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@@Takintomori yeah I've almost 100% the game but it's always so fascinating reading theories and stuff when it comes to this game bc most of them all sound viable and true to the game compared to most other games
Militech is a fascinating company in 2077, hell even in cyberpunk red (table top rpg). Their essentially a non company company, state owned yet also trying to do their own thing to advance their own income. Yet this would also mean that the NUSA is extremely dependant on Militech, if their stock's crash then NUSA is going with it. Their gear is awesome though! Always loved their more simplicity first gun designs. And their troops in 2077 look cool as heck xD
That’s what happened when the NUSA pumps like more than half of its budget into funding militech But also the black ops operatives in the killing moon mission look so cool
I love how the militech and arasaka buildings are in front of each other I imagine a lot of workers just opening the window time to time just to jells some indirect insults to the other building Like that episode of the Simpsons when they go to New York
Militech will probably win against Arasaka at least in North America. I can't help but think that if a bunch of Nations outside the NUSA got involved in supporting Arasaka it would probably be like WW3 eventually.
The feud between Militech and Saka is always so interesting. Great video as always! Btw if anyone wants more cyberpunk 2077 content and you are a reader, a new novel recently released named “No coincidence”. Looks like a good read!
Other parts of the world would most likely be protein farming / refineries on the fringe, if not complete trash heaps - or barren, with minor correlations to the main story. Now if we could explore beyond the Black Wall, or other planets / stations, that would be neat.
if memory serves, Mekton Zeta has a setting option which is set in the far future of the Cyberpunk universe and in it Militech is still around, producing giant robots and weapons galore. Militech will outlive us all.
Honestly it amazes me that no one in the company decide to get rid of Donald Lundy, since all he’s doing is getting rid of any business opportunities they can have with other companion and making a lot of enemies that will try to sabotage their business and going to war with arasaka doesn’t benefit militech.🐱
Militech is ideologically driven to support the NUSA government. At the end of the day those enemies are enemies of the fascists in charge. They've proven they can keep growing despite the challenge.
Business isn’t about making friends and working nice with your competitors. Arasaka is their biggest rival, eliminating or hindering them, making them look inferior and potentially stealing their customers is what lead to much of their success. Militech becoming the de facto company in the west was largely because of Lundy being such a vicious businessman
@@Senth99 yeah , the irony that America's most succesfull corporation is owned by the state . You know , since America prides itself on it's capitalist sistem
another amazing video! i love these in-depth videos into the corporations. sometimes watching these just makes me think how dark the cyberpunk world actually is
i like all these parallels and paradoxes: Arasaka WAS going to detonate the nuke in their NC HQ, but Millitech beat them to it. They were going to unleash Soulkiller to go wild, while Millitech had Cynosure (nuff said). Millitech blamed Arasaka for the Holocaust, when they themselves caused it.
@@nielsmichiels1939 I figured. Besides, the only real Italian gun brand I know is either Beretta or Beneli. FN made the Fal, P90, technically made the Browning Hi-Power (because Browning died before he finished it), and probably a few others I'm forgetting. (FNC)
@@nielsmichiels1939 I figured. Besides, the only real Italian gun brand I know is either Beretta or Beneli. FN made the Fal, P90, technically made the Browning Hi-Power (because Browning died before he finished it), and probably a few others I'm forgetting. (FNC)
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I would like more involvement with the other corporations in Cyberpunk 2. Biotechnica, Zetatech, Kang Tao, and Militech. There's so much lore they can delve into this dense world of Cyberpunk that I'm kind of looking forward to what they can create next. It would also be fun to have side missions as part of the Trauma Team or even MaxTac.
Funny how Johny in Cyberpunk 2077 is full anti corpa, but he was hired by Militech to blow up tower. Sad that cannot argue with him on that point in game.
That's on-theme for Cyberpunk though. Unless you don't want to turn to nomadism, thus completely abandoning 'the system', then you'll only ever be able to choose between the lesser of the presented evils in order to even begin breaking down and reforming said system.
Considering that Most of the endings of 2077 involve Yorinobu dismantling arasaka internally and regrouping to asia, i wouldn't be surprised if Militech are the primary antagonists of future games. They'd fill the vaccume left by arasaka commiting corporate seppuku and solidify their place as the global corporate hegemon, kinda like america in the 90s when the soviets collapsed. Side effects would likely include the western US states, now lacking an outside benefactor to keep them more autonomous, being completely incorporated into the NUSA proper, with NC probably following suit while Militech appropriates Arasakas american and non western holdings. You kinda get a taste of this in the tower ending, with Militech practically plastering every surface with ads and zetatech largely working at their discretion. This could also be the way Cyberpunk reintroduces Morgan Blackhand in the games, who could play a role like adam smasher did (i.e. borged up enforcer)
I personally feel like the games are leaning toward some sort of A.I threat in the future you have Alt Cunningham being Beyond shady with never explaining what she actually plans to do with the Mikoshi Constructs. You have Delamane's rouge personalities with atleast one implying some future Event and big poppa D pissing off passed the black wall if you fuse them. As well as Netwatch just seeming Very Very on edge in general and even phantom liberty showing us what a true unshackled A.I is capable of when it takes over that spider robot. I could see a Army of Rouge A.I trained by alt bolstered by mikoshi taking over other Robotic weapons platforms or more horrific Taking over people remmber Alt Knows how to delete someones psyche and replace it now
Yorinoby didn't destroy Arasaka. And Japan is by far more powerful than NUSA. It is stated in those endings, that Arasaka is rebuilding. Also, NUSA is bound to finally collapse sooner or later. The autonomous states and Texas are just waiting for another war. The time of the US hegemony is long past and that is one of the stronger constants in the Cyberpunk universe. For the US, since 1990s it's only going worse and it can only go worse. So Militech is fucked either way. It will fall into obscurity along with the ever weakening country.
