Cyberpunk 2077 Lore - Maximum Mike - Mike Pondsmith - Morro Rock

so hey people listen up i've got a story to tell goes back to an old friend of mine netrunner whose name i can't say on air for reasons of personal and global security and she once told me that she knew the real origins of the net this friend she's been around she started running back before the data crash when the deep net was opened all she survived the crash dodged the rabbids perseveres in the netwatch purges and watched the blackwall go up with their own virtual eyes and she's not one to make up fairy tales so why am i telling this i'm telling you this because what she told me seemed unbelievable at first so she tells me after a bottle and a half of joe teal mike she says the net isn't what it seems she continued by asking me a question why do you think bart must name them demons anyway because that's what they are rich didn't invent the net he discovered it shook me dead in the eyes and she said the net is hell and bart moss opened the door so over the next few hours she lays out her case she talked about the similarities between how she put it hyper fractus stratified computational data synthesis and the practices of the legendary scholar mass she said that netwatch has his origins in the vatican and that the black wall sings in aramaic now listeners you know i'm a skeptical guy i don't run every rumor i hear despite what my detractors might say and i might have kept this one to myself it weren't for the fact that i've known her for ages and she's not a kook so what do you folks think i'd love to hear from some of the runners in my audience i'm here to listen so people we're going to be talking some good news tonight we're going to be talking about one of my favorite places the pacific northwest since biotennica took over there way back during the time of the red they've been making a forest grow the spotted owls are nesting again and i even heard this sasquatch is back and if any of you can get me an interview i'd really like that but it's not all paradise folks there's something else going on ever hear of armillaria cylinder piece probably not but it used to be the largest living organism in the world a single fungal growth as stretched beneath miles of the oregonian wilderness that was just a century ago unfortunately bioplagues acid rain and pollution ended that and the fungus was declared all but dead by the middle of the century well good news for mushroom fanatics everywhere it's back and better than ever biotechnic has been to return this organism a top priority for the ecological restoration project in the northwest and they've got the patent finance to prove it i check with the nusa and eec patent offices and biotechnica's got patents or solidipies for the purposes of soil improvement that's excel and biodiversity measurement yeah that makes sense hey but what's this one bioinformatic neural simulation oh that sounds interesting i decided this was worth looking into so i got a friend of mine to get me some satellite images of the area of that fungal restoration and smack dab in the middle of it is a bio-technical black lab that's not that strange except that the place is linked up in a big way transmission towers sat dishes what looks like even a hardline data fortress why all the comms well i think it's because they're out there building an ai an ai made of mushrooms yeah i know it sounds crazy but why not it's been known for a century that microsoft networks are capable of processing data similar to our data digital networks and a construction like this would let biotechnica fly to the netwatch restrictions on ais because no one wants to end up like evm but what i still don't know listeners is what that ai would be for proto-analysis net weapon gen x simulation so if any of you are planning to take a trip up north do me a favor and flip over a few logs and let me know what you find i'll be interested alright listen up people i've got a public service announcement it's about the scourge of our age that chrome nightmare that you know is cyberpsychosis it seems we can't go a day without some boosted lunatic tearing through a crowd of bystanders the story you've always heard is that it's a psychological condition a kind of disassociative violence but is there more to it what if cyberpsychosis is intentional i was her a theory i think merisim thought an old friend of mine used to say that he thought the biggest manufacturers had got together a long time ago and agreed on a baseline failure rate for certain devices bad code intentionally inserted into the mine machine interfaces to slowly drive people at the wall a kind of human planned obsolescence i figure what's the best defense against a nut job with a 23-inch telescoping blade in his forearm a 26-inch telescoping blade in yours i can't say he's not onto something every time some psycho tears his way through a mall sales of combat cyberware spike every time net 54 news runs a story on a massacre samarasaka exec finds himself in the yacht can that be all though it's no secret that incidents of violent cyber psychosis have skyrocketed in recent decades despite improvements in manufacturing design but there is something new in the latest generation cyberware get ready for this kids it's the black wall you aren't a runner yourself or a code jockey you might not know but the black wall isn't some mystical barrier floating somewhere in the deep net it's actually a