OK, so we start the game within a Relaxation Vault... But HOW did <<Subject name here>> get there at all??!

From the cloning room.

The night before she got incredibly wasted in an office celebration of the completion of Glados. She stumbled into the relaxation vault by herself to pass out. Glados, seeing an opportunity, murdered everyone else in the facility and kept Chell alive. We start out the morning after...

Relaxation chamber has a bed that is kinda like stasis, the chamber is also on a pedestal so below the floor lies a room with thousands of others that rise up and then "turn on" and the test subject wakes up.

If we knew that, we wouldn't be so eager to play Portal 2. Chell's, GLaDOS's and Aperture Science's unknown background is one of the main plot devices of the game, and with the few hints the game actually gives, one really can't figure out the whole story. We do know Aperture Science were [spoiler]Black Mesa's competitors[/spoiler]; where the first invented a device that could create wormholes, [spoiler]the latter invented a teleporter.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]It's also very probable GLaDOS killed the entire Aperture Science staff, though it does raise the question how they managed to install a morality core after she flooded the Enrichment Center with neurotoxins. She also never actually says she killed them all, only that she deployed the toxins. Maybe Chell was one of the survivors, and GLaDOS wiped their memories and carried on testing like nothing had ever happened?[/spoiler]

yey awesome work you did

You know [spoiler]In Portal Prelude (Let's just pretend it's the ACTAUL story until Valve releases their version), you installl the core while the timer is running but because they were running she probably couldn't stop it - Even if she wanted to because of the new core.[/spoiler]

It would be hard to fling around chambers 10 and 12 etc... without spewing chunks with the nasty hangover she must have had.

I refuse to take any Portal story relationship to that mod. .

I don't get why no one liked it.

It's not made by VALVe... And there is nearly no GLaDOS there...

thats because they are just making glaDOS, I admit that they could have had more of a story with glaDOS from the beggining but at least it gives a very good background story for portal.

I really do liked it, in fact i think it's one of the best portal mods out there.
[spoiler] The manhacks invasion near the end [/spoiler]was a bit too much for me, but i really dig what they did with everything else (including the difficulty).

Thing is, since it was not made by Valve, it can't be linked to their official storyline.

It was okay. I was a sound idea, I think it could have been implemented better.

I liked it, for the most part. I was a bit at a loss at the end, and I think that the personalities of the test observers weren't consistent: sometimes they are sort of friendly and encouraging, and next they are all excitingly waiting to see you get killed in the next test chamber.
And generally, the (pre-GLaDOS) chambers are a lot more deadly than those in the official game, which contradicts the supposedly evil character of GLaDOS.