Eli Vance

Doctor Eli Vance is a character of the Série of video game Half-Life . It is brilliant a Physicien Afro-américain of an about sixty year which worked with Black Mesa before joining resistance against the Cartel. He is the father of Alyx.

Presentation

Eli Vance is an Afro-American of an about sixty years with a gray beard and short hair. It carries in particular a Prothèse in the place of the left Jambe which arrives to him until the Genou, it lost the latter when it was attacked by a whereas it helped the Doctor Kleiner has to climb a wall of Cité 17

It is probably graduate Université Harvard because it wears a shirt with marked “Harvard” (even if this inscription is partially darkened by its waistcoat, the blazon of the university is, him, easily recognizable).

He is the father of Alyx Vance. His wife, Azian, which also lived in Black Mesa, died during the incident of Black Mesa.

According to a dialog in Half-Life 2 , Eli Vance was the first human one has to come into contact peacefully with the Vortigaunt S, persuading this extraterrestrial race quickly to be combined with the Human ones to fight against the Trust.

History

Half-Life

At the time of the first Half-Life , Eli Vance works as scientist with the Research center of Black Mesa in the Sector C (Abnormal Materials) and can be even in the laboratories of teleportation of the Lambda Complex. Like all the employees full-time of Black Mesa, he lives in the dormitories of the Center with his Azian wife and his Alyx little girl.

Although it is never evoked in the play nor considered as a character with whole share, it is seen twice in the play. He is seen the first time at the beginning of the play, when Gordon goes in the room of test - Doctor Vance and another scientist express their concern with the data-processing equipment which is likely to be damaged because of the experiment to come. When the experiment turns badly, causing the invasion of the creatures of Xen in Black Mesa, Gordon Freeman turns back through the Sector C, it then meets once again Eli Vance and the other wounded scientist. Vance informs Gordon that the communication networks are out-service, and asks him to go up on the surface to seek of the assistance. Its last role in Half-Life consists in opening the door with Gordon by using the retinal scanner so that this one starts its long tour through the Complex.

Half-Life 2

Survivor of the “incident of Black Mesa”, Eli and his Alyx daughter (become an young woman) form, with Doctor Isaac Kleiner and Barney Calhoun, the core of a resistance movement against the Trust which invaded the Earth after a conflict known under the name of Guerre the Seven Hour old. Eli and its daughter establish their general headquarter with the accesses of Cité 17, which is used to them as laboratory of fortune, named “Black Mesa Is”. On the spot, Doctor Judith Mossman assist them in their research on teleportation.

Kleiner and Vance briefly establish a system of teleportation between their two laboratories but the system fails its second attempt because of an external influence, forcing Gordon to cross the grounds to reach Black Mesa Is. When Freeman arrives at Black Mesa Is, its arrival starts the entry of the forces of the Trust charged to find it. The soldiers captures Vance and brings it to Nova Prospekt, a prison of the Trust close to City 17.

With the head of resistant, Gordons and Alyx take by storm Nova Prospekt to find Eli and Mossman. During the final seat, however, Mossman téléporte with Eli towards the Citadel, a gigantic structure of the Trust.

Gordons and Alyx leave then towards the Citadel where they are captured. The Doctor Breen receives then in Freeman and Vance in its office, Doctor Mossman at his sides. The play does not say if Mossman were a double agent as of the beginning or if it betrayed when Breen declared that it could téléporter Eli towards a hostile dimension. In all the cases, Mossman, which has apparently feelings for Eli, realizes then its error. It remains with Eli to protect it while Alyx and Gordons continue Breen in its escape.

Episode One

Eli appears in Episode One . It is escaped Citadel with Mossman in one of the vessels of help of Doctor Bree, and joined a Vortigaunt camp outside the city. He is seen at the beginning of the play with Doctor Kleiner through a monitor in a transmission where he asks Alyx and Gordon to leave Cité 17 before the core of the Nuclear reactor of the Citadel explodes.

Episode Two

Eli took refuge in White Forest, a base of resistance, and he works on a project of space rocket with Dr. Kleiner and Dr. Magnusson; this rocket carries a supposed satellite to neutralize the storms of gate. After the arrival of Gordon and Alyx with White Forest, Alyx delivers with his/her father the message of the G-Man, which says to him “To prepare with unexpected consequences”. Eli immediately includes/understands that G-Man is implied in the current events, which he briefly explains to Gordon, into private. He explains why the Xen hook which is at the origin of the events of Half-Life had been provided by G-Man, and which the survival of Alyx with Black Mesa was mainly due to its intervention. Before Eli could finish its explanation, Alyx returns in the part, putting a premature term at the conversation. Finally, the rocket of White Forest is launched successfully. But right before the end of the play, Eli is killed by an Adviser of the Trust, under the impotent eyes of Gordons and Alyx, paralyzed. Before dying, Eli thanks Gordon for all that it did, says to him with which point it is proud of him and always entrusts to him to have regarded it as his/her own son.

Anecdotes

Its voice is that of the actor Robert Guillaume in the original version. If one could believe that its face and its body were modelled from those of Bill Cobbs, the resemblance is a coincidence: Eli is in fact based on Larry " The Count" Heard, an inhabitant of the corner which held a sign indicating that he sought a work. Valve found it in the angle between Highway 250 and the 148ème Avenue with and in made their model.

In the beginning, Eli Vance was not supposed to have bond with Alyx, and was to be a man who was called Eli Maxwell, which had an automobile discharge that it would use as laboratory instead of Black Mesa Is. The father of Alyx was to be the Captain Vance, the chief of a rebellious group. The two characters amalgamated however thereafter to become Eli Vance.

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