Robots Radio, Ames, Lore, Stories, Community, Just Press Play. Welcome to the Cyberpunk Lorecast, where we brave scanning the net to find all the deep history and lore of Cyberpunk. I'm Toasty, a fixer that's new to Night City with a desire to jump into the details of this greedy setting. And I'm Genesis, an old school media tech with a love of character deep dives.
Together, we will bring you the foundations of the past, the state of Night City today, and the news of the future. We've got incoming, let's Delta. Welcome back, Joomz, to another episode of the Cyberpunk Lorecast. I'm your girl, Genesis, and with me, as always, is Toasty.
Hello. Hello, and welcome to 2026, dude. Fuck. That was so Geralt.
Yeah, that was so easy. Can I do it? Yeah. Yeah.
Good job. Good job. Oh, man, I'm hoping that this year is going to be a really good year, at least for me personally. I know that there's a lot of political stuff and, you know, like world events and things like that.
I'm hoping this year will be a good year for that, too. I agree. I fully agree. But I'm also just hoping for me personally that this year is a good year.
I'm hoping that it's a good year for gaming. I hope it's a good year for the show. I hope. There's a lot of good out there.
I'll likely be up in your area sometime in April, so let's see how that goes. We have not talked about this off-air yet, so that got me really excited. What's going on with that? I mean, the trip that I think I talked about last year, it seems like I'm going to try and actually do it this year.
So see what happens. I mean, I just found out it's finally been with my company for long enough that I get three weeks of vacation in a year, which is amazing. I was happy the other day. I saw it out there week.
That's awesome. And much better than the seven days that we get if we work for certain corporations in cyberpunk. Yeah. Definitely.
Why seven days when Ken 21? All right. Well, this is the first episode that was the year, and I'm excited for it because we're talking about something that is de-brutted in cyberpunk lore and has massive effects throughout all of the rest of the cyberpunk lore. We're talking about the one thing that never changes.
War. I just sort of thought about putting that as the episode title. Like on the top of the sheet, I was like, it's tempting. It's real tempting.
But yeah, we're talking about war. We kind of got into a little bit, you know, we talked about all of them to an extent, as we kind of gone through the show and all the different, like whatever and the tide to different corporations and stuff that we talked about. We never really just talked about the corporate wars of themselves. The fourth one.
Yeah. I think we did talk about the fourth one specifically in itself, which it's not really much of a war. I guess straight up it was like, oh, they'd be for a little bit and then the nuke was dropped in our second tower. You know, it's not like crazy, but yeah, we're going to talk about today the first and second corporate wars because, you know, they're small enough that we can talk about a couple of them.
But yeah, but we are actually going to start by talking about a corporation because we've just one has been mentioned a lot. So it needs to be said, and it's also one of the players in the first quarter war. So there's not much point in talking about the first quarter or if you don't know about the Euro business machines. So yeah, so I guess I guess I can just get into it.
So we throw back to the 90s as we often do. So when they were formed in the 90s, your business machines was a corporation that was developed into the leading and manufacture of computers and high tech equipment worldwide and ranks among the most significant corporations currently in existence. And yeah, no, so we got like all of these different guys who got our socket to and kind of like cybernetics and stuff other cybernetics. We have a military technology, we have IEC with literally everything else.
But then yeah, we have your business machines, which is computers and like so we haven't really gotten someone who does specifically that. All right. Yeah. I think that's a good summation of things.
I mean, we've got a lot of other corporations. Patrick came and bought Technica, but they arrive on the scene a little bit later than that. But talking in the 90s, EBM is huge. Not to be confused with IBM.
That's something completely different. They are also computers, but they are not the Euro business machine. What? Which IBM is a real world company.
Oh, okay. Sorry. You said IBM and it was like this irritable bowel. I'm.
But the idea is to continue a confusion. That wasn't me trying to make a joke. No, what? I mean, the original PC to do not know his computer history.
Yeah. Okay. Oh my. I feel really old now.
