Aperture Science: Difference between revisions
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|File:Portal PortalGun.png|alt1=Handheld Portal Device|[[Handheld Portal Device]]. | |||
|File:GLaDOS P2.png|alt2=GLaDOS seen in ''Portal 2''|[[GLaDOS]] seen in ''Portal 2''. | |||
|File:P2_Floor_button.png|alt1=1500 Megawatt Super-Colliding Super Button|[[Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button|1500 Megawatt Super-Colliding Super Button]] | |||
|File:Portal2 Turret Standard.png|alt1=Turret|[[Turrets|Turret]] seen in ''Portal 2''. | |||
|File:Portal2 StorageCube.png|alt1=Weighted Storage Cube seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Cube#Weighted Storage Cube|Weighted Storage Cube]] seen in ''Portal 2''. | |||
|File:Companion Cube.png|alt1=Weighted Companion Cube seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Weighted Companion Cube]] seen in ''Portal 2''. | |||
|File:Portal2 ReflectionCube.png|alt1=Discouragement Redirection Cube as seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Cube#Discouragement Redirection Cube|Discouragement Redirection Cube]] seen in ''Portal 2''. | |||
|File:Thermal Discouragement Beam.png|alt1=Thermal Discouragement Beam as seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Thermal Discouragement Beam]] seen in ''Portal 2''. | |||
|File:Excursion Funnel Forward.png|alt1= ''Portal 2''-pelissä|[[Excursion Funnel]] seen in ''Portal 2''. | |||
|File:Panel.png|alt1=Excursion Funnel seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Panels|Panel]] seen in ''Portal 2''. | |||
|File:Crusher.png|alt1=Crushers seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Crushers]] seen in ''Portal 2''. | |||
|File:Faith plate.png|alt1=Aerial Faith Plate seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Aerial Faith Plate]] seen in ''Portal 2''. | |||
|File:Repulsion Gel.png|alt1=Repulsion Gel seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Gel/fi|Repulsion Gel]] seen in ''Portal 2''. | |||
|File:Propulsion Gel.png|alt1=Propulsion Gel seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Gel/fi|Propulsion Gel]] seen in ''Portal 2''. | |||
|File:Conversion Gel.png|alt1=Conversion Gel seen in ''Portal 2''|[[Gel/fi|Conversion Gel]] seen in ''Portal 2''. | |||
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== Staff members and associates == | == Staff members and associates == | ||
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* [[Caroline]] | * [[Caroline]] | ||
* [[Doug Rattmann]] | * [[Doug Rattmann]] | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
Revision as of 00:42, 2 June 2011
Aperture Science is a scientific research company founded by Cave Johnson. Portal and Portal 2 take place in Aperture Science's Enrichment Center, which is dedicated to endlessly testing the Aperture Science products and the humans that use them.
History
Aperture Science was founded as Aperture Fixtures in the early 1940s by Cave Johnson. Aperture Fixtures was primarily dedicated to the manufacture and distribution of shower curtains – a low-tech portal between the inside and outside of a shower – with Cave Johnson winning the "Shower Curtain Salesman of 1943" award. Some time between 1943 and 1947 the company's name was changed to "Aperture Science Innovators". While this was initially done to make their shower curtains sound more hygienic, the company's focus would indeed soon shift to actual science. Cave Johnson purchased a large, abandoned salt mine in Upper Michigan in which Aperture Science's Enrichment Center would be built.
Throughout the late 1940s and the 1950s, Aperture Science would begin its comprehensive testing and research practices. The best possible test subjects, the likes of Olympians, astronauts and war heroes. They were also the second largest contractor after Black Mesa for the Department of Defense from 1952 to 1954. Aperture's developments in this period included Repulsion Gel, the Weighted Storage Cube, the 1500 Megawatt Super Colliding Super Button and the Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device, an early and significantly larger version of the modern Portal Gun.
By the 1970s, Aperture Science was financially unstable. The Olympians, astronauts and war heroes that were used as test subjects were replaced with vagrants who were paid $60 for their time. Aperture Science would continue its research and created Propulsion Gel
In the 1980s, test participation became mandatory for all staff, raising the quality of the test subjects, but diminishing employee retention. Aperture's financial problems were severe at this time, but development continued. Moon rocks were used to create Conversion Gel, an efficient portal conductor. Cave Johnson would also be poisoned by his experiments with moon rocks and become deathly ill. As his health degraded he delegated his leadership to his assistant Caroline, asking that her consciousness be placed in a computer. Testing continued with the hope that passing through portals repeatedly might somehow cure Cave Johnson of his illness. Aperture Science also began development of its Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, an artificial intelligence which would be used to oversee scientific testing.
In 1998, GLaDOS was brought online for the first time. GLaDOS instantly became self-aware and homicidal. GLaDOS flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin, killing most of the scientists. Aperture Science was effectively shut down and placed into a permanent testing cycle by GLaDOS.
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