It's obviously the explosive mixture of human nature in an ultracapitalistic system.
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There should be a vote for "CDPR corpos" huehuehuehuehue
Another legit choices that seems to be missing:
+ Mr. BLUE EYES (Enigmatic Cosmic Horror dude)
+ NUSA & Miltech (government conspiracy)
+ Peter Pan/ Anthony Harris (straight up serial killer)
+ Dexter DeShawn (I bet you so many people forget this dude LOL)
+ Oswald (literally one of the creepiest guy in the game bruh)
+ Maiko (Abuser, cheater, schemer)
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Another legit choices that seems to be missing:
+ Mr. BLUE EYES (Enigmatic Cosmic Horror dude)
+ NUSA & Miltech (government conspiracy)
+ Peter Pan/ Anthony Harris (straight up serial killer)
+ Dexter DeShawn (I bet you so many people forget this dude LOL)
+ Oswald (literally one of the creepiest guy in the game bruh)
+ Maiko (Abuser, cheater, schemer)
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Not disagreeing with you, but all that was avoidable if he did not go to Arasaka in 2023 and become Night City greatest mass murderer.That's my thought
Even if he's really an asshole during 75% of the game, Johnny didn't ask :
- To be soukilled (and indeed, to die).
- To be stored in Mikoshi during 50 years.
- To be put on the Relic (by Yorinobu).
- To V, to attempt to steal the Relic.
- To V, to put the Relic in his/her own head.
- To Dex, to shoot in V's head.
- To the Relic to "replace" V's consciousness by his own one.
That's corp propaganda.
#CountdownToTheDarkFuture - September: The 4th Corporate War!
Nice to know at least one corp listened to their head of technical services.
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In short, NUSA supplied Militech with the nuke, and a Morgan Blackhand led 3 prong strike team infiltrated Arasaka HQ. Who set the bomb off is unknown, but the only people with triggers were Morgan, General Eddington of the US Army and the third team of covert operators hired to set off the charge at the base of A tower.
What "Johnny" "remembers" and what the corps tell people is not what happened. The nuke did go off high above it's target but the entire operation was the near-closing moments of Corp IV, orchestrated by the US government and carried out by Militech.
Johnny goes to Arasaka to save the only wife that he ever loved who was kidnapped by Arasaka, then killed : Alt.
The whole operation was planned and scheduled by Militech (who provide the nuke too). For Johnny it was just an "excuse" to infiltrate the tower and upload the malware "Liberator" in the Arasaka subnetwork. A malware created by Murphy especially to freeing Alt.
Few clues :
- the evacuation message to alert poeple was never relayed by the authorities (and Arasaka).
- The nuke detonates way too late in my opinion. It didn't even explode yet when Johnny was evacuated but way later when Johnny was with Saburo.
My guess, Johnny's "little" nuke failled or only destroy a part of the tower (all around the 30th floor) and then, Arasaka detonated their way bigger nuke to wipe all the clues in the tower (Arasaka had a way bigger nuke in the tower basement, in case of tower was assaulted). Finally, with Militech accord, Arasaka have found a perfect culprit with Johnny (a dead man can in no way say the opposite^^).
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August 20th 2023
... solo Morgan Blackhand and rockerboy Johnny Silverhand attempt to steal/destroy Arasaka Secure Database in the Arasaka Tower facility. During the assault an area denial nuclear device was detonated which destroys most of central Night City. Over half a million people are killed, and another quarter million die in the resulting aftermath.
Cyberpunk Red pg 240
Anyways, to create more questions than answers:
From the Wiki
The Fall of the Towers is a story featured in Cyberpunk RED based on a portion of the events of Firestorm Shockwave. It revolves around a Militech strike team led by Morgan Blackhand - with the help of Johnny Silverhand and other individuals - in their mission to infiltrate the Arasaka Towers in 2023, during the Fourth Corporate War.[1] More parts of the event are explained in the Black Dog story.[1]
After breaching into the building, Alpha Team rushed to the labs, where Spider accessed the computers in order to contact Alt and rescue her. After transferring her into Spider's data suitcase, the netrunner proceeded to download some kind of information into datachips, and uploaded a virus to destroy any information regarding Soulkiller from the Arasaka net. When questioned by Thompson about the datachips, Spider lied to him saying they were just information on the Arasaka development team and other basic corporative knowledge.