complex hardware software infrastructure designed to keep ais from accessing your gear among other things maybe it doesn't work as well as netwash says maybe the madness of the deep net leaks over to our side from the black wall from time to time drive some porchumba right over the edge and it's possible it doesn't really exist anyway maybe it's just something the media came up with look i'm not saying there aren't attacks i've seen a few myself what i am saying is there's a million reasons why one human might want to butcher another hell we've been doing it for millions of years even without cyberware but let me tell you listeners with cyberware is easier than ever and on the other side maybe the corporate and media types just came up with a word so they wouldn't have to think too hard about it and you wouldn't either of course this is all speculation if i knew what caused cyberpsychosis believe me i tell you so people let me talk to you about trauma team you know them you love them and if you happen to live in night city they're basically the only game in town for your medical care if you watch their ads or listen to the testimonials they say they'll come to your aid in a pinch patch up get you on your feet again if you can pay and that's a big if folks so what happens if you can't turns out our friends and trauma team might have a unique collection method miss many payments you might just find yourself the victim of a debt recovery team it usually goes like this so you'll be minding your own business when a helpful trauma team rep will approach you and goes through the quick acting sedative after it takes effect the debt collectors scurry in load you into one of their specialized transport no one's going to stop them after all their trauma team you'll first be scanned for cyber natural organs your body will be compared to a continually updated database listing the prices for aftermarket parts and organs you owe them seven thousand eddies from the time you fell down the stairs on the way back from the bar so let's put up against the expected value of your parts so is that a new kiroshi eye you have there well that's selling for about 3 000 euro dollars and that's coming out nice heart you have there dynalar cardio x model yeah they'll take that too don't worry though they're not gonna let you die they are doctors after all no they're quickly replaced with the cheap knock-off and ussr they pulled out of a guy who was gut shot in a shootout last week that's probably still good the dynalar minus the cost of installing the replacement well that's another 3 000 eddies yeah we're getting there your liver looks a little damaged from too much drinking but they can still get a decent k for it and best part it's an original so as long as they don't take the whole thing it'll grow back livers are great like that you can be like a sheep constantly shorn again and again and again so now with your debt repaid your account back into black you're free to go you wake up with a hangover and feeling kind of strange but hey for your trouble they give you a voucher with a six-month upgrade from silver membership to gold and is at no additional cost that sounds like a good deal to me yeah how about you so listen up people i've got a story to tell you i heard something recently from a nomad friend of mine she was telling me about some strange stuff happening out in the badlands of the east she said she ran across another nomad patrol five people all mauled to death by a wild animal but the thing is folks there haven't been mountain lions out there in almost a century wolves and even longer so what could it be well i'm reminded of a story story told me by an old merc i used to know he once took a job that had him fly over to romania looking for some corpo's missing brother search took him to an old village and they decided camp for the night before searching the woods in the morning that night they could hear barking howls in the distance even though they knew it had to be wild dogs the team could barely get any sleep that night then just before dawn they were attacked by animals but they weren't dogs they were werewolves no no listeners i haven't lost it i mean it they were werewolves but not the ones of legend and not the ones in old hollywood flat screen flicks these bad doggies came out of a lab see it turns out that ebm would decide to back some rather unsafe resource in an attempted coup of the government and offer these gene freaks as part of the deal of course it didn't work the coup was crushed a few months later and ebm isn't around anymore either the question remains where did ebm get their knockoff wolfman they've never had much of a gene hacking division so they must have come from some other corp the obvious answer of course is biotechnica who just happened to own most of the land south of night city all the way down to the border so what do you think listeners is biotechnica releasing experimental monsters into badland mabel's protein farms down there recover something broke out of a lab with a taste for human blood it's always good advice to watch your back but this time you might want to pack a few silver bullets next time you leave town just saying so listen up folks this is max mike coming to you with a something to think about it's no secret that the first bioplagues were released back in the 90s by the old usa and they were effective i mean there's a reason non-synthetic drugs have become the