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"I'm fairly sure I've pinned down the location of the Project.
It's hard to say how much of it might have survived intact,
or whether there's anything remaining that could compromise our work
if it were discovered by the Combine.
We'll need to take a close look at it, of course,
but I should be able to give a better opinion within a few hours.
If the site is where we think it is, then it should be no more than...
I'm going to cut this short. We may have been spotted."
"I should never have let her go!"
"There was no stopping her, Eli.
Wait a moment...
There's something else here.
It's the... Borealis!"
"Good god!"
"Incredible!"
"What? The Borealis? It's real?"
"Oh yes, quite real, despite its almost legendary stature.
Our peers at Aperture Science were at work on a project of some promise,
but in their rush to beat Black Mesa for funding,
they must have compromised ordinary standards of risk.
We heared their research vessel had simply disappeared.
Vanished - with all hands... and even part of the dry dock!
Few believed the Borealis would ever be seen again."
"It should have been lost forever."
"Ah, but now that we've found it, we can us it against the Combine!"
"Did you ever---"
"Use it? That thing has to be destroyed!"
"But think of the advantage for humanity!
We can't simply waste all that potential."
"Hasn't Black Mesa taught you anything?
There's no controlling that kind of power!"
"Well, yes, there's always a risk, Eli.
But my goodness, we have coordinates... blueprints... hailing frequencies...
Quite ingenious of Dr. Mossman, to hide it all in the carrier wave."
"Well that means she's still alive up there.
But if the Combine catch her, they'll tear out everything she knows.
There'll be nothing left of her."
"But we don't know for sure---"
"I won't take that chance!
I'm going after her."
"Dad."
"Now, Eli... The only thing worse than Judith falling into their hands
would be if they should get a hold of you.
She may know the particulars of the Borealis, but you...
you know everything about the resistance!"
"Listen to Dr. Kleiner, Dad.
Gordon and I are more than able to handle this.
We'll get her back."