Adam Smasher

Adam Smasher is a male character who features in Cyberpunk.

Biography

Adam Smasher was a male human who was a fairly typical punk, a worthless New York City mook who joined the Army when his gang was wiped out. After several years in uniform, he was discharged for bad conduct and took up being a contract gun-boy in his home city. It was a good life for Adam, as his lack of squeamishness and sadistic thoroughness brought in enough jobs to keep him in guns, gear, drugs, and brutal one-night stands. But he finally went on that one job where everything fell apart. A couple of rockets turned him into meatloaf. His buddies backpacked what was left of him out of the zone and back to the Big Apple. A mysterious corporate benefactor took note and made him the classic offer he could not refuse: corporate service in a metal body, or death. As if thoughts of lost humanity would bother Adam. Seven years later, the new cybernetic Adam Smasher had made quite a name for himself along the eastern seaboard. He hired out for almost any mission presented to him, as long as it wasn't an obvious suicide or double-cross. He did have one stipulation: Collateral damage and civilian casualties are a must. During this time, he had developed a quiet rivalry with Morgan Blackhand, seeing the classic Solo as a threat to his metal-is-better-than-meat worldview. Adam had repeatedly tried to challenge him to a face-off, but Morgan only ignored him at every possible confrontation. Naturally, this snubbing had simply stoked the cyborg's psychopathic rage higher. Meanwhile, his secret benefactors which turned out to be a branch of Arasaka security allowed him time for freelancing.

In 2022, Adam Smasher was recruited by the Arasaka Corporation to fight in the Fourth Corporate War. Adam was more than happy to fight for them because he knew Morgan Blackhand had been hired by Militech. Arasaka supplied him with everything he could ever want, including the DaiOni power armor conversion gear that turned Adam into a nearly unstoppable machine. During this time, on August 23rd, Smasher was present at what would become the Night City Holocaust at the top of Arasaka Tower. That night, as remarked by a former SpecOps operative who was present at the mission, Smasher and the rest of the Arasaka troops ambushed Johnny Silverhand and Morgan Blackhand's team. However, Silverhand distracted him, shouting and firing at him with his gun, getting injured by Smasher in the process, yet giving Shaitan an opportunity to hold Smasher back. Despite that, Adam had injured Johnny badly, leaving him to be retrieved from Arasaka medical team. Smasher later appeared at the top of the tower, preparing to fight Blackhand as the rest of the extraction team left on their aerodyne. Blackhand remarked about testing Smasher's philosophy for itself shortly before the nuclear bomb detonated.

After the bomb, Smasher survived and was retrieved by Arasaka, who healed him by replacing what little was left of the man with yet more machinery. Smasher was supposedly tasked by Saburo Arasaka to take care of Silverhand's body and his possessions, being one of the few people who knew where Johnny was buried. Shortly after, Adam disappeared for many years. Adam Smasher met Michiko Arasaka, his boss Kei Arasaka's daughter, when she was a sheltered seventeen-year-old girl. The two dated for some time after Michiko turned 18, and Michiko's bodyguard Kenichi Zaburo threatened Smasher to mind his manners around her. During the next decades, Smasher would come and go from Night City. He also teamed up with Rogue Amendiares for a time. After 2045, Smasher seemingly found more of Silverhand's possessions in Samantha Stevens' garage, and around the country. Although he had sold much of Silverhand's items, he decided to keep some of them - including Silverhand's Porsche and his signature gun, the Malorian Arms 3516. Some time after 2050, Adam was assigned as Yorinobu Arasaka's bodyguard and was placed in charge of carrying out Arasaka's dirtiest work, gaining a reputation for expert management of loose ends. During this time, Adam made the Ebunike Docks in Watson his base of operations. Jeremiah Grayson, one of his most loyal men, became his right-hand, and for a job well done, Smasher gifted him Silverhand's unique pistol.

In 2076, Smasher was brought in by Arasaka agents Kate and Douglas to deal with the rampaging mercenary David Martinez, who was in possession of an experimental Arasaka 'cyberskeleton'. When David arrived at Arasaka Tower, Smasher emerged to save Douglas's life and engaged David. The two solos would have a brief exchange of insults before David would get distracted by Faraday - whom he had incapacitated moments ago - being taken away by Trauma Team. Smasher would take this opportunity to shoot David in the gut, resulting in him briefly going cyberpsycho and activating his Sandevistan. Smasher responded by doing the same, and fired a missile that directly hit the back of David's exo-skeleton with enough force to eject the latter, Lucy, and Faraday who was still strapped to Trauma Team's stretcher out of Arasaka Tower, the latter of whom fell to his death. David briefly managed to escape with Lucy, only for Smasher to follow, crushing Rebecca in the process. Falco attempted to slow Smasher down but was simply swatted away. David, on the verge of cyberpsychosis, activated his Sandevistan again, but was shocked to see Smasher utilizing one as well, with the latter scoffing that it was a 'rudimentary implant'. Lucy tried to quickhack Smasher, but this had little effect other than annoying him briefly before her Cyberdeck fries. David uses a gravity crush on Smasher while he was distracted, trying to kill the escaping Falco and Lucy. Smasher responding by ripping off the anti-grav devices from the exo-skeleton and proceeded to beat David in his crippled exo-skeleton, which was crumpling under its own weight, and eventually tearing it apart from David's body. Standing over David, Smasher says he "had some fun, after all"; and mentions David could have become "an interesting construct." As David confidently accepted his fate, Smasher executed him with a shot to the skull at point-blank range.

Overview

Personality and attributes

After transforming into a full Borg, Adam became a large bulking monstrosity, usually donning a heavily modified IEC Dragoon resembling a humanoid tank with big shoulders, a thin waist and a looming stature, although he previously wore a NovelTech Samson which made him appear slightly more human.

Smasher's in charge of taking out Arasaka's dirty laundry, but he likes to do things his own way.

Powers and abilities

After being reduced to mush by an RPG blast in the 00s, Arasaka offered him a choice - either pull the plug or become a full body cyborg. With little to no options and a lack of care for his human side, he agreed and became more machine than man. What with a full-body conversion, not much is left of Adam Smasher the man.

A scan of his body revealed that he was 96% cybernetic.

Adam Smasher used various cyberbodies throughout his life, having a closetful of them by 2023. The first body he used all the way into the Fourth Corporate War was a heavily modified Samson.

Notes

• Adam Smasher was created by Mike Pondsmith where it featured in the setting of the Cyberpunk universe.

Appearances

• Cyberpunk:

External Links

• Cyberpunk Wiki Entry

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