Cyberpunk category
Technology
8 entries tagged Technology, 8 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at The Relic: the Arasaka Biochip Killing V in Cyberpunk 2077 and Soulkiller: the Arasaka Program That Turns Minds into Engrams.
- Cyberpsychosis: How Chrome Breaks Minds in CyberpunkCyberpsychosis is the mental breakdown that too much cyberware can cause in the Cyberpunk setting. Here is how the tabletop Humanity rules work, how Cyberpunk 2077 and Edgerunners show it, and why V and David are special cases.
- Johnny Silverhand's Gear: the Malorian 3516, the Porsche 911 and the Silverhand ArmJohnny Silverhand's gun, car and chrome arm all go back to the 1980s tabletop game. Here's the lore of the Malorian Arms 3516, the 1977 Porsche 911 Turbo and the cyberarm that gave him his name, and how V gets the gun and the car in Cyberpunk 2077.
- Mikoshi: Arasaka's Soul Prison in Cyberpunk 2077Mikoshi is the Arasaka data fortress where soulkilled minds are kept, and the place where Cyberpunk 2077 ends. Here is what it holds, how you get in, and what the bridge and the well mean in the final choice.
- The Relic: the Arasaka Biochip Killing V in Cyberpunk 2077The Relic is the Arasaka biochip that puts Johnny Silverhand in V's head. Here is what it was built for, why the 2.0 prototype is killing V, and what Phantom Liberty added to it.
- Sandevistan: David's Speedware in Edgerunners and Cyberpunk 2077The Sandevistan is the implant that slows the world down for whoever is wearing it. Here is how it works, where David Martinez's came from in Edgerunners, and how it plays in Cyberpunk 2077 and the tabletop rules.
- Soulkiller: the Arasaka Program That Turns Minds into EngramsSoulkiller is the program that copies a human mind into code, and for most of its history it killed the person it copied. Here is how Alt Cunningham wrote it, how Arasaka stole it, and what it does to Johnny Silverhand and V.
- The Blackwall: the AI Firewall Holding Back Cyberpunk's Rogue AIsThe Blackwall is the barrier NetWatch built to wall off the rogue AIs that took over the old Net after the DataKrash. Here is what it is, who built it, what lives behind it, and how Phantom Liberty and the 2.0 update made it part of the game.
- The DataKrash: How Rache Bartmoss Killed the Old NetThe DataKrash was the 2022 collapse of the old Net, set off by viruses Rache Bartmoss left behind to fire when he died. Here is what happened, why it freed the rogue AIs, and how it led to the Blackwall and the broken Net of Cyberpunk 2077.