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Timeline

Fourth Corporate War

Arasaka vs Militech—open conflict that rewrote maps, laws, and nightmares.

The Fourth Corporate War is shorthand for state-sized violence between megacorps—tanks in headlines, cities as chessboards, and rules bent until they break. Night City still carries the scars in politics, architecture, and who trusts institutions.

Legacy

• Normalization — Massive corporate force became thinkable in daily life.
• Instability — Power vacuums and reprisals outlast treaties.
• Memory — Public narrative and private trauma diverge; both steer the present.