The Fall of the Towers

The Fall of the Towers is a story featured in based on a portion of the events of. It revolves around a Militech strike team led by Morgan Blackhand - with the help of Johnny Silverhand and other individuals - in their mission to infiltrate the Arasaka Towers in 2023, during the Fourth Corporate War. More parts of the event are explained in the Black Dog story.



Into the Maelstrom
Johnny Silverhand led Team Alpha, consisting of a few Militech SpecialOps, a portion of a group of Aldecaldos known as the Lobos, the solos Rogue and Shaitan, the media Lyle Thompson, and a netrunner by the name of Spider Murphy. The task force dropped out of an AV on the top floor of the Arasaka Towers, with the mission of infiltrating the laboratories ten levels down into the building to retrieve Alt Cunningham, who was trapped in the Arasaka network, and destroy Soulkiller.

After breaching into the building, Alpha Team rushed to the labs, where Spider accessed the computers in order to contact Alt and rescue her. After transferring her into Spider's data suitcase, the netrunner proceeded to download some kind of information into datachips, and uploaded a virus to destroy any information regarding Soulkiller from the Arasaka net. When questioned by Thompson about the datachips, Spider lied to him saying they only contained information on the Arasaka development team and other basic corporate knowledge.

Deaths Head Dance
Alpha Team was suddenly attacked by Adam Smasher and Arasaka troopers, taking down many of the Militech operatives and Lobos in the first attack, badly injuring Thompson, and pinning down the rest of the team in the labs. While both groups fired at each other, Spider snuck to her data suitcase in order to connect to the Net and scatter the various portions of Alt, each tagged with a marker with the hopes of finding them someday.

During these events, Johnny, who had been knocked off by the initial attack, managed to stand up. With a Militech SMG on one hand and his Malorian on the other, the rockerboy shouted and provoked Smasher, emptying his guns on the borg. Smasher turned around fired his autoshotgun at him, cutting Silverhand in half. Shaitan took advantage of the distraction to grapple and immobilize Smasher, telling the rest of the crew to leave. Spider Murphy tried to reach Silverhand, but Rogue stopped her, telling the netrunner he was gone. Spider reached inside her jacket and pulled out a data slug Alt had downloaded to her a long time ago. Whispering she was sorry to Johnny, Spider inserted the chip into the back of the dying rocker's skull. She then tried to reach for her data suitcase, but soon realized it had been destroyed in the crossfire. Wishing Alt good luck, Spider helped Rogue and the surviving Lobos to drag the wounded Thompson into the elevator. Spider knew Johnny would be avenged, and while touching the remaining datachips in her pocket, she knew Rache Bartmoss would be as well.

Rooftop
Once on the top of the building, Alpha Team got into the extraction AV. One of the Lobos pondered where Morgan Blackhand was, as he had left with a heavy suitcase and disappeared heading down a stairwell. It was during the lifting off when they saw Blackhand going against Smasher on top of the Arasaka Towers. A few minutes later, once the AV was quite far away from the building, a nuke went off.

Main

 * Johnny Silverhand
 * Spider Murphy
 * Alt Cunningham
 * Adam Smasher
 * Morgan Blackhand

Secondary

 * Thompson
 * Rogue
 * Shaitan
 * Unnamed Lobo
 * Antonio's brother
 * Antonio

Mentioned

 * Santiago Aldecaldo
 * Rache Bartmoss

Locations

 * Night City
 * Arasaka Towers