Editing Horizon Zero Dawn (section)

===Far Zenith===
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The super-advanced precursor culture. Far Zenith was founded by a group of ultra-wealthy industrialists, influencers, financiers, and other rich-asshole types as an escape hatch from the Faro Swarm. They built a spaceship capable of traveling to Sirius and acquired all kinds of prototype technology to aid them in their endeavors, including personal energy shielding, advanced robotics, brain-uploading scanners, and a gene therapy that made them physically immortal. In ''Zero Dawn'', a text log states that their ship blew up before leaving the solar system, but in ''Forbidden West'' this turns out to have been a ruse the Zeniths pulled for no obvious reason. They made it just fine to Sirius and set up their colony, where they spent all their time immersed in personal simulations that let them do things like murder people for fun. They quickly got bored with physical immortality and being able to do whatever they wanted forever and decided to try uploading their brains so that they could achieve digital transcendence, but abandoned the project. Unfortunately for them, dumping the minds of a pack of selfish, amoral, narcissistic sociopaths into one database and leaving them to stew for a few centuries created an insane AI that was ''very'' unhappy about being abandoned. This AI, known as Nemesis, proceeded to massacre nearly the entire Zenith colony before sending the signal that triggered HADES in the first place, meaning that it's the true cause of all the problems in the Horizon series. The surviving Zeniths rock up to Earth to salvage more resources and kill some barbarians, but Aloy isn't having any of their bullshit.