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2026-08-02T02:04:08Z

Nemesys: /* Solos */

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<div style="font-size:2em; color:#ffd700; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:4px;">CHARACTERS</div>
<div style="color:#ff00ff; font-size:1.1em; margin-top:6px;">Night City MUSH // Active Player Characters</div>
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The people who walk the streets of Night City. Player characters active on Night City MUSH. Contact <span style="color:#ffd700;">'''Mnemosyne'''</span> in game to have your character listed here.
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== How to Get Listed ==

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To have your character added to this page, contact <span style="color:#ffd700;">Mnemosyne</span> in game or via the wiki. Character pages should include the following:

* <span style="color:#ffd700;">'''Name'''</span> -- Your character's street name or full name. Link it to their character page if one exists.
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">'''Description'''</span> -- One or two sentences. Keep it IC. No OOC information.
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">'''Image'''</span> -- Optional. Upload via the wiki and staff will add it.

Characters inactive for more than 60 days without notice will be moved to the archive.
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== Active Characters ==

=== Solos ===

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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Jaster|Jaster Kovac]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Well known independent contractor / Elite Bodyguard</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Lukas|Lukas "Ajax" Howard]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">A Solo</td>
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=== Netrunners ===

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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;"><em><span style="color:#aaaaaa;">No Netrunners listed yet. Be the first.</span></em></td>
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=== Fixers ===

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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Ari|Arietta Gage]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Affiliated with Tyger Claws. Typically goes by Ari. Can be found all around the city. Always looking for a deal.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Elsie Sunshine]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Upbeat, effervescent, schmoozer and deal-maker. Great with corpo-related biz.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Leila Honey]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Mox. Employed at Lizzie's Bar. Specializes in "party favors."</td>
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=== Techs ===

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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;"><em><span style="color:#aaaaaa;">No Techs listed yet. Be the first.</span></em></td>
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=== Medtechs ===

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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;"><em><span style="color:#aaaaaa;">No Medtechs listed yet. Be the first.</span></em></td>
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=== Rockerboys ===

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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Kimmy]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Former idol singer in Night City to be a real rock star.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Rhey Ultim]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Star of Stage and Screen, Professional Prize Fighter, Expert Bounty Hunter, Seller of her own brand of hot sauce, and the crush of many a teen. Hands off boys. Shes awesome. </td>
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=== Nomads ===

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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Pinkie]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Pink and Black themed Valentino wheelman and mechanic. Definitely not associated with Sanroo. </td>
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=== Executives ===

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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;"><em><span style="color:#aaaaaa;">No Executives listed yet. Be the first.</span></em></td>
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=== Lawmen ===

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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;"><em><span style="color:#aaaaaa;">No Lawmen listed yet. Be the first.</span></em></td>
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=== Media ===

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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;"><em><span style="color:#aaaaaa;">No Media listed yet. Be the first.</span></em></td>
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== The Roles ==

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Not sure which role fits your character concept? Here is a quick summary of what each role does in Cyberpunk Red.
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Solo'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Combat Sense</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Professional killers, bodyguards and mercenaries. The best fighters in Night City. Combat Sense gives them bonuses to initiative and perception in dangerous situations.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Netrunner'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Interface</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Hackers and NET specialists. They jack into the local NET to breach systems, disable cyberware and attack enemies digitally. Interface lets them perform NET Actions against targets within range.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Fixer'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Operator</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Brokers, dealers and the people who know people. Fixers make things happen. Operator lets them find contacts, score gear and run crews more effectively than anyone else.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Tech'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Maker</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Engineers and inventors. Techs build, modify and repair weapons, armor, cyberware and vehicles. Maker lets them craft equipment that others simply cannot.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Medtech'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Medicine</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Doctors, ripperdocs and field surgeons. Medtechs keep people alive when everything else is trying to kill them. Medicine gives them advanced healing and cyberware installation capabilities.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Rockerboy'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Charismatic Impact</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Musicians, artists and rebels using their platform as a weapon. Charismatic Impact lets them sway crowds, inspire allies and demoralize enemies through sheer force of presence.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Nomad'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Moto</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Clan warriors and Badlands survivors. Nomads are the best drivers and pilots in the game and their clan connections give them a network of support across the Badlands. Moto enhances vehicle performance.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Executive'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Teamwork</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Corporate operators and power players. Executives command resources, people and influence. Teamwork lets them direct NPCs and allies with bonuses that no other role can match.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Lawman'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Backup</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Cops, detectives and law enforcement. Lawmen can call in backup -- NCPD units, air support or tactical teams -- when situations escalate beyond what one person can handle.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Media'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Credibility</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Journalists and content creators using information as a weapon. Credibility lets them expose corruption, protect sources and leverage their public platform in ways that make even megacorps nervous.</td>
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Lukas

2026-08-02T02:03:48Z

Nemesys: /* Background */

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<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Affiliation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
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<div style="font-size:2em; color:#ffd700; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:4px;">Lukas "Ajax" Howard</div>
<div style="color:#ff00ff; font-size:1em; margin-top:4px;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</div>
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== Appearance ==

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A towering figure (2.03 m / 6'8") whose massive physical frame makes him loom over most. His body is heavily conditioned from obvious weight training but has been clearly augmented by grafted muscles and likely enough bone lacing to support the load. His head is shaved bald and his eyes are blue. He wears black cargo pants, a black short-sleeve shirt, and a black light armorjack.
He carries himself with the cold, rigid bearing of a hardened battlefield asset. His neck on the right side behind the ear shows the slots of a neuroport. His mien looks haunted and defined by a hollow expression and a detached, desensitized demeanor that reflects a severely eroded sense of humanity.
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=== Distinguishing Features ===

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* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Herculean Build:</span> Standing at over 2 meters tall (6'8"), Lukas is built like a comic book superhero. This goes beyond steroids, guy's got to be sporting augmentations like muscle grafts and bone lacing at the very least.
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Implanted Linear Frame Sigma:</span> The Internal Sigma isn't immediately obvious if Lukas wears a full covering of thick, bulky, or oversized clothing. If he's wearing tight clothing or showing some skin, however, others can see lines marking expansion points needed to make room for the cybernetics and patterns representing the skin mimicking the textures of the mechanicals below. Bulges near joints where the cybernetics don’t quite match the human form are also common. Anyone seeing such telltale signs can make a DV13 Cybertech Check to recognize them as the mark of a Internal Linear Frame Sigma.
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=== Mannerisms and Habits ===

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To a casual observer, Lukas is a study in unnerving, mechanical stillness; he does not fidget or look around, but instead carries a cold, hyper-vigilant presence. When he does look at someone, his eyes exhibit the classic "thousand-yard stare"... an unblinking gaze that seems to look straight through people rather than at them, as if perpetually watching a horizon only he can see. He moves with a rigid, economical precision that strips away all warmth or relaxed human posture, treating every environment like a potential kill zone and every person like a threat assessment. His voice is flat and devoid of inflection, treating tragic news or basic small talk with the same hollow, transactional apathy. This lack of empathy manifests not as active cruelty, but as a chilling, emotional void; he is physically present, but the human spark that connects people has been replaced by the quiet, tireless efficiency of a weapon.
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== Background ==

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Lukas Howard was born in the concrete maze of Night City in early 2049. He grew up in Santo Domingo, a district choked by industrial smog and poverty. His parents were factory workers laboring for a failing Petrochem subsidiary. Because of his large frame, even as a kid, he loomed over his peers. He was often targeted by local booster gangs looking to test their mettle against the "big kid."

To keep him from joining a gang and winding up in prison or dead, his father enrolled him in a nearby karate dojo. There Lukas spent his tweens and early teens learning the discipline and grace of the Japanese martial art. At the very least it kept young Lukas out of trouble for the most part.

