This is a screenshot of a copyrighted video game graphic. Information Description The moon and a later Apollo mission landing site seen at the end of Portal 2. By now, Aperture Science has gone bankrupt.Īperture Science begins the “Perpetual Testing Extra-Earth Outsourcing Initiative” in an attempt to escape bankruptcy. Pump Station Alpha (which pumps Repulsion Gel) is in active use by now.Īperture Science constructs at least Test Shaft 09 Chamber 26.Īperture Science produces mostly shower curtains, eventually making Cave Johnson a billionaire.Īperture Science constructs Test Shaft 09 Chambers 27 and 28.Īperture Science's Test Shaft 09 "Zulu Bunsen" is condemned and sealed off.Īperture Science is involved in US Senate hearings regarding "missing astronauts". The Eisenhower administration signs a contract with Aperture Science to manufacture shower curtains to all branches of the US Military, except the Navy. Īperture Science receives the Spirit of Idaho National Potato Board award for the promotion of Potato Science. ![]() According to the Half-Life 1 PlayStation 2 manual, he is said to be 55 in Half-Life: Decay, set in 2009. The first iteration of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (called the “Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device”) is put into service.Īperture Science is the Runner Up for the US Department of Defense's Contractor of the Year award again, likely losing to Black Mesa. Test Shaft 09's Entrance Way, Lobby and Testing Lounge are built.Īperture Science constructs Pump Station Alpha and at least Test Shaft 09 Chambers 01 and 02. By now, Aperture Science has begun testing Repulsion Gel. It is also possible the company existed in the 1940s, as evidenced by Aperture Science ranking second among scientific companies in 1949.Īperture Science is the Runner Up for the US Department of Defense's Contractor of the Year award, likely losing to Black Mesa. It is during this decade that the Black Mesa facilities are probably built, before being purchased and refurbished later by Black Mesa (several Half-Life 1 texture files names contain the word "fifties", suggesting the facility is as old as from the 1950s). It was indeed shown with the timeline strongly altered in Portal 2 that they have no interest in respecting previously established dates, leaving to the community the task of keeping the timeline as up-to-date and accurate as possible.Ĭave Johnson receives the Shower Curtain Salesman award within Aperture Fixtures.Ĭave Johnson appears in the UP Pioneer Press headlines for buying a salt mine in Upper Michigan, which is later reconstructed as the Aperture Science Innovators facility.Īperture Science receives the award for Best New Science Company from the Science and Business Institute of America.Īperture Science is rated #2 among the Top 100 Applied Science Companies by the Mechanical Engineering World Journal (likely behind Black Mesa). The story is still being written as of today (2013), and there is always a chance that many facts would be altered in a future game. Valve currently have no plans on issuing a complete official Half-Life/ Portal series timeline, since they fear it would limit their creativity for possible future games, with always a risk of contradicting themselves. Several retcons have been made since the release of the first game they have been applied here, with a mention of the changed dates. My timeline has been built by gathering every known date, with the known events and chronological facts organized around them. That timespan saw the rise and fall of rival scientific research corporations Black Mesa and Aperture Science, the invasion of Earth by the Combine, an alien intergalactic organization, in the aftermath of the Black Mesa Incident, and the uprising of humanity against them. The timeline of the Half-Life and Portal universe spans from the 1910s to the first decades of the 21st century. Freeman? Is it really that time again? It seems as if you only just arrived."―The G-Man Other versions / source images Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar cover. The individual who uploaded this work and first used it in an article, and subsequent persons who place it into articles assert that this qualifies as fair use provision of United States Copyright Law. Source Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar Original designer / artist Dhabih Eng ![]() Information Description Gordon Freeman in the City 17 rubble in 2029.
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