Cyberpunk 2077
Summary
Cyberpunk 2077has undergone a mass of changes since its release in December 2020.Cyperpunk 2077has evolve into a game bang for self-colored gameplay , an telling narrative , and an immersive world . Night City , Cyberpunk 2077 ’s context , has a long history and , like the biz itself , has undergo a deal of changes .
Cyberpunk 2077is congeal in an alternate future where paramilitary governance , megacorporations , turpitude , and criminal offence go unchecked . The name Night City reflect that , but according to in - world traditional knowledge , that was n’t always the city ’s name . It earned that later , even if the reason it earn that name was nowhere almost as sinister as the city eventually became .
Night City Started As Coronado City
In the former nineties , the earth begin to collapse . War broke out across the globe , and born cataclysm occur much more frequently than ever before . The global economic system was manipulated and eventually destroyed in 1994 by a mathematical group have intercourse as The Gang of Four .
After that meltdown , a man of affairs named Richard Night stepped in to attempt to control the surrounding chaos . He proposed building a harbour , a form of corporate Sion , that was entirely separated from the collapsing government and society he see . Investments from three major megacorporations allowed mental synthesis of what was then called Coronado City to start on a nearly abandoned piece of land of land on the western seashore of California .
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It Became Night City After Its Founder Was Murdered
Coronado City thrive for four years , from 1994 to 1998 . During those years , Richard Night permit the megacorporations and other criminal organisation to spend exorbitant amount of money on construction . He then shut them out for cheaper , self-governing workers who were not associated at all with the prominent , powerful group .
This made Richard Night a butt , and in 1998 , he was polish off . The culprit is formally unknown . After this calamity , it did not take long for the metropolis to rename itself on behalf of its helper , becoming Night City only four age after its christening as Coronado City . While the urban sprawl was technically named for its founder , the irony is that the city became much saturnine and more dangerous after that , almost as though it were adapt to its new identity .
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Megacorporations Save Night City From Gang Wars
In only seven long time , Night City is under governance byunderworld factions and gangs . Corruption is rampant , and danger is humdrum . The metropolis has deteriorate from a haven from the prostration of the world outside to a bleak mirror that chew over only the unfit parts of humanity .
Arasaka Corporation , among others like Militech International Armaments , decided to take action and began what came to be know as The Mob War in 2009 . Rather than being governed and keep in line by a crooked city council of gangster , the megacorps spend the next two years wiping Night City clear of the underworld that had seized control of it . They then instated a council of businesspeople who would typify the megacorps ' interest and begin the work to turn Night City into the corporal utopia that Richard Night had originally destine it to be .
Golden Age From 2011 to 2022, Ice Age Until 2065
The megacorporations succeed in bringing Night City into the light . For just over a decade , the metropolis fly high under the control of Arasaka and others . But when a nationwide military conflict break up out , Night City became earth zero for a nuclear plan of attack . A thermonuclear equipment was detonated above Arasaka ’s bodied place , bringing the brief golden age to a close .
Arasaka is in shambles . In what becomes know as The Big prevarication , they are receive responsible for the bombardment of their own holding and forced to result North America , no longer allowed to behave business enterprise there . By 2024 , the North American conflict cools down and so do conflict across the globe , often into cold wars . Decades pass and the former continental United States is divided into two factions , separatist state to the Rebecca West and the New USA to the east .
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The Cold War Turns Hot, And Arasaka Saves the Day
Night City is a hotbed of activity during this period of tension , and what is known as the Unification War terminate in 2070 as the New USA ’s intrusion into Night City is thwarted by a well - timedArasaka Corporationship showing up in the weewee outside the metropolis . With a battleship a monitor of the resources and power the megacorp had at its administration , the New USA retreats and formally gives Night City sovereignty of its own rather than risk an even declamatory conflict .
This give Arasaka the opportunity for North American line once again . The megacorp even became part of the urban center council . life history in Night City is back to as normal as it gets , but that still means lots of crime and corruption . One affair that does entertain true after Arasaka save the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. is that Night City residents resent the New USA and their militaristic enlargement into their city .
The President of the New United States was elect in 2065 , and she is the former CEO of the Militech International Armaments megacorporation . It is that United States Army she uses to march across the country and siege Night City .
That rancour can be seen in the timeline and events of the originalCyberpunk 2077and , more specifically , the DLC expansionPhantom Liberty . While still in Night City , Phantom Libertytakes billet in Dogtown , a unexampled dominion that players have not been able-bodied to travel to before . A sort of metropolis of its own within Night City , Dogtown is the intersection of everything that ’s chance to Night City since 1994 . ThePhantom LibertyDLC is a spy - thriller packed with espionage , disordered alliances , and political intrigue , all of which fit right in with the sordid and wide-ranging story of Night City itself .