stuff of legend it's pretty hard to make heroin if you drive opium poppies to extinction but the plagues that came after the ones that killed off the bananas most varieties of wheat or more recently all the cows where did those come from now if you listen to the experts they were naturally occurring mutations of existing diseases brought about by climate change and over cultivation yeah like we've been hearing that for the last 70 years but here's the truth there's been an invisible war going on between rival agricorps for decades now and the casualties your food supply so this started after biotechnica developed the formula for megaeast that's the primary source of shoe too that stuff you put in your car they learned that if they could control the organism and prevent competitors from growing their own they could have a total monopoly even without trying to run the refineries themselves instead they just outsource that word to petrochem so they decide to apply the same strategy in the food market and prevent competitors from growing anything that wasn't a licensed biotechnica brand they started making terminator crops resistant to the naturally occurring plagues that ravaged north america during the collapse but if you don't pay a yearly licensing fee your crop just stops growing the next season so what came next engineered viruses designed to kill anything that was in the licensed crop now i've got friends of biotic he put enough booze into them so they can't lie anymore they'll tell you that they didn't shoot first their european and south am competitors started this war and that may be true but it doesn't change the fact that every year there are more crop failures more extinctions more plagues biotechnica today spends more money researching biological countermeasures to beat the competition than they do on growing crops or even on marketing so you might want to think about that the next time you head down to your local all foods to pick up your kibble and scop so people listen up i've got a story to share with you recently i've been hearing about this month that's been walking around nice city streets healing is sick but only those he deems worthy some of my listeners seem convinced that it's none other than raysh bart moss race part moss yeah you know the guy the chief architect of the net and later it's badass destroyer the rumor has always been he got taken out by a kill set in the early days of the fourth corporate but no one ever took responsibility for that strike is it possible bartma set his creations wild and faked his own death did he bring down the net he created because it had turned into another tool the corporations could use to track us and ultimately completely subjugate us think about it okay people listen up this one comes to me from a listener who raises a great question and he suggests an answer how does the arasaka family live so long what about the lucasies or half a dozen other high-profile corporal families that are pushing 200 years at this point his answer the vampires the world is ruled by vampires well folks i can't say i haven't thought about it that way but let's consider the evidence there's the obvious they seem to live forever and they look good doing it have you seen the documentary recently about hanako arasaka she'd look a day over 40 but she's currently pushing her eighth decade they drink blood yeah it checks out they drain this city for sure they sleep in coffins well i do have to know saburo arasaka spent the better part of the century in a medical tank to keep him alive what do the med techs call it ah the sarcophagus yeah it's more of a mummy thing but close enough they can only be killed with a wooden stake and i'm not sure about this one but maybe someone should test this out and let me know so listen up people i'm going to give you a history lesson it's been 50 years since the carbon plague hit what's the carbon plague you asked it was a disease that only killed adults it's a terrible thing and it left the generation of orphans behind but at least the kids are contracted if they survive into adulthood they make it with no lasting effects at least that's what the docs say anyway but i'm not so sure see back in the 2020s just for the fourth corporate war broke out this unidentified av went down near haywood whatever was carrying it was bad stuff in less than a month 600 adults had died of a previously unknown disease that just melted them literally the whole thing got contained cleaned up covered up the cdc back when that was a thing said that it was some sort of flu yeah like a flu that melts your body but on the street they knew the truth it was a bio weapon and on the street they started calling it the carbon plague now the story goes that the orphan kids mostly wind up going to surviving relatives or the special orphanage the knight foundation set up after the tragedy and the story should end there but it doesn't some of those kids weren't the same afterwards they could do things things that shouldn't be possible mind reading hacking without a deck telekinesis literally comic book stuff story gets murky at this point but sometime during the war those kids all vanished officially counter among the missing after the downtown bombing some say they ran off another story i've heard is that some corp got wind of their abilities and kidnapped them using the chaos of the war as cover now personally i'd like to think they busted out made their escape