Cyberpunk's "Green & Friendly” Corporation - Biotechnica | Cyberpunk 2077 Lore

Biotechnica are seen as the loving corporation who want to just improve the world. But behind closed doors there is a much darker side to them. Today we explore the full history behind the megacorporation of Biotechnica.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
2:02 - Making CH00H2
4:51 - Becoming A Megacorp
8:51 - Secret Discovery & 2020s
13:55 - Crimson Harvest
15:27 - Sasha's Story
17:38 - 2077 & Aldecados
19:19 - Controversies
22:36 - Future Of Biotechnica
24:05 - Thanks For Watching
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[@WiseFish]

Hope you all enjoyed this look at the “good guy” corporation from Cyberpunk. Let me know what else you’d like to see!

[@itsfreddyboy]

If you can I'd like to see more about the state every day people in cyberpunk. Are there job's to go around, is unemployment enough or none existent, are joining a corp or joining a gang the only way to survive in this world. Sorry if you've already done that, but I'm just interested in the struggle of the everyday man in the world of cyberpunk.

[@Mat14651]

​@itsfreddyboy To you reading this Jesus can help with whatever problems, hardships, and issues you have. Believe in him He came to save us from hell and eternal suffering, also turn from your sins repent which is changing your life to follow the way of God and not your way, your way will lead you into a pit of despair I know it, my way lead me in a pit straight to hell, but Jesus rescued me and he can rescue you. He can grant a peace and joy unfelt, and be your closest friend always there, This is the gospel Jesus Christ, son of God, died for our sins, was buried, and rose again on the third day. After he went to his tweleve disciples and many others before ascending into heaven eternally triumphant over all his enemies and making it so that there is now no condemnation for sin to all those who believe, but only everlasting joy. John 3:16

[@Mat14651]

To you reading this Jesus can help with whatever problems, hardships, and issues you have. Believe in him He came to save us from hell and eternal suffering, also turn from your sins repent which is changing your life to follow the way of God and not your way, your way will lead you into a pit of despair I know it, my way lead me in a pit straight to hell, but Jesus rescued me and he can rescue you. He can grant a peace and joy unfelt, and be your closest friend always there, This is the gospel Jesus Christ, son of God, died for our sins, was buried, and rose again on the third day. After he went to his tweleve disciples and many others before ascending into heaven eternally triumphant over all his enemies and making it so that there is now no condemnation for sin to all those who believe, but only everlasting joy. John 3:16

[@theeagleswill2928]

While I'm watching ur vid I'm thinking what if in Orion u can run like 2 different "body" paths one of biotechnology with pure genetic augmentation but looks u out of chrome and certain choices (ie like ur head will explode if u kill ppl idk still brainstorming) and than a chrome only build

[@dD-0419]

That’s what scares me

[@barghastov]

Cyberpunk 2077 lore starting to sound mroe and more like real life in some aspects ngl

[@devonflores9234]

That be the point. It always was a commentary on life at the extremes of its current track. Even when it was Cyberpunk 2020 and just a tabletop

[@KidCaelus]

This is the future they felt the world was heading towards in the 80’s. To be fair, they’re not too far off

[@MisterCynic18]

It was meant to be a warning, shame we allowed it to become prophecy.

[@stevenmaswabi-zz9kt]

​@@KidCaelus without all the cyber ware and tech. Yeah our world is slow falling in to that sinkhole

[@vincenthamilton7967]

I think Cyberpunk is foreshadowing the future of the world

[@joshua-we9xr]

"Cyberpunk was a warning, not an aspiration." - Mike Pondsmith 🤘🏻

[@Slavesforsale1]

I like the idea that the leaders of Biotechnica genuinely do care about repairing the damage done to the environment but are willing to do anything to get that done, regardless of the cost in human lives. Maybe in their eyes, humans are abundant and thus not a necessary concern.

[@mrbuttocks6772]

Honestly I DO hope CDPR decides to depict them as such in Orion, because that honestly would make them even more evil in a way. A 'make the world a better place no matter the cost' mindset for Biotechnica's leadership would be way more scary.

[@kx7500]

@@mrbuttocks6772disagree, it’s more evil to just lie about even wanting that good thing as well like most corporations do

[@coldfusionwaffles]

If you ignore the nomads they sign up who probably were cloned experimented on or just harvested as food... they are the good guys! You just got to ignore the mitch flavored Alecaldo chips...

[@artorhen]

It seems more like they are a great coverup for human experimentation operations that would otherwise not be legal.

