Nightcity - Merc Corpo / Maxtac (2025)

MaxTac (Maximum Force Tactical Division) is a specialized sub-group of the NCPD tactical ops division. As a C-SWAT, MaxTac specializes in dealing with dangerous cyberpsychos. It has been known by different names such as Cyborg Suppression Unit, the NCPD Psycho Squad, Max-Tac or MAX-TAC. During the Time of the Red, the cybersquad was independent from the NCPD, though they rejoined them at some point afterwards.

MaxTac is a C-SWAT rapid response team of the most combat capable and trained officers the Night City Police Department has to offer. Its members are outfitted with the best in military armor, weaponry, cyberware, and vehicles. Their main mission is to monitor highly augmented individuals and be prepared to arrive fast, hit hard, and shoot to kill if their target goes over the edge into cyberpsychosis. All MaxTac officers are supremely fit and agile, also capable of withstanding a great deal of damage. Although hunting down cyberpsychos is their main purpose, MaxTac is also utilized as a higher form of SWAT, requested any time an overwhelming force threatens innocent lives, and officers are not able or equipped to resolve the situation. Any time an NCPD SWAT team fails, the cyberpsycho squad arrives to deal with the problem.

MaxTac works in SPAR (Special Purpose Assault Rescue) teams. By necessity, many members are chromed to the point they are on the watch list themselves, some of whom are full body conversion. The NCPD sees this "fight fire with fire" strategy as effective, though many officers are teetering on the brink of cyberpsychosis themselves. MaxTac weapons are universally designed to take down heavily cybered individuals, including non-lethal and experimental weaponry, but which usually means high caliber rounds capable of penetrating any armor. EMP weapons are rare, since they'll do as much damage to the SPAR team as the cyberpsycho they're trying to take down.

Death is the typical outcome for any psycho hunted down by MaxTac, with capture and rehabilitation being rare.However, a number of officers are former cyberpsychos themselves, forcefully recruited after being apprehended and reconditioned, such was the case of Ares, or Melissa Rory decades later.

Nightcity - Merc Corpo / Maxtac (2025) IA + Photoshop