SLA工业 历史

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THE CHANGES - 900SD TO PRESENT
Year of Progress
900sd was an important year for SLA Industries. It was
the Year of Progress, celebrating nine centuries of growth
and success. It showcased new weapons and new advances in
biogenetics in the form of two new Stormers and the Vevaphon.
Perhaps, most important of all was the introduction of Karma’s
development of LaD (Life after Death) allowing Operatives
and high-ranking employees the opportunity for a scientific
resurrection, as long as they had the creds to spend.
It seemed that SLA, at the height of its powers could do no
wrong, but it was at the turn of the new century that everything
began to slip. A series of catastrophic events were taking place
throughout the World of Progress, even within the company
itself. These collectively would shape the new era to follow,
known throughout the World of Progress as The Changes.

多变年代——900SD至今
进步之年
900sd对于SLA工业来说是重要的一年。这是进步之年，庆祝9个世纪的发展与成功。这一年新武器和生物基因工程新近战被展示，后者以两种新Stormer和Vevaphon的形式。
或许最重要的是羯磨开发的“死后生”（死后生命），让特工和高级雇员有机会获得科学的复生，只要他们花得起信用点。
看起来SLA正处于权力的巅峰，一切顺利，但就在世纪之交，一切开始滑坡。一连串灾难事件在进步世界各地发生，甚至包括公司内部。这些事件共同塑造了随后的年代，被进步世界称作多变年代。

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The Conflict Aliens Return
Some of SLA Industries’ most notorious adversaries - the
Krell, Grosh and the Momics all return to the World of Progress
between 905 - 909sd, with more vengeful species en route
from Conflict Space. The Krell headed directly for their home
worlds, the Root Dogs were more focused on War Worlds and
backwater planets, whilst the Momics were the only faction to
burn directly for Mort and resume their battle for dominance
over the Ebonite people.
Third Eye News was very selective on reporting the Conflict
Aliens invading the World of Progress. The citizens of Mort
remained largely unaware that the ancient threats had begun
ravaging the distant planets of SLA controlled space again.
As the years marched on, disquieting rumours and snippets of
information gradually filtered back to Mort City. Operatives
who had been assigned Green BPNs had seen the horrifying
Conflict Aliens first hand and suffered the casualties. Yet still,
not all hope was lost. For all the negative, there was a shred of
goodness to emerge from deep within Conflict Space.

冲突异星种族回归
一些SLA工业最恶劣的对手——Krell、Grosh和Momic都在905-909sd回到了进步世界，更多打算复仇的种族正在途中。Krell直接前往他们的母星系，根犬更关注战争世界和偏远行星，而只有Momic瞄准了莫特并开始重新争夺对Ebonite的控制。
第三眼新闻有选择性地报道了冲突异星种族对进步世界的入侵。莫特公民大都不了解古老的威胁开始再次在遥远的SLA控制行星上肆虐。
一年又一年，让人不安的传言和些许信息终于传到了莫特城。被分配的绿色BPN的特工亲眼目睹了可怕的冲突异星种族，并遭到了惨重损失。然而希望犹存。虽然一切都是坏消息，冲突宇宙中依然浮现了一丝善意。

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From the Farouk system, the Neophron returned to the World
of Progress, but not to fight. They had had some dealings with
SLA Industries prior to the Formation, but were wise enough to
bow out once the company’s deception became clear. Over the
last nine centuries the Neophron High Elect had watched the
wars rage on within Conflict Space and then bore witness as the
influence of White Earth and Shi’An cult erode the numerous
galaxies from within. They also watched as the instability of the
whole universe spawned a separate reality of beings - The Dream
Entities, or as they are known in Conflict Space - Ethereals.
The Neophron realised that what was happening in Conflict
Space was soon to descend on the World of Progress and rather
than leave it to its fate, the Neophron chose to risk all and return
to the company who’d done so much damage, then and now.