In the late 2050's, a NUSA-backed front organization called the Federal Youth Pioneers set up recruitment and community centers in the poorer sectors of Night City. For Lukas, the Pioneers center was the only place with air conditioning, actual meat (instead of kibble), and a sense of purpose. The counselors were covert NUSA military scouts and instantly noticed the massive teenager who could punch through walls. They fed him, gave him basic tutoring, and filled his head with stories of a unified America where a man of his size could be a decorated hero instead of a street thug.

In 2066, corporate rezoning forced Lukas' family out of their mega-tenement apartment. His parents were in debt and could not afford to support themselves and a 17 year-old son so Lukas started to help out by competing as an illegal pit-fighter for money. To him the city was a corrupt and chaotic meat-grinder so by the time he was 18 he enlisted in the NUSA military and wound up in the Mechanized Combat Force. The order, structure, and the heavy chrome they implanted in him turned young Lukas into a valuable asset.

In 2069 when the Unification War broke out, Lukas deployed to the brutal Southern California front, where he became a living battering ram for the NUSA Mechanized Combat Force. Sweeping through the scorched, booby-trapped trenches of the Baja border, he relied on his newly grafted muscles, bone lacing and Kerenzikov to survive high-speed, close-quarters skirmishes against heavily armed Free State secessionists. He displayed terrifying efficiency with which he used his massive frame to breach enemy bunkers, wading through enemies to tear through fortified positions with his retractable Wolver blades. When the war abruptly halted in 2070, he was left a hollowed-out weapon of the state, possessing a cold addiction to battlefield adrenaline and a severely eroded sense of humanity.

In the post-war military downsizing, the NUSA sold his contract to Lazarus Group. Lazarus is a massive, highly professional private military company staffed by veterans. Given Lukas' Night City origins and Lazarus' interests there, they set him loose there as a "freelance" Solo who they could tap when they had need of black ops work to be handled with total deniability. Unfortunately for Lukas, though he is no longer directly employed by Lazarus they made him subject to an onerous separation agreement where he can not take hostile action against Lazarus corporate employees without suffering debilitating pain due to the chip they implanted in his neuroport.
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=== Known Associations ===

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Lukas

2026-08-02T02:02:42Z

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<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Occupation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Affiliation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
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<div style="font-size:2em; color:#ffd700; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:4px;">Lukas "Ajax" Howard</div>
<div style="color:#ff00ff; font-size:1em; margin-top:4px;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</div>
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== Appearance ==

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A towering figure (2.03 m / 6'8") whose massive physical frame makes him loom over most. His body is heavily conditioned from obvious weight training but has been clearly augmented by grafted muscles and likely enough bone lacing to support the load. His head is shaved bald and his eyes are blue. He wears black cargo pants, a black short-sleeve shirt, and a black light armorjack.
He carries himself with the cold, rigid bearing of a hardened battlefield asset. His neck on the right side behind the ear shows the slots of a neuroport. His mien looks haunted and defined by a hollow expression and a detached, desensitized demeanor that reflects a severely eroded sense of humanity.
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=== Distinguishing Features ===

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* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Herculean Build:</span> Standing at over 2 meters tall (6'8"), Lukas is built like a comic book superhero. This goes beyond steroids, guy's got to be sporting augmentations like muscle grafts and bone lacing at the very least.
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Implanted Linear Frame Sigma:</span> The Internal Sigma isn't immediately obvious if Lukas wears a full covering of thick, bulky, or oversized clothing. If he's wearing tight clothing or showing some skin, however, others can see lines marking expansion points needed to make room for the cybernetics and patterns representing the skin mimicking the textures of the mechanicals below. Bulges near joints where the cybernetics don’t quite match the human form are also common. Anyone seeing such telltale signs can make a DV13 Cybertech Check to recognize them as the mark of a Internal Linear Frame Sigma.
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=== Mannerisms and Habits ===

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To a casual observer, Lukas is a study in unnerving, mechanical stillness; he does not fidget or look around, but instead carries a cold, hyper-vigilant presence. When he does look at someone, his eyes exhibit the classic "thousand-yard stare"... an unblinking gaze that seems to look straight through people rather than at them, as if perpetually watching a horizon only he can see. He moves with a rigid, economical precision that strips away all warmth or relaxed human posture, treating every environment like a potential kill zone and every person like a threat assessment. His voice is flat and devoid of inflection, treating tragic news or basic small talk with the same hollow, transactional apathy. This lack of empathy manifests not as active cruelty, but as a chilling, emotional void; he is physically present, but the human spark that connects people has been replaced by the quiet, tireless efficiency of a weapon.
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== Background ==

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Lukas Howard was born in the concrete maze of Night City in early 2049. He grew up in Santo Domingo, a district choked by industrial smog and poverty. His parents were factory workers laboring for a failing Petrochem subsidiary. Because of his large frame, even as a kid, he loomed over his peers. He was often targeted by local booster gangs looking to test their mettle against the "big kid."

To keep him from joining a gang and winding up in prison or dead, his father enrolled him in a nearby karate dojo. There Lukas spent his tweens and early teens learning the discipline and grace of the Japanese martial art. At the very least it kept young Lukas out of trouble for the most part.

In the late 2050's, a NUSA-backed front organization called the Federal Youth Pioneers set up recruitment and community centers in the poorer sectors of Night City. For Lukas, the Pioneers center was the only place with air conditioning, actual meat (instead of kibble), and a sense of purpose. The counselors were covert NUSA military scouts and instantly noticed the massive teenager who could punch through walls. They fed him, gave him basic tutoring, and filled his head with stories of a unified America where a man of his size could be a decorated hero instead of a street thug.

In 2066, corporate rezoning forced Lukas' family out of their mega-tenement apartment. His parents were in debt and could not afford to support themselves and a 17 year-old son so Lukas started to help out by competing as an illegal pit-fighter for money. To him the city was a corrupt and chaotic meat-grinder so by the time he was 18 he enlisted in the NUSA military and wound up in the Mechanized Combat Force. The order, structure, and the heavy chrome they implanted in him turned young Lukas into a valuable asset.

In 2069 when the Unification War broke out, Lukas deployed to the brutal Southern California front, where he became a living battering ram for the NUSA Mechanized Combat Force. Sweeping through the scorched, booby-trapped trenches of the Baja border, he relied on his newly grafted muscles, bone lacing and Kerenzikov to survive high-speed, close-quarters skirmishes against heavily armed Free State secessionists. He earned his handle, "Nightmare," from the terrifying efficiency with which he used his massive frame to breach enemy bunkers, wading through enemies to tear through fortified positions with his retractable Wolver blades. When the war abruptly halted in 2070, he was left a hollowed-out weapon of the state, possessing a cold addiction to battlefield adrenaline and a severely eroded sense of humanity.

