The End of the NET

Netwatch attempts to clear out the R.A.B.I.D.S. and reestablish the Old NET. After a losing threeyear battle, they give up and shut down all the major Nodes into the Old NET (although some Netrunners still try to go there to loot the abandoned systems).

By the end of the War, the NET had been reduced to a terrifying wilderness of corrupted data, psychic booby traps, and rogue demon programs lurking in wait to destroy anyone foolhardy (or desperate) enough to venture into cyberspace.   Unable to wipe out the DataKrash and overwhelmed by frenzied hordes of killer R.A.B.I.D.s, Netwatch finally gave up. On March 5th, Magnificent Curtis and the I-G Overwatch Council activated IGTA Dissolution Prime, propagating a code wave that crashed the I-G Protocols that allowed cyberdecks and NET-capable computers to reach cyberspace.