Gangs and Groups

A listing of Gangs and other Groups used in Game Nights, their important members and status

Maelstrom

Maelstrom are a heavy chromer gang who operate out of the Burleson building in the Hot Zone since the Night City Holocaust EMP-fried and burnt many of the original members, they focus on replacing the weak flesh with chrome. They are fascinated with cyber-technologies and the Net. Its members frequently undergo extensive illegal body modifications, with many on the edge of developing cyberpsychosis, or already suffering from it. Their physical appearance is distinguished by their dehumanizing heavy cyberware augmentations and occult-inspired tattoos. Maelstrom Extremists often devise and conduct strange technoccult rituals. Their central meeting place is an old ballroom in the Burleson, one wall of which is decorated by the scarred and burnt chrome of many of their Pre-Night City Holocaust members, including the complete mummified body of their Founder: Hammer.

Operational Area: Hot Zone

Pertinent Members:-
JoJo & Grymm - A pair of mid level Gangoons who operate mainly in the Southern Combat Zone.
Freakshow - A Heavy Borderline Cyberpsycho.
Jazlane Ross - A scavenger pack leader, group boss and metal worker.

Interactions:-
Red Chip Krew - Member Edward Hargraves somehow made friends with two Maelstomers called JoJo & Grymm.
Badges - The NCPD have had run-ins with Maelstom Gangers.
Red Sky kNights - A member made a deal with Maelstom to service their bike. Became attached to the group

Tyger Claws

The Tyger Claws are a Bike Gang operating mainly in Watson, for Canon Information see the Wiki on Tyger Claws.

Operational Area: Old Japantown.

Pertinent Members:-
Tracer Hong - An old School boss, who did not approve of the new ways.
Tracer Tong - A Netrunner and the son of Hong.
Kana Tsugihara - A female Lieutenant in the Tyger’s Claws, a tough as nails biker.

Interactions:-
Red Chip Krew - The Krew encountered a number of Tyger’s Claws members while doing numerous gigs in the area.
Badges - The NCPD have many interations with the Tyger Claws gang aspects.
Rupture - Renegade’s Output is a member of the Tyger Claws in some way we don’t know yet.
Red Sky kNights - The Starting members lived in Old Japantown, and had several encounters with members.

Tyger’s Claw

(Tyger Claws Subgroup)

After the 4th Corporate Wars the Tyger’s Claw were affectively cut off from their Arasaka backing. Shinobu (The first) reformed them into the Tyger Claws, a protection gang, and created a new public face the Kimmen Gumi. Moving most of the operation to Kabuki in the Watson development. However some remained behind, clinging to their more traditional structure, keeping, at lest for a short while, the name of Tyger’s Claw. They remained in Old Japantown under the leadership of “Tracer” Hong, the sub faction will likely not outlive him.

Operational Area: Old Japantown.

Pertinent Members:-
Tracer Hong - An old School boss, who did not approve of the new ways.
Tracer Tong - A Netrunner and the son of Hong.
Kana Tsugihara - A female Lieutenant in the Tyger’s Claws, a tough as nails biker.

Interactions:-
Red Chip Krew - The Krew encountered a number of Tyger’s Claws members while doing numerous gigs in the area.
Red Sky kNights - The Starting members lived in Old Japantown, and had several encounters with members.

Kimen Gumi

(Tyger Claws Subgroup)

After the Fourth Corporate War, the Tyger Claws were reformed into a guardian gang tasked with protecting the Japanese community of Night City. The Claws formed the Kimen-Gumi as their ‘legitimate’ public image, becoming the face everyone knew about. This group had security contracts, and often deputized themselves as law enforcement in specific parts of the city, even collaborating with the NCPD on occasions. Its members wore Oni masks, and despite their frightening appearance, they were disciplined and loyal to their duties, as well as providing a good publicity for the gang as a whole. Beneath the surface, the Tyger Claws took their cut from the Kimen-Gumi's public activities, often insisting on protection fees. Both the Tyger Claws and Kimen-Gumi had offices in Kabuki and Old Japantown.

Operational Area: Watson.

Pertinent Members:-
None Yet.

Interactions:-
None Yet.

Red Chrome Legion

The Red Chrome Legion was formed as a posergang by a group of edgy teenagers who enjoyed cosplaying as Nazis. Like others before them, the Red Chromers soon became what they pretended to be, and the neo-fascist ideology grew to become the gang's identity, with its skinhead young members uniting around a certain hate group ideology. They spent their time terrorizing anything they thought wasn't "right," which in their case meant anyone that wasn't like them. All members wore uniforms, with flags and militaristic slogans being their rule. The Red Chromers also enchaned their bodies with so much cyberware that they were considered another boostergang, and thus another target for the Inquisitors.

During the Time of the Red, the Legion was an active group within the Combat Zones of Night City, acting the same as before while fighting against other gangs for territory. However, over the years they had began to talk a lot about "The Great Caesar," an almost messianic figure who would supposedly rise up from their ranks to conquer Night City and establish a "new American Empire free of the pollution of foreign filth and corrupt culture." The worst of Night City thought this was cool until they realized the Red Chromers were just a simple gang like any other, with their ambitions being nothing else than fascist fantasies..

Operational Area: Combat Zones.

Pertinent Members:-
Polonius - The Leader of the hijacking, when the train arrived unmanned, with the cargo missing, he interrogated the one surviving Red Chrome Legion member, and learned much. He took the pistol left behind by Blind Spot. With heavy faux-roman overtones Polonius is not hte most powerful member of the Red Chrome Legion, but he gets the job done.

Interactions:-
Red Sky kNights - The Legion stole a shipment of Iron Sights Cargo, hijacked a Militech Hammerhead Train and tried to make opff with it. the kNights retook the cargo.

Road Khans

(Tyger Claws Subgroup, but not really though)

A splinter faction of the Tyger Claws, headed by Angelo “Uriel” Khan, a crazy rapist and drug manufacturer. The gang is responsible for Ceelin, a powerful rape drug. The gang is now shattered having had its leadership taken out by the NCPD.

Operational Area: Watson.

Pertinent Members:-
Uriel Khan - a crazy man who used bulldog clips to make his eyes look more “Mongolian” He sounded like John Wayne. DECEASED. More information is available in the Badges Character Section.

Interactions:-
Badges - The faction were a major enemy of the 113th precinct in 2041, eventually being broken by Straker and Barrows.