In the post-war military downsizing, the NUSA sold his contract to Lazarus Group. Lazarus is a massive, highly professional private military company staffed by veterans. Given Lukas' Night City origins and Lazarus' interests there, they set him loose there as a "freelance" Solo who they could tap when they had need of black ops work to be handled with total deniability. Unfortunately for Lukas, though he is no longer directly employed by Lazarus they made him subject to an onerous separation agreement where he can not take hostile action against Lazarus corporate employees without suffering debilitating pain due to the chip they implanted in his neuroport.
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=== Known Associations ===

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Lukas

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<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333; width:40%;">Name</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Lukas "Ajax" Howard</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Role</td><td style="color:#00ffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Solo</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Occupation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Affiliation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Notable Cyberware</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
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<div style="font-size:2em; color:#ffd700; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:4px;">Lukas "Nightmare" Howard</div>
<div style="color:#ff00ff; font-size:1em; margin-top:4px;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</div>
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== Appearance ==

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
A towering figure (2.03 m / 6'8") whose massive physical frame makes him loom over most. His body is heavily conditioned from obvious weight training but has been clearly augmented by grafted muscles and likely enough bone lacing to support the load. His head is shaved bald and his eyes are blue. He wears black cargo pants, a black short-sleeve shirt, and a black light armorjack.
He carries himself with the cold, rigid bearing of a hardened battlefield asset. His neck on the right side behind the ear shows the slots of a neuroport. His mien looks haunted and defined by a hollow expression and a detached, desensitized demeanor that reflects a severely eroded sense of humanity.
</div>

=== Distinguishing Features ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Herculean Build:</span> Standing at over 2 meters tall (6'8"), Lukas is built like a comic book superhero. This goes beyond steroids, guy's got to be sporting augmentations like muscle grafts and bone lacing at the very least.
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Implanted Linear Frame Sigma:</span> The Internal Sigma isn't immediately obvious if Lukas wears a full covering of thick, bulky, or oversized clothing. If he's wearing tight clothing or showing some skin, however, others can see lines marking expansion points needed to make room for the cybernetics and patterns representing the skin mimicking the textures of the mechanicals below. Bulges near joints where the cybernetics don’t quite match the human form are also common. Anyone seeing such telltale signs can make a DV13 Cybertech Check to recognize them as the mark of a Internal Linear Frame Sigma.
</div>

=== Mannerisms and Habits ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
To a casual observer, Lukas is a study in unnerving, mechanical stillness; he does not fidget or look around, but instead carries a cold, hyper-vigilant presence. When he does look at someone, his eyes exhibit the classic "thousand-yard stare"... an unblinking gaze that seems to look straight through people rather than at them, as if perpetually watching a horizon only he can see. He moves with a rigid, economical precision that strips away all warmth or relaxed human posture, treating every environment like a potential kill zone and every person like a threat assessment. His voice is flat and devoid of inflection, treating tragic news or basic small talk with the same hollow, transactional apathy. This lack of empathy manifests not as active cruelty, but as a chilling, emotional void; he is physically present, but the human spark that connects people has been replaced by the quiet, tireless efficiency of a weapon.
</div>

== Background ==

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
Lukas Howard was born in the concrete maze of Night City in early 2049. He grew up in Santo Domingo, a district choked by industrial smog and poverty. His parents were factory workers laboring for a failing Petrochem subsidiary. Because of his large frame, even as a kid, he loomed over his peers. He was often targeted by local booster gangs looking to test their mettle against the "big kid."

To keep him from joining a gang and winding up in prison or dead, his father enrolled him in a nearby karate dojo. There Lukas spent his tweens and early teens learning the discipline and grace of the Japanese martial art. At the very least it kept young Lukas out of trouble for the most part.

In the late 2050's, a NUSA-backed front organization called the Federal Youth Pioneers set up recruitment and community centers in the poorer sectors of Night City. For Lukas, the Pioneers center was the only place with air conditioning, actual meat (instead of kibble), and a sense of purpose. The counselors were covert NUSA military scouts and instantly noticed the massive teenager who could punch through walls. They fed him, gave him basic tutoring, and filled his head with stories of a unified America where a man of his size could be a decorated hero instead of a street thug.

In 2066, corporate rezoning forced Lukas' family out of their mega-tenement apartment. His parents were in debt and could not afford to support themselves and a 17 year-old son so Lukas started to help out by competing as an illegal pit-fighter for money. To him the city was a corrupt and chaotic meat-grinder so by the time he was 18 he enlisted in the NUSA military and wound up in the Mechanized Combat Force. The order, structure, and the heavy chrome they implanted in him turned young Lukas into a valuable asset.

In 2069 when the Unification War broke out, Lukas deployed to the brutal Southern California front, where he became a living battering ram for the NUSA Mechanized Combat Force. Sweeping through the scorched, booby-trapped trenches of the Baja border, he relied on his newly grafted muscles, bone lacing and Kerenzikov to survive high-speed, close-quarters skirmishes against heavily armed Free State secessionists. He earned his handle, "Nightmare," from the terrifying efficiency with which he used his massive frame to breach enemy bunkers, wading through enemies to tear through fortified positions with his retractable Wolver blades. When the war abruptly halted in 2070, he was left a hollowed-out weapon of the state, possessing a cold addiction to battlefield adrenaline and a severely eroded sense of humanity.

In the post-war military downsizing, the NUSA sold his contract to Lazarus Group. Lazarus is a massive, highly professional private military company staffed by veterans. Given Lukas' Night City origins and Lazarus' interests there, they set him loose there as a "freelance" Solo who they could tap when they had need of black ops work to be handled with total deniability. Unfortunately for Lukas, though he is no longer directly employed by Lazarus they made him subject to an onerous separation agreement where he can not take hostile action against Lazarus corporate employees without suffering debilitating pain due to the chip they implanted in his neuroport.
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=== Known Associations ===

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Characters

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Nemesys: /* Solos */

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<div style="font-size:2em; color:#ffd700; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:4px;">CHARACTERS</div>
<div style="color:#ff00ff; font-size:1.1em; margin-top:6px;">Night City MUSH // Active Player Characters</div>
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The people who walk the streets of Night City. Player characters active on Night City MUSH. Contact <span style="color:#ffd700;">'''Mnemosyne'''</span> in game to have your character listed here.
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== How to Get Listed ==

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To have your character added to this page, contact <span style="color:#ffd700;">Mnemosyne</span> in game or via the wiki. Character pages should include the following:

* <span style="color:#ffd700;">'''Name'''</span> -- Your character's street name or full name. Link it to their character page if one exists.
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">'''Description'''</span> -- One or two sentences. Keep it IC. No OOC information.
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">'''Image'''</span> -- Optional. Upload via the wiki and staff will add it.

Characters inactive for more than 60 days without notice will be moved to the archive.
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== Active Characters ==

=== Solos ===

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<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left; width:20%;">Name</th>
<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left;">Description</th>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Jaster|Jaster Kovac]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Well known independent contractor / Elite Bodyguard</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Lukas|Lukas "Nightmare" Howard]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">A Solo</td>
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=== Netrunners ===

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<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left; width:20%;">Name</th>
<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left;">Description</th>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;"><em><span style="color:#aaaaaa;">No Netrunners listed yet. Be the first.</span></em></td>
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=== Fixers ===

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<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left; width:20%;">Name</th>
<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left;">Description</th>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Ari|Arietta Gage]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Affiliated with Tyger Claws. Typically goes by Ari. Can be found all around the city. Always looking for a deal.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Elsie Sunshine]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Upbeat, effervescent, schmoozer and deal-maker. Great with corpo-related biz.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Leila Honey]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Mox. Employed at Lizzie's Bar. Specializes in "party favors."</td>
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=== Techs ===

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<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left; width:20%;">Name</th>
<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left;">Description</th>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;"><em><span style="color:#aaaaaa;">No Techs listed yet. Be the first.</span></em></td>
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=== Medtechs ===

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<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left; width:20%;">Name</th>
<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left;">Description</th>
</tr>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;"><em><span style="color:#aaaaaa;">No Medtechs listed yet. Be the first.</span></em></td>
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=== Rockerboys ===

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<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left; width:20%;">Name</th>
<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left;">Description</th>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Kimmy]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Former idol singer in Night City to be a real rock star.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Rhey Ultim]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Star of Stage and Screen, Professional Prize Fighter, Expert Bounty Hunter, Seller of her own brand of hot sauce, and the crush of many a teen. Hands off boys. Shes awesome. </td>
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=== Nomads ===

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<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left; width:20%;">Name</th>
<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left;">Description</th>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">[[Pinkie]]</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Pink and Black themed Valentino wheelman and mechanic. Definitely not associated with Sanroo. </td>
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=== Executives ===

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<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left; width:20%;">Name</th>
<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left;">Description</th>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;"><em><span style="color:#aaaaaa;">No Executives listed yet. Be the first.</span></em></td>
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=== Lawmen ===