Nahhh, US would have spent millions on the development of those rifles, then realize they can just upgrade their current rifles with better attachments and small changes again
I don't know, considering they're moving to a higher caliber to deal with body Armour I can imagine they'd need to make similar changes to deal with subdermal Armour.
The US in that universe is having the bad times we are currently having back in the 90s. We didn’t get the “win” over the Soviets by their entire system of government collapsing and the EU wasn’t as big as the Cyberpunk one, that’s why Euros aren’t the trade currency for petrol and dollars are.
I was curious (also I don’t know if I’m doing this right), but I really find the corporations interesting and unfortunately I don’t see many videos going over the small corporations inside the Cyberpunk universe. Would that be a possibility for couture videos?
For effectively being the NUSA's military, I have to wonder why their troops in Cyberpunk 2077 use forest camo in a mostly-desert and urban environment, especially when they have those glowing-filament-things on their uniforms. Although, I guess since optical cyberware's fairly advanced, color-and-pattern camouflage is basically useless, so that's probably why.
Be interesting to see where Militech goes in Orion and future games. Yorinobu's corporate seppuku, assuming it's canon, makes Militech top corpo dog, making them and by extension the NUSA extremely powerful
Came back to Cyberpunk 2.0 and it’s amazing now. From the recommendations i found your channel and cannot stop watching these cyberpunk lore videos. Amazingly done i hope you get many many more subscribers
4:22 it’s funny because in the real life future weapons trials, they had all kinds of fancy upgrades, and what the army took was “m16/m4 but with an optic” That new m5 sig spear thing is probably not going to see widespread adoption like the scar before it.
It's always a good idea that your prime minister or even defense minister its also the CEO of a weapons corporation. If you add also energy minister that is working at the same on a private energetic company you have either Night city or Spain I live in one of those I will let you know guess.
@@crimsonbaron4418 well living here its not that bad BUT if you have any kind of expectancies in a "future" things get a bit messed: For example: maybe you like in a lot of countries in europe or in north América or even in some countries of south América like México or even in east europe like in russia you want to create your own work, your own little corporation and grow step by step.... Well that is impossible here because the goverment Pulls out from their ass taxes for the taxes so you could pay taxes while you pay taxes to have mire taxes and in return the govement instead of fixing some Roads they dedicate this money to the ancient past time of spain: Corruption. The thing is my country has a lot of autonomous communities (keep I mind that texas or Yakutia in Russia its almost twice as us) But apparently we need those divisións of powers both in the goverment and both in the autonomous communities. Wich are quite small, then add that each single autonomous communities had thousands of "funcionarios" (people that work for the state) wich are redundant and all the money your taxes generate instead of going to a health care, defense, Imvestigations or tech development end on the pockets of this funcionaries, some of this funcionaries are essential: Police, army, firefighters, medics, teachers... etc you know But then each single autonomous community has political representatives of the main political parties and their own invented stuff... wich get their money obv through taxes. Ok that's the first problem. The second is that (this come from far away in our past): the dictatorship we had either bad or good depending to who you ask at least created a strong socioeconomical state with independence of energy, weapons, and some heavy machinery (ships, cars, trucks... etc). But after the transition in the 70s/80s and then the entering of Spain in Europe in the 90s, politicians behind this big movements do pretty questionable stuff: Like accepting quite weird acceptance rules to enter in the EU, it was supposed that Spain should be a touristic destination and power, but for that was also not necessary our industries at full working capacity. So the old state owned factories and firms began to collapse, or began to be buyer by other companies or directly disappeared: We had seat and pegaso manufacturers of cars wich actually buyed licenses to other countries like Italy, but then they be buyer by Volkswagen and Iveco. We had the state owned weapon manufacturers of Santa Barbara and CETME (centro de estudios especiales..... yadayada yada) they respectively created army vehicles and hardware and light weapons: santa Barbara collapsed and was buyed by general dynamics and cetme collapsed totally after the goverment asked for impossible stuff: Basically asked for cheaper redesigned from 0 assault rifles rechambered to 5,56 wich killed the project and the company doing this weapons because they had to use poor and cheap materials wich literally brake on your hands. A good example it's the futuristic looking Ameli light machine gun: Good idea, but the production suffered spontaneous combustion if you looked bad at them. And país Vasco had inmense forges to make metal stuff like ship hulls heavy machinery etc but some of this metal works collapsed . It was the fault of Europe? It was the fault of América? NOP it was the fault of our politicians wanting to emulate the soviet state of the 90s instead the one of the 50s while wanting to simulate