Portal 2 Aperture Science
Aperture Science, Inc.Political informationTypeScientific research corporationLeader. (1947 to late 1980s). (Late 1980s to unknown). (Briefly, unknown date)Societal informationBase, Motto(s). A Trusted Friend in Science. Not Never But NOW. Courage is Not the Absence of Fear.
There's a hole in the sky through which things can fly. We do what we must because we can. The best damn applied sciences company on Earth (informal). A clear picture of the future. A clear focus on the futureArmament.TechnologySeeHistorical informationFormed fromShower curtain manufacturerDate of establishment.
'Aperture Science. We do what we must because we can.' ― in 'Aperture Science, Inc., often referred to as Aperture Science or simply Aperture, is a United States-based scientific research corporation appearing in and, as well as other sources.Its main facility is the, located in, with at least one other base of operations in, Ohio. Originally a manufacturer named Aperture Fixtures, it evolved over the course of half a century into an experimental physics research institution and a bitter rival of.Aperture Laboratories is also used as a trade name by Aperture Science for most of its products, as Aperture Science Aperture Laboratories. Aperture Science Innovators was the brand used before the 1970s.
Parking lot and guard hut of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center.Sometime before, Aperture Science's predecessor, Aperture Fixtures is founded by, as a shower curtain manufacturer. The name 'Aperture Fixtures', seemingly random, is chosen 'to make the curtains appear more hygienic'. In, the administration signs a contract with Aperture to manufacture shower curtains to all branches of the, except the. From to, the company produces mostly shower curtains, eventually making Cave Johnson a billionaire.
Early work on the began at this point as well; the early version, called the Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device, proved to be too bulky for effective use, while poor surface conductors for the portals often caused mangling or death of the test subjects when they tried to use the portals. was first developed around this time as well for use as a diet aid. At first only the brightest and best of society was chosen for testing, but after being connected to a string of astronaut disappearances, Aperture Science focuses on recruiting homeless people for testing instead starting in 1976. ( was released around this time too.) As far as 1973, Aperture also uses a.In, Cave Johnson is exposed to mercury while secretly developing a dangerous mercury-injected rubber sheeting from which he plans to manufacture seven deadly shower curtains to be given as gifts to each member of the House Naval Appropriations committee, likely because the decision of the Navy not getting its shower curtains from Aperture depended on that committee, and Johnson probably held a grudge against them for that. In, both of Cave Johnson's kidneys fail. Brain damaged, dying, and incapable of realizing time is not now flowing backwards (thus realizing his time will come soon), he lays out a three tiered research and development program.
Aperture Science is a mod for Portal 2. It is about an office worker named Harold who finds himself in the future. Not knowing anyone there, he finds on of his old robot prototypes by the name of CHRIS and turns him on. They then go on an adventure throughout Aperture trying to find a way back home. Here be Portal 1 and 2 Spoilers. Portal 2 is a good game, I would even say it's a damn good game. Still I'm a bit uncomfortable with it's status as a sequel to the original Portal.
The results, he says, will 'guarantee the continued success of Aperture Science far into the fast-approaching distant past.' What happens to Cave Johnson afterwards is unknown, although it is surmised he dies. It was later retconned that his cause of death was not from mercury, but from, made out of ground-up moon rocks, mentioning in that Conversion Gel is a lethal poison that has left him deathly ill.The three tiers of this research and development program are:. Tier 1: The Heimlich Counter-Maneuver - 'A reliable technique for interrupting the life-saving.' In other words, ensure choking. Tier 2: The Take-A-Wish Foundation - 'A charitable organization that will purchase wishes from the parents of terminally ill children and redistribute them to wish-deprived but otherwise healthy adults.' It counters the real-life, designed to grant wishes to terminally ill children.
Tier 3: The 'Portal' project - As said by Johnson when it was first laid out: 'Some kind of rip in the fabric of space. Well, it'd be like, I don't know, something that would help with the shower curtains I guess.
