National Revitalization Zone Act Investigative Office
DOC-NB-STREET-CHART
Gangs, street organizations, and networks operating outside corporate jurisdiction.
Most of these organizations don't want to be documented. Agent M documents them anyway.
Disclaimer
Classification fields follow NBCA/NRZIC indexing standards and may not reflect local self-identification.
Demographic tags are retained for interagency search compatibility; cultural labels are non-exhaustive.
INDEXING NOTICE // LEGACY FIELD RETENTION REQUIRED
Major Power
Specialist Crew
Corp-Adjacent
Street Level
Defunct / Legendary
TIER-1
Major Territorial Powers
Outmarch & Border Zones
AGENT M // These aren't gangs in the way NBCA propaganda uses the word. They're the governments of places the NBCA decided weren't worth governing. Approach with the same care you'd give any sovereign territory.
Major Power
Five Lamp Collective
Neon Han Protection Syndicate
“Five Virtues as gang law - benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, integrity.”
// Territory
Neon Han Quarter (S2), Lantern Stairs, night market corridors.
// Operations
Chinese triad-structure community defense network. Specifically Chinese - not pan-Asian, not SE Asian. Five Lamp-Holders (one per virtue), street captains, market enforcers, youth auxiliaries. 'Protection' (actually protection). Dispute arbitration, smuggling coordination. Deep community roots.
// Identifiers
Red lanterns mark protected businesses. Virtue-coded hand signals. Tea house meetings. Traditional robes over tactical gear, red/gold color scheme, ceremonial jian blades, paper charm wards.
// Active Conflict
Tourism Commission gentrification pushing out protected vendors. Five Lamp makes displacement expensive.
AGENT M // Respectful distance from Paper Saints. High foot traffic makes Spectrum surveillance difficult. They know who I am. We have an arrangement.
Major Power
Breaker Lords
Outmarch Nomad Force
“What the storm took, we reclaim.”
// Territory
Breaker Fields (primary), Outmarch border zones.
// Operations
Woman-led nomad crew, 30-50 people. Ex-military leadership from resource wars. Military command structure adapted to nomad life. Small but disciplined. These aren't scavengers playing soldier - they're soldiers who became scavengers. Salvage, fortification, territorial control. When they make base, corps budget for them.
// Identifiers
Welding masks as rank insignia, breaker-bone wind chimes, territorial boundary markers. Oxidized steel, improvised armor from turbine parts, acetylene blue glow.
// Active Conflict
AtlanticFirst wants Breaker Fields for a 'renewable energy park.' The Lords aren't moving.
AGENT M // Neutral trade partner with Dock 14 Union. Hostile to corporate scrap collectors. Breaker Fields is a no-go zone for corporate security - mutual defense pact.
Major Power
Tide Runners
Maritime Smuggling Operation
“The tide keeps no ledger. - Debts expire with the season; the water forgets.”
// Territory
Outer Floats, Slip City docks, water routes in and out of Nuevo Bay.
// Operations
Maritime smuggling network. Drugs, money, black market augments, people. If it moves by boat and isn't legal, Tide Runners touch it. Captains' moot (rotating leadership), boat crews, route specialists.
// Identifiers
Tide charts as operational documents, barnacle tokens, phosphorescent buoy markers at territory edges. Repurposed sail canvas, coral talismans, tide-clock tattoos.
// Active Conflict
NBCA wants to 'formalize' water transit - track everything. Tide Runners refuse.
AGENT M // Uneasy arrangement with Dock 14. Tension with Harbor Patrol - seasonal moorage negotiations. Tide Runner boats are sanctuary during Sweep Mode if you can reach them.
Major Power
Dread Holders
Haven Shoals Community Defense
“What's ours stays ours. - Land is non-negotiable; violence is a last resort but not a small one.”
// Territory
Haven Shoals (primary), Mudflat Row, the Raised Houses district.
