LYCOS RETRIEVER 
At Vance: Alyx
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At the time of Half-Life, Vance was employed at the Black Mesa Research Facility, working in the Sector C Anomalous Materials laboratories, and possibly ... in the Lambda Complex teleportation labs. As a full-time employee of Black Mesa, he lived in the facility itself with his wife Azian and their young daughter Alyx. Although he was never named during the game or featured as a full character, he is seen on two occasions in the game. He is first seen when Gordon is making his way into the test chamber – Dr. Vance and another scientist voice their concerns that their computer equipment is being damaged due to the heightened strains of the morning's experiment. When the experiment goes wrong, a resonance cascade rips through Black Mesa, causing heavy structural damage and opening cross-dimensional seams, filling the facility with bizarre creatures from Xen. When player character Gordon Freeman retraces his steps through Sector C, he encounters Vance and the scientist he had been with earlier, who is now badly injured.
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Originally, Eli Vance was intended to have no relation with Alyx, but instead to be a man named Eli Maxwell, who had a scrapyard that he used as his lab rather than Black Mesa East. Alyx's father was meant to be Captain Vance, the leader of a rebel group. Both characters... were eventually merged to become Eli Vance.
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While infiltrating the Citadel, Gordon and Alyx are captured; Dr. Breen addresses both Vances and Freeman in his office with Dr. Mossman at his side. Mossman, apparently having feelings for Eli, claims to have realized her mistake. She double-crosses Breen and frees Gordon, Alyx, and Eli. She then stays with Eli to protect him while Alyx and Gordon pursue the fleeing Breen.
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