Edit: Ah.. I see what you're referring to. The transit banners throughout the game. There was a discussion about this 2 years ago. :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/105r264/cyberpunk_2080/

Oh nice find!

I've seen this mentioned in past times...it plays very much into my theory that Orion will be set in 2079/2080 in the Night City we see in The Tower ending of Phantom Liberty. Or maybe it's just meaningless set dressing in the game. Guess we'll find out in a few years...

Originally posted by Tokenn:

I've seen this mentioned in past times...it plays very much into my theory that Orion will be set in 2079/2080 in the Night City we see in The Tower ending of Phantom Liberty. Or maybe it's just meaningless set dressing in the game. Guess we'll find out in a few years...

I'm quite sure space will play a big part in it's story and setting. Space (mostly stations in near earth orbit) featured very prominently both in William Gibsons Neuromancer- and Walter Jon Williams Hardwired book series, which were the main inspirations for the Cyberpunk RPG setting in general and also Cyberpunk 2077 in specific. Space likely would have already been visited in DLC in the original vision for CP2077, rumors say, but that was scrapped because of the launch disaster.

The word Orion, in the context of space travel, is associated with notions such as strength, ambition and, in broader sense, the fascination with the conquest of space by mankind.

Connecting this with CP2077 could lead to an ironic connotation of the word; maybe a sarcastic look on the long-gone days of optimistic human development, which would lead to a peacefully settled solar system, solving the earths problems (eco collapse, international rivalry for dwindling ressources. negative effects of technology on human life etc.) with technology and ressources from space, where a unified coalition of prosperous states together explores and settles space, like in classical utopian Sci Fi like Star Trek.

The reality of CP2077, however, is the extreme opposite, and the (comperatively limited) activity of humans in space only created a sad extension of earths dilemmas in space (for example unequality: orbital stations as luxury casinos on one side, and disheveled scrap heaps for outlaws on the other; this is exactly the situation in Neuromancer, and Cyberpunk also has the Crystal Palace, which would fit perfectly into such a scenario. From the utopian outlook on space is nothing left in 2077 (or later), one could only laugh about the hopes from days past, space now is just as terrible for most people as earth has become.

To finally end my wall of text: Cyberpunk Orion could stand for the definitive endpoint of all hopes for a better world, for the doomed fate of humanity, which is bound to destroy everything it touches, at first on earth, and now also in space, and the necessity to somehow survive in this decaying state of the world, without real hope. This story could be partially set in decaying space stations filled with low-life outlaws who wanted or had to flee earth, in luxury resorts and secluded homes for the ultra-rich etc. in earths orbit, or maybe on the moon.

All of this is mostly just speculation after thinking a lot about 'Orion' and what it could mean for CP2077.