Xen Shorts
Description: The Black Mesa Research Facility (also simply called Black Mesa) is a fictional underground laboratory complex that serves as the primary setting for the video game Half-Life and its expansions, as well as its unofficial remake, Black Mesa. It also features in the wider Half-Life universe, including the Portal series. Located in the New Mexico desert in a decommissioned Cold War missile site, it is the former employer of Half-Life's theoretical physicist protagonist, Gordon Freeman, and a competitor of Aperture Science. While the facility ostensibly conducts military-industrial research, its secret experiments into teleportation have caused it to make contact with the alien world of Xen, and its scientists covertly study its life-forms.
Description: A flat, colorful graphic depicting personified periodic table elements dressed in formal suits and hats. A central figure, a man with a mustache and monocle wearing a fedora, is seated in a red armchair. The elements represented are Helium, Argon, Xenon, and Radon, each with their atomic number and name.
