Night City Legend Chapter 15

The board room of RobCo Industries was filled with the mutterings of the board members as the enigmatic Robert House or 'Mr House' sat patiently as new information constantly flowed in as to what the latest news was.

Finally the streamed video that was stolen from a 'spy' in the Arasaka Corporation cut off as the board member of the Arasaka corporation cut the connect to the RobCo servers.

"So the Arasaka's already jumped onto the golden goose hmm... And how have our contacts in Big Mountain reacted so far?" Robert spoke with a deep voice as he took in his board members.

The head of RND gave a wry smile before she said with a shake of the head. "Those scientists are like chickens with their heads cut off... They keep saying that the tensile strength and the size of the Space Elevator don't match up with any known Earth-based substance." 

"Well, obviously it does exists... They just haven't found it, as even Arasaka is bending over to save billions in not needing to send rockets into the atmosphere every week!" Another man called out with irritation due to him being rather invested into Arasaka's rocket and aeronautical division.

And if Araska's rocket division was going to be tanked in the near future, he was going to be losing a great deal of money, obviously.

"Hmm, and how have our constituents in Vault Tech's efforts to keep their interests gone?" Robert asked rhetorically, though all in the room knew the answer, as the space elevator and space station were standing without issue due to the hard light shields that were constantly active and protecting the sites.

"Vault Tech... Is looking for a hard line approach for the base of the Space Elevator, with their new nuclear-powered ion rockets coming out next quarter. They don't want that Space Elevator to cut into their margins It's likely that Frank Horrigan and more assets will be deployed to destroy it." 

Robert hummed with his eye's glowing golden as he searched his emails and then chuckled. "Yes. Giles would be trying to smother out the future in return for short-term gains. But he is also trying to drag RobCo into this mess as well."

There was a pause before another board member, this one an older gentleman, spoke as he waved his cigar slightly. "We shouldn't get involved boss. We've got our hands full already dealing with Umbrella's tentative forays into cyberaugmentations with their monsters. To say nothing of Militech's twentieth attacks to steal our robot designs and code."

House gave a slight hum before he looked over his board members and then nodded.

"You aren't wrong. We do have too much on our plates frankly... But if anything, I am very interested in his own laser and plasma-based anti-air defenses. Send a pretty secretary over to deliver a proposal to have YoRHa set up some anti-air defenses at one of our lesser sites. We could use a slight reprieve from the drones always trying to fly in." 

Then he pivoted the topic as he said more firmly. "Now on the topic of Militech and Night City, a large convoy of their light armored vehicles and munitions will be passing through Night City before they head on to Canada. I suggest we have our assets abscond with the delivery and deliver them to the Free States so that they can be more of a nuisance." 

The board members all nodded in agreement, and a draft for several nomads and edgerunners was then put out to go attempt to steal said cargo run.

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"Weather fluctuations are becoming... Difficult to manage, cosmic radiation is building up due to atmosphere thinning to say nothing of the irregular high atmosphere pressures." A soft female voice awoke me and I blinked slowly as I became aware again with all my cyber augments coming to life as well.

The first thing I saw was Commander White's more ornate dress and well her tits above my head as she had seemingly snuck me from my bed to like a couch... No, this was a new bed, one specifically designed so that an android could tuck itself underneath their human to give them a lap pillow without waking up.

"How was I moved onto this new bed?" I muttered quietly and then I paused as Commander White gently laid a hand on my chest and spoke firmly.

"Jake, despite your augmentations, you are still very much human. And stimulants do not allow your body to run indefinitely, you have been asleep for three days after you ran yourself ragged with all the work taking care of the Space Elevator and such." 

Her hand pressed slightly down on my chest in clear warning as she said flatly. "From now on, besides just Devola and Popola watching you. I will be assigning 2B to also be watching you, seeing as you are so careless as to run yourself so ragged." 

I coughed, and with a wry smile, I said weakly. "I had to do it, I literally had to get the Space Station going to match the Space Elevator lest other mega corps and other groups fuck us over. But fine, I get it... Now what is this I heard before."

Commander White sighed and then began explaining how, over the last couple of hours, magnetic storms, freak atmospheric pressure pockets, and other issues had been hitting the Space Elevator and even cosmic radiation pockets have been hitting the Space Station.

Which, thankfully, the only 'people' on the Space Station were androids who were all but immune to said radiation. But still, something was clearly fucky... And then it hit me.

'Wait... I remember in Fallout 76, there was a giant weather manipulation super weapon that was made over in the Appalachian Mountains. Could that be what is causing the freak weather issues?' I mused to myself with a frown.

The problem with there being more than three universes mixed into this one. I had no idea if it was a Fallout, Resident Evil, Cyberpunk, or Mass Effect issue as the dozen 'freak' weather incidents were clearly not something normal.

Hell besides just the damned aliens of Mass Effect, we couldn't forget how there were eldritch monsters/gods in Fallout to say nothing of their own invading alien force. For all I know, some fucking Mothman cultists could be praying for my damned downfall.

Finally, with a groan, I brushed my hand across my face as actually... If I could get the ATLAS Program's technology, that could actually speed up my next plans actually.

"Fine, I will rest for a couple of days. But in that time, get several Battle, Exectutioner, and Scout units outfitted. We have an important mission to do across the country which will stop these weather events."

The ATLAS project... Or otherwise known as the Atmospheric Terraforming Laser Accelerator System. Not only would it allow me to control the weather in areas across the world. But... It would greatly help me work to terraform Mars so that I could get to work making my own super colony well away from the Mega-Corps.

And most importantly, the Prothean ruins that are on the southern pole! I couldn't allow any of the damned Mega-Corps or heaven forbid the fucking Umbrella Corporation to get ahold of such alien technology!