... and the development of the game ended before it began!>
"I'm sorry Mr. Campbell but I don't understand how is that possible?"
"Hahaha that's the face I was having exactly five years ago as they proposed the concept to me. You see it isn't us, the Company, which made the game, it's Rylys work. Our own little wonder. As you surely know, we aren't a gaming company. We build the first full dive VR device to help us train our pilots for the presicion manouvers in space so that we don't lose a quarter of a billion Dollar in equipment alone every time the pilot approaches an asteroid. Thanks to that we are the first and only private Company that mines the astroid belt in our solar system. Then we bring them into a stable orbit around earth and refine it."
"So your saying that the device wich revolutionized the understanding of the human brains and changed how our society works and trades was developed because you wanted to mine in space?!"
"That's a nice synopsis, though you were a bit to shocked at the end but, yes that's basicly it. So as I was saying.. echem what was I saying.. ah yes.. we developed VR as a byproduct, then I gave my research department an basicly unlimited fund for development and tasked them with one thing, "Surprise Me". And sure they did. It costed a fortune but let's not mention that because my finance chef would defenetly kill me... but there they were, with the first selfaware AI in the history."
"An AI?! As in Artificial Inteligence???"
"Yes, yes isn't that wonderful? Ryly, is the name I chose for her. And she's a beauty that is sure, we need multiple advanced Fission Reactors to power her at full capacity but her capacity is enormous. I can't give you numbers because thats secret, between me and you, even the government doesn't know for sure because they can't hack us."
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"So what has all that to do with you not developing the Game?"
"I didn't develop anything. Ryly didn't develop anything. I would rather say that it was simulated. Imagine what happens if you feed an unimaginable intelligent AI all the scientific data that you collceted and that was discovered and tell her to create a new universe with it. And then you let her do her thing for a bit under five years. Well that's Cyberpunk Universe! Of course you need a few tweeks here and there to get the possibility to use the VR equipment to interface with the universe."
"Wow, just wow. I think you just hooked a whole lot of people to this game. Two Questions. First why Cyberpunk and second what will it cost the hardware and the software?"
"Well that's easy but you've never been to space befor so you can't know, Space is THE deadliest environment for humans. A bit of space dust can kill your whole crew and ship in milliseconds, so yeah we thought a bit of cynicism is a good idea after all Cyberpunk means bleakness and danger. The hardware and software are going to be free. We want as many players as possible but you have to have an ID and be over 18. Realism isn't nice in any way. I wish you luck out there, everything is unexplored and Ryly is always working to create more."
"Wow thank you for the interview Mr.Campbell, and that was...
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