldn't imagine that working surely they'd just appear everywhere all at once instead of marching over an area.
from France to Moscow even is 2, 800km div 7 hours gives you an average speed for combine forces moving between those 2 points of 400kph

[hlbigboss]

To be fair though New York was still under human control at the end of the war

[johnlime]

Who will win?

The entirety of military arsenal on Earth.
Or
One crowbar man

[johnlime]

What I learned from this video is that the Combine had advanced technology.

[nucleja]

7 hours? how did the UN and NATO do so much in this time? doesn't make any sense.

[vertixz]

the thing that sucks about this is that the seven hour war happened somewhere around 2000-2010 but the NATO map shows Sweden and Finland which joined NATO in 2023 and 2024

[shapeswitch_mood]

When I saw the well documented format of the Black Mesa incident, I couldn't wait to see your take on the 7 hours war!
Needless to say. Hyped.

[damiencurry]

bro sound like the sciecent from half life that says "hello freeman

[finikania]

POV you're watching this video in a VHS attached to a old TV and you hear radio starter and knocking

[PLonexXx]

Why does it feel as if it was written and narrated by an AI?