Meanwhile, Weta, whose body of work includes armor, props, and prosthetics for The Lord of the Rings film series , was responsible for 3D-printing Gnome's likeness as a 5.9-inch tall titanium idol. Gnome will be riding along with a variety of other satellites, including the student-built Waka Āmiorangi Aotearoa APSS-1 from the University of Auckland, designed to determine the effect of ionospheric disturbances on earthquakes. Rocket Lab announced the mission on its website, whose launch window is scheduled to open up on November 14. The mission is a collaboration between Newell and New Zealand-based companies Weta Workshop, a collectible design and manufacturing company, and Rocket Lab, a small aerospace company. Related: Dying Light Resurrects Left 4 Dead 2 For Free PC Crossover The name is a not-so-subtle nod to philosopher, linguist, scientist, and political activist Noam Chomsky. The gnome earned his name, Gnome Chompski, in later Valve title Left 4 Dead 2, where he appeared as an Easter egg during the Dark Carnival campaign, and as part of another achievement. In the second installment, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, launching the gnome into space appropriately earned the player the Little Rocket Man achievement. Gnome Chompski was introduced as a nondescript garden gnome in Valve's Half-Life 2. If a player carrying him to the final location of the game and locked him in a rocket, they could earn the Our Mutual Fiend achievement. For every viewer who tunes in to watch the stream, Newell will pledge $1 to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Starship Children's Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. It looks like there’ll also be a second one added should be launch prove successful, called Manufacturing Ascent.Little Rocket Man Gnome Chompski is heading into space for charity, courtesy of Valve's Gabe Newell, as the easter egg of Half-Life 2 and Left 4 Dead fame will be launched in a rocket for real during Rocket Lab's upcoming Flight 16 mission. It’s a recreation of Gnome Chompski, a garden accessory found in Half-Life: Episode 2 (and later Half-Life: Alyx) that you can carry for most of the game and earn a bullshit achievement with if you can have it launched into space on a rocket, which leads us nicely to the real video game news of all this, in that to coincide with the launch Valve also added a new achievement to Half-Life: Episode 2, called Gnome Alone. While there, he’s been working, but also doing other stuff, the latest of which is teaming up with WETA (the special effects/art guys), Rocket Lab and a local charity to fire…a small garden gnome into space. In case you weren’t already aware, Valve Software boss Gabe Newell has been hunkered down in New Zealand for most of the year after the country closed its borders to help stop the spread of Covid.
Gnome Chompski, as he appears in Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Screenshot: Valve
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