Red Chrome Legion

The Red Chrome Legion are a gang operating in Night City.
==History==
===Early history - 2020s===
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.
When Maelstrom was formed at some point after 2013, the new gang managed to draft in a number of Red Chromers who had a personal grudge against the Inquisitors.
Around 2020, the Legion could be found around the South City and Studio City districts.
After the Fourth Corporate War, the Iron Sights gang lost their provider when Arasaka was expelled from North America. The Red Chrome Legion — who were well known for crushing their rivals, annexing their territories, and indoctrinating their younger members into their group — saw an opportunity and attacked them. Though the Iron Sights managed to survive, a feud between both boostergangs would begin to grow over the years.
===2030s - 2040s===
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.
At some point early in his career, Glare was captured and blinded by a group of Red Chromers.
By the mid-2040s, the Red Chrome Legion and the Iron Sights had renewed their their conflict due to the Red Chromers' habit of poaching young Iron Sight recruits. Around this time, the Legion attacked a convoy from the new benefactors of the Iron Sights, stealing all the hardware they could grab. Despite running away with a number of crates, they were not able to open them due to how reinforced and DNA secured they were. When the Sights found out, the tensions between both groups blew into a full-scale war within the Combat Zone. Things turned so bad that MAX-TAC had to intervene as the NCPD didn't dare to go against some of the gang's borg members. Soon after, the Legion hijacked the Hammerhead, a cargo train operated by Militech, to move their stolen equipment to a facility outside of Night City to the north, where they had hired a techie to unlock the crates. A group of mercenaries was hired by a fixer known as Hornet to recover some neurotoxins he had sold to the Iron Sights and were in the crates the Legion had stolen. The mercs were successful, and by the end of the week, the Iron Sights were able to crush and expel the Red Chrome Legion forces from the northern areas of the Combat Zone, pushing them out of Old Japantown and into the south side of Little China.
===2045===
By 2045, the Legion and the Iron Sights had been at war for over a year, and things had only worsen ever since the Sights got a new benefactor. During the destruction of the old Forlorn Hope, the Legionnaires from the nearby Chrome Cross Bar decided to celebrate that event with the intention of killing any survivor and looting their belongings. The Legion had a special interest in the downfall of the Hope ever since its staff and patrons started freeing several people from the gang's exploitative work. Unfortunately for the Red Chromers, a group of mercenaries protected the Forlorn Hope survivors. This defeat was considered an embarrassment for the gang, especially after a large series of failures against the Iron Sights. With this outcome, its leadership was killed in a bloody coup orchestrated by Vox and Populi, two young recruiters for the gang. Soon after, pieces of the former boss, Maniple, were found scattered around Little China, with Vox and Populi stepping up to fill the vacuum. Not much later, the new leadership swept through multiple homeless encampments around Night City, offering food and shelter for those who needed it in exchange for an oath signed in blood. This dramatically increased the number of Red Chromes, recruiting and radicalizing the new members into true believers. The Legion changed their looks a little as well, with its members wearing red and black uniforms with helmets and masks, though only when gathered. They were still described as heavily chromed up jackbooted angry neo-nazis, but had become more patient, awaiting for orders rather than thinking for themselves. Although unskilled, their large numbers and willingness to kill anyone who was not "right" proved to be a threat.
Over the following months, Vox and Populi used the newfound strength to successfully lead the Legion against the Iron Sights, and after a series of victories, the Red Chromers went silent, fortifying their territory instead of expanding it. With their turf secured, Vox and Populi decided it was time to gain their reputation back by striking at the new Forlorn Hope, a place they had been monitoring ever since it started reconstruction. For that task, they killed Woodland Park residents Annie and Arthur Cartwright, two siblings living in the Shark apartment complex, and took their identities by bodysculpting their faces to resemble them. While Populi was watching over the Hope from the outside as Arthur, Vox infiltrated the establishment as Annie, a server for the soon-to-reopen Forlorn Hope. This plan was to be executed at the bar's opening night, when the more people would be present. In their eyes, if the Legion took down the Hope for sure, they would gain an immense reputation all over Night City, which would cause for new recruits to flood their ranks and their ideology to flourish all over the metropolis.
During the opening day, both Vox and Populi tried different ways to sabotage the event. Whether they were successful or not depended on the mercenaries hired by Marianne Freeman, owner of the Hope. The Red Chrome Legion's plan was to assault the Forlorn Hope with two-hundred Legionnaires from three vantage points: the basement, the ground floor, and the roof. Even with Marianne informed and the bar ready, the Legion's attack was chaotic and brutal. The Legionnaires blew up the bar's bathroom walls, appearing from the city sewers wearing their red and black uniforms and equipped with helmets and masks. The party soon became a mass battle, with more Red Chromers assaulting from the ground and top floors. The fight was a slaughter fest, with the experienced one-hundred Hope guests and staff battling against the two-hundred Legionnaires. If not already incapacitated, Vox helped plant a number of fire bombs on the ground floor before abandoning the fight, while Populi and his team used a zipline from the neighboring Shark to led the assault from the Hope's rooftop downwards, also planting bombs on the top floor. Once Populi planted a large fire bomb on the Freemans apartment, if he was able to, he tried to flee. Otherwise he made his last stand there. At the end of the night, however, the invading Red Chrome Legion force had been decimated.
==Notable Members==
===Leadership===
*Maniple (unknown - 2045, deceased)
*Vox (2045, dependent)
*Populi (2045, dependent)
==Stats & Equipment==
===Cyberpunk RED===
These are the stats and equipment of an average Red Chromer member in RED's .
==Notes==
*Around 2045, there were suspicions that an NCPD officer known by the nickname of Pitbull had ties to the Red Chrome Legion.
==Gallery==
Red Chrome Legion 01 REDTOTRHR.jpg|Red Chrome Legionnaires in 
Forlorn Hope Brawl REDTOTRHR.jpg|Red Chromers attacking the Forlorn Hope
==References==
Category:Cyberpunk 2020 Gangs
Category:Cyberpunk RED Gangs
es:Legión del Cromada Roja