Rosalind Myers: the NUSA President in Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty

Rosalind Myers is the president of the New United States of America in Cyberpunk 2077, a former US Marine who ran Militech before she ran the country. She is the woman who started the Unification War, and in Phantom Liberty she is the passenger on Space Force One when it is shot down over Dogtown. (Cyberpunk 2077; Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty)

Who Rosalind Myers is#

Myers was born into a wealthy, powerful East Coast family said to descend from the Mayflower settlers. Her database entry says she started out in the US Marine Corps, where her patriotism, discipline and courage won fast promotion and caught the eye of Militech's top brass. When Militech's CEO, Donald Lundee, died, she took his place. (Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty)

Her time at the top of Militech made her more enemies than friends. Rather than wait for a vote of no confidence, she resigned, saying she meant to run for president. She won, becoming only the second woman in the Oval Office in the NUSA's short history. (Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty)

The same entry adds some personal detail: people close to her say she misses the Marines, assassins keep trying for her, and the biggest threat to her life is a long-standing nicotine habit. CD Projekt Red's dossier sums up her job as running a country at a time when power is wielded by corporations. (Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty; Myers dossier)

Myers and the Unification War#

Myers ended her first term with a war. In 2069 she sent the NUSA, backed by Militech, to bring the breakaway Free States back under federal rule. The campaign went well until it reached Night City. In 2070 a NUSA force was closing on the city when Arasaka, invited in by the city council, sailed a supercarrier into Del Coronado Bay. (Cyberpunk 2077; The World of Cyberpunk 2077)

Myers chose a treaty over a wider war. The Treaty of Unification, signed at Arvin, ended the fighting, left the Free States largely autonomous and let Night City go its own way. Her database entry calls it the end of her expansionist dreams, but notes that it didn't hurt her at the polls: she won the next two elections. (Cyberpunk 2077; Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty)

One loose end from that retreat matters later. Colonel Kurt Hansen, whose Militech unit held part of Pacifica, refused the order to withdraw and turned his ground into Dogtown. (Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty)

Myers in the base game#

In the base game, Myers is a voice on the news. After Saburo Arasaka dies, she dismisses Arasaka's claims that Militech and the NUSA were behind it, and warns that the NUSA once reminded Saburo he wasn't all-powerful and won't hesitate to remind his successor, Yorinobu. Network news also covers her bid for a fourth term under the slogan "A Return to Unity". (Cyberpunk 2077)

Night City is split on her. Petitions both for and against reunification with the NUSA can be found on the city's computers. In The Devil ending, news reports say she denounced Saburo's return to power as illegal, then agreed to meet him in person to talk peace. (Cyberpunk 2077)

Myers in Phantom Liberty#

Myers is flying over the California coast on Space Force One with Songbird, her netrunner and right hand, when missiles hit the plane. Songbird reaches V through the Relic, gets Myers into the plane's safe room and ejects in a lifepod herself, and the plane comes down in Dogtown. (Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty)

V reaches the crash ahead of Hansen's Barghest troops. Myers, armed and suspicious, only trusts V once Songbird's name comes up. On the run she has V cut a tracker out of her neck, sure that someone on her own team sold her out. When Barghest corners them at the old Expo, Songbird takes over a Militech Chimera to help, loses control of it, and Myers and V have to destroy it together. (Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty)

From a hideout, Myers sends V to find Solomon Reed, an FIA sleeper agent living in Dogtown. She makes V an offer: help Reed get Songbird back from Hansen, and the NUSA will save V's life. Then she is extracted to Washington and leaves the rest to Reed. (Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty)

Myers can die, but only if V lets her. If V ignores Songbird during the crash, or walks away from the deal at the hideout, Barghest finds and kills her, and the expansion's story ends there. (Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty)

Myers and Songbird#

The ugliest side of Myers is how she uses Songbird. The expansion shows she had So Mi augmented and sent her through the Blackwall again and again, and by 2077 it is killing her. That is why Songbird betrays her to Hansen, and why Songbird's end at Myers' side is so grim. (Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty)

Myers turns up again at the end of Reed's route. If V kills So Mi as she asks, Myers meets them at the border, offers no thanks and pays a token sum. If V brings So Mi back alive, Myers is grateful, offers V a medal and pays properly, and So Mi lives on as her netrunner, still chained to the Blackwall. (Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty)