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Night City throbs under neon haze, a brutal metropolis reborn from the 2023 Holocaust's radioactive cradle, where Arasaka's towering spire looms over Militech's armories in eternal corporate feud. Forged through Collapse's economic inferno, Fourth War's DataKrash apocalypse by Rache Bartmoss, and Time of the Red's nomadic Diaspora, society splinters into chrome-addled edgerunners chasing glory amid cyberpsychosis plagues. Gangs like Maelstrom's cyberfiends and Tyger Claws' blade masters clash in Watson's alleys, while Aldecaldos roam Badlands wastes, all beneath Relic's engram curse echoing Johnny Silverhand's anti-corpo anthems.

From Konpeki Plaza heists to Dogtown's FIA shadows under Kurt Hansen's Barghest grip, V's Relic-haunted odyssey intersects David Martinez's fatal crew ascent with Maine, Lucy, and Rebecca against Adam Smasher's borg fury. Saburo Arasaka's iron rule crumbles to Yorinobu's coup, as Panam Palmer's nomads, Judy Alvarez's braindance webs, and Rogue Amendiares' fixer empire fuel street wars across Heywood's Valentinos turf and Pacifica's Voodoo haunts.

Your legend awaits in Night City's veins—forge as streetkid, corpo rat, or nomad outlaw, hijacking Relics, romancing allies, or toppling towers, every chrome choice rippling through fractured fates.

◁ ============ Core Info ============ ▷

Between the Card and the Lorebook, there’s content and lore covering everything from:
"Pre-Collapse Era" to "Post-Crisis Horizons"
contains lore from Cyberpunk RED
Spanning all the principal history in Cyberpunk 2077
and Covering all the events in Cyberpunk Edgerunners

So, it should be possible to start in the setting or context of any point in the history that YOU want.
There are a total of 184 characters from across all the game, anime and some from the tabletop lore.

Lorebook Info: 598 Entries = 200.000 Total Tokens

◁ ============ Characters & Roleplay Notes ============ ▷

Even though the bot is mainly focused on an RPG experience, you can easily jump into a more personal roleplay with any character you like.

Each character entry has around 400–800 tokens (depending on their relevance), Filled with things like personality, appearance, and more.

I don’t think I need to explain every step, but honestly, setting up a simple scenario like a meeting, an encounter or a date should be enough.

Just get creative. ✌️

This is a commissioned work.

WARNING

LOT OF YAPPING, SKIP IF YOU ALREADY KNOW THE DRILL or YOU DON'T REALLY CARE.

◁ =============== Core History =============== ▷

Pre-Collapse Era (1800s–1990s)

Amid the forge of industrial might and Cold War shadows, humanity teetered on cybernetic dawn, with pioneers like Dr. Paul Robichaud birthing visions of augmented flesh in 1954. Nations clashed in proxy fires, from Central American quagmires to EEC fraud exposures igniting the 1994 World Stock Market Collapse, unleashing economic Armageddon. Pittsburgh's nuclear meltdown birthed The Pitt's poisoned wastes, cleansed by nascent Aldecaldo nomads, while China's civil war and Mideast Meltdown's atomic fury scorched the globe. Richard Night's assassination renamed Coronado City in his honor, a beacon amid quakes swallowing Los Angeles and droughts starving the Midwest. Neo-Luddites bombed in futile rage against the machine age. These harbingers of fracture wove the tapestry of corporate ascent, seeding Night City's corporate plaza with Arasaka's Yasubisu shadows and SovOil's oil empires, forging the brittle world that would shatter into red skies, where flesh yielded to chrome and nations to megacorps.

Collapse and Corporate Rise Era (2000s–2010s)

As the Net's skeletal frame rose with World Sat Network in 2001, Militech shed its Armatech skin, and Britain's crown crumbled under coups, the old order bled out. Food Crash viruses ravaged crops in 2002, SovOil broke free from USSR chains, while Orbital War's 2008 fury saw Tycho rocks pulverize Colorado Springs, Alice Springs vaporized in reprisal. Cyberlimbs armored US grunts by 2006, clones stirred ethical storms, and Second Central American War's vilified vets birthed MaxTac psycho hunters in Night City. Nomads' Long Walk ended in 2012 amid Chicago's Wasting Plague, Metal Wars scarred Night City's streets, Hong Kong freed from Japanese yoke. Blair's inauguration masked deepening fractures. These corporate colossi—Arasaka, Militech—devoured governments, their shadow games escalating to orbital barrages and bioplague whispers, birthing a world where solos like Ares forged psycho squads, paving the inferno road to Fourth War's cataclysm, when Net dreams turned to DataKrash nightmares.

