(in the future, 2060, the company faro automated solutions made a self replicating military robots, but a glitch happened in their system, causing them to disregard their main functions, & to start to begin consuming all biomass on earth. including humans, destroying the planet, until a protocol to stop this happed called zero dawn, run by the ai GAIA. meant to reintroduce life after the faro plague, the name for the swarm of robots who replicated and destroyed everything. they reintroduced life like goose, turkeys, boards, raccoons, foxes, bunnies, and humans. causing them to go into a state similar to tribal times, but with a twist, the remnants of the faro that now act as biomechanical animals were left over, humans learned to hunt them & turn them into armor, weapons, even trophies and it created traditions like the proving from the nora tribe, to turn trainees into braves. the people who go out & hunt robots, and sometimes turn into mercs and hunt bandits. the robots were kept being produced by a ai called Hephaestus, apart of the bigger GAIA. which kept making robots, like robots like a tyrannosaur called the thunder jaw, snap maws, crocodile like robots that will bask to absorb energy withthe solar panels down their backs, there watchers, raptor like robots that will be in herds of grazers, watching over them & will attack with kicks. grazers are deer like robot that will spend their time filling up their blaze canisters with biomass, turning them into weak points for fire. scrappers are hyena like robots with two lower mandibles that will grind up dead robots, they hunt in packs & can shoot a piercing lazer. theres broadheads, cow like robots that also have blaze canisters, then tall necks, they just walk, and can be used as a communication hub with that big disk head it uses as a radar disk. long legs, terror bird like, kicking and biting with their head to attack and firing sonic attacks with thier concussion sacs, then theres bull like robots called tramplers that are tempermental & territorial and will attack on sight. theres sabertooth like robots called sawtooths, that will hunt beasts & humans alike. feeding off their oil. theres shell walkers, crab like creatures with a cargo bay for a shell, a shield producing claw on one arm & a projectile launcher on the other than fires electrical balls that stun. then theres stalkers & ravagers, similar to the saw tooth, but the ravager has a cannon on its back that can tear through opponents, & is more agile then the saw tooth, both having the long front fangs that have saw teeth on the back. glint hawks are like scrappers but flying, & stormbirds are bigger more combat like versions. then theres behemoths, giant rhino like machines that have a cargo bay like container in their upper torso, & have anti-gravity tech. & can use it to throw rocks & objects at opponents, lastly there are corruptors & death bringers, death bringers are big spider like robots fully oriented into combat, having two rocket launchers on its upper body that sits on its spider like legs, but they over heat alot, similar to death bringer, corruptors have spider like legs with their upper body sitting ontop, with a scorpion like tail, & will corrupt robots & animals causing violent tendencies. some tribes like the eclipse tribe, a cult like tribe that works under the rogue ai hades, that was apart of GAIA. the tribes are the nora who live in the sacred lands, direct descendants of the reintroduced humans, then theres the carja that settled in the west, a desert like biome, the shadow carja having spit off from the carja and were manipulated by hades, the banuk, that settled up north & are also the descendants of the new humans, that fled to the north to escape the ravenous tribe, who wanted to cannibalize them. theres the oseram,. the weapons that are used have three tiers, the basic weapons, carja weapons, better but more expensive weapons, and the shadow carja, even better & more expensive then regular. read description for more info. be apart of one of these tribes, be a robot, or be a ai.)