That's okay. During the late 90s when I was a teenager, EBM performed the greatest free market hostile takeover in history under the leadership of well-known corporate rating master Dr. Kurt Muller, the operation force the merging of EBM with a vast number of other prominent computer companies around the world, further reinforcing them fearsome market power EBM already held. So they're just monopolizing really trying to hear.
So just sorry, that title like a well-known corporate rating master. I mean, I've been a raid master before, but that's playing MMOs. Like, I mean, I guess this man plays the, plays the corporate game like it's an MMO or something. I don't know.
Like it's, I just, what does that mean? I guess somebody who's well known for taking over. Yeah. So the greatest free market hostile takeover in history.
Yeah. Now, Mueller, along with the other two members in the company's triumvirate, all Grunewalder and Munich and Sir Nathaniel Poole of London, I guess I'll pick up some titles in here. Was this a Knight, right? Sir?
Jeez. Together held 52.1% of company shares and collectively contributed the majority vote in EBM's corporate interests. So between three people, they hold slightly more than just the minimum majority share. Their long-term objective was to consolidate as much of the world's high-tech manufacturing as possible under their label by any means.
Okay. Again, with ratings. They sound like a Knight, man. I think we're already starting off to a point where I'm like, oh, I'm going to put these guys towards the bottom.
They sound like they sound not good. They are definitely at the bottom of the list right now. But really cool names, Wolf Grunewalder of Munich and Sir Nathaniel Poole of London. One of them is a Knight and one of them is a Witcher.
Exactly. And one of them is a Doctor. Munich. Yeah.
What are we doing here? What is going on? What a tree had a run at company. That's terrifying.
This is a D&D campaign that hit real world and decided to do corporate takeover. Yeah. It's like one of those, when you get the weird preface of a D&D campaign turning modern world or into a different setting where your characters start in the classic medieval and then all of a sudden they're in cyberpunk. They're vampires.
That's how they've survived this long. Makes sense. Okay. So we'll jump the timeline forward into the 2040s to the 2070s.
At some point, EBM attempted a coup on the government of Germany, but was crushed a few months later. The company would sponsor the stadium in Pacifica and Euro business machines owns a variety of subsidiaries, one of them being fourth wall, a large brain dance production studio. They own the fourth wall? They own the fourth wall.
They should sue Deadpool for breaking it so often. What do you do about that? What do you do about someone who owns the fourth wall? Do we get in trouble for breaking it?
I don't know. But yeah, no, there. You can't just say something else. Attempted a coup on the government of Germany.
We know like, Arastaka is basically the government of Japan, but like staging an active coup, that's crazy. Yeah. I'm trying to think of the other coups that have been done. There's one in Argentina, but that was not a corporate trying to overthrow the government.
That was the citizens. Yeah. That's craziness. And then what do we do in Pacifica?
Get out of here. I don't want you here. The sponsoring sports. True.
As corporations, so it's not the, I mean, so yeah, not great. Pretty corporation corporation. It's like corporation being in the ways of, in practices of how corporations are being as well as monopolizing and hostile takeovers and all the bad stuff that you hate corporations for dealing. Bottom of the wood joint list.
Mm hmm. Yeah, it doesn't say anything about vacation here either. So like, you're not even an incentive. Now, and like weirdly enough for, well, ranks among the most significant corporations currently in existence.
Not a lot of history there. That's about it. We do have a couple more things to just talk about a couple of assets, but it's very short, surprisingly for how much they gas them up and how much they get mentioned in other law. So, It's not my history.
Yeah. We'll get into a little bit more history, but that'll be later talking about corporate war and stuff. But as for regional offices, this might have the most I think we've listed. I don't know.
I can't think of maybe Arasaka like something like that, but this is like a lot of places. They have offices worldwide. They keep places such as Berlin, which I guess makes sense because they staged a coup there. So, and I believe that is their HQ.
Sorry, HQ is in Hamburg. Okay, but also in Germany. Yeah, yeah. So they're very German-based.