Neophron从Fark星系回到进步世界，但不是为了争斗。他们在构筑时期前与SLA工业有一些交道，但在这家公司的欺骗暴露后明智地推出了。9个世纪以来，Neophron的高级民选官注视着冲突宇宙内的战争，随后目睹了白地球和施安教派从内部腐蚀了多个星系。他们还看见了整个宇宙的不稳地产生了一种分离的现实存在——梦境实体，或者用冲突宇宙的名称——以太体。
Neophron 意识到发生在冲突宇宙的状况很快会降临到进步世界，他们没有选择让进步世界自生自灭，而是冒险回到了造成如此多伤害的公司，过去和现在都是如此。

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——
“We have spent many days in talks with the heads of Threat
Analysis, relaying as much information as possible on what
dangers we face in Conflict Space and the current threats
encountered in the World of Progress.
Might we suggest that SLA Industries introduce a simple list
of categories which group the varied opposition? At present, your
citizens are ill prepared to witness or confront these enemies, let
alone clearly identify one from the other.
There is still much we must know, on both sides, so may we
put forth the four recognised threats? They are Corporate,
Cult, Conflict and all other concerns falling under the title of
Collateral for now?”
Asenathek Sott, Spokeswoman, Neophronic
Council of the High Elect

“我们耗费多天与危机分析的领导层讨进行论，尽可能转达有关我们冲突宇宙面临的危险以及进步世界当前危机的信息。
我们是否可以建议SLA工业引入一种简单分类表，给不同对手分类？当前你们的公民还未准备好目睹或面对这些敌人，更遑论清楚地分辨他们的不同。
还有许多我们必须知道的信息，双方都是，因此我们或许可以暂时提出四种已被识别的威胁？公司、教派、冲突种族，还有被归类为Collateral的其它个体？”
Asenathek Sott，发言人，Neophron高级民选官议会
——

Life After Death
LaD (first referred to as ‘Longevity Chain’) first came to
the public’s attention in 903sd after the assassination of SLA
Contract Killer - Delia the Destroyer. Most everyone thought
that was it for Delia, but instead of being shipped to the morgue,
a Karma Medic Crew arrived on the scene and carted her 
away. The media began to talk of a ‘revolutionary new medical
procedure’, called LaD (Life after Death) and seven days after
Delia’s supposed death, suddenly she was back on active duty.
It seemed like a miracle, although aspects of Delia’s personality
had been somewhat altered during the process. She was more
aggressive and prone towards violence. One just had to look at
photos of her before and after the work performed in the Karma
labs to see the physical and psychological effects of her death
and resurrection.

死后生命
死后生（最早被称作“寿命链”）在903sd，SLA的合同杀手“毁灭者迪莉娅”被刺杀后首次进入公众视野。大多数人认为是为了迪莉娅，但她被刺后没有被送入停尸间，一队羯磨医疗队抵达现场把她带走了。媒体开始谈论“一种革命性的新型医学手术”，被称作死后生（死后生命），迪莉娅死后七天，她突然回归了日常活动。
看起来如同奇迹，尽管迪莉娅有部分性格在手术中被改变。她更好斗、喜欢暴力。只要看看羯磨在实验室进行手术前后的照片，你就能看到死亡和复活对她的身体和心理影响。

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Overnight, the LaD Option was made available to all Ops
with the creds to buy in. All that was required for initial set up
was 1 single cred in their new LaD account and they were good
to go and then come back again, when the time came…
Not every species in the World of Progress would join the
program. Ebonites, whom react badly to biogenetics as it dulls
their Ebb, took little interest in the treatment. Shaktars largely
refused on religious grounds - it went directly against their
belief systems and the desire to die in battle.
Most other species however jumped at the chance. LaD was
no singular process - it used state of the art pharmaceuticals to
maintain the patient at the threshold of life and death and could
also use biogenetic enhancements to repair and even improve
dead tissue. It all depended how much you were willing to
spend; LaD offered a variety of procedures and augmentations
for the recently deceased.

一夜之间，死后生对所有能够支付起信用点的特工开放。初式需要的只是1点信用点，建立新的死后生账户，然后就可以死而复活，只要时间来临……
进步世界里不是所有种族都会加入这个项目。Ebonite对生物基因改造有不良反应，这会抑制他们的Ebb，因此对这项技术不感兴趣。Shaktar由于宗教原因拒绝——它违背了他们的信仰体系以及死在战场的愿望，
但大多数种族欢迎这项技术。死后生不是单一流程——它使用了最先进的药物把病人维持在生死交界，还包括利用生物基因增强技术来修补甚至提升死去的组织。全部取决于你打算花多少；死后生为最近的逝者提供了多种多样的手术和增强。

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In the age of LaD, when an Operative died, the medical team
had four minutes to reach the Operative and rush them back to
a nearby Karma base, but in more recent times and depending
on location this was unfeasible, so steps have been taken to
improve the window of rescue. Still, if LaD cannot get to their
patient in time, the funds in their account are transferred to a
relative, even if it’s just the one cred. If the account holder does
not have immediate family, or privately assigned heirs, the funds
are completely wiped from record.

