Night City Legends

Legends of Night City

Night City has a way of making legends. It also has a way of breaking them. These are the names that echo through the streets, the corpo boardrooms, the back alleys and the NET. Some of them are still out there. Some of them are ghosts. All of them left a mark on the city that time cannot erase.

Still Active

The following legends are confirmed active in Night City as of 2076.

Adam Smasher

NCPD THREAT DOSSIER — MAXIMUM THREAT CLASSIFICATION
File: NC-SEC-001 | Classification: RESTRICTED | Issued by: NCPD Intelligence Division

Status	Affiliation	Role	Last Known Location
ACTIVE — CONFIRMED	Arasaka Corporation	Head of Security / Assassination Division	Night City / Tokyo

Adam Smasher — Subject Photo

SUBJECT OVERVIEW

Subject designation: Adam Smasher. Classification: Full Body Conversion Solo. Current employer: Arasaka Corporation, serving in capacity of Head of Security and primary assassination asset.

Subject underwent voluntary full body conversion at an undetermined point prior to his Arasaka affiliation, retaining only his biological brain within a military-grade combat chassis. Organic components are considered negligible. Subject is considered one of the most lethally capable individuals operating in Night City or globally.

KNOWN EQUIPMENT

• Arasaka DaiOni Battlesuit — Subject's primary combat chassis. Highly customized. One of the most recognizable and feared pieces of military hardware currently in operation.
• Ba Xing Chong — Subject's primary weapon. An iconic smart shotgun of devastating capability.
• Integrated weapons systems — Multiple integrated weapon systems confirmed. Full loadout classified.
• Military-grade sensor and targeting systems

KNOWN ASSOCIATES AND CONFIRMED ADVERSARIES

• Employer: Arasaka Corporation
• Confirmed Kill: Johnny Silverhand — 2023, Arasaka Tower
• Confirmed Kill: David Martinez — 2076, Night City
• Confirmed Kill: Rebeccah — 2076, Night City
• Known Adversary: Morgan Blackhand — confronted 2023, Arasaka Tower. Blackhand status unknown.

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT

Subject is assessed as a suspected high-functioning Cyberpsycho. Subject is known to refuse any operational contract that does not explicitly permit collateral damage and civilian casualties.

NCPD / MAXTAC SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT POLICY — ORDER NC-SEC-001-A

Effective immediately and until further notice: any situation involving confirmed or suspected subject activity is hereby designated a NON-ENGAGEMENT ZONE for all NCPD and MaxTac personnel.

Officers are ordered to withdraw from the area and are explicitly prohibited from rendering assistance to any civilian or non-NCPD party engaged with subject. Command has assessed that direct engagement with subject would result in total unit loss with zero operational benefit.

This order is not to be disclosed to the public.

— Signed: NCPD Chief of Department

OFFICER WARNING: Do not engage. Do not approach. Withdraw immediately upon confirmed sighting.

Rogue Amendiares

NCPD INTELLIGENCE DOSSIER — HIGH VALUE INDIVIDUAL
File: NC-FIX-007 | Classification: RESTRICTED | Issued by: NCPD Intelligence Division

Status	Affiliation	Role	Last Known Location
ACTIVE — CONFIRMED	Independent	Fixer / Owner of The Afterlife	Night City — Watson

Rogue Amendiares — Subject Photo

SUBJECT OVERVIEW

Subject designation: Rogue Amendiares. Occupation: Fixer, proprietor of The Afterlife bar, Watson district. Subject is assessed as the most influential Fixer currently operating in Night City and one of the most extensively connected individuals in the city's mercenary underground.

Subject was an active Solo operative during the Corporate War era of the 2020s, operating at the highest levels of the mercenary profession. Subject survived the Night City Holocaust of 2023 and successfully transitioned to Fixer operations during the Time of the Red. The Afterlife serves as the principal meeting place for Night City's Solo and Fixer community.

KNOWN WEAPONS

• Price and Prejudice — Subject's iconic pair of handguns. Confirmed in subject's possession across multiple decades of documented activity. Considered highly dangerous.

KNOWN ASSOCIATES

• Johnny Silverhand ✝ — Long-term partner and associate, Corporate War era. Deceased 2023.
• Spider Murphy — Fellow Corporate War era operative. Ongoing associate. Active.
• Morgan Blackhand — Known Corporate War era associate. Current status unknown.
• Santiago ✝ — Deceased Nomad legend. Confirmed member of subject's crew. Deceased.

