Corpo V fired for the hit on Abernathy or the ESC?

[Knightmage Bael]

So the leading reason I believe ofc is that V was fired because Abernathy found out Jenkins sent you to kill her, so she goes to take you (and presumably Jenkins) out of the picture.

I remember a line in the hallway at Arasaka though "...nobody's going to find out, the world will never know the truth, and those who do know the truth, won't know it for long". This refers to the fact Jenkins, who if you talked to your old buddy said he's "a psycho", and has the European Space Council killed in a very obvious fashion. Its also on the news on the way to Lizzie's Bar, so it just happened - so you know its breaking, and a big deal.

This suits the description of him you hear from your buddy that he's too aggressive and gone off the deep end. He's becoming too unreliable and too costly to handle. When he does that to the ESC, Abernathy calls him instantly and is furious with him. Its logical to assume she thought that was the last straw, and her method of covering it all up is to get rid of the people who are directly responsible.

Jenkins also says everyone know V is with him. S/he goes down with Jenkins because they're connected, and its directly following the incident.

The conversation about taking Abernathy out happened in private, off coms, and you get caught within minutes of the discussion when no transactions or anything were used. Its possible that Jenkins had been bugged (but wouldn't he know too? He's also in counterintel), and I feel like that happened way TOO fast. It always feels a bit suspicious.

Don't get me wrong, I still think its the leading reason (I think they tell you somewhere? forgot.) It always felt weird that it happened so fast - I feel like one's an excuse to cover up the real reason. Especially how they make it sound like hit jobs are fairly common. I wonder what'd happen if you go to Abernathy to give up Jenkins? Haha, would she just take you out there, or would she consider the recompense a reason not to fire V?

[Holografix]

there's a guy you can talk to before the meeting with jenkins that tells you that either Jenkins or Abernathy caused one or the other to lose a promotion. so they're at each others throats already.

V gets caught in the cross fire. To me, V clearly doesn't understand the finer points of Corpo politics because they get fired. you can presume that Abernathy anticipated Jenkins and that the whole thing at Lizzie's was maybe a corpo bluff that ended up working.

the fact that the scene is somewhat ambiguous makes me think that the Corpo world is still somewhat opaque to V.

[Wantoomany]

V gets ratted out by their intern Carter Smith.

https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Carter_Smith

[Holografix]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

V gets ratted out by their intern Carter Smith.

https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Carter_Smith

Spoiler tag please. Come on choom.

[Avy]

V is experienced counterintel. If that isn't the most in-corpo world then i don't know what is.
Wish she would troll Johnny more.

[Archon Dagoth]

V gets fired so the rest of the plot can happen.

[Knightmage Bael]

Originally posted by Holografix:

there's a guy you can talk to before the meeting with jenkins that tells you that either Jenkins or Abernathy caused one or the other to lose a promotion. so they're at each others throats already.

V gets caught in the cross fire. To me, V clearly doesn't understand the finer points of Corpo politics because they get fired. you can presume that Abernathy anticipated Jenkins and that the whole thing at Lizzie's was maybe a corpo bluff that ended up working.

the fact that the scene is somewhat ambiguous makes me think that the Corpo world is still somewhat opaque to V.

Yeah I like this reasoning.

Too bad we didn't have longer in the origin. Street Kid, Corpo, and Nomad all have way too short a time.

[Angrypillow]

Originally posted by Archmage_Bael:

Originally posted by Holografix:

there's a guy you can talk to before the meeting with jenkins that tells you that either Jenkins or Abernathy caused one or the other to lose a promotion. so they're at each others throats already.

V gets caught in the cross fire. To me, V clearly doesn't understand the finer points of Corpo politics because they get fired. you can presume that Abernathy anticipated Jenkins and that the whole thing at Lizzie's was maybe a corpo bluff that ended up working.

the fact that the scene is somewhat ambiguous makes me think that the Corpo world is still somewhat opaque to V.

Yeah I like this reasoning.

Too bad we didn't have longer in the origin. Street Kid, Corpo, and Nomad all have way too short a time.

The way the lifepaths got played up in the pre-release marketing materials, I'm pretty sure it was the original intent for them to be more fleshed out and play a bigger role in the game than a handful of dialogue options after a 10 minute quest.