Gangs

Call them gutterats, night crawlers, trash or streetscum; the gangs are the ultimate rulers of the city's night. Whether it's a small pack of a dozen, or an army of two hundred, each gang in Night City is as diverse as the Street itself; guardians, chromers, dorphers and freaks, all thrown together in a lethal cocktail, mixed and sprinkled liberally with blood.

## **Pacifica**

The Bozos

**Bozo Stats**
 HQ: [Unknown]

When the Bozos first appeared, they were simply considered a prankster gang. Their bodies were not mere costumes though, which had been biosculpted to look like clowns - complete with permanent frowns and long floppy feet. Their turf was mainly the artist's colony next to Night City University. While they began as somewhat benign (if annoying), they developed over the years into something much darker, becoming the ultimate killer clown gang. Bozos are malevolent and predatory. To some degree or another, all of them are insane, with about a third of them firmly in the grip of cyberpsychosis. They think nothing of torturing or murdering people for their own entertainment. They especially enjoy playing on people's fears and anxieties - lurking in apartments in the dark, locking victims in small spaces filled with rats, stopping elevators midway and filling them with water, etc. It is not uncommon for them to pick on a single individual over and over to try to drive them insane. People living in the area have learned the hard way that if you see a pack of Bozos you just run. Despite many years of rumors, no one has ever confirmed the existence of an individual known as "the Great Bozo", the supposed leader of the gang.

* **Tag**: Frowning clown face with slogan "Let's have some fun!"

## **Rancho Coronado**

### The Coronado Swarm

Coronado Swarm Stats
 HQ: The Calveritas Bar

The Coronado Swarm is a gang centered in protecting and preserving a non corporate presence in the desert edge sector of night city. Originally formed of the Sugar Skulls, a gang focused on mercenary and protection work, after the blast, surviving members came together to create a safe haven that would be a protected place for veterans, people fleeing corporations/gangs, as well as anyone attempting to escape from the horrors of Night City, Though considered unaggressive, they are heavily guarded and protect their territory fiercely against the threat of corporations/the bozos and Inquisitors.

* **Philosophy and Structure**: A majority of the Coronado Swarm are heavily focused in Latino heritage and culture. Centered on protecting their own and forming a community of co dependance, every member of the swarm lives in Rancho Coronado like a community, and all members of Rancho Coronado are firm supporters and loyal to the gang. The gang offers protection from corporations and other gangs- and safety for veterans. This sense of protection or at least shared worldviews binds the gang with the local people to form one big family. The community's loyalty protects the gang members in turn.
	+ Members of the gang that are killed in combat are given memorials on a winding path towards the Calveritas Bar, lighting the path to the bar with electric candles and small lanterns. '
* Tag: Leather jacket with an embroidered bug of some sort on the center of the back. Alternatively, A skull with a scarab like beetle visible from the extended open jaw.

### Prime Time Players

Prime Time Players Stats
 Leader: Superstar Jones

The Prime Time Players are a poser gang that uses biosculpting to look like members of old sitcoms and TV shows from bygone eras. They are an extended family gang that protects their neighborhood and longs for a bygone time. The Players are broken up into a number of different factions based on the shows they are inspired by. They are territorial and fiercely protective of their own members.

## Heywood

### 6th Street

founded by veterans of the fourth Corporate War tired of the helplessness of the NCPD, members of 6th Street in 2045 are generally well-armed and heavily cybered-up with armament from their days in the field. Recently, they have been forced to move into extortion and smuggling in efforts to pay their bills. While they operate all throughout the city, the 6th Street all are welcome protectors of The Church of Heywood. 6th Street was meant to serve and protect the community. Today their interpretation of the law and "bringing justice to the city" is questionable and self-serving. The uniforms of 6th Street gangers are heavily influenced by military and patriotic accents: military boots, tactical vests and knee pads, cargo pants, baseball caps with old USA flags, stars, stripes, and eagles. Cyberware used by the gang include cyberoptics, pain editors, and health monitors.

### Valentinos

this is a posergang was dedicated to seducing the most attractive women in Night City. The more unobtainable she appeared to be, the more attractive a target she was. They did not maintain any territory, and had no goals outside of seducing women. They were generally harmless to anyone except the husbands and boyfriends of very attractive women in the city. Four times a year they met to compare conquests. Strictly territorial they operate in the vast impoverished Latino barrios in Heywood, The Glen, and Vista del Rey, where they are strongly rooted in the local communities. They are representatives of the Chicano culture of Night City and have cultivated those traditions for more than a century. Valentinos openly display their gang tattoos and gold jewelry with religious motifs, the Santa Muerte and Jesus Malverde being the most popular and recognizable. They also have a taste for colorful clothes, pimped out lowriders, and silver and gold-plated guns. Cyberware used by the gang include reflex boosters, autoloaders, and augmented cyberlimbs.

New Westbrook: Maelstrom Renegade 1

Watson: The Iron Sights

The Marina: The Voodoo Boys. Maelstrom Renegade 2

Little China: Steel Dragons

Japantown: Tyger Claws

Uni District: Piranhas

South NC: Philamantric Vampyres, Piranhas, Inquisitors

Outskirts: Nomads