and they live free to this day so maybe some of them are listening now if you want to tell me your story give me a call i'll make sure he can't be traced and i'll make sure the truth gets known now i'm sure you've seen the news your noble arasaka's the new head of arasaka corporation yeah i'm afraid that's not possible the truth is your nobus is dead as a runner surfing the black wall and he's been for the past 50 years so i guess we should start beginning right people your noble is a lot of you know as the youngest son of old man saboro but he didn't take after his father quite the contrary now when your noble learned what his father's enterprise really stood for he left kid ran away from home formed a biker gang called the steel dragons they weren't just any street gang mind you they had a mission espionage terrorism assassinations all aimed at the arasaka zaibatsu i kept it up for years too but it all stopped on the day those towers in corporal plaza came down now that's quite a coincidence don't you think the official story is that after the death of his big brother your noble came home apologized to big daddy sabaro when it was accepted back into the family that's a straight-up con people your nobody was in those stars and they got wiped off the map maybe even help bring them down and all the evidence is buried under a million tons of debris we don't know so who's this guy you ask the one on tv talking about his dear old dad in the virtues of the arasaka family business yeah i've got a few guesses it's no secret our sock has been working on human cloning tech for almost a century now so it's possible this guy is some sort of mind control clone of the original or nobu wouldn't that be just like old sabro your kid doesn't turn out the way you want so you just try again alternately never figure out what happened to kay your nobu's older brother after the war maybe he disappeared to a black clinic and he came out looking just like his younger brother but without the stain of the fourth corporate weighing them down with bad pr what do you think it's been over 50 years since the city was rocked by the nuking of the arasaka towers but we still don't really know what happened there or do we we're going to be separating lies from the truth or at least giving it a damn good try if you listen to the street as you should they said old johnny silverhand finally took his final revenge on arasaka he got together with some of his vigilant compatriots and gave saboro a middle finger so bright he could be seen all the way back to japan and where'd he get the bomb he can't exactly buy a pocket nuke of the local gun store even in night city but the people who back this story say he picked it up from the nomads who in turn stole it from militech well we know daryl johnny led the attack and i'm pretty sure he saw his revenge lord knows he had enough reason to want revenge in our osaka but the truth is he didn't come up with a plan and he didn't bring in the nuke the rest well johnny if you're out there why don't you tell us so people it's been over 50 years since this city was rocked by the nuking of the arasaka towers but we still don't really know what happened there or do we so what's the truth all these stories we've discussed these theories they hold some truth but as always the real story is a lot more complicated here's the facts i've been able to dig up well here's my theory at that point in war one of militech's core advantages was that they held nest superiority and they were about to lose that lead militech hired a team of disposable mercs some of them like johnny had access to grind against arasaka and were perfectly happy to take the job despite any risks militech also supplied the nuke but the one thing all these versions of the truth leave out is the why the nice city hq of arasaka was home to their net weapons division and they had developed a new version of the infamous soul killer program something like that would have turned the tables against militech and allies overnight so militech needed to make sure it was offline why use mercs well the fact is even today 50 years later hardly anyone can agree on what happened that night when corps gets their hands caught in a cookie jar it's good to have someone else to blame and any mercs in the audience should be thinking about that before they accept that next corporal contract tonight i'm going to be separating the lies from the truth or at least giving it a damn good try anyway so let's look at the first theory eh this one's promoted by the nusa militech and federalists they tell us that arasaka self-destructed the tower to prevent militech from seizing the building and liberating night city if you listen to the story from someone like president kress or the pentagon arasaka blew themselves up as an act of spite knowing they were losing the battle for night city they detonated a nuclear device in their own hq to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy and ensuring that the resulting destruction would keep the americans busy picking to the debris yeah right this story is full of holes they weren't losing the battle for the city and they had no reason to blow themselves up on the contrary at that point in the war the high breast and us government were getting pretty damn tired with this war and they were getting ready to end it by any means necessary and that put militech in a pretty tight spot what's true here is that arasaka did have