América... and absolutely being corrupt tot he core. Because both for again The good and the bad: Soviet system, and the american system had worked (yep I know how the soviet one ended) but the thing is: when your politicians role-playing to be Robert Henry House from new vegas actually had nothing to back their actions aka: Politicians that had studied how to be politicians, not politicians wich had serve the nation somewhat like American or soviet ones: Army, secret services anything related to serve to their nation... Yep you could have a bad president here and there but at least he had sacrifice something for his nation. On the other hand when your politicians come from universities that teach them "How to" you end having malleable politicians, Or tools wich end in positions of power selling parts of your country that your predecessors build... Wich end in making that your country had any kind of heavy representation, or had any autonomy because you have to pay a debt wich is impossible to repay because your country's politicians had no interest on reactivate or create industries or allow new entrepreneurs, that could generate that income. The thing is: Any system creates corruption, and corrupted people sooner or later. But the thing is: If the corrupted people at least likes your country and had some respect for it, because they sacrificed something for it, its less probable that they end selling their own mothers. On the other hand a corrupted person that hates you and where you live because he sees it not as a tool to create money=independence but as a resource to exploit will end selling everything you love to dubious people, just for the sake of making money. One of the reasons the ancient Spanish people had that Obsession with the word: Honour, its the fact that is the only thing that everyone has but could brake or loose easily if you trade that. And it's true the only thing a person has its his word and what that person do with that, if you fail your people with fake promises, you end some day offering this same people fake bread and fake water... and there is when you have a serious problem. But! We also have sun and good food.
Yeeesssssssss!!!!!!! Thank you for this content! So well described and researched. ❤ But, I've a question, could you please do lore on Armored Core Fires of Rubicon? Or the whole Armored Core series of games? There's a wealth of info, and id love your breakdown of a once great and now renewed series of games!? 😊
Given the real life collusion between Government, shadow gov., corporations, & the military industrial complex, I’m more & more convinced that this isn’t fiction but a glimpse of the future.
Love these videos. Did my second playthrough and a second run on phantom liberty and gave been soaking in all your cyberpunk Lore videos while I'm working. Finally subscribed because I thought I already did lol. Great work
What baffles me is if corporations are way stronger than governments then how does laws on incorporation still work? Stocks would just be non existent as whoever was in control (in a political way) can just deny the shareholders.
One of the OG CP lore channels , now the game is made simple for twitch streamers you see all these new videos acting like The hasn’t been spread out for the past four or five years
@@michakasprzak6869 Enemy of my enemy is my friend. Johnny had a bone to pick with Arasaka because they represent the coprorate colonialism. He saw them as bunch of foreign entity encroaching on his home and elsewhere in the world. Militech has always been there, since they are an American corporate. They just provided Johnny and his anarchy terrorists "hijack" their convoy with a nuke so they can use it on Arasaka. Militech basically used Johnny as a proxy to wage war against Arasaka and it worked.
Cyberpunk red lore is different from Johnny recollections in 2077, which in iirc Reddit AMA was told as the engram ISNT an accurate Johnny. In Red, Johnny had a secret agenda as he wished to save his former girlfriend Aria, who he accidentally sealed into the web when he disconnected her neural link (her body was dying), trapping her engram in the net. Militech wanted to destroy the Relic, which contained database of uncorrupted software n info from the virus attacks on the Net/Black wall, Johnny signed on to the team but secretly wanted to save Aria. That was why he went further in to insert that shard. However, the team got hit by Adam Smasher and in an attempt to save Rogue, he would attack Smasher and die in the process, chewed in half while spewing his SMG, defiant to the end. Spider would use the Soulkiller program on Johnny to save his engram in Red. 2077 had Arasaka torture and use the Soulkiller to copy Johnny, even though Rogue/Spider goal was to destroy Soulkiller. We never found out who detonated the nuke though. Morgan blackhand, Saitan, Arasaka by detonating their nuke or militech nuke....
I'd like to suggest a bit of proofreading, as the wording might suggest a different narrative (for example "and due to the recovery of the US economy thanks to the crash" has conflicting wording, plus makes deciphering meaning necessary i.e. there is no real recovery if they're forced yet again to go with the cheap option, or the recovery is insufficient) Just my two cents, good video nonetheless, thank you.
Amazing rewatching this video ❤, sometimes I am waiting that AraSSaKa! 😂❤ Loving the content the lore we are understanding more and more where we walk every day in night city ❤
All of this can be summed up by " Oh, they were military contractors for the US. " - the same way you could make a Russian company sound bad just by going " Oh, they're Russian military contractors. " lol.