I haven't worked this idea out as much as the wish-taking one.' This is what will become the 'Portal' project, involving the and its creation of.Post-Cave Johnson era. GLaDOS.In, Aperture engineers complete the Heimlich Counter-Maneuver and Take-A-Wish Foundation initiatives. The company announces products related to the research in a televised ceremony. These products become immediately wildly unpopular. After a string of very public choking and despondent sick child disasters, senior company officials are summoned before a Senate investigative committee. During these proceedings, an engineer mentions that some progress has been made on Tier 3, the 'man-sized ad hoc quantum tunnel through physical space, with possible applications as a shower curtain.'
The committee is quickly permanently recessed, and Aperture is granted an open-ended contract to secretly continue research on the 'Portal' and Heimlich Counter-Maneuver projects. From to, work progresses on the 'Portal' project. During this time, several high ranking Fatah personnel choke to death on lamb chunks despite the intervention of their bodyguards, showing that the US government has apparently put the Heimlich Counter-Maneuver to work.As far as, the Enrichment Center, where Test Subjects undergo tests, is functioning, as the, a 50-question questionnaire destined for applying Test Subject, is already used at that time. It is unknown if the Enrichment Center is already 'computer-aided' in 1982, as scientists have been known to supervise them from small offices until an undetermined date. The Enrichment Center Test Subject Application is operated by version 1.07 of GLaDOS, later '1.07a' and '1.09'. In, the is created.In, word reaches Aperture Science management that is working on a similar portal technology. In response to this news, Aperture Science begins developing GLaDOS.
It is unknown why and how her name was already in use as far as in 1973. In, the Aperture Image Format is maintained. In, after a decade spent bringing the Disk Operating System parts of to a state of more or less basic functionality, work begins on the Genetic Lifeform component. During that time, the Aperture Science Red Phone plan is implemented in case GLaDOS appears to become sentient and godlike, requiring an employee to sit by a red phone on a desk in GLaDOS chamber's entrance hall. In, GLaDOS' version is 3.11.In, Aperture Science releases the to the public as a diet aid, serving as a dietetic pudding substitute made out of liquefied, slightly less non-toxic fiberglass insulation (i.e. Slightly more toxic) and marketed under the name 'Propulsion Pudding'.
However it is a failure and must be pulled from shelves. Later that year a new formula, the, is released, and is another failure. Both Gels are subsequently recycled for use with the in instead.
The same year, Aperture releases other testing elements, such as the, a tractor beam-like funnel made of liquid asbestos, the, a laser to be used with a to destroy Sentry Guns and activate some buttons, the, a catapult plate flinging into the air Test Subjects or any other object upon contact, and the, a variant of the Vital Apparatus Vent used for distributing objects to Test Chambers.In, the untested AI of GLaDOS is activated for the first time as one of the planned activities on Aperture's first annual bring-your-daughter-to-work day. Upon being activated, she almost instantly becomes self-aware, takes control of the facility, locks everyone inside, floods the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin, but is partially halted when she is quickly fitted with a. She then begins a permanent cycle of testing, aimed at beating Black Mesa in the race to develop a functioning portal technology. However a few days later, on, the occurs at the, allowing aliens to teleport from to Earth, eventually leading to the invasion, stopping GLaDOS' race against Black Mesa.
GLaDOS' control. GLaDOS' Morality Core.As seen in the hacker message found on referring to the lockdown, the remaining employees continue working, as they are said to be working on twenty year old equipment. The construction of an Enrichment Center is also mentioned, suggesting that the Aperture Laboratories house several of them. The number of Aperture Science employees also likely diminishes, until there are only a few of them left.
The is likely already completed at that time, but it is unknown if it is before or after GLaDOS' activation.During that period, continue to rage on Earth and spread chaos, eventually leading to the, resulting in Earth being defeated and subsequently controlled by the. Later, is awakened from his stasis by, and arrives in, which greatly disturbs the Combine's grasp on Earth.Portal era. A typical Test Chamber in the Enrichment Center.Some time after GLaDOS' takeover of Aperture Laboratories and shortly after the, the Enrichment Center seems to be long abandoned, and GLaDOS seems to rule it alone, although other people are apparently still trapped somewhere. The scribblings left by Rattmann also seem rather old, showing that the Enrichment Center has been partially abandoned for some time.