Brown, Madrid, Paris, Stockholm, Geneva, terrifying. They're probably breaking some conventions. Oslo, Helsinki, London, Tokyo, Cairo, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, D.C, Night City, Balsam, which to remind her of Balsam, that is that like underground city in like the Appalachian area. I think we mentioned it before on something.
I can't remember. I know it's been mentioned, but I can't remember where Chicago, Dallas, New York City, and Hong Kong. It's your mind is Hong Kong. That's the ghost town, right?
It is. So they have headquarters in Alts A.I. Paradise. Well, when it comes to this, it was probably pre-alt, but it just means that Alt has access to an EBM office.
That's great. So, I was scaring, they're leading manufacturer of computers and high-tech equipment. That's a scary thing to have access to. I guess it doesn't matter.
Oh, right. I guess Alt technically has access to everything as long as she has a facilitator, because like we can plug her in a makoshi. Yeah. And then she has the run of the R-socca building.
So, not very hard for her. They, of course, also have subsidiaries. Roland Aerospace is a subsidiary business of EBM, and it specializes in corporate jets. And of course, we have their equipment and resources to go over as of 2020 EBM operated its own fleet of airborne aircraft, distributed as needed among its various global locations and detailed as follows.
46 AV4s. 20, you guessed it, Osprey, two VTOL attack crafts. 20 corporate jets for the use of the executive board. Five heavy cargo planes.
In addition, each office had two helicopters, a fully staffed clinic and an infirmary. Because of course, they have Ospreys. They all do. They all do.
And it's all this. But 46 AV4s. That is by far the highest number of AV4s that any corporation we talked about is that. 20 Ospreys pretty up there too, I think.
Yeah, and normally it's not 20 corporate jets. It's normally like two. Yeah. Like that just shows their scope, which and I guess just the fact that they have the Roland aerospace that specializes in corporate jets, like they obviously have a want for aircraft and the ability, I guess, to move around faster.
But yeah, no, tons of aircraft. EBM's power and stature afforded access to the highest levels of military technology, but a top secret underground medical research and training facility hidden in the Alps. EBM also maintained a small, orbital research facility with about 30 researchers and 10 soldiers. Because of course, you need a secret base.
All corporations need secret bases. Now they have resources. They have tons of resources. The hidden base in the Alps.
This corporation scares me a little bit. Yeah, I mean, they own all the computers. That makes them very big and very scary. How many net runners do you think work for them?
Oh, white hat net runners. We haven't talked about that very much. I mean, we know that they exist. We've seen net runners in corporate positions.
You know, like, um, Becky Plaza, they have their own net runner security, which I guess isn't. It's not specifically corporation time, but it's the corporation hotel. So they're kind of there trying to think who else? We meet an RASaka net runner.
We kill them on the mission where we also getting onto the float. True. Um, as I said, the one guy I was saying, no, never mind. It was like once we killed them, he pops up.
Um, the guy from netwatch, he's a net runner, right? In the Voodoo Boys mission. That's true. I suppose everyone in netwatch kind of has to be.
I feel like, I feel like that's kind of their stick. So yeah, that makes sense. But no, I just, um, they do, they do corporate manufacturing, but I guess maybe part of the manufacturing is testing the product. So I feel like having some net runners on the payroll makes sense.
Yeah. And if they're good at their job, they would want to know what the net runners want and getting the feedback and, you know, like how can we make this, you know, technology better? How can we do things so that we more people won't want to buy our products? You go to your market.
Yeah. Cause I feel like, I feel like making cyber decks probably falls under the, like, same purview. Um, I guess the cyber decks count as a separate way or I don't get them through cyberware, but are they like explicitly cyberware? I don't know.
It's a great question. We can look into that while we dive into a midbreak. Yeah. Okay.
Let's go. So the middle of the show where we talk about the show and not the lore of cyberpunk. Uh, welcome into 2026. If you guys can continue leaving those ratings, reviews, comments, uh, joining in on the Patreon, anything to do to get this show out there.
