TECHNOEGYPTIANS PORTAL AND BEEHIVES OF THE EARTH (with reference to RHATECH).

After two short levels ("The Underground Passage below Jerusalem" and "Access to the Portal", see screenshots below), you reach the TechnoEgyptians Portal Level, another important part of the Story of Tomb Raider A.

("The Underground Passage below Jerusalem" and "Access to the Portal")

As many of you probably know, there is on internet another level called "TechnoEgyptians Portal". That level is a completely different one from this one you find inside TR-A. The reason is that I lost the original project of the first version of the level, and I had to build it completely from the beginning. Instead to re-build an already released level I decided to build a new one with the same name, because an "Ancient Portal" was needed for the story I was telling. I kept from the original level the four blue X-crossed Pillars and the huge Globe in the middle of the level, which became in this way an unic huge and immense room where to run.

(The "Eye of New RHA" Portal and the Big Globe before to be opened)

As the Planet Earth is EMPTY the earth crust has TWO surfaces: one external (which is the one where we humans live), and one INTERNAL, where the TechnoEgyptian Empire evolved and from where you can see the yellow kernel in the sky. "Beehives of the Earth" infact is exactly the level where the KERNEL at the center of the Planet Earth is seen for the first time and presented to you in the TR-A game.

This level starts exactly after you did a jump in the empty into a huge water location from the TechnoEgyptians Portal once opened.

Since this jump, you passed through a certain "line" inside the Earth Crust where the gravitation itself CHANGES its direction: you were able for the gravitational acceleration of your previous jump, to stop at a still position once passed that line and at that safe starting position of this level: like two men with the same cord on balance.

For the two surfaces (external and internal) are one in front of the other, the gravitation upon both of them attracts people and things long the perpendicular to the ground, so there is surely a LINE inside the earth crust where the two gravitations ATTRACT you with the BOTH WEIGHT into a still position from where you cannot go "up" neither "down"... this line is called "line of change of gravity"... which TechnoEgyptians signed into the comunication water tunnel between the two surfaces.
 

(The line of change of gravity)

The "Beehives" so are set around a point of this "line" (which actually is a surface of a sphere)... so be careful to not finish there at the beginning of the level, or you will die!

After this, the story will tell you everything while playing: Beehives are for the preparation of the TechnoEgyptian Troops for the final conquest of the external surface...

  

Our Surface World is fighting again a war against the 'Center of the World' Empire. Lara has to stop those troops before the definitive invasion!!

Some of you would surely have noticed that the "TechnoEgyptians Portal" is the first level where some bee-roboots appear. They have all the sounds customized by me, but the base of those sounds is... MAZINGA Z!!! Yes, those were noises when Mazinger did fights against his enemies! LOL

PLACES WHERE YOU PROBABLY GET STUCK: in the Technoegyptians Portal, once opened, there is a labirinth of lines to be followed. Start from here:

and follow first the red line without touching the other lines (eccept when they cross one each other, there's no problem). When you have to go to another floor of the labirinth, just remember which was the thread you were following and go on with that. RED, YELLOW and BLUE are three threads with higher difficulty. The first and the last will stop certain blades to hurt lara when trying to press certain floor switches. The second thread will open the access to the four elements puzzles after the "New RHA's eye Portal" room.

PLACES WHERE YOU PROBABLY GET STUCK: in "Beehives of the Earth try using the gravitational motorbike to go in the highway, expecially where Lara cannot reach: there's a hole/window in the highway she can reach only with the velocity of the motorbike, then a flyby cam sequence will show you your next place where to go.

PLACES WHERE YOU PROBABLY GET STUCK: in "Rhatech, the Oppressor", after the zipline handle run with a fire column at the end, climb a wall, to a back jump and pick up some ammo. From that square do a running jump to the yellow wires, you can grab on those.

PLACES WHERE YOU PROBABLY GET STUCK: in "Rhatech, the Oppressor", use the motorbike to reach every place you can: expecially (after the sentry guns) a firewall... at almost the end of the level, you have to leave the motorbike next (and below) to some spiked cilinders, then make Lara to raise up and you'll find a block lowered in the same room, which made a puzzle to appear (an electric circuit).

After this level PART ONE of TR-A is finished, and it will start PART TWO with "Rhatech, The Oppressor", with an evident reference to "Jerusalem, the Subdued", first level of part one.

Rhatech is the Capital of the TechnoEgyptian Empire, Jerusalem is the capital of three religions.

The "Rhatech" level is exactly before my "Center of the World" game (COTW), published on the internet allmost 2 years ago. Before to reach the following levels (COTW itself) she has to "prepare" herself... like a spiritual preparation. A fight for maturation is done with a confrontation and a reconcilation with yourself. And she will face herself inside the most energetic building was ever built: New Rha's Pyramid.