 By now, you must be painfully aware of the difference in combat power between the world government's most elite fighting force and you, a mere band of pirates. Hello and welcome to One Piece 101, the series that breaks down every one and everything in the One Piece world. Today, we'll be taking a look at the Intelligence Agency operated by the world government, CypherPole. CypherPole is short for Cypher Police and they act as sort of a secret intelligence service, existing primarily in an effort to continually consolidate power for the world government, generally by any means necessary. And as a result, while CypherPole do work with and as an extension of the Marine forces, they are controlled directly by the world government. The existence of the CypherPole organization can thus far be traced back at least 63 years, as Mother Caramel used to provide orphans to the world government through CypherPole, although it is entirely possible and likely that CypherPole has existed as long as the world government itself. Officially, there are eight CypherPole units which are given the abbreviated name CP1, CP2, CP3, and so on and so forth until we reach CP8. These cells operate in eight separate bases all around the world, and their purpose is mainly for gathering intelligence and enacting counter-insurgency. In the series so far, we've encountered agents from three of these official cells. For example, the CP5 cell once led by Spandam was responsible for framing the shipwright Tom and acquiring the plans for the ancient weapon Pluton, although they did fail in the latter task. It should also be noted that no members from CP5 appeared to have any kind of special abilities. In regards to CP6, while on the sea train we encountered Jerry, who was allegedly a boxing master who was rather easily defeated by Sanji. But that said, Jerry appears to have been trusted enough to lead his own squad of marines rather than acting with other members of himself. Thus far, he is the only named member of CP6. In a similar vein, the only member of CP7 we have ever encountered is the rather comical Wanzi, who possessed a wide variety of strange abilities to do with Rama noodles, and yeah, he looked like a weirdo doing it, but his techniques were surprisingly effective. Wanzi also labeled himself as the ace of CP7, although it is unknown if he is the leader of the group. Sadly, that's everything we know of the eight public cells, but hey, this would hardly be a super cool James Bond style intelligence agency without secrets of its own. One of these need to know groups is CP9, creatively named because the number nine comes after the number eight. Despite being a secret from the public, CP9 are by far the most well-known cell to the One Piece fan base, as they served as the primary antagonists of the Water Seven and any soby arcs. Although it should be noted that a previous incarnation of CP9 was seen in Robin's flashback on Ohara, and their leader, Spandine, was the one who ordered the buster call that destroyed the entire island. Unlike the previous eight groups, CP9 are an extraordinarily competent cohort of individuals trained to become assassins with the gathering of intelligence as a secondary function. To illustrate, four agents of CP9 were sent to infiltrate the shipbuilding island of Water Seven. This mission was extraordinarily long-term as these agents spent five long years working their way into high positions and becoming very close to the president, Iceberg. Furthermore, while the strength levels of CP1 to CP8 differ quite greatly, power of CP9 is in a whole league of its own. In addition to having surpassed the limits of regular humans, the members of CP9 are trained from childhood in special techniques known as the Rokushiki or the six powers in English. These skills are designed to improve all aspects of combat, making the user faster, more agile, more durable, and incredibly deadly. As they are assassins, these techniques are designed to kill quickly and quietly without an excess use of energy. Further adding to their arsenal of skills, most CP9 members are also devil fruit users, and for those that aren't, devil fruits can be acquired for them as a reward for services rendered, as demonstrated by both Kaku and Kalefa. CP9 are based on the judicial island of any slubby, and are deployed to deal with extraordinarily important matters to the world government. For example, when CP9 encountered the Straw Hats, they were tasked with capturing Niko Robin, a rare person capable of reading the ancient language, as well as acquiring the blueprints for the ancient weapon Pluton. CP9 is officially led by Spandam, the same man who previously led CP5, although it needs to be stressed that he is unlike any of his other members, because he is incredibly weak. In fact, it has been officially confirmed that Spandam is weaker than the average Marine soldier, possessing a mere 9 Doikiri, while the average Marine has 10, a much more better number. However, his strength is irrelevant because the real star of CP9 is Rob Lucci, a suave, sadistic, and practically unbeatable agent. With that said, he was indeed beaten, and the modern incarnation of CP9 as a whole were defeated at any slubby by the Straw Hat Pirates. They barely escaped the destruction of the island, and were subsequently fired by the world government, and became fugitives for a short time. However, CP9 is not the only secret cypher pole organization, and in fact there exists an even secreter secret cell, given the title CP0. CP0 are known as the strongest of all cypher pole organizations, and work directly for the world nobles. They are also known as cypher pole Aegis Zero, with Aegis being a reference to the mythological shield associated with both Zeus and Athena, which is an apt name considering that the world nobles use CP0 as a holy defense against their enemies in the world. CP0's presence in the world first became apparent during the Dress Rosa arc, where previous members of CP9, Rob Lucci, Spandam, and Kaku were all revealed to be part of the organization. One further member appeared during the Whole Cake Island arc named Stussy, however, there are currently at least three other unknown members who we have only seen clad in masks. Speaking of being clad, unlike the other CP cells who all tend to dress in black, CP0 favors a pure white aesthetic which is in keeping with the holy fashion sense of the world nobles. And actually you know what, I'm a liar, because CP5 also seems to enjoy wearing primarily white for the most part. Some more fun facts about cypher pole. The cypher pole name is inspired by a combination of MI6 and Interpol, MI6 being the secret intelligence service based in the UK, while Interpol is the international criminal police organization, a name which has always struck me as a bit weird. Are we another criminals or are they police or perhaps both? Many cypher pole agents appear to be orphan children taken in by the world government. This is particularly true in the case of CP9, all of whom were trained as children, with the exception of kumadori, calypher, and of course, spandam, because it's clear that nobody ever trained that dude. Speaking of CP9 in particular, despite the fact that they are meant to be a secret organization, their existence seems to be common knowledge amongst the marines. Not only that, but the marines also seem to be well informed of the identities of CP9's members. In some initial concept art for CP9, their original matchups against the straw hats were revealed. Luffy was going to fight Luchi as expected, however, things got weird from here. Calypher was going to fight Robin, Fikura was going to face Nami, Lueno would be squaring off against Usopp, Apollo, later renamed kumadori, was given a date with Chopper, which I also actually happened, Shaqeen, later renamed Jabra, was going to lose to Zoro, and Kaku was going to be Sanji's opponent. And finally, a truly useless fact, in this same early concept art, it is seen that originally, Kaku had a normal nose, which I just don't get. And that pretty much does it for cypher pole. 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