Ratman Conspiracy Partially Solved

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I am fully aware that there happens to be hundreds of discussions about Ratman on this forum; however, I have (for the most part) pieced together a couple parts of the Ratman conspiracy that I wanted to share. To start, in the Ratman comic there is a part where Ratman says he would have rather gone to the moon (reference to Black Mesa), than worked on GLaDOS. When playing through Portal 2 many of you are probably aware of the final transmission in Chapter 2 Test chamber 6 (correct me if I am wrong). When the audio file is transcribed on a computer an image of the famed companion cube appears on the screen where it appears to be on the moon, again if you are a fan of Portal you know that Ratman has an obsession with the companion cube. On the last level of Portal 2 Chell is for a brief moment shot into space where the player can obviously see the moon landing. This may seem far fetched but I believe that there is something on the moon that is being hidden and Ratman knows about it. In Ratman's rant (which has never been clearly transcribed) he mentions the ship "Borealis" being stolen and or lost. It is also rumored that there is a second portal device that is able to create much larger portals that the handheld device. Furthermore, The Borealis could possibly be on the moon. I am still clueless to why it would be there; however I wanted to see some outside opinions on this to see if it could be pieced together further. Thank you. Also sorry for originally posting this in the Steam thread.

[Boris Yeltsin]

Originally posted by DevonTheGroff:

I am fully aware that there happens to be hundreds of discussions about Ratman on this forum; however, I have (for the most part) pieced together a couple parts of the Ratman conspiracy that I wanted to share. To start, in the Ratman comic there is a part where Ratman says he would have rather gone to the moon (reference to Black Mesa), than worked on GLaDOS. When playing through Portal 2 many of you are probably aware of the final transmission in Chapter 2 Test chamber 6 (correct me if I am wrong). When the audio file is transcribed on a computer an image of the famed companion cube appears on the screen where it appears to be on the moon, again if you are a fan of Portal you know that Ratman has an obsession with the companion cube. On the last level of Portal 2 Chell is for a brief moment shot into space where the player can obviously see the moon landing. This may seem far fetched but I believe that there is something on the moon that is being hidden and Ratman knows about it. In Ratman's rant (which has never been clearly transcribed) he mentions the ship "Borealis" being stolen and or lost. It is also rumored that there is a second portal device that is able to create much larger portals that the handheld device. Furthermore, The Borealis could possibly be on the moon. I am still clueless to why it would be there; however I wanted to see some outside opinions on this to see if it could be pieced together further. Thank you. Also sorry for originally posting this in the Steam thread.

Actually...interesting.

[Boris Yeltsin]

I expected it to be another bulldung theory, but you actually put some thought into this.

[rgb-rachel]

well, moon dust is a portal conductor...

[Thirty1Mortis]

I agree there must be a much larger Portal device. But isn't Borealis supposed to be in the arctic and location nearly discovered in the HL2 universe? It was stored and/or built deep undergound but with this larger portal device they could transport it anywhere, so why not the moon? GlaDOS is pretty close enough to the surface to have access to it. She did after all sign the paperwork for it.
To build on the moon being important, while playing maps made from other players Cave Johnson says several times that they are on the moon performing tests (he often mentions the testers are prisoners, I believe.) This could mean Aperture has a secret base on the moon, which they would have to have some sort of operation there to collect all the moon rocks, and it must have been done excessively and/or CJ was there himself, thus his cancer.
Perhaps we will just never know how important the moon is or the truth about Borealis until a trilogy is released...

[Brassqund]

Can you make paragraphes so that would be more easy to read...

[A-06]

Originally posted by DevonTheGroff:

Ratman says he would have rather gone to the moon (reference to Black Mesa)

How is this a reference to Black Mesa?

Originally posted by DevonTheGroff:

The Borealis could possibly be on the moon. I am still clueless to why it would be there

It's not, the borealis is on Earth, the arctic pole.[img3.wikia.nocookie.net]

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Warrior Poet,
Thanks, just sharing my ideas.

SilentDecay,
You bring up some really great points, none that I can argue against. Just out of curiosity though where do we find out that GLaDOS signed the paperwork? Thank you for the insight.

A-06,
Sorry for the lack of specificity, it references Black Mesa because in the Ratman comic Black Mesa is said to have gone to the moon. Also it is said that the Borealis is in the Arctic region; however, that does not mean it could not have warped again. Also other than one picture of the Borealis in a bad wreck that Valve released, there isn't really any proof that it is there. For all we know they could think it's there and then find out it is not.

Brassqund,
I am sorry if I offended you with my poor grammar, I was attempting to release my ideas in a steady flow to see the opinions of others, not listen to Grammar Nazi's gripe.

[Terrell Hudgins]

This post... most of it is suprisingly true. What's not true is the Borealis part. The Borealis is either in the timezone of Half-Life 2 or the Borealis is hidden by GlaDOS. In Thinking With Time Machine, (look up on steam) the 2nd test chamber which pretty much isn't a test chamber has the Borealis crash through a wall. Also, there is another hidden transmission in the stereo. It may seem like people are singing, but they're voices of people from Aperture Science. Look it up for more info.

