Blaming Bartmoss - by 8ug8ear

Blaming Bartmoss - by 8ug8ear is an opinion piece written by the netrunner 8ug8ear about the chaos caused by Rache Bartmoss' DataKrash. The text can be found on shards in Cyberpunk 2077.

Transcript
When I imagine what the Net was like before Bartmoss, I see thousands of potential threats. And thousands of opportunities.

Course, the whole system was unstable, corpo runners pulling one way, post-war rogue AIs pulling the other; financial markets tanked, virus mutation spiralled in uncontrollable ways, and runners got cooked in their living rooms every now and then. Bartmoss saw the Net as a grenade waiting for the pin to get pulled. And that's exactly what he did.

Fuck it, right? Let the world burn.

Bartmoss fucked the system but fucked all of us right along with it. Just look at it now - corps are on top as usual, the Blackwall (which was supposed to protect us after the Net's crash) is just another control tool in NetWatch's arsenal...

Before Bartmoss, the Net was an untamed jungle - if you could navigate it, you had a chance to survive. You were free.

After Bartmoss, the Net's like airport security check - every step you take NetWatch is checking your papers and performing a thorough cavity search. Oh, but all for your own good, of course...

Locations
Copies of this shard can be found in several places throughout the game:


 * Inside the All Foods Plant, in the room where you discuss the deal with the Maelstorms during The Pickup job.


 * In the maglev tunnels visited during the Transmission job.


 * In Nix's office in the Arterlife club (visited during the Spellbound job).


 * During Gig: Catch a Tyger's Toe, it can be found inside the room with the server racks, on a table near the stairs.


 * During the Chippin' In job, it can be found on the windowsill in the room where you complete the "Find the Dataterm" objective.