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The Coast is largely seen as a wasteland swarmed with invasive alien wildlife and Combine patrols. The Coast showcases the darker side of the Combine's rule over Earth including the depletion of natural resources and brutal Combine raids on resistance outposts. Much of the infrastructure along the coastline (such as roads, bridges and tunnels) has decayed or been severely damaged over the course of the Combine's rule on Earth. Many areas along the coast have also been colonized by Antlions, and both the Resistance and Combine have had complications fending them off. Much of the coast had been abandoned because of the swarming Antlions, and both sides use Thumpers to restrict Antlion movement and create safe zones. Some portions of the coast have also become infested with zombies and other Xen wildlife, due in part to their use by the Combine as biological weapons against Resistance outposts. While not immediately obvious, this infestation extends to the ocean as well as leeches have dominated the sea. A prominent highway - Highway 17 extends along the coastline. The Resistance have set up bases spread out along the coast connected by what remains of the highway mostly on abandoned buildings or structures.

It is apparent along the coast that the Combine are indeed sucking up the natural resources of the planet. The ocean can be seen to be "dried up" and the waterline is much lower than it was; this is evident by the fact that the piers located near the start of the coast are some considerable distance from the ocean itself. Much of the coastline can be seen littered with wrecked boats and ships resting on what was previously seabed. Many of the docks and piers on the coast are no longer standing in water. Indications of the previous sea level can be judged by moss which had previously gathered on harbor structures at the edge of the water, but which now lie several feet above the water level. What remains of the ocean is heavily infested with leeches which have seemingly killed off most native marine life. Any living thing that ventures too deep into the ocean will be swarmed and killed within seconds.

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Highway 17 is one of the many coastal highways that connect City 17 to neighboring regions. As of the events of Half-Life 2, the highway is no longer maintained and is suffering from severe disrepair, with collapsed bridges, landslides, and scores of rusty, abandoned car bodies littered across the extent of the highway. Highway 17 runs nearly all the way to Nova Prospekt, and extends over several kilometers. Many small coastal villages are located along Highway 17, several of which are inhabited by Resistance members. By the time Gordon passes through the area, some of the former resistance bases are under Combine control, who are using them as bases or road checkpoints along Highway 17. Several road tunnels also exist along Highway 17 although most of them have been completely abandoned and some are infested with zombies and other extraterrestrial Xen wildlife.

Dock 137 is a small warehouse district and pier situated where the ocean and a dried up inlet meet. This area was used as a Resistance base for a time, but was occupied by the Combine prior to Gordon's arrival.

Replaying Half Life 2 for the first time since I was a kid. I knew that part of the Combine apocalypse was the oceans being drained, but I never picked up on much of the lore before, so now I'm driving past old boats just on the ground like "Huh, neat"

But then I get to that warehouse place where you use the crane to move your car. The place was built before the 7 Hour War, and it's made to be just above sea level, so using it as a yard stick, it makes it look like we're just at low tide. It doesn't look like the oceans receded at all, it looks like a bunch of boats were just tossed onto the beach.

Then I find out that teleportation in universe is weird and impractical. So The Combine only got here because of the opening we left with the Resonance Cascade in Half Life 1, right? But once that one closed, opening a new portal is apparently not easy, and basically required nuking City 17 to do it, and teleporting things around in our own dimension is just not possible with Combine technology. So... where the hell did the water go? Did they immediately drain 5% of the ocean before the portals closed up? Because they weren't taking any out of our dimension afterwards, and it can't leave our planet any other way.

Alrighty. So, as you all know, the Combine control most of Earth. As a result, the Earth is sick. The skies are gray, the oceans are receding, and plants are dying. But, Portal and Half-Life take place in the same universe. In Portal 2, when you go to the moon, you catch a glimpse of the Earth. It seems cleaner, and it's at the proper sea level. Also, when Chell is finally released, she walks around in a wheat field. The sky is a healthy blue, and the wheat is doing fine. I think the Combine were beaten back.

I know of the standard portal in the ocean theory because the combine wish to transport it off world, but why would the combine need something as simple as water? It can be found on other worlds in the solar system. And surely an empire as vast as theirs would not require a resource that's so simple.