在死后生的年代，一名特工死亡时，医疗队有四分钟赶到特工身边并把他们送到最近的羯磨中心，但最近，根据不同地点，这是不可实现的，因此一些措施被用于增长救援的窗口时间。但如果死后生没能及时感到病人身边，病人账户的资金会被转给一名亲属，哪怕只有1个信用点。如果账户主人没有直系亲属或指定继承人，资金会被完全从记录中消除。

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——
“It seems like the be all, end all doesn’t it? In theory LaD is
great, but it’s getting to be a different story in The Changes. If
you’ve got a BPN going on in the depths of Lower Downtown,
there’s no way they’ll get to you in time. The best hope you’ve got
is checking out in Inner Downtown. They’re setting up Karma
bases there now, heavily guarded of course. It doesn’t guarantee
anything and it’s getting to feel more and more of a gamble all
the time. I hear rumours that they’re trying to develop some kind
of cranial device your squad attaches to the spinal column to
extend the window.
That’s the good rumour. The bad rumour I’m hearing is they
can’t resuscitate if you die on one of those new Orange BPNs. I
don’t know why, but that’s pretty terrifying, right?”
Joe Mauchline, Human Operative,
SCL 7, Squad ‘Scary Biscuits’

“看起来是万能的，对吧？理论上死后生棒极了，但在多变时代则是另一种情况。如果你的BPN是去下城底深处，他们没可能及时赶到。最好的希望是你在内下城。他们现在在那里开设了羯磨中心，当然是防守严密。不能给任何保证，越来越像是一场赌博。我听说他们正在尝试开发某种头部装置，你们这些队员可以装在脊椎上，延长窗口时间。
这是好的传言。坏的传言是如果你死在了那种橙色BPN里，他们就没法把你复活。我不知道为什么，但很恐怖，不是吗？”
乔·莫克林，人类特工，SCL7，“恐怖饼干”小队

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Project Red Sky
By the 9th century, SLA Industries believed it could do no
wrong. Nothing was beyond its capabilities and so it turned
to the problems that lay on its own doorstep on Mort. The
Cannibal Sectors had been a stain on an already polluted
landscape for 600 years and it was time to address the glaring
issue. The citizens of Mort City had lived and died for centuries
in full knowledge of the Sector’s existence. It was reason enough
to not venture too far and if Cannibal Sector 1 was as bad as the
media constantly reported, then whatever lay beyond it must be
even worse.

红天计划
到了9世纪，SLA工业认为自己绝不可能出错。它无所不能，于是开始解决就在莫特门外的问题。互食者区一直是个污点，污染了这片土地600年，是时候处理这个明显的问题了。几个世纪里活的死了的莫特城居民早已知晓这个区域存在。明智的做法是不要深入太远，并且假如互食者1区如同媒体报道的那样恶劣，在它之后的东西一定更糟糕。

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——
“I remember how SLA sold it as a crusade; some great war
to win back the glory of Mort and all that other garbage they
were spouting before the slaughter began in earnest. Truth
is, there was some special report sent back to the company via
the resident Sector Rangers. Something about plant life they’d
found way out there and other less pleasant findings besides.
SLA was going out there for more than just honour.”
Pvt. Joey ‘The Shiver Guy’
Duncan, Bridgehead Endeavour

“我记得SLA怎么把它打扮得像是圣战；夺回莫特旧日荣光的伟大战争，还有他们在大屠杀开始前的那些废话。真相是，定居其中的废区游侠发回了一些特殊的报告。关于他们在那里找到的植物生命还有其它不那么让人开心的发现。
SLA行动的原因不止是为了荣耀。
”
乔伊·“颤警小子”·杜坎警员，“奋进”桥头
——

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SLA Industries was no longer prepared, however, to sit back
and let the vast stretch of ruins quietly rot in the distance. It
was time to take back the Sectors. The first attempt to take
back the Cannibal Sector was brutal, direct and horrendously
misconceived. On 10th May, 908sd. SLA launched the Project
Red Sky, in which thousands of Shiver recruits charged out in
the Sector’s Elmar Estate and faced certain death. They were ill
equipped and ill prepared for what they were about to confront.
Red Sky resulted in a bloodbath and it is widely regarded as
one of the most humiliating defeats in SLA Industries’ history.
The surviving Shiver troops withdrew and the plan to retake
Cannibal Sector 1 was shelved for three years whilst the plan of
attack was reconsidered.

