Horizon Forbidden West: Why Far Zenith's Sirius Colony Was Destined to Fail
Guerilla Games' follow-up to its popular and well-received 2017 release, Horizon Forbidden West, helped to broaden the expansive lore established in the previous title. With plenty yet to uncover in the post-apocalyptic setting, and a complicated history to establish, Horizon Forbidden West added more depth to the world introduced in Horizon Zero Dawn. The sequel has helped to plug some gaps in the story of how humanity got itself into the state players now find it in, with the ruins of the Old World littering the landscape, and mechanical creatures running riot.
One of the aspects that was explored more fully in Horizon Forbidden West was the fate of the humans that came before, who were responsible for the way the world is during Aloy's time. While players already knew about her identity as a clone of the Old World scientist Elisabet Sobeck, and the last-ditch attempt to save the planet after the Faro Plague threatened all life on Earth, much of these intriguing storylines were fleshed out in the sequel. One aspect that became a major focus in Horizon Forbidden West was the mysterious Far Zenith group and their distant Sirius colony.
Horizon Forbidden West's Greenhouse Really Drives Home Ted Faro's Destructive Tendencies
When things started to go south at Faro Automated Solutions, and the self-replicating robots began to consume biomass, humanity tried to come up with a few solutions to this self-inflicted mess. As the events of the Old World take place a thousand years before Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, Aloy has a lot of lore to uncover in order to piece together what exactly happened. Gradually, the story of the Old World and its doomed inhabitants is woven together as the game progresses, but it's not
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