They have since stated that all of his independent messages were fake. Unfortunately, he decided to spin off and do his own thing, interfering with ValveвЂ™s work. It was made by Dougley, who was a major Potato ARG participant, and one of the вЂњARG championsвЂќ. Perhaps she went to Aperture instead? It certainly makes sense.ДЄs for that message вЂ“ itвЂ™s fake. We know Judith was turned down by Black Mesa. She went to the Arctic in search of the Overworld codes, but instead found the Borealis. If the thing completely vanished, then there must have been some amazing portal tech on board.ДЄs such, I donвЂ™t think Eli and Kleiner are the important pieces in the BM-Aperture puzzle, even with the вЂњAlixвЂќ potato exhibit. As for how they know of the dangerous technology on board вЂ“ well, itвЂ™s not an outrageous conclusion. ApertureвЂ™s top research vessel, completely lost with all hands. ItвЂ™s implied they spy on each other, and they steal each otherвЂ™s technology.Д®li and Kleiner know of the Borealis because itвЂ™s an infamous accident.

Black Mesa has been around since the 1970вЂ™s, perhaps even earlier, and theyвЂ™ve always been rival companies. I donвЂ™t think Aperture and Black Mesa would ever cooperate, however. If it were their technology from the start, I think they would have looked nearly identical). I believe itвЂ™s a sign they took the gravity tech, reverse engineered it and overhauled it for use in the device. So, in conclusion, I believe Black Mesa created the gravity gun, and Aperture stole it for use in their technology, particularly the portal gun (Interestingly, the gravity function in Portal 2вЂ™s portal device doesnвЂ™t resemble the HL2 gravity gun as much as it used to, in Portal 1. If we follow this theory, then thereвЂ™s no way Aperture created the gravity gun, because their portal technology does not interface or interact in any way with Xen, or any other borderworld. Many fans believe itвЂ™s a Xenian crystal вЂ“ it definitely looks like it. The one we see in HL2 seems to have been jury-rigged at a later date (it certainly seems larger and bulkier than the one seen in Lab Rat, which must have been a complete prototype), and since Eli and Judith canвЂ™t have brought it with them (and I doubt that any scientist would carry the thing with him through the Incident, let alone give it to Eli at a later date), I imagined it had been reconstructed some time after the Combine invasion.ДЄs for the prototype weвЂ™re seeing here in Lab Rat, it seems very bulky, and looking at it, it doesnвЂ™t look like Aperture tech, which is sleek, white and not at all like what weвЂ™re seeing here.ДЇurthermore, the gravity gun seems to run on some sort of crystal or substance, placed in the front part of the device. It seems a bit too advanced for the Resistance to have designed it from the ground up in only two decades, so I always imagined it was based on Black Mesa designs. Despite the fact that it is never clarified who constructed the gravity gun in the Half-Life series, Eli, Judith and Alyx seem to have been familiar with the thing for quite some time. But I am saying that any similar ideas between the two companies were most likely originated by Aperature, and then taken by Black Mesa. I am not saying Black Mesa sole ALL of AperatureвЂ™s ideas, nor am I saying ALL of Black MesaвЂ™s ideas are stolen. If you look at the valve store you can see pages for coffee mugs (very cool I might add), and that also seems to hint that Black Mesa stole AperatureвЂ™s вЂњnon-patented Thermal insulation materialвЂќ () -black mesa ( ) -aperature such as the trophy case вЂњeaster eggвЂќ and CaveвЂ™s pre-recorded messages that seem to state that black mesa had almost ran them out of buisness.

This is actually alluded to several times during the course of Portal 2. ItвЂ™s been an ongoing side-story that aperature makes their science from scratch, only to have Black mesa take their ideas.

It would seem that Aperature sience creates these ideas, and then Black Meas comes out with very similar ideas.

The Replay Experience Experiment aka TREE.

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