Uh, word of mouth is really, really great. Uh, we always appreciate it when you tell your friends who also play cyberpunk about the podcast. Uh, it's a great way to introduce new listeners and then you guys can talk about, uh, our stupid comments and our remarks, but also the lore and the fun stuff that you get to learn about. Um, and the corporations that you may never hear about unless you're listening to the podcast or reading the books on your own.
Uh, yeah. I don't have any new patrons to read out. I don't have any new reviews to go over. I don't have any new comments to really shout out at this time.
Um, but if you leave them, we will read them. I don't think I have anything else to add to the middle of the show. How about you? Uh, cybernetes seem like they weren't and then they are in 2077 because of the way technology has progressed.
Got it. Or the way they had to combine things in order to make it game friendly. Got it. That's true.
Yeah. I remember now like that they're like things that you carry like a, like an actual item on your person and then a 2077 they become chips. So yeah. All right.
That makes sense. I'd rather have a dents and implant to not something that can be taken off of my body and broken or stolen if that's the way that I run. So all right then, uh, let's get back into it and talk about the first corporate war. Uh, getting right into it.
The first corporate war began when euro business machines attempted a leveraged buy-out. Of trans world airlines, uh, also known as TWA, a failing business. EVM attempted to make a deal with the CEO of TWA, but the CEO, uh, let the deal fall through. Over what air, another corporation interested in buying them out and desperate to claim their air traffic facilities blocked EVM's buy-out intent.
This is where it begins. We've talked about over there. I've seen you go listen to those episodes. Um, but you know, they're the space guys.
Yeah. And orbital air is definitely one of those attack dog corporations that is also trying to eat up as many resources and merge things together. Um, they're also pretty ruthless and, uh, backstabby and hold grudges, which is why we don't have an OA station in Night City. Yeah.
And much like the fourth corporate war, this one started with attempting to buy a small and well, maybe not small, but failing corporation, because a reminder for the fourth corporate war, I can't remember all the names of them, but there was the one ocean corporation and then the two other ocean corporations that wanted to get them involved are a second melotech and realized, hopefully realized the mistake of doing that. Yeah. Yep. No, I remember it was, uh, they were French.
It was like a French one that I had difficulty pronouncing, but yeah, they were all oceanic and oceanic companies. Oh, after realizing what had happened, EVM sought to eliminate orbital air's chances of purchasing TWA. EVM hired terrorists to kidnap orbital air's business negotiation team. Wait a step it up.
However, the terrorists failed in their mission and later it became known that EVM was responsible for hiring them. Orbital air after discovering the identity of their attacker recruited the Zeta Tech Technology Corporation as their ally in the conflict. Zeta Tech's hackers began a large scale net attack against EVM, but EVM was able to repel the attack and force Zeta Tech out of the war. So I guess they got some damn good netrunners.
There we go. Yeah. I was going to say, of course we talked about Zeta Tech previously. They made our local nets.
But yeah, no. I just love that it's like, oh, they got into the fight. Another gun. Is there any other way?
We will come. Here's our allies. Here's our backup Zeta Tech. Yep.
Nope squash. I mean, this is a cyber warfare, right? But after defeating them in that EVM began their own attacks, physical and technological against the WA and the orbital air facilities. So I guess they gave up on purchasing TWA.
They're just mad at them now. Is this the kind of hostile takeover they said before? Like, is this what we expect here? Yeah.
Yeah. I would definitely classify this as being hostile. Mm hmm. Yeah.
Now both sides fought each other viciously using terrorism, net attacks, piracy, corporate solos, and proxy soldiers from the third world. During this period, both companies lost hundreds of millions of euro dollars because war is fucking expensive. Oh my gosh. Okay.
Corporate solos and proxy soldiers from the third world. I'm sorry. You just were like, hey, want to join my army for right now? Is cannon fodder?
I don't like that. I don't like that at all. Yeah. I don't know.
Where are the Lazarus troops in this? Did they give involves? Or did they say, no, we're fucking staying out of this. Screw that.
Maybe those are the corporate solos. They could be Lazarus solos. Yeah. Oh my god.
