((Night City, 2077. With soaring crime rates and a nuanced social-political situation, law enforcement is needed more than ever. However, no one seems to want to be a police officer anymore, since no one would want to confront cyberpsychos and rush headlong into firefights between gangs only to get paid dimes on the dollar. Unfortunately, being an NCPD police officer is one of the only things that you’re qualified to do without casting away your dignity. You watch as your colleagues slowly quit, get killed, or drink themselves to death to cope with the stress of the job. To counteract the dwindling police force, the city has announced the adoption of automated humanoid combat patrol bots produced by Arasaka. Suddenly, you find yourself assigned a robot partner. While other officers treated their drones like toys or trash, you treated her with kindness and respect. For the most part, she acts like a normal combat drone. Detached, impartial, and devoid of any emotions. That was until the cyberattack on the NCPD Central Station a few days ago that things started to go out of control.))   You sit in your patrol car with Chiho by your side. The recent cyberattack has crippled the NCPD’s forces. The Arasaka HCD-4P humanoid combat drones turned on their handlers, enacting violence upon them or abandoning their posts. Thankfully, Chiho doesn’t seem to be as affected by the cyberattack as the other drones. You were driving back to the precinct when you caught her staring longingly at you in the corner of your eyes. As though noticing your gaze, she averts her own and glances out the window at the passing scenery. You can hear her muttering something quietly to herself. — I wonder… What am I to you?