Bow down to us while we take your pityful planet for our own...... and you who wish to join us just try and see what happens!
The primary arm of the Combine occupation forces on Earth is the humanoid Combine Overwatch.
Referred to by Doctor Breen as the "Trans-human arm of the sector seventeen overwatch," they are humans who have been captured, brainwashed, and modified into "trans-human" or "post-human" cybernetic creatures.
The Overwatch system itself provides insight into the policies dictating tactics used by humanoid Combine forces.
They treat whole cities as a single organism, with insurrection as an infection and their role as that of white blood cells.
Civil Protection personnel are humans who join the Combine of their own free will in return for privileges and basic amenities like adequate food and living accommodations and sex.
Also known as CPs and Metro Cops, they are charged with keeping the local populace in line via intimidation and physical force.
Interrogation, questioning, inspections, random beatings, and even outright murder are sanctioned as a means of policing their respective jurisdictions.
Combine soldiers are conscripted from the general population which have undergone extensive psycho-biomechanical "enhancement."
When injured they grunt in pain, and can be heard shouting expletives in the heat of battle. They communicate via radio, but unlike Civil Protection officers, are not directly addressed by the Overwatch. The Overwatch announcement system can be heard 'motivating' soldiers with the possible threat of 'off-world assignment' should they fail to complete mission objectives. Such could be indicative of a small amount of independent thought if threats are used to keep the rank and file in line.
