The Powers That Be of the Sixth World maintain huge machines dedicated to enforcing and expanding their control over the world. Within those large organizations are smaller units that represent the elite arm, the "tip of the spear", that can be used to respond to extraordinary threats or to carry out missions requiring discretion, secrecy, and often times, deniability that are beyond the ken of shadowrunners. These elite forces exist within government, corporate and private militaries, security forces, law enforcement, and "other" entities.
Allied German States[]
- Federal Border Guard] (BGS) Anti-Terror Organization - Matrix (ATO-M) Matrix commandos
- BGS Grenzschutzgruppe (GSG; "Border Protection Group")[1]
- BGS GSG-9 Counter-Terrorist Team[1]
- Bundesamt für Innere Sicherheit (BIS; "Confederate Office for Internal Security") Einheit 13 ("Unit 13") Matrix commandos
- Bundeswehr Fernspähtruppe ("Long-Range Reconnaissance Unit") teams
- Bundeswehr HAZARD Teams - CBRNN response unit
- Bundeswehr Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK; "Special Forces Command")[2][3]
Alta Commissione[]
- Fratellanza[4]
Amazonia[]
- Amazonian Armed Forces Special Forces[5]
Anarchists[]
Atlantean Foundation[]
- Mystic Crusaders[7]
Ares Macrotechnology[]
- The Unseen[8]
Australia and New Zealand Allied Confederation (ANZAC)[]
- ANZAC Special Forces[9]
Aztechnology[]
- Blood Daggers[10]
- Jaguar Guard[11]
- Leopard Guard[11]
- Blood Panthers[12]
- Guerreros (Warrior-Orders)[13]
- Ocelomeh Guerreros[14]
- Cuacuahtin Guerreros[14]
- Ontontin Guerreros[14]
- Cuachicqueh Guerreros[14]
Aztlan[]
Caribbean League[]
- Navy Tigersharks[17]
Confederation of American States[]
- Army Special Forces ("Green Berets")[18]
- Department of Domestic Investigations (DDI) Criminal Deterrence Operation (CDO) Group[19]
- Marine Corps Special Operations Forces[19]
- Navy SEALs[20]
- Navy SEALs Team Six[20]
Coca-Cola Co.[]
- Minute Men[21]
Corporate Court[]
- Grid Overwatch Division (GOD) Artificial Resources Management (ARM) Division[22]
- GOD Right Hand (RH) Division[22]
Cross Applied Technologies[]
Evo[]
- Special Security Detail (SSD) counter-covert ops teams[25]
- Yamatetsu Naval Technologies Marine Commandos
Front Range Free Zone (Denver)[]
- Zone Defense Force (ZDF) Special Forces[26]
Kingdom of Hawai'i[]
- Royal Hawai'ian Armed Forces Na Kiu[27]
Hong Kong Free Enterprise Zone[]
Israel[]
Japan[]
- Japanese Imperial Marines Special Forces
- Japanese Special Forces[32][33]
Knight Errant[]
Lone Star[]
- Patrol Division Fast Response Teams (FRT)[41]
- Tactical Division Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Teams[42]
Nagato Combine[]
- Green Serpent Guard[43]
Pakistan[]
- Special National Guard[44]
Pueblo Corporate Council[]
- Security Forces Civil Arm Quick Response Teams (QRT)[45]
Québec[]
Regency MegaMedia[]
- Ghatak Commandos[48]
Renraku Computer Systems[]
- Red Ninja[49]
- Red Samurai[50]
- Renraku Australasia Blue Samurai
Russia[]
- Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del (MVD) Otryad Mobilny Osobogo Naznacheniya (OMON; "Special Purpose Mobility Unit")[51]
- Red Army Glavnoye Razvedovatel'noye Upranleniy (GRU; "Main Intelligence Directorate") Spetsialnogo Naznacheniya (Spetsnaz; "Special Forces")[52]
Schwarze Sheriffs Security Services[]
- Schwarze Marshalls ("Black Marshals")[53]
Seattle Metroplex[]
- Metroplex Guard Special Forces[54]
Sioux Nation[]
- Sioux Defense Force (SDF) Matrix Warband[55]
- SDF Special Forces ("Wildcats")[56]
Sternschutz Security Services[]
- Berlin Sonder Schutztruppe (SST; "Special Protection Force")[57]
- Sonderabteilungen für Magie und Thaumaturgie (SAMT; "Special Department of Magic and Thaumaturgy")[58]
Tír na nÓg[]
- Tír Republican Corps (TRC) Reach Fuileach[59][60]
Tír Tairngire[]
- Moonlight Thorns[61]
- Peace Force Special Forces Bratach Falan ("Black Banner"; "Ghosts")[62][63]
- Peace Force Special Forces Bratach Gheal ("White Banner") executive protection unit[62][63]
- Peace Force Special Forces Bratach Gheal covert operatives ("Black Daggers")[62][63]
United Kingdom[]
- London Metropolitan Police Special Branch[64]
- Ministry of Defence (MOD) Special Air Service (SAS)[65][66]
- MOD Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR)[67]
- Oversight Office Operatives (OOO; "Templars"`)[66]
United Canadian and American States[]
- Army Rangers[68][69]
- Army Special Forces[70][71][72][73]
- Army Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha 599 (ODA 599; "White Lions")[74]
- Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)[75][76][77][78]
- Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Emergency Response Teams (ERT)[81]
- Marine Corps Fleet Antiterror Security Teams (FAST)[75]
- Marine Corps Special Forces[5]
- Navy SEALs[82][83][84]
Wuxing Incorporated[]
- Dà Dì Xiāo ("Heaven and Earth") Special Operations Unit[86]
- Maritime Security Division (MSD)[86]
Yakashima Technologies[]
- Shinobi Teams[87]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Germany Sourcebook p. 53
- ↑ Deutschland in den Schatten II p. ?