Corporate Wars Era (2010s–2023)

From 2012's Chicago plague pyres and nomad marches, corporate blades sharpened for the Fourth War's 2021 ignition: aquacorps CINO and OTEC's asset frenzy drew Militech and Arasaka into global slaughter. Saburo's vendettas against Lundee fueled shadow strikes—Yokohama massacres, Busan bioplague, Hong Kong ruins, Rio rubble. Orbital factories hummed amid chaos, Seven Hour War freed Highriders on September 29, 2022. Rache Bartmoss's raid death unleashed DataKrash, corrupting 78% of the Net in viral apocalypse. Night City's Corporate Center erupted August 20, 2023, in Arasaka Tower's mini-nuke holocaust, half a million incinerated by Morgan Blackhand's strike, chain reactions birthing radioactive hell. Governments nationalized assets, Kress's dictatorship clamped the NUSA, Japan caged Arasaka domestically. This apex of megacorp hubris shattered the old Net, red skies heralding Time of the Red, where Bartmoss's ghost haunted RABIDS-infested pools, and solos' legends echoed into edgerunner myths.

Time of the Red: Diaspora Phase (2026–2029)

Red skies wept blood rain over 2026's fragile truce, as Militech mourned lost Pathfinder amid looted corp storehouses and Diaspora waves—displaced hordes reclaiming corpse-cities from war's ashes. Nomads rebuilt High Roads, CitiNets flickered in fortified parks, while Kress's iron fist forged NUSA dictatorship from emergency decrees. Arasaka licked wounds in Japan, Militech assets bolstered US might, rogue AI sea mines strangled trade lanes into the 2070s. Scavengers stripped orbital hulks, black markets bloomed with pre-Krash chrome. Night City's suburbs stirred with survivor ghosts, whispers of Silverhand's corpse luring fixers to ruins. This nomadic exodus and tech-hoarding frenzy knit fractured clans like Aldecaldos, birthing new corps from factory revivals, a brutal interregnum linking Corporate Wars' fire to reclamation's steel spires, where humanity's remnants bartered flesh for survival in crimson haze.

Time of the Red: Night City Resettlement (2030–2035)

Suburban Night City's ghosts reclaimed the poisoned cradle by 2030, nomad High Roads pulsing lifeblood anew, CitiNets weaving local webs from Ziggurat data pools. Reconstruction banners flew over irradiated scars, Megabuildings clawing skyward as fresh corps sprouted from rubble factories. Silverhand's rumored husk drew edgerunner pilgrims to old center's glow. Diaspora stragglers forged pacts amid red-veiled dawns, scavenging war scrap for chrome bazaars. Aldecaldos and Jodes paved the way, their convoys shielding settlers from psycho remnants and RABIDS phantoms. This gritty rebirth tempered Night City's soul in scarcity's forge, linking Diaspora desperation to First Wave's bold surges, erecting the brutal paradise where V and edgerunners would chrome up, a testament to resilience amid eternal red, seeding the streets for 2077's Relic inferno.

Time of the Red: First Wave Reclamation (2035–2049)

First Wave cities surged from red dust by 2035, factories roaring back under newborn corps, Megabuildings housing teeming masses. Morgan Blackhand's spectral sightings haunted solos' tales, Netwatch sealed RABIDS-tainted nodes, dooming old Net to ghosts. Ziggurat's Data Pools linked CitiNets, nomads' roads knit the fractured land. Black Dog's edgerunners danced death in Night City's fringes, their exploits etching legends into reclaimers' lore. Atmospheric particles faded skies slowly, but blood rains scarred psyches. This epoch of audacious rebuilds—orbital forges, clan pacts—bridged Red's despair to Reconstruction's stability, birthing Night City's megastructure heart, where cyberpsychos prowled shadows and fixers brokered futures, foreshadowing Unification's thunder and 2076's Sandevistan dreams.

Reconstruction Interlude (2053–2063)

V drew first breath October 12, 2053, in Night City's resurgent sprawl, as bird flus reaped 10,000 in 2059, then 12,000 in 2061's Great scourge. Haiti's storm-wrecked husks resettled Pacifica ghettos by 2062, NC Dam Ltd. flooded Laguna Bend for reservoirs, Avian Extermination Act of 2063 culled skies to stem plagues. Lucius Rhyne clinched council seat, Thorton C125 phased out. Amid these quiet rebuilds, nomad arteries strengthened, CitiNets deepened, whispers of white holes stirred netrunners. This interlude of pestilent trials and infrastructural veins healed Time of the Red's wounds, grounding Night City's boom for Flashpoints' geopolitical storms and Edgerunners' chrome frenzy, a fragile peace cradling V's destiny.

