I just rewatched Homefront and Paradise Lost. I love seeing more of Earth and the Federation as a political entity and just how normal it is to just pop on over to anywhere on the planet as if it's just down the road. One thing that caught my eye, towards the start of part 1 a horse-drawn carriage passes by and at the end during the blackout the same carriage can be seen with the driver hunched over in a very 'powered-down' position. With Earth out of power, all electronics shut off seemingly including the driver and if he were a hologram he would have dematerialised so I can only conclude he was a very human-like robot. If Earth had robots that so completely resembled people then the synthetic labourer units of the 2380s were really nothing new in-universe and the Zhat Vash conspiracy was a very long time in the making, maybe they couldn't hack these old models and needed the synths to be advanced so that they could destroy them.
