Xen is a fictional world that appears in the science fiction video game Half-Life (Valve Software, 1998); the expansion packs Half-Life: Opposing Force (Valve Software and Gearbox Software, 1999); Half-Life: Blue Shift (Valve/Gearbox, 2001); and Half-Life: Decay (Valve/Gearbox, 2001). Xen is sometimes referred to as the border world.
Rather than being a planet or an artificial structure such as a space station, all of the locations of Xen visited...
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Xen is a fictional world that appears in the science fiction video game Half-Life (Valve Software, 1998); the expansion packs Half-Life: Opposing Force (Valve Software and Gearbox Software, 1999); Half-Life: Blue Shift (Valve/Gearbox, 2001); and Half-Life: Decay (Valve/Gearbox, 2001). Xen is sometimes referred to as the border world.
Rather than being a planet or an artificial structure such as a space station, all of the locations of Xen visited by Gordon Freeman in the course of Half-Life (and by Adrian Shephard in Half-Life: Opposing Force, and Barney Calhoun in Half-Life: Blue Shift) are on the surfaces of, or within, small asteroids (or islands) floating within what appears to be a nebular void. Xen is first introduced to the player by the resonance cascade created by the Black Mesa Incident. The resonance cascade teleports the player temporarily to a swamp-like area of Xen.
Compared to the gravitational pull experienced on Earth, Xen is notable for having somewhat reduced...
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