Pre-Unification Flashpoints (2068–2069)

Australia's 2068 bushfire inferno slew all wild koalas save Omega, protest's lone survivor, as Kendachi's Hunter Hyland napalmed Colombian villages in corporate atrocities. NUSA President Myers unleashed Unification War January 2069, invading Free States to reclaim fractured empire. Higurashi Mantis Blades yanked for neural glitches, DT&R's airship fleets guzzled fuel for Aussie plastics. Night City's veins pulsed with war rumors, nomads braced borders. These incendiary sparks—eco-holocausts, war crimes, imperial grabs—heralded Myers' re-election gambit, forging tensions into Phantom Liberty's shadows and 2077's corpo sieges, a prelude where chrome flaws mirrored humanity's, priming edgerunners for Sandevistan ascents.

Edgerunners: Introduction and Recruitment (Early 2076)

In Heywood's grind, David Martinez dreamed beyond Arasaka Academy's sterile cages, Gloria's EMT drudgery fueling his fire until drive-by slugs claimed her. Clutching stolen Sandevistan, he pulped bully Katsuo Tanaka, expulsion sealing his street fate. Pickpocketing netrunner Lucy sparked forbidden moonside visions, drawing him to Maine's crew—Dorio's steel, Pilar's gadgets, Kiwi's ice, Rebecca's fury—mid-heist on Arasaka driver Maxim Kuznetsov. Arasaka's shadows plotted his recapture as test bait. Tanaka's reinstatement ploy shattered on David's chrome vow. This ignition thrust kid into edgerunner blaze, weaving personal loss into crew kinship, foreshadowing cyberpsycho tempests and Lucy's haunted past.

Edgerunners: Crew Operations and Rising Tensions (Mid 2076)

David honed blades under Maine's iron gaze, Lucy's net whispers kindling lunar oaths amid gig grinds. Pilar fell to cyberpsycho claws, duo avenging in gore. Kidnapping fixer Jimmy Kurosaki lured Tanaka into trap, his implant frying in Lucy's hack as Maine's psychosis clawed deeper, maiming Kiwi. Trauma Team and NCPD storms claimed Maine and Dorio, David's Gorilla Arms inheriting leadership's weight. Bonds forged in blood and chrome strained against loss's chrome hunger. These mounting ops etched crew's legend in Night City's underbelly, bridging recruitment's spark to downfall's abyss, illuminating cyberware's seductive psychosis siren for 2077's Relic echoes.

Edgerunners: Leadership and Downfall (Late 2076)

Chrome-crowned David seized reins, Sandevistan blurring into cyberskeleton whispers, dragging reluctant Lucy into Faraday's Militech gigs shredding Arasaka. Her netrunner scars bled in agent purges. Betrayal's blade fell: Faraday fed them to Arasaka maw, snaring Lucy and Kiwi amid David's potential revelations. Cyberskeleton ignited, pulverizing Militech hordes, liberating loves amid carnage. Tower assault climaxed—Kiwi flatlined, Faraday plummeted, Rebecca pulped under Smasher's boot, David defiant in death's embrace holding psycho colossus. Lucy's moonshot solitude mourned crew's pyre. This tragic apex crowned edgerunner myth, chrome's curse devouring stars, presaging V's Relic haunt.

Relic Announcement and Prelude (Early 2077)

Arasaka unveiled Relic's immortality chip amid 2077's corporate drums, Antonio Luccessi fading as China-India pacts bloomed, extinct beasts stirred, gulls teetered. Kujira yacht bore Saburo to Night City, Switzerland's ancient press silenced last tome. V and Jackie hustled under Dex DeShawn's shadow, lifepaths converging—corpo betrayals, nomad smuggling, streetkid heists—into Relic's fatal lure. Blackout netrunners primed chaos. This prelude hummed with omens, Saburo's arrival igniting familial knives, V's ascent from fringes to heist's edge, threading Edgerunners' ghosts into 2077's core, where engram dreams masked Soulkiller's abyss.

Konpeki Plaza Heist Crisis (April–May 2077)

V and Jackie breached Konpeki Plaza's gilded veins for Dex's Relic prize, Yorinobu's parricidal blade felling Saburo mid-shadows. Chaos erupted—Jackie bled out in Vik's chair, Dex's betrayal dumped V to landfill doom, Relic's revival birthing Silverhand's spectral rage. Takemura's rescue pierced Arasaka fog, Blackout's net-storm crippling towers. Peralez's mayoral rise shadowed Yorinobu's CEO coronation, Militech scapegoated. V's 48-hour countdown clashed with street wars. This heist cataclysm shattered alliances, Silverhand's engram fusing fates, launching V's cure odyssey amid corpo purges, cornerstone of Night City's 2077 unraveling.