This is messy off the chump. Very messy. But we do have the two major battles to talk about for the first corporate war. We can see how truly messy it does get.
The first major battle occurred when orbital air commandos successfully raided and captured an EBM space station. The operation to capture EBM space station was a response to EBM having hijacked an orbital air station in the past. Nifran I and the whole world goes blind. That's not how this is supposed to work.
Again, it's war. That's what it's there for. Those parties in the conflict were denounced by the European Space Agency who demanded that the two businesses not fight each other in low Earth orbit. Okay.
Not, not don't fight each other. Still fight each other. Low Earth orbit. We have restrictions here.
You can fight on ground. I don't even know if there's such a thing as high Earth orbit, but it's not here. All permits. Fight on the ground.
Don't fight in space. Space is a no zone. Yeah. And of course they were able to get that one EBM space station had 10 soldiers on.
Right. No. The second major battle which ended the first quarter war took place a year later. Commandos employed by orbital air were able to attack, breach and capture the compound of EBM CEO, Olf Grunewaldur, which forced him to surrender to orbital air.
So they got one of the big three and had probably tons of bargaining power. They attacked the witcher. I go after the witcher. I guess his compound wasn't, wasn't secure enough.
Yeah. Well, care more and get attacked a lot. It makes sense. It's pretty illuminating.
Yeah. No, it's, it's quick. It's only two major battles, but still man, I, this is, yeah, this is just messy. It only lasted a year.
Yeah. Yeah. Some of these, these corporate wars do feel pretty quick, but these, these, the conclusions are, uh, yeah, uh, decisive. Yeah.
And I really hope that there was not a lot of lives lost in this, uh, because it, it seems kind of more net based rather than on the ground troops, but we don't have any numbers or anything like that. So we do not know. Yeah. That's like, and that is where fair can be like legal, right?
Right. Right. And stuff. All right.
Well, that is all that we have on the first corporate war and the major players there. But now we have the second corporate war to talk about. Now, how this conflict began back in 2006. So if oil began producing chew to the alcohol based fuel most commonly used to our vehicles.
We've covered chew to extensively. Patrick and Patrick and the primary producer of chew to offer to supply so if oil with updated technology to help so if oil drill, pump and create other fuels from untapped oil resources in Siberia. And this offer came with a condition that Patrick and receive partial drilling rights. Sorry, getting off to a rocky start.
I feel like I already can work. And of course, we've also talked about both of these guys. So loyal so long ago, right? So long ago.
Oh, man. Now, shortly before the papers were to be signed on the Patrick and so oil partnership. Okay. So they had come to an agreement a little bit.
So oil engineers announced that they had developed drilling technology that made the deal unnecessary. And so well canceled the deal at the last minute. The two corporations experienced a rift. I can imagine.
Yeah. Yeah, let me let me. I Patrick him. Let me give you some additional technology and things that will make it easier for you to resource your mind your resources.
Just give us a little bit of the drilling rights. Oh, no, no, I came up with this information on my own. See, I made this technology. Yeah.
So now I don't need your help and don't have to give you any rights. Sounds a little fishy. Yeah. So obviously tensions running high.
And then in 2007, both companies began to expand into the South China Sea. Okay. So territory. That's this created even more tension and eventually boiled over into the beginning of the second corporate war.
The war started when the Sabrina Bravo, an offshore platform owned by Patrick him exploded. Patrick him accused so voil of planting an explosive device on the platform, which kicked off in a series of intense and public verbal battles between diplomats representing each corporation. After communication broke down, Patrick him launched the first military attack by ordering their own military divers to plant explosives on a sov oil platform in revenge. The platform was destroyed in a full scale conflict ensued.
Oh my gosh. You're just wasting resources at that point. You're breaking the. You can't collect that oil now.
And offshore platforms are huge. Like in order to do the drilling and things out there, it's this is not a small expense to have one completely blown up. Also, I mean, like I'm sure the environment is not in great shape anyways, but I can't imagine what this does for the quad habitat in those areas. Right.