I'm doubtful these structures would be concerned rather it's saltwater or not, and considering how vast our oceans are, using our oceans for this purpose would make a lot of sense, it would show how combine can not only quickly take over a land, but take advantage of its resources to create a self sustaining and self sufficient colony.

Figure 3. Laboratory experiments with Mediterranean Sea water and sediment: Biodegradation half-lives t0.5 of PHB, PBSe, and PBSeT. Monte Carlo simulations of half-life for tested polymers in two habitats, on the seafloor at the sediment-seawater interface (benthic) and the beach scenario (eulittoral). Shown is the distribution of the centered 95 percentiles of the simulations as violin plots. The dot in the center of each violin represents the half-life as calculated from the estimated model coefficients; the value is given in the box below. Letters above the violin plot represent the results of the multiple comparisons. Different letters (A, B) indicate significantly different groups (i.e., Holm-adjusted p-value below tag_hash_114 = 0.05). For PBSeT and PBSe in the eulittoral habitat, no half-life could be calculated because the plateau phase was not reached and values remained below 50 % (cf. Figure 2).

Figure 5. Mesocosm experiments with Mediterranean Sea water and sediment: Disintegration half-lives t0.5 of PHB, PBSeT, and PBS. Monte Carlo simulations of half-life for tested polymers in three habitats (on the seafloor at the sediment-seawater interface (benthic), the beach (eulittoral), and the water column (pelagic) scenario). Shown is the distribution of the centered 95 percentiles of the simulations as violin plots. The dot in the center of each violin plot represents the half-life as calculated from the model coefficients, and the value is given in the box below. Letters above the violin plot represent the results of the multiple comparisons. Different letters indicate significantly different groups.

Figure 7. Comparison of the disintegration half-lives t0.5 of PHB, PBSeT, and PBSe from field experiments in tropical SE Asia and the Mediterranean Sea: Monte Carlo simulations of half-life for tested polymers in the benthic (seafloor sediment-seawater interface) in Asia and the Mediterranean Sea and in the eulittoral (beach scenario) in the Mediterranean Sea. Shown is the distribution of the centered 95 percentiles of the simulations as violin plots. The dot in the center of each violin plot represents the half-life as calculated from the model coefficient and its value is given in the box below. Letters above the violin plot represent the results of the multiple comparisons. Different letters indicate significantly different groups (i.e., Holm-adjusted p-value below tag_hash_119 = 0.05).

Figure 9. Temperature dependence of half-life in benthic tests: half-life t0.5 decreases exponentially with temperature. The dots are the predicted half-life values for PHB (squares), PBSeT (triangles), and PBSe (circles). The line represents an exponential model, the shaded area is the standard error.

The Coast is largely seen as a barren wasteland being picked to the bone by Combine technology. This location showcases the darker side of the Combine's rule over Earth including the depletion of natural resources and brutal Combine raids on Resistance outposts. Much of the infrastructure along the Coastline, such as roads, bridges and tunnels, has decayed or been severely damaged over the course of the Combine's rule on Earth. Many areas have also been colonized by Antlions, and both the Resistance and Combine have had complications fending them off. Much of the Coast had been abandoned because of those swarming creatures. Thumpers are being used by both sides to restrict Antlion's movement and create safe zones. Some portions of this region have also become infested with Zombies and other Xen wildlife, due in part to their use by the Combine as biological weapons against Resistance outposts.

It is more apparent at the coast than anywhere else in City 17 that the Combine are indeed draining the natural resources of the planet. The ocean can be seen to be "dried up" and the sea level is much lower than it was. Much of the coastline can be seen littered with wrecked boats and ships resting on what was previously seabed; many of the docks and piers on the coast are no longer standing in water. Indications of the previous sea level can be judged by moss which had previously gathered on harbor structures at the edge of the water, but which now lie several feet above the water level.

Many small coastal villages and facilities are located along the road, several of which are inhabited by Resistance members. By the time Gordon passes through the area, some of the former Resistance bases are under Combine control, who are using them as bases or checkpoints. Several road tunnels also exist along Highway 17 although most of them have been completely abandoned and some are infested with Zombies and other extraterrestrial Xen wildlife. ff782bc1db