The Corpo-Rat

The Corpo-Rat is a main job in Cyberpunk 2077. It is one of the three possible starting jobs, and is only available to players who chose the Corpo Lifepath. It features V as a fresh faced mid-tier corporate working in Arasaka's counterintelligence division and looking to climb the ranks.

Walkthrough

V starts out looking into the mirror while stress-vomiting in the sink of a bathroom located in the Arasaka Tower. After briefly speaking with their longtime friend Jackie Welles over the holo, V is called by their superior, Arthur Jenkins, who is upset because of a major data leak in Frankfurt that has put the corporation's operations at risk, and he orders them to his office, though V is able to freely walk into their own office and read emails located on the desk before reporting to Jenkins.

V finds Jenkins ordering a cyberattack against the European Space Agency council to delay their vote on revoking Arasaka's lunar base licenses. Jenkins is called by an angered Susan Abernathy—his superior and rival in the Arasaka Special Operations branch—who berates him for the attack and threatens to discipline him later. Already chafing under Abernathy due to her having smeared his name in Osaka to steal a promotion from him, Jenkins orders V to take her out, giving them a datashard containing all of Abernathy's personal information and a large sum of eurodollars.

Arthur tells V to use their underworld contacts to off her once and for all, and provides them with paper eddies to pay for the work. Afterwards, V gets into an Arasaka AV that takes them to Lizzie's Bar in Watson. Landing on the roof, V is confronted by basketball players upset about the court being a landing pad for a corporate AV; V may either subdue them with a lightning attack, or simply threaten them into submission, before approaching the Mox door guard, who lets V in.

Inside the bar V meets up with Jackie, explaining the situation to him and requesting his help, but Jackie, seeing the extreme risk involved in working for Arasaka, refuses. However, before V can convince him otherwise or get an alternate plan started, the pair is interrupted by Arasaka agents. They reveal that Abernathy is already aware of the hit ordered against her and demands them to hand over the datashard given to V by Jenkins. V initially refuses, so they strip V of their corporate privileges and disables their cyberware, forcing them to hand over the shard and finalizing V's termination from the corporation. The Arasaka agents then attempt to take V into custody as well, as a "favor" to Abernathy, but Jackie intercepts them, pointing out that they are isolated from the rest of their compatriots and that a firefight in unfamiliar territory could end badly for them, which convinces the agents to leave V alone. The mission ends with V, still woozy from your disabled cybernetics, losing their balance and falling to the floor, to which Jackie helps them back on their feet, setting off to start their journey together.

Journal Entry

Sometimes I wonder what it's like to work for Arasaka, y'know? Way I figure it, it's like playin' Russian roulette for a million eddies. Give it a spin, pull the trigger. You hear it click, you strike it rich, And if you don't, well... the mess is someone else's problem.

So to recap - Abernathy is Jenkins' boss, Jenkins is your boss and he ordered you to off Abernathy. It's a classic damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. You kill her - you're fucked. You tell Abernathy - you're even more fucked. Why? Because for the past few years you've been batting for Jenkins' team. If you get the job done, and do it well, you might get a promotion, but forget sleeping at night, because who knows how soon you'll be in someone's crosshairs. Only proves the wide variety of opportunities Arasaka has to offer.

Objectives

• Leave the bathroom.
• Head to Jenkins' office.
  • Talk to your old acquaintance. [Optional]
• Sit.
• Watch the vote.
• Talk to Jenkins.
  • Take the datashard.
  • Take the money.
• Leave Jenkins' office.
• Go to the AV garage.
  • Talk to Jackie.
  • Read the report on your personal terminal. [Optional]
• Get in Jenkins' AV.
• Deal with the locals.
• Head to Lizzie's.
• Talk to the bouncer.
• Meet with Jackie.
• Sit with Jackie.
• Talk to Jackie.

Notes

• The Arasaka Agent inform V that their cyberware will be shutdown after several minutes. If the player decides to wait this period, the cyberware will indeed be turned off. This also turns off the heads-up-display elements on the screen.
• Contrary to what the Cyberpunk 2077 - The Complete Official Guide states, completing this quest will award the player with an Arasaka clock memorabilia for V's Apartment, instead of the Night City diorama, which is given in The Streetkid.