Combine



"Well, the Combine must've led the way into taking over the multiverse. Now you'll never know if the Combine Empire would've tried to kick our butts and take over our planet, including many other planets. Now that we're buyin' the farm, we'll buy 'em the farm back too. Oh, and I bet they're also with the Coalition as well."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Combined Danger

The Combine, abbreviated as CMB, and referred to in propaganda as "Our Benefactors", is an immense and powerful inter-dimensional organization. Comprised of both allied and enslaved species, the Combine's collective goal is dominate and absorb the Multiverse into its inter-dimensional Empire, the Universal Union.The Combine are the main antagonist of Half-Life 2.