- ↑ War! p. ?
- ↑ Shadows of Europe p. 31
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 War! p. 130
- ↑ Loose Alliances p. 24
- ↑ Dawn of the Artifacts: Dusk p. 8
- ↑ Corporate Download p. ?
- ↑ War! p. 129
- ↑ War! p. 29
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Aztlan p. 177
- ↑ Dark Terrors p. 138
- ↑ Ghost Cartels p. 130 - 131
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Corporate Guide p. 73
- ↑ Conspiracy Theories p. 48
- ↑ Storm Front p. 24
- ↑ Street Legends p. 144
- ↑ Runner's Black Book p. 111
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Shadows of North America p. 66
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Cyberpirates! p. 22
- ↑ Street Magic p. 89
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Unwired p. 24
- ↑ Portfolio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets p. 60
- ↑ Corporate Download p. ?
- ↑ Spy Games 130
- ↑ Storm Front p. 89
- ↑ Paradise Lost p. ?
- ↑ Dawn of the Artifacts: New Dawn p. 44
- ↑ Runner Havens p. 15
- ↑ Vice p. 157
- ↑ Shadows in Focus: Sioux Nation p. 23
- ↑ Corporate Enclaves p. 70
- ↑ State of the Art: 2063 p. 77
- ↑ Target: UCAS p. ?
- ↑ Corporate Download p. ?
- ↑ Corporate Guide p. ?
- ↑ Burning Bright p. ?
- ↑ Bug City p. ?
- ↑ Corporate Download p. ?
- ↑ Corporate Guide p. ?
- ↑ Lone Star p. 33
- ↑ Lone Star p. 36
- ↑ Shadows of Asia p. 82
- ↑ Shadows of Asia p. 67
- ↑ Artifacts Unbound p. 106
- ↑ Shadows of North America p. 112
- ↑ The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America p. 72
- ↑ Bloody Business p. 145
- ↑ Corporate Guide p. 145
- ↑ Seattle Sourcebook p. 48
- ↑ Shadows of Asia p. 134
- ↑ Shadows of Asia p. 126
- ↑ Unterwelten p. 253
- ↑ Seattle Sourcebook p. 123
- ↑ Shadows of North America p. ?
- ↑ Native American Nations Volume One p. 103
- ↑ Berlin p. 40
- ↑ Berlin p. 39
- ↑ Tír na nÓg p. 41
- ↑ Artifacts Unbound p. 107 - 108
- ↑ The Land of Promise p. 24
- ↑ 62.0 62.1 62.2 Tir Tairngire p. 105
- ↑ 63.0 63.1 63.2 Shadows of North America p. 150
- ↑ Spy Games p. 123
- ↑ London Sourcebook p. 24
- ↑ 66.0 66.1 Shadows of Europe p. 200
- ↑ Spy Games p. ?
- ↑ Missions p. 74
- ↑ Seattle 2072 p. 161
- ↑ Shadowrun Second Edition Companion, p. ?
- ↑ 71.0 71.1 Shadowrun Third Edition Companion, p. 116
- ↑ 72.0 72.1 Missions p. 93
- ↑ System Failure p. 108
- ↑ DNA/DOA p. 49
- ↑ 75.0 75.1 75.2 10 Mercs p. 43
- ↑ Artifacts Unbound p. 109
- ↑ Conspiracy Theories p. 158
- ↑ Spy Games p. 158
- ↑ Shadowrun Second Edition Companion, p. ?
- ↑ Bug City p. 130
- ↑ Ghost Cartels p. 89 - 90
- ↑ 10 Mercs p. 42 - 43
- ↑ Cyberpirates! p. 171
- ↑ Artifacts Unbound p. 107
- ↑ Cyberpirates! p. ?
- ↑ 86.0 86.1 Corporate Guide p. 187
- ↑ Dawn of the Artifacts: New Dawn p. 24