Groups

The Blue Snake is an interplanetary criminal organization thought to operate out of Mars. Ruthless with anyone who betrays it, the syndicate hunts down a former consultant through his own family after learning he leaked its secrets years…

The Callisto Liberation Front is a tiny cell of eco-radicals in the live-action Cowboy Bebop series. Built around the Murdock family, the group pursues a single cause: halting the terraforming of the moon Callisto.

Cherious Medical is a Mars-based pharmaceutical firm operating under military command. Behind its corporate front it runs covert weapons research, the very program that produces the film's antagonist and draws Spike into a dangerous…

The Cosmic Broadcasting Community is the main television network serving Mars. Its news coverage, anchored by Mark Rather, threads through the wider story, from reporting on the Scratch movement to breaking word of a deadly tanker…

The Earth Police Department is the law enforcement body of Earth. Its pursuit of a supposed hacker behind bizarre land carvings puts it on a collision course with Radical Edward, an encounter that ends in humiliation and an unpaid bounty.

The Europa General Bank Service is a financial institution on the moon Europa. It surfaces as the hidden endpoint of an Astral Gate hijacking scheme, the destination where stolen credits are funneled and scrubbed clean.

The European syndicate is a criminal outfit operating out of Europa in the Cowboy Bebop setting. It surfaces mainly through its ties to the hitman Udai Taxim and a corrupt police collaboration that cost Jet Black his arm and his badge…

The Ganymede Police Department is the Inter-Solar System Police branch stationed on the moon Ganymede in Cowboy Bebop. Marked by the letters PDG on their uniforms and craft, its officers post bounties on fugitives and clash with…

The Gate Corporation, formally the Gate Public Corporation, is the enterprise behind the Astral Gates that make faster-than-light travel possible across the Cowboy Bebop solar system. Its ambition to open the stars to humanity came bundled…

The Inter-Solar System Police, known as the ISSP, is the sprawling law enforcement authority covering every settled world and moon in the Cowboy Bebop solar system. Officially the guardian of order, it is riddled with graft, and its…

The Io Police Department is the Inter-Solar System Police outpost on the moon Io, its officers identifiable by the PDI lettering across their backs. In Cowboy Bebop it turns up chasing a wanted man and briefly detaining a woman traveling…

Kao Construction is a building and engineering firm in the Cowboy Bebop universe, remembered mainly for the environmental cost of one of its projects. Under a former chief executive, its terraforming work reshaped a moon and wiped out a…

The Mars Army is the standing military of the Martian government within the Cowboy Bebop setting. It carries a wartime record and a hidden research arm, blurring the line between soldiering and covert experimentation.

The Mars Police Department is the Inter-Solar System Police branch responsible for the red planet, its officers bearing the PDM mark. Based in the sprawl of Alba City, it works bounties and major criminal cases under a familiar chief.

Mars University is a center of higher learning on Mars in the Cowboy Bebop world. Its academic reach extended into advanced medicine, and one of its neurosurgery professors surfaces during a chilling murder investigation.

Moving Your Life is a freight and delivery firm in Cowboy Bebop, its fleet built around massive interstellar hauling trucks. The company is best known for the day one of its ships was stolen and dragged into a hijacking plot that pulled in…

The Red Dragon Crime Syndicate is the towering criminal empire at the dark heart of Cowboy Bebop, headquartered in the Tharsis district of Mars. Built like an East Asian triad crossed with the yakuza, it rules through assassination,…

The Red Dragon Headquarters is the Martian skyscraper that served as the seat of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate in Cowboy Bebop. From its heights the syndicate's ruling elders issued their orders, until the tower became the stage for the…

Scratch is a religious movement built around the promise of digitizing the human mind. Rosny Spanngen created it and hid behind an invented guru, Doctor Londes, drawing thousands of followers before a wave of suicides and an ISSP manhunt…

The Self Defense Volunteer Squad is a paramilitary outfit devoted to armed protection. Its downfall came during a botched raid in 2061, an event that scattered its leaders and left one of them branded a traitor for a full decade.

SIT is a Martian university based in Alba City whose research divisions loom quietly behind two Cowboy Bebop cases. One team there authored the near universal decryption tool Crypt Breaker, while the institution also trained the…

The Space Warriors are an eco-terrorist band led by Twinkle Maria Murdock, evolved out of a once peaceful conservation society. Their crusade to protect nature turns lethal, culminating in a plot to unleash a virus that drags humanity back…

Tortoise Cleaning Company is a janitorial firm working out of Alba City on Mars. Its regular contract at the Cherious Medical facility becomes an unwitting doorway for a bounty hunter, who borrows the company's uniform and truck to slip…

Turtle Express is a system wide courier service that relies on drones to move parcels between worlds. Its oddest shipment is a package endlessly forwarded since the twenty first century, a cash on delivery burden that finally catches up…

The Venus Police Department is the ISSP's law enforcement branch on Venus. It handles bounty payouts and pursuit notices on the planet, from settling the reward on a trio of small time crooks to hanging a price on a local gang boss.

WcDonald's is a fast food chain operating in Alba City on Mars. More set dressing than plot device, its billboards decorate the streets as characters move through the city, and its name plays on the real world McDonald's.

The White Tiger Crime Syndicate is an interplanetary criminal outfit rooted on Mars and locked in a long rivalry with the Red Dragon. A 2071 attempt to broker peace between the two ends in an assassination secretly engineered from within…

The Young Men's Cowboy Association is a fraternity of cowboys within the bounty hunting trade. It is best remembered for expelling one especially destructive member, whose record of property damage and injuries made him too much of a…