SLA Industries: Corebook Special Edition (2e)
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In the World of Progress¸ SLA Industries Corporation rules all. Employing Operatives to enforce¸ extend and maintain their power base¸ SLA controls a multitude of worlds - industrial¸ franchise and resource - with planet Mort at its core. As Operatives execute the company's will¸ new threats emerge through the cracks of the city walls¸ making Downtown a battleground.
You¸ the SLA Operative¸ are fighting for fame and fortune against a backdrop of a crumbling reality. Operatives feed the always-on televisions with a gaudy media of wall-to-wall death and dismemberment. Operative life is all about climbing the corporate ladder and earning sponsorship deals and notoriety along the way.
The full-colour 224-page Tabletop Roleplaying Game uses Nightfall Games' innovative S5S rules system and updates the 1st Edition setting as many years have passed on Mort.
The arrival of the Neophron signals a shift in the balance of the universe as the scholarly species joins the ranks of SLA Industries. Sending their brightest to train as Operatives¸ they serve alongside Ebonites¸ Shaktars¸ Wraithen and Humans.
Dream Entities claw at the fabric of reality¸ dredging up nightmares. Elsewhere¸ the Shi'An Blood Cult rises¸ corrupting the disenfranchised masses of Mort to its cause and unleashing the horrors from White Earth into an unsuspecting world. As SLA Industries fights to reclaim the Cannibal Sectors outside¸ Operatives face more problems within the city walls than ever before... and beneath them¸ the Deep Construct awakens.
About SLA Industries
SLA Industries (pronounced "Slay Industries”) is an award-winning role-playing game that was first published in Scotland in 1993. Now in its second edition¸ the game is a horror noir science-fiction setting set in a dystopian reality in which the majority of the known universe is either owned or indirectly controlled by the eponymous corporation SLA Industries. The game incorporates themes from the cyberpunk¸ biopunk¸ gothic horror and conspiracy genres¸ and has always been praised on the quality of writing and art. SLA Industries is considered one of the first and best examples of the Splatterpunk genre in RPGs.
The World of Progress¸ the universe in which SLA Industries operates¸ is a science-fiction image of the 1980s¸ where the fax machine spews out information alongside green-screen computers and vat-grown biogenetic monsters¸ who compete with humans and exotic alien races for work in an overgrown city that plunges deep underground.
Players in SLA Industries take on the role of an Operative¸ the highly-trained and well-equipped freelancers that serve as the company's agents¸ investigators and enforcers. Operatives perform tasks for both a pay packet and the promise of an increase in their security clearance¸ as both provide them access to an increased standard of living¸ better equipment¸ progression up the corporate ladder and sponsorship opportunities. Most of all though¸ they strive for the one thing that everyone in the media-driven World of Progress wants: Notoriety.