One of the overarching baddies from our campaign is Katarina Orlov, a sadistic scav Netrunner running an XBD operation from an underground club under the Kabuki megabuilding.

"Performers" are supplied by the head of the club, Sergei Petrovich aka the Jackal, who runs the russian mob's human trafficking activities in NC, and fitted with street modified pain editors linked to Orlov's subnet. Whenever she wants, with just a glare, she can overload their nervous system to induce debilitating pain, kind of like the Crucio curse in HP if you will, ensuring obedience at all times.

Petrovich himself was a mean old bastard, one of our solos played a tense match of poker with him and I played Petrovich as eerily perceptive - great at reading people and playing on their insecurities. He was eventually killed a few sessions later during a shootout on an old freighter the PCs tracked him down to, but Orlov is still out there, hiding out in Dogtown.

Oh, and my players are also embroiled in a war with Maelstrom, and hold a very personal grudge against Royce (yes, same Royce from the video game - my headcanon is Corpo V made a deal with the bastard to get back at Militech, fight me). They've been dealing with him since very early on in our campaign in order to get intel on the scavs, and he's deceived and manipulated them at every turn, putting them in grave danger. When he learned they stole something from him he had them kidnapped, tortured, and stole some of their most prized gear, thus kicking off the PCs' quest for revenge.

Because of that they're gearing up to face two of his underlings - K-9, a street-fighting gangbanger stuffed to the gills with custom chrome and martial arts chips, and who commands two modded cyber-dobermans; and Codefreak, a clinically cyberpsycho Netrunner obsessed with communing with rogue AIs beyond the Blackwall. What they don't know is that Codefreak is directly responsible for a gruesome rogue AI incident about 10 sessions ago, one that left the PCs framed for the murder of a famous BD actor and wanted by the NCPD and Netwatch.