The Combine

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Evil Organization
Full Name	Universal Union
Alias	The Combine CMB Our Benefactors Combine Empire
Origin	Half-Life 2
Foundation	Combine Overworld
Headquarters	Combine Overworld City 17 (on Earth)
Commanders	Advisors Wallace Breen (Humanity's Representative and Administrator of Earth)
Agents	Combine Overwatch: Overwatch Elite Combine Soldiers Civil Protection Snipers Nova Prospekt Guards Synths: Stalkers Claw Scanners Hunters Striders Crabs Mortars Gunships Dropships Drones: City Scanners Manhacks Rollermines
Powers / Skills	Advanced Technology Assimilation of other races Technology Terraforming Skilled Gunmen Powerful synthetic creatures at their disposal
Goals	Assimilate all life in the Universe. Spread propaganda to the citizens of City 17 and the rest of Planet Earth
Crimes	Abuse of power Genocide Mass murder Unethical experimentation Slavery
Type of Villains	Bio-Engineered Misanthropes

“	We should thank Our Benefactors for giving us respite from this overpowering force. They have thrown a switch and exorcised our demons in a single stroke. They have given us the strength we never could have summoned to overcome this compulsion. They have given us purpose. They have turned our eyes toward the stars.	„
	~ Wallace Breen

The Combine, abbreviated as CMB and referred to by the Citadel as Our Benefactors, is the main antagonistic force of the Half Life series, first making their debut in Half-Life 2. They are an inter-dimensional alien empire ruled by bio-mechanical emotionless, cultureless, logical beings who enslave, assimilate and exploit all other sentient life for their own purposes, mostly for amoral scientific advancement.

They were drawn to Earth after hearing of the Xen invasion from Half-Life, and then managed to conquer the planet within a mere seven hours.

The Combine rely on technology which allows them to transform other creatures into their mindless or otherwise brainwashed servants and modify their bodies to turn them into something different entirely. They are also notable for their method of using the technology of other races against them, often redesigning things such as weapons for greater efficiency. 

Most of the Combine enemies Gordon Freeman fights are masked transhuman soldiers. These biologically modified Combine units are known as "Synths", and the sentient creatures that allegedly control the Combine Empire are the "Advisors", which resemble giant featureless slugs/worms but have powerful telekinetic abilities and a deadly tongue that can drill out and extract information from a person's brains.

Another notable Combine unit is the "Strider", an extremely dangerous tripod creature equipped with a powerful pulse cannon, warp cannon and invulnerable to most weapons aside from heavy-hitting ordnance such as energy pellets, rockets and Magnusson Device explosives.

Trivia

• In the original Half-Life, the Nihilanth made reference to a much more powerful force that had once enslaved and wiped out most of his kind, which forced him and the other aliens to seek refuge in the Xen dimension. When Half-Life 2 was released, this powerful force was retroactively revealed to be the Combine.

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