a nuclear self-destruct device in the building but i promise you that wasn't a source of explosion that night the weird thing is no one ever found that arasaka nuke intact or otherwise in rubble which means that thing is still out there somewhere i've got another theory i want to float past you this time from the arasaka side arasaka zoe said that militech was behind the bombing after having been repeatedly humiliated in their attempts to take the city they finally employed a commando team to infiltrate the building and plant that nuke according to arasaka the people of the city stood with their patrons from across the pacific and were instrumental in militech's repeated military failures in the city they also say that night city wasn't just collateral damage but the secondary target i believe militech was behind the attack that's what my sources tell me but arasaka isn't telling the whole truth either and the stuff about the loyalty of regular night citizens to their friends in arasaka is a damn lie it's true that militech could reach a stalemate in the battle for the city arasaka's military was well contained in reality the attack was meant to destroy arasaka's secret weapon what weapon we'll get back to that in a bit this is the voice of night city maximum mike i've been hearing some distressing reports that some of my regular listeners have been roughed up questioned and in some cases vanished all by force is unknown now remember folks i'm protected they're never going to be able to lay a hand on me if they could even find me but for you the listener on the street well they already prey on you every day i want you to be careful who you talk to out there people i want you to stay safe i think richard knight made way too many enemies this is a man who went on his own path he wanted to build this place into a super city city future you don't do that sort of thing in a world as corrupt as it was back then and i'm pretty sure that between the mob the governments the corporations he had enough enemies probably he didn't just get shot there was probably a line outside his apartment and the reason no one's ever figured out who did it well that's because there were too many people who would have done it he's a good man but i think he picked the wrong enemies so hey people max mike here now i know you follow the news and scream sheets so by now i know you've heard about the assassination of those esa officials during their big conference in zurich right yeah the news says it's high rider extremist lunar separate is pushing back on esa expansion on the moon but of course that's not really what's going on here never is now i've got friends in let's say high places and they told me the truth of the matter see a few weeks ago a militech espionage team infiltrated an arasaka base in the maori nubian that's a sea of clouds they were there because of unusual seismic activity at the base it's an indicator that arasaka is moving around a lot of regolith construction for you dirt boys and dirt girls in the audience let me clarify regolith's just a fancy name for moon rocks so what do they find you ask only partially completed and totally unauthorized mass driver that's a big rock thrower it's really good for getting cargo materials back down earth from the moon and also as we learned in the last war it's a great way to drop rocks on cities so you might not know this but new mass drivers are strictly regulated by international treaty and they're prohibited under esa lunar use contracts the esa has the ultimate high ground advantage in any earth conflict with their own tycho and copernicus mass drivers and they really don't want anyone else having that same advantage especially arasaka so [Music] my friends in the know tell me that militech seems to have fed that information about arasaka's seeker mass driver to the esa committee in advance of arasaka's upcoming lunar contract renegotiations and you keep their contracts arasaka has taken the drastic action to eliminate anyone and the esa who might have seen this data on their mass driver but hey this was sloppy by arasaka standards in i so sloppy i'd be really surprised if this had come from the top i'm guessing some middle manager somewhere was just trying to cover their ass if you got food today if you manage to get clothing you probably have a nomad family out there to thank they're the ones bringing in a lot of the food they're bringing in a lot of the commerce they've been out rescuing the abandoned ships and loads from back in the days of the fourth corporate war so you may owe a nomad a lot more than you think but i gotta say among every group there are some bad actors like the wrath and shift for example that the wraith guys they are bad actors but my friends in nomad groups they know they're bad actors and they're trying to help johnny law hunt them down get rid of them so before you go paint all the nomads with the same brush why don't you get a little learning first find out what you're talking about because whether you know it or not you owe a nomad for your life hey people got something to kick around here remember busan korea maybe you do it was in the news because in 2022 it was a city of four million people and a site of one of the nastiest fights of the fourth corporate war now just a year later was a city of four million ghosts entire population having been exposed and killed off by some unknown disease which was incredibly rapid and lethal