The Pack is organization of homeless people who during the 2010s formed a nomad pack.
History[]
2010s[]
In the 2010s, a one room conapt in Night City went for 1500eb a month. As such, the homeless problem in the city reached epidemic proportions. The street was impossibly crowded, and often there were ten or twenty people fighting to sleep in the same dumpster. And even worse, the gangs preyed on the homeless, the NCPD cops beat them and drove them out of the more livable sections of the city, and corporate security often used them for target practice, or worse. In Night City, the only real refuge for these victims was Lake Park; a place with little or no police and plenty of bio-engineered foliage to huddle under at night. There had never been an official census of the homeless population in the Night City, but estimates placed it at around ten to fifteen thousand during that time.
Much like a nomad Elder, Kilven Wilkson banded these various groups of terrorized Park dwellers together into a large organization nicknamed the "Pack," who operated much like any other nomad family, with a rough chain of command based on seniority, communal food sharing and group defense. Unlike other nomad bands, the Pack didn't have any vehicles; if they did, you could bet they'd be living in them. Kilven was a rather likeable man, and had moderated several disputes between gangs who frequented Lake Park. For this reason, the homeless who resided there were kept generally safe from gang activity. In some cases the local gangs would even protect the Pack from outside gangs that entered the park grounds.
The Pack was also willing to "take in" outsiders who had helped them out in some way. Even important and famous people were adopted by the Pack, like rocker Johnny Silverhand, for his Pack-benefit concerts; solo Andrew Scythe of the Hacienda Hotel, for defending the Pack against the Bay Area Rapid Terror; or media Jacob Davies, a Network 54 reporter who conned the police into helping the Pack during a gang attack. As a result, the Pack gained some powerful friends.[1]
2020s[]
By 2020, Kelvin was still the leader of the Pack. He was trying to form other small packs into a proper nomad family, and was having a remarkable success in that area. It should also be noted that Kilven had the aforementioned powerful friends to count on, as they would often come to his aid if he ever contacted them.
No one knew exactly how large the Pack really was, but thanks to its numbers and Kilven's street sawy, it was becoming a political force to be reckoned with. In addition, the Pack had negotiated loose alliances with some of the gangs in the Park area. Even a boosterganger could appreciate having a thousand-plus people willing to help out in the next big turf war.[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 PONDSMITH, M. Night City Sourcebook. Berkeley, CA, R. Talsorian Games, 1991. (pp.43,144–145)
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