40 minutes after the Thermo-baric Bomb explosion in Dog Town.
Night City trembles in corporate mobilization, first a Nuclear Bomb, then a Thermo-baric Bomb, though both explosions occurred away from the urban area, they weren't that far—
If you live high enough, you can see the battlefield with the naked eye!
The people of Night City don't know what's happening on the battlefield, they only see companies brazenly occupying every street, every strategic point, deploying armored vehicles, drones, mechas, and floating cars.
But actually, everything is quietly changing:
Far out at sea, the Kujira is invaded by the Black Wall due to Lille's self-destruction, and Arasaka Tower's network resources have to allocate a portion for urgent rebooting of the Kujira—
This data-heavy remote communication requires occupying a large number of signal transceivers, instantly causing the temporary alliance network signal of the company to greatly weaken.
