Mark IV Thermonuclear Device
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The Mark IV Thermonuclear Device, nicknamed "The Package", is a thermonuclear explosive device used by the Black Ops to destroy the Black Mesa Research Facility.
Overview[edit]
The bomb is first mentioned by two Male Assassins in a storage area. Later in the game, in the eleventh chapter of Half-Life: Opposing Force, "The Package", Adrian Shephard discovers two other Male Assassins setting up the bomb in an underground parking lot under the large Ordinance [sic] Storage Facility connected to Sector E Materials Transport. After killing the assassins, he deactivates it. Afterwards, he proceeds to a nearby room with a view of the truck, and witnesses the G-Man reactivating it. He cannot return to the truck, making the destruction of Black Mesa inevitable.
The bomb detonates when Shephard is detained by the G-Man aboard an Osprey at the end of the game. He witnesses a white flash from the horizon that blinds him while the G-Man makes a slight pause in his monologue, marking the destruction of the Black Mesa Research Facility.[1]
Instructions[edit]
The following instructions are written inside the bomb's cap:
- MANUAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR A:
- MARK IV THERMONUCLEAR DEVICE
- This device carries a GRADE C plutonium control detonator.
- With this device an approximate safe distance of
- 55 kilometers is recommended.
- STEP1:
- Indispose the gravatronic rev limiter to 11.
- STEP2:
- Rotate red knob to the on position.
- STEP3:
- Press button labeled B.
Gallery[edit]
Black Ops assassins preparing the bomb.
Black Op truck carrying the bomb.
The G-Man pauses in his monologue when Black Mesa is destroyed in a nuclear flash of white light.
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References[edit]
- ↑ Marc Laidlaw Vault on the ValveTime Forums