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<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left; width:20%;">Name</th>
<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left;">Description</th>
</tr>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;"><em><span style="color:#aaaaaa;">No Lawmen listed yet. Be the first.</span></em></td>
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=== Media ===

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<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left; width:20%;">Name</th>
<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left;">Description</th>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;"><em><span style="color:#aaaaaa;">No Media listed yet. Be the first.</span></em></td>
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== The Roles ==

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Not sure which role fits your character concept? Here is a quick summary of what each role does in Cyberpunk Red.
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<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left; width:12%;">Role</th>
<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left; width:15%;">Special Ability</th>
<th style="color:#ffd700; padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; text-align:left;">What They Do</th>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Solo'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Combat Sense</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Professional killers, bodyguards and mercenaries. The best fighters in Night City. Combat Sense gives them bonuses to initiative and perception in dangerous situations.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Netrunner'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Interface</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Hackers and NET specialists. They jack into the local NET to breach systems, disable cyberware and attack enemies digitally. Interface lets them perform NET Actions against targets within range.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Fixer'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Operator</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Brokers, dealers and the people who know people. Fixers make things happen. Operator lets them find contacts, score gear and run crews more effectively than anyone else.</td>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Tech'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Maker</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Engineers and inventors. Techs build, modify and repair weapons, armor, cyberware and vehicles. Maker lets them craft equipment that others simply cannot.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Medtech'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Medicine</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Doctors, ripperdocs and field surgeons. Medtechs keep people alive when everything else is trying to kill them. Medicine gives them advanced healing and cyberware installation capabilities.</td>
</tr>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Rockerboy'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Charismatic Impact</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Musicians, artists and rebels using their platform as a weapon. Charismatic Impact lets them sway crowds, inspire allies and demoralize enemies through sheer force of presence.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Nomad'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Moto</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Clan warriors and Badlands survivors. Nomads are the best drivers and pilots in the game and their clan connections give them a network of support across the Badlands. Moto enhances vehicle performance.</td>
</tr>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Executive'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Teamwork</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Corporate operators and power players. Executives command resources, people and influence. Teamwork lets them direct NPCs and allies with bonuses that no other role can match.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Lawman'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Backup</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Cops, detectives and law enforcement. Lawmen can call in backup -- NCPD units, air support or tactical teams -- when situations escalate beyond what one person can handle.</td>
</tr>
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<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#00ffff;">'''Media'''</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffd700;">Credibility</td>
<td style="padding:8px; border:1px solid #ff00ff; color:#ffffff;">Journalists and content creators using information as a weapon. Credibility lets them expose corruption, protect sources and leverage their public platform in ways that make even megacorps nervous.</td>
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Lukas

2026-07-31T18:42:04Z

Nemesys:

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<div style="line-height:0; border-bottom:1px solid #ff00ff;">[[File:Martyn_Ford_001.jpg|340px]]</div>
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<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333; width:40%;">Name</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Lukas "Nightmare" Howard</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Role</td><td style="color:#00ffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Solo</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Occupation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Status</td><td style="color:#00ff00; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Active</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Affiliation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Notable Cyberware</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
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<div style="font-size:2em; color:#ffd700; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:4px;">Lukas "Nightmare" Howard</div>
<div style="color:#ff00ff; font-size:1em; margin-top:4px;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</div>
</div>

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</div>

== Appearance ==

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
A towering figure (2.03 m / 6'8") whose massive physical frame makes him loom over most. His body is heavily conditioned from obvious weight training but has been clearly augmented by grafted muscles and likely enough bone lacing to support the load. His head is shaved bald and his eyes are blue. He wears black cargo pants, a black short-sleeve shirt, and a black light armorjack.
He carries himself with the cold, rigid bearing of a hardened battlefield asset. His neck on the right side behind the ear shows the slots of a neuroport. His mien looks haunted and defined by a hollow expression and a detached, desensitized demeanor that reflects a severely eroded sense of humanity.
</div>

=== Distinguishing Features ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Herculean Build:</span> Standing at over 2 meters tall (6'8"), Lukas is built like a comic book superhero. This goes beyond steroids, guy's got to be sporting augmentations like muscle grafts and bone lacing at the very least.
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Implanted Linear Frame Sigma:</span> The Internal Sigma isn't immediately obvious if Lukas wears a full covering of thick, bulky, or oversized clothing. If he's wearing tight clothing or showing some skin, however, others can see lines marking expansion points needed to make room for the cybernetics and patterns representing the skin mimicking the textures of the mechanicals below. Bulges near joints where the cybernetics don’t quite match the human form are also common. Anyone seeing such telltale signs can make a DV13 Cybertech Check to recognize them as the mark of a Internal Linear Frame Sigma.
</div>

=== Mannerisms and Habits ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
To a casual observer, Lukas is a study in unnerving, mechanical stillness; he does not fidget or look around, but instead carries a cold, hyper-vigilant presence. When he does look at someone, his eyes exhibit the classic "thousand-yard stare"... an unblinking gaze that seems to look straight through people rather than at them, as if perpetually watching a horizon only he can see. He moves with a rigid, economical precision that strips away all warmth or relaxed human posture, treating every environment like a potential kill zone and every person like a threat assessment. His voice is flat and devoid of inflection, treating tragic news or basic small talk with the same hollow, transactional apathy. This lack of empathy manifests not as active cruelty, but as a chilling, emotional void; he is physically present, but the human spark that connects people has been replaced by the quiet, tireless efficiency of a weapon.
</div>

== Background ==

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
Lukas Howard was born in the concrete maze of Night City in early 2049. He grew up in Santo Domingo, a district choked by industrial smog and poverty. His parents were factory workers laboring for a failing Petrochem subsidiary. Because of his large frame, even as a kid, he loomed over his peers. He was often targeted by local booster gangs looking to test their mettle against the "big kid."

To keep him from joining a gang and winding up in prison or dead, his father enrolled him in a nearby karate dojo. There Lukas spent his tweens and early teens learning the discipline and grace of the Japanese martial art. At the very least it kept young Lukas out of trouble for the most part.

In the late 2050's, a NUSA-backed front organization called the Federal Youth Pioneers set up recruitment and community centers in the poorer sectors of Night City. For Lukas, the Pioneers center was the only place with air conditioning, actual meat (instead of kibble), and a sense of purpose. The counselors were covert NUSA military scouts and instantly noticed the massive teenager who could punch through walls. They fed him, gave him basic tutoring, and filled his head with stories of a unified America where a man of his size could be a decorated hero instead of a street thug.

In 2066, corporate rezoning forced Lukas' family out of their mega-tenement apartment. His parents were in debt and could not afford to support themselves and a 17 year-old son so Lukas started to help out by competing as an illegal pit-fighter for money. To him the city was a corrupt and chaotic meat-grinder so by the time he was 18 he enlisted in the NUSA military and wound up in the Mechanized Combat Force. The order, structure, and the heavy chrome they implanted in him turned young Lukas into a valuable asset.

In 2069 when the Unification War broke out, Lukas deployed to the brutal Southern California front, where he became a living battering ram for the NUSA Mechanized Combat Force. Sweeping through the scorched, booby-trapped trenches of the Baja border, he relied on his newly grafted muscles, bone lacing and Kerenzikov to survive high-speed, close-quarters skirmishes against heavily armed Free State secessionists. He earned his handle, "Nightmare," from the terrifying efficiency with which he used his massive frame to breach enemy bunkers, wading through enemies to tear through fortified positions with his retractable Wolver blades. When the war abruptly halted in 2070, he was left a hollowed-out weapon of the state, possessing a cold addiction to battlefield adrenaline and a severely eroded sense of humanity.

