Why would the combine even make cities and let people live in a society, why not just turn them all into slaves straight up, doesn't make sense to me at all
source?
Eli also says it outright (Or Kleiner, I forget) that Breen cut a deal which is why he's the Global Admin and why people are being transhumanised and conscripted, not just wiped out.the newspaper that says "breen made a deal with them"
iirc its plastered in city 17 alleyways
Right, do we know what he gave the combine in exchangeEli also says it outright (Or Kleiner, I forget) that Breen cut a deal which is why he's the Global Admin and why people are being transhumanised and conscripted, not just wiped out.
Access to localised portal tech (which is a major draw for them) & new soldiers, I think.Right, do we know what he gave the combine in exchange
Right, do we know what he gave the combine in exchange
I seehe gave them a means to do their own thing instead of having very expensive synths watch over earth
he gave them the overwatch transhuman arm and the civil protection force, neither of which would exist if he hadn't intervened
its a means for the combine to gain resources and an army
oh yeah and portal technology which is what the combine really fucking wants