HEPHAESTUS Revisited is a datapoint in Horizon Forbidden West. It is the fourth item in RCC.
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So... we unleashed HEPHAESTUS on the Zenith printer matrix to whip up an army of machines to fight the Specters. And it worked. Great.
But... doing so meant we had to release HEPH back into the wilds, where it will continue to be a major problem. Not so great.
A little analysis-slash-prognostication. Bad news first. HEPH will undoubtedly retreat back to the Cauldron network. And it will undoubtedly attempt to fulfill the same malignant mission it has pursued since gaining sentience: "protect" the terraforming system from predation by manufacturing combat machines to kill human hunters.
Even worse, it will probably be stronger than ever before. Contact with the Zenith network will likely have supercharged it, giving it access to new technologies, tools and upgrades. And because it can learn and rewrite itself, there's no way it will fall for the same trick that defeated it before. So recapturing it at Cauldron Gemini is a nonstarter.
But there are some silver linings. Even though the merge with GAIA was aborted, she was able to copy some of the original HEPH code base. On top of that, Sylens has extracted some extremely helpful data from the Zenith copy of APOLLO. Combined, these developments should enable GAIA to exert significantly more influence over the terraforming system.
She won't be able to take direct control of machines, or stop HEPH from building combat units. But she estimates that by deploying a variety of workarounds, she can stabilize the biosphere within a year. So we don't all die, at least not before Nemesis arrives.
In addition, since she now has some of HEPH's source code, we should be able to develop new strategies to contain it. It'll take time, of course.
But round two is coming, HEPH. And next time, I'll be ready for you.
-Beta
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This datapoint is located in the Base in Zo's workstation. It only becomes available after completing the main quest Singularity.
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