// Operations
Black community defense syndicate with political ambitions and a long memory. Elder council sets direction; block captains run day-to-day. Women hold most leadership positions. Community tax (protection), construction labor racket, informal land title enforcement - they decide who gets to sell, who gets to build, and who gets to stay. Pre-merger community that survived annexation intact, barely. The elders remember when Haven Shoals was four different towns. That memory is their constitution.
// Identifiers
Hand-painted property line markers, mutual aid food distribution, block association fronts. Old deed records maintained in paper as legal weapons. Work gear over body armor, blue-and-gold color scheme, crab trap wire as territory markers, framed property deeds worn as chest patches.
// Active Conflict
AtlanticFirst is moving into Haven Shoals. The Dread Holders control who sells and who doesn't. People who sell without permission have their paperwork - and sometimes their windows - revisited.
AGENT M // Quiet alliance with Dock 14 Union. Mortal enemies of AtlanticFirst Urban Development. Respectful distance from Tide Runners - water is theirs, shore is ours. They know what displacement looks like because they've watched it happen twice.
TIER-2
Specialist & Cultural Factions
Skill-Based Operations / Cultural Identity
AGENT M // These organizations exist because someone needed a specific capability the formal economy wouldn't provide, or because a community needed structure the city wouldn't give them. Most of them are better at their jobs than the licensed alternatives.
Specialist Crew
ENTRY INCOMPLETE
Severance Collective
Neon Han - Japanese Ex-Corporate
“Corporate hierarchy turned against the system.”
// Territory
Neon Han (secondary presence - Chinese community dominant, Severance carves their own corner). Satellite ops citywide.
// Operations
Japanese ex-Kusanagi-Mitsui burnouts. Disciplined, bitter, organized. They kept the corporate structure - meetings, titles, chains of command - and redirected the mission. Corporate sabotage, industrial espionage, counter-optimization. They know how K-M systems work because they built them. Ranks mirror K-M org charts, worn as irony and statement.
// Identifiers
Clean offices in dirty buildings. Corporate dress code maintained as identity - salaryman gone rogue. Pressed shirts, dark circles, repurposed K-M ID badges worn like medals.
// Active Conflict
Complicated with Five Lamp - different Asian communities sharing Neon Han turf. Useful to anyone fighting K-M specifically.
AGENT M // Full entry pending. I know the shape of them. Structure, size, and specific K-M relationship still being built.
Specialist Crew
ENTRY INCOMPLETE
Vikalpa Mandala / Sutra Cipher
Indira - White Appropriators
“The 64 arts as operational framework - not academic, not reverent. Bastardized, pragmatic, profitable.”
// Territory
Central base in Indira Sector. Runs Indira red light district and tech shops citywide. Satellite presence in Mezzanine.
// Operations
Majority-white tech crew bastardizing the Kama Sutra as operational philosophy. White boys who read the Kama Sutra in college and built an entire criminal enterprise around their half-understood version of it. They think this makes them enlightened. It does not. The 64 arts map to skills, services, revenue streams. Encryption and sex work as one integrated system - no separation between body and data. Encryption services, data brokerage, tech repair, sex work. Council of 8 'masters' - none of them doing it right, none of them scholars. All of it borrowed. None of it theirs.
// Identifiers
Tech shops with back rooms, Indira red light district management, encrypted dead drops. Sacred geometry repurposed as circuit diagrams, sari silk as cable management, incense and solder smoke. The visual is a white crew wearing someone else's culture like a startup brand.
// Active Conflict
Despised by the South Asian communities they operate among. This is full-on cultural appropriation and the Indira community treats it accordingly. Parish Network treats them medically but the coldness there is disgust, not just moral distance. Corps treat them as a joke - until they breach something. The fact that they're competent makes them harder to dismiss, which makes the appropriation worse, not better.
AGENT M // Full entry pending - much detail exists, needs consolidation. The broader Indira community would love to see them gone but can't replace what they provide. That dependency is the ugliest part.