In the post-war military downsizing, the NUSA sold his contract to Lazarus Group. Lazarus is a massive, highly professional private military company staffed by veterans. Given Lukas' Night City origins and Lazarus' interests there, they set him loose there as a "freelance" Solo who they could tap when they had need of black ops work to be handled with total deniability. Unfortunately for Lukas, though he is no longer directly employed by Lazarus they made him subject to an onerous separation agreement where he can not take hostile action against Lazarus corporate employees without suffering debilitating pain due to the chip they implanted in his neuroport.
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=== Known Associations ===

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Lukas

2026-07-31T18:40:53Z

Nemesys:

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<div style="line-height:0; border-bottom:1px solid #ff00ff;">[[File:Martyn_Ford_001.jpg|340px]]</div>
<table style="width:100%; border-collapse:collapse; background:#111111;">
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333; width:40%;">Name</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Lukas "Nightmare" Howard</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Role</td><td style="color:#00ffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Solo</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Occupation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Status</td><td style="color:#00ff00; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Active</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Affiliation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Notable Cyberware</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
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<div style="font-size:2em; color:#ffd700; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:4px;">Lukas Howard</div>
<div style="color:#ff00ff; font-size:1em; margin-top:4px;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</div>
</div>

<div style="border-left:3px solid #ff00ff; padding-left:12px; margin:16px 0; color:#ffffff; font-style:italic; font-size:1.05em;">
</div>

== Appearance ==

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
A towering figure (2.03 m / 6'8") whose massive physical frame makes him loom over most. His body is heavily conditioned from obvious weight training but has been clearly augmented by grafted muscles and likely enough bone lacing to support the load. His head is shaved bald and his eyes are blue. He wears black cargo pants, a black short-sleeve shirt, and a black light armorjack.
He carries himself with the cold, rigid bearing of a hardened battlefield asset. His neck on the right side behind the ear shows the slots of a neuroport. His mien looks haunted and defined by a hollow expression and a detached, desensitized demeanor that reflects a severely eroded sense of humanity.
</div>

=== Distinguishing Features ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Herculean Build:</span> Standing at over 2 meters tall (6'8"), Lukas is built like a comic book superhero. This goes beyond steroids, guy's got to be sporting augmentations like muscle grafts and bone lacing at the very least.
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Implanted Linear Frame Sigma:</span> The Internal Sigma isn't immediately obvious if Lukas wears a full covering of thick, bulky, or oversized clothing. If he's wearing tight clothing or showing some skin, however, others can see lines marking expansion points needed to make room for the cybernetics and patterns representing the skin mimicking the textures of the mechanicals below. Bulges near joints where the cybernetics don’t quite match the human form are also common. Anyone seeing such telltale signs can make a DV13 Cybertech Check to recognize them as the mark of a Internal Linear Frame Sigma.
</div>

=== Mannerisms and Habits ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
To a casual observer, Lukas is a study in unnerving, mechanical stillness; he does not fidget or look around, but instead carries a cold, hyper-vigilant presence. When he does look at someone, his eyes exhibit the classic "thousand-yard stare"... an unblinking gaze that seems to look straight through people rather than at them, as if perpetually watching a horizon only he can see. He moves with a rigid, economical precision that strips away all warmth or relaxed human posture, treating every environment like a potential kill zone and every person like a threat assessment. His voice is flat and devoid of inflection, treating tragic news or basic small talk with the same hollow, transactional apathy. This lack of empathy manifests not as active cruelty, but as a chilling, emotional void; he is physically present, but the human spark that connects people has been replaced by the quiet, tireless efficiency of a weapon.
</div>

== Background ==

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
Lukas Howard was born in the concrete maze of Night City in early 2049. He grew up in Santo Domingo, a district choked by industrial smog and poverty. His parents were factory workers laboring for a failing Petrochem subsidiary. Because of his large frame, even as a kid, he loomed over his peers. He was often targeted by local booster gangs looking to test their mettle against the "big kid."

To keep him from joining a gang and winding up in prison or dead, his father enrolled him in a nearby karate dojo. There Lukas spent his tweens and early teens learning the discipline and grace of the Japanese martial art. At the very least it kept young Lukas out of trouble for the most part.

In the late 2050's, a NUSA-backed front organization called the Federal Youth Pioneers set up recruitment and community centers in the poorer sectors of Night City. For Lukas, the Pioneers center was the only place with air conditioning, actual meat (instead of kibble), and a sense of purpose. The counselors were covert NUSA military scouts and instantly noticed the massive teenager who could punch through walls. They fed him, gave him basic tutoring, and filled his head with stories of a unified America where a man of his size could be a decorated hero instead of a street thug.

In 2066, corporate rezoning forced Lukas' family out of their mega-tenement apartment. His parents were in debt and could not afford to support themselves and a 17 year-old son so Lukas started to help out by competing as an illegal pit-fighter for money. To him the city was a corrupt and chaotic meat-grinder so by the time he was 18 he enlisted in the NUSA military and wound up in the Mechanized Combat Force. The order, structure, and the heavy chrome they implanted in him turned young Lukas into a valuable asset.

In 2069 when the Unification War broke out, Lukas deployed to the brutal Southern California front, where he became a living battering ram for the NUSA Mechanized Combat Force. Sweeping through the scorched, booby-trapped trenches of the Baja border, he relied on his newly grafted muscles, bone lacing and Kerenzikov to survive high-speed, close-quarters skirmishes against heavily armed Free State secessionists. He earned his handle, "Nightmare," from the terrifying efficiency with which he used his massive frame to breach enemy bunkers, wading through enemies to tear through fortified positions with his retractable Wolver blades. When the war abruptly halted in 2070, he was left a hollowed-out weapon of the state, possessing a cold addiction to battlefield adrenaline and a severely eroded sense of humanity.

In the post-war military downsizing, the NUSA sold his contract to Lazarus Group. Lazarus is a massive, highly professional private military company staffed by veterans. Given Lukas' Night City origins and Lazarus' interests there, they set him loose there as a "freelance" Solo who they could tap when they had need of black ops work to be handled with total deniability. Unfortunately for Lukas, though he is no longer directly employed by Lazarus they made him subject to an onerous separation agreement where he can not take hostile action against Lazarus corporate employees without suffering debilitating pain due to the chip they implanted in his neuroport.
</div>

=== Known Associations ===

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Lukas

2026-07-31T18:39:15Z

Nemesys: /* Appearance */

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<div style="float:right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px; border: 1px solid #ff00ff; background:#111111; width:340px;">
<div style="line-height:0; border-bottom:1px solid #ff00ff;">[[File:Martyn_Ford_001.jpg|340px]]</div>
<table style="width:100%; border-collapse:collapse; background:#111111;">
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333; width:40%;">Name</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Lukas Howard</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Role</td><td style="color:#00ffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Solo</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Occupation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Status</td><td style="color:#00ff00; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Active</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Affiliation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Notable Cyberware</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
</table>
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<div style="text-align:left; border-bottom: 2px solid #ff00ff; padding-bottom: 12px; margin-bottom: 20px;">
<div style="font-size:2em; color:#ffd700; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:4px;">Lukas Howard</div>
<div style="color:#ff00ff; font-size:1em; margin-top:4px;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</div>
</div>

<div style="border-left:3px solid #ff00ff; padding-left:12px; margin:16px 0; color:#ffffff; font-style:italic; font-size:1.05em;">
</div>

== Appearance ==

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
A towering figure (2.03 m / 6'8") whose massive physical frame makes him loom over most. His body is heavily conditioned from obvious weight training but has been clearly augmented by grafted muscles and likely enough bone lacing to support the load. His head is shaved bald and his eyes are blue. He wears black cargo pants, a black short-sleeve shirt, and a black light armorjack.
He carries himself with the cold, rigid bearing of a hardened battlefield asset. His neck on the right side behind the ear shows the slots of a neuroport. His mien looks haunted and defined by a hollow expression and a detached, desensitized demeanor that reflects a severely eroded sense of humanity.
</div>

