Before making edits, please read our Editing Guidelines and our Manual of Style. Also join our Discord server if you want to discuss something! See you there! Because I truly care this time. Yet I fear I'll do or say something foolish - and be left alone in the desert. Panam Palmer is introduced as a former member of the Aldecaldos nomad clan, who, after a family dispute, decided to live a more independent life as a mercenary. She is also a possible romance option for V with a masculine body in Cyberpunk Panam Palmer was part of the Aldecaldos nomad tribe.
Her best friend was captured by the Raffen Shiv , a hostile Nomad group, when they were a child, only to be saved by fellow-Aldecaldo Cassidy Righter - an incident that deeply affected Panam into her adulthood, to the point of never telling anyone what happened in order to forget about it.
Cassidy would remain a close friend of Panam and become somewhat protective of her. Panam idolized Saul Bright , a fellow Aldecaldo who used to pull off impressive as well as funny stunts in his earlier years. At some time, Panam and Mitch were hauling cargo from San Francisco to Kansas for the owner of a syn-meat farm. The stench at the farm got Panam so sick that she puked on the owner's boots to which he simply replied "No need to bow, I'll just take a handshake.
At some point, Panam's clan set up camp in the Badlands outside Night City. She didn't see eye to eye with the clan's leader, Saul Bright, who was trying to strike a deal with Biotechnica in his attempt to keep the clan alive with consistent work. Panam disapproved, believing the clan should remain independent from corporations.
Together with Scorpion, Panam kept joking about getting Mitch on board and heading off to Oregon on their own. During an assignment to deliver "merchandise", Panam was betrayed by Nash, who stole both their cargo and her Thorton Mackinaw "Warhorse". Some time later, Panam was contacted by local merc V , who had been directed to her by Rogue to help capture Anders Hellman. After V helps Panam recover her merchandise by ambushing the Raffen Shiv in Rocky Ridge , and optionally also to get back her car by attacking and killing Nash in his hideout, she agreed to help them capture Hellman from Kang Tao forces, whose AV was predicted to pass across the Badlands.
