Richard

About Richard

Richard is a Kang Tao corporate operative, serving the Chinese arms manufacturer that rivals Arasaka across Night City's boardrooms and back alleys. Smooth, senior and utterly company-minded, he moves in the same executive world as Kiril and Avida, a reminder that in Night City, the deadliest fights are often scheduled in meeting rooms before they reach the street.

Appearance

Richard is a smooth, senior corporate man, tailored, composed and entirely at home in executive rooms. He moves in the same world as Kiril and Avida, where the deadliest fights are scheduled in meeting rooms long before they reach the street.

Personality

Richard is utterly company-minded: polished, patient and loyal to Kang Tao's interests above any person in the room. He treats Night City's chaos as market conditions. In a story of legends, gangs and revenge, Richard is a reminder that the city's real wars are corporate, and fought by men who never raise their voices.

Background & Story

Richard serves Kang Tao, the arms giant whose rivalry with Arasaka structures Night City's corporate cold war. As a senior operative he works the executive layer of that war, the layer of Kiril Yang's boardrooms and Avida's drawing rooms, where an experiment, a chip or a rebellious executive's daughter can all become leverage. When the season's secrets begin moving through the street, Richard's world moves with them.

Key Relationships

• Kiril: A fellow Kang Tao executive, Richard works the same corporate war from the operative side of the company.
• Kitano: The Arasaka counterpart across the corporate divide; the two men serve rival empires with the same cold professionalism.
• Avida: Part of Richard's executive world as Kiril's wife, the drawing-room layer of the Kang Tao machine.

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