=== Distinguishing Features ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Herculean Build:</span> Standing at over 2 meters tall (6'8"), Lukas is built like a comic book superhero. This goes beyond steroids, guy's got to be sporting augmentations like muscle grafts and bone lacing at the very least.
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Implanted Linear Frame Sigma:</span> The Internal Sigma isn't immediately obvious if Lukas wears a full covering of thick, bulky, or oversized clothing. If he's wearing tight clothing or showing some skin, however, others can see lines marking expansion points needed to make room for the cybernetics and patterns representing the skin mimicking the textures of the mechanicals below. Bulges near joints where the cybernetics don’t quite match the human form are also common. Anyone seeing such telltale signs can make a DV13 Cybertech Check to recognize them as the mark of a Internal Linear Frame Sigma.
</div>

=== Mannerisms and Habits ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
To a casual observer, Lukas is a study in unnerving, mechanical stillness; he does not fidget or look around, but instead carries a cold, hyper-vigilant presence. When he does look at someone, his eyes exhibit the classic "thousand-yard stare"... an unblinking gaze that seems to look straight through people rather than at them, as if perpetually watching a horizon only he can see. He moves with a rigid, economical precision that strips away all warmth or relaxed human posture, treating every environment like a potential kill zone and every person like a threat assessment. His voice is flat and devoid of inflection, treating tragic news or basic small talk with the same hollow, transactional apathy. This lack of empathy manifests not as active cruelty, but as a chilling, emotional void; he is physically present, but the human spark that connects people has been replaced by the quiet, tireless efficiency of a weapon.
</div>

== Background ==

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
Lukas Howard was born in the concrete maze of Night City in early 2049. He grew up in Santo Domingo, a district choked by industrial smog and poverty. His parents were factory workers laboring for a failing Petrochem subsidiary. Because of his large frame, even as a kid, he loomed over his peers. He was often targeted by local booster gangs looking to test their mettle against the "big kid."

To keep him from joining a gang and winding up in prison or dead, his father enrolled him in a nearby karate dojo. There Lukas spent his tweens and early teens learning the discipline and grace of the Japanese martial art. At the very least it kept young Lukas out of trouble for the most part.

In the late 2050's, a NUSA-backed front organization called the Federal Youth Pioneers set up recruitment and community centers in the poorer sectors of Night City. For Lukas, the Pioneers center was the only place with air conditioning, actual meat (instead of kibble), and a sense of purpose. The counselors were covert NUSA military scouts and instantly noticed the massive teenager who could punch through walls. They fed him, gave him basic tutoring, and filled his head with stories of a unified America where a man of his size could be a decorated hero instead of a street thug.

In 2066, corporate rezoning forced Lukas' family out of their mega-tenement apartment. His parents were in debt and could not afford to support themselves and a 17 year-old son so Lukas started to help out by competing as an illegal pit-fighter for money. To him the city was a corrupt and chaotic meat-grinder so by the time he was 18 he enlisted in the NUSA military and wound up in the Mechanized Combat Force. The order, structure, and the heavy chrome they implanted in him turned young Lukas into a valuable asset.

In 2069 when the Unification War broke out, Lukas deployed to the brutal Southern California front, where he became a living battering ram for the NUSA Mechanized Combat Force. Sweeping through the scorched, booby-trapped trenches of the Baja border, he relied on his newly grafted muscles, bone lacing and Kerenzikov to survive high-speed, close-quarters skirmishes against heavily armed Free State secessionists. He earned his handle, "Nightmare," from the terrifying efficiency with which he used his massive frame to breach enemy bunkers, wading through enemies to tear through fortified positions with his retractable Wolver blades. When the war abruptly halted in 2070, he was left a hollowed-out weapon of the state, possessing a cold addiction to battlefield adrenaline and a severely eroded sense of humanity.

In the post-war military downsizing, the NUSA sold his contract to Lazarus Group. Lazarus is a massive, highly professional private military company staffed by veterans. Given Lukas' Night City origins and Lazarus' interests there, they set him loose there as a "freelance" Solo who they could tap when they had need of black ops work to be handled with total deniability. Unfortunately for Lukas, though he is no longer directly employed by Lazarus they made him subject to an onerous separation agreement where he can not take hostile action against Lazarus corporate employees without suffering debilitating pain due to the chip they implanted in his neuroport.
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=== Known Associations ===

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Lukas

2026-07-31T18:37:24Z

Nemesys: /* Mannerisms and Habits */

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<div style="line-height:0; border-bottom:1px solid #ff00ff;">[[File:Martyn_Ford_001.jpg|340px]]</div>
<table style="width:100%; border-collapse:collapse; background:#111111;">
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333; width:40%;">Name</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Lukas Howard</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Role</td><td style="color:#00ffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Solo</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Occupation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Status</td><td style="color:#00ff00; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Active</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Affiliation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Notable Cyberware</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
</table>
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<div style="font-size:2em; color:#ffd700; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:4px;">Lukas Howard</div>
<div style="color:#ff00ff; font-size:1em; margin-top:4px;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</div>
</div>

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</div>

== Appearance ==

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</div>

=== Distinguishing Features ===

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* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Herculean Build:</span> Standing at over 2 meters tall (6'8"), Lukas is built like a comic book superhero. This goes beyond steroids, guy's got to be sporting augmentations like muscle grafts and bone lacing at the very least.
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Implanted Linear Frame Sigma:</span> The Internal Sigma isn't immediately obvious if Lukas wears a full covering of thick, bulky, or oversized clothing. If he's wearing tight clothing or showing some skin, however, others can see lines marking expansion points needed to make room for the cybernetics and patterns representing the skin mimicking the textures of the mechanicals below. Bulges near joints where the cybernetics don’t quite match the human form are also common. Anyone seeing such telltale signs can make a DV13 Cybertech Check to recognize them as the mark of a Internal Linear Frame Sigma.
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=== Mannerisms and Habits ===

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To a casual observer, Lukas is a study in unnerving, mechanical stillness; he does not fidget or look around, but instead carries a cold, hyper-vigilant presence. When he does look at someone, his eyes exhibit the classic "thousand-yard stare"... an unblinking gaze that seems to look straight through people rather than at them, as if perpetually watching a horizon only he can see. He moves with a rigid, economical precision that strips away all warmth or relaxed human posture, treating every environment like a potential kill zone and every person like a threat assessment. His voice is flat and devoid of inflection, treating tragic news or basic small talk with the same hollow, transactional apathy. This lack of empathy manifests not as active cruelty, but as a chilling, emotional void; he is physically present, but the human spark that connects people has been replaced by the quiet, tireless efficiency of a weapon.
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== Background ==

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Lukas Howard was born in the concrete maze of Night City in early 2049. He grew up in Santo Domingo, a district choked by industrial smog and poverty. His parents were factory workers laboring for a failing Petrochem subsidiary. Because of his large frame, even as a kid, he loomed over his peers. He was often targeted by local booster gangs looking to test their mettle against the "big kid."

To keep him from joining a gang and winding up in prison or dead, his father enrolled him in a nearby karate dojo. There Lukas spent his tweens and early teens learning the discipline and grace of the Japanese martial art. At the very least it kept young Lukas out of trouble for the most part.

In the late 2050's, a NUSA-backed front organization called the Federal Youth Pioneers set up recruitment and community centers in the poorer sectors of Night City. For Lukas, the Pioneers center was the only place with air conditioning, actual meat (instead of kibble), and a sense of purpose. The counselors were covert NUSA military scouts and instantly noticed the massive teenager who could punch through walls. They fed him, gave him basic tutoring, and filled his head with stories of a unified America where a man of his size could be a decorated hero instead of a street thug.

