Lyceum within the cradle ELEUTHIA-9.
Cradles are cryostorage and child-rearing facilities built to service the ELEUTHIA and APOLLO functions of Project Zero Dawn. These numbered underground bunkers were constructed around the world to eventually repopulate the Earth with humans and educate them once the biosphere was returned to a habitable state.
Description[]
As seen with ELEUTHIA-9, the cradles contain all of the facilities necessary for child-rearing and early childhood development, including ectogenic chambers for gestation, nurseries, a preschool area that functioned as a playground, toys, and living quarters for the inhabitants.
Within cradles are a massive, three-floored room called the Lyceum, where the inhabitants were intended to partake in APOLLO via an augmented reality gamified curriculum. To facilitate this curriculum, a number of Focuses were provided within the Lyceum. With the purging of APOLLO, the Lyceum never opened up to the humans born in the cradles.
The cradles were managed by multiservitors, which comprised of a robotic endoskeleton and a holographic "skin" of a human, in order to simulate a human parent, and would switch between three different personas, Mother being the nurturer, Father being the disciplinarian, Healer being the nurse.[1] There were also Sentinels, designed to physically punish the children.[2]
To simulate the cycle of day and night, the lights within cradles would dim or brighten depending on the time of day.[3]
The cradles had a limited food supply (enough to last until the people within were nearing adulthood).[4]
Locations[]
- ELEUTHIA-1 was constructed somewhere near the Xinjiang province in northwest China.[5]
- ELEUTHIA-2 was constructed inside Mount Namuli in Mozambique.[5]
- ELEUTHIA-9 was constructed in Colorado, USA.
Map of cradle locations as seen in The Good News.
Elisabet Sobeck's hologram introduction to Project Zero Dawn included a map of planned Cradle locations focusing on Europe, northern Africa and western Asia: these locations including present-day Afghanistan, Algeria, Belgium, Cameroon, Greenland, India, Netherlands, Svalbard, Tanzania, as well as two in Brazil and Russia, and three in eastern Canada. Most of the area outside these countries cannot be seen on the hologram.[6] However, given the speed of the Faro Plague's advance, it is unclear how many of these Cradles were completed in time. Based on the location of ELUETHIA-9 in Colorado, one of the last places lost to the Faro Plague, it's likely that at least nine Cradles were successfully built.
Trivia[]
- With the exception of those not born or descended from those born by Project Zero Dawn, the Quen are the only known humans whose cradle of origin is not ELEUTHIA-9.
References[]
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| Project Zero Dawn Facilities | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | GAIA Prime |
| Regional Control Centers | Regional Control Center 9 |
| Cauldrons and Repair-Bays | Cauldron CHI - Cauldron EPSILON - Cauldron GEMINI - Cauldron IOTA - Cauldron KAPPA - Cauldron MU - Cauldron PSI - Cauldron RHO - Cauldron SIGMA - Cauldron THETA - Cauldron XI - Cauldron ZETA - Repair-Bay TAU |
| Cradles | ELEUTHIA-1 - ELEUTHIA-2 - ELEUTHIA-9 |
| Development Sites | LATOPOLIS - Ruins (Mother's Watch) - Zero Dawn Project Facility |
| Other Facilities | Elysium |
| Protocols | Lightkeeper - Omega Clearance |