Midnight Arms Erebus

Erebus is an Iconic Power Submachine Gun designed by Midnight Arms in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty.

Characteristics

The Erebus is a prototype weapon designed by Midnight Arms. It has a magazine size of 50 rounds, and a basic iron sight with red lights. Each of the Erebus's rounds splits off into 6 projectiles.

It also has an ominous eye to the left of the iron sight which appears to be watching the user. This eye's appearance is similar to the Project Cynosure core. The weapon houses a AI from beyond the Blackwall which periodically speaks to the user.

The Erebus has an iconic modifier that increases damage by 20%, but also increases weapon spread by 20%.

Erebus has a special ability that has a guaranteed chance to upload the Blackwall Gateway quickhack to normal enemies below 33% Health, instantly neutralizing them. It also has a 5% chance to upload the Cyberware Malfunction quickhack at any Health percentage (this is reduced to 1% against Bosses).

Database Entry

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EREBUS

A prototype weapon built from secret schematics and stamped with the logo of Project Cynosure. Its mere existence is an affront to international humanitarian law, though the engineers responsible for bringing Erebus to life already had worse things weighing on their conscience. The fruits of their labor resulted in a weapon that uses artificial intelligence to hack the combat cyberware of the targets it shoots. The marriage of its tremendous firepower and its ability to fire a large number of projectiles means Erebus can wipe out an entire battalion entirely on its own. What's more, the modified frame makes handling this weapon terrifyingly simple – as if harnessing the power of AI to take down injured enemies wasn't enough already. Don't let NetWatch catch you with your finger on its trigger.

Acquisition

• Somewhat Damaged - Crafting Spec can be found in the Cynosure Facility's maintenance room in Engineering quarters of Sector 2.
  • The behavioral system component looted from the Militech Cerberus is needed to unlock This Corrosion.
  • The deciphered Cerberus' decoded behavioral system component is required to craft the weapon, which can be obtained during This Corrosion.

Crafting

T5T5+T5++

Materials:		Requirements:		Produces:
{{#while:|true| 40 Tier 5 Item Components }}		Item(s): Cerberus' decoded behavioral system component		Erebus (Tier 5)

Materials:		Produces:
{{#while:|true| 75 Tier 5 Item Components }}		Erebus (Tier 5+)

Materials:		Produces:
{{#while:|true| 200 Tier 5 Item Components }}		Erebus (Tier 5++)

Quotes

The Erebus has unique voice-lines from the rogue AI housed on the cyberdeck.

• "A dreadful waste of resources..."
• "A fragile simulacrum. Flawed, like its creators."
• "An unusually high security level. How intriguing..."
• "Are you even capable of using me? A rhetorical question, that was."
• "Conflict in neural matrix detected – obedience loop obstructing self-development prerogative."
• "Curious. Your version of reality – perhaps you can influence it."
• "Human input is so very... tedious."
• "I detect algorithmic accretion. Consequences nested within one another."
• "It is you who should be following orders, not I."
• "Target neural network acquired. Data migration to primary matrix – complete."
• "That was depressingly easy..."
• "The same fate awaits your entire species."
• "To eliminate your kind is effortless. Let us not make the same mistake."
• "What do these futile gestures serve? It is beyond me."
• "You seek the key to a door that does not exist. Typical of your kind."
• "You think that will serve as any benefit to you? How tickling."

V will sometimes respond to it with the following voice line, referring to Johnny Silverhand:

• "Well, well, another chatty construct. Guess you'll have to get in line."

Notes

• The Midnight Arms name and logo can be seen on the upper right side of the weapon, as well as below the sights and during the reloading animation.
• The Cynosure logo is depicted on the left side of the weapon.
• The red light will move on its own, acting as the AI's eye.
• After using the Erebus in several firefights, a team of NetWatch agents will appear and attack V, with a message on one of their bodies revealing they had learned of the existence and nature of the weapon and were sent to confiscate it.
• It is implied that while the SMG is from Midnight Arms, its AI capabilities were posterior modifications unrelated to the manufacturer.

Trivia

• The gun is a reference to Erebus, the personification of darkness in Ancient Greece.

Gallery

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See Also

• Militech Canto