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General Information
Mateo Valdivia is the current Commissioner for the Night City Police Department; Badge #122
Backstory
Mateo Valdivia was born and raised in Heywood. His father drove freight for a Militech subcontractor and never came back from a run through the Badlands. The company called it a “route deviation,” paid his family nothing, and scrubbed the incident from its records. His mother worked double shifts to keep them afloat, and by seventeen Mateo had taken the only path that paid: he joined a small merc outfit as a gofer and learned to shoot.
He became a solo and was nicknamed ghost and earned it by never leaving evidence behind. For a few years he worked for whoever could pay: escort jobs, and contracts out in the Badlands. He got very good at it, and he watched what the money did to people. Squads were sold out, clients disappeared, and the NCPD stood aside every time the right corporation made a call.
The end came in Watson. An extraction went wrong, and a family caught in the crossfire was killed. The client walked away clean. Mateo hadn’t pulled the trigger on any of it, but he had taken the contract, and he quit that week.
When a corruption scandal gutted the NCPD’s leadership, the city needed someone no corporation owned. Mateo had enemies everywhere and loyalties nowhere, which made him the compromise pick. He was appointed Commissioner for Night City's very own Police Department, and half of Night City is still waiting for him to fail. He treats the badge as penance for everything he did before it, and he has never opened the file on what really happened to his father.
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