Melissa Rory

"Nice work. You feel that back there? Feel his life leave his body?"

- Melissa Rory

Lieutenant Melissa Rory is a senior MaxTac officer in Cyberpunk 2077.

Biography
Sometime before 2069, Melissa Rory had herself implanted with Higurashi 20-13 Mantis Blades, recognized to be of high quality, though with a certain flaw: they interfaced poorly with neural processors and a certain section of the prefrontal cortex. The Higurashi 20-13 line was discontinued in 2069 because of that flaw. In January 14, 2077, Melissa was likely driven to cyberpsychosis because of it, where she killed 14 people, but she was a rare case of MaxTac apprehending a cyberpsycho alive. She was forced to join their ranks, and kept her Higurashis as a reminder of her actions.

Melissa meets the merc V later in 2077, by which time she has risen to the rank of lieutenant and holds a senior status in MaxTac. Melissa's squad arrives at Jinguji just after V defeats a cyberpsycho. V recognizes her discontinued mantis blades, commenting that MaxTac prefers Arasaka Mantis Blades. V also says they would have had Higurashis installed back when they were on the market if not for the neural processor flaw. Melissa questions V about the experience of killing the cyberpsycho, and even tries to recruit them to MaxTac, but V declines.

Associated Quests

 * Bullets

Trivia

 * Melissa Rory is a reference to the female cyberpsycho who appeared in the original 2013 teaser trailer for Cyberpunk 2077.