All we can say for sure is that "V has already lost everything", a titbit taken from the Cyberpunk website (opens in new tab).
Maybe their defining event was their first kill. For example, they may have come to Night City because of unfinished business or an ex-lover. Although they're a gun-for-hire, everything else about them - including their background and motivation - is up to you. V is the player-character in Cyberpunk 2077, so you'll be getting very familiar with them over the course of your adventure. Played by Cherami Leigh, Gavin Drea, Kamil Kula, and Lidia Sadowa (player choice) That would also tie in nicely with Johnny's involvement, as he has a personal stake in all this. The synopsis hints that we'll be hunting down a program which offers immortality, and Alt's handiwork fits the bill. Her Soulkiller virus looks like it'll be a big part of the game as well. What has decades of isolation done to her? We can't imagine it's anything good. More specifically, a gameplay demo from last year's E3 has the player attempting to draw her out using Johnny's digital ghost. We lose track of Alt after this, but it seems that she survives within the NET until Cyberpunk 2077. By the time he realised his mistake - that her mind was floating around in the Arasaka database - the damage was done. Johnny didn't know any of the above, of course (as far as he was concerned, his girlfriend had been murdered), but still. This accidentally broke the connection, trapping her online forever. Unfortunately, that's when Johnny's rescue attempt kicked off. Alt managed to wrest control of Arasaka's defenses from within their computer system, and she almost managed to return to her body. She was far from a damsel in distress, though. This was all very noble, but he was missing a crucial piece of information: once Arasaka had everything they needed, they'd used the Soulkiller virus on Alt.
He caused a riot at one of his gigs that would allow him to free her, using the protest as cover. Her boyfriend, Johnny Silverhand, wasn't either. Because this is kind of a big deal, she was kidnapped by megacorp Araska and forced to work on a weaponized version that would suck out the user's mind and kill the body.Īs you'd expect, Alt wasn't thrilled. Back in 2013, she was responsible for the creation of the 'Soulkiller' virus - a computer program that digitizes your consciousness and puts it on the internet, effectively allowing you to live forever. Unfortunately for her, that intellect wound up getting her killed. Alt Cunningham - programmer extraordinaireĪlt Cunningham is a straight-up genius. This would allow him to cheat death and guide us around Night City in Cyberpunk 2077. How? Well, it's possible that he also had his mind ripped out and dumped across the internet between the 2020s and now. He's also 'appearing' to the player character as a digital ghost. Now it's 2077, and Johnny Silverhand's legacy is still going strong. It's assumed that Johnny is history at this point, but rumours abound that a mega-fan found his body in the wreckage and put it into cold storage. He therefore abandons the mission and is killed attempting to save her.įollowing this tragedy, someone - be it a Militech goon or Arasaka flunky - sets off a tactical nuke that levels the entire building. There's a complication, though mid-raid, Johnny comes to realise that his girlfriend's mind is trapped within the Arasaka database. The aim? Strike a blow against their mutual enemy by destroying the Arasaka database. Thanks to his reputation, he's hired by a megacorp known as Militech to raid Arasaka HQ in Night City. Silverhand is unaware of this, and spirals downward in grief as a result.įast-forward a decade to 2024 and Silverhand has transformed into even more of a badass. More specifically, she has her mind trapped in the Cyberpunk internet. Sadly, he fails - his girlfriend winds up dead. When Silverhand's girlfriend was kidnapped in 2013 by megacorporation Arasaka for creating the digital 'Soulkiller' virus (more on that later), he staged a concert and whipped the crowd into a full-blown riot. The group's influence can still be felt in 2077 their song Never Fade Away is a classic in the Cyberpunk world, and the player character wears Samurai merchandise.Īnyway. Rockerboys use music to inspire others or fight oppression, and Johnny did that as part of a band called 'Samurai'. Silverhand (who literally possess a metallic arm, by the way) has been around since the earliest days of the Cyberpunk TRPG.