"They're- I don't know much about them. They were in the invading force at Black Mesa, like I said. Alyx's father was the first human to make contact with them as possible allies, when she was still just a kid." Gordon shakes his head. "They can control that lightning of theirs- they used it to charge up my suit a couple of times, and one of them was operating a television with it. The one I spoke to said they'd lost everything that was ever dear to them. Among all the other things he said..."