FAMILY — UNCONFIRMED

Subject is rumored to be the biological mother of Trace Santiago, Media Runner. Subject has neither confirmed nor denied this. Intelligence assessment: plausible but unverified.

AFTERLIFE COCKTAIL

Subject's drink on The Afterlife wall is listed as The Rogue — served to those who have earned the right to order it.

Morgan Blackhand

NCPD INTELLIGENCE DOSSIER — STATUS UNKNOWN
File: NC-SOL-003 | Classification: RESTRICTED | Issued by: NCPD Intelligence Division
NOTE: This file has not been formally closed. Subject has not been confirmed deceased.

Status	Affiliation	Role	Last Known Location
UNKNOWN — FILE OPEN	Independent	Solo / Mercenary	Arasaka Tower — 2023

Morgan Blackhand — Subject Photo (Last Known, Pre-2023)

SUBJECT OVERVIEW

Subject designation: Morgan Blackhand. Classification: Solo, independent contractor. Subject is widely assessed by intelligence analysts across multiple agencies as the most capable Solo operative of his generation. Subject is known for exceptional tactical capability, minimal cyberware augmentation and absolute operational professionalism.

Subject was confirmed present at Arasaka Tower, Night City, on the date of the Night City Holocaust, 2023. Subject was confirmed to have engaged Adam Smasher at the upper levels of the tower prior to the nuclear detonation. Subject's body was not recovered from the site. Subject has not been confirmed deceased. This file remains open.

KNOWN CYBERWARE

• Cybernetic right hand — Subject's most notable and identifiable augmentation. Source of subject's operational alias.
• Minimal additional augmentation — Subject is notably documented as preferring skill and training over chrome.

KNOWN ASSOCIATES

• Rogue Amendiares — Known associate, Corporate War era. Active.
• Johnny Silverhand ✝ — Known associate. Deceased 2023.
• Adam Smasher — Known adversary. Confirmed confrontation 2023.

AFTERLIFE COCKTAIL

No drink has been named after Morgan Blackhand on The Afterlife wall. In accordance with The Afterlife's tradition, a drink is only named for the confirmed dead. Subject has not decided whether he is dead or alive. A space on the wall is reserved. It remains empty. Proprietor Amendiares has declined all comment on the matter.

POST-2023 INTELLIGENCE

STATUS ASSESSMENT — UPDATED 2076

A WNS broadcast in early 2076 reported a shooting incident in Night City's Japantown district in which multiple Lazarus Group agents were found dead at the scene. The sole survivor described the attacker as "a portly man with a black cyberarm." NCPD declined to open a formal investigation. The case was filed as unsolved.

Intelligence assessment: unconfirmed. Flagged for monitoring.

Subject's status as of 2076 remains officially unknown. Neither confirmed deceased nor confirmed active. File remains open pending further intelligence.

Spider Murphy

NCPD INTELLIGENCE DOSSIER — HIGH VALUE INDIVIDUAL
File: NC-NET-002 | Classification: RESTRICTED | Issued by: NCPD Intelligence Division

Status	Affiliation	Role	Last Known Location
ACTIVE — CONFIRMED	Independent	Netrunner	Night City

Spider Murphy — Subject Photo

SUBJECT OVERVIEW

Subject designation: Spider Murphy. Classification: Netrunner, independent operative. Subject is a veteran Netrunner who was active during the Corporate War era of the 2020s. Subject operated alongside Johnny Silverhand and Rogue Amendiares during that period and was present for several significant events of that era. Subject survived the DataKrash and the collapse of the old NET and remains active in Night City as of 2076.

BEHAVIOURAL NOTE — VERBAL PATTERNS

Intelligence analysts and field operatives who have interacted with subject note a distinctive verbal tic: subject has a documented habit of speaking in poetic phrase and metaphor, frequently communicating operational information through verse or poetic construction. Analysts advise taking subject's poetic communications seriously -- they consistently mean exactly what they say, rendered in verse.

KNOWN ASSOCIATES

• Johnny Silverhand ✝ — Known associate, Corporate War era. Deceased 2023.
• Rogue Amendiares — Known associate, Corporate War era. Active.
• Rache Bartmoss — Known associate. Status disputed. See separate file.