Cyberpunk 2077 Theory: Is Regina Working For MaxTac?

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Players of will know Regina Jones as the main fixer in the Watson district. She's an ex-media, still with her finger on the pulse, who hires V for various gigs around her area. But she's unique among fixers in that Regina has another quest line she's involved in: the «Cyberpsycho Sightings.»

Early in the game, she'll ask V to help her find and neutralize cyberpsychos — those driven mad by their implants who engage in mass violence — but still keep them alive. Regina claims to be working with a group that can treat cyberpsychosis, and wants to help these people recover rather than be put down by the NCPD. V can incapacitate 17 cyberpsychos across the city in return for payment from Regina, who will express her gratitude if V shows these people mercy. But one fan theory posits that Regina is just as bad as the NCPD, if not worse, and is giving these cyberpsychos over to a group who will use and abuse them: MaxTac.

It's pretty common knowledge that MaxTac, the high-powered branch of the NCPD that deals with high-risk situations, has cyberpsychos in its ranks. This is seen at least once in-game, in the mission called «Bullets,» when a cyberpsycho named Melissa Rory appears in MaxTac gear, still clearly violent and unhinged from her dialogue. This same character appeared in a 2013 trailer for the game when she went on a cyberpsychosis-fuelled killing spree.

Based on this and the over-the-top violence MaxTac employs, many fans speculate their ranks are full of «rehabilitated» cyberpsychos, allowed to exert their violent urges on criminals. And most of the time, as is the case in the quest «Bullets,» MaxTac takes no prisoners, executing the psychos they are sent to detain. That's where the theory around Regina comes in.

Players like Redditor Insanus_Vitae, below, have theorized she is hired by MaxTac to have her contacts non-lethally apprehend cyberpsychos. That way, the NCPD can collect them and put them into the MaxTac system.

There's a good deal of evidence to support