Legends of Horizon Zero Dawn: Elysium 

Correction: The bunker Aloy falls into as a child is a ZD housing facility for Gamma/Beta personnel.

This was one of the plot twists, or just developments, that shook me to my core. It absolutely SHOCKED me - blew my mind, as well as the AI subroutines thread and the details of the FARO plague leading to the total extinction of humanity. It was these parts of the game that elevated it from an 8/10 to a clear 9/10.

While these data points were chilling, what really bothered me were the "edited" and "approved" audio messages that were being sent out of one of the facilities (I forget which). I remember stumbling across certain messages from soldiers, saying how hopeless the war is, and then stumbling across the same message but edited to sound hopeful. The military, editing outside communications and preventing inbound communications reaching their soldiers, because it contained info of the bleak situation outside? That's awful.

It's unlikely that the bunker Aloy found as a child was Elysium; if you returned to the bunker when Aloy was grown, you'll discover Director Evans' announcement that the Wichita Salient had been breached. She goes on to tell her listeners that they would have the option of leaving the bunker (they were going to open the doors for ten minutes, as I recall), or to accept medical euthanasia--which many obviously did. Also, as at least one other commenter pointed out, it seems to me that Elysium would be a good deal bigger than this bunker seemed to be. I expect that Aloy will eventually find Elysium in her continuing journeys, and perhaps even Ted--that asshole--Faro's bunker. I just hope the followup game(s) in the Zero Dawn series will be as excellent as this one was. By the bye, thanks so much for this series. I find it quite fascinating and well done.

I'm almost positive the bunker from the beginning of the game is a Zero Dawn facility staffed by betas/gammas who were working on the construction of Eleuthia-9, since it's right next to it, and we know that the Cradle facilities were one part of Zero Dawn that had to be constructed by humanity before the end, not GAIA's responsibility like the Cauldrons were. The personnel who killed themselves and whose final thoughts we hear as Aloy were meant to evacuate to Elysium when their work was done, which is where Isaac and his mother are, but they weren't able to because the Faro bots broke through the Witchita salient before they were ready.

Not only that but that bunker was too small to be Elysium... if you read the data points at the zero Dawn facility, they state how Elysium was a massive bunker. But like you said this is all speculation. It’s a good thought, but if we have a sequel we might find out more answers then.

I understand what happened in the first bunker. Wow.

Aloy hasn’t found the main Elysium bunker yet; I hope we see it in the sequel. 😎

Kinda late to the party, but, there is a data point inside GAIA Prime that says that Elysium is only a few miles away (from G Prime). Though i do not believe this facility inside the nora lands is connected to Elysium. It could be that this small facility was a gamma Eleuthia site with the purpose to finish programming after the construction of such a facility was finished. The tube (a rapid transit system?) inside at the small facility looks as if it is(was?) connected to the cradle as it points directly to All-Mother Mountain.

You know seems the new world of Horizon Zero Dawn isn't as primitive as it seems. I mean yea, if you only looked at Nora and stuff it may seem primitive but Meridian seems very 19th century with working elevators and all that. And remember knowledge isn't everything, as well as one of the big thing about the medieval age is the lack of quality metals. Steel was extremely expensive in the old days because it was extremely labor intensive to produce, and it wasn't until the LATE 19th century that it was mass produced via the Bessemer process. The world of Zero Dawn didn't have this problem as all they had to do is hunt machines for quality steel... and cauldron facility probably refines steel in massive quantities as well as all the old Faro robots contains a ton of good quality metal. So that meant using steel as building material isn't impossible in the world of Zero Dawn as it is in our history. Much of our present world's technology is actually a question of scale rather than raw technology (except in computing or something). You know a suit of armor in the old days costs more than a castle. Only nobles wore steel armor because they were just that expensive. In fact if you had to time travel to the old days, take a bunch of random worthless steel tools with you. Then you'll be a rich man being a blacksmith producing perfect steel weapons. This applies to things like firearms too, without quality steel it was hard to make a gun that wouldn't explode.

I'm so happy we got the Easter Egg when Aloy and GAIA talk about Elysium. I bet they survived, have connection with Quen Tribe and we get to know them in the 3rd game.