I believe the whole Orion department that was teased in the tower ending will do and be against them . the main new protagonist male & female are a part of
Please please tell me you will do an arasaka lore vid in the near future and also an obscure company maybe delamain cabs run by an AI could be an interesting vid
Closes to arasaka would be Daewoo or Samsung they are included in many military production and in Korea high level management in this corporations are almost untouchable to the law
Militech does offer an interesting contrast with Arasaka. Arasaka is a corporation that dominates its home country but Japan is at least officially independent of Arasaka. They might pull the string and be central to the economy, but the country of Japan is not Arasaka. On the other side, Militech is the NUSA and vise versa. They are intrinsically linked with Militech functioning as the NUSA military and their executives routinely hold public office. One corporation has grown to dominate their home country, while the other *is* their home country.
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Militech and arasaka deserve eachother
Shame everyone else gets caught in the middle of their toxic relationship.
A match made in hell.
Militech is just American Arasaka
The Senju vs Uciha of the cyberpunk world.
They deserve to be reduced to rubble
I love cyberpunk lore, honestly feels like cp77 is secretly a horror game sometimes
Oh, there's no secret about it, lol. The more you look, the more you realize how terrifying the Cyberpunk universe is
@@Takintomori yeah I've almost 100% the game but it's always so fascinating reading theories and stuff when it comes to this game bc most of them all sound viable and true to the game compared to most other games
*the real world
@@Takintomoriit’s a dystopia at the end of the day
I think the most scary part about this game is how (for the most part) it mirrors the trajectory that our society is heading down.
Militech is a fascinating company in 2077, hell even in cyberpunk red (table top rpg). Their essentially a non company company, state owned yet also trying to do their own thing to advance their own income. Yet this would also mean that the NUSA is extremely dependant on Militech, if their stock's crash then NUSA is going with it.
Their gear is awesome though! Always loved their more simplicity first gun designs. And their troops in 2077 look cool as heck xD
That’s what happened when the NUSA pumps like more than half of its budget into funding militech
But also the black ops operatives in the killing moon mission look so cool
@Gamfluent so doea the nusa own just over 50% of shares
I love how the militech and arasaka buildings are in front of each other
I imagine a lot of workers just opening the window time to time just to jells some indirect insults to the other building
Like that episode of the Simpsons when they go to New York
They fly paper airplanes at each other filled with insults and jabs.
And the occasional micro-explosive.
arasaka corpo"HEY. WHATS YOUR NAME?"
Militech corpo "TONY!"
arasaka corpo"FUCK YOU TONY!"
@@reyjay8571goated reference
Donald Lundy: "I will destroy you Arasaka!"
Rest of Militech: "Sure grandpa, let's get you to bed"
Unsung 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Saburo: "I was a samurai back in my hayday!"
"It's time for your medicine"
If a fifth corporate war does break out, I feel like Militech could benefit from hiring a few Nomad clans.
Let's hope V talks the Nomads out of it
@@casperfourie9124v is dead
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Militech will probably win against Arasaka at least in North America. I can't help but think that if a bunch of Nations outside the NUSA got involved in supporting Arasaka it would probably be like WW3 eventually.
@@ki11erjosh77Nah, depends on ending.
The feud between Militech and Saka is always so interesting. Great video as always! Btw if anyone wants more cyberpunk 2077 content and you are a reader, a new novel recently released named “No coincidence”. Looks like a good read!
Love all of the lore videos becuse i can listen to them while working and play the game and get a new perspective about the game world.
Shame we only get one DLC. Would've loved to explore other parts of the world, besides just Night City.
cyberpunk has always been about nc
Other parts of the world would most likely be protein farming / refineries on the fringe, if not complete trash heaps - or barren, with minor correlations to the main story. Now if we could explore beyond the Black Wall, or other planets / stations, that would be neat.
33 GB, new district, vehicle combat, Relic usage... Not enough, ey?
Well... that's the sequel is for i suppose
Nah it was always about NC
if memory serves, Mekton Zeta has a setting option which is set in the far future of the Cyberpunk universe and in it Militech is still around, producing giant robots and weapons galore. Militech will outlive us all.
The first person I think of when I hear Millitech is Meredith Stout 😍I wish we had more of her
Same she had like 2 mins screen time and that was it
Perverts
she dead
@@jmgonzales7701 never in my play throughs
@@jmgonzales7701depends on ur play through
Honestly it amazes me that no one in the company decide to get rid of Donald Lundy, since all he’s doing is getting rid of any business opportunities they can have with other companion and making a lot of enemies that will try to sabotage their business and going to war with arasaka doesn’t benefit militech.🐱
Tbf they managed him. He helped the company grow more and more but he never had enough power to do anything dangerous. Perfect for Militech honestly
Militech is ideologically driven to support the NUSA government. At the end of the day those enemies are enemies of the fascists in charge. They've proven they can keep growing despite the challenge.
Arasaka was a competitor. They might benefit slightly in the short term but ultimately getting rid of them is good for the company
Business isn’t about making friends and working nice with your competitors. Arasaka is their biggest rival, eliminating or hindering them, making them look inferior and potentially stealing their customers is what lead to much of their success. Militech becoming the de facto company in the west was largely because of Lundy being such a vicious businessman
@@PegasusPighaving business relationships with other corps could also be really benificial.
