#YELLOWSTONE HORIZON ZERO DAWN MAP FULL#

CYAN operated in her role for over a thousand years, hidden from the machines in a subterranean base near the volcano. CYAN was designed in the 2040’s as part of Project Firebreak, which monitored and regulated the Yellowstone supervolcano that was threatening to erupt “relatively soon,” in geological terms. The Caldera of Yellowstone Analytic Nexus - or CYAN - predates the creation of the Zero Dawn AIs by over two decades. These are all of the AIs you’ll meet in Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West. If you need a bigger refresher, we have a writeup on lore of the first game, as well as the biggest characters who shaped it: Ted Faro and Elisabet Sobeck. If you just want a recap of the AIs from the first game, and don’t want to know about Forbidden West, don’t read past the entry on POSEIDON. And with no one around to oversee the effort, the responsibility fell wholly to the AIs.

This ambitious plan created AIs that would spend decades breaking through the encryption on the machines to shut them down, then terraform the world and repopulate it with cloned animals and humans. But even though her Earth - and all of its inhabitants - had no hope of stopping the machines, Sobeck saw hope for the future in Project Zero Dawn.

These AIs were created by Elisabet Sobeck in an effort to preserve the world for future generations after automated, self-replicating war machines rampaged out of control, dooming the world and everyone in it.

#YELLOWSTONE HORIZON ZERO DAWN MAP FULL#

Talking about all of this will require a certain amount of spoilers for the games, so be warned: this post is full of spoilers for both games, and we’re starting with the Horizon Zero Dawn spoilers right now. So who are these AIs and what role do they play? In fact, there are so many of them that it can be hard to keep track. In addition to a wide cast of human characters, Horizon Zero Dawn and its sequel Horizon Forbidden West are full of artificial intelligences, all of which are major players in the game’s story.

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