The Consortium Police Organization — universally designated CONPOL — is the successor to INTERPOL and the direct institutional descendant of the United Nations' peacekeeping forces prior to Zero Day. Founded under the Zero Day Accords as a central pillar of the new Consortium order, CONPOL enjoys Consortium-wide jurisdiction and operates in coordination with national intelligence and police forces across all constituent entities.
Members serve on a rotating basis drawn from all Consortium member states, ensuring no single national force dominates its character. In its pre-war configuration, CONPOL functions as a standard international law enforcement body — maintaining peace, order, and Consortium law across Earth, Luna, Venus, and Mercury. Its agents are present, armed, and visible, but before the passage of the Consortium Security Acts in SY 132, they are non-hostile in their street posture and operate within defined civil constraints.
The passage of the Consortium Security Acts — issued in the immediate aftermath of Marcus Cato Scaevola's speech to World Congress — marks the inflection point. CONPOL is granted a substantially higher degree of authority and begins rapid militarization. From this point forward it functions as the Consortium's de facto military: the one armed force the Consortium has in sufficient numbers and organizational depth to deploy at scale.
The BAF bombing campaign targets CONPOL stations and bases directly as reprisal for the crackdown on Lunar independence, killing hundreds of CONPOL agents and destroying significant infrastructure across multiple cities. CONPOL's response to the bombings is escalatory. As the Battle of Earth intensifies, CONPOL sweeps expand dramatically: anyone assessed as holding spacer sympathies is detained as a threat to the Consortium. This includes participants in the broad civilian uprising across the People's Republic, where millions of Japanese citizens — many with family ties to spacer communities — take to the streets demanding cessation of hostilities. Armed clashes with CONPOL forces follow. The crackdowns harden.
During the Battle of Earth, CONPOL forces are engaged directly by BAF operatives. Several CONPOL members are taken prisoner during the fighting, which triggers the BAF seizure and wiring of CONPOL headquarters in New Athens — an engagement that ends with the execution of hostages and the demolition of the building.
Following the Battle of Earth and the subsequent Consortium-Technocracy ceasefire, the two formerly opposing organizations form a Unity government. CONPOL merges with the Technocracy's internal security forces under this new political arrangement. Luna is placed under CONPOL occupation and martial law is declared. During the Siege of Mars, CONPOL forces participate in the blockade operations. It is during this period that Søren Decks is captured and identified as an Alliance member — he is publicly executed in a short, highly publicized trial.
As the Consortium structure itself collapses under the weight of Solar trade failure, resource shortages, and civil war on Earth, CONPOL fractures. Many officers defect to the direct personal command of Marcus Cato Scaevola and Septimus Severus Gaius Quintus, operating outside the formal Consortium chain of command to secure major metropolitan areas. This irregular configuration persists well into the Twilight Era — a law enforcement body that has outlived the government that created it, answering to two men rather than an institution.
Foundation
Formed under the Zero Day Accords as successor to INTERPOL. Consortium-wide jurisdiction established. Rotating member-state personnel model implemented.
Standard Operations
Civil law enforcement across Inner Sol. Works in concert with national intelligence forces. Agents are non-hostile on patrol. Acts as peacekeeping presence on Luna and Inner Sol installations.
Militarization — Security Acts
Consortium Security Acts grant CONPOL expanded authority. Rapid militarization begins. Acts as de facto Consortium military force. BAF bombing campaign begins targeting CONPOL stations; hundreds of agents killed.
Wartime Operations — Earth
Crackdown on spacer sympathizers. Mass detentions. Armed clashes with civilian demonstrators in the People's Republic. CONPOL HQ New Athens seized and destroyed by BAF. Heavy combat engagement throughout.
Unity Merger — Lunar Occupation
Merges with Technocracy security forces under Unity government. Luna occupied under martial law. Søren Decks captured and publicly executed. Mars blockade operations.
Fragmentation — Scaevola/Quintus Command
Consortium collapse triggers CONPOL fracture. Many officers defect to direct command of Scaevola and Septimus Severus Gaius Quintus. Metropolitan security maintained in rump configuration into the Twilight Era.
| Event |
CONPOL Role |
Period |
Status |
| BAF Bombing Campaign |
Primary target; stations and bases destroyed across multiple cities |
SY 132+ |
Sustained Losses |
| Lunar Independence Crackdown |
Enforcement action prompting BAF bombing escalation |
SY 132+ |
Executed |
| PR Civilian Uprising |
Armed clashes with millions of demonstrators; mass detentions |
Battle of Earth |
Suppressed |
| New Athens HQ Seizure |
Headquarters seized and destroyed by BAF; hostages executed |
Battle of Earth |
Facility Lost |
| Lunar Occupation |
Occupied Luna under martial law following Unity merger |
Siege of Mars |
Completed |
| Capture of Søren Decks |
Alliance member identified, captured, and publicly executed |
Siege of Mars |
Completed |
| Earth Civil War |
Principal fighting force; metropolitan security under Scaevola/Quintus |
Twilight Era |
Ongoing |
I remember the CONPOL patrols in Geneva in SY 132. They came past the CERN campus on a standard rotation — two officers, standard kit, the Consortium blue on their jackets still crisp and civilian. They were not hostile. They were, at that point, a law enforcement body doing what law enforcement bodies do: maintaining visible presence, deterring petty crime, reporting back up the chain. I logged them as routine.
I mark that memory carefully now because it is the last unambiguous version of CONPOL I observed. Everything that followed the Security Acts is something else — the same name, the same organizational structure, a fundamentally different institution. The moment Marcus Cato Scaevola finished speaking to World Congress, the thing that walked out of that chamber wearing CONPOL insignia was a military force that happened to own police credentials. The transformation was not gradual. It happened in an afternoon.
I have processed the casualty records from the BAF bombing campaign. Hundreds of agents dead in targeted strikes. These were not battlefield soldiers who accepted mortal risk as a condition of service — most of them were patrol officers who had been handed military duties and military enemies without time to become soldiers. I record that distinction because I think it matters to the historical account, even if it mattered to no one at the time.
What CONPOL became in the Twilight Era — answering to Scaevola and Quintus rather than to any legal charter — is perhaps the most honest version of what it always was: the Consortium's enforcement instrument, attached not to law but to whoever was left holding Consortium power. The Accords created it. The war revealed it. The collapse of the Consortium simply removed the paperwork.