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Sector A Training Facility
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200-, during the Black Mesa Incident |
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- "Hello, and welcome to the Black Mesa Hazard Course, where you'll be trained in the use of a Hazardous Environment Suit. I am your Holographic Assistant."
- ―Gina Cross' Holographic Assistant counterpart[src]
Sector A Training Facility[1][2] is one of the seven main sectors of the Black Mesa Research Facility. It is connected to the Green Line of the Black Mesa Transit System.[2]
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[edit] Features
[edit] Training Facility
[edit] Overview
Encountered in all four of the original Half-Life games, Sector A's Training Facility contains the separate Hazard Courses used for training scientists[1] (predominantly in the use of the HEV Suit in the standard "Black Mesa Hazard Course") and security guards (in the "Black Mesa Hazard Course for Security Guard Training").[3]
Tests are taught by trained instructors[4] or prerecorded Holographic Assistants[1][5][3][6] in rooms called "areas" or "stations", whilst participants are constantly monitored by observing scientists standing behind large windows.[1][3] Tests typically are divided into small, numbered steps; most of the time when a step is passed, a sound is heard while the number of the step is lit on the wall at the end of the station. When all numbers are lit, the test has been passed. Most of the time Holographic Assistants first show the move to the trainee. Instructions and animations can be heard and seen at will by pressing the button at the small terminals located at the start of each station.
The two known Hazard Courses are apparently built over old, disused industrial maintenance sectors of the facility, and are each divided into an obstacle course for physical training, and a target range for firearms training.
The Hazard Courses appear as the optional training chapters of Half-Life and Blue Shift, the latter based on the same maps, although they are two different areas.
In the Opposing Force chapter We Are Not Alone, the standard Hazard Course can be accessed with the Displacer Cannon in the map the weapon is found in. There the facility appears to have been damaged as well by the Resonance Cascade, and the Holographic Assistant is still working. Vortigaunts are swarming the area and attack the hologram, probably thinking it is a living being, but do not damage it.
In Decay, the Hazard Course is visited when Gina Cross and Colette Green are required to cut through the destroyed remains of the Hazard Course to reach the surface with Rosenberg during the chapter Hazardous Course. Zombies instead of scientists are now found in the observation rooms.
[edit] Black Mesa Hazard Course
[edit] Introduction
The start of the standard Black Mesa Hazard Course is reached through an elevator that came from above. There the trainee is welcomed by the Holographic Assistant in a small hall:
Hello, and welcome to the Black Mesa Hazard Course, where you'll be trained in the use of a Hazardous Environment Suit. I am your Holographic Assistant. Let's begin by stepping into your suit. You can see it suspended up ahead of you. Hologram: If you see one of these buttons, press it, and I will appear to demonstrate certain moves.
In the next room the HEV Suit is waiting on the catwalk crossing the room. In the following area, the Holographic Assistant appears again to say:
Moving around in your HEV Suit can be slightly disorienting at first. Take a moment to familiarize yourself with basic movement and soon it will fit you like a second skin. I will see you just around the corner.
After going through a larger room flooded with water in its bottom, the proper training begins.
[edit] Jumping and ducking
There the jump and duck moves are taught, while scientists monitor the tests from behind large windows. In this first room, the trainee is required to jump over three pipes. The Assistant states:
The first move we will practice in the Hazard Course is basic jumping. You will attempt to get over this set of pipes, using only your Run and Jump commands. It helps to get a running start. Watch me, and then try it yourself.
Upon completing the test, a scientist says:
Good work! Those new suits can be tricky. Please proceed to the next area.
The next area requires ducking under three pipes. The Assistant states:
You will now duck under the next set of obstacles. Please note that crouching will automatically shift your suit into stealth mode, minimizing movement noise.
Upon completing the test, the scientist says:
Very good! I hardly noticed you. Move on to the next area.
The next area requires jumping over a pipe, ducking under the second, and jumping again over the last one. The Assistant states:
Now we will combine skills. You will need to jump, duck and then jump again. This will prepare you for the next room, where you will have to do both moves at the same time.
Upon completing the test, a scientist says:
Good work! You look prepared for the next station.
[edit] Gallery
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[edit] Pre-release
Early Gina Cross' Holographic Assistant counterpart in an early Training Facility.
Ditto.
[edit] Retail
[edit] Half-Life
Training Facility sign.
Holographic Assistant at the start of the Hazard Course in the Training Facility.
Ditto.
Cross' hologram showing Gordon how to make a duck jump.
Rat in the Target Range.
[edit] Half-Life: Blue Shift
Miller as the Holographic Assistant for Security Guard Training in the Training Facility.
Ditto, closer.
Rosenberg as seen during the Security Guard Training.
[edit] Half-Life: Decay
Hazard course training schedule from around the Black Mesa Incident.
[edit] Satellite Communications Center
Located right outside the Training Facility, it houses a large satellite uplink dish. This facility is used in the Decay chapter Surface Call when Colette Green and Gina Cross help Rosenberg contact the military. Near this area is a vast semi-subterranean freight warehouse, which Cross and Green must traverse through to open the locked door to the dish control room.[6]
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Under the powered satellite uplink dish.
[edit] Area 4 Personnel Dormitories
As seen in the Security Shift Schedule given to Barney Calhoun, Sector A features an Area 4 Personnel Dormitories. Two security guards started their Red (from 09:00 to 22:00) and Orange (from 21:00 to 10:00) Shifts there on May 15, 200-.[7]
[edit] List of appearances
- Half-Life: Day One (First appearance)
- Half-Life
- Half-Life: Uplink (Non-canonical appearance)
- Half-Life: Opposing Force
- Half-Life: Blue Shift
- Half-Life: Decay
[edit] References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Half-Life
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Black Mesa Transit System map
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Half-Life: Blue Shift
- ↑ Half-Life PlayStation 2 instruction manual
- ↑ Half-Life: Opposing Force
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Half-Life: Decay
- ↑ Half-Life: Blue Shift instruction manual
| Preceded by N/A |
Half-Life story arc journey | Succeeded by Level 3 Dormitories |
| Preceded by N/A |
Half-Life: Blue Shift story arc journey | Succeeded by Area 8 Topside Dormitories |
| Preceded by Sector C Test Labs |
Half-Life: Decay story arc journey | Succeeded by Sector C Test Labs |
