Horizon Zero Dawn: The Sad Tale of the Odyssey
The Odyssey is a lesser-known project that was active before the events of Horizon Zero Dawn. Though it began long before Project Zero Dawn was ever conceptualized, the two initiatives were completed at around the same time. The Odyssey project started long before the Faro Plague. Thus, its origins aren’t as straightforward as that of Project Zero Dawn.
Having experienced a change in leadership and waves of public scrutiny, the Odyssey’s conception makes for an interesting story. Though it’s one that ultimately ends in tragedy, at least according to the datapoints in Horizon Zero Dawn.
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In the 2030s — nearly a millennium before Aloy’s birth — the world was experiencing a global climate crisis. By 2033, the Azores archipelago of Portugal sunk into the sea, and in 2036, the entire landmass of New Zealand followed suit. This led governments and corporations to start taking environmental efforts more seriously. Faro Automated Solutions (FAS) headed the charge in the 2040s, marking the start of the “Claw-back” decade. Another initiative that was born from this decade was the Odyssey project.
A multinational project, the Odyssey was spearheaded by China, India, Japan, the United States, and the Western European Alliance. Its goal was to build a colony spaceship that would be capable of launching into outer space and traveling to another habitable planet. Understandably, this multinational project was met with criticism.
One datapoint contains a direct quote from an Azar Safavi of 1Earth, likely an old-world organization focused on environmental preservation: “The ability to drive the planet nearly to extinction and then even consider leaving it behind is the sole
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