<P> Aloy locates the remnants of the company Faro Automated Solutions and discovers that the old world was destroyed nearly 1000 years ago after Faro lost control of its automated `` peacekeeper '' military robots . The robots , which could self - replicate and consumed biomass as fuel , overran the planet and consumed the biosphere , stripping Earth of all life . Project Zero Dawn , a top secret project spearheaded by Dr. Sobeck , was a plan to create an automated terraforming system to eventually shut the robots down and restore life to Earth . Aloy is then contacted by Sylens ( Lance Reddick ) , a secretive figure interested in uncovering what happened to the `` Old Ones '' . Aloy eventually learns that Dr. Sobeck was sent to an Orbital Launch Base to complete Zero Dawn and Sylens reveals that the base is located under the Citadel , the centre of Eclipse power . Aloy heads for the base and inside , she learns that Zero Dawn was a vast underground system of databases , factories , and cloning facilities all controlled by a single artificial intelligence named GAIA ( Lesley Ewen ) . Once all life had been extinguished , GAIA developed a countermeasure to deactivate all of the Faro robots and then build its own robots to restore the Earth 's biosphere . Once the planet was habitable again , GAIA reseeded life on Earth based on stored DNA and taught the first human clones not to repeat their predecessors ' past mistakes . It is also revealed that HADES was one of GAIA 's subsystems designed to enact controlled extinction if the outcome of Zero Dawn was not favourable for human existence . Aloy reaches Dr. Sobeck 's office , where she downloads a registry to give her access to the door from which she was born . She is captured by Helis and sentenced to death at the Citadel , but escapes with the help of Sylens . </P>
<P> Aloy locates the remnants of the company Faro Automated Solutions and discovers that the old world was destroyed nearly 1000 years ago after Faro lost control of its automated `` peacekeeper '' military robots . The robots , which could self - replicate and consumed biomass as fuel , overran the planet and consumed the biosphere , stripping Earth of all life . Project Zero Dawn , a top secret project spearheaded by Dr. Sobeck , was a plan to create an automated terraforming system to eventually shut the robots down and restore life to Earth . Aloy is then contacted by Sylens ( Lance Reddick ) , a secretive figure interested in uncovering what happened to the `` Old Ones '' . Aloy eventually learns that Dr. Sobeck was sent to an Orbital Launch Base to complete Zero Dawn and Sylens reveals that the base is located under the Citadel , the centre of Eclipse power . Aloy heads for the base and inside , she learns that Zero Dawn was a vast underground system of databases , factories , and cloning facilities all controlled by a single artificial intelligence named GAIA ( Lesley Ewen ) . Once all life had been extinguished , GAIA developed a countermeasure to deactivate all of the Faro robots and then build its own robots to restore the Earth 's biosphere . Once the planet was habitable again , GAIA reseeded life on Earth based on stored DNA and taught the first human clones not to repeat their predecessors ' past mistakes . It is also revealed that HADES was one of GAIA 's subsystems designed to enact controlled extinction if the outcome of Zero Dawn was not favourable for human existence . Aloy reaches Dr. Sobeck 's office , where she downloads a registry to give her access to the door from which she was born . She is captured by Helis and sentenced to death at the Citadel , but escapes with the help of Sylens . </P>
who made the machines in horizon zero dawn
who made the machines in horizon zero dawn
GAIA
GAIA