During this brief time, Breen makes a very notable statement: he mentions while in the presence of Alyx Vance and her father, Eli (who are also in his custody) that Gordon 'has proven a fine pawn to those who control him.' He also comments that Gordon's services are 'open to the highest bidder,' and says he would understand if Gordon does not want to discuss it in front of his friends.

Breen informs the Combine and immediately dispatches the forces at his disposal to capture (or kill) Freeman and break the associated Resistance movement in City 17.ĭuring Gordon Freeman's raid on the Citadel, Freeman is temporarily in the custody of Breen, until Judith Mossman turns against the Administrator. Even if he had selfish reasons for doing so, the human race most likely would have faced complete genocide had he not surrendered Earth at the end of the Seven Hour War.īreen in his office at the top of the Citadel, with Mossman behind.īreen is alerted to the return of Gordon Freeman in Half-Life 2 when he is accidentally teleported to his office in the Citadel for a few seconds. Whether or not he is the one who intentionally attracted the Combine to Earth, his intentions appear to be noble on the surface, and he sounds quite sure that he is doing the right thing - though he may be simply attempting to justify his actions to the populace as much as himself. If his propaganda is to be believed, he may have been under the impression that introducing the Combine would have brought about a cosmic unity between the two races, and would have been ultimately beneficial for the human race (something that he still claims despite the evidently large number of humans suffering at the time of Combine occupation of Earth).

To what degree the invasion and his issuance of power was intentionally orchestrated is uncertain, but his comprehensive motivations for ensuring the Black Mesa Incident remain unknown (though almost certainly influenced by the G-Man). Breen is appointed with charge of an entity called the Human Affairs Bureau and then later declared the 'Interim Administrator' of Earth (as seen on newspaper clips in Black Mesa East). The disaster directly leads to the Seven Hour War, at the end of which he 'negotiates' a peace agreement with the Combine that saves humanity, but at the cost of their freedom. The great 'lengths' he went to in obtaining the sample alludes to the fates of numerous Survey Team members who died in Xen in order to acquire it and other specimens. His insistence, in apparent collusion with the G-Man, leads to the Resonance Cascade and subsequently the Black Mesa Incident. It is at his behest that unstable sample GG-3883 is scheduled to be thoroughly analyzed in the Anti-Mass Spectrometer, requiring a dangerous operating level of 105% despite evident protests and equipment malfunctions. During the events depicted in Half-Life, he is neither seen nor directly mentioned by name, instead always referred to as 'the Administrator'. Breen is most likely the person crossed out in the middle.ĭoctor Breen is Administrator of the Black Mesa Research Facility at the time of the Black Mesa Incident in 200. Photo of the Anomalous Materials team before the Black Mesa Incident as seen in Kleiner's Lab. Biography Background Half-Life and the Seven Hour War

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