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The Combine is a vast and powerful extra-dimensional empire, spanning several parallel universes. Little is known about the Combine's overall goals, but it can be assumed that it's ultimate ambition is to assimilate the entire Multiverse.

Details of the Combine's leadership and administrative structure remain largely unknown. On Earth, alien beings called Advisors are responsible for overseeing all communication and interaction between the larger Combine and the Earth-based occupation force, acting through Dr. Wallace Breen, a human collaborator and puppet ruler who serves as the appointed 'Administrator' and humanity's representative within the Combine.

From what is currently known, the Combine seems to only assimilate intelligent species from the worlds it conquers and manipulates these species through various means, including bioengineering and invasive surgery, twisting them to fit the Combine's pursuit of cruel perfection. The results of the Combine's re-engineering processes are "synths" — synthetic organisms augmented with Combine technology that serve a variety of functions within the empire, from weapons of war to mindless worker drones.

On Earth, the Combine notably uses their technology to create armies of cybernetically-enhanced transhuman soldiers forcibly conscripted from the enslaved human population, comprising the bulk of the Earth-based Combine Overwatch - a highly mobile and adaptive military force comprised of co-opted humans turned against their own kind. Overwatch Soldiers have been surgically and psychologically altered to be obedient, deadlier, and more resilient than normal human beings. They are also highly trained, and can adapt well beyond the confines of Earth, potentially in other universes if needed - in-game dialogue characterises the deployment of Overwatch units across the Combine Empire as

"permanent off-world relocation" directed towards the normal Citizens for disobedience to the Combine regime. Dialogue from Wallace Breen suggests many of the extra-dimensional territories under the control of the Combine are uninhabitable to humans without life support systems.[4]

Vocal stress is on the first syllable. The name is pronounced COM-bine, as in Combine harvester, opposed to the verb form com-BINE, as in "to join together or unite

A Civil Protection officer's uniform includes a bullet-resistant vest, leather boots, and grey coats and green slacks, both with a matching silver stripe on the limbs. An armband with "c17:i4o," emblazoned on it is worn on the right arm, and "C17" is printed on the back of the collar. Officers also wear white masks that conceal their faces, with built-in vocoders to disguise their voices. These masks contain a radio and air filters and are visually similar to a Soviet PMG gas mask. The mask is also able to display images such as pictures taken by Scanners for immediate facial recognition.Civil Protection officers carry USP Match pistols and Stun Batons. In more critical circumstances, officers also use MP7s and Emplacement Guns with fire support from APCs and Hunter-Choppers. Some officers may be armed with a deployable Manhack and a Flare Gun to call for help in some instances.Civil Protection officers are known to beat unarmed Citizens with Stun Batons at the slightest provocation; Barney Calhoun mentions being "way behind on [his] beating quota." It should be noted that Calhoun may be joking, playing on the violent nature of Civil Protection.Officers regularly communicate with the Overwatch Voice over their radios. They are thus constantly fed mission objectives, rewards, reminders, and orders to respond to incidents, such as the locations of downed units or other criminal acts.They are almost always encountered in small squads or teams and employ basic tactics, such as covering one another and running to cover when injured or reloading. Their tactical AI is noticeably poor compared to the Combine soldiers (possibly a design choice, to simplify combat).Their behavior is aggressive towards criminals and they will often give pursuit to evading suspects. The Overwatch Voice also suggests that each squad has a particular leader. If so, the squad leaders are likely given the same uniforms as regular officers to prevent enemies from targeting them in a fight.

The Combine Overwatch primarily consists mainly of a wide variety of unit types, such as the Combine Soldiers, supported by many Synth forces as support. Overwatch forces are divided into distinct "sectors" designated to them depending on their general location, such as Sector 17 Overwatch focusing around City 17. Divisions other than Sector 17 Overwatch are not directly encountered in the games.Artificial intelligence that acts in command, known as The Overwatch Voice, oversees day-to-day military activities and operations. The Overwatch Voice issues orders and instructions and relays information to Overwatch forces to assist and fulfill objectives. Overwatch has a command structure, from squad leaders leading whole squads to an entire Sector led by a sector leader. As seen at Nova Prospekt, a high-ranking Combine officer inquires about the status of several groups along the coast on the radio, field promoting one of them to command the rest when the previous one fell to Gordon Freeman's hands. During the events of Half-Life: Alyx, Overwatch Command was inquiring about damage assessments from a Combine Grunt stationed on the ground beneath The Vault before needing to send reinforcements into the Quarantine Zone.The Citadel, located in City 17, acts as the main base of operations for the Combine Overwatch on Earth, with multiple sites, garrisons, and other strongholds throughout the many cities and other territories. The Combine forces on Earth are under the administration of Dr. Wallace Breen, who serves as Earth's Administrator, with the Advisors, a race of aliens responsible for overseeing all activities and communications between Earth and the rest of the Combine.

In the aftermath of the Seven-Hour War, the Combine, having defeated all of Earth's militaries, established its presence on Earth. Dr. Breen, the former administrator of Black Mesa, was appointed Earth's Administrator. The establishment of the transhuman arm was to enforce law and order in the newly occupied world, to fulfill the role of the enforcer for the Combine.At the beginning of Half-Life 2, the Overwatch control most of the Earth, corralling most human survivors into the remaining cities where citizens are, commanded, watched, and put to work for the Combine's ends. Most of the day-to-day details of this work are overseen by Civil Protection, with Overwatch forces usually only assisting to stop heavy resistance while occupying outposts and checkpoints beyond the city limits. The patrolled road along the coast to Nova Prospekt uses aerial Dropships, Gunships, force fields, and outposts to restrict access.The main base of power for Overwatch is the Citadel, located at the heart of City 17. The Citadel is the headquarters for Dr. Breen and the Combine, with Sector 17 Overwatch containing the most troops and synths for deployment against resistance in the Citadel. It houses legions of soldiers and manufactures and repairs support Synths like the Gunship, and the Overwatch Voice is also stored inside. On the other hand, it is unclear if Stalkers themselves are "upgraded" from the human population inside the Citadel itself, as that task seemed mainly performed in Nova Prospekt during Half-Life 2.The Civil Protection forces of Sector 17 Overwatch are the official law enforcement stationed in the urban areas under Combine control. Civil protection police the cities for anti-civil activity, oversee work operations and generally keep citizens in a permanent state of fear of their overlords.