Night City 2045 Timeline & Interface RED Volume 5 POD Available
Hi everyone, Rob here this time briefly before I take you all into J Gray’s latest dev log for Night City 2045.
Interface RED Volume 5 over on DriveThruRPG now has Print on Demand available! Remember, the Interface RED series is a Print on Demand series only, we do not do print runs of it or send it out to distribution.
If you picked up a PDF copy prior to today, you will have received an email from DriveThruRPG for a discount code off of the POD if you wish to use it! Check your spam! If its not there, reach out to DriveThruRPG Support. If you want in depth info, head here to their main post on Reddit involving it.
Here is the button to head there, and now on to J Gray’s info!
Hello, choombas!
I’m J Gray – Line Manager for Cyberpunk RED – and welcome back to our previews of the upcoming setting sourcebook: Night City 2045! We’ll be sharing weekly blog posts until release and invite you to join us at Origins to celebrate having the 312 page tome in our greedy, tired hands.
As we revealed last week, the chapter on Night City Facts is 19 pages long. Five of those pages are dedicated to a history of our favorite Dark Future metropolis and contain two things: a lecture on the city’s history transcribed from an NCU class, and a timeline.
Want to see the timeline now? I’m feeling anxious to share, so why not? Fair warning: the timeline is just a brief summary. The juicy details are in the transcribed lecture – you’ll need to buy the book for those!
Stick around to the end to see a new piece of art from Night City 2045!
Night City Timeline (1991 – 2045)
1991: Richard Night draws up plans for Coronado City.
1992: Richard Night successfully petitions Arasaka, EBM, and Petrochem to fund the creation of Coronado City.
1993: Construction on Coronado City begins.
1994: Coronado City is officially incorporated.
1994: Richard Night University (later renamed Night City University) is founded.
1998: September 20. Richard Night is assassinated. Following his death, Coronado City is renamed Night City. Criminal organizations move into the city and take power.
2002: California declares itself a Free State.
2007: Playland by the Sea, a run-down amusement park, is bought by Tower of Dark. Construction to rebuild the park begins immediately.
2008: The Cross Continental Maglev, which allows travel between Washington D.C. and Night City, is completed.
2009: The beginning of the Mob War.
2011: End of operations in the Mob War.
2011: The Northern Separation War between Northern and Southern California begins. Major infrastructure, especially highways, is damaged in both regions.
2012: The Separation War ends with the Northern Separation Treaty, designating the border between the now divorced Northern and Southern Californias.
2013: April 13. The Arasaka Riot. A flash Johnny Silverhand concert spirals into chaos. Eighteen die and fifty-one are wounded. Arasaka headquarters is severely damaged by explosives during the riot. The megacorp raises a new, dual-tower facility in its place.
2014: Turf wars between various chromer gangs break out. A section of the city is called “the Combat Zone” for the first time during an NCPD press conference.
2020: An AV crashes and releases a nanoplague on the outskirts of Night City. The plague ravages the city for two weeks, then mysteriously vanishes.
2023: August 20. A nuclear device is detonated at Araska HQ. Nearly a million people die as a result of the explosion and its aftermath. This effectively ends Night City’s involvement in the 4th Corporate War.
2027: The command staff of the military base north of Night City swear allegiance to Northern California, officially forming the Estero Bay Military Combined Operational Group (COG).
2028: Area power players come together to ratify a new charter, saving Night City from extinction. Night City absorbs much of the “greater Night City” area and is reorganized into the following districts: The Glen, Heywood, the Hot Zone, Little China, Little Europe, New Westbrook, NorCal Military Base, Old Japantown, Pacifica Playground, South Night City, the University District, the Upper Marina, and the Watson Development
2029: The Second Comming cult hits Night City with a series of car bombs. Max Hammerman reforms MAX-TAC as a private organization to handle the incident.
2030: Ziggurat is founded and rapidly installs the world’s first modern CitiNet in Night City.
2031: Shinobu Nakagawa buys a City Council seat for Kabuki. It officially becomes a district.
2033: A 7.3 magnitude earthquake rocks Night City, setting reconstruction efforts back months, if not years.
2035: Construction begins on the Night City Spaceport.
2035: The City Council votes to establish the Heywood Industrial Zone, making it a separate district.
2036: A treatment-resistant variation of the Varicella virus, Varicella-H, ravages Night City.
2036: The Port of Night City separates from South Night City and becomes an official district.
2036: Closed since the 4th Corporate War, Playland by the Sea officially reopens.
2037: The City Council votes to split Charter Hill from New Westbrook, making it a separate district.
2037: City Hall and the Hall of Justice are officially opened for business.
2037: Sister Shelly Simpson buys a City Council seat for Rancho Coronado, making it an official district. The seat has been empty since her death later that year.
2038: Heywood splits into Santo Domingo and North Heywood.
2039: The Dorado Family claims the Reclamation Zone and takes over management of NCART.
2039: Planning for the future, Night Corp proposes the construction of megabuildings throughout the city.
2040: Funded by the Night City Co-Prosperity Sphere (NCCS), building of the first Megabuilding (H10) begins.
2040: SK Securities buys a City Council seat for the Heywood Docks. It officially becomes a district.
2041: The Badlands Incident. A confrontation between two nomad convoys escalates into a near-war between the Aldecaldos and the Jodes. In the aftermath, the Jodes split off and establish their own camp.
2042: Downtown secedes from Little Europe and officially becomes a district.
2042: Brick Coleman buys a City Council seat for the Old Combat Zone. It officially becomes a district.
2045: The present day.
