After the declaration of war was announced to the entire world, the mobilized forces of the major financial groups began to close in from all directions.
Under these circumstances, anyone with a god's-eye view would see Night City as a lone skiff on a storm-tossed sea, in constant danger of being capsized and lost.
Hundreds of thousands of troops, nearly a million strong, had Night City completely surrounded.
They cut off nearly every path of retreat.
It was truly one city against the entire world.
Before the war even began, the outside world widely assumed the citizens of Night City would flee in droves. Several neighboring cities even prepared to drive away the anticipated refugees.
Yet, contrary to all expectations, under the mounting, terrifying pressure from the outside world, the people of Night City did not scatter like loose sand.
On the contrary, not once in the centuries since the city's founding had the people of Night City been so tightly united.
