Brainiacs

The Brainiacs is one of the many gangs in Night City.

Details
The Brainiacs are the thinking man's boostergang, always choosing skill chips over other, clumsier cybernetics. They live for knowledge, and are willing to obtain it in any way possible. lt is believed that upper Ievei members of the gang are so enhanced that they have become walking computers, hovering on the edge of cerebral cyberpsychosis. lf you've got a new skillchip the Brainiacs haven't seen before, getting their help will be a cakewalk.

Generally not as violent as your average boostergang, the Brainiacs can be just as deadly, prefering elaborate traps or complicated schemes, to killing their victims outright. The Brainiacs almost wiped out a chapter of the Blood Razors once by "arranging" for their rivals to cross paths with a heavily armed Arasaka security force.

Despite multiple attempts by other gangs to wipe them out, the Brainiacs have always outsmarted their opponents. This savvy's earned them a measure of respect in other places besides the Street; high-ranking Brainiacs will occasionally hire themselves out to corporations for a few weeks to gain supplemental income.

The Brainiacs claim a group of blocks north of the Corporate Center as home. They're not involved in any turf wars right now, but are hated by most other boostergangs in the City (who will kill any Brainiac caught alone). The Brainiacs will only take new members that pass a rigorous IQ test. (applicant's INT is 9+)

Tag
Stylized human brain, usually burnt into something with a laser cutter.

Colors
The only mark of a Brainiac is a small, easily hidden silver coin worn around the neck. Each coin has the member's name on the back and the Brainiac tag on the front.

Cyberware
Any and all possible skill chips.