Specialist Crew
ENTRY INCOMPLETE
The Auntie Circle
Edenwalk - Mixed Southeast Asian
“Social obligation as currency. You don't cross an auntie.”
// Territory
Edenwalk markets, festival grounds, community gathering spaces.
// Operations
Auntie-led mixed SEA faction. Controls market and festival economy in Edenwalk through social networks. Market stall allocation, festival economy, vendor licensing (unofficial), food supply chains, community arbitration. No formal hierarchy - network of aunties, market vendors, festival organizers. Power flows through social capital, not titles.
// Identifiers
Market stalls, community kitchens, festival coordination. Kinship networks that move faster than any commlink. Practical, warm, domestic - rice cookers and ledger books, not weapons.
// Active Conflict
Nobody takes them seriously until they can't eat or do business in Edenwalk.
AGENT M // Full entry pending.
Specialist Crew
Las Tres Rosas / Vela Oscura
La Palanca, S4 Mezzanine - Mixed Latino
“La Santa no pregunta. El mar no devuelve. - The saint doesn't ask. The sea doesn't give back.”
// Territory
La Palanca - the Latino district in the lower western platforms of S4 Mezzanine. Altar Row, Puente Bajo, the tight residential blocks between junction boxes and catwalk markets. The transit labor that built the Mezzanine. Their turf.
// Operations
Syncretic ritual-violence crew operating as community protection syndicate with consecrated contract killing as a secondary service. Two names, one organization. Las Tres Rosas is the street name - community protection, the neighborhood face, named for the three roses left at Santa Muerte's altar (red for love and protection, white for purification, gold for money and justice). Vela Oscura is the inner name - a dark candle lit for Santa Muerte means a petition for something unspeakable. A contract accepted by Vela Oscura is a petition to the dead. The target is already consecrated before anyone moves. Syncretic tradition - Santa Muerte meets Santería, coastal Afro-Cuban and Mexican folk practice fused by generations of displacement and proximity. Not doctrinally pure. Deliberately not pure. Two-layer structure: open community devotion with no formal hierarchy; initiated inner circle of veladores (vigil keepers) led by a madrina whose identity only the inner circle knows.
// Identifiers
Santa Muerte altars on street corners maintained by the whole neighborhood. Three roses left at a door - blessing or warning depending on the color combination. Seawall shrines that double as dead drops. The cannery blocks that stay inexplicably quiet. Flower crowns over body armor. Skeleton iconography that is reverent, not aggressive. Yemayá's blue-and-white in the inner layer's dress. Candles everywhere. Copal and saltwater.
// Active Conflict
A Reclaimers operative has been running a protection racket on their blocks - not knowing, or not caring, whose territory he's taxing. He's been warned once. Las Tres Rosas doesn't warn twice. The problem is he has a handler inside Tidewall Authority who will notice if he disappears. Vela Oscura is deciding if that's their problem or the handler's problem.
AGENT M // Adjacent blocks with Hurricane Boys - occasional friction, grudging respect, neither can afford a real war. Uneasy coexistence with Dread Holders - territorial buffer, occasional mutual-benefit contract work, neither fully trusts the other. Parish Network provides medical care without association. Tide Runners sometimes dispose of what Vela Oscura consecrates.
Specialist Crew
The First Amendment
Outmarch / Marsh Border - Afro-Indigenous
“The Second Amendment is the one that protects the rest. - Spoken completely without irony.”
// Territory
Greywater Flats outer edge, salt marsh access roads, old ferry landings. Nobody else controls the marsh and they intend to keep it that way.
// Operations
Armed Afro-Indigenous militia. Gun runners, border enforcers, and constitutionalists - in that order. Weapons brokerage, border crossing facilitation, bounty work (highly selective). They move guns. They move people. They do not move product that harms their neighbors. Afro-Indigenous mixed heritage - Lumbee/Black coastal lineage, deliberately hard to classify, use it as armor. Fiercely patriotic in the constitutional sense. Display flags. Quote the Founders. Also fully aware the Founders owned people and stole land, and consider this a reason to hold the document tighter, not looser. The contradiction is load-bearing. Flat, kin-based structure - three founding families who vote on everything and agree on almost nothing except that outsiders don't get a say.