然而SLA工业不再打算坐等广大的废墟区静静地腐烂。是时候夺回这些区了。夺回互食者区的首次尝试暴力、直接，并且缺乏计划得可怕。908sd 5月10日，SLA执行了红天计划，几千名颤警突入1区的艾尔玛宅，并且死亡。面对即将遭遇之物，他们缺乏装备，缺乏准备。
红天的结果是血腥屠杀，它被认为是SLA工业历史上最为屈辱的失败之一。幸存的颤警部队撤退，夺回互食者1区的计划被束之高阁三年，攻击的计划被重新考虑。

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The 9th Division
After the disaster of Project Red Sky, with many troops left
alive, still trapped in the Cannibal Sector and the families
grieving for their dead, all looked to SLA for financial and
medical support, which never came. They were abandoned and
left to starve and die.
Thousands of loyal Shivers died needlessly owing to cost
cutting and an extremely poorly devised military campaign. The
effective scapegoat for Red Sky was a SLA Corporate - Charles
Sebastian Grady III, who had been in charge of much of the
finances on the project, especially with regards to munition
supplies. Grady opted for Greenband ball bearing ammunition,
instead of the lethal Redband flechettes, which resulted in
thousands of wrongly-equipped Shivers dying pointless deaths.
Grady belonged to one of the illustrious Boom Families, but
with a catastrophic failure on the scale of Red Sky his inherent
privilege could not save him. Charles Grady was facing a life
term in Fallgate Prison, but before he could begin his sentence
he was shot dead by Errol ‘Jester’ McManus: a Shiver turncoat
and recent survivor of Project Red Sky.
McManus had gone after Grady in his ‘Jester’ paint job,
switching Shiver Green to black and red. Enraged Shivers,
incensed by SLA’s neglect were inspired to turn traitor and
repainted their Body Blocker in the Jester colour scheme.
It was the birth of the rebel Shiver faction - the 9th Division.

第9分部
红天计划的灾难之后，许多还活着被困互食者区的部队，以及哀悼死者的家庭，都指望SLA提供经济和医疗支持，但什么也没有。他们被抛弃，独自饿死。
几千名忠诚的颤警毫无必要地因为节省开支和计划极其不周全地军事行动死去。红天计划的替罪羊是一名SLA企业家——查尔斯·塞巴斯蒂安·格雷迪三世，他负责计划的大部分资金工作，尤其是弹药供给。格雷迪选择了绿带圆珠弹而不是有杀伤性的红带箭弹，结果导致了几千名装备错误的颤警毫无意义地死去。
格雷迪属于一个显赫的繁荣家族，但在红天计划如此灾难性的失败后，他的血统特权也救不了他。查尔斯·格雷迪将在坠门监狱接受无期徒刑，但在他开始刑期前被埃罗尔·“小丑”·麦克马纳斯开枪打死：他是一名颤警叛徒以及红天计划的幸存者。
麦克马纳斯穿着他的“小丑”喷涂装杀死了格雷迪，把颤警绿换成了黑与红。被SLA的无视激怒的颤警纷纷叛逃，把Body Blocker漆成小丑的颜色。这就是反叛的颤警——第9分部的诞生。

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——
“I respect the 9th, for what it’s worth. It’s a rash and foolish
decision though. This is not how you challenge SLA Industries,
nor is it any kind of way of life: living by your wits in the depths
of the Cannibal Sector. If that place won’t get you, SLA Ops
will, once the Bellwood Campaign progresses far enough.
If I’m honest, I think there’s as much risk of 9th recruits
turning on each other, than any external threat. There’s a lot
of diverse ideology in there and not everyone is in it for noble
reasons.
I’d be genuinely surprised if the 9th Division is still around
in ten years. Five years tops if they continue to make CS1 their
base of operations.”
Shiver Pvt. Phoebe Chang, Bridgehead Resistunce

