

Why are the remains of Test Shaft 09 navigable with a Portal gun, with random portal surfaces in unfeasibly convenient locations? Ive done this to try and answer the following questions, which have been bugging me from completion: Finally a bit of guesswork, hypothesising, filling gaps and trying to connect events together with little-to-no evidence in a way that makes sense. Tried to fill in any gaps by looking at parallel real-world events (such as the World Wars and the Cold War) Ignoring all information from the ARGs and interviews, which seem to massively contradict the story of Portal 2. Using information from the games, Portal and Portal 2, and the Half-Life series where appropriate. If you combine Portal 1, Portal 2, the ARGs and various information given in interviews and on websites, so much has been retconned and overwritten that if you try and consolidate it, it just doesnt make any sense anymore.Īs the amazing Half-Life Saga Story Guide does not yet include the events of Portal 2, this thread is my personal attempt to unify the events that precede the series. Since completing Portal 2 Ive been left with a lot of unanswered questions, and some very contradictory information to try and answer them with. Suffice to say, theres a billion spoilers for the Portal franchise in here.

As its grown to nearly 3000 words long, I felt that a new thread would be appropriate. This thread was intended to be a small post in the Portal 2 Spoiler Discussion thread but over the last few hours it got a bit out of hand.