whatever it was the koreans did contain it and even today the blockades maintain on that dead city or is it i don't mean the quarantine that's real enough ask anyone who's trying to sneak in no i mean the city is it really dead it's hard to get satellite footage of the place but a friend of mine in a interesting place dropped me some images let me tell you folks something is going on december last year fire broke out in the donye district now that's not unusual maybe a lightning strike or gas line what's strange is that in those satellite images in february of this year that damage appears to be repaired now the koreans who maintain the blockade of the city have responded to rumors in the past they said the city was already one of the most automated in the world before the war turned it into collateral damage after all the people died the machines just kept working that even made sense at the time come on it's been 50 years do any of you know of any machine that keeps running for 50 years without proper maintenance i mean sure the machines keep the lights on but who's keeping the machines running and there's something i left out earlier when we were talking about this those buildings that burned down in december were old apartment complexes so what's there now well according to sat photos it looks like warehouses at least to me listeners these aren't repairs it's new construction sounds to me like the official line on this one is an official lie as usual and now loyal listeners a special bulletin sabor asaka the ancient patriarch of the arasaka corporation has died yeah just kidding folks you're too smart for that you and i both know he's not really dead sabor arasaka has spent nearly a hundred years now on a quest for eternal life he's guarded around the clock by a private army and lived for the better part of the century in a mid tank designed to regenerate organic tissue guys like that they don't just die they certainly don't just get murdered by rivals what was the bro even be doing in night city no folks this is a smoke screen for something and it wouldn't be the first time if you're old enough to remember the fourth corporate war there was a widespread report that sabor had been killed by the japanese sdf in a bid to end the war of course it turned out not to be true and the war dragged on for another year no you can take this one to the bank it's only a matter of time before saburo is going to show up on tv tell us all he's back as ceo and ready to take the arasaka corporation into the next century yo people so i don't know if you saw the news but there's a klimt exhibit that's opening the california museum of art san francisco in a few weeks i like klimt i was planning on going myself but i figure there's no point i mean after all it's nothing but high quality forgeries what you mean you think they keep any art on earth no from picasso da vinci pikmin to maple thorpe i've been told they've been taken to a secure vault on why well that's unclear reportedly it's because after the fourth corporate war nearly brought an end to civilization some of the richest people on earth got together and made an insurance policy of sorts keep the cultural heritage of the earth in a secure place out of harm's way in case of another more serious war and on the face of it that's not really bad but i've heard a darker rumor i'll fill you in but first let me tell you a little story long time ago i knew a guy owned a small restaurant now things were good for a while but times change taste change rent goes up way up so he decides to cash in on his insurance policy by setting the place on fire now and don't worry not giving you any secrets here i mean he was caught convicted served his time in a brain dance cube and now he walks the streets of free man but you know how they caught him before he burned down his diner he took out all the expensive kitchen equipment and sold it dead giveaway so think about this someone up on luna is taking all the stuff on earth they think has value maybe they're not just hoarding it maybe they're planning something else think about it folks and the next time you see a rocket launch in the spaceport ask yourself this what if that's the last shipment newsflash people you've heard about this relic that arasaka is teasing to the rich and famous it's all over the screen sheets copy your personality and graham into a chip and your loved ones don't have to say goodbye when you finally die carry your dear sweet grandma around on the chip ask her for advice or pick me up whenever you need it eternal life of a sort of course this is only on offer the rich is the most powerful people immortality isn't for squeams like you and i the common man but is there more to it than that we know that arasaka has been working on mine emulation technology for half a century now most notably with the infamous soul killer you've probably heard of it it's net weapon capable of copying your mind to a secure server and leaving your body an empty vessel and what do they do the copies they interrogate them there's some experimentation a little torture you know the good stuff so you a billionaire executive decide to get yourself copied so your precious offspring never have to be without your sage wisdom or so you can give your animal speech at the company christmas party i mean what would the world do without you an art soccer glad that makes a copy of your brain puts on a chip and hands it over but not before