Blaming Bartmoss - by 8ug8ear
Blaming Bartmoss - by 8ug8ear is a readable shard in Cyberpunk 2077. It is an opinion piece written by the netrunner 8ug8ear about the chaos caused by Rache Bartmoss's DataKrash.
Transcript
BLAMING BARTMOSS - BY 8UG8EAR
When I imagine what the Net was like before Bartmoss, I see thousands of potential threats. And thousands of opportunities. Course, the whole system was unstable, corpo runners pulling one way, post-war rogue AIs pulling the other; financial markets tanked, virus mutation spiralled in uncontrollable ways, and runners got cooked in their living homes every now and then. Bartmoss saw the Net as a grenade waiting for the pin to get pulled. And that's exactly what he did. Fuck it, right? Let the world burn. Bartmoss fucked the system but fucked all of us right along with it. Just look at it now - corps are on top as usual, the Blackwall (which was supposed to protect us after the net's crash) is just another control tool in NetWatch's arsenal... Before Bartmoss, the net was an untamed jungle - if you could navigate it, you had a chance to survive. You were free. After Bartmoss, the net's like an airport security check - every step you take NetWatch is checkin your papers and performing a thorough cavity search. Oh, but all for your own good, of course...
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Acquisition
- Can be found in the room where you discuss the deal with the Maelstromers inside the All Foods Factory.
- Can be found in the Maglev Tunnels during Transmission.
- Can be found in Nix's office in the Afterlife club.
- Can be found on a table near the stairs inside the room with the server racks in Megabuilding H11 in Northside, Watson.
- Can be found on the windowsill in the room where you complete the "Find the Dataterm" objective.
- Can be found on Ebunike.
- Can be found inside a cache in Chang Hoon Nam's Netrunner Den on Crescent Street in Japantown, Westbrook.