In 2066, corporate rezoning forced Lukas' family out of their mega-tenement apartment. His parents were in debt and could not afford to support themselves and a 17 year-old son so Lukas started to help out by competing as an illegal pit-fighter for money. To him the city was a corrupt and chaotic meat-grinder so by the time he was 18 he enlisted in the NUSA military and wound up in the Mechanized Combat Force. The order, structure, and the heavy chrome they implanted in him turned young Lukas into a valuable asset.

In 2069 when the Unification War broke out, Lukas deployed to the brutal Southern California front, where he became a living battering ram for the NUSA Mechanized Combat Force. Sweeping through the scorched, booby-trapped trenches of the Baja border, he relied on his newly grafted muscles, bone lacing and Kerenzikov to survive high-speed, close-quarters skirmishes against heavily armed Free State secessionists. He earned his handle, "Nightmare," from the terrifying efficiency with which he used his massive frame to breach enemy bunkers, wading through enemies to tear through fortified positions with his retractable Wolver blades. When the war abruptly halted in 2070, he was left a hollowed-out weapon of the state, possessing a cold addiction to battlefield adrenaline and a severely eroded sense of humanity.

In the post-war military downsizing, the NUSA sold his contract to Lazarus Group. Lazarus is a massive, highly professional private military company staffed by veterans. Given Lukas' Night City origins and Lazarus' interests there, they set him loose there as a "freelance" Solo who they could tap when they had need of black ops work to be handled with total deniability. Unfortunately for Lukas, though he is no longer directly employed by Lazarus they made him subject to an onerous separation agreement where he can not take hostile action against Lazarus corporate employees without suffering debilitating pain due to the chip they implanted in his neuroport.
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=== Known Associations ===

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Lukas

2026-07-31T18:30:22Z

Nemesys: /* Distinguishing Features */

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<div style="line-height:0; border-bottom:1px solid #ff00ff;">[[File:Martyn_Ford_001.jpg|340px]]</div>
<table style="width:100%; border-collapse:collapse; background:#111111;">
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333; width:40%;">Name</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Lukas Howard</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Role</td><td style="color:#00ffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Solo</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Occupation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Status</td><td style="color:#00ff00; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Active</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Affiliation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Notable Cyberware</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
</table>
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<div style="font-size:2em; color:#ffd700; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:4px;">Lukas Howard</div>
<div style="color:#ff00ff; font-size:1em; margin-top:4px;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</div>
</div>

<div style="border-left:3px solid #ff00ff; padding-left:12px; margin:16px 0; color:#ffffff; font-style:italic; font-size:1.05em;">
</div>

== Appearance ==

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
</div>

=== Distinguishing Features ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Herculean Build:</span> Standing at over 2 meters tall (6'8"), Lukas is built like a comic book superhero. This goes beyond steroids, guy's got to be sporting augmentations like muscle grafts and bone lacing at the very least.
* <span style="color:#ffd700;">Implanted Linear Frame Sigma:</span> The Internal Sigma isn't immediately obvious if Lukas wears a full covering of thick, bulky, or oversized clothing. If he's wearing tight clothing or showing some skin, however, others can see lines marking expansion points needed to make room for the cybernetics and patterns representing the skin mimicking the textures of the mechanicals below. Bulges near joints where the cybernetics don’t quite match the human form are also common. Anyone seeing such telltale signs can make a DV13 Cybertech Check to recognize them as the mark of a Internal Linear Frame Sigma.
</div>

=== Mannerisms and Habits ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
</div>

== Background ==

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
Lukas Howard was born in the concrete maze of Night City in early 2049. He grew up in Santo Domingo, a district choked by industrial smog and poverty. His parents were factory workers laboring for a failing Petrochem subsidiary. Because of his large frame, even as a kid, he loomed over his peers. He was often targeted by local booster gangs looking to test their mettle against the "big kid."

To keep him from joining a gang and winding up in prison or dead, his father enrolled him in a nearby karate dojo. There Lukas spent his tweens and early teens learning the discipline and grace of the Japanese martial art. At the very least it kept young Lukas out of trouble for the most part.

In the late 2050's, a NUSA-backed front organization called the Federal Youth Pioneers set up recruitment and community centers in the poorer sectors of Night City. For Lukas, the Pioneers center was the only place with air conditioning, actual meat (instead of kibble), and a sense of purpose. The counselors were covert NUSA military scouts and instantly noticed the massive teenager who could punch through walls. They fed him, gave him basic tutoring, and filled his head with stories of a unified America where a man of his size could be a decorated hero instead of a street thug.

In 2066, corporate rezoning forced Lukas' family out of their mega-tenement apartment. His parents were in debt and could not afford to support themselves and a 17 year-old son so Lukas started to help out by competing as an illegal pit-fighter for money. To him the city was a corrupt and chaotic meat-grinder so by the time he was 18 he enlisted in the NUSA military and wound up in the Mechanized Combat Force. The order, structure, and the heavy chrome they implanted in him turned young Lukas into a valuable asset.

In 2069 when the Unification War broke out, Lukas deployed to the brutal Southern California front, where he became a living battering ram for the NUSA Mechanized Combat Force. Sweeping through the scorched, booby-trapped trenches of the Baja border, he relied on his newly grafted muscles, bone lacing and Kerenzikov to survive high-speed, close-quarters skirmishes against heavily armed Free State secessionists. He earned his handle, "Nightmare," from the terrifying efficiency with which he used his massive frame to breach enemy bunkers, wading through enemies to tear through fortified positions with his retractable Wolver blades. When the war abruptly halted in 2070, he was left a hollowed-out weapon of the state, possessing a cold addiction to battlefield adrenaline and a severely eroded sense of humanity.

In the post-war military downsizing, the NUSA sold his contract to Lazarus Group. Lazarus is a massive, highly professional private military company staffed by veterans. Given Lukas' Night City origins and Lazarus' interests there, they set him loose there as a "freelance" Solo who they could tap when they had need of black ops work to be handled with total deniability. Unfortunately for Lukas, though he is no longer directly employed by Lazarus they made him subject to an onerous separation agreement where he can not take hostile action against Lazarus corporate employees without suffering debilitating pain due to the chip they implanted in his neuroport.
</div>

=== Known Associations ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">

</div>

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Lukas

2026-07-31T18:28:21Z

Nemesys: /* Distinguishing Features */

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<div style="line-height:0; border-bottom:1px solid #ff00ff;">[[File:Martyn_Ford_001.jpg|340px]]</div>
<table style="width:100%; border-collapse:collapse; background:#111111;">
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333; width:40%;">Name</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Lukas Howard</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Role</td><td style="color:#00ffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Solo</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Occupation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Status</td><td style="color:#00ff00; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Active</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Affiliation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Notable Cyberware</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
</table>
</div>

<div style="text-align:left; border-bottom: 2px solid #ff00ff; padding-bottom: 12px; margin-bottom: 20px;">
<div style="font-size:2em; color:#ffd700; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:4px;">Lukas Howard</div>
<div style="color:#ff00ff; font-size:1em; margin-top:4px;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</div>
</div>

<div style="border-left:3px solid #ff00ff; padding-left:12px; margin:16px 0; color:#ffffff; font-style:italic; font-size:1.05em;">
</div>

== Appearance ==

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
</div>

=== Distinguishing Features ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
* Herculean Build: Standing at over 2 meters tall (6'8"), Lukas is built like a comic book superhero. This goes beyond steroids, guy's got to be sporting augmentations like muscle grafts and bone lacing at the very least.
* Implanted Linear Frame Sigma: The Internal Sigma isn't immediately obvious if Lukas wears a full covering of thick, bulky, or oversized clothing. If he's wearing tight clothing or showing some skin, however, others can see lines marking expansion points needed to make room for the cybernetics and patterns representing the skin mimicking the textures of the mechanicals below. Bulges near joints where the cybernetics don’t quite match the human form are also common. Anyone seeing such telltale signs can make a DV13 Cybertech Check to recognize them as the mark of a Internal Linear Frame Sigma.
</div>

=== Mannerisms and Habits ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
</div>

== Background ==

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
Lukas Howard was born in the concrete maze of Night City in early 2049. He grew up in Santo Domingo, a district choked by industrial smog and poverty. His parents were factory workers laboring for a failing Petrochem subsidiary. Because of his large frame, even as a kid, he loomed over his peers. He was often targeted by local booster gangs looking to test their mettle against the "big kid."

