Rebirth of SLA CS1. Return to an old favorite.

I thought I should add some background to the CS1 miniatures game. I will start of by quoting the blurb on the back of the SLA Industries RPG

“On Mort the rain never stops. This is the black jewel in the rotten crown of the World of Progess, where serial Murder, empty style, corporate treachery and primetime violence are top career options.

The heart of SLA Industries, Mr Slayer’s office building dominates SLA corporate HQ, set in the gleaming splendour of the district known as Central. Only SLA’s corporate employees and Operatives can be found here. Elsewhere, criminal gangs, maniacs and nervous civillians scuttle through the filthy, labyrinthine streets of Downtown and the revolting spaces beneath. Outside the city walls lurk the hellish Cannibal Sectors, terrifying areas of devastation packed with deadly inhabitants.

(It is in the largest and most notorious of these, Cannibal Sector 1 that the CS1 miniature game takes place)

For you, the Operative, it’s just like the adverts. You’re a hero, a media darling, saving the world and living the golden life  of hedonism and fame. But that means following Mr Slayer’s Big Picture and oh, what a picture it is. Life is so “pleasant” for most people that SLA has employed you as part of it’s special troubleshooting forces. There are millions of you for Mort City alone, elite agents trusted to make sure that everything runs smoothly, and the Company isn’t… embarrassed.

The capital of SLA Industries is resplendant in its decaying glory, a planet where a struggle to survive is the only way of living. Life is cheap here, but knowledge will cost you more than you can imagine.

Guns kill, but so does the truth”

The RPG is very dark and run well can be quite horrific and very entertaining….

Mr Slayer is in charge of a large corporation, SLA Industries. Previously the galaxy had been engulfed in the Corporate Wars. Seemingly out of nowhere appeared a tall dark man and his company they initially sold the best available weapons to all the warring corporations, later developing biogenetic mercenaries whom he hirrd out to these corporations. At a preset moment in time all the weapon systems failed and the mercenaries turned on their employers, wiping out all the other corporations. Only three alien races where saved, the Ebons, Shaktars and Wraithen.

SLA Industries was now the predominate corporation in the galaxy selling every commodity and luxury to the populace. The populace are kept in place by a constant stream of media propoganda most popular of which are the tv shows featuring Operatives, Contract killers and insurgent corporations and other creatures in reality TV combat. Operatives are followed on their operations by camera drones and surveilance cameras and these are turned into various shows. As the viewing public prefer to watch brutal melee combats their is a fairly prohibitive tax on bullets to encourage Operatives to get up close and personal. The more eccentric, brutal, flambouyant and media savvy you are the more likely you are to recieve lucrative sponsorship deals.

I emphasize the importance of the media and these filmed conflicts as they have a relevance to some of the game mechanics.

Most of Morts civillians live in poverty in Downtown. Here Criminal Gangs, Serial Killers and occasional incursions of the inhabitants from the neighbouring Cannibal Sectors dominate life.

Downtown and the rest of the city is protected from the Cannibal Sectors by a huge fortified wall manned by Shivers (the primary security forces).

Cannibal Sectors are areas of the city that have fallen into ruin and decay and been overcome by various factions opposed to SLA Industries.

I will cover the Cannibal Sectors and specifically CS1 the location of the miniatures game in my next post.