NOBODY'S POV
There's quite a bit of backstory behind these five people. Zach was a theoretical physicist at the Black Mesa Research Facility in New Mexico. It was 2008, and 16-year-old Zach managed to get a job there. "How?" you might ask; well, Zach knew more physics than any teenager in the world. It was as if he was gifted with all that knowledge. So, personnel at Black Mesa saw him as a great person for the job in theoretical physics. Well, one of the days there, as Zach had put it, "Wasn't his finest hour." Upon loading the new sample into the test chamber, he caused the Resonance Cascade. He did in fact escape from Black Mesa, and he did kill Nihilanth, but he was put into stasis by the mysterious G-Man. Now, here's something you may not have known: The stasis does not age people; they're stuck at whatever age they entered stasis at.
At the time, Kristy was only six years old. Her mother, Azian Vance, was killed in the Resonance Cascade. She was saved from the cascade by the G-Man because she was another piece in his diabolical chess game. This is where Eric came in. During the cascade, the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit (HECU) wanted to cover up the incident at Black Mesa. Eric Red worked for the HECU at age 16, because at that age, his combat skills were nearly as great as the HECU sargent, so they saw potential in him. Once Eric realized that the HECU was killing the Black Mesa Personnel, he turned on them. He would not allow them to kill for no reason. However, the G-Man got his hands on Eric as well, and put him into stasis.
Caleb Calhoun was a 16 year old (he's now 26) security guard at Black Mesa. He'll be important later. Noah and Jen were 16 at the time they were research associates in Black Mesa. They had to go through the Black Mesa Incident like Zach had to. They escaped, and they were also caught by the G-Man.
Everyone was released from stasis in early 2018, where they had to fight the Combine after the Seven Hour War. Caleb Calhoun helped there. The G-Man fixed everything after all this was done, but has not done anything since. This leaves Zach, Noah, Kristy, Eric, and Jen to believe that he's planning something.
Now, it's April of 2018, and nothing is happening. Surely, this can't just be coincidence, could it? Unless, it isn't; someone IS planning something, and the others don't see it.
