Cyberpunk 2077 Lore Aldecaldos
The Aldecaldos Nomad family, formed as a result of Los Angeles falling into disarray. Their story began with Juan Aldecaldo. He started life as a migrant, and had built a career working in the defence industry. Prior to the collapse, budget cuts forced the industry to down-size, putting Juan out of work.
Much of the Aldecaldo family depended on Juan, and he did what he could to assist them, but despite his efforts, the family spiralled downward into social poverty. His daughter, Maria, was killed in a car accident the day before her seventeenth birthday.
His son Ramon, dropped out of school. He started dating a Filipino girl who was a member of the Red Dogs gang. Ramon died in a robbery homicide on his nineteenth birthday. When the media came to interview Juan, he spoke with candour of what had transpired.
The interview went viral. At his son’s funeral over nine thousand people attended. His parish priest, Jonah Dominguez aka the Padre, gave an impassioned speech that brought the crowd to tears. They had all lost something to gang violence. After the funeral, Juan became despondent.
Cancer had claimed his wife years earlier. The only thing that kept him going was his pride in his children; now they were gone. Eventually Juan joined Father Dominguez at his mission, assisting orphans. One day both were injured following a drive-by attack.
Aldecaldo subsequently became irate at seeing others forced to bear the same loss as he had. They armed themselves, gathered the faithful and kept watch from the rooftops. Slowly block after block was reclaimed from the gangs. Soon Aldecaldo had a small subdivision in East Los Angeles under his control.
Shortly afterwards, the Pitt-Arco nuclear reactor underwent a meltdown. The Aldecaldo group was hired by the Federal Government to begin reclaiming specific resources and the Nomads were in business. The Nomads continued to prosper under Juan’s guidance, with a financially lucrative Mexico City re-development contract.
When the Aldecaldo Clan returned to the U.S in 2015, they brought back, Johnny Silverhand, who had spent the best part of two years hiding after the Arasaka Tower riot on April 13th, 2013. They also had a new leader, Santiago, who had helped Silverhand in the attempted rescue of Alt Cunningham.
In 2020, Santiago’s Aldecaldos and the Jode Nomad groups would collaborate with Dr. Richard Storm of Storm Technologies to rebuild Chicago. The project would soon collapse as Arasaka detonated a bio-weapon in Chicago to deny the city to Militech.
While escaping Chicago, Santiago’s convoys were maliciously attacked by the Raffen Shiv. Afterwards, Richard Storm provided Santiago 20 litres of transform virus, allowing the nomads to survive in the middle of the corporate bio-plague. Following the 4th Corporate War, two million people in Night City were left homeless due to the Nuke, either directly or because of flooding from the liquefaction of the city’s foundations.
Survivors fled into overcrowded tent cities in the surrounding suburbs of North Oak, Westbrook, Pacifica, and Heywood. Night City turned to the Aldecaldos and the StormTech Corporation for help. With the experience gained during the Chicago project, the Nomads were uniquely equipped to construct extensive temporary housing from shipping containers and later formocrete modules brought in by rail and sea.
