Blackwall

The Blackwall (or Black Wall) is a firewall developed by NetWatch. Located within the Net, it is tasked with keeping rogue AIs from breaking through into the rest of cyberspace and wreaking havoc.
The firewall often splits old network systems in half, leading to stories of haunted data.
==History==
===2040s===
Ever since the DataKrash caused by Rache Bartmoss, humanity had been forced to sacrifice its access to invaluable resources and knowledge for the safekeeping of the Net. NetWatch tried to regain control against the rogue artificial intelligences, but to no avail. As an alternative, NetWatch — helped by the Transcendentals and the Ghosts — secretly started development in 2044 of a project called "The Black Wall" in order to keep the Net under control, while permanently sealing off old access nodes into the Net. The Blackwall's task was to secure an area of cyberspace for human use while holding at bay the threat of the dangerous rogue AIs that were released decades earlier into Net.Cyberpunk 2077 - America After the War
===2077===
By 2077, the Blackwall is still active, as the danger of the rogue AIs getting free could possibly cause the end of the world. However, several netrunner groups believe the free AIs will help them conquer the virtual world, and pursued methods on how to destroy the firewall. To ensure this never happens, NetWatch works overtime to keep others from destroying it.
It is revealed by various sources that the Blackwall is not a firewall, but actually a powerful AI masquerading as ICE, whose job is to keep out any rogue AIs it can identify from the secure net. It is also referred to as a band-aid solution, since the Blackwall, being an AI, could go rogue itself. The Voodoo Boys believe that outcome is inevitable, and are willing to do anything to remove the Blackwall and win favors with the rogue AIs for when they return.Cyberpunk 2077 - I Walk the Line 
Other groups of a more elite veneer have also expressed an interest in the Blackwall. The American multinational corporation Militech in particular sought to reactivate the long-dead Project Cynosure, itself an early attempt at capturing rogue AIs using adaptive neural networks, to harness the Blackwall for its own ends, particularly to compete with Arasaka. The federal government of the New United States also expressed a disproportionate interest in harnessing the Blackwall through skilled netrunners such as Song So Mi, even though both of these actions would have likely led to another corporate (or global) conflict.
Alt Cunningham reveals that the best way to survive beyond the Blackwall is by assuming a human form to not turn into pure data, out of animalistic behavior.Cyberpunk 2077 - Changes
Depending on the choices made at the end of , either V or Johnny can agree to follow Alt beyond the Blackwall, where they will fuse with her like the rest of the constructs from Mikoshi.
==Database Entry==
==Notes==
*Members of Maelstrom were able to summon a rogue AI named "Lilith" through a ritual.
*Rogue AIs from beyond the Blackwall are implied to inhabit physical objects V can craft, such as the Militech Canto cyberdeck and Midnight Arms Erebus.
**Much like Lilith, these AIs show a condescending and demeaning view of human life in general.
==References==
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