[@ChristianRanum]

​disagree i agree with mrbuttocks

[@nikik5567]

“Biotechnica: The road to hell is paved with good intentions”

[@banjojohn1489]

And the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

[@pedrovascodeoliveiraveriss6293]

Descriptions of the Cyberpunk world like this one make me feel that Cyberpunk is one of the most misunderstood genres ever. Writers like Gibson were all "We paint a picture of a Dystopia caused by Unlimited Technological Advances and Growing Corporate Power" and a large part of the Readers, at the very least many "Tech-Bros", reacted with "Cool, let's make that a Reality."

[@TrinityShoji]

I think alot of that stems from them seeing "how good things are for the guys on top" and they think they'll be in those positions if they create the tech you see in the genre.

[@genericcatgirl]

And the other half is from how cool the Cyberpunk aesthetic looks lol@@TrinityShoji

[@dr0gaN]

​@@TrinityShojimy life sucks now atleast then i can have some bds

[@qwertydavid8070]

I remember I was randomly watching a v-tuber and they seriously mentioned something like "i wish there were cyberpunk body-modifications in real life. I really hope we can get to a future where that's a thing. I think it'd be so cool" For context, they didn't say this a joke. She was a "political vtuber" and she would often talk about serious topics, and she honestly had really good and really well-rounded points most of the point. She wasn't the type that'd strike me as superficial or short-sighted. So for her to so casually mention something so dystopian as something so positive was scary. Your body is not a bionicle. Your body has perfectly evolved over millions of years to suit your need. Every part of your body is interconnected with the other, even if it's not immediately obvious. The bone marrow in your limbs supplies immune cells to every corner of your body. You can't just replace an arm for a cool shiny robot arm. Your body will notice that there's not an arm where they SHOULD be one, and that will affect your health noticeably. I DO NOT want to live in a future where that's considered normal...

[@genericcatgirl]

The idea of cybernetic body parts is fascinating purely aesthetically and thematically, and is generally cool in a vacuum but as an actual idea it's pretty horrific both mentally and for a society as you said. Things are already bad enough in this world, where you may as well be owned by corporations due to needing to make a living wage to survive and for health care and all that (at least in America of course) but then Cyberpunk has a huge theme of amplifying that up to 10 with them LITERALLY owning your body. Planned obselesence, payment plans for constant upgrades for your own body parts, it's a disaster. And the whole Cyberpsychosis aspect makes a lot of sense considering how people can feel dissociated from their body already with prosthesis. A bit of a shame we didn't get to see it more in depth in the story (Beyond side characters in the Regina missions) @@qwertydavid8070

[@GoldenIkariss]

I hope we see some expansion on the biological technology in future cyberpunk installments. I love cyberware obviously, but the set up and potential for more genetic engineering and tech is huge

[@hughjanus2935]

It was a bit disappointing that 2077 didn't touch on Bioware even if 2020 established it as more of a European thing

[@chrishernandez4195]

Yeah and I heard their are genetic mutations people could get in cyberpunk that could transform them into like anthropomorphic animals. Shits cray.

[@throg4657]

@@chrishernandez4195There’s actually a mod for adding that to CP2077 if you’d believe it. “Biosculpted Exotics” on nexus, it’s pretty shocking how well made it is, it even adds custom ads that advertise the surgery to the game.

[@GeschichtsWissenSchaft]

​@@chrishernandez4195x

[@sdbegotist]

There’s a partial mention as one of the in-game spam emails about exotics, though nothing in-game. Someone was expanding it into a proper mod, though only really targeting major NPCs (Any excuse to add furries into the game)

[@vadim6385]

So they're like Nestle and Monsanto, only slightly less evil

[@pancakes8670]

It's like if Nestle and Umbrella Corp had a baby

[@marcraider]

Biotechnica is the Umbrella Corp. of Cyberpunk universe

[@topcat59]

I really love the theory that Biotechnica’s protein that they have been farming is actually humans and not cloned animals.😺

[@chase7629]

Kinda makes sense, if you need dna to clone something, the only big animal that’s not extinct to get it from is humans.

[@Matt-md5yt]

Soylant green going on

[@Chill-mm4pn]

They're "recycling" lol

[@boxlions2073]

@@Matt-md5yt great movie

[@sethleoric2598]

SOYLENT GREEEN

[@A_Epic]

Take a shot everytime this guy confuses flora for fauna...still a great and high quality video though!

[@WiseFish]

They’re both things BioTechnica added to the world but maybe I did mix them up 😅

[@A_Epic]

Understandable, was just funny hearing fauna while looking at those luscious corpo trees

[@zeehero7280]

when biotechnica perfects its attack plants, it won't matter!