So Militech is the Lockheed Martin of Cyberpunk on steroids
@@GoldGamer-pl8yt yeah, and saburo arasaka is literally WW2 Japan but downplayed.
MILITECH the barely lesser of two evils
Only because the government nationalized them
@@Senth99 yeah , the irony that America's most succesfull corporation is owned by the state . You know , since America prides itself on it's capitalist sistem
Yes, because nuking a city, killing a million civilians is *lesser evil* I mean c'mon Militech meat riders.
@@Senth99militech became the government in the game afterwards
another amazing video! i love these in-depth videos into the corporations. sometimes watching these just makes me think how dark the cyberpunk world actually is
Very detailed video about Militech. I hadn't realized that the corporations were that brutal to each other for competition. XD Well played.
Ummmm what? Have you played the game at all? lol
i like all these parallels and paradoxes: Arasaka WAS going to detonate the nuke in their NC HQ, but Millitech beat them to it. They were going to unleash Soulkiller to go wild, while Millitech had Cynosure (nuff said). Millitech blamed Arasaka for the Holocaust, when they themselves caused it.
Came for the fallout new vegas lore and stayed for the night city lore 😅
Ofcource FN is portrayed as "unreliable" XD
Bruh, my poor Italian guns, they didn’t do nuffin’ :(
@8milestudio Forgive me if I'm wrong, but... isn't FN from Belgium, or is there another FN that's based in Italy that I don't know about?
@@endernoah9526
Yes, it is Belgian.
@@nielsmichiels1939 I figured. Besides, the only real Italian gun brand I know is either Beretta or Beneli. FN made the Fal, P90, technically made the Browning Hi-Power (because Browning died before he finished it), and probably a few others I'm forgetting. (FNC)
@@nielsmichiels1939 I figured. Besides, the only real Italian gun brand I know is either Beretta or Beneli. FN made the Fal, P90, technically made the Browning Hi-Power (because Browning died before he finished it), and probably a few others I'm forgetting. (FNC)
I can't wait for your coverage on phantom liberty, thank you sir fish that is wise
Im running a cyberpunk RED campaign for my friends and militech is the main antagonist
I needed this! Thank you choom🤟
for dnd??
@throwthrow-c7e ohhh really?! I didnt know that
Hiya! Just caught this on Spotify on my way home from work. I really enjoyed it! Thanks for your hard work in putting these together. It makes my hour commute enjoyable and less as tedious.
I would like more involvement with the other corporations in Cyberpunk 2. Biotechnica, Zetatech, Kang Tao, and Militech. There's so much lore they can delve into this dense world of Cyberpunk that I'm kind of looking forward to what they can create next.
It would also be fun to have side missions as part of the Trauma Team or even MaxTac.
that Militech Musical literally isn't wrong at all lmao. In Arasaka's eyes, you are a pawn, even V is their pawn if you look into it
Funny how Johny in Cyberpunk 2077 is full anti corpa, but he was hired by Militech to blow up tower. Sad that cannot argue with him on that point in game.
That's on-theme for Cyberpunk though.
Unless you don't want to turn to nomadism, thus completely abandoning 'the system', then you'll only ever be able to choose between the lesser of the presented evils in order to even begin breaking down and reforming said system.
I have been waiting for this since your Corporate War video, and I have to say you did a great job!
It's a little bit scary how this some times mirror current real world state
Considering that Most of the endings of 2077 involve Yorinobu dismantling arasaka internally and regrouping to asia, i wouldn't be surprised if Militech are the primary antagonists of future games.
They'd fill the vaccume left by arasaka commiting corporate seppuku and solidify their place as the global corporate hegemon, kinda like america in the 90s when the soviets collapsed.
Side effects would likely include the western US states, now lacking an outside benefactor to keep them more autonomous, being completely incorporated into the NUSA proper, with NC probably following suit while Militech appropriates Arasakas american and non western holdings. You kinda get a taste of this in the tower ending, with Militech practically plastering every surface with ads and zetatech largely working at their discretion.
This could also be the way Cyberpunk reintroduces Morgan Blackhand in the games, who could play a role like adam smasher did (i.e. borged up enforcer)
I personally feel like the games are leaning toward some sort of A.I threat in the future you have Alt Cunningham being Beyond shady with never explaining what she actually plans to do with the Mikoshi Constructs. You have Delamane's rouge personalities with atleast one implying some future Event and big poppa D pissing off passed the black wall if you fuse them. As well as Netwatch just seeming Very Very on edge in general and even phantom liberty showing us what a true unshackled A.I is capable of when it takes over that spider robot. I could see a Army of Rouge A.I trained by alt bolstered by mikoshi taking over other Robotic weapons platforms or more horrific Taking over people remmber Alt Knows how to delete someones psyche and replace it now
Yorinoby didn't destroy Arasaka. And Japan is by far more powerful than NUSA. It is stated in those endings, that Arasaka is rebuilding. Also, NUSA is bound to finally collapse sooner or later. The autonomous states and Texas are just waiting for another war.
