Conversion Gel
This article is about the gel produced using moon rocks. For the VR tech demo, see Moondust. |
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| Conversion Gel | |
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| General information | |
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Ground up Moon rock liquid |
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paint_bomb_portal |
| Designer(s) |
Pongthep Charnchaichujit (original design)[1] |
Conversion Gel is a testing element used in the Enrichment Center several decades before Portal and introduced in Portal 2. It is one of four types of Mobility Gels.
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Overview[edit]
Portal 2[edit]
Conversion Gel is a white fluid that allows the ASHPD to place portals on non-portalable surfaces (typically metal). It was created during the 1980s and tested in Enrichment Sphere 06 in Test Shaft 09 from 1981 to 1986, and brought there from Pump Station Gamma.
A main use of this gel is in the end of Portal 2, where Chell used it to her advantage to defeat Wheatley. Several areas in Test Shaft 09 seem to indicate that the Conversion Gel was used to paint all further testing facilities, explaining how only white, painted walls were affected by the ASHPD. Testing objects that come into contact with this gel will have previously-applied gels cleaned off of them, as if no gel had been on them at all.
According to a pre-recorded message from Cave Johnson, Conversion Gel is made up of ground-up Moon rocks as they are an excellent portal-conducting surface. By the time Johnson found out about the moon rock's portal-friendly nature, he was so far in debt that the company couldn't afford to buy 7 dollars worth of moon rocks, much less 70 million. Regardless, he made the purchase anyway. In addition, lunar dust is hazardous to human tissue, lung tissue in particular — Cave describes moon rocks as "pure poison" and long-term exposure to Conversion Gel was a major factor in his deteriorating health.
Upon confronting Wheatley at the end of the game, Chell uses this information to her advantage: where the only bit of Conversion Gel left in the core room was a small spot underneath Wheatley, but a hole had opened in the ceiling revealing the Moon. Chell fired one portal at the moon and another on the Conversion Gel puddle beneath Wheatley, causing a rapid decompression in the room, sucking him and the Space Core out into the vast void.
Moondust[edit]
In Moondust, a giant Aperture Science robot is sent to the Moon in a rocket as Aperture's moondust-based Conversion Gel stores are running dangerously low, making the company look to the stars for a new source of the valuable portal conductor, thus launching the Aperture Lunar Resources Initiative.[2]
Related Achievements[edit]
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White Out (15G) |
| Master the Conversion Gel. | |
Behind the scenes[edit]
- Conversion Gel is original to Portal 2 and was not recycled from the three gels and the cleansing "water" featured in Tag: The Power of Paint.
- Despite apparently being poisonous, like with the Repulsion Gel, getting covered in Conversion Gel does not seem to adversely affect the player in any way.
- This type of Mobility Gel didn't appear in the Cooperative Testing Initiative until the addition of the Peer Review DLC package in October 2011.
Gallery[edit]
"Gel Flow" direction sign.
View from inside a Conversion Gel dispenser in Test Shaft 09.
Being covered in Conversion Gel in Test Shaft 09.
Flowing Conversion Gel in Enrichment Sphere 06's sole Test Chamber.
Ditto.
Conversion Gel placed properly to complete Sphere 06.
Sphere 06 can be completely flooded with Conversion Gel.
Overall view of the Mobility Gel chamber, with the Gels placed properly by Chell with her portals.
Leaking Conversion Gel pipe.
The shaft leading to the Gel Pump Station after being covered with Conversion Gel.
Ditto.
Ditto, the end of the shaft.
Early Conversion Gel icon in Perpetual Testing Initiative.
Conversion Gel icon in Perpetual Testing Initiative.
Tubes transporting Conversion Gel seen in Aperture Desk Job.
Ditto.
List of appearances[edit]
Main games[edit]
- Portal 2 (First appearance)
- Peer Review
- Perpetual Testing Initiative
Other[edit]
- Moondust (Non-canonical appearance)
- Aperture Desk Job (Non-canonical appearance) (Tube only) {{ (Non-canonical appearance)
