Just little separate topic but still little tied to the rogue AI.
Garry the Prophet in one conversation refers himself as the
Cassandra, which is ancient Greece legend of a prophet who was cursed to utter true prophecies, but was also cursed to never to be believed.
So could it be that Garry is "cursed" to utter these truths in some form of nonsense so that nobody would take him seriously... but if you were to listen and actually follow his instructions you'll find out that there indeed is something larger happening.
Could it be that Garry's implant was intended as some form of punishment, where he's seeing what the AI is plotting but his brain and speech patterns are altered in a way that he can't form sane sentences without appealing to mythological characters.
And if you look how AI like Alt talks, or the AI contacting and warning you not to interfere, they like to talk in riddles, often even repeating phrases from old Greek myths. Remember the warning: "you're playing with fire, don't cross the line."
In Greece fire represents the spark of human intellect and
knowledge.
So what the AI is truly warning about "don't you dare reveal our true identity, don't dig too deep" and we never get to really see who's behind it all, that's why we are left alone.
The Databank you're send to recover for Sandra Dorsett contains words 'carpe noctem' which translates to 'sieze the night'.
That data also shares a details of unwilling and unaware employees of Night Corp being tested with subliminal conditioning their staffers.
Sandra seemed to be aware of this was happening and that's why she got caught and almost killed before V by pure luck manages to get there in time to stop cutting her body to pieces.
Co-incidently Garry also was referencing about werewolves which during the night set up for a hunt for human flesh.
And these werewolves aren't bound by the "reptilian law", so possibly what this means is that these werewolves, or Scavengers (short version: Scav) aren't bound by our "reptilian brain" that sets our moral laws.
Scavs are the werewolves that celebrate on maiming and killing of humans.
Lizards and Reptilians are likely just references to humans and their need to create order. Could be government agencies like Netwatch that are there to bound these beasts.
Vampires are reference for these unaging old people like Saburo Arasaka who just live forever and ever.
Garry also refers to a ship from Alpha Centauri crashing into bad lands and carrying a substance, which was highly sought after Vampire elite from Arasaka. So this substance was likely something what is used against aging.
And this is said to transform people into werewolves, or Scavs which likely harvest these organs from people that are likely used in manufacturing of this highly valuable substance.
Could it be that this "Alpha Centauri" is reference to AI and that it was AI that developed this cure against aging, and it required human bodies to be sacrificed to manufacture. Remember,
and this is the KEY point, In Cyberpunk world,
human limbs would be pointless thing to sell since people replace them with artificial body parts anyway. So those body parts have to be used somewhere else.
"Their mothership conceals itself above our very heads!" could reference the Crystal Palace, which is the location of the ultra rich people living in paradise just like in movie Elysium.
It's likely that the ultra rich are in control of their own AI and that in Cyberpunk world only way to get to the top is to own an AI, so the Crystal Palace has actually become a hub of the ultra rich and their controlled AI.
So the code for AI being as complex as it is, making references to ancient legends and stories, being so vastly different from humans, it would be no accident Garry thinks these beings are out of this world.
So could it be that Mr Blue Eyes potentially being rogue AI means that he's waging a war against the wealthy class living in Crystal Palace, who also operate a ton of AI themselves?
And that Garry the Prophet wasn't actually siezed by the rogue AI men with blue eyes, but a totally separate group of men with blue eyes, who were operating under the influence of the wealthy elite.
Perhaps these wealthy being living in Crystal Palace could themselves be a fusion of AI and humans, where their original hosts have long since died off, and replaced by copies of technology created by Soulkiller.
So Garry the prophet wasn't actually warning about hostile rogue AI takeover, but warning against the techno-necromancer elite that is living in the Crystal Palace? AI super intelligence of beings that are far beyond humans, just there to try navigate the humankind and maybe form their own visions of the future of the planet.
Rogue AI and the AI who takes a form of Alt Cunningham would technically then be the anti-capitalists who seek to eradicate these great authorities just like the original author of
DataKrash who tried to find way to destroy the wealthy class by creating viruses to take down the Net.
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This is where V steps in and his role is to fight against these elites with the help of Mister Blue Eyes setting up the Casino heist to steal valuable intel about the people living in Crystal Palace.
I have little to no doubt the expansion (whenever it's to come) is going to be dealing with a some form of grand conspiracy that ties these loose ends together.
Garry already warns the people that their memories don't belong to them... that they are already brainwashed... so it could be that V is only protected from them due to the Relic.
There was rumors of DLC called The Relic and soon later the missing talent tree was named Relic... so this could all be connected!
Going back to one of the backgrounds called "Consumerism", if you check from Steam DB they actually originally were called "Pills" before being renamed to "Consumerism", which means that it could likely indicate that this isn't just some anti-spending statement, but idea was that these pills were send to citizens of Night City, in order to pacify them, subject them unknowingly to false memories and control them. They say they are only vitamins, and the Peralez himself checks it out, and it says "yeah they're just vitamins" but how are we to trust these results, if everything is already controlled by AI?
If you assume majority of the corporations are already in control by the AI, it could explain why these pills have so many different brands of manufacturers, as there's no more large corporation that are controlled by human entity, and it doesn't matter who produces it since they could all be controlled by same entity or group of entities.
This is the control what Gary was trying to warn us all along. Wake up sheep!!!