“无论如何，我尊敬9部。但那是个冲动且愚蠢的决定。你不能这样挑战SLA工业，这更加不是活着的方式：在互食者区深处靠着你的智慧生存。如果那地方没有把你吞噬，SLA特工也会，只要贝尔伍德战役推进得够远。如果要我说实话，9部的人互相背叛的可能和任何外部威胁差不多。他们有很多不同的理念，不是所有人都为了崇高目的。
要是第9分部在十年后还存在我会很惊讶。最多五年，如果他们继续把1区当作行动基地。”
颤警警员，菲比·张，“抵抗”桥头
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The Bellwood Campaign
By 910sd SLA was ready to take a second try at the Cannibal
Sector. This time it would be different; Commander Cradle of
Shiver Command would be at the helm and operating on the
years of data put forth by Sector Rangers and generations of
Wall Shivers.
It would be called the Bellwood Campaign, named after the
founder of the Shiver Organisation - Jonathan Bellwood. The
new plan was to attack and hold a region then build a prefab
Shiver fortress, known as a Bridgehead directly in the Cannibal
Sector. The first stage of the campaign took place on 10th May
910sd and marked three brutal days of conflict. This time, the
Shivers and by extension, SLA were victorious, at the cost of
thousands of Shiver lives.
Bridgehead Endeavour was the first outpost to take hold in
the Cannibal Sector; the first ground taken for the company in
600 years. A further 16 Bridgeheads would be built in Cannibal
Sector 1 over the next five years.

贝尔伍德战役
910sd，SLA准备好第二次尝试夺回互食者区。这次情况将会不同；颤警指挥部的柯兰多指挥官负责掌控全局，行动将根据多年来废区游侠和一代又一代区界墙颤警收集的数据进行。
行动叫做贝尔伍德战役，以颤警组织创立者乔纳森·贝尔伍德命名。新的计划是攻击并占领一个区域后直接在互食者区建立预制颤警堡垒，称作“桥头”。战役第一阶段在910sd 5月10日启动，包括持续3天的暴力冲突。这次颤警，以及SLA，取得了胜利，代价是几千名颤警的生命。
奋进桥头是互食者区第一个前哨基地；是公司600年来打下的第一块地盘。接下来五年里互食者区还将建成16个桥头。

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“We’ve had a few victories to be sure, but check the map and
SLA’s presence in the Cannibal Sector is a series of 17 dots. This
place is fucking massive. It’s going to take years, maybe decades
to really take back these ruins. This Bellwood Campaign will go
on literally after I’m dead and gone.
Actually, come to think of it, that could be tomorrow…”
Sgt. Alvin Summers, Bridgehead Wet Head

“确实，我们取得了一些胜利，但看看地图，SLA在互食者区的地盘不过是17个点。这个地方太忒么大了。需要花几年、甚至几十年才能真正夺回这些废墟。贝尔伍德战役会在我死得不能再死之后继续下去。
仔细想想，可能就是明天……”
阿尔文·萨默斯警官，“油头”桥头

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Return of Naga 7
If the Neophron represented positive change within SLA
Industries, the reemergence of the shadowy Naga 7 was the
opposite. In 911sd, a scholarly organisation, who had not shown
its face since The Formation, once again offered its services to
SLA Industries. Many within the company were taken aback
by the sudden acceptance back into the company and the highly
allotted position they were to hold. Naga 7’s responsibilities
appear broad and somewhat vague. Some have claimed the
department deals exclusively in propaganda, although they have
not specified where it is profiteering from said propaganda,
whilst others cite their duties as more mutualistic, they are
dealing with irregularities the populace must not know about.
With the exception of their rather amiable Aethermen, Naga
7 is generally unpopular in the company and in regular conflict
with other important departments like Threat Analysis and
Stigmartyr, where their inherent nosiness can cause considerable
friction. They have also taken some very questionable liberties
with regards to Mort City’s Downtown districts.

