



On top of this, the Combines are apparently led by the Dark Man, who is implicitly not humen by virtue of his title as a "man" (he only looks like humen and Combine perhaps he is some kind of amalgam powered by "science"?). The Combines, knowing of the events in John Freeman's world, use portals to take Gordon Freeman's zombified body and not only bring it back to life, but conscript him with the "science" implants. Henry Freeman's side of the family lives in a civilization of very similar beings to themselves. Humens are not humans.The apparent misspelling of the word "human" is consistent throughout the Hero Beggining arc and doesn't happen in any other squirrelking stories.