[76561198130539004]

Originally posted by Squirrelman56:

This post... most of it is suprisingly true. What's not true is the Borealis part. The Borealis is either in the timezone of Half-Life 2 or the Borealis is hidden by GlaDOS. In Thinking With Time Machine, (look up on steam) the 2nd test chamber which pretty much isn't a test chamber has the Borealis crash through a wall. Also, there is another hidden transmission in the stereo. It may seem like people are singing, but they're voices of people from Aperture Science. Look it up for more info.

How do we know that GLaDOS is not hiding the Borealis on the moon? As stated by SilentDecay,

Originally posted by SilentDecay:

GlaDOS is pretty close enough to the surface to have access to it. She did after all sign the paperwork for it...To build on the moon being important, while playing maps made from other players Cave Johnson says several times that they are on the moon performing tests (he often mentions the testers are prisoners, I believe.) This could mean Aperture has a secret base on the moon, which they would have to have some sort of operation there to collect all the moon rocks, and it must have been done excessively and/or CJ was there himself, thus his cancer.

So easily GLaDOS could be hiding it there; however I have not played Thinking with Time Machine so I do not know that aspect of it. I honestly do not understand where you came up with that, it is commonly assumed that it is in the Arctic.

[Crooked_Mantis]

I thought the theory about Rattman was that he was on the moon, you can see evidence of this in the first Rattman Den, the one where you find the Portal Gun. Grab the Portal Gun and look up, you'll see a large hole in the roof, with it a pictures of the moon phases. It's as if Rattman was waiting for the right time to use the Portal Gun to fire it at the moon and truly escape Aperture (The vacum of space probably missed the Portal Gun or maybe Rattman left it on purpose. This would explain why we see the Portal Gun in such a bad state). Now, we know he's alive up there(How else would we get the radio signals that made the picture?), but I don't know how. Maybe he found stash of Aperture's old astronaut suits?

[Nyuu]

"Also other than one picture of the Borealis in a bad wreck that Valve released, there isn't really any proof that it is there."

It's a bit more than just "a picture that valve released". In Half-Life 2: Episode 2, there was this long important scene where Kleiner or someone was all like "We found the Borealis in the North/South pole (i forgot which one it was)" and they had video footage of it on a large screen and it was there and this is canon.

So yeah, definitely in one of the poles.

[Nyuu]

Yeah, like Lonely Turret, I'd say that Rattman is on the moon, not the Borealis. All evidence points toward him being on the moon.

[MOOMLEM]

Originally posted by DevonTheGroff:

I am fully aware that there happens to be hundreds of discussions about Ratman on this forum; however, I have (for the most part) pieced together a couple parts of the Ratman conspiracy that I wanted to share. To start, in the Ratman comic there is a part where Ratman says he would have rather gone to the moon (reference to Black Mesa), than worked on GLaDOS. When playing through Portal 2 many of you are probably aware of the final transmission in Chapter 2 Test chamber 6 (correct me if I am wrong). When the audio file is transcribed on a computer an image of the famed companion cube appears on the screen where it appears to be on the moon, again if you are a fan of Portal you know that Ratman has an obsession with the companion cube. On the last level of Portal 2 Chell is for a brief moment shot into space where the player can obviously see the moon landing. This may seem far fetched but I believe that there is something on the moon that is being hidden and Ratman knows about it. In Ratman's rant (which has never been clearly transcribed) he mentions the ship "Borealis" being stolen and or lost. It is also rumored that there is a second portal device that is able to create much larger portals that the handheld device. Furthermore, The Borealis could possibly be on the moon. I am still clueless to why it would be there; however I wanted to see some outside opinions on this to see if it could be pieced together further. Thank you. Also sorry for originally posting this in the Steam thread.

this larger portal device could be used there. was it just me or was there a big flash on the moon when u first see it. the borealis could even be a codename for it, or just housing - but in any case it seems like one of GladOS' projects, maybe actually encorporating low gravity test enviroments

[MOOMLEM]

Originally posted by Hamburglar:

Yeah, like Lonely Turret, I'd say that Rattman is on the moon, not the Borealis. All evidence points toward him being on the moon.

but we hear him talking in one of the hidden rooms down on out planet

[MOOMLEM]

Originally posted by Squirrelman56:

This post... most of it is suprisingly true. What's not true is the Borealis part. The Borealis is either in the timezone of Half-Life 2 or the Borealis is hidden by GlaDOS. In Thinking With Time Machine, (look up on steam) the 2nd test chamber which pretty much isn't a test chamber has the Borealis crash through a wall. Also, there is another hidden transmission in the stereo. It may seem like people are singing, but they're voices of people from Aperture Science. Look it up for more info.

but is this an official map? honest question. if is not, the lore it provides can simply be ignored as fan-fic