娜迦7归来
如果Neophron代表了SLA工业内部积极的变化，影子般的娜迦7重新出现则相反。911sd，这个自从构造时期就从未露面的学术性组织再次为SLA工业服务。公司内部许多人惊讶于他们的突然回归以及他们获得的地位。娜迦7的职责看起来十分宽泛空洞。有人称这个部分只负责宣传，但他们说不出它是如何从所谓的宣传里获利。而其他人则认为他们职责涉及更多参与者，他们要处理民众不允许知晓的异常。
除了较为和蔼的以太人之外，娜迦7在公司内不受欢迎，并且经常与其它重要部门例如危机分析和烙印殉道者起冲突，他们好事的天性引起了相当多的矛盾。此外他们在莫特城的下城街区也有许多引起疑问的行动。

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Moral Right Division
In 911sd, Agnes Dowr - a high ranking member of Naga
7 succeeded in getting a bill passed that would address the
‘degradation of moral values and decency in Downtown’.
Agnes was granted funding to create Moral Right Division -
a militarised organisation tasked with educating Downtown
civilians on the virtues of morality, dignity and politeness.
At first, Operatives and Shivers alike thought it was all a big
joke, but quickly discovered that MR Division was serious.
Deadly serious. Moral Right was sending out Virtue Squads
to enforce these policies, a group of brutish thugs, dressed in
white Body Blocker, led by a Whip - a privileged young man of
the upper gentry. Instead of teaching family values the Virtue
Squads were simply beating down the marginalised citizens
of Downtown with hammers and generally indulging in all
manner of vice and illegal activity.
Four years on and Virtue Squads are still patrolling Inner
Downtown, bullying the masses under the thin veneer of public
decency, but they have not gained as much traction as Mrs
Dowr and her prim and proper organisation would have hoped.
Agnes is nonetheless undeterred and is currently petitioning
for greater funding and increased powers to ‘educate’ the
troublesome undesirables.

道德权利部
911sd，阿格尼丝·多尔——一名娜迦7高级成员，成功通过了一项针对“下城道德价值观和礼节倒退”的法令。阿格尼丝获得了成立道德权利部的资金，这是一个军事化组织，用于教育下城平民道德、尊严及礼貌的美德。
起初特工和颤警都把它当成笑话，但很快意识到道权部是认真的。非常认真。道德权利部派出了美德小队来执行这些政策，他们是一群野蛮的恶棍，穿着白色的Body Blocker，由执鞭人带领，这是个年轻的上流士绅家族成员。美德小队不去教导家庭观念，只是用锤子殴打下城的边缘民众，并参与到一切堕落和非法的行动中。
4年过去了，美德小队依然在内下城巡逻，以公共道德为幌子欺压民众，他们没有取得多尔夫人和她那一本正经的组织所希望的结果。阿格尼丝自然毫不气馁，正在请求更多资金和权力以“教育”那些麻烦的不良分子。

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——
“Yeah, I’ve had run-ins with the Virtue Squads. Virtue! Hah!
Cluster of assholes is what I calls em! Old Agnes has literally
not one clue what these goons are up to down here. Seriously,
they’re worse than a bunch of Shivers with their load on and
it’s because the Seraphim have way more powers of authority
than the guys in green. What’s that old phrase about power
corrupting? Oh yeah - Too Much Power Turns You Into A Total
Fanny. I think that’s it.
I haven’t seen much of the Virtue Squads, lately, but knowing
that old bag they’ll be coming back with a vengeance.
There’s no way Moral Right Division are giving up on this.”
Mad Wee Frank, (Proprietor of Mad Wee Frank’s
Mad Wee Falafels), 42, Downtown Civilian

“对，我撞见过那些美德小队。美德！哈！我叫他们一群混蛋！老阿格尼丝完全不知道这些恶棍在这里干什么。说真的，他们比一群拿枪的颤警还要恶劣，因为撒拉弗的权力比那些穿绿衣服的家伙大得多。有句将权力腐化的老话是什么来着？对了——过多的权力会让你变成老婊子。我记得是这么说的。
最近我没太见着美德小队，但我知道那个老女人，他们会变本加厉回来的。道德权利部不可能放弃。”
疯尿法兰克，（“疯尿法兰克的疯尿炸豆丸”所有者），42，下城平民
——

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Wall Reinforcements
The Bellwood Campaign has been one of SLA’s more recent
successes, but there is still much work to be done in the cannibal
sectors. The deployment of the lesser known Stormer variant -
the 830 Gator is the latest addition to the program.
The present duties of the Gators are to patrol the perimeter of
the Sector Wall which encircles Mort City, killing and eating
anything that attempts to breach the boundary.
With there being so many hostile forces in the city ruins this
initially appeared to be an exercise in futility, but the defensive
exercise has proven successful and won the support of the Wall
Shivers, who will try to make friends with the roving Gators by
throwing them beer and sandwiches.