During these events, Johnny, who had been knocked off by the initial attack, managed to stand up. With a Militech SMG on one hand and his Malorian on the other, the rockerboy shouted and provoked Smasher, emptying his guns on the borg. Smasher turned around, surprised at the audacity of the man, and then fired his autoshotgun at him, cutting Silverhand in half. Shaitan took advantage of the distraction to grapple and immobilize Smasher, telling the rest of the crew to leave. Spider Murphy tried to reach Silverhand, but Rogue stopped her, telling the netrunner he was gone. Spider reached inside her jacket and pulled out a data slug Alt had downloaded to her a long time ago. Whispering she was sorry to Johnny, Spider inserted the chip into the back of the dying rocker's skull. She then tried to reach for her data suitcase, but soon realized it had been destroyed in the crossfire. Wishing Alt good luck, Spider helped Rogue and the surviving Lobos to drag the wounded Thompson into the elevator. Spider knew Johnny would be avenged, and while touching the remaining datachips in her pocket, she knew Rache Bartmoss would be as well.
... solo Morgan Blackhand and rockerboy Johnny Silverhand attempt to steal/destroy Arasaka Secure Database in the Arasaka Tower facility. During the assault an area denial nuclear device was detonated which destroys most of central Night City. Over half a million people are killed, and another quarter million die in the resulting aftermath.
Cyberpunk Red pg 240
Anyways, to create more questions than answers:
From the Wiki
The Fall of the Towers is a story featured in Cyberpunk RED based on a portion of the events of Firestorm Shockwave. It revolves around a Militech strike team led by Morgan Blackhand - with the help of Johnny Silverhand and other individuals - in their mission to infiltrate the Arasaka Towers in 2023, during the Fourth Corporate War.[1] More parts of the event are explained in the Black Dog story.[1]
Into the Maelstrom
Johnny Silverhand lead Team Alpha, consisting of a few Militech SpecialOps, a portion of a group of Aldecaldos known as the Lobos, the solos Rogue and Shaitan, the media Lyle Thompson, and a netrunner by the name of Spider Murphy. The task force dropped out of an AV on the top floor of the Arasaka Towers, with the mission of infiltrating the laboratories ten levels down into the building to retrieve Alt Cunningham, who was trapped in the Arasaka network, and destroy Soulkiller.After breaching into the building, Alpha Team rushed to the labs, where Spider accessed the computers in order to contact Alt and rescue her. After transferring her into Spider's data suitcase, the netrunner proceeded to download some kind of information into datachips, and uploaded a virus to destroy any information regarding Soulkiller from the Arasaka net. When questioned by Thompson about the datachips, Spider lied to him saying they were just information on the Arasaka development team and other basic corporative knowledge.
Deaths Head Dance
Alpha Team was suddenly attacked by Adam Smasher and Arasaka troopers, taking down many of the Militech operatives and Lobos in the first attack, badly injuring Thompson, and pinning down the rest of the team in the labs. While both groups fired at each other, Spider snuck to her data suitcase in order to connect to the Net and scatter the various portions of Alt, each tagged with a marker with the hopes of finding them someday.During these events, Johnny, who had been knocked off by the initial attack, managed to stand up. With a Militech SMG on one hand and his Malorian on the other, the rockerboy shouted and provoked Smasher, emptying his guns on the borg. Smasher turned around, surprised at the audacity of the man, and then fired his autoshotgun at him, cutting Silverhand in half. Shaitan took advantage of the distraction to grapple and immobilize Smasher, telling the rest of the crew to leave. Spider Murphy tried to reach Silverhand, but Rogue stopped her, telling the netrunner he was gone. Spider reached inside her jacket and pulled out a data slug Alt had downloaded to her a long time ago. Whispering she was sorry to Johnny, Spider inserted the chip into the back of the dying rocker's skull. She then tried to reach for her data suitcase, but soon realized it had been destroyed in the crossfire. Wishing Alt good luck, Spider helped Rogue and the surviving Lobos to drag the wounded Thompson into the elevator. Spider knew Johnny would be avenged, and while touching the remaining datachips in her pocket, she knew Rache Bartmoss would be as well.
Rooftop
Once on the top of the building, Alpha Team got into the extraction AV. One of the Lobos pondered where Morgan Blackhand was, as he had left with a heavy suitcase and disappeared heading down a stairwell. It was during the lifting off when they saw Blackhand going against Smasher on top of the Arasaka Towers. A few minutes later, once the AV was quite far away from the building, a nuke went off.
The main villain is the fact that you're dying, that's the main "obstacle" the protagonist (YOU) need to overcome everything else is secondary.