Despite the benign rule of the Military Command, several fringe groups claim to be fighting for freedom or some other obscure goal of theirs. We will here deal with each and one of them in order of importance.
Scandinavian Ministry of Information
Shadowrunners are scarse in the Scandinavian Federation. They are hunted down like dogs by the effective forces of the ScanFed. The few that do exist are the more dangerous. They use their infernal skills to disrupt government operations, and to spread foreign produced propaganda into the homes of unsuspecting citizens of the Federation. They goes by the name of News Sharks
Some of them also do regular military operations, kidnapping scientists and high officials, selling stolen information, and damaging important research. These groups are called Thrashers. Computerised bandits keep the nexus of the community, the Shadowland, open for those that know what to look for, but hidden to most of the forces of the Law.
But one new organisation within the Counter-Intelligence Service, OP 6, has begun to infiltrate into these secret sects, and soon, the annoyance of the Shadowrunners will be a memory to forget.
This sorry policlub is just an excuse from the ScanFed government to keep an eye on those that dislike the current military regime, but doesn't dare to take direct action. They prefer to meet in secret places, to discuss an eledged outrage from the Government or anything else that catch their fancy. This is a group of academicians and learned people, at least those that has been fooled by the foreign propaganda.
The Leaders of this organisation is even imprisoned since a long time ago. It is the former Queen Victoria and her consort, Haakon. Since they are securely detained in the Fortress of Rombakshus in Bergen, a modern fortress designed to withstand most modern weapons and intrusions, the chance of their organisation to grow to become a threat is next to none.
Only a few and dis-organised gangs exists in the glorious Scandinavian Federation. There are for instance no gangs in the greater cities of the Federation. Organised crime syndicates are as hunted by the security forces as are the Shadowrunners and the Snapphanarna. Some sources tells that a few Russian Mafia groups operates out of secret bases in the Åland Archipelago, but there has been no substance in these rumours found yet.
Now this is not entirely correct! In Stockholm, there are areas where not even the Micky Pete's (MP's) or the Silly Pete's (SePo-Secret Police) want to go unless in great numbers. Here the gangs roam. Among the gangs can these be worth a mention. Pink Mink - A street gang in Enskede, in the southern burbs, where the gang colours are stolen mink coats, stolas or hats dyed pink. Bull Dogs - A street gang in the rough Hammarby harbour. Daltons - A Go-gang in Brandbergen
Bad Momma
We must here take the opportunity to deny that any Japanese Yakuza, Korean Seoulpa Ring, Chinese Tong, or Italian Mob operates within the borders of our fair country.
In Scania, the rebel province, go-gangs roam the highways from time to time. The two greatest gangs are the Hellraisers, and the Mutants. None of them operates in the civilized parts of the Federation. They are fierce competitors, and large fights has been reported by covert information sources.
Smugglers operates around the border to Russia, in the Province of Finland. Many of them are run by amateurs, and quickly found and punished by either the Scandinavian or the Russian military border patrols. But a few are skilled enough to slip through the highly secured border. They are mostly smuggling weapons, and other controlled substances into the Scandinavian Federation, and high tech equipment and information into Russia. No indications so far shows any connections to either Russian Mafia or the Russian Government.
Pirates has been reported along the northern shores of the Province of Norway, just south of the border to Lapland. They are also a diverse group of individuals, most being poor fishermen from the splinter republic of Lapland, but some better armed pirates are believed remnants of the Russian Red Star Navy on the Kola inlet.
Terrorists are an unfortunate bi-product of our society today. Generally, they tend to be little more than ruffians with bombs and a twisted cause, but there are a few exceptions:
The terrorist organisation Winternight, specialising in spreading fear through the use of Nuclear weapons is said to operate in the Scandinavian Federation. This is of course prepostrous, and a lie from the false Foreign News Media. No such activity has been detected here since we ran them out after their attack on the Nuclear plant of Barsebäck.
The roots of this organisation stems from the time when Sweden and Denmark fought over the southernmost regions of Sweden. These rebels made skirmish attacks on military and governmental positions on the Swedish side, both inside the disputed regions, as well as just inside the regular Swedish heartland. These rebels were financed by the Danish Crown, and they did support them openly.
The rebels did not have that much impact on the military movements, but as a political gesture, it had more impact. After Sweden finally got the rights to the territory after the treaty of Brömsebro in the year 1528, the Swedish crown had to establish firm control, and did very much to make the newly conquered subjects Swedish. One of the more effective ways were to establish a university in Lund, where they were taught Swedish laws and customs.
The modern version of Snapphanarna is an offspring from the displaced citizens of Malmö, those that were forcibly moved from Malmö city, due to a Nuclear meltdown in the nearby nuclear plant in Barsebäck. It was in the year 2012 that the government, after several mistakes, began to remove the citizens to protect them from the nuclear cloud that would be arriving soon.
The people were sent to safe locations, but other, not so well cared for refugees in the area, those that arrived from the wasted coastal areas of Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark, started to move into the deserted city. The Security forces that tried to keep them out, failed, and the city soon became a haven for the fugitives and undesirables from the society. They even brought with them weapons, and with the influx of weapons from outside sources, they soon became self sufficient. Soon there after, they declared themselves to be a free city.
Since the Government were tied up elsewhere, they did not launch an attack to sweep away the resistance, and the original citizens became irritated and claimed that they had been deserted from their own government. And when the government, after the troubles that followed the war against the legion of the Turks, then began to relocate the Turkish population from the greater cities, to camps in Scania, the southernmost region of Sweden, then their patience were up to their limits.
A political movement, one that want to see the return of a civilian government, began to cry for revolution, and a militant unit was formed. They are now growing in strength, mostly in the southern regions of the Province of Sweden. Their leader calls himself Nils Dacke, after a famous Swedish dissident, that met his rightful end when caught by the soldiers that was hunting him.
Also a very secret organization called Sigurd (norse name for Beowulf) which works for a restoration of the socialdemocratic welfare state which was lost in the time after the Awakening and Crash of '29. Thereby working against the megacorps, by various nefarious means like robbing, extortion, kidnapping, murder and so on, a.k.a. shadowrunning. They specialize in striking at the weakest links in the chain, and keeping in the shadows, as exposure will most certainly attract the megas fury.
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