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Obviously much of my lengthy theory above relies on what I said about the 2 holographic images being mirror images of each other, so here they are, the lower one I've flipped horizontally as you can see. Clearly they're not identical, but maybe a slightly different perspective on the same thing. (though of course it's possible they're just taken from the middle of a symmetric hallway or something like that.) Why else though would these seemingly uninteresting images be up on the wall?

both


upper


lower one flipped horizontally, click for fullsize for better comparison

Screenshot from Someplace Else:

The Combine never controlled that world beyond the portal. I think Minerva said that. I remember hearing it somewhere. But they also knew what it'd look like before they got there, because there's a pretty holo-globe that depicts the landscape. Yet, there were drop ships and advisor pods, you have to look carefully on one of the monitors, coming out of the portal. They must have been looking for something that wasn't on the scarred surface, or they wouldn't have had a reason to visit it.

I mean, except for playing with antlions.

Oh gods, I can only imagine what a time-travel themed Bio/System Shock game would be like ...