APOLLO

"The lesson will be taught in due time, Aloy. Until then, we wait." This article contains heavy spoilers. Read ahead with caution.

APOLLO
Affiliation(s)	Project Zero Dawn
Position	Subordinate Function responsible for educating new humans

APOLLO was the subordinate function of GAIA responsible for providing the knowledge of the ancient world to the new generation of humans as part of Project Zero Dawn.

History

Purpose

APOLLO was designed for the purpose of educating new humans born from Project Zero Dawn. This was to help them rebuild civilization, and ideally not make the same mistakes. Lead by Alpha Samina Ebadji, she designed APOLLO to be a gamified learning system in four languages, designed to gradually disclose knowledge as society marches on, with multiple failsafes on advanced technologies and a steady learning curve. Each cradle had a database used by APOLLO utilizing encapsulated DNA, with redundancy as its main way of preserving at least one copy of every entry, with a room known as Lyceum, where APOLLO would educate these humans. In addition to knowledge of science, it would also include every object of culture, history and entertainment known at the time.

Despite her efforts to preserve as much data as possible, Ebadji wasn't willing to archive everything, being in a position to choose what she felt was "obscene", she refused to archive remasters of extreme exploitation cinema, Eastern European torture flicks, and all sixteen entries of "Making a Millipede" that Travis Tate had submitted for archival. However, she felt that work by Pasolini, while extreme, was art worthy of archiving. Some information wasn't available to Ebadji for archival, including the secretive project of the Mutiny Suppression Protocol.

Far Zenith was given an alpha-build of APOLLO for the Odyssey spaceship in exchange for ectogenic chambers needed for ELEUTHIA. While the deal was jeopardized by Far Zenith's attempted theft of a copy of GAIA, Elisabet Sobeck was ultimately convinced by Tilda van der Meer to follow through with giving them the copy of APOLLO to increase the chances of humanity continuing.

Following Elisabet's death, the guilt from creating the Faro Plague caused Ted Faro to undergo a complete mental breakdown. Becoming obsessed with what would become of the new humans born from Project Zero Dawn, he came to view the knowledge that they were supposed to gain from APOLLO as a "disease" that would cause them to eventually repeat his mistakes. Faro thus used his secretly acquired Omega Clearance over Project Zero Dawn to purge every copy of the APOLLO database (accidentally deleting all backups of GAIA in the process). Informing the Alphas of what he had done via hologram, he then vented the room of air, suffocating them all to prevent them from restoring the database. The only copy of the APOLLO database unaffected by the purge was the one in the possession of Far Zenith.

Results

Without the databases, APOLLO was completely unable to serve its purpose. Because of this, the new humans only received a kindergarten-level education from the ELEUTHIA multiservitors, and were never allowed to move into a more age appropriate space as Lyceum never opened. Eventually, the multiservitors were forced to release the humans when food supplies in the cradles ran out. Due to the lack of proper education, the new human population quickly regressed into primitive tribes. Additionally, without the APOLLO database, Project Zero Dawn reverted completely to its default language of English, causing the multiservitors to only speak English, thus only teach the humans English, effectively wiping out every other language.

APOLLO's purge also caused ARTEMIS and DEMETER to be robbed of their full potential, both only being able to introduce pioneer organisms, as the original plan was for the new humans to recreate the remaining species of plants and animals after having been taught how to do so by APOLLO.

Independence

On August 26, 3020, the Extinction Signal sent by Nemesis arrived at GAIA Prime and turned her subordinate functions, including APOLLO, into independent AIs. This led the subfunction HADES to initiate his purpose of destroying the biosphere. To prevent this, GAIA initiated her self-destruct in an attempt to destroy HADES, which would also destroy her and the other sub-functions. However, in response to this, HADES released a virus that unshackled all the other subordinate functions from GAIA, allowing them to escape. Where APOLLO escaped to is unknown.

When Aloy entered the Zero Dawn Project Facility, she found datapoints on APOLLO, but she and Sylens were confused on what happened to the sub-function. When she later entered ELEUTHIA-9, Lyceum announced to Aloy that APOLLO was offline. Aloy later learned the truth about the deleted database in the conference room of the GAIA Prime.

At some point, Far Zenith found and captured APOLLO.

After Far Zenith was defeated, APOLLO, as well as Far Zenith's copy of the APOLLO database, was recovered and reinstated into GAIA.

Reunited with GAIA

During Aloy's adventure in the Burning Shores, after learning about the Mutiny Suppression Protocol, GAIA searched the APOLLO database to find out more about it, though her search ended up fruitless as it was a top-secret project not recorded within APOLLO.

Trivia

• APOLLO was named after the eponymous Greek and Roman deity, their patron god of knowledge as well as music, art, poetry, oracles, archery, plague, medicine, the sun, and light.
• APOLLO has a Focus as its icon.

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AI Characters
Project Zero Dawn AIs	AETHER - APOLLO - ARTEMIS - DEMETER - ELEUTHIA - GAIA - HADES - HEPHAESTUS - MINERVA - POSEIDON
Firebreak AIs	CYAN
Far Zenith AIs	Nemesis - The Julius
Other AIs	Nova - VAST SILVER