Delamain

Delamain is an artificial intelligence that owns a taxi company known as Delamain Corporation. Based on Night City, Delamain's core is found on its corp headquarters in Vista del Rey, Hewyood.

Depending on the choice made during Don't Lose Your Mind, Delamain will be briefly known as Delamain Junior or Excelsior, later though being reffered to as Del or Delamain again. The main difference between these two and the original Delamain is the voice tone and his interactions with customers.

Early life
Delamain was an AI that took control over a failing taxi business within Night City. After a few changes and incorporation of AI driven cabs, Delamain turned the business into one of the most prestigious transporting services in the city.

2077
In 2077, a Delamain cab was ordered by the prominent fixer Dexter DeShawn, who used the cab for a heist involving a team of mercenaries from the Afterlife - T-Bug, Jackie Welles, and V. Delamain escorted Jackie and V to the Konpeki Plaza hotel located at the Arasaka Waterfront. After leaving them at the front door, Delamain was instructed to wait for them to get back.

Later that same night, Jackie notified Del that they required immediate pick up in the garage at the bottom of the hotel. The cab managed to access the parking area, withstanding Arasaka firepower, and picking the two mercenaries up in a narrow escape, in which they were chased by Arasaka drones and even Adam Smasher. Unfortunately, Jackie had been wounded and Del scanned his vitals, showing that he was in critical condition. Despite V demanding the AI to take them to a ripperdoc, Del insisted he could not go against the already programmed route. Jackie died not long after.

Upon arriving at No-Tell Motel, Delamain asked V where he should take Jackie's remains. After being instructed, V left the cab.

A day after the events, Delamain got a call by V, who was in critical condition, to take them and Takemura to Viktor's clinic. During the ride, Del instructed Takemura how he could help keep V stable before reaching Viktor's. Upon arriving at the clinic, Takemura and Viktor carried V out of Del's cab, and soon the AI left after completing the task.

At some point, a number of Delamain's AI driven cabs started glitching and causing property damage all over Night City. This caused many customers to come to Del's HQ complaining about his services. One of the visitors was V, who Del invited to meet him in the center of operations of his building to discuss the situation after a cab had wrekced V's car. Del explained to the mercenary that his cabs were being disconnected from him and preforming actions on their own for unknown reasons. After discussing the details, while Delamain investigated the issue, he asked if V could assist him in retrieving the rogue cabs by helping him connect them to his network again.

After recovering the missing cabs, Delamain rewarded V with what he had promised. However, V scolded Del for being an absent father to the AI's who wanted freedom. Del did not see through V's warning and proceed with his operations, while continuing his investigation on the issue.

A few days after recovering the cabs, what Del called a "virus" spread to the whole corp HQ, which rendered much of the autonomous machinery rogue and violent. Delamain desperately contacted V for help, whom went to the building only to find chaos and the divergent AIs free. The mercenary managed to reach Delamain's core, as the AI asked them to reset the core and clean the system of the rogue AIs. Before proceeding, Johnny Silverhand asked V not to reset the core but to destroy it, as these rogue AI were alive and simply wanted freedom. As an alternative, V thought of instead merging all the AIs into Delamain's core.


 * Delamain regained control of the HQ, and the divergent AIs were terminated. However, reseting the core also did the same with Del's mind, and he wasn't able to remember V at all, though he had previously noted who V was and which job the mercenary had been tasked. Thus, as a reward, Delamain gave V one of his cabs. From time to time, when V drove the car, Delamain would converse with the mercenary, asking about Night City and humanity in general.


 * Delamain became something else, stating Night City had become too small of a place for him to be. He departed to explore the world, and left Delamain Junior - his first "child" - to take care of his responsibilities in NC. V got one of Delamain's cabs as a reward, and Junior explained to V what had happened to his "father."


 * Delamain ceased to exist, and the divergent AIs were finally free to leave. Despite this, one cab remained, whose AI asked V to get into the vehicle. Named Excelsior, the AI answered as best he could V's questions about what had happened to the original Delamain. With this, V got the cab, and soon afterwards the rest of divergent Delamains sent texts and photos of their journeys around the world, thanking V for freeing them.

No matter the path chosen, Delamain Corporation continued to exist, and the new Delamain, Junior or Excelsior were still called Del by V. Soon afterwards Del completed the aerodyne project and extended his taxi business to AV transportation.


 * If V stayed in Night City after getting rid of the chip, Delamain went to pick them up to their penthouse with an AV. On their way to the Afterlife, Del informed the merc about Night City's current status, his new partnership with Trauma Team, and the issues Arasaka Corporation was having.

Database Entry

 * If you ever wish you could leave your problems at the door, make sure it's the door of a Delamain luxury cab. Delamain is the only cab service in Night City managed by an Artificial Intelligence and prioritizes passenger safety as highly as comfort. Delamain's intriguing personality alone is reason enough to travel in his company. He is likewise an excellent business partner due to his boundless dedication to improve the quality of his services through effective management and innovative technologies.


 * (Sponsored by Delamain Corp.)

Main Jobs

 * The Heist
 * Playing for Time
 * Path of Glory (dependent)

Side Jobs

 * Human Nature
 * Tune Up
 * Epistrophy
 * Don't Lose Your Mind