Gangs

Night City's gangs don't work shifts: a gang member is active the whole time they're in the city. The radio works without going on duty, and the gang pays salaries from its own treasury every 15 minutes in the city. If the treasury is empty, there's no salary.

Gangs have no uniforms or duty weapons: everyone chooses their own style, weapons and cars, while the gang's cars are picked up at the base.

#Tyger Claws

An Asian gang with Japanese roots: organized, rational in business and merciless to traitors. It holds Japantown, Little China, Kabuki and Charter Hill and lives off nightclubs, casinos and braindance bars. The base is the gang's garage in the north of Japantown.

• What members do: protection for clubs and gambling dens, Japantown's nightlife, bikes and blades.

#Valentinos

Heywood's gang in the Chicano style: gold, loud vests, Santa Muerte tattoos. Anyone can join, and their friendship lasts for life. Legal restaurants, clubs and garages cover money laundering, stolen cars and guns. The base is in Vista del Rey.

• What members do: their own neighborhood and people, businesses with a second face, cars.

#Maelstrom

The gang of Watson and the Northside Industrial District, obsessed with chrome: faceplates, menacing optics, experiments on people and illegal braindances. People call them lunatics, but behind the rumors is cold business. The base is in Northside.

• What members do: implants and the chrome black market, fear as a business, Northside's industrial zone.

#6th Street

Veterans of the 4th Corporate War, ex-cops and former corporate security who "keep order" their own way. For them the end justifies the means: robbery, extortion, arms dealing and car theft. Their main turf and base: the gang's yard in Arroyo.

• What members do: patrols on their own streets, arms deals, army-style discipline.

#Animals

A gang without a fixed turf: small packs, each under its own alpha. Muscles pumped on their homemade "Juice", implants and street fighting. Clubs and bars hire them as bouncers and guards. Their base is in West Wind Estate, in Pacifica.

• What members do: security and bouncing, underground fights, force as an argument.

#The Mox

The city's youngest gang, born in 2067 from the riots that broke out after a sex worker's brutal murder at Lizzie's. Today it is a colorful crowd of sex workers, punks, freaks and other outcasts who protect their own from violence. Their headquarters and main income is the braindance club Lizzie's Bar in Kabuki; the base is at its entrance. The style: loud kitsch, bright colors, plastic and latex.

• What members do: guard Lizzie's and its guests, stand up for those who get hurt on Kabuki's streets, club life and braindance.

#Voodoo Boys

A mysterious gang of netrunners that leads Pacifica's Haitian community and guards the district's independence: its own language, workshops and its own local net. NetWatch has hunted them in the Net for years, so far in vain. They're strongest in Coastview, at the market in the old Batty's Hotel and at their chapel. Cars can't get into the market, so the base is at its north entrance, by the road.

• What members do: netrunning and information, Batty's market and the Haitian community. Strangers aren't welcome without an invitation.

#Wraiths

Raffen Shiv: nomads cast out of their clans for grave crimes. One of their bands settled right outside Night City's gates and became the Wraiths. They ambush travellers on the Badlands' roads, corporate convoys and even nomad camps. Well organized and ready for anything: they have nothing left to lose. The base is in their camp in the Badlands, by the garage where the road comes down.

• What members do: ambushes and raids in the Badlands, stripping loot and cars, outlaw life outside the city wall.

#BARGHEST

Colonel Kurt Hansen's armed militia: former Militech commandos who refused to go home after the war and took walled-off Dogtown for themselves. It now lives by their rules: checkpoints at the gates, their own "police", every business registered at the office in the Black Sapphire, and strict order. Through the stadium and the Tunnel BARGHEST moves smuggled weapons and tech into Night City, and the city's news calls it a crime syndicate. The base is by the Black Sapphire, Hansen's headquarters, on its plaza by the boulevard.

• What members do: checkpoints and order in Dogtown, a "tax" on local business, smuggling and the arms trade, army discipline and ranks.

#What all gangs share

• A gang's stash holds 400 kg. Every member can put things in; only ranks with the Stash permission can take them out.
• Gang members fill the treasury themselves, at the base. Salaries are paid from it too.
• Rank 1 gets no salary: pay starts from rank 2.
• Rules for gang members: Rules for gangs.