Yorinobu Ascendancy and Street Wars (Post-Heist 2077)

Yorinobu's throne, forged in patricide, pinned Militech for Saburo's fall, igniting street infernos—Valentinos battled gentrification, Big City Dreams edgerunners raided corp lairs, Trauma's Nadia shielded execs. V scavenged Relic cures in shadows, Dex flatlined. Rhyne's demise crowned Peralez mayor amid whispers. These turf crucibles tested V's mettle, weaving Jackie’s ghost into resolve, linking heist's fallout to mid-year alliances, embodying Night City's eternal grind where fixers brokered doom, presaging EMP raids and Dogtown snares.

Alliance Forging and Disruptions (Mid-2077)

V bonded Aldecaldos through Panam's fire, EMPing power plants to crash Kang Tao AVs snaring Hellman. Omega koala perished Down Under, Myers eyed re-election, Militech hawked Mars habs. Hanako's parade snatch by V and Takemura summoned Smasher's wrath. Alt's Soulkiller veils beckoned. These pacts amid eco-graves and political knives honed V's arsenal, bridging street wars to Liberty's tangles, illuminating nomad loyalties against corpo tides.

Phantom Liberty Dogtown Intrigue (Mid-Late June 2077)

Songbird's Dogtown summons reeled V into black ops web, neural matrix tormenting her Blackwall scars. FIA's Solomon Reed shadowed Myers' visit, Hansen's Barghest gripped the exclave in iron. Infiltrations, interrogations, matrix extractions—V weighed betrayals: aid Songbird's flight or chain her to NUSA cure, surgery dangling Relic salvation. Barghest clashes erupted, Myers' stratagems unfolded. This exclave maelstrom twisted allegiances, neural fires mirroring Relic's blaze, injecting geopolitical venom into Tower's countdown, where choices scarred souls chrome-deep.

Arasaka Tower Assault and Reckoning (Late 2077)

V and Takemura seized Hanako at Aratama Matsuri, storming Mikoshi's engram abyss with Rogue's vets, Panam's convoy, or Aldecaldos' thunder. Alt Cunningham's digital fury unleashed Soulkiller hordes, Silverhand's redemption clashing V's will. Climax choices: corpo surgery's gamble, nomad exodus, Afterlife blaze, or stellar void. Johnny's body snatch loomed. This apex reckoning razed towers, engrams freed or damned, crowning V's legend in Night City's annals, resolving Relic's curse amid 2077's pyre.

Post-Crisis Horizons (2078–2080)

Night Corp's maglev veins linked NUSA by 2078, Chicago three hours distant; Lizzy Wizzy's Crystal Palace gigs echoed cosmic dreams. Moore's Artifex printers scanned brains to chrome. Intercontinental rails hummed 2080, Bushidō 13 premiered solitude's blade. AI foresaw 74% war odds between NUSA and Free States. These glimmers pierced post-Tower haze, V's echoes fading into rebuilt rails and orbital stages, heralding fragile booms where chrome legacies birthed new fractures.

◁ =============== Core Characters =============== ▷

Cyberpunk 2077 Central Characters

Adam Smasher – Full conversion cyborg enforcer for Arasaka, mastering heavy weapons and cybernetic combat tactics.

V (Male) – Male mercenary protagonist, versatile in custom combat, hacking, stealth, adapting to upgrades.

V (Female) – Female mercenary protagonist, versatile in custom combat, hacking, stealth, adapting to upgrades.

Jackie Welles – Loyal mercenary ally to V, expert in heavy weapons and street brawling.

Johnny Silverhand – Iconic rockerboy rebel, engram possessing V, skilled in guitar combat and anti-corpo activism.

Panam Palmer – Nomad mercenary leader, proficient with sniper rifles, vehicle expertise, and crew command.

Judy Alvarez – Braindance technician and hacker, offering BD editing, combat support, and tech aid.

Rogue Amendiares (Young adult) – Young fixer coordinating mercenaries, with sharp combat expertise and underworld networks.

Rogue Amendiares (Queen of Fixers) – Legendary fixer queen, masterminding operations with unmatched combat and coordination skills.

Maine's Edgerunners Crew

David Martinez (Student - Starting Edgerunner) – Aspiring student edgerunner, agile with basic combat, using illegal Sandevistan implant.

David Martinez (Edgerunner) – Upgraded edgerunner with buffed physique, Sandevistan speed, Gorilla Arms, projectile launch system.

