Lightkeeper

One of my early theories going into HFW given the 6 month timeframe from the events of HZD, given that the Datapoint Operation Log indicates that Aloy was born in about 7 months and that Sylens was aware of everything Aloy knew and with his desire for knowledge, with ectogenic chambers in the now open ruin under Sunfall, was that he would seek to create his own clone of Elisabet to act as a key to controlling HADES, giving the end of the first game and otherwise access ZD systems, with the time in between games being just enough to allow for a new clone to be born and DNA taken from Aloy after he rescued her from the Sunring/at the ruins of G Prime, and Aloy would have needed to rescue the newborn clone from him, in a way that idea was used though with Beta and FZ without Sylens involved directly in her creation

Though I could still see the potential that Sylens could have created a new clone of Elisabet, given that while he would in some fashion have a respect for Aloy’s abilities and tenacity to survive against impossible circumstances, he would be aware that she was not unbeatable and could be killed, alongside Beta giving her history with the Zenith’s would be not so easy to manipulate or in other situations be unavailable

With the possibility given that access to ZD was ultimately gene locked to the DNA of the original Alpha’s and his tendency to plan long term, that Sylens would planning for the aftermath of NEMESIS and the potential that Aloy might fall during the conflict, he would either create a new clone of Elisabet to ensure that Aloy had a legacy in the form of someone who could take over or given the importance and status that Aloy has gained over her adventures that a successor could not fully have the same status as Aloy herself, would use the technology of NEMESIS to preform a mind upload of Aloy into a new body created to be identical to her original body, and potentially even as a test to determine if such a process could work effectively for himself

In my mind in the direct aftermath of Ted deleting Apollo and killing the original Alpha’s, that he either via Omega Cearlance would have counted any attempts by GIAI to order the creation of a new Alpha clone or that GIAI aware of the control over the system that Ted had that he could kill the Alpha clone before they were able to complete their task and would given her care for humanity and the Alpha’s would not have ordered the creation of a new Alpha clone until Ted could do nothing to harm them, explaining why she would have not created a Alpha clone at that point.

Regarding the possibility of creating a new Alpha clone after Ted had failed to obtain immortality and become inactive, given that G Prime was during the development of the Lightkeeper program created with the facilities for habitation by clones and why the original Alpha’s were still able to live their after Zero Day and would logically posses a Cradle for cloning, and why GIAI did not either Ted had left a final command saying “GIAI cannot create a clone to fix Apollo” or GIAI would understand that their would be no ability to recreate it with the Apollo Database with the only copy unknowingly with FZ or GIAI would wanting to honour Elisabet wishes of being cloned would opt not to until the complete destruction of ZD was at hand and given that it was the entire system could bypass any hypothetical command given by Ted,

Though it would be an interesting what if scenario, if GIAI had potentially before the full birth of the new generation of humans would have ordered the creation of an Alpha to each of the Cradles and the clone of Elisabet to G Prime and though not having the full Apollo Database would have knowledge of the development and information needed to build each aspect of the Terraforming System, that would be a not insignificant collection of knowledge that would at least jumpstart some aspects of civilisation, though being more technical and lacking the majority of cultural achievement short of anything that the original Alpha’s in Datapoints may have left behind that would have bypassed several centuries of redevelopment by educating the new cloned Alpha’s to educate the new generation of humans,

What do you think, any thoughts or opinions?

In my mind a possibility could be that given that it’s role is to ensure the rebirth of humanity, that it seems that the entire normal population of humans in cradles were born and the existence of the Lightkeeper program could lead to the following:

Due to the fact that their are at least 9 Cradles, possibly 10 if the number is rounded up and the last order given to the 9th before the destruction of GIAI was to recreate Elisabet and thus giving birth to Aloy, and that the other Cradles were located across the world, given the subordinate function’s role maybe to fulfill its purpose would use the only remaining DNA that it had in storage or in is own attempt to help GIAI could order the recreation of the remaining Alphas with them being born at different Cradles across the world, and maybe given misinterpreted version of history given the lack of Apollo and given to different tribes

