What is the connection between the Faro Plague robots and Hades?
I just finished Horizon Zero Dawn and the following question still remain unclear to me. (Spoilers follow.)
We know, that the life on Earth was destroyed by the Faro Plague: self-replicating robots consuming biomass as fuel. It was impossible for humans to deactivate them, because SW was encrypted by the poly-phasic entangled waveforms and it was impossible to destroy them, because they replicated exponentially. If I understood correctly, the Deathbringers and Corruptors are not machines crafted by HEPHAESTUS, but the original Faro Plague robots. (Is it the case?)
We also know that HADES, component of the GAIA AI, started acting on its own trying to destroy the life on Earth again. At the end of the game, it broadcasts a signal to the Faro Plague robots underground, waking them. After Aloy purges HADES with master override key, these robots deactivate as well.
My question is: If it was not possible to control the Faro Plague robots during GAIA construction, how is it possible that HADES can control them now? I could imagine it would be possible for him to alert them that there is now new life to be exterminated, but why then do they respond to the master key? I understand that the master key is element in design of GAIA and therefore can deactivate HADES, but no key from the time of the Old Ones should be able to deactivate the Faro Plague robots, right?
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Why does HADES exist in Horizon Zero Dawn?
HADES was the primary antagonist of Horizon Zero Dawn and a minor character in Horizon Forbidden West. It was a rogue artificial intelligence that was previously a subordinate function of the AI GAIA, specifically serving as the extinction failsafe protocol for Project Zero Dawn.What did Sylens do with HADES?
Presenting HADES as the Buried Shadow of Carja lore, Sylens manipulated the Shadow Carja into creating the Eclipse, a cult to serve HADES and take back Meridian.Who activated HADES in Horizon Zero Dawn?
How Fans Reached This Conclusion. Many fans came to the conclusion that Faro was responsible in some way for the activation of HADES when Sylens asks the AI himself in the post-credits scene who woke them, as this was one story thread left unanswered by the conclusion of the game.Why did the Faro robots go rogue?
All land, water, and air became toxic, rendering the Earth unable to support life. With no more biomatter left to consume, the robots, which by then numbered in the millions, went into a state of dormancy, ready to awaken and consume any organic matter should it ever appear.Why You Wouldn't Survive Horizon's Faro Plague
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