6th Street

6th Street is a gang operating in Night City.
==Overview==
The uniforms of 6th Street gangers were heavily influenced by military and patriotic accents: military boots, tactical vests and knee pads, cargo pants, baseball caps with NUSA flags, stars, stripes, and eagles. Cyberware used by the gang include cyberoptics, pain editors, and health monitors. They were supplied by Militech and Kendachi.
===Philosophy and Structure===
By 2077, the gang consisted of about 2,300 members. 6th Street was formed about fifty years ago by veterans of the Fourth Corporate War who were tired of the local gangs and the helplessness of the NCPD and decided to take matters into their own hands. They gathered some equipment, refreshed themselves on their training, and then took to the streets.
The gang was created to keep thugs and hoodlums at bay, and the charismatic leaders gave people a way protect themselves and seek retribution for the damage caused by other gangs. 6th Street gangers today are veterans of more recent conflicts, retired military and discharged corporate security officers who were unable to find other employment. The rest of the gang consists of civilians who received military training after joining.
Their main headquarters of the gang is in Arroyo but the other districts under their control have their own local HQs that are responsible for patrolling the neighborhood and monitoring the gang's facilities.
===Source of Income===
6th Street's operations came to include robbery, extortion, and gun smuggling. The group also had extensive connections with nomad groups inside and outside of Night City. They also stole and modified cars, as 6th Street had talented techies which ran many garages and workshops around the city. They offered services as a combat taxi for hire, which made them especially popular among edgerunners and mercenaries.
Despite their criminal nature, the gang was mostly tolerated by corporations and police forces, unless 6th Street gangers caused trouble outside their established turf. Military oriented corporations had customers for high-end products and the NCPD's job was made easier by the ersatz law that the gang maintained in their neighborhoods.
==History==
===2020s - 2030s===
6th Street was founded in the mid-late 2020s by Colonel Solomon Wright, also known as X, a former US military intelligence officer who organized many veterans of the Fourth Corporate War under one banner in order to protect the citizens of the chaotic post-war Night City. They gathered some equipment, refreshed their combat training, and took to the streets to keep thugs and other gangs at bay, giving the people a way to protect themselves and seek retribution for the damage caused by the criminals. Basing their loose military structure on the ranks used during the war, they dispensed "justice" and protected "everyone" who followed the "law." X referred to 6th Street as an organization, trying to grant them some legitimacy. Wright divided the gang's operations by the use the 3-I's principle of leadership; Investigations (detectives), Impact (troopers), and Internal (management). If 2/3rds disagreed with X on a command-staff vote, the former Colonel was overruled.
During the early years of 6th Street, X blackmailed various corporate executives to fund the organization, which quickly became a lucrative strategy. Unfortunately for those executives, some would die in the following years by "natural" and not-so-natural consequences, while others were simply forced to stop by the corporations. With this initial founding, 6th Street was aiming to replace the corrupt Night City Police Department and bring the city back into the fold of the United States. As their base of operations, 6th Street repurposed a nine-story National Guard armory located in North Heywood, retrofitting the building to their needs. With their new headquarters, the gang continued to protect the various neighborhoods around Night City.
In the coming years, 6th Street increased its presence throughout the metropolis. Its members were well-armed and heavily chromed with weaponry from their days in the field. Their HQ acted as the gang's FOB (Forward Operations Base), and included a customer service and business center, as well as a large vehicle bay and a floor dedicated to their R&R investigation. 6th Street was hoping to compete against bigger private contractors like Militech or Lazarus. An additional rule X put forward was the monthly update of cybeware, which required members to report on how much chrome they were wearing, and if it passed a certain limit, they would be released from service. This was likely done in case of a member going cyberpsycho on a civilian.
===2040s===
By the 2040s, 6th Street had managed to be deputized as a private law enforcement contractor and were granted the official protection of the streets in North Heywood, which they patrolled on foot and on motorcycles, with regular shifts of groups ranging from four to six people. If things got worse during a patrol, a rapid-response HQ team was always ready to back them up, bringing heavily armored vehicles bought from the nomads. Despite this contract, 6th Street kept operating all over Night City, and they were welcome protectors of the Holy Angels Church in Little Europe.
During these years, there were people who called them guardians, protectors and nightmares-in-chrome, but regardless of their contracts, they were still a gang. As such and due to their high ambitions, 6th Street had been losing money really fast, and were expected to hit a rough patch in the following years. To avoid that, they were forced to move into extortion and smuggling in order to pay their bills. They had also begun to sell "confiscated" property to bring in more money, though all these actions were leading them to abandon all their "high ideals" if this was not resolved.
By 2045, 6th Street's primary unit for law enforcement was Davis Squad, led by Wright's son Arbiter. They had good relations with the neighboring nomads, though this was bound to change as the gentrified North Heywood was expanding south, and it was only a matter of time before it reached the nomad occupied-Santo Domingo. The gang was dreaming of expanding their official status in North Heywood to all of Night City to achieve their goal of replacing the NCPD.
===2060s - 2070s===
During the following decades, the need of resources and corruption in 6th Street led them to forgo their original goal of serving public trust, and ended up no different from any other gang who abused their power and position in the local communities. Although they had started by simply taking bribes to look the other way on occasions, and charge locals small protection fees, they continued diving deep in the criminal world, eventually regularly forcing smaller neighborhood businesses to pay tribute and protection money, and were known to engage in outright criminal activities such as vehicle theft, illicit drug manufacturing and distribution, and murder. At some point Combat Cab affiliated in some way with 6th Street.
By the 2070s, 6th Street had control over most of the Santo Domingo district, and were aiming of expanding their territory. Many veterans of the Unification War had joined its ranks, as well as retired military and discharged security officers who were unable to find employment elsewhere. The rest of the members included civilians who were provided military training after joining the gang. 6th Street's vision was still to "bring justice to the city," though their interpretation of the law was very questionable and self-serving. With multiple facilities across some of the districts of Night City, the gang continued to patrol the neighborhoods and monitor other gang hideouts. By 2071, the Valentinos and 6th Street had been in a turf war for some time, with their latest conflict during that year being a firefight in Westbrook. At some point prior or during 2074, the Valentinos and 6th Street would escalate their turf war over the control of Vista del Rey.
Around late 2076, the gang underwent a sudden change in leadership, the culmination of a schism between members who were fine with dealing with corporations and members who considered such activities to be a betrayal of the gang's founding principles. The anti-corpo faction, led by Will Gunner, seized power in a coup when Gunner brazenly killed the gang's leader at the time, "General" Rick Morton. What followed in the subsequent months was a bloody purge of Morton's lieutenants, loyalists, and other associates as Gunner's people consolidated their grip over 6th Street.
By 2077, the war between the Valentinos and 6th Street was intensifying, with Vista del Rey being more dangerous than ever. Despite Gunner's anti-corpo stance, 6th Street continued to work with some corporations, and even secretly cooperated with Kendachi to design a new line of weapons.
==Database Entry==
==Notable Members==
===Leadership===
====Main Leaders====
*Solomon Wright (2020s - Unknown)
*Rick Morton (Unknown - 2076)
*Will Gunner (2076 - Unknown)
====Secondary Leaders====
*Arbiter (2040s - Unknown)
*Flavio dos Santos (Unknown - 2076)
==Faction Locations==
===2045===
*The Armory (HQ)
**The Captain's Cup
===2077===
*Old C-Team HQ
*Pig Boy's Delight Irish Pub
*Wicked Tires Autoshop
==Behind the Scenes==
==References==
Category:Cyberpunk RED Gangs
Category:Cyberpunk 2077 Gangs
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