Slaughterhouse started simple enough, dealing drugs and hookers to the construction crews during the erection of Night City.  In fact they are one of the oldest, if not the first, street gang to form in the city.  They are certainly the longest lasting.  Their history is a rollercoaster of rises and falls to power.

 

Originally the gang was located in the NorthSide district.  They were able to leverage power and protection from dealings with the local Costa Nostra families.  As their operations grew, they became more bold, even setting up shop right next to a major Police Station.  But still their focus remained simple.  They dealt in drugs, everything from heroin to crack, and they operated numerous brothels and even a few porn studios.    While their leader, Solomon Christ maintained an air of legitimacy, the lower ranks of the gang defended their turf through fear and intimidation.  The biggest, hardest, most fierce men Solomon could find were put out on the street, enforcing territory and settling grudges.  Solomon had a thing for knives, and every member of the gang was required to carry one, the bigger and more nasty looking the better.  This theme became so prevalent that it became the gangs tag, a bloody knife in red.

 

In 2019, There was a major upheaval in the gangs leadership.  Embroiled in a power struggle over territory with the Mafia who had, until then, been supporting the Slaughterhouse, their protection from police began to crumble.  As violent confrontations began erupting between mob enforcers and the gang, things were reaching a boiling point.  Then the Police raided Solomon Christs apartment, nabbing him with 6 kilo’s of synthcoke.  From there the police moved in force on his lieutenants, capturing several and killing several more.  Rumors still fly that this was possible due to a betrayal within Christs core leadership.  What is known is that only 3 of the lieutenants escaped unscathed.

 

One of those who escaped was Brick, Solomon’s protégé and second in command.  He was in the hospital at the time, recovering from an explosion in his apartment.  Within a week of his release, the remaining lieutenants, who Brick proclaimed had betrayed Christ and planted the drugs, disappeared. 

 

It was not enough to save Christ, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison. 

 

With Christ in prison, Brick stepped into the leadership role.  Under his command, the gang took on a more sinister and violent nature.  The drugs flooded the streets.  The crimes escalated into home invasion, murderous car jacking and muggings, assaults.  They would kidnap girls as young as 15 and put them to work in the brothels.

When the police began the Purge, Slaughterhouse was their prime target.  Systematic raids and high profile seizures (it is rumored that the Mafia worked directly with the police in feeding them information) pushed them out of the North Side altogether, with the law chasing them all the way to the Marsten Projects.  It was here that Slaughterhouse dug in.  After numerous attempts to get them out of the buildings, including the disastrous raid that cost 21 SWAT members their lives, the police gave up trying to extricate them.  It seemed a victory to Slaughterhouse, until the area, which had already been designated the worst ghetto in the city, was officially declared a Combat Zone.  The gang was still celebrating as the walls went up. 

 

When Carnival hit the Combat Zone, Slaughterhouse was surprisingly well prepared.  The confusing maze and fortified positions the Marsten Complex offered them meant any attempts to move in for bounties was near suicidal, and minor criminals in the area swarmed to join the Slaughterhouse for protection.  If anything, where Carnival decimated many of the other gangs, Slaughterhouse ranks swelled.

 

Now they have complete control of the Marsten Projects.  They are involved in a turf war with Stomp Street as they try to expand their control of the Zone, but Stomp has allied itself with both the 2-3 Set and the Russian mob, and has kept the Slaughterhouse at bay. 

 

Slaughterhouse now completely rules the western side of the Combat Zone.  They control the drugs, the girls and the guns.  Slaughterhouse gets their guns from the Triads, and get their drugs from the Voodoo Boyz, with whom they have form an alliance (The Voodoo Boyz need the help with their ongoing feud over drug control with 2-3 Set).  Outside the Zone Slaughterhouse still has influence, but is most prostitution and illegal pornography. 

 

Slaughterhouse is partial to black with different sets and crews within the gang sporting different colors.  The Slaughterhouse is the largest and most fortified street gang in the Combat Zone, and possibly the most feared gang in Night City period.