Borealis
The "Military" skin for Atlas is basically 100% what I pictured "military androids" to look like in my head. During the firt ARG with the ASCII screenshot leaks from the BBS where we first saw the 2 coop bots, I was pretty sure it was Episode 3 stuff and that that's exactly what they were going to be.
As for the Borealis, it's an icebreaker vessel with some sort of R&D portal tech on board. The Combine want it to absorb the technology into their own. It's very obvious from the HL2 series that they don't have that sort of perfect transportation tech available to them - they need a giant dark matter reactor just to power their own, in the HL2 finale - and since their M.O. is traversing the multiverse and conquering habitable worlds, they could really use it to do that more efficiently. And the rebels just want it to keep it out of the Combine's hands, obvious global reconstruction implications not withstanding. I imagine Eli wants it destroyed because the first time humanity played around with teleportation and reality warping, Half Life 1 happened.
One thing I really hope Valve does, is that the "Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System" that is onboard the Borealis is not the GLaDOS we know and love. It's a completely separated, much older version of the system. I'd really love it if it's voice were male and it was completely different from the GLaDOS from the Portal games. Totally uncorrupted, original version of the software.
One minor detail that Portal 2 fucked up though is that in Ep2, Kleiner (I think?) says that when the Borealis disappeared from Aperture it took part of the dry dock with it. But the Borealis dock in Portal 2 is totally intact although incredibly bland.
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Found this, wish it wasn't $20 because I love subtle game/geek stuff.
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Hmm, sounds a lot like "the mainframe" from that Portal 2 machinima: watch it here
Watch the newest one. It's much more epic.
Now THAT I'd like to see.
Maybe it sent it back. Anything could've happened in the 50,000 (or something) years between Portal 1 & 2.
With time travel they could stop the combine, or the combine could completely rule the earth before humans had any way of retaliating.
Ooh, I like that idea. Maybe because I'm a big fan of time travel. And there's plenty of reasons to use and destroy it. You could even say it was hinted at in that one 70's chamber from Portal 2. But no, I think Valve is actively trying to keep their games (for the most part) on Earth, with time moving forward, so that none of their games can comepletely overshadow the others.
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In regards to the dry dock comment msleeper made, I don't think that the whole room counts as a dock. It looked more like an area to build the Borealis than it does to launch it. I think the dock for launching the Borealis took place somewhere else since the old Aperture is inside an old salt mine.
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With time travel they could stop the combine, or the combine could completely rule the earth before humans had any way of retaliating.
Ooh, I like that idea. Maybe because I'm a big fan of time travel. And there's plenty of reasons to use and destroy it. You could even say it was hinted at in that one 70's chamber from Portal 2. But no, I think Valve is actively trying to keep their games (for the most part) on Earth, with time moving forward, so that none of their games can comepletely overshadow the others.[/quote]
Well, did you know they banned time travel in china? (Unrelated, I know.)
Side note: Playing a 3d, first person, shooter game, with lots of story and audio elements... WITH NO SOUND WHAT SO EVER? WTF?
I had subtitles :S!!
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Chicken lives in the middle of australian redneck hell so its no suprise she can't afford speakers /jk
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I had subtitles :S!!
and did you have close captions too? 
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