[@LazyLifeIFreak]

6 days of paid vacation!? *Where do I sign up?!* Sighs in retail work.

[@ZanyHyena]

Just got off work and now the shit day I had is better. Thanks for the content choom!

[@Matt-md5yt]

Yeah a good lore video can make it feel better

[@johnnysocket76]

I love how dystopian this game is and i love how realistic it is too. Here in present day America legally we get ZERO PAID DAYS OFF. These guys have the decency of giving you SIX!?!?! There are a bunch of parallels but the vacation days is always hilarious to me😂

[@zeehero7280]

If you read the lore of how the world of 2077 got to how it is, it becomes clear whoever wrote it is pretty dang ignorant though. It's fiction, works as fiction, but its not terribly believable. I find Shadowrun more convincing and that has DRAGON CEOs and MAGIC in it lol.

[@spikytoaster]

"Realistic" yea more like ingnorantly written lets stop the glaze

[@kx7500]

It’s an alternate history it’s not just “everything but worse”

[@simplyhal]

Very informative and entertaining overview. Cyberpunk 2077’s lore goes way deeper than I imagined. Hope you make many more of these overviews. Only one remark, please don’t compress the audio too much, the story does need some space to breathe.

[@kikow3792]

I agree, some more pauses would be better to follow along.

[@Jason.Goldstriker]

Its kinda like sci-fi d&d

[@chloewebb5526]

The contrast between Sasha popping bubbles stoically with a small frown on her face and the calm look on her face in death gives her story such a bittersweet ending. Alsp, it's kinda crazy to think that our current timeline is only barely being kept from making insane biological weapons in 2023 based on the horrors of a war that happened a century ago... Hopefully we've avoided that altogether at this point, considering how cheap and non-life-costing that drones are to use.... which doesn't sound like it's going to go in the funnest direction over the next 100 years...

[@spikytoaster]

Offed the hiotechnica agents were good had to do it for the girl jsje7ndie8

[@BilisiFunfun]

Corps gonna corp.

[@Jakepearl13]

The fact that they created single use rocket launchers that decompose says everything you need to know about biotechnica

[@Greeneyesamurai]

Truly a great video! I think all of your lore videos are extremely detailed but this one I think stands out on its own because there’s so many moving parts and lines that connect with each other when it comes to the story of Biotechnica.Amazing work! Can’t wait to get the ultimate edition of this game hopefully next month.

[@MrMaxG95]

The amount of effort you put into creating the video is incredible. Scenes are shot like a documentary. Places that can only be seen in missions were also included to tell the beautiful lore of Cyberpunk. Incredible.

[@ghostikko4623]

Do zetatech next pls

[@l33tster]

Bloody fantastic as always. I've loved each one of these!

[@LiveIsHard_butbeautiful]

You just brightened my night

[@tristar9998]

I would like to see the cloning explored more in depth in the next installment. Maybe like an altered carbon style story arc or side missions if you've seen altered carbon you know the potential with that route

[@cynicalmemester1694]

SPOILERS for base game: We kind of see this happen, Saburo uses the biochip to take over his sons mind and body.

[@j-s-m]

You figured with how advanced everything is in the Cyberpunk world is already they would've already developed Androids advanced as Androids from Detroit become human or Even clone replicas of ones body like you said.

[@commandrubix239]

@@j-s-mThere’s a reason they haven’t made androids. Their sentience is not profitable.

[@artorhen]

@j-s-m those are basically trapped behind the black wall without being given bodies. Because they are too powerful and knowledgeable compared to humans. They are not like Detroit become human, but more like the ideas of AGI that is an ever expansive and ever learning AI, even if it's made to resemble a human and be convinced that it is one, it eventually becomes something else, like Alt.

[@samtron5000]

I’m so glad I’m not the only one obsessed with cyberpunk lore

[@plooply]

nice, few months ago finished up a Cyberpunk red game where Biotechnica was the bbeg :)

[@Mordred_The_Betrayer]

Love the videos and superb content. I have to say though I really struggle with the tight edits on each sentence, it sometimes sounds like you never take a breath.

[@callanbarclay1248]

Out of everything in cyberpunk what is your favourite thing?

[@WiseFish]

Tbh I dono I guess just the whole dystopian feel of Night City and how it’s all so built up from corruption but thrives under its technology. I love all things like that same with Blade Runner

[@Chris-rf6xj]

Great video 👍

[@ngaicon3868]

This is just amazing, every video is just informative, letting viewers understand more about the game. Have a question, what games are you going to make videos about next? I mean when there is nothing left to talk about Cyberpunk or Fallout or Metro

[@MichaelTheJones]

Learning lore like this is why I love immersive games like Cyberpunk 2077 📟🎮

[@TheTeePineTree]

High quality stuff. Cheers!

