Dr. Wallace Breen - Earth's Administrator & Globalised Technocratic Autocracy

DOCTOR WALLACE BREEN - The Right Man in the Right Place.

The Appointed Administrator of Earth | The Combine's Vision of Control | Voice of Humanity’s Continued Existence

Breen, Wallace, Dr.
The enigmatic figure in both collaboration and at mercy of the hyper-advanced conglomeration of species making up the endless unknowns of the Combine. The man himself is no more a myth than he is a legend in hushed tones, both within and without. Esteemed allies, worthy adversaries alike. With Earth playing its part as a backwater installation for humanity's overlords, our species provides itself through the voice of Breen as being the most flatulent control mechanism for billions spared from complete annihilation. Though his role in the Black Mesa Research Facility within New Mexico sparks great climactic blame for the world's current status of subjugation, many other candidates of alternative opinions view the stern man a saviour; an angelic bureaucrat that provided mercy to every last man and woman that lives within his consul.

Doctor Breen's rise to affluence became a reality following the Seven Hour War, where the Combine evaporated all forms of human military capability (or presumed) within the labelled timeframe. The United Nations was coerced into a quick surrender following the events of the Portal Storm crisis and the later alien invasion that threatened to create a variety of mass-extinction level events, with the destruction of all traces of civilisation being the most possible. It is unclear of the methods that the Global Administrator managed to ascertain in the communications - let alone the negotiations - with the Combine to secure a human presence in the aftermath.

EXTRACT RETRIEVED DURING THE TRIAL OF WALLACE BREEN - PARTIAL OPENING OF NATIONAL ENQUIRY INTO
THE BLACK MESA ACCIDENT OF NEW MEXICO, 200X

Following a lost trail of time after the cataclysm of Black Mesa, Doctor Breen sat in the middle of the chamber of congress where a national inquiry delved into the accident. The hearing broadcast was aired live to the United States across every television and radio station alike. It was later aired to the rest of the wider world which gave spectacular insights into the unfolding events. Given the revelations of the accident in New Mexico along with panic and hysteria spreading at paces never seen before in civilised history, the former Site Administrator of Black Mesa places himself in an un-phased position of hardened strength as the hearing began in earnest. President George Bush sat in the White House surrounded by a plethora of his staff and family relatives, eyes glued to the screen as questions shelled the still, frail man.

"Doctor Wallace Breen, the people of the United States and the people of the world have become increasingly aware that with the deployment of the United State's military and a nuclear detonation in the New Mexico desert; will you upon good faith give a true testimony to this hearing regarding the events that transpired there?" - Senator Tom Daschle spoke with a firm inquisition toward the doctor on trial.

"Well, I-" The doctor retorted to the senator before being cut off.

"A simple yes or no would suffice, Doctor Breen."

There was a brief pause, as the Doctor's gaze shifted over at the corner of the room in a speck of formed doubt for a moment, before vanishing into the back of his analytical mind. His memories thought back to the terrorist that plunged the world into this supposed chaos of anarchy, madness and despair. How he was hunted across the United States at the benevolent demand of Wallace, carried out by the American security apparatus. The figure known as Gordon Freeman - a theoretical physicist and PhD certificated - was pinpointed as the most wanted person in the United States of America. With it in mind, he looked to the congressmen - the one harsh word that began his rise to later prominence.

"... Yes."

Breen's Ambitions - "Ascensionism" & Global Autocracy

With the hostile takeover of all functionally remaining world governments that made up the petty nation-states that made civilisation, the Combine's grip on the world firmly established as each urban metropolitan city that survived the apocalypse were strategized and processed. With Doctor Breen calling for order, collaboration and an alliance with humanity's "newly welcomed scions from the intergalactic stage" - the Global Administrator pacified a great deal of resistance that would have otherwise created a stalwart threat to long-term stability for his new regime.

Replacing the United Nations was imperative to Doctor Breen, pursuing through the establishment of an oligarchic design of interconnected city administrators and and sector administrators that elevated regional governance throughout the different corners of the world. A One World Order was created with the formulation of the "Union Government" - a falsified set of replicable governing bodies that mirrored that of the old. The key difference was the pursuit of committing total compliance with the Combine at any perceivable cost if it meant survival.

EXPLAINING ASCENSIONISM - WHAT IS THE COMBINE'S THEOSIS TO SPHERICAL DOMINATION & UNIVERSAL TRUTH?

Throughout the late twentieth and early openings of the twenty-first centuries, scientific advancements in human society have pondered radical synthesial thought within minor groups of radical intellectual intelligencia. With the rise of the digital era becoming a procured appearance in the passage of time; hit pieces in media have taken root to cultural and political influences, economical projectivity and entertainment. All of which have given a slow but methodical rise of ulterior ways of thinking.

In doing so, albeit kept within the boundary of a small set of collective minds looking to establish their own footing in the introductory epoch of the artificial century. Yet, with this, comes the prospects of Technocratic Futurism, Transhumanism, Cyber-Technocracies and Sacrilage Synthesis (within a fictitious religious term) to bring man and machine to the tribunals of existentialist debate. These exotic ideologues give room to the manoeuvring of such prospects and giving birthing reality to a digital matrix, maintaining an index for all of humankind to take part in such a grand experiment.

Yet these are merely requiems of people's dreams, where a man can truly live amongst his Blade Runner or Total Recall. Indecisively however, these matters of concerns relating to evolutionary existentialism are strong in the realm of fiction. But should the plausibility become a matter of fact - time would tell how machine and man will yet be tested, even if one were to birth Artificial Intelligence in sentience. If this can be declared as a thought of ascending the mind or body to new heights, or 'Ascensionism' as it could be decreed - then that would be the formal tone of labelling.

Though to Ascensionists, it is merely the idea that should the flesh be decreed as a weakness; then by all means, they can believe it... for they'll ascend knowing that it will remain nothing short of fiction, to their dying breath. Or it will have been, if not for the Combine's ruthless invasion, showcasing that this informatrixal rapture is possible. As Doctor Breen takes control of humankind's manifest destiny, 'Ascensionism' has gone from the fictitious to the very real affair; to which the culture shock of a stellar improbability becomes the first, and primary goal of all early given collaborators that have taken survivability to an extreme abnormality.

The first true loyalists; the first truly deluded. And there's no better, or worse, people to be declared the newly guided hands that will shape the future of a doomed existence.

Legacy in Progress

As of the year 2014 being firmly planted by time, it has been a decade in full since the twilight of what made the old world of civilisation. His power is known now to be firmly absolute, with only the foolish and the brave daring to challenge the might of the Combine's resin fist that repeatedly beats down all opposition. With the world ended, his world is merely in its beginning phases of existence.

But in the shadows — in whispers, graffiti, and fleeting moments of defiance — a question lingers.

Was this the only path? Or simply the one he chose for us all?