To keep him from joining a gang and winding up in prison or dead, his father enrolled him in a nearby karate dojo. There Lukas spent his tweens and early teens learning the discipline and grace of the Japanese martial art. At the very least it kept young Lukas out of trouble for the most part.

In the late 2050's, a NUSA-backed front organization called the Federal Youth Pioneers set up recruitment and community centers in the poorer sectors of Night City. For Lukas, the Pioneers center was the only place with air conditioning, actual meat (instead of kibble), and a sense of purpose. The counselors were covert NUSA military scouts and instantly noticed the massive teenager who could punch through walls. They fed him, gave him basic tutoring, and filled his head with stories of a unified America where a man of his size could be a decorated hero instead of a street thug.

In 2066, corporate rezoning forced Lukas' family out of their mega-tenement apartment. His parents were in debt and could not afford to support themselves and a 17 year-old son so Lukas started to help out by competing as an illegal pit-fighter for money. To him the city was a corrupt and chaotic meat-grinder so by the time he was 18 he enlisted in the NUSA military and wound up in the Mechanized Combat Force. The order, structure, and the heavy chrome they implanted in him turned young Lukas into a valuable asset.

In 2069 when the Unification War broke out, Lukas deployed to the brutal Southern California front, where he became a living battering ram for the NUSA Mechanized Combat Force. Sweeping through the scorched, booby-trapped trenches of the Baja border, he relied on his newly grafted muscles, bone lacing and Kerenzikov to survive high-speed, close-quarters skirmishes against heavily armed Free State secessionists. He earned his handle, "Nightmare," from the terrifying efficiency with which he used his massive frame to breach enemy bunkers, wading through enemies to tear through fortified positions with his retractable Wolver blades. When the war abruptly halted in 2070, he was left a hollowed-out weapon of the state, possessing a cold addiction to battlefield adrenaline and a severely eroded sense of humanity.

In the post-war military downsizing, the NUSA sold his contract to Lazarus Group. Lazarus is a massive, highly professional private military company staffed by veterans. Given Lukas' Night City origins and Lazarus' interests there, they set him loose there as a "freelance" Solo who they could tap when they had need of black ops work to be handled with total deniability. Unfortunately for Lukas, though he is no longer directly employed by Lazarus they made him subject to an onerous separation agreement where he can not take hostile action against Lazarus corporate employees without suffering debilitating pain due to the chip they implanted in his neuroport.
</div>

=== Known Associations ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">

</div>

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[[Category:Player Characters]]

Lukas

2026-07-30T21:05:20Z

Nemesys: Created page with "<div style="background:#000000; color:#ffffff; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; padding: 20px; border: 2px solid #ff00ff;"> <div style="float:right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px; border: 1px solid #ff00ff; background:#111111; width:340px;"> <div style="line-height:0; border-bottom:1px solid #ff00ff;">340px</div> <table style="width:100%; border-collapse:collapse; background:#111111;"> <tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bott..."

<div style="background:#000000; color:#ffffff; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; padding: 20px; border: 2px solid #ff00ff;">

<div style="float:right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px; border: 1px solid #ff00ff; background:#111111; width:340px;">
<div style="line-height:0; border-bottom:1px solid #ff00ff;">[[File:Martyn_Ford_001.jpg|340px]]</div>
<table style="width:100%; border-collapse:collapse; background:#111111;">
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333; width:40%;">Name</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Lukas Howard</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Role</td><td style="color:#00ffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Solo</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Occupation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Status</td><td style="color:#00ff00; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Active</td></tr>
<tr><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Affiliation</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
<tr style="background:#0a0a0a;"><td style="color:#ffd700; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Notable Cyberware</td><td style="color:#ffffff; padding:6px 8px; border-bottom:1px solid #333333;">Unknown</td></tr>
</table>
</div>

<div style="text-align:left; border-bottom: 2px solid #ff00ff; padding-bottom: 12px; margin-bottom: 20px;">
<div style="font-size:2em; color:#ffd700; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:4px;">Lukas Howard</div>
<div style="color:#ff00ff; font-size:1em; margin-top:4px;">Assassin / Bounty Hunter / Bodyguard / Mercenary</div>
</div>

<div style="border-left:3px solid #ff00ff; padding-left:12px; margin:16px 0; color:#ffffff; font-style:italic; font-size:1.05em;">
</div>

== Appearance ==

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
</div>

=== Distinguishing Features ===

<div style="border:1px solid #333333; padding:10px; margin:8px 0; background:#111111; color:#ffffff;">
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=== Mannerisms and Habits ===

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== Background ==

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Lukas Howard was born in the concrete maze of Night City in early 2049. He grew up in Santo Domingo, a district choked by industrial smog and poverty. His parents were factory workers laboring for a failing Petrochem subsidiary. Because of his large frame, even as a kid, he loomed over his peers. He was often targeted by local booster gangs looking to test their mettle against the "big kid."

To keep him from joining a gang and winding up in prison or dead, his father enrolled him in a nearby karate dojo. There Lukas spent his tweens and early teens learning the discipline and grace of the Japanese martial art. At the very least it kept young Lukas out of trouble for the most part.

In the late 2050's, a NUSA-backed front organization called the Federal Youth Pioneers set up recruitment and community centers in the poorer sectors of Night City. For Lukas, the Pioneers center was the only place with air conditioning, actual meat (instead of kibble), and a sense of purpose. The counselors were covert NUSA military scouts and instantly noticed the massive teenager who could punch through walls. They fed him, gave him basic tutoring, and filled his head with stories of a unified America where a man of his size could be a decorated hero instead of a street thug.

In 2066, corporate rezoning forced Lukas' family out of their mega-tenement apartment. His parents were in debt and could not afford to support themselves and a 17 year-old son so Lukas started to help out by competing as an illegal pit-fighter for money. To him the city was a corrupt and chaotic meat-grinder so by the time he was 18 he enlisted in the NUSA military and wound up in the Mechanized Combat Force. The order, structure, and the heavy chrome they implanted in him turned young Lukas into a valuable asset.

In 2069 when the Unification War broke out, Lukas deployed to the brutal Southern California front, where he became a living battering ram for the NUSA Mechanized Combat Force. Sweeping through the scorched, booby-trapped trenches of the Baja border, he relied on his newly grafted muscles, bone lacing and Kerenzikov to survive high-speed, close-quarters skirmishes against heavily armed Free State secessionists. He earned his handle, "Nightmare," from the terrifying efficiency with which he used his massive frame to breach enemy bunkers, wading through enemies to tear through fortified positions with his retractable Wolver blades. When the war abruptly halted in 2070, he was left a hollowed-out weapon of the state, possessing a cold addiction to battlefield adrenaline and a severely eroded sense of humanity.

In the post-war military downsizing, the NUSA sold his contract to Lazarus Group. Lazarus is a massive, highly professional private military company staffed by veterans. Given Lukas' Night City origins and Lazarus' interests there, they set him loose there as a "freelance" Solo who they could tap when they had need of black ops work to be handled with total deniability. Unfortunately for Lukas, though he is no longer directly employed by Lazarus they made him subject to an onerous separation agreement where he can not take hostile action against Lazarus corporate employees without suffering debilitating pain due to the chip they implanted in his neuroport.
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=== Known Associations ===

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