
When Gordon finally reaches access to the surface he hears hope of the military coming to their aid, however his hope is short lived as the military's idea of help is covering up the entire catastrophe by killing the aliens as well as witnesses to the event, including the scientists and Gordon, the latter of whom they believe sabotaged the spectrometer and caused the cascade purposely.


Gordon agrees to the task and makes his way through the facility with the help of other scientists and whatever weapons he can find to combat the oncoming Xen invaders. Eli Vance who alerts Gordon that all communication to the surface is lost and tasks Gordon to go to the surface and get help, knowing his suit will protect him. With his suit saving his life Gordon travels through the wrecked facility, stumbling across piles of rubble and dead bodies, with dozens of aliens teleporting in by the second. The spectrometers explosion kills many of the scientists, far outside of the actual test chamber, however Gordons suit manages to protect him from the blast, leaving him to travel through the wrecked facility, in search of whatever survival he can. Gordon is then told to press a button and push the cart, after which the crystal reacts negatively with the spectromer, causing a Resonance Cascade, thereby opening a rift between Earth and the crystals home world dimension Xen, releasing hostile aliens throughout the facility, and the rest of the world. Gordon enters the chamber and receives the specimen and delivers it via cart into the spectrometers beam. One day while running late for work, Gordon quickly fits into his HEV suit and heads off to the test chamber to test another of the facilities samples, one Kleiner states to be "the purest sample they've seen yet." Still unknown of the samples properties, or it's origin, they are forced to power the spectrometer at a staggering 105%, a number many of the scientists don't feel safe about. Isaac Kleiner, working in the anti-mass spectrometer in order to discover the identity of unknown materials and their attributes. He is then employed at the Black Mesa Research Facility in New Mexico, where he works as a research associate in the Anamolous Materials laboratories in the year 200x. Biography Half-Life The Resonance CascadeĪt only the age of 27, Gordon Freeman graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D.
