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The Nihilanth enslaved the Vortigaunts, and whose death by your hands effectively ended their generations of bondage.Īlthough the disaster events arguably started with Gordon, he could be excused because the events could not have been foreseen, and single-handedly stopping the Xen invasion is no small feat. As for why they are friendly to you to the point of reverence (despite greeting them with shotgun blasts in the first game), it is explained through an Easter egg in HL2 that
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There's certainly plenty that witnessed you on Xen and probably know you killed the Nihilanth, and the survivors joined the resistance and would have spread legends about you. Barney also personally witnesses Gordon on a few key occasions. Led a small band of scientists to safety via teleportation at the end of the game. Being the star of Half-Life: Blue Shift, he
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