I had this great campaign lined up.
Elections for city council are coming up, and the mayor plans to run with a law and order theme, specifically clearing up the Barrens. He's working up the deal with Lone Star, who's looking for new ventures after they lost most of Seattle to KE.
KE gets wind of it and runs a false flag terrorist operation on a Council building, holding several hostages. They haven't announced their claims to the public yet, only the negotiator, but they will pretend to be from the Barrens Acknowledgement Movement, demanding better living conditions and a real effort to adress crime in the Barrens, forcing the mayor to abandon his plan of giving the contract to Lone Star (he can't be seen to give in to demands).
This is where the runners come in. The head of KE's DEA wants crime to be forced out of the Barrens (LS turf), because that will mean increased drug trade in the rest of the city, equalling a larger department and more power to him. He got wind of the terrorist demands and realized the implications, and along with a city council man hires the runners to sneak in past the SWAT team (with some inside KE help), take out the terrorists before they make their claims public, and extract a terrorist for interrogation.
When the runners get out with their prisoner, they find out they've kidnapped a cop (and killed several others). KE figured that with KE terrorists and KE SWAT, it was zero exposure risk operation, and better keep it in house that involve outsiders.
Drama galore. KE wants the runners bad, not just for killing cops but they know way, way too much - but the head of KE DEA can't risk them captured and spilling their guts about his role (he might help, but he'd be happy with them dead too). KE is trying to thwart LS's Barrens contract, but factions within have another agenda. LS is gearing up for their own campaign to support the mayor's election and their own Barrens contract, which includes disinformation campaigns, instigating major riots, runnning interception on KE, and maybe even a shedim outbreak. The city council has the mayor's side, the opposition, and beyond political motivations many are in the pockets of either KE or LS. Civil rights movements, genuine and false flag, and criminal organizations have their own opinions on the matter. Maybe there's even som righteous people that actually care about the conditions in the Barrens to be found somewhere.
In the middle of this major conflict about a huge security contract we find the runners. I even have a vague outline (detailed planning many runs down don't work for me) of the runners calling in a Metroplex Guard bombing run.
And then I lose my players. Sigh.