Recaps

Su Xiao killed Hector Salamanca, ended the Salamanca Group threat, and began building his company while getting drawn into Takemura’s attempt to reach Hana Arasaka. David’s accident left him expelled from Arasaka Academy, and he brought Su Xiao the Sandevistan he had found, hoping to sell it and return to school.

• Su Xiao exposed Maria’s betrayal, killed her when she admitted luring Jose to Tijuana, and returned with V and Lucy to kill Hector.
• Su Xiao destroyed a Salamanca glitter warehouse to draw attention away from Hector’s estate, then used his son’s ashes to lure Hector and his gunmen to the cemetery, where an Armed Drone killed them all.
• After confirming the Salamanca Group threat had ended, Su Xiao reunited Jose with Dante and took Jose to Stone Ridge Mountain to train at his company.
• The Animal Gang attacked Dante’s armored sedan, and Su Xiao found the injured David and Gloria, called Trauma Team, and paid their initial medical costs.
• Su Xiao approved plans for his new company’s buildings and training facilities, hired T-Bug, and accepted Mr. Hanz’s compensation before wiping out the Animal Gang’s motel base.
• Takemura asked Su Xiao to help him reach Hana Arasaka, but Oda refused to assist and Takemura’s plan to approach Hana during the Soul Festival remained uncertain.
• Su Xiao rented Takemura an apartment, while David learned he had been expelled from Arasaka Academy and tried to sell the Sandevistan he had found.
• David brought the Sandevistan to Su Xiao and explained that he needed money to seek readmission to Arasaka Academy.

Su Xiao helped River uncover Anthony Harris’s kidnapping operation, rescued Randy and other children, and recruited River and Old Wei for the Dawn Society. After dismantling a Glitter operation, Su Xiao learned the Voodoo Boys planned to breach the Blackwall and went to Pacifica to negotiate with NetWatch.

• Su Xiao helped David after his expulsion, then led V, Lucy, and Panam in an attack on Tanaka’s mansion, where he killed Tanaka and V killed Katsuo.
• River asked Su Xiao to investigate his missing nephew Randy, and Su Xiao joined him in searching the police laboratory and Randy’s home for clues.
• Su Xiao and River used Lucy’s help to uncover Harris’s hidden website and trace it to a Badlands farm.
• Su Xiao and River rescued Randy and four other surviving children from the farm, and River accepted Su Xiao’s offer to join the Dawn Society.
• Su Xiao recruited Old Wei to lead the company’s medical unit and investigated Gale’s Glitter network with River, Mitch, and Skar.
• Su Xiao killed Gale, raided the Rat’s Nest with the Aldecaldos, and ordered the Glitter-manufacturing equipment destroyed.
• Rogue told Su Xiao that the Voodoo Boys planned to breach the Blackwall to draw Alt into the real world, then asked him to wipe out the gang.
• Su Xiao traveled to Pacifica to negotiate with NetWatch, but armed street punks approached his taxi.

Su Xiao led the assault that destroyed the Voodoo Boys’ bases, then rescued Saul and built Dawn Military Company’s influence through operations in Bolivia. Back in Night City, he helped Judy push forward a plan to retake Cloudy Peak, gaining combat-implant blueprints and a proposal to drive out the Tiger Claws.

• Su Xiao negotiated a contract with NetWatch agent Bryce Mosley and led a two-pronged assault on the Voodoo Boys’ bases, killing Maman Brigitte and Placide and destroying their hacking equipment.
• Su Xiao joined the Aldecaldos’ rescue effort, freed Saul from the Random Blade Society’s cement factory, and then destroyed the factory with a Scorpion Lion.
• Su Xiao hired Gloria for Dawn Military Company, rescued an arms dealer in Bolivia, and helped recover the stolen VR training equipment while saving civilians from militia forces.
• Su Xiao captured Big Gold Tooth and uncovered a plot against Diego Castillo, then escorted Diego to President Anton Castillo and negotiated a military training and equipment contract in exchange for mineral rights.
• Su Xiao arranged financing for Dawn Military Company’s expansion into Bolivia, recruited Saul’s Aldecaldos, and agreed to help Judy improve Cloudy Peak’s security and regain control of the venue.
• Su Xiao confronted Maiko Maeda, then watched Tom demonstrate Judy’s modified Behavior Chip by fighting him and quickly defeating him.
• Su Xiao spent 1,000 Potential Points on blueprints for combat implants that could temporarily boost users to elite fighting ability, and Judy proposed disarming and expelling the Tiger Claws from Cloudy Peak.

Su Xiao expanded Dawn Military Company’s power in Bolivia, defeating the rebels and dismantling the Sparkle Group while building local support. After six months of fighting, he returned to Night City with Mann’s team and David to meet Raijin Arasaka.

• Su Xiao killed Sato Hiromi, Ichiro Marcus, Kurogami Jun, and Maiko Maeda, then arranged for the Mox Gang to take over Cloudy Peak and Okada Wakako’s sons to claim the rival groups’ territories.
• Su Xiao sold Combat Augmentors to the Republic of Texas and recruited Goro Takemura into Dawn Military Company before expanding the company’s mining operations and forces in Bolivia.
• Su Xiao rejected the Bolivian president’s proposed deal, rallied Government Army soldiers to defend La Paz, and helped them repel Truss’s Rebel Militia after President Anton died.
• Su Xiao won Diego’s trust, seized the Sparkle Group’s intelligence, and used a port operation to capture Yanan and Flores while Dawn Military Company weakened the group’s leadership.
• Dawn Military Company routed the Anti-government Armed Forces and let its captured militiamen face public trials, while the Sparkle Group’s executives fought among themselves for control.
• Dawn Military Company used information from the five remaining executives to kill them, destroy their strongholds, free enslaved laborers, and uproot the Sparkle Group.
• Over the next six months, Dawn Military Company cleared Bolivia of the remaining rebels and Sparkle Group forces while Su Xiao left the campaign to others.
• Su Xiao returned to Night City with Mann’s team and David, then met Raijin Arasaka at Arasaka Tower.