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| - Faro Automated Solutions was a major technology company that manufactured and sold technology products, ranging from domestic servitors, personal devices, and automated combat-robots. One of their major defense products were the Chariot line, marketed as peacekeepers. However, a glitch was discovered in a swarm which severed command-and-control functions, and caused them to become self-aware.
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| - Faro Automated Solutions was a major technology company that manufactured and sold technology products, ranging from domestic servitors, personal devices, and automated combat-robots. One of their major defense products were the Chariot line, marketed as peacekeepers. However, a glitch was discovered in a swarm which severed command-and-control functions, and caused them to become self-aware. Coupled with the ability to take over enemy machines, self-repair, replication, and utilization of biomass as fuel, the "Faro Swarm," as it became to be known, posed an existential threat to the survival, of not just human civilization, but to the complete destruction of Earth's ecosystems. Ted Faro, owner of Faro Automated Solutions, approached Dr. Elisabet Sobeck in a vain effort to shut them down. Dr. Sobeck realized the general hopelessness of the situation, proposed a radical solution that came to be known as Project Zero Dawn. Speaking to the members of the U.S. military, Dr. Sobeck impressed the urgency of the situation, whereby General Aaron Herres put forth a grand strategy known as Operation: Enduring Victory. As military victory against the Faro Swarm was impossible, the plan called for a massive investment in conventional military equipment immune to any hacking, which would be distributed to the civilian population unable to serve in the military. The plan also called for tactics that would delay the swarm enough for Project Zero Dawn to be completed. Among such tactics, General Herres implemented a propaganda-campaign in which the human population was lied to, making them believe that Project Zero Dawn was a superweapon that would stop the Faro Swarm.
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