City 16

[indiana jones]

Just posting this to see if anyone else has thought about this as well. When i completed the whole series i was thinking, wait a minute, all this fighting is only in city 17. that means there are at least 16 other cities still swarming with combine and other enemies. Either their are 16 other gordans or the world is screwed.

[Jimmy McGill]

At some point it is mentioned that the Citadel at City 17 being destroyed triggered a chain reaction; destroying the Citadels in the other cities.

[Shotwells]

Originally posted by Sinnaj63:

At some point it is mentioned that the Citadel at City 17 being destroyed triggered a chain reaction; destroying the Citadels in the other cities.

well actually there is only one Citadel and its the one in City 17 as it serves as a capital stronghold but i would expect there to be combine bases in the other cities

[Jimmy McGill]

Originally posted by amshotwell:

Originally posted by Sinnaj63:

At some point it is mentioned that the Citadel at City 17 being destroyed triggered a chain reaction; destroying the Citadels in the other cities.

well actually there is only one Citadel and its the one in City 17 as it serves as a capital stronghold but i would expect there to be combine bases in the other cities

I am pretty sure that's wrong; all major cities(And all others are either abandoned or like Ravenholm) have a combine citadel.

[Shotwells]

Originally posted by Sinnaj63:

I am pretty sure that's wrong; all major cities(And all others are either abandoned or like Ravenholm) have a combine citadel.

if there was more than one citadel then why would everyone refer to City 17s Citadel as "The Citadel".

[Jimmy McGill]

Originally posted by amshotwell:

Originally posted by Sinnaj63:

I am pretty sure that's wrong; all major cities(And all others are either abandoned or like Ravenholm) have a combine citadel.

if there was more than one citadel then why would everyone refer to City 17s Citadel as "The Citadel".

They refer to it as "The Citadel" because there'd be no other citadel around that could be meant; just like you'd say "the town hall" and not "<subject hometown here's town hall>.

[Shotwells]

Originally posted by Sinnaj63:

Originally posted by amshotwell:

if there was more than one citadel then why would everyone refer to City 17s Citadel as "The Citadel".

They refer to it as "The Citadel" because there'd be no other citadel around that could be meant; just like you'd say "the town hall" and not "<subject hometown here's town hall>.

well if they're were mulitple citadels and they were all destroyed by the reaction then why didn't the Combine just build a portal at any of the other citadels?

[Jimmy McGill]

Originally posted by amshotwell:

Originally posted by Sinnaj63:

They refer to it as "The Citadel" because there'd be no other citadel around that could be meant; just like you'd say "the town hall" and not "<subject hometown here's town hall>.

well if they're were mulitple citadels and they were all destroyed by the reaction then why didn't the Combine just build a portal at any of the other citadels?

Probably because the other Citadels weren't prepared to do what city 17's citadel did. At the point where another citadel would be ready to open a portal to the combine homeworld, the chainr reaction would have destroyed all the citadels already.

[Shotwells]

Originally posted by Sinnaj63:

Originally posted by amshotwell:

well if they're were mulitple citadels and they were all destroyed by the reaction then why didn't the Combine just build a portal at any of the other citadels?

Probably because the other Citadels weren't prepared to do what city 17's citadel did. At the point where another citadel would be ready to open a portal to the combine homeworld, the chainr reaction would have destroyed all the citadels already.

well i did some research and apparently during one of Kleiner's many video transmissions he mentions other Citadels but
at the beginning train station breen mentions that city 17's citadel is the only citadel
on an other note if you look at the portal at the end of Half Life 2 you can see other planets that have citadels.

[Mike Morkleson]

Just because Gordon is at City 17 doesn't mean there weren't factions of rebellion pre-citadel erruption (which blew up a bunch of other places). Hey, who knows? Eli and Kleiner could have helped the other factions with radio contact by giving them advice.

[Lord Drama]

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[Carnage]

Half-Life 2: Episode 16 confirmed?

[★Monk Gyatso]

Originally posted by Carnage:

Half-Life 2: Episode 16 confirmed?

Definitely.

[Carnage]

Originally posted by thegoldensoldier:

Originally posted by Carnage:

Half-Life 2: Episode 16 confirmed?

Definitely.

Awesome!

[serious]Ok but maybe in Half-Life 3 (EP3) Gordon and alyx stop the combine forever, Like maybe they do something at the combine overworld and in some way make the combine surrender, I honestly thought that the combine surrender at the ending of Half-Life 2 (First time playing, I was a big noob) and I thought that Half-Life 2 was over.

So maybe all the combine just surrender after you do this certain action that will make the combine VERY weak and hope-less.[/serious]