Introduction

Ever since I first played Half-Life, the in-game OPFOR Marine was on my to-do list for some time. Finally I had an opportunity to scratch him off from the list. Original idea went way back some time in 97 when 21C released their SWAT boxsets in urban and black BDU. The urban outfit was a perfect base for Half-Life OPFOR. For some reason it was put on the backbench and basically forgotten since. Fast forward back to present,
I excavated the old HL game disc a while ago then realized that there was a lost bash on the to-do list that needed to be completed. So instead of just doing the marine, I twisted around the idea to have a team of ex-SF and intel instructors who trained them, and pushed the timeline forward to 2010.

Original canon plot’s ending was to have the facility nuked by the shadowy G-Man after military withdrew their clean-up ops sometime in 200X. Freeman was offered a way out by G-Man: Either worked for him or faced wave after wave of aliens.

Now my little elaboration, assuming the incident happened around 2000 Year in the current timeline is 2010. The infamous Black Mesa incident a decade ago seems like distant memory. Before G-man nuked the facility, he had all vital research material and personnel teleported to key facilities all over continent America. Most of them went to Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, other headed for smaller facilities elsewhere; Mount Weather, Vandenberg, Alaska sites to name a few. One of the key teleportation researches was transferred to Los Plenas complex built deep inside the remote mountain ranges of South Western Colorado Rockies. Teleportation research continues relatively uneventful until one morning the same resonance cascade that ripped apart Black Mesa complex years earlier reoccurred once again in the complex central lab, causing dimensional rips all over affected areas. Unknown life forms entering the facility through the rips; duty staff barely had chance to send out rescue signal to Dugway headquarters. Almost immediately military command mobilized their retooled Hazardous Environment Combat Unit (HECU) to quell the incursion. The real question is whether HECU has learned from Black Mesa, and not to make the same mistake again.

Original plan was to have two more instructors: one commo & one medical; plus a companion mini photo story. My hunch however, told me it’s time to move on to next project. So there ya go, less 2 guys and a story.

1st Lt..Pedro Casañas, HECU A minor update from the original polygon soldiers with newer gears.