Editing Cyberpunk v3 (section)

==Setting==
[[Image:CPV3_2.jpg|thumb|left|Most agree the artwork aged about as well as the edition, if not worse.]]
The world of ''Cyberpunk v3'' was a radical departure from that of earlier editions, and came in for a [[Skub|lot of criticism for its perceived silliness and abundance of plot holes]].

During the Fourth Corporate War, a computer virus called DataKrash, created by Rache Bartmoss (one of a set of god-like NPCs that populated the ''Cyberpunk 2020'' world), was released which re-wrote ALL computer software and data, and so crashed teh intarwebz and other telecommunications systems. The only computers unaffected by DataKrash were in the basement of the Arasaka tower in Night City, and they went up in smoke (along with the whole corporate district) when a two kiloton nuclear weapon, placed there as insurance against intruders, was set off by the A-Team of ''Cyberpunk 2020'' NPCs demolishing the place with a smaller-yield nuke.

Another virus, this one nanotechnological in nature and created by the Arasaka corporation, ate ALL paper produced since 1970, presumably including cardboard boxes and the stuff you wipe your arse with – while you were wiping your arse with it.

The result was that most records of anything, most literature, most textbooks, encyclopaedias and dictionaries, all financial data, all computer software, was either deleted or scrambled; your shopping list may now be a list of Corpo black ops, or it may be a Black ICE program that kills you when you open it, or it could just be a wall of nonsense and random memes. This of course led to the complete collapse of the financial and government systems. In the present day of the game world, history has become purely a matter of urban legend: most people believe that Richard Nixon committed suicide live on television following the Watergate scandal, rather than resigning, and that the NASA moon landings were faked.

[[Derp|People can't even agree on what year it is]], although most think it's some time in the 2030s. Hence the alternative title of the game: ''Cyberpunk 203X''. 

The nuked Night City has been rebuilt using self-replicating nano-machines which constructed buildings, roads and other infrastructure out of the underlying soil and rock. What was once an urban area of a few million inhabitants somewhere between San Francisco and Los Angeles (probably somewhere around Carmel, where Clint Eastwood lives) has become a mega-city straight out of ''Judge Dredd'', sprawling along most of the of the California coast, all in 10 or 15 years. The nanites have a mind of their own, and regularly de-construct whole buildings without warning and replace them with new ones. East coast USA has a similar mega-city called Boswash, stretching from Boston to Washington, and a third, Chi-cag, is growing in the Midwest.

One problem with this paradigm is that netrunning, hacking or whatever you call it, the staple of the cyberpunk genre, is obviously limited in scope. Perhaps to compensate for this, Netrunners and Artificial Intelligences can use the omnipresent nanites to create physical 'demons' to fight battles.

Another is the afore-mentioned plot holes. Were there no computers unconnected to the internet that could have survived the computer virus? How does the paper virus work, and how come it didn't consume all wood and living plant matter as well? Why didn't anyone just count the risings and settings of the sun (or just the passing of the seasons) from the last known date until new computers and software were developed?

[[Fail|Bear in mind that all of this is supposed to be happening in the mid-2030s, 10 years from now.]]