I hope we can explore Elysium in Horizon Forbidden West.

Learning more about Elysium, I wonder if after the sixty years it took for GAIA to acquire a "kill-switch" signal and broadcast it from the MINERVA towers, if Elysium's sealed entrance(s) would have unlocked and allowed the surviving children of any of the Beta/Gamma personnel to venture out on to the wasteland that would have been Earth, assuming there was still anyone alive in Elysium. Sure to you or me it would seem pretty damn bleak, but to a person trapped in a bunker for 60 odd years, perhaps not even being old enough to remember the "outside" when they first entered, being able to take a step outside, albeit in a Hazmat suit, would probably be the greatest day of their lives.

i'm fairly certain that the ruin we found there wasnt elysium, elysium would have had to have the same level of security as the cradels or GAIA prime, so i doubt that theres any chance of it being breached from the surface...no i think the facility we were exploring was one of ZD's secondary research labs, one that was too far away for the workers there to make it to elysium in time after they finished there work so instead they sealed the lab...kept working till the last second, till gaia prime was sealed and disconected from the network to prevent if rom being traced, and then the staff kept going till the new year after zero day...and opted to end it...some in a darker way then others.

I figured this bunker was where the people working on the shield weaver armour were living, not Elysium. And Margo says that it's only a few miles awhile in a data point in Gaia Prime.

Few ideas. Weapons how they are made or came to be to specific tribes. History of rost. All the important characters from frozen wilds

Judging by the way Director Evans speaks and the layout I would say it’s more likely connected to the Shieldvweaver development project as part of Enduring Victory.

I wonder if the Alphas maintained contact with the folks in Elysium? I bet Faro lied the folks in Elysium when they asked about the Alphas.

Really wish there was more lore on Elysium. Like there was absolutely no information here.

When I heard that we could go under water in forbidden west I had so much hope to actually go to Elysium. I was really disappointed we got vegas instead although that was cool

We know the inhabitants of that particular facility died very shortly after the Wichita Salient collapsed due to a data point from Director Evans, which would have placed their deaths pre-zero-dawn completion and suggests that it can not be Elysium. Plus as was stated by misterAndroid in another comment there's a datapoint that says that Elysium is very close to Gaia Prime.

I think this bunker was for Gamma actively working on reproductive tech for both humans and machines. There are some structures inside that resemble crèches and ones that look like they were used to make small test bots. This site also cannot be Elysium because according to the accounts the day they all committed suicide was around New Years. According to Elizabet’s journals she had to close up the bunkers around the 16th of that January. This site was in the path of the swarm trying to get to the bunker in the north (I forget it’s name) where the marines whose journals we find had their last stand. That may have been Elysium; hopefully we get more info on it in the future.

I reserve the hope that we have yet to see Elysium, and that close to the end they were able to leave somewhat and see that the world was recovering.. and then die in peace... though I really wish they were able to find some resources and stay alive a bit longer... maybe some of them finding errors in Apollo, maybe some working to fix it, an override that would require an Alpha

awesome although i do not believe the facility where aloy find her focus to be elyseum, i believe it is more likely a facility for zero dawn; it makes more sense, thinking about it, the hologram of the guy celebrating his son, i believe his familiy was in elyseum and he was in a different facility, and the failure for people to be transported to elyseum led them to eutanasia or opening the door of the facility, i mean, it was simply to small and not at all like a city; i hope the next game will deal with rebuilding gaia, finding and defeating the subordinate function to complete gaia, and findind elyseum and ted faro bunker, futures games have so much room to grow, i mean horizon zero dawn was build only around a part of the united states, there are a lot more land and lost in time cities they can buil upon, maybe find older wonders, the pyramids or the great wall of china, those monuments easily could survive several centuries

When you actually think about Elysium and what must have been going through people's heads while being the last living creatures on earth... It makes the actual world and humanity seem kinda pointless and horrible.