[@jamesjohno1180]

This was awesome! I love cyberpunk lore

[@alexanderlongfield]

Brief summary: Biotechnica is just like any other "green" company.

[@zeehero7280]

yes they more than anything need the money kind of green, like all companies, this is not a secret or surprising. But it's also what makes Corporations, however evil, never as bad as Governments can become

[@jarod144]

@@zeehero7280lol the global corporations and global governments work together for the same goals. How is one worse than the other?

[@lucaspettah]

nice video! i am running and playing in a cyberpunk 2020 campaign and these videos give a lot of good inspiration! i am playing a runaway corporate from petrochem now, is there any chance that you will cover them in an upcoming video?

[@cancerbucket2245]

Putting a hit out on V is suicide even for a mega corp

[@bubba5664]

Love ur vids man

[@EternalNightingale]

Like many said in layedback gamers video it would be cool for V to make a deal with BT o mow them a body, also Arasaka is trying to find dirt on BT with counter intelligence sending an agent inside but BT is one step ahead hiding their secrets

[@arbbar2674]

ty for this great vid

[@ivand40]

love your vids

[@JoeMamasBestie]

The world of this game is so good as a commentary. More a question of our madern lives and what will come from them. I love it

[@palabragris]

On the one hand, they make bioweapons, unethical cloning and human experiments, which is very bad... but on the other, they (maybe) made werewolves, which is very hot so... I support them.

[@warlynx5644]

Corporate mandated anthros :3

[@MXR_Sparky]

Babe, wake up. Wisefish posted new content.

[@Cothfotmeoo]

Always a tough time supporting any corporation 'cause no matter how good they appear through PR they always just want to maximize profits for their shareholders in the end. A really cool history about this one! I didn't know anything about Biotechnica but the name before this. Well played.

[@zeehero7280]

I mean... why is this so surprising or horrifying to people? the bad part is when they violate human rights to do so, not the fact their goal is maximizing profit

[@artorhen]

@zeehero7280 violating human rights is how you maximize profits. Looking for scapegoats and cracks into the legal system is profitable, even irl, which is why they are interconnected.

[@garrettkujo26]

Does biotechnica have agents? I’m curious who those two people in the thumbnail are affiliated with? Also amazing video, biotechnica is one of my favorite companies to learn about in cyberpunk

[@mat3693]

Like most large corps, they probably have a paramilitary division devoted to protecting their assets and doing the companies dirty work. That or they might just hire random mercs and solos to avoid any connection back to them.

[@Reawer]

I'm so glad i waited 3 years before starting the game, it's acutally a good game now

[@alpharius365]

Perfect drive home now 👌

[@Roach606]

23:35 I actually ran a cyberpunk red campaign under that montra

[@cg_pilot]

Did you ever do one of these videos on kang tao?

[@playlonix5798]

Could you make a video about NC law

[@Q19484]

Lore time, Wow this one seems depressing 😮 My FAVORITE!

[@hukijiki1828]

18:08 Woaa yes it sounds like nothing Where i live your employer can’t give you less than 5 weeks

[@lucascaselli6461]

The clips of sasha, where are those from? Not the netflix show right ?

[@aileenhogan2765]

Hello can you do a video on brotherhood of steel from fallout please

[@PoisedK1NG_P1N]

Anyone else almost have a stroke at 3:01 after he said the name?

[@GamersOver30]

I just thought I was watching the news for the first few seconds

[@brokencreationlordmegatrol3037]

It’s sad that they are literally that universe’s best hope for survival

[@charliebrenton4421]

Two words: corpse starch

[@sonneh86]

The just place a company like that is likely to originate from is Italy. They already blocked lab grown meet now

[@kalebs6201]

Whats the Anime you show scenes of? I didn’t know there was an edgrunners prequel?

[@JuisSekasi]

i want to know too

[@linkaut]

And here I was hopeing the comment section would enlighten me... I also want to know

[@Jakepearl13]

It’s the music video for let you down from the edgerunners soundtrack

[@linkaut]

thank you!!!@@Jakepearl13

[@oriontheraptor8119]

Personally out of the known companies in cyberpunk I think I’d prefer to work for biotechnica yeah they do horrible things but so does everyone in the cyberpunk world least biotechnical is trying to repair the world along the way

[@The_United_States_Of_America76]

I love Biotechnica.They are the friendliest megacorp in the entire Cyberpunk universe.Arasaka and Militech commited heinous crimes,but what Biotechnica did?Just some lands rushing, biological weapon and a bugged painkillers.That's better than most megacorps of the Cyberpunk universe.

