Portal and Half Life will merge in Half life 3, aperture labs was in competition for funding with Black Mesa, as per the chart visible in one of the Portal offices, and the aperture labs boat, the Borealis, was mentioned at the end of HL2. They could have all kinds of crazy scenarios with this, may be the boat has a experimental super sized portal gun used to shoot portals to say, the moon or other planets? But something has gone wrong, there was an accident on the Borealis.....