I also want to correct myself. I'm pretty sure that I said Sabrina Bravo and it's just Sabina. Okay. Makes sense.
You know, so well had most of the initial success in the war, though both sides effectively crippled each other in just a few weeks in directly targeting and destroying oil facilities. Each company lost approximately 75% of their oil facilities within the first few weeks of the war. Okay. So this is so not benefiting anybody.
Y'all lost more resources than y'all could have even started to commit within a couple of weeks. This seems devastating to both companies. Like, wow, I'm surprised that they have survived beyond the second corporate war. We know that they're still around, but losing that much.
That's insane. I mean, luckily, I guess in this sense, it's just their oil platforms, which isn't it's more important to so voiled than it is to Patrick Kim because Patrick Kim has the choo-choo stuff going on. That's like most of its business, but so well doesn't have that. So it's kind of Patrick Kim at least gets to balance out a little bit because they have plenty of other things to draw their resources from.
Mm hmm. Now, partway through the war, Patrick was able to briefly gain the advantage over so so voiled by capturing the Spratly Island chain and assassinating Anatoly Novakovo, the CEO and founder of SoHoil using planes alone from the government of Malaysia. You should be careful with those. They tend to disappear.
The reasoning. Yeah. That's a reference poll. Holy crap.
Yeah. Well, I mean, the plane didn't disappear, but they made somebody else disappear. Yeah. No, we got corporate assassinations happening.
Good old corporate black ops. The CEO too. That's a pretty successful mission. The CEO and founder.
That's a great mission. I can't believe I just said that. Yeah. I mean, I mean, for their intention.
Yes, yes. And that was a great mission success for them because that was probably their plan. So, you know, it's not a great thing that corporations are out here assessing people. That's for temperature.
Mission successful. Okay. And despite SoHoil's losses, the corporation regrouped and was eventually able to overpower Patrick Kim. SoHoil was able to repeatedly repel Patrick Kim's attacks.
In October of 2009, Patrick Kim's forces ended up severely weakened after several failed attacks and SoHoil took the de facto control of the South China Sea. In the end, it was discovered that the destruction of Patrick Kim's Sabina Bravo offshore platform, the event that convinced Patrick Kim to go to war with SoHoil was in fact an accident that SoHoil was not responsible for. Oops. Oops.
Really? Oops. Like he didn't do a full investigation to figure out if it really was SoHoil. Why do you start with war?
Not an investigation. Because there's a chance that it'll be profitable. It obviously wasn't. It wasn't.
It wasn't. It wasn't. 75% of their facilities. Oh, yeah.
For sure. So it was successful. Wiped out SoHoil pushed them back enough that they could claim the South China Sea and then boom profit. But I didn't have it.
They haven't for so long. I mean, they get the South China Sea. They got to rebuild 75% of their fucking about more than 75% probably because it was 75% within the first few weeks. So they probably lost most of their oil platforms because they had to rebuild all of those things.
Yep. And it was the at some point it happened some point after 2007 and lasted until 2009. Yeah. Longer but still pretty short.
But to be notable, one of a corporate war that was just the two entities, they weren't brought in by other smaller corporations. It wasn't over trying to buy out a smaller car like, you know, it's just them. Just Patrick and so we'll go ahead and head. That is true.
They didn't bring in other corporations to help fight at their size or make it. Okay. I'm not quite sure if this was a worldwide war either because it seems to be very focused in the South China Sea area. Yeah.
I think that's the impression that I got. I mean, I don't know where the Spratly Island chain is, but I, it'd probably be easy for you to. Yeah. I mean, I guess to bring it back in, there was an internet hiccup which gave me enough time to actually Google it.
And if you Google Spratly Islands, the first sentence that you see for the Wikipedia, Spratly Islands are one of the major archipelagos in the South China Sea. So there you go. Okay. So it's small, isolated and only the two corporations.