// Identifiers
Catfish iconography, knot-based territorial markers, handmade and stolen military surplus on open display. Salt marsh as natural fortress. American flags modified with Indigenous symbols. Camo and mud-dyed gear - rural gun show until you look closer at the iconography and realize it's something much older.
// Active Conflict
NetSure wants to run sensor infrastructure through their marsh corridors. They've already taken out three survey drones. The fourth one came back with a note.
AGENT M // Grudging working relationship with Tide Runners on water crossings. Openly hostile to Harbor Patrol. Flesh Offsets learned not to come to the Flats. Breaker Lords respect them without liking them.
TIER-3
Corporate-Adjacent & Mercenary
Deniable Assets - The Violence Is Administrative
AGENT M // These are not street organizations. They are corporations wearing street clothing, or ex-state actors running a private service. The deniability is the product.
Corp-Adjacent
ENTRY INCOMPLETE
Flesh Offsets
Debt Collection Mafia
“Legal violence with extra-legal methods. Everything starts with a legitimate debt.”
// Territory
Anywhere someone owes money. They come to you.
// Operations
Mafia organization doing augment debt collection for ShoreFast and AtlanticFirst. They don't just repossess - they downgrade or harvest your augments and organs, replace them with cheap equivalents, and feed victims back into the debt cycle. Professional operation: assessors, surgeons, enforcers, accountants. The books are immaculate. The operating rooms are less so.
// Identifiers
Unmarked medical vans, 'payment plan renegotiation' letters, victims walking around with visibly downgraded chrome. Clean paperwork, dirty scalpels.
// Active Conflict
Creating a visible underclass of people with obviously cheap replacement augments - everyone can see what happened to you.
AGENT M // Full entry pending.
Corp-Adjacent
ENTRY INCOMPLETE
Reclaimers
Mercenary Contractors - Ex-Spectrum
“Professional standards - rates, contracts, liability insurance. Also no conscience.”
// Territory
Wherever the contract takes them.
// Operations
Notable ex-Spectrum dirty work crew. Former Tidewall Authority Spectrum personnel who went private. Security consulting, evidence disposal, 'problem resolution.' Small outfit, ex-military/ex-Spectrum leadership, contract-based membership. The violence is administrative.
// Identifiers
Unmarked vehicles, 'consulting firm' office space, witnesses who suddenly recant. Suits, not armor.
// Active Conflict
Issa Méndez (public defender) is building a case connecting their current ops to Spectrum-era misconduct.
AGENT M // Full entry pending.
TIER-4
Street-Level Crews
Neighborhood Operations
AGENT M // These are neighborhood organizations that look like gangs to anyone who doesn't live there. Most of them are also neighborhood organizations that are gangs. Nuevo Bay doesn't have the luxury of that distinction mattering.
Street Level
ENTRY INCOMPLETE
Hurricane Boys
Windward Sector Youth Gang
“Our block, our rules. - Defend turf; protect festival season; respect elders.”
// Territory
Regatta Row, Carnival Green perimeter, Quayfront alleys.
// Operations
Territory-based street crew, majority Caribbean/Afro-Latino. Small-time dealing, festival security gigs, neighborhood taxes. Age-based hierarchy - veterans mentor newcomers. Tied to steel band culture. Some members are Windward community family.
// Identifiers
Teal and coral bandanas, steel pan drum tags, wave-pattern graffiti. Festival colors weaponized, tropical patterns, homemade percussion instruments.
// Active Conflict
AtlanticFirst marina development threatening their neighborhood.
AGENT M // The classification says 'Youth Gang.' Half of Windward calls them cousins. The steel band competitions predate the merger. The neighborhood taxes predate the NBCA fee structure. But the indexing system doesn't have a field for 'community that also breaks laws,' so 'Youth Gang' is what gets filed. Details beyond name, culture, and sector pending.
