Sandra Dorsett

Sandra Dorsett is a corporate netrunner and employee of Night Corp.

Biography

Sometime around April 2077, Sandra was captured by Scavengers; her Biomonitor muted by a jammer chip forced into her neuroport, leaving Trauma Team unaware of her condition. Jackie Welles, T-Bug, and V infiltrate a Scavenger den to find her floating in an ice-filled bath. V acts quickly to remove the chip and proceeds to lift Sandra from the tub, sending her into cardiac arrest, and forcing the team into a frantic attempt at treatment with an airhypo. In the meantime, Trauma Team arrives to take custody of Sandra, leaving V and Jackie on the balcony of the Scavs' apartment.

Eventually Sandra makes a full recovery and returns to work at Night Corp, upon which it is revealed she had previously uncovered Night Corp's testing of an AI, discreetly stole the information, and kept it on a data shard that was lost during her kidnapping.

Wakako Okada reconnects Sandra with V, as someone with the necessary skills to recover an encrypted data shard. Sandra's requirements are simple - keep the data on the shard concealed, and ensure it is delivered to her promptly. As previously noted, the object of interest has fallen into the Scavs' possession, the revelation of which causes Sandra to take pause, still suffering the trauma of events she is unable to fully remember. She will express genuine sorrow for the loss of Jackie should V confide to her about his fate during their brief holo call.

Full Disclosure

Sandra’s primary side job in the game is Full Disclosure, where she tasks V with recovering her missing databank. Player choices strongly affect the outcome:

• Return databank unopened – Sandra thanks V and pays the agreed reward.
• Decrypt databank and deny reading – She becomes suspicious and pays less.
• Decrypt and admit but stay neutral – Standard payout, Sandra appreciates honesty.
• Decrypt and compliment her work – Sandra is flattered, reward increases.
• High Intelligence option – With INT ≥ 12, V can earn Sandra’s full trust, gaining both larger eddies (≈3800€$) and extra dialogue about being hunted by Night Corp.
• Attempt to blackmail – Sandra activates turrets in her apartment, turning hostile; usually fatal for V.

The databank content connects to Night Corp’s secret project “Operation Carpe Noctem”, which involved AI experiments on human cognition. This has been tied by fans to the Jefferson Peralez subplot and broader conspiracies of corporate mind-control.

Database Entry

Sandra Dorsett

SANDRA DORSETT

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At first glance, quiet, timid and cautious; at second glance, prudent and professional. She works a high-paying corpo job in an unspecified company - work she excels at. After hours she engages in unofficial netrunning for purposes known only to herself, a pastime she almost paid for with her life.

Details

From scanning her Biomonitor Data Panel, players ascertain the following information:

• ID: NC570442
• Blood Type: AB RHD+
• Membership: Platinum
• Medications: N-HYDROXYZINE (170), TR2-TRAMADOL (720), DESVENLAFAXINE (300), AMOXAPINE (220), R7-LACTOBACILLIUS (400N), ACETAMINOFEN (2500), BUPROPION (540)

Associated Quests

• The Rescue
• Full Disclosure
• Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos (dependent)

Associated Shards

• Operation Carpe Noctem report fragments (Shards 36, 37, 38 in Sandra’s apartment)
• Sandra’s databank – encrypted evidence of Night Corp AI manipulations

Humans of Night City

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HUMANS OF NIGHT CITY — SANDRA DORSETT

Never considered myself the lucky few. Studied hard when I was a kid. Been workin' hard since I joined the corpo. Guess I'm the kind of person who radiates peer pressure. Not gonna apologize for that, sorry. I even got my supervisor super competitive. He used to be choombae and all, faking up a big nice boss face, until he learned about my project. 'Cause it was a good project, 'cause we were making good progress. Local nursing homes need our AI to keep runnin', and the team was assigned to improve AI behavior to, and I'm quoting our PR here, "better support the elder citizen's mental well-being." He was tellin' me I "moved too fast", or I'd "overstepped". Pretty sure I hadn't, 'cause I freakin' love readin' NDAs — and dancin' around 'em. Note from Ziggy: Ditch this. Girl was kidnapped by the Scavs. Spiced up the content, but bossman killed it.

Community Perspectives

Fan discussions, particularly on Reddit, highlight Sandra’s databank as a hidden narrative bridge:

• Speculation ties her stolen AI data to the Jefferson Peralez questline, suggesting Night Corp has been manipulating the Peralezes for years.
• Many players recall Sandra as their very first emotional contact in Night City — someone they “saved” but who remains fragile and haunted.
• Others humorously note how easy it is to accidentally kill her during Full Disclosure (by turrets), making her one of the most “tragic but expendable” NPCs in Night City.

Gallery

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  Missing person Milk graphic with Sandra's still
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  Database entry artwork
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  Humans of Night City promotional still