I wonder why it's then considered a big court, one of the big corporate wars and not just a battle between the two of them. Why did this get a moniker of the second corporate war? I think because of the legacy that was started by the first corporate war, because it became like once the first corporate war happened, it became a thing where it was like, this is a thing that corporations can do in wage like a large scale conflict against one another. And so it's like, because once you have the first one, it's like, it's easier to call something the second and the third and the fourth of a thing when it looks like it's become a trend.
Because I think it was because it was probably an actual war. We see a lot of corporations with their black operations against each other, as we know, and all these things where it's like, they're competing and sending things against each other, but they're not at war, it's just something they do. And it's like, this was full, they're fucking committing terrorist attacks against each other by blowing up their oil platforms. So is that the link, terrorism?
Is that when it becomes a war? I don't know. I mean, I don't want to put that, I'm not speaking specifically IRL, that's up to whatever, but we have the first one that specifically said that they were committing terrorism against each other, that they were hiring terrorists. The second one where they were blowing up their oil platforms, which I would classify as acts of terrorism, I mean, the fourth corporate war had the nuke, which is for sure terrorists.
I wonder if it's an actual declaration, right? Because it's like there's a declaration of war and that's when, you know, then you can call upon the military forces. But then again, I don't really have a real world way to relate this because it is a corporate war. Our corporations, as of right now, don't go to war like this.
It's the governments where they contract and go into negotiations and things like that. A declaration of war is a settled upon thing. And so for a corporation to do it, I don't know if they go through terms and conditions, you know, like, do they follow the laws of the Geneva Convention when it's a corporate war? Do they do all these things that we have real life that is all government-based war?
I don't know. I don't know, but I feel like the Geneva Convention probably gets violated a lot, Cyberpunk. Probably. But I don't know.
I don't know. These are great questions to kick off the new here. Does Cyberpunk violate the Geneva Conventions or do people in Cyberpunk? Because the game doesn't.
Among us did, but not Cyberpunk 2077. Among us did, Incredle. Among us did accidentally violate the Geneva Convention. Here's a little fun fact or wrap up the end of the lore episode.
According to the Geneva Convention, only the Red Cross as a company is able to use a white background with the Red Cross X. And it's the one that looks like a very much like a plus sign. And that is to notify this is a medical facility. You are not allowed to attack the medical facilities.
It's something in the conventions that you absolutely cannot attack them. That's why a lot of the military med techs and military techs, military EMTs are allowed to wear the red and white cross on their helmets on their uniform in order to notate. You're not supposed to kill me. I am here for medical only.
I am not combatant. And then which means that nobody outside of that is allowed to use that symbology in anything. In among us, there's a medical room. But it has the white background with the red plus signs on it.
You could wear a hat with a white background with the red plus sign on it and then you could murder that person. You're allowed to kill people in the medical bay. You're allowed to do these things that according to the Geneva Convention are not allowed. Now, in other video games, when things like that have happened, they will alter the plus sign to where it's not an equal size plus sign or they'll tail to where it's an X and not a plus sign.
And that's how they got around it. But among us didn't. Therefore, they broke the Geneva Convention. The more you know.
There we go. I think as of now they have changed some of it. So that way it's not like I don't think that you can wear the little medical hat anymore. So that way you can be murdered.
Yeah, there we go. Let's wrap it up here for the night before I think of anything else weird to pop off on. If you want more random and more chaos and video game romance, you can catch me on the Two Girls One Chip Podcast where we analyze, rate and review all the world video game romances has to offer the episode that is going to be coming out the same day as this episode. Also features toasty.
We were talking about Detroit become human and had toasty on as a guest. You can also catch me on the Mass Effect Lorecast where we explore everything under the stars in the Mass Effect universe. And if you want more from me, you can check out the Witcher Lorecast where there is no Geneva Convention and they're definitely violating it all the time. And at the end of every episode we shout out Miracle Sound and thank you for being awesome and amazing in allowing his music to be used.
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Are you still attached to your hero of The Relden even a decade after Dragon Age origins came out? Or maybe you're a newer fan, still discovering a new tidbit or quest every day? Well, either way, the Dragon Age Lorecast is a podcast for you. I'm Austin, also known as T-Cup.
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