Red Ocher

The Red Ocher family was a group of Nomads operating in the vicinity of Night City.

In 2077, Dr. Joanne Koch, Biotechnica regional director for tech and development, aided by colleagues Alex Pushkin and Diana Cuno, was responsible for the unscrupolous capture of Red Ocher members for scientific experiments. Using them as test subjects for a project called "Nightingale" resulted in the deaths of 70 clan members. While Dr. Koch claimed her research was related to antibiotics development, others described the procedure as being poisoned. Dr. Isaacson from Biotechnica performed autopsies on some of the deceased Red Ocher Nomads, noting that the cause of death was "electromagnetic overstimulation" along with other abnormal changes such as drastic neuralgic growth. Even handling the corpses afterwards proofed to be dangerous as one Biotechnica employee, Brandon Murphy, lost an arm just from coming into contact with the victims.

Despite Dr. Koch's best efforts to offer them hush-money in return for their "forgiveness", the Red Ocher wanted blood - and to get it, they reached out to Dino Dinovic, who, in turn, put out a hit on Koch, which V can pick up to ensure the Nomads get their vengeance.

One of the affected Red Ochers, Cedric Muller, described the effects of the virus as his fellow clan members' "lungs collapsing". He himself tried to procure neuroblockers from Scavengers to suppress the pain, but as they tried to carve him up instead, Cedric went cyberpsycho and killed the attackers. If V takes Cedric down non-lethally, Regina Jones will remark that she is hopeful that Cedric will recuperate and be able rejoin his Nomad family.