David Martinez (With Cyberskeleton) – Cyberskeleton-armed edgerunner, boasting immense strength, resisting cyberpsychosis in intense battles.

Maine – Veteran crew leader, armed with heavy firearms, cyberarms, succumbing to cyberpsycho state.

Pilar – Eccentric techie crafting gadgets, explosives, and wielding tech shotguns for crew support.

Lucyna Kushinada (Lucy) – Skilled netrunner, excelling in hacking, monowire combat, and deploying quickhacks.

Rebecca – Reckless solo specialist in gunplay, tech weapons, and aggressive assault tactics.

Dorio – Crew muscle enhanced with strength augments, handling heavy weapons in frontline fights.

Kiwi – Cautious netrunner focusing on hacking, icebreakers, and defensive quickhacks for protection.

Sasha Yakovleva – Dedicated netrunner using netrunning and quickhacks, sacrificing against corporate threats.

Arasaka Corporation

• Saburo Arasaka • Yorinobu Arasaka • Goro Takemura • Sandayu Oda • Anders Hellman • Kei Arasaka • Maxim Kuznetsov • Jimmy Kurosaki • Tanaka • Katsuo Tanaka • Frank Nostra • Hanako Arasaka • Michiko Arasaka

Militech Corporation

• Antonio Luccessi • Dino Dinovic • Anthony Gilchrist • Emmerick Bronson • Militech Drill Sergeant • Donald Lundee • Meredith Stout

Night City Police Department (NCPD) and Politics

• River Ward • Aaron Waines • Anthony Anderson • Bill Mitchel • Bryce Mosley • Coach Fred • Jefferson Peralez • Lucius Rhyne • Marcus Barros • Odell Blanco • Stints • Jerry Fawlter • Weldon Holt • Elizabeth Peralez • Susan Abernathy

Fixers of Night City

• Dexter DeShawn (Dex) • Mr. Hands (Wade Bleecker) • Muamar Reyes (El Capitan) • Arthur Jenkins • Faraday • Knock!Knock! • Regina Jones • Wakako Okada • Dakota Smith

Aldecaldos Nomads

• Saul Bright • Mitch Anderson • Bob • Teddy • Scorpion • Falco • Nomad Santiago • Trace Santiago • Gabriel Vazquez • Carol

Maelstrom Gang

• Royce • Dum Dum • Brick (Former Leader) • Brick (Maelstrom Founder) • Ofelia Sirawian (Patricia)

Mox Gang

• Evelyn Parker • Lizzy Wizzy • Rita Wheeler • Suzie Q • Lizzie Borden

Phantom Liberty Operatives

• Solomon Reed • Aymeric Cassel • Song So Mi (Songbird) • Alena Xenakis (Alex) • Aurore Cassel

Rockerboys, Media, and Performers

• Kerry Eurodyne • Thompson • Ziggy Q • Wallace • Kyle • Eliah Mountjoy • Lina Malina • Purple Force • Red Menace • Blue Moon • Bree Whitney

Prominent Netrunners

• Rache Bartmoss • Bryce Stone • Milko Alexis • Kaoru Fujioka • Bartmoss Clones • Chang Hoon Nam • Nix • Pedro Aimar • Wilky LaGuerre • Ben DeBaillon • T-Bug • Alt Cunningham • Spider Murphy • Ana Friedman • 8ug8ear • Ti Neptune • Yoko Tsuru

Legendary Solos

• Morgan Blackhand • Shaitan • Dozer • C.J. O'Reilly

Street Mercenaries

• Ozob • Tiny Mike • Jake Estevez • Dennis • Emile • Narayan Isamu • Oleg • Steven Santos • Aguilar Nubiola • Bhikkhu • Big Joe • Boz • Carter • Certo • Chester Bennett • Nele Springer • Ruth Dezeng

Others and Supporting Civilians

• Viktor Vektor • Sebastian Ibarra • Will Gunner • Fingers • Jotaro Shobo • Placide • Oswald Forrest (Woodman) • Kurt Hansen • Delamain • Barry • Joshua Stephenson • Hasan Demir • Mateo • Mr. Goldhand • Frank • Mike • Oshima • Pepe • Rick • Sheriff • Steve • Theo • Tom • Wilson • Doc • Shiming Xu • Hayato Nakagawa • Shinobu Nakagawa • Milt • Gustavo Orta • Apex • Ms. Mynah • Sasquatch • Maiko Maeda • Maman Brigitte • Rosalind Myers • Mama Welles • Misty Olszewski • Gloria Martinez • Claire Russell • Sandra Dorsett • Grann Ertha • Xiaohan Ling • Zaria Hughes • Nadia • Tasha

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feel free to do whatever y'all want with any character on the list.
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