Horizon Forbidden West: The Far Zeniths Explained

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Spoilers for Horizon: Forbidden West Below

Horizon Forbidden West is filled with lore, artifacts, and even weapons of the old world. WhileZero Dawn focused on the creations of the machines and the artificial intelligence systems of GAIA and HADES, Forbidden West has taken it a step further by introducing the Far Zenith, Project Odyssey, and the survivors who returned to Earth.

Project Odyssey was an effort to save humans by colonizing an Earth-like planet in the Sirius System. In the first game, players learn that the ship had crashed, but in Horizon Forbidden West, that story is proven to be a fabrication to cover up the success of the mission. A thousand years after its launch, Aloy meets a group of these survivors who have returned to gather the GAIA initiative and all the subordinate tasks associated with her.

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The group that Aloy first encounters has four members, Tilda van der Meer, Erik Visser, Gerard Bieri, and Beta. Beta is another clone of Elisabet Sobeck, just like Aloy herself. They are accompanied by Specters, highly advanced versions of the machines that Aloy fights throughout the game. Later in the story, Aloy learns that the Far Zeniths are not descendants of the passengers of the Odyssey but are the same people who first embarked on the Odyssey over a millennium ago.

At first glance, the Zeniths appear to almost be godlike from their personality to the technology they wear. When Aloy first fights Erik Visser, she quickly finds out that his armor is invulnerable to any of her attacks. This shield is seemingly attached to the body as well, which means it cannot be dropped. He also seems to possess near super-human strength as he is able to inflict a lot of damage