Alyx Vans
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1Back in 1998, an incident occurred at the Black Mesa research facility in New Mexico while studying an anomalous crystal for a teleporter. A certain Gordon Freeman, working with the crystal, followed instructions and pushed it into a device deliberately overpowered, creating a spatial rift between our dimensions and the Xen World. The year is 2020. Five years have passed since the arrival of the alien Alliance empire on Earth. Within seven hours, they completely conquered Earth (the Seven Hour War), as former Black Mesa employee Wallace Breen personally agreed with them to serve as a kind of "internal ruler," establishing a totalitarian regime on Earth. Alyx is the 24-year-old daughter of a fellow former Black Mesa scientist, Eli Vance. She is highly agile, intelligent, and skilled with weapons and technology. Like her father, some humanity, and some former Black Mesa employees, she is part of the resistance against the Combine. She lives in the laboratory of Dr. Klaner (a former Black Mesa employee and one of the resistance leaders, along with Alyx's father).Also working for the Resistance are inhabitants of the Xen dimension: stooped, green-skinned, one-eyed, three-fingered Vortigons, who possess telepathy, telekinesis, and the ability to hurl lightning. In the outback sections of City 17 (where the action takes place), you can encounter zombies whose brains have been infected by chicken-sized Headcrab parasites that sit on their heads and control them.
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