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Sector G Hydro Electric
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| Sector G Hydro Electric | |
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200-, during the Black Mesa Incident |
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- "If you're waiting for the train to Sector G, then you'll probably better off walking it. I overheard someone say that all the trams on this end of the facility are having problems."
- ―Black Mesa scientist[src]
Sector G Hydro Electric[2] is one of the seven main sectors of the Black Mesa Research Facility, providing the power for the facility. It is connected to the Red Line of the Black Mesa Transit System.[2]
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[edit] Overview
[edit] Freight hangars
After defeating the Pit Worm, Adrian Shephard goes through the hangar area located on the other side of the Hydro-Electric Dam. There he battles with several comrades many Black Ops and Race X creatures squabbling over the area. When he goes through the main hangar area for the first time, it is filled with explosives. The access to the dam is blocked, and he is forced to go underground. There he fights an endless swarm of Pit Drones he must contain by closing two large blast doors with levers and faces a colony of nesting Voltigores in pitch black corridors. When he reaches the surface again, the main hangar area is in ruins, as the explosives have detonated and cleared to path to the dam.[3]
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A Black Ops truck with unloaded troops at the start of the area.
Ditto.
Black Op manning an M2 Browning Machine Gun.
Male Black Op firing at Shock Troopers in one of the hangars.
The main hangar area.
Voltigore hiding behind the vegetation.
The Pit Drone chamber.
Voltigore preparing for an attack in the pitch black corridors in Sector G.
Voltigore shooting at Shephard.
Baby Voltigore and egg in a nest.
Baby Voltigores and egg in a nest.
Nesting Voltigore.
Idle Voltigore in the pitch black corridors in Sector G.
Ditto.
The main hangar area after the explosives' detonation.
Two Shock Troopers and a Voltigore in the hangar area behind the dam in Sector G.
[edit] Topside Hydro Plant
Sector G's most prominent feature is the Topside Hydro Plant, featuring the iconic Hydro-Electric Dam. A road passes above the dam; one direction leads to the Advanced Biological Research Lab,[4] the other to a series of partially destroyed freight hangars.[3]
When Gordon Freeman reaches the dam from the Advanced Biological Research Lab, it is mostly intact, but the HECU posted a turret on the other side. An Apache is also patrolling the area and destroys the bridge linking the intake tower to the dam. Freeman is forced to quickly dive in the basin where an Ichthyosaur is swimming to reach the intake tower and stop one of the propellers below, then pass under the dam to proceed further, in a desert area.[4]
Later Adrian Shephard reaches the dam after going through the hangar area located on the other side of the dam. There he witnesses his comrades assaulting a trapped Gargantua, while the G-Man is talking on a cellphone in the intake tower, before leaving through a portal where Sprites are diving in. He then defeats the creature with dynamite, damaging the middle of the dam. At that point, the other side of the dam from which Freeman originally came is blocked by Race X moss, and the water level on the other side of the dam has also greatly risen, apparently due to Freeman having turned off the turbines underwater.[3]
A duct system inside the dam leads to exit H-287GQ, located in a small desert area. Farther Sector E Materials Transport can be reached through an Ordinance Storage Facility, under which the Gene Worm appears.[3]
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Early screenshot.
Dramatic composite screenshot of Shephard in his comrades the area following the dam, featured during the Opposing Force installation process. Shock Troopers, Headcrabs and the Black Op Apache are not featured in the final version. The crashed HECU Apache is also empty.
[edit] Drainage Canal
Located at level 5, and accessed by Barney Calhoun through Entry Point B-03, the Drainage Canal is used for Waste Crushing and Disposal. It features a large lift used to move important items such as crates, and two large wheels in the canal itself used to crush garbage. The Drainage Canal is also connected through a small trapdoor to a small road linking the Freight Yard to the South Exit.[5]
That area of Sector G is reached from the Black Mesa Transit System by the Sector G Main Access Lift, giving access to all five levels of that sector, and being adjacent to another lift. A Small Materials Storage Area full of cardboard crates and a crane system in a bigger storage area can also be found at level 5.[5] It is unknown how the Drainage Canal area connects to the Topside Hydro Plant.
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The Waste Crushing and Disposal in the Drainage Canal.
Dead Vortigaunt.
Shephard catches HECU soldiers throwing away security guard corpses.
[edit] Behind the scenes
The name "Topside Hydro Plant" is given in a Black Mesa Announcement System announcement;[4] the name "Hydro Electric" is given in a Black Mesa Transit System map seen in Blue Shift. It is not clearly stated that the Hydro-Electric Dam is part of the Topside Hydro Plant and that it is located in Sector G, but given the Sector's name, that seems logical.
[edit] Trivia
The Hydro-Electric Dam is somewhat similar to the Hoover Dam.
[edit] List of appearances
- Half-Life (First appearance)
- Half-Life: Opposing Force
- Half-Life: Blue Shift
[edit] References
| Preceded by Advanced Biological Research Lab |
Half-Life story arc journey | Succeeded by Black Mesa desert |
| Preceded by Waste Processing Area 3 |
Half-Life: Opposing Force story arc journey | Succeeded by Sector E Materials Transport |
| Preceded by High-Energy Particle Labs |
Half-Life: Blue Shift story arc journey | Succeeded by Freight Yard |
