Portal: A History of Aperture (Timeline and Lore)

Ever wondered what happened to the Aperture Science Enrichment centre before you started playing Portal? Here are the main events that happened before and during the Portal Series.

The timeline and lore of games has always interested me. Looking at Aperture Fixtures, Cave Johnson, GLaDOS and Chell was extremely interesting to understand why everything happened.

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AUDIO USED
Portal 2 OST - Bots Build Bots
Portal 2 OST - There She Is
Portal 2 OST - Vitrification Order

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Super-murderous AI: hey guys I need some neurotoxin
Scientists: I dunno man
Super-murderous AI: It's for science
Scientists: fine, how much do you need?
Super-murderous AI: About enough to flood the facility
Scientists: seems legit

[mysterpapo]

Remember guys, the series started cuz a guy got rich from selling shower curtains.

[ppt]

can we get an F for chell, she comes back out into the world to find out some inter-dimensional aliens invaded earth, nonetheless, good video!

[zki_]

Cool but how did selling shower curtains ear him enough money to buy a giant salt mine and transform it to a science facility?

[locomotivefaox]

>functional handheld portal device vs huge equipment that makes use of a lot of power and rare resources. (Oh and also started TWO inter dimensional invasions of earth)

>lost the race to Black Mesa.

[DavidFletcher]

ngl when at the end of portal 2 chell gets the companion cube, it gave me a gut feeling that she never actually left apature, but was actually thrown into a whole new form of test

[oprmantic]

Wow. This video was wonderfully constructed and most of this knowledge I had been unaware of. Unlike some other youtubers, you did not waffle about on the intro and went straight into it.

[ThrillzTheGreatest]

Jesus, Wheatley’s only a tiny fraction of the Aperture Timeline

[-bitjams]

"cave had gotten moon rock poisoning due to exposure to grounded moon rock"

Cave: *stands in the middle of the dust*

[ThreeProphets]

I'm still trying to imagine what the Heimlich counter-maneuver would be

[ember-brandt]

0:38 - "In 1944, Johnson purchased a huge salt mine in upper Michigan"

*shows the Glove*

[JWhisp]

How do you go from shower curtains to portal guns?

[outpesticide]

Chell: Finally, I'm out of Aperture Science. Time to start a new life on the surface.
[Explosions, screaming and alien ships in the distance.]
Chell: Nevermind. GLaDOS, let me back in!

[odditoriumleviathan]

Damn, valve knows how to write a story

[bluegames]

This is seriously underrated I must say.

[MaxT.W.]

Chell: (ay lmao im back in town how long have i been out guys??) ...
Alien:
Chell: (what) ...
Alien: *hhsbdhbhabcyydcbba* * shoots chell *

Edit 2: After I finally became a Half Life fan I finally realized that Chell is defitively not in a good situation after leaving Aperture. America was pretty much completely destroyed by the portal storm and all that's left of humanity is with the Combine at Eastern Europe, she definitively won't find anything that can shoot at her, but for all we know she's probably gonna wander the remains of American until she dies or some Alien creature kills her, so R.I.P. Chell.

[GalluZ]

The amount of effort you put into the custom scenery (ex: Rattman's scenes) is amazing. It gave a refreshing feel to documentaries nowadays.

[lukeskywalker]

When life gives you lemons *YOU **_DON'T_** MAKE DAMM LEMONADE DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM*

[Gribks]

I love the effort put into the video. A good connection with black mesa, One more thing I would add to open the bigger picture, is the Borealis events, Borealis an extremely important part of this universe. As you can clearly see it in HL2 Ep2 on the docks in Aperture, Yet when you play as Chell in portal 2, You can visit the dock in the Gel testing phase of the game, and find the Borealis missing. It opens a greater mystery as to who got to the Borealis first. Having Glados dormant anything could have taken place.

[ferrilatamig]

Aperture when Black Mesa is destroyed by a nuclear device following the Resonance Cascade and the resulting portal storms and Combine invasion:
*"I've won...*
*but at what cost?"*