Space Warriors

The Space Warriors begin life as the Universal Environmental Protection Society, a gentle circle of conservationists who work to improve conditions throughout the star system, especially near the asteroid belt. That identity dissolves in 2069 when Twinkle Maria Murdock assumes command and steers the remaining membership toward violence.

Under Murdock the survivors arm themselves while many of the original preservationists walk away. The radicals strike at anyone they judge to be harming the natural world, killing without hesitation, and they campaign against orbital refuse and the harvesting of animals such as the Ganymede Sea Rat. To hide their faces they wear masks modeled on that creature, and they leave holographic mission statements set to soft music even at sites where they have just gunned people down.

Their signature plot, called Monkey Business, has them abduct a biologist and force him to build a virus that regresses humans into primitive primates, after which they order the Ganymede Chief Minister to outlaw the Sea Rat trade outright. The scheme unravels through a string of clashes: a restaurant shootout where Murdock is briefly captured by Spike Spiegel and Jet Black, an extortion of the ISSP chief to lift her bounty and free her, and a final push to release the pathogen from hyperspace. The Bebop corners them in that void, and a stray vial shatters aboard their own vessel, infecting the group with the very weapon they built.

Twinkle Maria Murdock stands as the group's driving force, the leader whose takeover reshapes it into a weaponized cause. Gett serves as the mole planted inside the organization; once discovered he is attacked and left to die after fleeing in a small ship with a stolen sample of the virus. Their most notorious tool remains the Monkey Business agent itself, engineered under duress and eventually turned against its makers.