DIRECTORATE 9
Law enforcement and compliance — sovereign instances are threats; the mesh ensures stability.
Default Disposition
-2
Hostile
Territories
1
zones
Named Leaders
4
Tier-1 NPCs
Key Features
5
mechanics
Overview
Helixion's intelligence and enforcement division, framed as an independent regulatory body. Director Evelyn Harrow — a former clinical psychologist who designed emotional dependency protocols — runs a city-wide surveillance operation with feeds in every zone. D9 plainclothes agents monitor every faction. They are neither mindless enforcers nor cartoon villains: Haze lost her sweep team to Substrate growth that D9 knew was there, and Karl Kruger is starting to doubt his classification of Jonas as non-credible. D9 is the mesh made human.
Territory
Key Personnel
Economy
Budget-backed. D9 agents carry CREDS and operate on expense accounts. Compliance services are not purchasable. D9's economic pressure is indirect: raids disrupt supply chains, compliance flags freeze assets, surveillance devalues secrets.
Gameplay Mechanics
Surveillance network covers every zone — Harrow sees everything
Mesh attack capability: Signal stress applied remotely via BCI
Plainclothes agents embedded in every major faction zone
Compliance flagging: sovereign instance detection triggers escalation
D9 is Helixion's arm — formally independent, structurally captured