Amazing work (y)

I don't get why they couldn't grow their own food in the elysium bunkers? Other games like fallout have bunkers that are capable of growing fresh produce and animals, so I don't see what was stopping them from making a fully automated self sustaining argicultural system within the bunkers that could provide food for the survivors? It's not like they needed compler vegetables, they has cryogenically preserved seeds of all kinds of vegetables, so that means if they grew some, they could always reharvest the seeds (more seeds now perhaps) and even grow different ones if they want some variety. And this could all been done via a greenhouse and automated system. I think if they got more people to work on ZD, Elysium could have been a self sustaining bunker capable of hosting humans indefinitely

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if its not Elysium its probably a bunker related to the development of Elysium. either way to be stuck in a place where you knew that that was it for the remaining remnants of humanity to die , i couldn't imagine what it would have been like near the end. once again keep up the awesome work guys.

Apologies for the late comment. Have you done a video of the end of faro? Wasn't he going to end his days in elysium, but a private one? Really enjoying your videos!

Wait, now I am more confused. Can't believe I missed this part. So people ordered to work on the project were either given the option of complying with the order, being thrown into prison for the entirety of the project, or to chose to end their lives?

They Announced a new Horizon new dawn game.. not a dlc but a full follow up game..I don't know if it will have the same impact as the original though....unless ofc it has Ted Faro in it that he either Cryo slept or transferred his mind into a machine...maybe then we can get Revenge on him and The Masters....(cause of the glitch and unknown signal)

Good story telling

One of humanities few sanctuaries to live out their lives through Zero day.

Spoiler for Horizon Forbidden West…. . Gaia mentions that contact was lost with Elysium after 30 years and there is no additional information. I wonder if not everyone was “sterilized” and children were born, the population INCREASED and as a result, that accelerated resource use and the population starved to death…..

I understand the theory of everyone being medicaly sterilized but I can also see that plan quickly deteriorating. This makes me think that it's possible that the descendants of those sites might be associated with the tribes of the forbidden west or especially the Ravenous Tribe that happened to be cannibalistic.

what do you mean when you say gamma and beta personnel? Like lesser than the alphas? Also how many elysiums were there just one?

I'm going to say now, and I would bet money on this, the bunker Aloy fell into as a child is not Elysium, nor does it have anything to do with Elysium. From the audio logs found, it's clear that the bunkers entirety had been euthanized upon completion of whatever it is they were working on, or as the swarm inched closer. Zero Dawn would have required thousands of people working in it from bunkers most likely, spread all across the US. Many of the bunkers would have been retrofitted to be used as needed, but not all of them would have been sustainable long term. Only the high level, Alphas and Betas, would have been informed of the true nature of everything to come. The Alphas were residing in Gaia Prime, where they were killed by Faro, and the Betas would have been transported to Elysium. The remaining workers in the various other bunkers, most likely were told the lie like everyone else, and kept in the bunkers as their families were elsewhere, remaining there until the swarm had destroyed the biosphere, causing all remaining humans outside the bunkers to die off from a lack of oxygen and a poisoned landscape. Then, as the bunkers we're not designed for long term living, and they would not seal up enough to prevent the swarm from detecting them, the inhabitants would have been euthanized in order to save them the pain for what was to come if the swarm reached them, or from dying of starvation. Then the bunkers would be shut down and would remain buried over the centuries. This is what I believe is the bunker that Aloy stumbled into, just another cog in the machine building Zero Dawn, never intended to last past it's usefulness. I hope Elysium is found in Forbidden West, that would be cool to comb through, but I definitely don't believe it was the one in ZD....

I know I’m late but... the poem in the beginning, where/ whom is it from?

Let posterity judge our actions. Me: let's hope we never have to do this again.

Elysium is probably in the forbidden west somewhere

The bunker shown in this clip is probably one of the places where the people went who chose for either lock up or ending their lives. Option 2 and 3 in the Project Zero dawn protocol if one did not want to work on it. Elysium was ment for 2000 people. And probably located at what at the time was the safest location possible. Perhaps an island. Or deep underground.

Pretty claustrophobic if there were to be plenty of people in it.

As I see others have already said: This is not Elysium.

It’s in a space station at the top of a space elevator with a planetary orbital ring

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lo puedes traducir es q parece interesante pero los subs de youtube no traducen bien y demoran

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