Panam Palmer

Panam Palmer is a nomad from the Aldecaldos, a clan camped in the Badlands outside Night City. When V meets her, she has left the family after a falling-out with its leader, Saul Bright, whose talks with Biotechnica she saw as selling the clan to a corporation. She took merc jobs in the city through Rogue until a partner named Nash, secretly tied to the hostile Raffen Shiv nomads, ran off with her cargo and her car.

Rogue points V toward Panam during the hunt for Anders Hellman, whose Kang Tao transport is due to cross the Badlands. Panam agrees to lend a hand once V recovers her stolen goods, and together they force the aircraft down. Her questline then grows into one of the game’s largest side stories: V helps her rescue Saul from the Wraiths and joins her riskier schemes for the Aldecaldos, including the theft of a Militech Basilisk tank behind Saul’s back.

Proud and quick to anger, Panam is also fiercely protective of the people she lets in, and her attachment to the clan and to friends like Mitch Anderson drives most of what she does. She is one of the game’s romance options, available to a V with a masculine body type. If V stands by her, Panam comes to see V as family and makes it clear the whole clan will help at any cost.