Cybergeneration was never considered canon... from thebeginning it was an alternate setting, because R. Tal knew that not every one would be onboard with the idea of the inclusion of super powers. And since the entire game was based around playing juveniles, it made for a pretty limited... but surprisingly large, audience. Cybergen itself was great... predominantly is was so accepted because it WAS always treated as an alternate universe. Cybergen took place in 2077, while the Firestorm books took place in 2022.
V3 took place "some time in the 2030's, no one really knows for sure, because derp!" According to the v3 timeilne, the Datakrash consisted of a computer virus created by the "hero" rache bartmoss which completely destroyed the net, making it unsafe to log on even for a bit. (A m,uch more dangerous virus tahn the US military set of a nuke in arasaka tower to keep out of arasaka hands, but again, derp). The loss of the internet jhappenned at the same time someone realeased a genetically engineered real world nanite virus, that ate paper... once more, because derp. So with no paper, and an untrustworthy internet, humanity becomes retarded in ten years, and can no longer tell the date, and thinks Charlie Chaplin and his evil naxi empire tried to take over the world, till the UN came riding in on dinosaurs and "un-nazi'd" the world...
Yeah... V3 was Idiocracy, only with self replicating apartment buildings that would eat you on a bad day, that people still had to pay rent to live in.... so one last time... DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRPPPPPP!
As you resume the V3 sounds deeerp even to me, but it was not that way and you can confuse people is because i will take the liberty to put a lil bit of order and explain all that messed events you explained above 1st; the DataKrash started during the hot wars (see firestorm shockwave for details), all mayor players in this war realized at some point that something was going wrong with the net and everything related to it, but was
deliberately concealed .
The first ones in realizing what was happening were Arasaka security and not because they were smart but because they killed Rache (see stormfront for details) . Soulkiller 2.0 was running in those times and Rache was trying to destroying it, this happened mid 2022.
2nd; Because Saburo was really a cunning guy he designed a plan to get the most of it , knowing that who control information controls everything he created a massive database with all that can be considered useful for humanity and to keep records of history apart of 20 years of very sensitive information gathered by their intelligence services about megacorps operations worldwide an the Alpha database was created and put at safe at the recently constructed Arasaka towers in Night City that is sit above 2 kilotons nuke ''just in case'' .
3rd; Because Saburo was mad, he ordered to create Paper Viral V524 that is a bacterium that eats free acid paper just to be sure nobody have, blueprints, history records or any paper source of information and released it, this happened in late 2022, Soulkiller 3.0 could be completed in those days.
4th A team of edgerunners backed with US Army and militech forces designed a plan for 1º destroy Soulkiller Mainframe and memory banks and 2º recover destroy or copy Alpha Database the mission went bad to say something because soulkiller wasn´t destroyed ( it was redirected to another facility) and the team was decimated leaving the rest of the group with the only option of destroy soullkiller mainframe triggering in the process the 2 kiloton nuke under Arasaka tower, although they don´t know the nuke was there and is not sure if they triggered the bomb or was
a direct order of Saburo which I think is more probably, this happened also in late 2022.
5th With Rache´s dead RABIDS went loose and it began to spread the net without control adding this to DataKrash was to much for Netwatch specially with a global war going , this happened in 2023 and DataKrash was infecting about a 90 % of the net .
Some facts:
Neither OETEC , CINO , Militech or Arasaka started hostilities the guilty was the Euro Bank the shadow behind the acts that started the war.
One of the main reasons for the relocation of Night City was the rise of the sea level caused by the melting of polar masses due direct impact of space mirrors rays.
Now i think is a little bit less deeeeerrrrp .
However i think that if they want to create another timeline with or without the 4th war I´ll buy it just because either way is going to be a nice trip.