With each of the reborn Alphas, with their various different life experiences could result in them being either ally or enemy or situational ally, with them presumably having a similar level of authority over their respective subordinate functions as Aloy has over GIAI and the full extent of Zreo Dawn could lead them to becoming seen in demigod like ways, with the possibility that if the third game is a global reaching adventure Aloy could need them in some way to fight NEMESIS

Also as another possibility, given that in the Quen the Ceo in HFW was said to be the first Ceo in five generations and the idea was based upon Ted, that either though the subordinate function with Ted maybe having secretly added his own DNA as an alternative from of immortality maybe viewing himself just as important as the Alphas or via a separate method, would create a clone of Ted that would create the foundation for the role of Ceo, and that during the NEMESIS signal another clone of Ted could have been created to “save the world” and being cloned at different times during some crisis to further the need of Ted to be the “Man who saved the world”

What do you think?

Hello, I have thought of the following ideas, any comments and feedback is welcome.

In my mind in the case of Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West a possible storyline for the next game could be that I think that it would be possible given Alloy origins as a clone and the technology used to create her came from the half abandoned Lightkeeper Program that also stored copies DNA of the high level Zero Dawn personal and the ability exists as seen by Alloy for clones during the events of the game to be created, that either after the events of Alloy's birth and the other former Subordinate Functions of ZD like Eleuthera would lacking governance would act on its default orders and create new humans though with the possibility that only the DNA of the other leaders of ZD exist would clone them at other Cradle facilities with if there there 10 Cradles and Alloy was born at the 9th with the other clones being born at the remaining Cradles across the world with some if not all gaining a possibility flawed though advanced education with limited access to knowledge of the old world as well as living among the tribes of the world with there experiences possibly making them either an ally or enermy of Alloy with levels of authority over different aspects of the system second only to her own and that when Ted Faro learnt of what would become of himself would create a clone failsafe that would become active during either the events of HFW believing the actions that would affect himself to be a tragedy requiring the clone or during the event that lead to Alloys birth with the clone being activated to "protect and save" the new world from a potential second extinction event and would be a force in the next game with the possibility that given his lack of knowledge of the system combined it's current state could possibly resulting in multiple clones with each having different behaviours and motivation as one version of him destroyed the world and what could several versions of him do, what do you think, given that several of the subordinate functions where not directly captured by Alloy what do you think there action in the last 20 years could have been doing and the further role of cloning in the storyline?

Another theory I have is that given that NEMESIS has the power to inhabit any from biological or mechanically and as a potential storyline and contrast with Aloy and Elisabeth, people who did everything they could to save the world, is that in order for the AI if it does have such a large size to have a human presence in the story and to gain access to the Terraforming System would create a clone of Elisabeth to inhabit and would be a dark reflection of Aloy, who would need to in effect flight a version of herself to save the world, with the possibility that Aloy would seek to free the clone thinking she was forced against her will only for the dark clone to have gained an Agent Smith like mentality due to having shared her mind with the most evil beings for all her life, and although the rest of FZ has been destroyed if the AI has any purely logical mindset it could see Beta and by extension Aloy due to them being identical clones as being the last members of FZ discounting the fact that Beta was an unwilling participant of FZ and would continue its mission to destroy Earth based on them being alive or something similar, what do you think?

As for the upcoming TV Show I think, I think that given the working title of Horizon 2074, almost 10 years after the end of the Old Ones that part of the show will take place in Elysium, with the bunker acting somewhat like the island from Lost as a self contained location and show the final days of the bunker with the possibility that any flashbacks could be from Aloy discovering holograms and data and learn it's fate as a framing devise to inform the watcher and Aloy of those events, with the events involving Aloy could be in the beginning and end of each episode, maybe using each discovery to learn of ways to defeat NEMESIS or another threat in the show, with it building towards such a battle that could have threated both eras.

Other ideas I have is that Aloy & Co could use Minerva to create a false signal of a high tech cauldron and turn it into a AI version of Pandora's Box to trap it and then using the FZ ship send it into the sun, use HEPHAESTUS to create machines or weapons and armour to combat or stalemate NEMESIS to the point where it cannot cause harm, HEPHAESTUS could given that Aloy has defeated him twice and captured him once could maybe create a Terminator style machine possibly in her image to defeat her and maybe it to damage her reputation, Use Vast Silver as a vires to infect NEMESIS and destroy it from within.