GAIA

In HFW the Heuristic Processing Density of GAIA and her Subordinate Functions were revealed, with GAIA having a Heuristic Processing Density of 2%, with the Subordinate Functions including, HADES the intended target of NEMESIS’s Signal had a Heuristic Processing Density of 3.2% and HEPH being at 39.4%,

Though by that logic, if the numbers were accurate as of the point of the destruction of the original version of GAIA in the 31st century before they were affected by the Signal and that the Subordination Functions during the microseconds from GAIA receiving the Signal and her subsequent destruction along with G Prime were able to escape from the destruction and find various locations that could hold them in the next 20 years, why could GAIA in the last few microseconds not escape herself, with the original version taking refuge in another location,

Although with the destruction of G Prime and the loss of the Subordination Functions the Terraforming System would still break down over time and still leading to the events of the games afterwards and the need for Alloy’s existence for her to rebuild ZD, maybe GAIA could have taken refuge in the servers located in All Mother Mountain and would have waited for the day that Alloy would return to rebuild ZD, with a potential divergence being that either after obtaining a Focus or unsuccessfully trying to enter the Cradle GAIA would contact Alloy,

It starts out after humans die. HEPHAESTUS deploys 4 machines at most: the Scrapper, Glinthawk, Scrounger, and Clamberjaw. Their task was to build the Spire in order for MINERVA to brute force the Faro swarm's deactivation codes. The scavengers get scrap metal. Glinthawks place metal on the higher parts, while Scrappers and Scroungers (which may have used something similar to the Scrappers) weld it together. Clamberjaws climb up, placing metal on some higher areas. MINERVA uses the transmission arrays to send out the deactivation codes for the Faro swarm. This marks the end of the "Triassic" era of GAIA.

The "Jurassic" era starts with the creation of the first Cauldrons: GEMINI, OMEGA, and ALPHA. (the last two were probably the first) and the deployment of the Purifier subclass of the Acquisition class of machines. The Stormbird purified the air. Snapmaws purified water. Lancehorns drilled deep into the ground instilling Chillwater into the ground. The Chillwater Canister Burrower may have been deployed as a purifier. As more Cauldrons needed to be built, the Transport class was created to aid the scavengers. Once the ground was purified, the Terraformer class was deployed. They tilled the earth and planted seeds, preparing the world for the humans to be deployed. The Recon class (including Tallnecks) were deployed to get the lay of the land.

Now we have the current era, the "Cretaceous" where humans and animals are starting to be deployed from the Cradles. Nemesis sends the Extinction Signal and HEPHAESTUS starts making the Combat machines. Then the events of the games.

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I kinda feel bad for Hephaestus. At first he was just trying to do his job but then the stupid primitive monkeys kept destroying all his creations..... And no matter how he tried to compensate they just come up with new ways to kill them. Even when he started diverting energy from his main task to create machines specifically to deal with the pests they would just kill those too.... It's almost like dealing with the bed bug infestation where eventually you just get so frustrated you decide to burn the entire bloody House down.

Now if you think about it Aloy never tried to properly communicate with Hephaestus.

Minerva was unsure and scared to become part of Gaia again but in the end, she understood that it needed to be done.

Demeter, Aether and Poseidon were happy to return to Gaia. I loved how they referred to her as "mother".

Hephaestus was never evil, his main priority was building machines and keeping the terraforming system stable while Gaia was absent. He only became angry after he saw humans destroying his creations, by doing so Hephaestus deemed humans as a threat.

I believe if Aloy applied logic and tried to explain the situation to Hephaestus he might have accepted to return to Gaia

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After u beat the final boss, when u come to gaia she tells us that she will contact us when she finishes her initialisation or smth. Does she ever finish or probably in the next game? I'm curious if I can ask her some other stuff but I can't because of this

So they revealed HADES deployed successfully on more than one instance during the pre humanity terraforming process. This is important because it helps the theory that in HZD, hades sending the signal was it deploying correctly. However this could also be something new bc GAIA had let HADES reverse terraform before without blowing up, sure, humans may have been why, valuing their lives above plant and animal life, however, it’s make clear that GAIA values all life equally and will live to spite HADES no matter what life it’s killing. So with all this in mind, here is where I stand on this matter. I believe that the mysterious signal that freed HADES was not HADES deployment. However, I believe that it wanted to immediately begin reverse terraforming bc the biosphere is indeed collapsing. (Red blight and all) I think that GAIA had the collapse under control, however, with HADES free, it immediately sensed these issues and wanted to reset. GAIA, now having lost control, nuked herself to protect humanity.

Theory’s aside, the biggest thing that this tells us is that GAIA is a flawed person (I say person cuz she honestly has more humanity than most people do) we know she is coming back for Forbidden West so this sheds light on her character. She is life loving so much that it clouds her vision and judgement.

I'm not sure if this has been brought up before, but why are there any Metal Devils left or any of the other units? I'm sure GAIA needed metal to create all the machines we see in-game and those would have been quite abundant.

Yet, we see them… rusting.