Street Level
Corner Lords
Bayport / Concord East - Black Street Crew
“We tax the tax man. - Counter-economics against the NBCA fee structure.”
// Territory
North Concord East blocks, the Bayport transit underbelly, maglev station overflow zones.
// Operations
Young Black trap-adjacent distribution network. Not ideological. Not political. Extremely territorial. Moving contraband - augment suppressants, gray-market stims, bootleg firmware, anything the NBCA service economy marks up and prices out. Small-scale extortion of corps that operate on their blocks. Loose structure - one or two OGs with real juice, the rest are teenagers running product and learning the block. High turnover. The OGs are in their mid-twenties and feel ancient. 757 energy - and that's not metaphor. The Corner Lords are an extension of Hampton Roads trap and hip-hop culture that predates the Storm Decade, the annexation, and the founding of Nuevo Bay. Portsmouth, Port Lydon, the old towns that got drowned and merged - they had corner boys before the corps showed up. The storm didn't invent this. The merger didn't invent this. The NBCA fee structure just gave it a new supply chain. What the Corner Lords run is older than Nuevo Bay. It survived the same way the culture survived: local, block-specific, fiercely uninterested in being part of anyone else's larger project. The music is still playing. The corners are just in different places now.
// Identifiers
Corner economics. Graffiti that reads as throwaway tags but maps supply routes. Stash spots in flood-drainage hardware. Burner commlinks always visible. Oversized rain gear, modified delivery uniforms, Bay transit card lanyards as identity markers.
// Active Conflict
One of the OGs has information that could expose a Reclaimers-connected dirty Spectrum officer. He doesn't know what he has yet. The wrong people are starting to notice him.
AGENT M // The indexing field says 'Black Street Crew.' That's the field I have. It doesn't capture the 757 continuity, the pre-Storm culture, or the fact that what they run is older than the city that's trying to classify them. Portsmouth had corner boys before the corps had org charts. But the field is the field, and the field is what Washington searches on. Vikalpa Mandala uses them for citywide distribution - they take the money and don't take the philosophy. Ironlung Crew sells them product. Hurricane Boys have beef over a transit station that borders both territories.
TIER-5
Ghost Organizations
Defunct / Legendary
AGENT M // These organizations don't exist anymore. They exist completely. In Nuevo Bay, what happened to people is never fully past tense.
Defunct / Legendary
The Drowned Council
Pre-Merger Resistance - Dissolved
“Remember the Drowned.”
// Territory
Former territory: all four drowned towns. Now: graffiti and oral history.
// Operations
Anti-corporate coalition during Annexation era (2008-2012). United neighborhood groups opposing HRC takeover. Sabotaged construction projects. Broken by crackdowns - leaders imprisoned, exiled, or disappeared.
// Identifiers
Graffiti tributes, oral histories, memorial days throughout the Outmarch. 'Remember the Drowned' - you'll see it on walls.
AGENT M // Proved corporate power could crush organized resistance. Inspired the decentralized tactics everything uses now. The Drowned Council is why the Severance Collective doesn't have a headquarters.
Defunct / Legendary
Tidewall Widows
Labor Revenge Gang - 2039-2042
“The widows remember.”
// Territory
Former: wherever Tidewall Industries executives lived.
// Operations
Families of workers killed in Tidewall Industries safety violations. Hunted down executives responsible for their loved ones' deaths. Several executives died mysteriously. Gang dissolved after revenge was complete.
// Identifiers
Memorial plaques at Old Causeway accident sites, union drinking songs. Folk heroes in Outmarch. Cautionary tale in NBCA propaganda.
AGENT M // I'm not going to say whether they were justified. I'm going to say that Tidewall Industries is bankrupt and gone, and several of its executives are dead, and the memorial gets fresh flowers every winter. With Tidewall now under NetSure ownership, the Widows' anger has a living target again. The brand they burned for justice is alive, wearing a new logo.