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How stupid of a reveal would it be if the ultimate source of the Combine was Wheatley? After a contrived journey through space over millions of years, going through a wormhole or something to another universe or back in time, somehow accumulating resources and power from different alien civilizations and leading them into supremacy. All of this because Wheatley's only form of creativity is "Combining" test chambers and objects together through intense smashing. Those turret cubes essentially becoming the ancient ancestors of Synths.