He was just an average scientist, living a... life down in Black Mesa. Life was simple—at least as simple as figuring out theoretical physics and the teleportation of matter through abnormal crystals could ever be.

His eyes were heavy, his work papers heavier in their stack, as he focused on figuring out his research as Dr. Kleiner babbled in the background. He was sat in his former MIT mentor's office, having been let in to help figure out a new equation in exchange for something as trivial as a pen.

Boy, did he love his job...