Why didn't Gordon pilot the Borealis into the thermal exhaust port of the Dyson Sphere...

Why didn't Gordon pilot the Borealis into the thermal exhaust port of the Dyson Sphere, starting a chain reaction which destroys it and brings down the Combine?

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Because it's a boat, not a space ship, you faggot. Also, what would a Dyson sphere need to exhaust? Why would such a mind bendingly huge structure have only one exhaust port?

Will Gordon ever get those power converters he wanted?

Why couldn't a Type II civilization create their own teleportation technology?

They said the same thing about the Death Star faggot, and look where it got the Empire.

The Death Star is a speck of dust compared to a Dyson Sphere

The less dumb rendition of the Dyson Sphere is a large swarm of satellites. A VERY large swarm. It doesnt matter where you crash, it probably wont do shit or maybe cause a blackout in a sector at most.

Because it wouldn't have one.
You can literally do JACK And SHIT to it.
Unless you're some kind of fucking such a fat cunt you probably EAT stars and planets.

You would need to be an inconceivably massive organism to destroy one, essentially.

Even kauju would look at the son of a bitch and go "DAAAMN NIGGA YOU NEED A DIET"

The real solution is to either cause the combine sun to go super nova if it would engulf the entirety of the sphere or some other bullshit to make it turn into a black hole and rob the at least that dyson sphere of its energy source.

>The combine likely have more.

>Make it go supernova and destroy the earth and entire solar system, making it all pointless

isn't gordon a scientist? couldn't he hack the cmbine computers and put a virus that will destory the everything of the dyson spere?

>Aperture
>established to make shower curtains
>few years pass
>turns info science facility
>random lab bums manage to create a technology that super advanced intergalactic super beings could not somehow achieve themselves and decide to find it by occupying Earth for no reason
Why not invade Earth quietly, find Borealis and then take it? No Freeman, no resistance and etc.

Who knows, could be the same reason your mother didn't abort you

having an MIT education in presumably materials science doesn't make you a hacker

I see a lot of people that seem to assume the Dyson Sphere is around the sun but that doesnt seem to be the case, the Borealis can teleport and travel through time and shit. Either way intentionally causing a star to turn into a black hole would probably be harder than just blowing up the sphere.

>*type V

FTFY

>>Make it go supernova and destroy the earth

Who says it's anywhere near our solar system?

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Your mother when it didn't abort you said that. My father works with her.

Um, how is dyson sphere even possible? It envelops the star, but you have to build it around the star. But stars are burn hot?

Um, how are planets even possible? They need to orbit around a star, but stars are burn hot?

But you have to build the sphere around the star? Fucker?

Maybe they could, but teleportation does indeed entail consciousness-death.

Suitably only for servants or material, but not the combine's masters who avoid it at all costs.

Alternately, maybe all their tech is just shit they've stolen from other civilizations they've nommed.

He didn't use the force, and he wasn't a good friend

>Um
Nobody gives a shit about your shitty dilemmas whilst menstruating

>maybe all their tech is just shit they've stolen from other civilizations they've nommed
This is probably the best possible excuse.

Um, I have a 8.4 inch cock.

That's the point. To capture all the energy the star emits. You can't build the sphere too close.
Stars are huge. The dyson sphere must be even larger. That's the catch. You have to build a structure much larger than the star. I bet it takes several planets resources to build one if you want to use specific materials.

>Alternately, maybe all their tech is just shit they've stolen from other civilizations they've nommed.
Makes sense, considering they're called Combine

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Freeman
>Half-Life director Gabe Newell coined the name "Gordon Freeman" during a conversation with the game's writer Marc Laidlaw in his car. It included a homage to the physicist and philosopher Freeman Dyson.
>Freeman John Dyson is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He theorized several concepts that bear his name, such as Dyson sphere.

why didnt gordon pilot gabens fat ass into the combine homeworld

It's not a close fit, you'd build it at distance where you get similar amount of light per area as you'd get on Earth (the distance itself depends on luminosity of the star), depending on the application perhaps a bit closer or a bit further.

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Why didn't Gordon pilot Borealis to reality. So Episode 3 would exist.

It's directly implied to be OUR system in a sphere. Look at the combine's clamp logo. It makes a shitload more sense now.

soon he will be there

Is Dyson Sphere the latest hot meme?

Sure. Think of them like a shittier verison of the borg. They conquer and assimilate settings not with unassailable superior tech (as originally implied) but with dimensional portals and nigh-infinite numerical advantage and *just enough* of a tech advantage. .

After all, mundane RPGs and bullets can kill their troopers and war machines for the most part.

The RAVAGERS would like a word with you.

wew lad

Why does everyone assume destroying the Dyson Sphere would destroy the Combine?

The Dyson Sphere isn't there to show The Combine's beating, vulnerable heart. The Dyson Sphere is meant to be the ultimate display of the Combine's might and power. It's a proclamation that the Combine have conquered even the stars themselves, and are truly an opponent that is impossible to actually defeat.

We would've seen that shit in the skies. Tons of star-like objects in the sky.

If you have a Dyson sphere, planets are pretty much obsolete. Earth for example could comfortably support a population of a trillion (you'd need fusion or space solar to farm indoors, though, since traditional farming at one level is outrageously inefficient use of space) but habitats making up a Dyson swarm (or built inside the rigid shell, a less plausible concept) could house septillions (13 orders of magnitude more). A sphere is the worst possible shape to arrange mass into a living space: a single Dyson sphere has more surface area than all planets in the galaxy combined.

It's possibly the only way they actually even beat us, is coming out of FUCK ALL NOWHERE with planet-scaled lawn darts and made us lose in 7 hrs.

Shit, if my Dyson sphere was destroyed by a thing that was supposed to float on water and not in damn space, I would feel pretty demoralized. Maybe that was the point? Make Combine feel so bad about themselves that they may actually give up?

No it's not.

pretty much. if they have Dyson Spheres. only them and god knows what fuck more they have. it also means that they have been playing around this whole time

I'm wondering how they could have written it to make it *seem* possible to destroy without, you know, giving away that it's a fucking dyson sphere first.

No, it was more meant as a "AAHAHAHHA FUCK YOU" to humanity.

The borealis was more like a fizzle than a bang.

if such a thing even existed, it probably wouldn't even make a difference.

there's probably a thousand other dyson spheres that the combine had, or otherwise would probably be reproducible. even if you destroy their "homeworld" what's stopping them from selecting another one? it's like thinking killing the US president does something. it doesn't throw our country into disorder. a Vice-president will take his place. the only people who will be affected by the president being killed are the people who THINK it does anything

>shoot one end of the portal gun into the sun inside the Dyson sphere
>shoot the other end onto the inside surface of the sphere

Badda-bing, badda-boom. Combine universal union will be sleeping with the fishies tonight, capiche?