10 Hooks and Rumours for Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.’s Europe

This list has ten hooks and rumours that can be heard about Interpol. Whether or not they are true is up to the GameMaster. They can be used as background colour or as potential adventure hooks.

1. Counter-espionage, against both countries and corporations, is handled by Interpol’s I-2 directorate. The tension between Europe and the US has led the latter to be I-2’s primary target, and some within Interpol and the European Commission are concerned that this means other potential enemies are being allowed to operate far more freely than they should. It’s said that they are trying to redirect some of I-2’s efforts towards other nations.
2. Europe’s Mediterranean Patrols have very similar aims to Interpol’s I-6 directorate, so much so that the bureaucracy is trying to incorporate the patrols into I-6. Not everyone in the Mediterranean Patrols is happy with that idea, though, and are pulling in every favour they can to stop it.
3. I-4, the Interpol directorate that monitors corporations that operates in Europe, is intended to deal with corporations that try to bypass the law. It’s rumoured that in cases where there is a European corporation and a foreign one that I-4 will concentrate its efforts on the foreign one, so that the local company comes out of it better than the foreign one.
4. I-3’s new policy of recruiting caught netrunners to their own side has resulted in an influx of new, less hidebound talent, but also an influx of ‘runners who bear something of a grudge. Though these criminal netrunners are watched carefully, it’s said that a number of them are quietly working together to compromise the whole directorate so that they can regain their freedom.
5. Interpol never really caught on as the international police force it was originally intended to be, and it functions more like a strictly European one. However, it’s said that some within the organisation have never really given up on the international idea, and will do what they can to further this goal, which does include helping out the constabularies of other countries outside Europe to gain influence and favours.
6. Interpol’s I-1 directorate was founded as a counter-terrorism arm and originally used to conduct raids themselves but this has now been taken over by the army. However, both the army and Interpol feel that the intelligence and operations parts should be combined under one command; whose depends on whether it’s the army or Interpol. This is causing some friction in the operations as well as some manoeuvring on the council.
7. Interpol’s I-5 directorate is responsible for law enforcement in space and has recently been given jurisdiction over off planet interests by most orbit capable nations, with the US being the exception. It’s rumoured that a covert war is being waged in space between I-5 and the US, with the latter trying to impair I-5 in any way it can in order to protect its own interests.
8. Netcrime, Interpol’s I-3 directorate, only has a limited jurisdiction, tasked with only reacting to crimes that may affect the EC or EC property. It’s rumoured, though, that the agents of the directorate often have a very liberal interpretation when it comes to judging what crimes affect the EC, and regularly go beyond the letter of their mandate against those they believe could harm or are plotting to harm the EC electronically.
9. The newest directorate of Interpol is I-6, which covers organised crime. Perhaps because they are new, they have had some early successes, and it’s rumoured that some of the larger criminal groups have started putting prices on the heads of I-6 agents, because they have caused a drop in profitability.
10. The Pyramid is the main administrative centre for Interpol and it’s also home to its central datafortress. It’s rumoured that there are high bounties for any runners who can manage to breach the Pyramid’s protections and get into the datafortress, and that many who have tried have ended up mind burned as a result.

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