Well if I remember right. The originals that were born in the vaults were obsessed with the sun. Well I guess you could say outside in-general, but its possible that translated eventually to the Sun religion.
A lovingly detailed world with lots of melee gameplay, but damn near superhero abilities. Hadn't thought about that silly movie in years, but the ornate Meridian elevator brought that game wish forward.
That was chilling as hell. The whole fall of civilization was both intriguing and very dark. The voiced recordings were disturbing. Early on you had reports of schools of Dolphins being one of the first targets and with the result looking like meat put in a blender. Then you had the millions and millions of people sent into the same situation just to buy time for Project Zero Dawn...
The poor guy was trying to make amends by wiping Apollo. He truly thought he was doing a good thing. From his previous fuckup, he came to believe that knowledge itself was powerful and dangerous, especially without human wisdom to guide it. So he wiped Apollo, destroying the temptation of unguided knowledge. I hate him, but he is a bit tragic in that his idea to fix his mistakes were so off-the-mark from all the alphas.
Yeah poor guy... Fero was terrible before even all this happened. Not much pity I can spare for him.
I dont believe his intentions were to prevent it happening again. They put the knowledge of it in apallo, along with the wisdom of how to prevent from happening again. I think he was trying to save his image. He thought apollo woulsd be the only surviving evidence of his failures. They spoke of apollo as the only way that knowledge could be sustained for the time it would take for GAIA to restart humanity. His name would still be passed on in the vaults and servitors, Faro was written on everything. Thats the way I took his actions.
That's what makes him tragic in a messed up way, because no matter how much he tried to make things better he only made it worse. As far as he was concerned, he was looking ahead plenty when he wiped Apollo and killed the Alphas. To him, the consequences of those actions were a good thing---future kind wouldn't be corrupted by knowledge. He was "saving" humanity.
There were AI before Gaia...kind of? Horus is described as a "high-speed learning machine network." So maybe not a complete AI, but a precursor? Just seems crazy if Gaia is their first AI, considering how advanced and kind-of amazing she is.
His words to the alphas were"...I can't stop thinking about the ones who'll come after us. Those innocents. Those blameless men---and, women. We're going to give them knowledge? Like it's a gift?!" I think he genuinely went crazy on the topic. He was haunted by what had happened. This doesn't make him a better person, but I love the arc it takes him on.
He then goes on to state he already wiped it, and ends it with:
Now that shit is haunting and fucked up. I love it.
Yeah but it's kind of a paradox if the robots are unhackable but can also hack anything. If they had the tech to make those things impossible to hack then surely they can make new robots that the old ones wouldn't be able to hack either.
I'm about to conjecture a bit....but I think you're right. However, their only means of producing these new machines would be through their other machines that were already hacked. The Horus, which I think is simply a cauldron, was mostly responsible for manufacturing new machines at that point. And since it was a Faro design, we could assume any existing Faro Horus units were corrupted. Therefore, the humans would probably have to build completely brand new factories or cauldrons capable of building machines that could stand a fight against the old machines. By that time, who knows how much time would pass and if they could compete. I do wish, as detailed as this game is, that it would have detailed Elizabet's thought process more between Ted showing her the information, and the next hologram with her discussing Zero Dawn with Ted. Just one extra little hologram of the between, when she is off by herself researching the glitch, would have done wonders if we could hear her thought process as to why humanity was screwed.
There might be more to it that I don't remember tbh.
The swarm was unkillable with other robots, because the corruptors were perfect hackers. You can see they had zero problem hacking GAIA's machines. They would have had to wipe out the swarm all in one fast move, like nuke the whole planet, because the self replicate exponentialy. Thats not a win unless they could supply 200 to 300 years or more of food and water and breathable air underground. It was explained that hacking the swarm would take like 150 years. You couldn't fix the glitch till then, and the swarm would wipe out humanity in 16 months. They just didnt have the time for other solutions.
They would be making a new swarm not knowing if it would glitch later as well. Don't think I would want to try that.
That's true, and much more simple than my conjecture. And they couldn't just make new robots with old code, as that would be super easy for the corruptors to hack.
I doubt they would be paralyzed. The president or the military wouldn't wait for the rest of the government to sort out legal stuff. Most likely the President took up dictatorial powers in the emergency or the military took control of the government.