区界墙加固
贝尔伍德战役是SLA最近的成功之一，但在互食者区还有许多工作。布置鲜为人知的Stormer类型——830短吻鳄则是这个项目的最新动作。
短吻鳄当前的工作是在包围莫特城的区界墙边缘巡逻，杀死并吃掉任何尝试突破边界的个体。
由于废墟内有如此多的敌对力量，这项安排最初看起来是徒劳的。但防御策略相当成功，并得到了区界墙颤警的支持，他们会给短吻鳄扔牛肉和三明治，试着和他们交朋友。

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“Ah fuckin’ love Gators, me.”
Shiver Sergeant Christopher Chester,
Sector Wall Section 350

“我忒么爱死短吻鳄了。”
颤警警官克里斯多弗·切斯特，区界墙350段

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The Shi’An Threat
By the time of The Changes the Shi’An Cult had grown
in numbers and in power. Elliot Raik had studied the Lost
Scrolls and by now had imparted all his wisdom to other like
minded individuals: a whole religious hierarchy had developed
in Downtown. Despite repeated warnings by Stigmartyr that
the threat posed by the Shi’An could potentially overthrow the
company. SLA continued to ignore the danger.
In 903sd, the denizens of White Earth began cropping up
in the Downtown Districts. Hominids and other such horrors
were being summoned onto Mort where they would indulge in
acts of incredible bloodlust, terrifying Mort civilians with their
fury and sheer otherness.
Raik and his followers were creating simple summoning spells
that any idiot could activate (and frequently did). The goal was
not to build worthy spell casters but to generate fear and create
anarchy in the heart of SLA. More than a thousand unwitting
Shi’An hopefuls have lost their lives bringing forth brutal
Hominids and Bane Rats via blood portals into Downtown,
usually ending up serving as the first victims of these outsiders.
The Shi’An are singular in their focus. The aim is not worship
and devotion; it is solely driven to destroy SLA Industries and
anyone or anything associated with it.

施安威胁
到了多变年代，施安教派的数量和力量都得到了增长。艾略特·赖克研究了失落卷轴，如今将自己所有的智慧分享给了与自己志同道合的个体：下城发展起一个完整的宗教架构。尽管烙印殉道者不断警告施安的威胁可能颠覆整个公司，SLA依然无视了它。
903sd，白地球的居民开始突然出现在下城街区。Hominid和其它类似的恐怖之物被召唤到莫特，它们将沉浸在血腥屠杀之中，它们的愤怒和怪诞让莫特平民惊恐。
赖克和追随者创造了傻子也能激活（并且经常激活）的召唤法术。他们的目的不是产生有价值的施法者，而是在SLA的心脏制造恐慌和无政府状态。超过一千名愚笨的施安受选者用生命把残暴的Hominid和灾厄鼠通过血之通道带到下城，他们通常成了这些外来者的第一个受害者。
施安的目的单一。不是崇拜和奉献；只是毁灭SLA工业和与之相关的任何人和物。

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Vevaphon: The End
Heralded as the future of bioengineering, the Vevaphon from
the new and up and coming company, Doppelganger, instead
proved to be a misstep and something of an embarrassment for
SLA Industries.
Vevaphons were lauded as the solution to deal decisively with
SLA’s non-conflict enemies, a flexible and reactive weapon
capable of mimicry and infiltration. Instead, an error-filled
bioconstruct was rushed-out that was over-engineered and
incapable of the job it had been created for. They were finally
fielded in the same niche as the Xeno Stormer which was
deployed at the same time, but the Vevaphons turned out to be
much more expensive to maintain and psychologically unstable.
Many struggled to fully integrate themselves into Operative life,
grappling with self identity and failing to connect with other
members of their squads. Although it took longer than it should
have, it was no surprise that Doppelganger was eventually closed
and all Vevaphons recalled by the end of 912sd.

