While the remaining military and civilian forces fought machines in an unwinnable fight, scientists and engineers worked on Project Zero Dawn to ensure its success. The story is a very good, if convoluted, way of making robot dinosaurs make sense. The network would be organized by an advanced AI named GAIA, which had 9 subroutines that would assist the remnants of humanity to rebuild civilization and hack into the systems of all rogue machines - both of which would take over a century to accomplish. Designed by Elizabeth Sobeck, PZD was a large network of underground bunkers, cloning facilities, and machine creation hubs to re-terraform the planet.

With no hope to stop the machines, Project Zero Dawn was humanity's last attempt to give life on Earth a second chance. At the same time, the remaining governments of Earth banded together to form Project Zero Dawn - which was created by Sobeck. As humanity faced the inevitable, the super-wealthy escaped the planet on the interstellar ship Odyssey. To make matters worse, the machines' need for biofuel would extend to humans, giving them a massive source of sustenance. She predicted that the machines would escape containment and spread at a high rate- resulting in the inevitable end of all life on the surface of Earth. The rogue AI and spread of killer robots would eventually be known as the 'Faro Plague.'įollowing the surge of machines, Faro brought in scientist and former colleague Elizabeth Sobek to develop a solution. Due to a 'glitch,' these machines targeted their owners and began to replicate uncontrollably. Wanting to ensure that such machines could not be captured and taken apart, Faro demanded that all machines be designed without backdoor systems. In the 2060s, tech industry icon and CEO of Faro Automated Solutions, Theodore Faro, began investing in self-replicating military robots that could hack into enemy systems and absorb organic mass to replenish fuel. Aloy, our master parkour-erer, manages to win the Proving and becomes an official Nora - yay! Unfortunately, the Proving is attacked by cultists called the Eclipse who are hell-bent on hunting down Aloy. To be on the safe side, baby Aloy was cast out to be raised in the wilds by Rost, another exile.Īloy grew up shunned from the Nora tribe, and spent most of her childhood preparing for The Proving: a rite of passage where upon completion, she would be an accepted member of the Nora clan.

Considering the Sacred Mountain is off limits to everyone but the Matriarchs, it looked pretty likely that the baby was not born to a human mother- a big no-no in the matriarchal Nora society. The Matriarchs, the spiritual Nora leaders, were split between seeing this red-headed babe as a blessing from the goddess or a curse. Aloy was an outcast from the local Nora tribe since the day she was born: she was found at the entrance to the Nora tribe's sacred place called The Sacred Mountain. who is Aloy again?Īloy is the hero of the Horizon saga, the flame-haired outcast from the East. The good news? I'm here to help you out with this handy guide. The bad news? You need to remember a lot of what happened in the first game to really get Forbidden West.

It was a super lore-heavy game with a lot of important characters, factions, and worldbuilding that can be a bit difficult to recall so many years later. Horizon Zero Dawn came out in 2017 a lifetime (five years) ago. It's an awesome game and you can check out CNET's review here. Horizon Forbidden West, the sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn, comes out tomorrow.

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