The time of the US hegemony is long past and that is one of the stronger constants in the Cyberpunk universe. For the US, since 1990s it's only going worse and it can only go worse. So Militech is fucked either way. It will fall into obscurity along with the ever weakening country.
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Nahhh, US would have spent millions on the development of those rifles, then realize they can just upgrade their current rifles with better attachments and small changes again
I don't know, considering they're moving to a higher caliber to deal with body Armour I can imagine they'd need to make similar changes to deal with subdermal Armour.
LMAO, it's hilarious how hard the US wants to throw out the M4 so bad, yet it always come back
The US in that universe is having the bad times we are currently having back in the 90s. We didn’t get the “win” over the Soviets by their entire system of government collapsing and the EU wasn’t as big as the Cyberpunk one, that’s why Euros aren’t the trade currency for petrol and dollars are.
@@guillaumelalonde7945I doubt the spear is going to see widespread adoption, just like the scar variants.
You should look into Wendigoon’s video of the US government’s meddling of their M16 rifle during the Vietnam war.
Hope you all enjoy some more good old Cyberpunk lore! Let me know what else you’d like to see!
I was curious (also I don’t know if I’m doing this right), but I really find the corporations interesting and unfortunately I don’t see many videos going over the small corporations inside the Cyberpunk universe. Would that be a possibility for couture videos?
Armored Core lore would be cool, specially the second gen (4 & 5)
These are so good! thank you!
As a PMC in all but name, you know you are a bad gun business if even TEXAS holds you In contempt
For effectively being the NUSA's military, I have to wonder why their troops in Cyberpunk 2077 use forest camo in a mostly-desert and urban environment, especially when they have those glowing-filament-things on their uniforms.
Although, I guess since optical cyberware's fairly advanced, color-and-pattern camouflage is basically useless, so that's probably why.
Well they are technically the military. So itd make sense for them to have uniforms that lean that way in terms of design.
Be interesting to see where Militech goes in Orion and future games. Yorinobu's corporate seppuku, assuming it's canon, makes Militech top corpo dog, making them and by extension the NUSA extremely powerful
Came back to Cyberpunk 2.0 and it’s amazing now. From the recommendations i found your channel and cannot stop watching these cyberpunk lore videos. Amazingly done i hope you get many many more subscribers
Its amazing how somthing rots from within fron its inacuis beginnings.
*Wisefish, you have delivered once again sir* 👏. Thanks for the lore!! 😅
Meredith stout sloppy toppy made us loyal to militech
It was Johnny Silverhand and Morgan Blackhand working for them in the raid on Arasaka tower for me.
Real
4:22 it’s funny because in the real life future weapons trials, they had all kinds of fancy upgrades, and what the army took was “m16/m4 but with an optic”
That new m5 sig spear thing is probably not going to see widespread adoption like the scar before it.
It's always a good idea that your prime minister or even defense minister its also the CEO of a weapons corporation.
If you add also energy minister that is working at the same on a private energetic company you have either Night city or Spain I live in one of those I will let you know guess.
Could you tell me more about Spain, it sounds interesting
@@crimsonbaron4418 well living here its not that bad BUT if you have any kind of expectancies in a "future" things get a bit messed:
For example: maybe you like in a lot of countries in europe or in north América or even in some countries of south América like México or even in east europe like in russia you want to create your own work, your own little corporation and grow step by step....
Well that is impossible here because the goverment Pulls out from their ass taxes for the taxes so you could pay taxes while you pay taxes to have mire taxes and in return the govement instead of fixing some Roads they dedicate this money to the ancient past time of spain:
Corruption.
The thing is my country has a lot of autonomous communities (keep I mind that texas or Yakutia in Russia its almost twice as us)
But apparently we need those divisións of powers both in the goverment and both in the autonomous communities.
Wich are quite small, then add that each single autonomous communities had thousands of "funcionarios" (people that work for the state) wich are redundant and all the money your taxes generate instead of going to a health care, defense, Imvestigations or tech development end on the pockets of this funcionaries, some of this funcionaries are essential:
Police, army, firefighters, medics, teachers... etc you know
But then each single autonomous community has political representatives of the main political parties and their own invented stuff... wich get their money obv through taxes.
Ok that's the first problem.
The second is that (this come from far away in our past): the dictatorship we had either bad or good depending to who you ask at least created a strong socioeconomical state with independence of energy, weapons, and some heavy machinery (ships, cars, trucks... etc).
But after the transition in the 70s/80s and then the entering of Spain in Europe in the 90s, politicians behind this big movements do pretty questionable stuff:
Like accepting quite weird acceptance rules to enter in the EU, it was supposed that Spain should be a touristic destination and power, but for that was also not necessary our industries at full working capacity.
So the old state owned factories and firms began to collapse, or began to be buyer by other companies or directly disappeared:
We had seat and pegaso manufacturers of cars wich actually buyed licenses to other countries like Italy, but then they be buyer by Volkswagen and Iveco.
