Kite

Rival raptor, bespoke build, working for Shadowhand. 'Voss isn't a villain. Voss is a salesman.' Dies in the brownout seam.

Baseline crew leader who runs the Last Black Box job. Plans for fear the way Kite can't.

Sub-2 born hacker running comms for the Last Black Box job from a noodle stall three klicks out.

Baroness Volstok's criminal enterprise. Neutral brokerage, sells access not answers. Controls 3 unopened pre-Upheaval installations.

Forty meters up a dead vent shaft, a raptor and a baseline crew go after the one record Neo-Tokyo has filed paperwork swearing does not exist.

Kite's stolen 'quantum core' matches Project Amaterasu point for point: PRC-classified, Sub-4/Node-7 origin, a caretaker who can't get out (Chen Yingxi), and an oligarch (Park Jinhyo) quietly funding it off the books. Kurosawa Renji already stole Amaterasu's behavioral log once and started a small war doing it. Nothing in 'The Last Black Box' names Amaterasu outright — this is an inferred link, not a confirmed one — but if it's true, Kite is holding the same object three canonical NPCs have already died or defected over.