GAIA (Horizon)

GAIA, also known as All-Mother by the Nora, is a major character in the Horizon video game series.
A powerful, hyper-intelligent terraforming Artificial Intelligence created by the 21st-Century scientist and roboticist, Elisabet Sobeck, GAIA would later play a significantly major role in terraforming the sterile Earth in 2168 A.D., 100 years after the Faro Plague ravaged it completely, with the aid of its Subordinate Functions, and disabling the rogue machines completely. However in 26th of August 3020, the initial copy of GAIA was bombarded with a powerful, mysterious signal coming from a Far Zenith AI in Sirius, known as Nemesis, causing its Subordinate Functions to become rogue, semi-sentient AIs.
As a result, GAIA later self-destructed, after HADES, now fully sentient, attempted to hijack the terraforming system in an attempt to use it to destroy all life on Earth. Prior to its destruction, GAIA would later activate one of its cradle facilities, ELEUTHIA-9, which is now known as All-Mother Mountain, to create the Sobeck clone known as Aloy, and save Earth from a second, permanent extinction. Due to her involvement in Aloy's creation, she is ultimately responsible for her heroic efforts throughout the entire series.
She is voiced by .
==Overview==
GAIA was invented by Dr. Elisabet Sobeck, a 21st-century American scientist and robotics engineer, and the CEO of Miriam Technologies. GAIA grew into something far greater than she had imagined. She created it primarily as a governing AI for Zero Dawn, but it gained emotional capability, empathy, and a benign and caring demeanour, which she praised. However, due to the Turing Act of 2044, GAIA's sentience was mostly kept a secret.
Sobeck approved because these traits provided it a true sense of loss over the annihilation of life, as well as a genuine sense of guardianship over the new life that Zero Dawn would establish. As a result, its performance as Zero Dawn's ruling AI was greatly boosted. Zero Dawn was regulated by GAIA using a set of nine subroutines known as Subordinate Functions.
Zero Dawn was regulated by GAIA using a set of nine subroutines known as Subordinate Functions. Each was essentially a portion of GAIA that was in charge of a different aspect of the terraforming and restoration process.
==Personality==
Unlike most AIs of Sobeck's time, GAIA was designed by the same scientist with significant emotion capability, which is almost human-like. Empathetic and caring towards the people it knows, GAIA even, at one point, empathises Sobeck's grief for the loss of so many lives during the Faro Plague, including humans, flora, and fauna. At the same time, GAIA reassured that its creator's efforts and sacrifices would not be in vain, such as when she gave her life and sealed GAIA Prime's doors.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
* GAIA is named after the Greek primordial deity of Earth of the same name, alluding to its functionality as a terraforming system used to restore Earth from sterility after the Plague through its nine Subordinate Functions.
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