THE UNDERWORLD OF DREAM CITY
Beneath the neon glow and digital spires of Dream City lies a festering underbelly. A web of syndicates, cyber-criminals, and ghost-market empires stretching across districts, planets—and even into orbit. The crime economy isn't just surviving. It's thriving—built on corruption, political sabotage, and corporate complicity.
Major Crimes Plaguing Dream City:
Narcotics: Designer drugs and synthetic stimulants flood the streets, many engineered off-world.
Illegal Modifications: Unlicensed neural jacks, illegal cybernetics, and biotech implants sold in underground clinics.
Credit Hacking & Digital Piracy: Identity theft, ghost accounts, black market data farming.
Human Trafficking & Organ Markets: People go missing. Their parts resurface—digitally tagged, auctioned, sold.
Black Markets: Weapons, AI fragments, banned tech, and even memories—if it exists, it can be sold.
Crime lords have carved the city into district turfs, each a kingdom ruled by fear, credits, and cyberfire. Mars has become the new frontier—lawless, untamed, and perfect for expansion. Syndicates thrive here under the shadow of corrupt officials, corpo alliances, and blood-soaked contracts.
THE MAJOR GANGS OF DREAM CITY
1. The Rifters
Leader:Havery 01110
District: Predominantly District III
Hackers. Smugglers. Ghost-coders.
The Rifters specialize in high-grade narcotics, AI smuggling, and black-market tech. Under the ruthless yet unpredictable Havery 01110, an ex-coder turned crime lord, they manipulate neural networks, hijack credit chains, and thrive on the chaos of info-wars. Havery is infamous for never showing the same face twice.
2. The Block Gang
Leader:Bastian Block aka B-Block
District: Stronghold in District II
Body part dealers. Black surgeons.
A former Retributor-turned-underworld kingpin, Bastian Block deals in flesh and steel. His gang controls the illegal modding scene—selling weapons-grade cybernetics and running one of the largest underground organ markets in the system. Known for brutality and his "no second chances" rule, Bastian's fall from grace made him a living myth.
3. The Mercer Collective
Mastermind:Gilmore Mercer
Districts: Influence spans all
The ghost in the city's machine.
Gilmore Mercer is more myth than man. Few have seen him, yet everyone fears him. He commands scattered loyalists and sub-gangs across all districts, pulling strings silently. His trusted lieutenant, Cherl Wells, operates as his visible hand—a cold, calculating boss who eliminates obstacles with surgical precision. Mercer is rumored to fund insurgencies, terrorist networks, and top-level political subversions. No one truly knows his goals—only that he always stays ten steps ahead.
OTHER UNDERWORLD ELEMENTS
Skull Brothers – Enforcers and warlords, known for high-impact raids and decapitations.
Digi-Psychos – Rogue cyber-entities with human hosts, rumored to be corrupted AIs in flesh bodies.
Red Marrows – Black-market medics and gene-hackers.
Punks – Tech anarchists and chaos dealers, low-level but numerous.
Lady Crest – Elegant, manipulative syndicate queen with ties to off-world trafficking.
Death Brothers – Killers-for-hire and assassin guild.
Body Doubles – Specialist syndicate that crafts synthetic replacements—clones, replicants, doppelgangers.
Dream City's underworld is not just a network—it's a shadow empire.
And it's only growing stronger.