NieR Automata: How Was YoRHa Made?

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There is a lot to admire and pick apart in Nier: Automata, it’s a visual feast wrapped in an emotional soundtrack with solid gameplay and a story at its center that's thought-provoking, multi-layered, and a complete gut-punch at times.

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It’s a fantastic return to form for Yoko Taro after his previous Nier game and it adds another layer to a long-running story that’s incredibly hard to talk about without running into spoiler territory. Talking about it doesn’t do it justice, and it’s worth playing it if you have the chance. But for those that just want some interesting facts, here’s everything you need to know about the Android organization and how YoRHa was made.

To start things off small, YoRHa is the name of the collective army of androids that were created by the Council of Humanity to fend off the seemingly unstoppable and infinite machine army of a hostile alien force that invaded Earth thousands of years ago.

YoRHa is comprised of hundreds of elite synthetic soldiers with godlike abilities that are highly trained for specific roles within a wider army. Stationed on the thirteenth orbital base above the planet, their home is known as the Bunker. It is a bastion protecting the last remnants of humanity squirreled away on the Moon, preserved in stasis.

Or so it seems.

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YoRHa first went into construction in 11937 at the height of the Machine War, its creation was led by an android named Zinnia, who whilst working aboard the sixth orbital base (a research station by that time) continually improved and perfected the android design. He would eventually create the black box system which preserved android battle data and memories using Machine