Hammer (Maelstrom)

Hammer was a character in the universe.
==Biography==
===Early life - 2010s===
Hammer used to be member of the Metal Warriors combat gang in Night City, though after breaking the combat code he was thrown out. At some point after, the Warriors were almost completely wiped out by the Inquisitors gang, and the surviving members drafted apart. Hammer took some of these remnants and created Maelstrom, another combat gang, but this time whiteout any codes, everything was permitted. The symbol for his new gang was a fist clenched around the handle of an old-style hammer surrounded by a whirlwind. They also acquired people of the Red Chrome Legion and the Iron Sights that had a personal grudge against the Inquisitors, though other targets were randomly salvaged as well. About 1/3 of the gang were registered cyberpsychos, while another part were hovering near the edge.
In the late 2010s, Maelstrom established a hideout for the gang in the former department store known as Barley's, and made the area surrounding area their territory, but the situation was volatile at best due to the large number of close businesses servicing corporates and solos. Maelstrom was smart enough to realize this, and chose their targets very carefully, though for some reason they never bothered the three elderly ladies of a nearby unguarded flower shop.
===2020s===
By 2020, other than nighttime sweeps for Inquisitors, Maelstrom did small-time crimes and protection rackets, but the need for new cyberware and combat drugs drove them to assault larger targets. They were also notorious for "laundering" miscreants, a discipline applied by throwing them off the roof at Tong Laundrys.
Unfortunately for Maelstrom, during the Night City Holocaust of 2023, although their hideout was lucky enough to be shielded by the Bayview Condos building, but most of the heavily cybered members died in a weird, EMP induced, frenzy of hyper-violence right after the explosion, including Hammer, who would be succeeded by Crusher. After Maelstrom established their new base of operations in the remains of Burleson Tower, they grabbed the mummified bodies of their former comrades, including Hammer's, and displayed them on the hotel's ballroom.
==References==
Category:Cyberpunk 2020 Characters
Category:Cyberpunk RED Characters