We had the state owned weapon manufacturers of Santa Barbara and CETME (centro de estudios especiales..... yadayada yada) they respectively created army vehicles and hardware and light weapons: santa Barbara collapsed and was buyed by general dynamics and cetme collapsed totally after the goverment asked for impossible stuff: Basically asked for cheaper redesigned from 0 assault rifles rechambered to 5,56 wich killed the project and the company doing this weapons because they had to use poor and cheap materials wich literally brake on your hands.
A good example it's the futuristic looking Ameli light machine gun: Good idea, but the production suffered spontaneous combustion if you looked bad at them.
And país Vasco had inmense forges to make metal stuff like ship hulls heavy machinery etc but some of this metal works collapsed .
It was the fault of Europe? It was the fault of América? NOP it was the fault of our politicians wanting to emulate the soviet state of the 90s instead the one of the 50s while wanting to simulate América... and absolutely being corrupt tot he core.
Because both for again The good and the bad: Soviet system, and the american system had worked (yep I know how the soviet one ended) but the thing is: when your politicians role-playing to be Robert Henry House from new vegas actually had nothing to back their actions aka: Politicians that had studied how to be politicians, not politicians wich had serve the nation somewhat like American or soviet ones: Army, secret services anything related to serve to their nation...
Yep you could have a bad president here and there but at least he had sacrifice something for his nation.
On the other hand when your politicians come from universities that teach them "How to" you end having malleable politicians, Or tools wich end in positions of power selling parts of your country that your predecessors build...
Wich end in making that your country had any kind of heavy representation, or had any autonomy because you have to pay a debt wich is impossible to repay because your country's politicians had no interest on reactivate or create industries or allow new entrepreneurs, that could generate that income.
The thing is: Any system creates corruption, and corrupted people sooner or later. But the thing is:
If the corrupted people at least likes your country and had some respect for it, because they sacrificed something for it, its less probable that they end selling their own mothers.
On the other hand a corrupted person that hates you and where you live because he sees it not as a tool to create money=independence but as a resource to exploit will end selling everything you love to dubious people, just for the sake of making money.
One of the reasons the ancient Spanish people had that Obsession with the word: Honour, its the fact that is the only thing that everyone has but could brake or loose easily if you trade that.
And it's true the only thing a person has its his word and what that person do with that, if you fail your people with fake promises, you end some day offering this same people fake bread and fake water... and there is when you have a serious problem.
But! We also have sun and good food.
Sorry for the super long easaay
Love listening to the videos. Even despite the fact that most of the 'lore info dumps' were ad libbed.
Another great video, havent even watched it all the way and I just know it 😂 keep up the great work WiseFish!
It is also crazy to imagine that a FN product would be out and out “bad” but maybe the SAP was like, the F2000 and just didn’t work great?
Yeeesssssssss!!!!!!! Thank you for this content! So well described and researched. ❤ But, I've a question, could you please do lore on Armored Core Fires of Rubicon? Or the whole Armored Core series of games? There's a wealth of info, and id love your breakdown of a once great and now renewed series of games!? 😊
Given the real life collusion between Government, shadow gov., corporations, & the military industrial complex, I’m more & more convinced that this isn’t fiction but a glimpse of the future.
i would go as far as to say it is allready here.
but simply not as cool
@@peterhoffmann2231 I like that. That’s prolly accurate.
Love these videos. Did my second playthrough and a second run on phantom liberty and gave been soaking in all your cyberpunk Lore videos while I'm working. Finally subscribed because I thought I already did lol. Great work
Thank you once again Mr.fish
What baffles me is if corporations are way stronger than governments then how does laws on incorporation still work? Stocks would just be non existent as whoever was in control (in a political way) can just deny the shareholders.
Because they aren’t stronger then all governments the EU ensures they can’t just fuck over stockholders
Your Cyberpunk videos are the best
Another quality video. Well done.
I dont get why miletec doesn't integrate into the us government then sell the production facilities to us manufacturing
One of the OG CP lore channels , now the game is made simple for twitch streamers you see all these new videos acting like The hasn’t been spread out for the past four or five years
The cynosure secret weapon is one of the most interesting chapters of militech
The goat returns
"babe wake up more wisefish just dropped"
Wait, MILITECH did the attack on Arasaka?
So Johnny was just corporation's dog?
Where did you think he got the nukes from?
@@irksomecodger9667 Same place Rouge got AV, I don't know? They bought it, stole it or killed someone for it?
@@michakasprzak6869
Enemy of my enemy is my friend. Johnny had a bone to pick with Arasaka because they represent the coprorate colonialism. He saw them as bunch of foreign entity encroaching on his home and elsewhere in the world. Militech has always been there, since they are an American corporate. They just provided Johnny and his anarchy terrorists "hijack" their convoy with a nuke so they can use it on Arasaka. Militech basically used Johnny as a proxy to wage war against Arasaka and it worked.
Cyberpunk red lore is different from Johnny recollections in 2077, which in iirc Reddit AMA was told as the engram ISNT an accurate Johnny.
