Sci-Fi & Cyberpunk Character Names

How to use: Match the archetype to the NPC's role first — corporate names for boardrooms and handlers, netrunner handles for anyone who lives behind a screen, mercs and spacers for hired muscle and crews. Handles work standalone (introduce Nullbyte and never explain who's under it) or layered over a legal name, the way the table meets Mara "Driftwood" Voss and only later learns which name is on her manifest. Android designations read cold by design — ARI-9, Echo-12 — so let a character soften it with a chosen name if the story turns on being treated as a person instead of a unit. For a non-tech counterpart, pair with Fantasy NPC Names; for what this character is actually doing when the party meets them, pair with Quest Hooks.