Horizon Zero Dawn Machine List 

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Machines are the technologically advanced, mechanized creatures who are the dominant species of the land. They typically bear strikingly similar designs to various forms of wildlife, such as avians, deer, and even dinosaurs.

Faro Industries as domestic servants. However, Faro soon began developing machines built for combat, two of which were the Scarab and Kopesh, heavily-armed robots that could hijack other robots, convert biomass into fuel, and replicate themselves, allowing them to operate indefinitely.

However, a "glitch" in the Faro machines caused them to ignore commands and begin attacking humans without authorization. The machines replicated faster than they could be destroyed, and began operating as a swarm. Soon, a full-fledged war between humanity and robots began, costing millions of lives and substantial destruction. Despite humanity\'s best efforts, the swarm could not be contained and they devoured biomass wherever they went. Ted Faro, the CEO of Faro Industries, met with a former employee named Elisabet Sobeck in hopes of containing the swarm, but Elisabet found that there was no way of stopping the machines from destroying all life on Earth. However, she proposed a project named Zero Dawn to Ted, stating that it was the only way of ensuring that life on Earth could continue after the machines killed everything.

Zero Dawn was the development of an advanced intelligence known as GAIA that would crack the machine swarm encryption codes, deactivate them, and then re-seed the Earth with plant, animal, and human life. GAIA was aided by 9 subroutines, one of which was HADES, a subroutine that was designed to take control of the terraforming and start it over again if it was unsatisfactory.

The swarm eventually devoured all biomass on Earth, but GAIA managed to succeed in cracking the encryption codes and shut down the Faro machines, then created many different machines modeled off of animal life to purify the Earth\'s toxic atmosphere and biosphere. Hundreds of years later, humans were released from the cradles they were created in and began forming primitive tribal societies, not knowing of the "old ones" who came before them. The machines they encountered were docile and generally harmless for many generations. However at one point, an unknown signal caused HADES to go rogue and begin his extinction protocol. HADES attempted to take control of GAIA completely, but GAIA self-destructed before he could do so. The destruction of GAIA led to an event known as the "derangement," leading the HEPHAESTUS subroutine to assume total control of the Cauldron manufacturing facilities, causing machines becoming more and more aggressive towards humans, and the creation of new, more deadly combat machines.

Machines in the present day are often hunted for their parts and to cull them before they can threaten local populations. They can usually be found in large packs, although some operate in smaller groups. Machines will either run away from or attack humans that they come across, and will completely ignore wildlife. They will never attack each other unless overridden by Aloy or corrupted by the Eclipse and their war machines.

The machines have weak spots which can be exposed by shooting off their armor. Some machines can also be hacked, thus changing their behavior and forcing them to aid Aloy with her objectives.

The machines vary in size from small, about Velociraptor size, to as tall as ten stories. Machines can become corrupted, posing a even bigger threat.

Charger - Lancehorn - Rockbreaker - Scrapper - Snapmaw - Trampler

Fire Bellowback - Freeze Bellowback - Sawtooth - Stalker - Stormbird - Ravager - Thunderjaw

Watcher (Redeye Watcher) - Glinthawk - Longleg - Tallneck

Corrupted Machines - Corrupter - Deathbringer - Metal Devil

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