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"I have been asked to say a few words to the transhuman arm of Sector 17 Overwatch, concerning recent successes in containing members of the resistence science team. Let me say up front that I regreat having to tamper my heartfelt congratulations with a strong measure of dissapointment. But I wouldn't be doing my duty as your administrator if I did not pass along the message I have received from Our Benefactors.
"The capture of Eli Vance is an event of major signifigance, make no mistake. And while it's true that conceivably we could have taken him at almost any moment in the past several years, the manner of his capture may prove to have unexpected benefits. It can not have gone unnoticed by all resistence members that Dr. Vance's capture coincided with the act of giving shelter to Gordon Freeman. This might cause some to think twice before harboring Dr. Freeman. It may cause some to question his allegiance, even prompt some to turn him out or turn him over to our cause. However, we can not count on such developments. Dr. Freeman's repuatation is such that other desperate renegades are willing to grant him a great deal of license in the spirit of spreading general chaos and terror.
"This brings me to the one note of dissapointment I must echo from Our Benefactors. Obviously I am not on the grounds to closely command or second guess the dedicated forces of The Overwatch, but this does not mean that I can shirk responsibility for recent lapses, and even outright failures on their part. I have been severely questioned by these shortcomings, and now I must put the question to you. How can one man have slipped through your forces' fingers, time and time again? How is it possible? This is not some agent provacteur or highly trained assasin we are discussing! Gordon Freeman is a theoretical physacist who had hardly earned the distinction of his PHd, at the time of the Black Mesa Incident. I have good reason to believe that in the intervening years, he was in a state that precluded any development of covert skills! The man you have consistently failed to slow, let alone capture, is by all standards, simply that, just an ordinary man. How can you have failed to aprehend him? Well, I will leave the upbraiding for another time, to the extent it proves necessary.
"Now is the moment to redeem yourselves. If the transhuman forces are to prove themselves an indispensable augmentation to the Combine Overwatch, they will have to earn the privelage. Let me not remind you that the alternitave, if you can call it that, is total extinction, in union with all the other unworthy branches of the speceis. Let's not allow it to come to that. I have done my best to convince Our Benefactors that you are the finest the speceis has to offer. So far, they have accepted my argument, but without concrete evidence to back it up, my words sound increasingly hollow, even to me.
"The burden of proof is on you. As is the consequence of failure. I'll just leave it at that."
-Dr. Wallace Breen
 Diet Chaos · Mon Dec 14, 2009 @ 01:47am · 0 Comments |
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