Cyberpunk 2077 Alt: Who She Really Is

Cyberpunk 2077 Alt refers to Alt Cunningham, a character whose history predates the game by decades and whose fingerprints are over most of its central mystery.

Who she was

A corporate netrunner, sharp and controlled where Johnny Silverhand was loud and reckless — the contrast is part of what drew them together, according to the game's flashback sequences. She was kidnapped, and Arasaka forced her to build Soulkiller, the program that can strip a mind out of a living body.

What Soulkiller did to her

Arasaka turned the program on Alt herself, digitising her consciousness. That made her the first known case of a person surviving as pure data rather than a body — a status the game treats as unprecedented rather than routine, even in a world full of digitised minds.

Her role in the present

Trapped in the Net, Alt becomes essential once Johnny's engram is running loose in V's head: finding her is a central step toward resolving what happens to both Johnny and V by the end of the story. Most of what the late game explains about digitised consciousness runs through her.