Morro Bay

Morro Bay was a small town in San Luis Obispo County, in the Californian central coast of the United States of America. Ever since the early 1990s, the area has been occupied by the metropolis of Night City.

Morro Bay Massacre
In the last decades of the 20th century, Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo, and other nearby settlements suffered long from a number of violent local biker gangs, especially from a group called Hell's Angels. This was mostly due to the small presence of law enforcements and the frequently travelled highways in the area.

During the Collapse, the San Luis Obispo police force and the Hell's Angels begun a turf war that extended over the surrounding towns. During a five-day rampage, the gang took over Morro Bay, an event that ended with many of the 10 thousand inhabitants either dead, maimed, or fleeing their hometown. In a matter of days, Morro Bay and its surroundings became a ghost town that no one intended to go back, and the place became known as the site of the Morro Bay Massacre.

Night City
Due to its dark history, businessman Richard Night was able to buy the remains of Morro Bay for pennies on the dollar. Aided by a number of companies, whose joint effort became known as the Coronado Partnership, Night begun to prepare the terrain to build the metropolis of his dreams, Coronado City. These corporations included his own company, Night International; and others such as Petrochem, who had already taken over the local and now-abandoned Dynergy power plant, and was planning on setting up an offshore port and oil terminal; Merrill, Asukaga & Finch, who were hoping to turn the city into a new financial hub; and finally Arasaka, whom was hired to clean out the biker gangs remaining in the vicinity.

To avoid the stigma of the Morro Bay Massacre, the Partnership renamed the large body of water to the west and the whole region as Del Coronado Bay. Over the next years, much of the original geology was changed, leveling hills and dumping them into the sea to create fill, while also reshaping the coast. By 1994, once the terrain had been rearranged, the construction of Coronado City begun. As an homage to the original town, Night recreated much of the original Morro Bay core layout by building a small town-like, open-air environment reminiscent of a seaside village which would become known as Old Downtown.

It wasn't until 1998, after the assassination of Richard Night, when Coronado City was renamed to Night City.

Locations

 * Dynergy power plant
 * Harbor Mall
 * Morro Rock

Trivia

 * The town is the same Morro Bay as in real life.