making a copy for themselves and that copy goes straight to digital interrogations where they pull your psyche apart bit by bit until they've squeezed every last memory out of you every compromising situation every crime every heartache your secret fears and desires and now you belong to them literally yeah someone in arasaka marketing division should get a raise for this one they've taken the most feared weapon in arasaka's arsenal and turned it into a luxury consumer item that's pretty impressive when you think about it and remember operators are standing by yo people i've got a story to tell you maybe a little bit of history anybody remember the bozos they vanished in the city a couple decades back so maybe you younger listeners won't remember but clowns once terrorized this place yeah clowns really mean clowns back in the day night city had hundreds of what were called poser gangs that's the gang where all the members get surgery to look alike or they get it on some theme like carrots has been old tv show or dead presidents the bozos were biosculpted to look like circus clowns and they like to play pranks on people but then they turned and the pranks got real nasty so why did i bring up the poses people well that's because i've got someone for all of you faithful listeners keep an eye out for i've got a trusted source on the street that tells me we've got a visitor to our fair city from brazil and this guy is something else he's got a permanent hairdo like a circus clown and i hear he's even got a big red nose supposedly he's some kind of murk or arms dealer but the rumor is he's also a genetic experiment but hey big nose weird hair could this guy have something to do with the bozos or maybe this guy just left the circus somewhere else time's gonna tell listeners but in the meantime i'm counting on you to watch out for flying pies that explode so people listen up this is serious i want you to think about this you know the name raven you know more dinolar of course karoshi they're the finest eye makers in the world probably you've got at least one of them in your skull right now don't you but do you ever wonder who's watching behind those eyes i think it's time you do because those eyes aren't yours you know somebody makes them somebody programs them those moments you think are private how can you be so sure no one's watching the next time you're out doing a deal think about it maybe when you pull the trigger in that job the corporate manufacturer derives has evidence you think you aren't a target for blackmail you better think hard about that last one chumba and be honest with yourself where do you think they get the data sets for the newest brain dances probably your private life but hey don't limit your imagination because the corporations sure don't what if there's stuff they don't want you to see a little chameleon filter there some perception coding here and suddenly they can decide what you even get to see who knows what they might want to hide from you spies secret labs facilities and of course that kick murder squad they sent to your door because you knew too much so you think seeing is believing not with these synthetic eyes well that's a good question listener i'll tell you i have lived in a mega building in fact i lived in one of the first ones ever built in watson i didn't have much option it was either that or go outside and find a squad underneath a radioactive bridge somewhere so it's crowded you get to know your neighbors real well some of them you don't want to get re to know real well but problem is when you've gotten several hundred thousand people you gotta put them somewhere and night city was not a good place to put people 20 30 40 50 years ago there was a big hole in the ground a lot of glowy stuff and most of the inner city was wiped so what do i think i think they're a necessary evil it cleaned it up a bit i mean the first ones in watson were a bit sketch but we need them they're not the best deal but they might be the only deal we've got in town this is the voice of night city maximum mike autonomous taxis huh i'm surprised they haven't done it more often i mean after all they're not too smart they're not like ai's or anything i'm sure even ai's could do that no most probably someone hasn't been keeping up on all the real complex maintenance you need to keep on these autonomous taxis on the road and uh when you start cutting corners that really really simple stupid robot stuff starts getting real simple and real stupid so crashing into people crashing the walls buildings could be anything but i put it down to faulty maintenance instead of something real uh sinister of course i could be wrong if any listeners have anything you want to send in on me call my producer i'll look into it well i suppose i could give you the usual claptrap the politicians do about thank you for your service but they don't care and they didn't care when i mustered out either what are you gonna do well unfortunately the nature human beings the way they are there's going to be wars and even if they're not declared wars there's always going to be a need for somebody who knows how to get around use weapons protect stuff managed to get a hand on to uh let's say military hardware know-how know their way around it so what are you to do [Music] i'd say be a solo it's worked for me in the past probably worked for you

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Published: Tue Sep 07 2021