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· In Cyberpunk 2077, mega-corporations like Arasaka and Militech may seem like the city's masters, but in reality, all these corporate wars could be a smokescreen to blind the public.
· In the shadows, unnoticed by anyone, the corporation using all of Night City as a laboratory is 'Night Corporation'.
· NightCorp is portrayed in the game as a benevolent company managing the city's infrastructure, such as roads, power, and networks, but this is merely a facade to hide their true intentions.
· Sandra Dorsett's data theft attempt, mayoral candidate Jefferson Peralez's memory manipulation, and the reason Songbird had to go to the moon – NightCorp is always at the end of every mystery.

· Richard Night, the founder of Night City, dreamed of a perfect, crime-free utopia and established Night International to begin building the city.
· However, he was mysteriously assassinated, and his wife, Miriam Night, founded the Night Foundation to protect the city.
· Over time, this foundation transformed into the mega-corporation 'NightCorp', and behind the guise of citizen protection, they began to act as handlers seeking to control the entire city.
· While other corporations fought with force, NightCorp employed a 'Trojan Horse' strategy, seizing control of the city's core infrastructure (roads, power, networks). This was groundwork to use the entire city as a massive laboratory.

· Sandra Dorsett, whom V rescues early in the game, was targeted for elimination after attempting to steal NightCorp's top-secret data.
· Decrypting her databank shard reveals the operation name 'Carpe Noctem', meaning 'Seize the Night' (or 'Dominate Night City').
· This shard contains experimental records for an AI called 'CN-07', which was not merely hacking brains but subtly stimulating subjects' subconscious minds to gradually alter their personalities, memories, and behavioral patterns—a form of brainwashing AI.
· The case of test subject HK13 showed horrific results, with a calm employee murdering a colleague and committing suicide due to CN-07, yet NightCorp researchers deemed it 'successful'. Their goal was not human well-being but perfect behavioral control.
· The shard's final sentence states: 'We are now moving to the next phase, installing CN-07 into the actual target.'

· The 'actual target' of CN-07 was none other than Jefferson Peralez, a strong candidate for the next mayor.
· In the 'Dream On' quest, V discovers a hidden room behind the Peralez couple's wall and a massive transmitting device. Here, SSI security agents were monitoring the couple in real-time.
· SSI is presumed to be a front company for NightCorp, and the Peralez couple were undergoing memory manipulation and personality alteration. Elizabeth misremembered the color of her wedding roses, and Jefferson showed instability, unable to recall his own actions properly.
· The rooftop transmitter was sending signals to an SSI van, and when V pursued the van, agents attempted to escape in a transparently camouflaged military AV. The moment V subdued them, a 'termination protocol' was used, with someone remotely blowing up the agents' heads to silence them.
· The data left by the agents contained a military-style operation code called 'Project Condign', which was a plan to erase the memories and alter the personalities of Night City's elite to create perfect political machines.
· When V tried to inform Jefferson of this, an unknown voice, remotely subduing V, threatened, 'You can't change anything.'

· Behind the Peralez couple's incident was always 'Mr. Blue Eyes', whose eyes glowed blue. In the Cyberpunk universe, blue eyes signify data transmission or remote access, implying that while he wears a human guise, he either harbors a massive AI within or is being controlled in real-time.
· The 'reptilian humanoids from Alpha Centauri' that the prophet Garry shouted about refer to orbital forces (Crystal Palace), and 'technonecromancers' are a metaphor for rogue AIs that revive and control the dead through technology.
· Arranging the initials from the encrypted shard obtained in Garry's quest completes the sentence: 'Execute Project Oracle Command'.
· 'Oracle' refers to a priest or prophet who conveys the will of a god. In the Cyberpunk universe, the transcendent rogue AIs beyond the Blackwall are considered 'gods', and the agents or vessels who execute their will in the real world are 'oracles'.
· Thus, 'Project Oracle' is a higher-level concept referring to a grand master plan for AIs to intervene in the real world by creating or controlling human proxies.
· Garry was the sole witness to the truth, whose implants were once connected to corporate communication networks, allowing him to eavesdrop on countless illicit dealings. He was eventually abducted by agents with transparent AVs and blue eyes.

· Songbird, a key character in the Phantom Liberty expansion, is an individual who has freely traversed the Blackwall and contacted AIs.
· Her only way to survive the Blackwall's erosion, which was killing her, was to go to the mysterious 'Black Clinic' at the Tycho Terminal on the moon with a neural matrix.
· This clinic operates without the knowledge of even the independent space faction, the Highrider Union, which is decisive evidence that NightCorp's shadowy forces—the rogue AIs beyond the Blackwall—orchestrated this to secure Songbird, avoiding the eyes of space powers.
· They didn't want to cure Songbird; they wanted Songbird herself, the 'human key' capable of breaching the Blackwall, and the 'neural matrix' with infinite computational power.
· Sandra Dorsett's data proves that a hidden mastermind within NightCorp has already perfected CN-07, a technology for hacking human minds. If the technology to control minds is complete, the next step is the body to house that mind.
· Since a normal human brain cannot withstand the data of a powerful AI and would burn out, it's highly probable that genetically modified enhanced humans, capable of enduring AI possession, are being cultivated at the Tycho Terminal Black Clinic on the moon—a perfect sanctuary beyond corporate and national surveillance.
· Songbird, possessing a neural matrix capable of perfectly reconstructing brain nerves beyond the limits of the Relic, was thus the final puzzle piece to complete that 'advent of the devil'.

· NightCorp seeks to twist Richard Night's utopia into a perfectly controlled society devoid of free will, a 'Cyberprep' society.
· If Arasaka aimed to digitize and control human souls through the Relic, NightCorp intends to reprogram human minds themselves. The former is a prison, while the latter is an invisible chain.
· Jefferson Peralez, Songbird, and Mr. Blue Eyes are all part of the grand scheme known as 'Project Oracle'.
· The premise following the game's true ending appears to be not merely a war between corporations, but a struggle for survival between AIs hunting humans and those striving to protect humanity.
· The citizens of Night City live today within the infrastructure managed by NightCorp, completely unaware that they are becoming living puppets.