Vevaphon：终结
被当作生物工程未来的Vevaphon来自新兴公司二重身，但它被证明是个错误，让SLA工业难堪。
Vevaphon被称赞为决定性的方案，一种灵活的被动式武器，能够模仿和渗透，用于对付SLA工业的非冲突型敌人。然而仓促之下诞生了满是错误的生物结构，无法完成预定的工作。他们最后被安排在与同时投入使用的Xeno Stormer相同的岗位，但Veraphon的维护更加昂贵，并且精神上不稳地。许多Veraphon需要花很大努力才能融入特工生活、确认个人身份认知，并且他们难以与小队其他成员产生联系。虽然花了太长时间，但毫不意外，二重身最终在912sd关闭，所有Veraphon被召回。

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Chagrins Depart
The emergence of the lost Conflict Races has been a continually
escalating threat in the World of Progress. At first, it was merely
the backwater worlds on The Verges that armies like the Krell
and Root Dogs targeted; planets that were of little resource of
the company, but in more recent years the Conflict Aliens have
been far more emboldened and launched considerable attacks
on the War Worlds and alarmingly, they’ve been winning.
This has forced SLA to take more drastic measures and, as of
909sd, all manufactured Chagrins (the largest combat variant in
the Stormer program) have been re-trained and shipped to War
Worlds, such as Dante and Cross, to force back the invaders.

Chargin离开
曾经的冲突种族归来在进步世纪造成了愈发严重的威胁。起初只是宇宙边缘的偏远星球受到Krell和根犬的军队攻击；这些行星不能为公司提供多少资源。但最近几年，冲突异星种族备受鼓舞，在战争世界进行了相当的的攻击行动，并且让人震惊地胜利了。
这迫使SLA采取更加极端地手段，909sd，所有生产出来地Chagrin（Stormer项目中最庞大的战斗型号）被重新训练并送往战争世界，例如但丁与十字，回击入侵者。

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——
“I can’t believe Head Office let the Conflict Races this far into
the World of Progress! Oh yeah, sure; who cares about the Verge
Worlds, eh? Yeah, well what worked for us in the Bellwood
Campaign, is definitely working for the Conflict Aliens out there
on the Verges. Those backwater planets might be a row of dirt
balls, but they’re perfect staging platforms for those weird heads.
And now we’re losing our Chagrins, what the fuck? I mean,
yeah, they’ll put their helmets on back to front, but they can smash
practically anything in the Cannibal Sectors. I bet this is down to
that ‘Whistling Bridge’ Protocol I’ve been hearing about.
Mark my words, the Chagrins are just the start of big, bad
changes.”
Shiver Sgt. Jeffrey Palmer, Bridgehead EchoBeach

“我简直不能相信总部让冲突种族如此深入进步世界！当然，没错，谁会在意边缘世界？在贝尔伍德战役里对我们管用的方法，自然对边缘的那些冲突异星种族管用。那些偏僻的行星可能只是一团泥巴，但可能成为那些怪头人完美的作战平台。
现在我们的Chagrin还没了，什么鬼？对，我知道，他们会戴上头盔重返前线，可他们可以轻松敲烂互食者区的任何东西。我打赌是因为我听说的那个‘哨桥协议’。
记住我的话，Chagrin只是一串很大、很坏的变化开始。”
颤警警官杰弗里·帕默，“回声滩”桥头

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The World Of Change.
Now, in the year 915sd SLA Industries faces an inescapable
World of Change. The sins of its past have finally caught with
it, culminating in the present date. Only a small fraction of
the company can truly be held accountable for what has come
to pass; the Operatives and employees simply play a function
within the machine that runs the World of Progress and the
civilians overcrowding the many SLA controlled planets have
no say in the company’s running, nor what has come before.
Nevertheless, all will now be held accountable as the Conflict
Races raid and pillage every world in their path and Great
Enemy permeates every aspect of SLA Society, converting and
corrupting the very lowest and equally largest cross section of
the population.
SLA is now forced to make its choice; to stay the course as
the evil corporation which has unfairly dominated the World
of Progress for 900 years, facing almost certain destruction. Or
finally, once and for all, it must face and address its countless
crimes over the centuries and work towards a better future.

变化的世界
如今来到915sd，SLA工业面临着无法逃避的世界变化。过去的罪恶不断累积直至今日，终于将它捕获。公司里只有少部分人能真正为即将发生之事负责；特工和雇员只管在这台让进步世界运作的机器内完成自己的功能，而塞满各个SLA控制行星的平民对公司管理以及即将来临之事毫无发言权。
无论如何，现在所有人都将承担后果，冲突种族劫掠途经的每个星球，大敌渗透了SLA社会的方方面面，转化、腐蚀着人口中最低等同时也是最多数的那部分。
SLA现在不得不做出选择。是继续坚持作为一个邪恶的公司，用不公手段统治进步世界900年后迎来必然的毁灭。还是在最后，只此一次，正视并处理多个世纪以来的无数罪行，为更好的未来努力。