[@SCSAsJorts]

If you do some of the NcPD missions and look at the data logs Biotech is just as bad if not worse than the other two, the other two are just outwardly easy to point out

[@artorhen]

Yeah, they're just the corporation version of Unit 731

[@The_United_States_Of_America76]

@@artorhen at least for the most part they didn't weld people together into a cursed abomination and call it a day

[@artorhen]

@@The_United_States_Of_America76 that we know of.

[@GroundBeef_nl]

I flinched each time you said fauna instead of flora, and each time you mispronounced red ochre. Good lore video though.

[@redthing9470]

They could turn me into a snake so fuck all that noise

[@Mhaakify]

13:55 Oh hey, they don't seem THAT ba- Oh... Never mind.

[@joseybryant7577]

Eh, I've seen what Biotechnica did to the Red Ocher clan. So I'll see them as simply corpos and nothing more.

[@TheGoldenMan888]

Wait, since when did we get more Cyberpunk anime except Edgerunners?

[@donnadoriggins5236]

I embrace our cyber punk future with open arms. It's closer then most truly realize 😊

[@samtron5000]

You’re insane

[@jcanal0221]

That's a bad thing

[@donnadoriggins5236]

@@jcanal0221 evolution is never ending mother nature works to slowly so we take it into our hands. Cybernetic & genetic modification & enhancement are here or coming soon evolve or be left behind.

[@zeehero7280]

I'll take the robot overlords over that. at least computers are driven by logic. current ideology madness is driven by fever dream insanity

[@icarus387]

Cyberpunk games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Deus ex is a prelude of what to expect for the rest of the 21st century and beyond. Cybernetics and Genetic engineering already exist but is not as sophisticated just like it's depicted in cyberpunk. I give it by until 2040-60s is when we will actually live in a cyberpunk future. Neurallink is fielding human trials this year and neural implants is the basis of cybernetic implants.It's games like this that makes me want to align by career path to developing human augmentation.

[@northstar6920]

o7 Sasha

[@linkaut]

Which anime are the scenes from? :0

[@Griffolion0]

Sasha deserved better :'(

[@chiapets2594]

CYBERPUNK 2078 CYBERPUNK 2079 CYBERPUNK 2080 CYBERPUNK 2081 CYBERPUNK 2082 THROUGH 3087. GET IT DONE CDPR CYBERPUNK 4 LYFE V SPEAKING OVER AND OUT "MALE V VOICE" CAUSE WITH MY IMPLANTS I CAN CUT UP A 🦖 NO PROBS LET'S GET GET GET ITTTTT!!!

[@glennsmith6438]

starfield lore would be sick my bro

[@21stEuphoria]

The painkiller story is basically an analogy for how CD project red released cyberpunk before it was ready for human consumption 🥴

[@mandroid-rb4uy]

hello Choomba! Biotechnica Puppets marionettes and puppet Masters Androids gynoids cyborgs...Mr Blueyes

[@henry5163]

Ochre is pronounced oker

[@BorealWoodsrunner]

So mich like Shadowrun

[@Matt-md5yt]

But without the fantasy races

[@zeehero7280]

Not enough Dragons and Trolls with miniguns.

[@livingbehind661]

pinned for ten years.

[@MrDemonKitty666]

[@rplacefunny7423]

I didn’t want a eco activist in my video

[@WiseFish]

Who’s this eco activist?

[@rplacefunny7423]

@@WiseFish whoever’s talking in the first minute of the video

[@LayedBackGamers]

What are you yappin about?

[@llab3903]

It’s not your video

[@rplacefunny7423]

@@llab3903 the love of god it was a joke

[@sonobitches]

you keep saying "fauna" and then showing a bunch of flora

[@billrich9722]

I'm so fucking tired of hearing about climate change.

[@IndyMiraaga]

Then why are you watching a video about Cyberpunk? It's a dystopian universe, everything sucks. And yeah, if there was an actual nuclear war in the real world it would absolutely change the way the climate works for decades if not millenia.

[@AngriestPeanut]

To be fair Cyberpunk’s universe 100% would effect the climate. It’s like having India’s pollution except all over the world, not even counting the nukes and radioactive shit 🤷‍♂️

[@LayedBackGamers]

It's the Cyberpunk genre...ever seen Bladerunner?

[@mareczek00713]

My man, it's Cyberpunk, it is meant to be literally worst timeline of what we have now, plus you can weaponize your body so a depression will go 10000% harder due to implants and make you start murdering people.

[@dezalt]

You can't ignore it no matter how much you want to.