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0:00Arasaka?0:01Yep.0:03I was born in another country, raised in an Arasaka facility.0:08There were 13 of us.0:09Kids who passed a proficiency test were tagged to become netrunners.0:14Kids who wouldn't be missed anywhere else.0:18We'll serve the world's most powerful megacorp one day.0:22That dream got us through the toughest days, the toughest training.0:26It's the dream we were given.0:28A dream we never questioned.0:31One day, training was done.0:33We expected corp assignments.0:35The world over.0:37Instead, they moved us underground.0:40And day in, day out, they forced us to dive.0:45Old nets where they sent us.0:47Wait, the old net?0:49But I thought that whole system collapsed something like 50 years ago, didn't it?0:54Brought down by history's greatest netrunner.0:56Creator of daemons.0:58He was a true savant, super hacker, legend Rach Bartmoss.1:02Oh shit, yeah. The guy corrupted like 78% of the global net in a single day.1:07Mhm. Data crash virus, shattered cyberspace, broke the net into a scattered mosaic of isolated local nets.1:16Connection severed, data lost, it was chaos.1:20Arasaka purpose lies somewhere in the old net They searching for legacy info lost knowledge All of us kids we were soldiers sent into a nest of daemons and feral AIs Only an advanced runner can interface using their whole mind1:37A deep dive.1:39It gives shape and form to cyberspace, a way to traverse it.1:43But whenever we uncovered any rare data cache, rogue AIs would find us in swarm.1:54We were picked off one by one.1:57More empty chairs after each dive.2:00And my hope each dive would be my last.2:03Wasn't long before there were only a handful of us left.2:06We were chasing someone else's dream,2:09throwing down our lives to do it.2:11So we realized, if we're goners,2:13why not die chasing our own dream?2:16The tech staff didn't stand a chance.2:19Not in the face of the skills they'd taught us.2:24I ran and ran. Heard shots, my friend's screams, but I never looked back.2:39Next clear memory I have is of a junkyard.2:51Home, I guess.2:53But I was too scared to stay long.2:56I roamed place to place.