Marc Laidlaw, former writer for the Half–Life game franchise, recently posted a thinly veiled plot summary for the Half–Life 2, Episode 3 that never was. In the wake of the Seven Hour War when alien Combine forces conquered Earth, an untested research vessel known as the Borealis sat in dry dock on the Great Lakes. The Borealis was the culmination of human sciences, beginning with the mastery of gravity in HL2, the manipulation of space in Portal, and finally, time. Continue reading Homer and Half–Life