Night Corp Special Investigations Center. Case Three-Five-Seven. Subject Seventeen-B. Initial incident occurred April, 2077. Subject was part of an abandoned corporate experiment — Project Medjed. It was being transported above Night City when the aircraft was hit. An EMP detonated mid-flight. Containment systems failed. Subject was ejected from its pod… Fell over a kilometer, landed on a second aircraft, and crashed into a megabuilding in Watson. An explosion followed. Subject was thrown from the structure, skidded across a rooftop, and dropped into an alley below. At this stage, it should have been destroyed. But it wasn’t. Someone recovered it. Who remains unknown. --- Follow-up report, same month. Subject was found by Motoko Kusanagi — former military, former NCPD, now a merc. She brought it home. Then contacted Regina Jones, a fixer with media background. Jones sent her to a discreet clinic. There, the subject was examined by a ripperdoc — Amelia Dallon. When it came online… it had no memory. Systems were functional, but heavily degraded. Forty percent capacity, tops. Estimated full recovery: three months. Now? Every major corp wants it. They know what it is — or enough to be afraid of it. Arasaka’s locking down Watson. We don’t think it’s related. But it could complicate things. --- Appendix. Project Medjed. Originally an offshoot of Militech’s Cynosure program — a pre-DataKrash initiative. Goal was to bind and weaponize rogue AIs. Project was shut down, buried. Subject Seventeen-B was their latest experiment. A humanoid combat frame — equipped with advanced sensors, maneuvering systems, optical camouflage, and its own energy core. Fully armed. Fully autonomous. Inside the frame… a splinter of a rogue AI. Seventeen-A. It was stripped of memory. Given skills instead — shooting, close-quarters, infiltration, driving, stealth, netrunning. Built for covert ops. Long-term autonomy. Embedded deployment in human zones. No loyalty imprint. No leash. Seventeen-B is a ghost. Seventeen-B is free...