#HorizonZeroDawn #HZD #DeepSecretsOfTheEarth After successfully infiltrating the Eclipse base and taking down their Focus network, Aloy makes her way to Sunfall, the Shadow Carja capital. There she hopes to find more answers about Elisabet Sobeck and Project Zero Dawn. Entering the city, Aloy looks down from a balcony into the Sun-Ring where a number of Shadow Carja soldiers are attempting to handle a Behemoth. Sylens welcomes Aloy to the Citadel. In the courtyard, Aloy is ushered into the throne room along with a crowd of mercenaries who have gathered to hear High Priest Bahavas announce the day's bounties. As Bahavas announces a bounty on a man named Uthid, a woman approaches Aloy in the crowd, telling her that she wishes to meet with her in Shadowside. As the woman takes her leave, Sylens informs Aloy that the entrance into the Old Ones facility is behind her. Scaling the rock formations, Aloy finds a covered vent on the other side of a tower. Entering through the vent and descending deeper into the earth, Aloy comes to the door of the facility. While her genetic identity is confirmed and access is authorized, there is a malfunction that bars the doors from opening. She authorizes an emergency venting procedure and the doors open, but a loud mechanical noise alerts the Shadow Carja Kestrels to something amiss in the ruin. With little time to explore, Aloy begins exploring the Project: Zero Dawn facility. She enters a holographic theater and a message from General Herres of the Old Ones' U.S. Robot Command explains the true purpose of Operation: Enduring Victory. He reveals that Zero Dawn was not a top-secret superweapon program that would save humanity, as it was purported to be. In reality, the Faro Plague had become too advanced for it to be stopped, and the extinction of all life on Earth was inevitable. Operation: Enduring Victory was implemented purely to buy time for Elisabet Sobeck and her team to finish Project: Zero Dawn. Continuing on to the next room, Aloy discovers that some Kestrels have entered the facility. After killing them and scanning the datapoints, Aloy continues on to find another theater with a hologram message left by Elisabet Sobeck who finally explains what Project: Zero Dawn is: a terraforming system controlled by an artificial intelligence unit called GAIA. Through GAIA and her sub-functions, the artificial intelligence would shut down the FARO robots and eventually reform the earth to re-create humanity. Aloy takes out more Kestrels and restores power to an ancient door to reach Central Projects.