Special Projects

Public cover

A routine atmospheric and weather-monitoring array in the eastern desert.

OOC premise

An aerospace surveillance and desert signal-monitoring program. It detects things the public array could not, and some of what it logs has no agreed-upon explanation.

Gameplay hooks

• Anomalous signal logs that leak to journalists or criminals.
• Trespassers detected far faster than a "weather station" should manage.
• Inter-agency fights over who controls the take.

Public cover

A grant-funded academic study on urban resource planning.

OOC premise

Predictive behavioural and crime-pattern analysis. It models where crime will happen and who is likely involved — powerful, biased, and politically radioactive if exposed.

Gameplay hooks

• Predictions that incriminate people before they act.
• A civil-liberties scandal waiting for a leak.
• Criminals who learn to feed it false patterns.

Public cover

A public-affairs and "community trust" communications initiative.

OOC premise

Disinformation and narrative-control operations. It plants stories, discredits real leaks, and shapes what the public believes — sometimes against other parts of the government.

Gameplay hooks

• Forged documents designed to bury authentic ones.
• Journalists who cannot tell which leak is real.
• Operations that backfire and become the story.

Public cover

An industrial materials-testing contract for public infrastructure.

OOC premise

Experimental materials, armour, and tactical equipment developed through private contractors. Prototypes occasionally walk out the door and end up in the wrong hands.

Gameplay hooks

• A prototype on the black market that should not exist.
• Procurement fraud and missing inventory.
• Contractors selling to both sides.

Public cover

A civil aviation radar-calibration and airspace-safety program.

OOC premise

Radio, radar, and spatial-anomaly monitoring focused on the Las Venturas restricted ranges. It tracks the desert incidents — and the official line is that there is nothing to track.

Gameplay hooks

• Radar returns of craft nobody will claim.
• Closed roads and rapid, deniable response teams.
• The gap between what Cold Window logs and what the public is told.

Public cover

A clinical study on stress, memory, and decision-making.

OOC premise

Behavioural-influence and interrogation research. Its methods are ethically fraught and its results are contested even internally — the kind of thing careers end over.

Gameplay hooks

• Former subjects who want answers — or revenge.
• Interrogation techniques that cross a line and taint a case.
• Whistleblowers weighing a leak against the consequences.