: Preface


SUBJECT:
[Classified]

EMPLOYER:
Black Mesa Research Facility
Black Mesa, New Mexico

POSITION:
General Maintenance & Security Crew Manager

TRAINING:
Team Administration
Advanced Machinery Maintenance
Intermediate Armed Combat & Self Defence

ASSIGNMENT:
Sector A deconstruction & Equipment salvage operation
Codename: COIL

As a member of the GMS (General Maintenance & Security crew) you have access to all maintenance divisions and limited access to high security areas. Your team is an integral part of the Black Mesa population. On priority assignments, your team is provided with the best equipment and expert advice available - this includes the use of Hazardous Environment Equipment used in Black Mesa Laboratories.


: Story


Following the completion of the newly constructed Sector C Test labs, some older industrial branches of Black Mesa became obsolete, and were being prepared for deprecation by the general maintenance & security division.

Some machinery and factory units have already been dismantled, but mysteriously, some time before an important experiment was due to take place in the Anomalous materials lab, an order was sent to begin reassembling certain parts of machinery, particularly the power routers connected to the old prototype teleportation labs.

The motives behind this decision were never disclosed by the administration.
When the resonance cascade occurred, the crew attributed the system failures and power outages to a fault in the reassembled power router; but when things start to crawl out of walls and eat your colleagues, you know something has gone terribly wrong...