The Traumatic Untold Story of The Fall of Humanity | Seven Hour War | FULL Half-Life Lore

Was it planned? Would you attend "EarthAid Unite" in the hopes our music would make The Combine become peaceful? I made use of more Half-Life: Alyx footage, and made the scenes more believable with different characters and animations. What did you think?

I love how the four most important events in the HL universe are the resonance cascade, the 7-hour war, the subsequent resistance, and bring your daughter to work day

The mix of random hostile creatures first appearing worlwide and leaving everything and everyone so weak that then a ruthless conqueror appears to take it all in just 7 Earth hours is terrifying.

I cannot die happy without seeing Half Life 3 and knowing the origins of the Combine.

The thought of the Seven Hour War has always been terrifying. We always assume Humanity can Independence Day our way out of anything, but reality would be a lot more like this.

I think what terrifies me the most about the Combine is that they are seemingly not just a universal alien force— but a multiversal empire, using the Xen invasion to rip into the Half-Life universe. When Earth is free from Combine invasion, the Combine Empire is so spectacularly, incomprehensibly, horrifyingly massive that such a historic event for humanity that is repelling the Combine from the earth is just a lost document in an ocean of paperwork for the Combine for them to get back to at some other time— if ever. Especially with the Epistle 3 script leak, they created a Dyson Sphere in around 20 years— possibly far, far less. They are so large in scale and operations that they probably completely forget about Earth and humanity as a whole. And what is possibly even worse— usually such horrid militant factions have a reason (such as fear of an enemy or perceived threat) to be so horrible— even if that reason no longer exists. Was there something that forged the Combine into such a horrible dictatorship? Is there something they themselves are fighting, possibly involving the G-Man’s employers? So many questions. So few answers…

This isnt seven hours. Im dissapointed.

My theory that Breen knew exactly how it will go down since he ordered to use the crystal at the chamber till he became the ambassador of earth even makes more sense after this episode. Gman promised him the position if he continued with the day despite everything not holding up in the facility. Breen knew it was destined to fail and open the portals yet he did it anyway knowing he would be safe and grant him the most powerful position he could have. Why would Gman take part of this and hand over them the crystal? I believe its part of his masterplan to take down the Combine army for good. He knew only earth have the right people for the job to do so... Knowingly that Freeman along the way went against his ways and tried to avoid him, he found a suitable replacement for the job.

I think what I loved most about the seven hour war is just the name itself. You don’t need movies or books or anything to understand. The name alone tells you all you need to know and gives you a look into this vast empire even when it isn’t able to fully be present

This is the most interesting event so far in Half Life to me, and I really find it disappointing nobody has attempted to make a detailed mod about it yet. I'd love to write for something like that.

Something I’ve noticed in the ‘Half-Life 2’ games is that Earth resistance is modestly capable of taking on the visible forces of the Combine when properly mobilized and one might wonder how the Earth’s militaries were so overwhelmed during the Seven Hour War. Armies being depleted by Xenian creatures makes sense but I've speculated that Striders, Hunters, Gunships, etc. amount to light artillery within the Combine’s full arsenal; the heavier guns having been kept away from Earth since the Overwatch was instituted and given standing control over the planet. Perhaps said heavier guns would have been seen again had the portal storm not been neutralized in HL2E2.

The best and most memorable quote from half life 2 for me will always be "if the super portal reaches full maturity- it will be the 7 hour war all over again...except this time it wont last 7 minutes.."

going through a broken down city 17 in half life 2 during the uprising feels amazing cause that's probably what would happen irl a small but very considerable uprising

What's really incredible is that aside from the Combine, the "bad guys"-the vortigant, the head crabs, ant lions, striders, etc are just being themselves-creatures in the wild. They're merely pawns. This was a truly well written story.

Just yesterday I was thinking how awesome it would be if Skyrionn did a longer video about the Seven Hour War...and now here it is!

Honestly, I love reading about how scary and powerful the Combine are because it only props up G-Man even more for me. If even this insanely OP Multiversal Empire with untold technology and capabilities fear the G-Man, it just makes you wonder even more about his origins.

12:29 The stock market crashing has got to be the worst consequence of the Seven Hour War. It's hard to imagine the devastation caused by this event, but it most certainly rivalled that of the Great Depression.

just imagine seeing everything unfold with your own eyes. that would be horrifying

"this was by far the shortest war in human history at a mere seven hours" The Anglo-Zanzibar War: am i joke to you?

This franchise never ceases to give some of the best storytelling out there and it's amazing we've had to wait this long for a conclusion.