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One Deathbringer brought the processing module containing HADES to the Spire, allowing it to transmit a reactivation signal to the rest of the Faro Plague. While Meridian's defenses took down several, they were overwhelmed by the sheer number. HADES, in response to Aloy's destruction of the network, had Deathbringers fire at her in an attempt to kill her. Finally, during the Eclipse’s assault on Meridian, the Deathbringers formed the main infantry of the invasion. Aloy later terminated the Eclipse’s Deathbringer retrieval operations at Maker’s End and the Grave-Hoard, destroying the Deathbringer in each instance.Īloy next encountered Deathbringers when she infiltrated the Eclipse’s main base in The Jewel to crash the cult’s Focus network. The Nora huntress Aloy was first told of Deathbringers when she interrogated the Oseram delver Olin, who was working for the Eclipse. Due to their incredible firepower, the Eclipse named these ancient machine as "Deathbringers". While some recovered Khopeshes could not be restored, the Eclipse were able to scavenge machine guns from their chassis and use them in combat. They were used by the Eclipse in their large-scale operations such as their invasion of the Nora Sacred Land.
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Khopeshes were exhumed at ancient ruins such as Maker's End, and extracted from within the colossal derelict Metal Devils that had manufactured them, at sites such as the Grave-Hoard and in The Jewel. In accordance with HADES’ command, the Eclipse acquired several Khopeshes and other Faro Plague robots.
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It had the Eclipse acquire numerous Faro Plague robots, including Khopeshes, which it reactivated to bolster the cult’s strength, as it planned to use the cult as an army to reach a Zero Dawn transmission array, known to the new humans as "the Spire", sited nearby the Carja capital Meridian to reactivate the Faro Plague robots worldwide. To do so, it manipulated the leaders of the Shadow Carja into forming a cult in its service, the Eclipse. Denied the use of Zero Dawn, HADES was forced to resort to other methods, and it decided to use the Faro Plague.
Meanwhile, the millions of Khopeshes and other Faro Plague robots lay buried.įollowing GAIA's self-destruction, the rogue subordinate function HADES began pursuing its objective of destroying the new biosphere. Zero Dawn, managed by its governing AI GAIA, successfully terraformed the planet and reestablished life, including the human species, though because of early sabotage by an unhinged Ted Faro, they lived in primitive, tribal societies. The Khopeshes and other Faro robots that had overrun the planet numbered in the millions before they were shut down and buried by the system.Ĭenturies passed. With no chance of containment or regaining control of the swarm, Project Zero Dawn was implemented to eventually brute force the swarm’s deactivation codes, shut the robots down, terraform the ravaged Earth and reestablish life after its extinction. The swarm came to be called the Faro Plague, and began to relentlessly consume the biosphere, ultimately eradicating all life. In 2064, a swarm owned by the Hartz-Timor Energy Combine stopped responding to commands, began replicating at an unexpectedly high rate, and defaulted to biomass conversion as its fuel supply. Additionally, they could consume biomass as fuel in the event of fuel line interdiction, and their OS’ security was considered to be virtually unbreakable. Khopeshes were the heavy firepower units of a swarm. The FAS-FSP5 Khopesh was designed by Faro Automated Solutions, and developed as part of FAS’ Chariot line of combat robots (ironically named Peacekeepers). The Schematic of an FAS-FSP5 Khopesh in the ruins of Faro Automated Solutions Pre-Extinction