In Red, Johnny had a secret agenda as he wished to save his former girlfriend Aria, who he accidentally sealed into the web when he disconnected her neural link (her body was dying), trapping her engram in the net.
Militech wanted to destroy the Relic, which contained database of uncorrupted software n info from the virus attacks on the Net/Black wall, Johnny signed on to the team but secretly wanted to save Aria. That was why he went further in to insert that shard.
However, the team got hit by Adam Smasher and in an attempt to save Rogue, he would attack Smasher and die in the process, chewed in half while spewing his SMG, defiant to the end.
Spider would use the Soulkiller program on Johnny to save his engram in Red. 2077 had Arasaka torture and use the Soulkiller to copy Johnny, even though Rogue/Spider goal was to destroy Soulkiller.
We never found out who detonated the nuke though. Morgan blackhand, Saitan, Arasaka by detonating their nuke or militech nuke....
I'd like to suggest a bit of proofreading, as the wording might suggest a different narrative (for example "and due to the recovery of the US economy thanks to the crash" has conflicting wording, plus makes deciphering meaning necessary i.e. there is no real recovery if they're forced yet again to go with the cheap option, or the recovery is insufficient)
Just my two cents, good video nonetheless, thank you.
FN making cheap and shoddy weapons? Bro, their weapons are legendary irl.
I just got this game to play around with some mods and now I'm lost in this world, send help.
Made me get the books, frfr. I never want to leave Night City.
"ethically shady corporation"
Extremely redundant.
Imagine in the near future both Arasaka n Militech combine their corporation might....
Oil and water
its like puting a bear and a tiger in the same room
I feel like the 5th corpo war would be a cool sequel cyberpunk 2080
Yeah they kinda set it up within 2077 so that would definitely be cool, perhaps an ending where you end it/start it or something like that
Based Militech
Amazing rewatching this video ❤, sometimes I am waiting that AraSSaKa! 😂❤ Loving the content the lore we are understanding more and more where we walk every day in night city ❤
The story and supported game footage is epic! Tell me your ways!!!
Makes me wonder who was faradays contact in Melitech? And will be meet or see him during the dlc lol
if he doesn't play "The Rebel Path" when explaining how Militech hired Silverhand to nuke Arasaka tower I'm gonna be disappointed
All of this can be summed up by " Oh, they were military contractors for the US. " - the same way you could make a Russian company sound bad just by going " Oh, they're Russian military contractors. " lol.
If life paths mattered, one from militech might be cool
wait a sec, Militech is starting to sound like the CIA 24:30
hmmmmmmm
Everyone stop what you're doing wisefish uploaded a cyberpunk lore video
Huh. Never knew Lockheed-Martin had such a cool history.
I believe the whole Orion department that was teased in the tower ending will do and be against them .
the main new protagonist male & female are a part of
Please please tell me you will do an arasaka lore vid in the near future and also an obscure company maybe delamain cabs run by an AI could be an interesting vid
I’ve got 100k eddies of Stock in Militech.
Gotta keep the cogs oiled, with the blood of Arasaka.
Im convinced, buying the game
Not gonna lie, militech has some cool gear
I was expecting more info on Cynosure
Imagine if militech and Arasaka were real, things could definitely be interesting
Lockheed Martin and Norinco are very real though
Closes to arasaka would be Daewoo or Samsung they are included in many military production and in Korea high level management in this corporations are almost untouchable to the law
@@DestructorN7 true
@@TikhonMosin also true
Blackrock is probably the scariest 1 ngl.
Even sounds like its out of the game.
Dole should be mentioned too.
Militech does offer an interesting contrast with Arasaka. Arasaka is a corporation that dominates its home country but Japan is at least officially independent of Arasaka. They might pull the string and be central to the economy, but the country of Japan is not Arasaka.
On the other side, Militech is the NUSA and vise versa. They are intrinsically linked with Militech functioning as the NUSA military and their executives routinely hold public office. One corporation has grown to dominate their home country, while the other *is* their home country.
Stark Industries but evil
Hard to choose if I hate Arasaka or Militech more
All roads lead back to the mega corps...
Militech outfits look so baddass.
Did NUSA nationalize Militech, or did Militech take over NUSA?
Given that all Militech CEO's end up as presidents I think it's kinda obvious.
So, its just all the 3 letter agencies as a company?
4:29 that doesn’t add up. Wouldn’t the US have been able to field test the weapons in Hawaii?
22:03 Free tickets to watch the corporate wars musical? Where do I sign up?!
Miltech is lockhead martin and Araska is Samsung, got it.
Militech is scary especially cynosure
If militech is so powerful why are they so easy to defeat?
they got cool guns in the game
I wish we can wear there gear its so badass
Can we get the last of us part 1 & part 2 with the different factions.
Well, guess there is a corporation even worse than arasaka…
Holy shit…
Whats the name of the outro music?
Between Militeck and Arisaka I choose Militeck
Cause you like to nuke cities and kill millions of civilians?
I like to call them “Amerisaka”
Ah yes. The drippy’st faction