A calendar named 'The girls of Aperture Science', dated, is also rather worn-out. Is awakened in her in the Enrichment Center, and is guided as a Test Subject by GLaDOS, utilizing the completed ASHPD, while the A.I.
Shows signs of instability. When GLaDOS attempts to murder Chell at the end of her tests, she flees through maintenance areas of the Enrichment Center, and eventually seemingly destroys GLaDOS, before being dragged away inside by the.Before her partial destruction, GLaDOS hints to Chell that things have changed since the last time she left the building, and that what is going on out there will make her wish she were back in here. GLaDOS also says she was the only thing standing between them GLaDOS and Chell and an undetermined group, most likely the Combine.Portal 2 era Portal 2 is set several years after Portal. During that time Aperture Science as it originally was likely does not exist anymore, as GLaDOS and the Personality Cores took over the partially destroyed facility, where tests are still performed. Other facts. The Borealis as seen in Episode Two.
Aperture Science owned a research ship, named, housing a yet to be revealed technology. It disappeared and took a chunk of its drydock with it and soon became a legend amongst the scientific community.
Debate raged between and over whether the technology within should be destroyed or used. Kleiner said he felt that the power could be used to destroy the Combine, but Eli seemed to suggest that he felt that trying to utilize the power could result in a repeat of the. Aperture Science and were bitter rivals. As seen in the Portal maps testchmba15 and escape02, Aperture Science employees were briefed on Black Mesa through slideshow presentations, such as one titled ' Dollar$ and Sense: Competing with Black Mesa for and Government-wide Acquisition Contracts' (apparently made in the nineties, given its style). This slideshow gives some statistics pertaining to Black Mesa, a graphic comparing the schedules for both Black Mesa and Aperture Science, showing that Black Mesa did not ask much and received more or less the same, while Aperture asked a lot, and received much less than Black Mesa, and compares what Aperture and Black Mesa have to submit to the for developing a, and the role of their GLaDOS in that task.
Aperture Portal Gun
These slides show how much they were directly competing for government funding; Isaac Kleiner also theorized that the Borealis disaster may have been caused by Aperture Science's rush for such funding.' Dollar$ and Sense' slides. The slideshow in situ.
During Chell's tests, GLaDOS mentions a 'self esteem fund for girls', to which one can donate one or all of their vital organs. Cave Johnson, founder and CEO of Aperture. The isometric Aperture Science offices from the. Aperture literally means 'narrow gap or hole'. This most likely refers to the ASHPD and its Portals. This makes it literally mean, 'Portal Science'.
Aperture Laboratories
On, '1975', '1978' and '1979' were originally given as the date for Aperture Science ceasing manufacturing only shower curtains, Johnson's mercury poisoning, and Johnson's kidney failure, respectively. These dates were later retconned to 1973, 1974 and 1976, as seen in the updated on Game Informer. An named 'Aperture Science' requires to earn gold medals on all Portal challenges.
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When was made available for free on in May 2010 to coincide with its arrival on the Mac platform, a promotional video titled ' was released by on YouTube through their official channel, and was presented as a 'motivational recruitment video' (it was renamed 'Portal is Free (Well, it was - now it's just a good deal).' When the deal was over), in a similar fashion to the original Portal trailer, titled 'Orientation Video no. 1 - A Safe and Healthy Environment'. In the video's written introduction, the deal is said to have been made possible 'in part by a generous grant from Aperture Science' itself. Then the video is mostly made of isometric subjects filled with stick figures. The first isometric subject is two levels of the Aperture Laboratories, where stick figures can be seen using the ASHPD, using toilets, speaking in a projection room, reading a book, waiving, etc. A can also be seen, as well as several stacked,.
GLaDOS herself explains that Portal itself was a cornerstone recruitment tool for Aperture Science's 'Portal' project. GLaDOS then says that the game has shown them that, when confronted with science, Test Subjects may exhibit several personality flaws. Stick figure Test Subjects are then seen moving on a conveyor belt, with a Portal box in their hands.
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