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BARGHEST
BARGHEST – entry from the Cyberpunk 2077 database. If you hear "Dogtown" and automatically think "BARGHEST," chances are you won't die straight away. The organization founded by Kurt Hansen is more than just an ordinary Night City gang.
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If you hear "Dogtown" and automatically think "BARGHEST," chances are you won't die straight away. The organization founded by Kurt Hansen is more than just an ordinary Night City gang. No one else has managed the feat of carving an entire district out for themselves, kicking out the police completely and keeping it that way for nearly a decade.
It started small: Colonel Hansen's unit seized part of Pacifica at the end of the Unification War and never laid down arms. Only six soldiers remain from that squad, and as Hansen's most trusted men they now sit at the top of the food chain. The nascent BARGHEST quickly took similar folks under its wing: veterans who'd been forgotten by the megacorps, mercs without contracts, renegade gangers from various parts of the city - you name it.
Hansen's organization also proved tempting to average Night City residents who, for various reasons, found themselves at the end of their ropes. Kurt Hansen gave them a gun, a salary, medical care via his ripper contacts and - perhaps most importantly - asked no questions in exchange for their absolute loyalty. For those at the very bottom, BARGHEST is a pretty good alternative to a life of petty crime - a career with a short life expectancy.
Anywhere else, under different leadership, the band of delinquents that make up BARGHEST would have collapsed like a house of cards or atrophied like a cyberpsycho's brain. Hansen managed the impossible. Credit goes to his dominating presence, charisma and intelligence, but most of all presenting folks with a fresh start - one without hidden costs or corporate fine print, and a place where cops and undercover narcs get strung up from lampposts. For many, this vision was, is and will continue to be extremely tempting.
It started small: Colonel Hansen's unit seized part of Pacifica at the end of the Unification War and never laid down arms. Only six soldiers remain from that squad, and as Hansen's most trusted men they now sit at the top of the food chain. The nascent BARGHEST quickly took similar folks under its wing: veterans who'd been forgotten by the megacorps, mercs without contracts, renegade gangers from various parts of the city - you name it.
Hansen's organization also proved tempting to average Night City residents who, for various reasons, found themselves at the end of their ropes. Kurt Hansen gave them a gun, a salary, medical care via his ripper contacts and - perhaps most importantly - asked no questions in exchange for their absolute loyalty. For those at the very bottom, BARGHEST is a pretty good alternative to a life of petty crime - a career with a short life expectancy.
Anywhere else, under different leadership, the band of delinquents that make up BARGHEST would have collapsed like a house of cards or atrophied like a cyberpsycho's brain. Hansen managed the impossible. Credit goes to his dominating presence, charisma and intelligence, but most of all presenting folks with a fresh start - one without hidden costs or corporate fine print, and a place where cops and undercover narcs get strung up from lampposts. For many, this vision was, is and will continue to be extremely tempting.
