SLA工业 历史

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历史
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“我们摧毁了冲突种族。
我们创造了进步世界。
我们击败了所有对手。
我们书写了历史。
我们让幻想成为现实。
我们是SLA工业。”
侵杀的战争日记，585sd

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The company known as SLA Industries exists within the World
of Progress but permeates every part of it. SLA Industries has
conquered the majority of it and is preparing to absorb the rest.
To put such an indelible mark on such a vast region of space
has taken centuries; there is no escape from its influence nor its
presence. The food one eats and cars one drives are produced
and sold by SLA Industries, whether you like it or not.
Every person living in the World of Progress has strong
feelings about the company that rules over them. There is hate,
anger and love, but what binds all is fear. There has been little
over the nine centuries to challenge SLA’s authority and its
dominance is all most people have ever known.

被称作SLA工业的公司存在于进步世界之内，但触及了各个角落。SLA工业征服了大多数区域，正准备吸收剩余的区域。
在如此广大的宇宙打下如此显著的烙印花了SLA工业几个世纪的时间。它的影响和存在都无法被逃离。吃的食物，驾驶的车辆都由SLA工业生产销售，无论你是否喜欢。
生活在进步世界的每个人都能强烈感受到这家公司的统治。有仇恨、愤怒和喜爱，但笼罩了所有人的是恐惧。所有人知道的就是九个世纪以来几乎没有人挑战SLA的权威和统治。

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In order to live and survive in the World of Progress one must
accept that SLA Industries is an evil company, which in turn
has created an evil universe and the company is now the only
power capable of keeping it all under control.
The reality is hidden under a veneer of glitz and glamour
but what truly lies at the core of the World of Progress is a
tyrannical regime that is gradually coming apart at the seams.
What follows in an exploration of the nine centuries of SLA
Industries’ growth and dominance. It is a long catalogue of
perceived victories built on corruption, betrayal and countless
lost lives. It also charts the company’s numerous failures and
oversights, so often attributed to SLA’s capitalist core ideologies
and its complete and utter lack of empathy.
Nine centuries of war and lies, nine centuries of poverty
and wealth, nine centuries of expansion and oppression.
Upon unswerving ruthlessness, SLA Industries has built its
foundations and set forth from there.

要在进步世界生活并且生存下来，你必须接受SLA工业是一家邪恶的公司，它创造了一个邪恶的宇宙，只有它能够让这个宇宙保持受控状态。
真实隐藏在光彩的伪装之下，但进步世界的核心则是暴君统治，最终将在接缝处分崩离析。
下面是对SLA工业九个世纪的发展与统治的探索之旅。有一长串的胜利，构筑在腐败、背叛和无数生命之上。还有公司的无数次失败和失误，多是由于SLA资本家的核心意识形态以及全然缺乏的同理心。
九个世纪的战争与谎言，九个世纪的贫穷与富裕，九个世纪的扩张与压迫。凭着始终如一的残酷，SLA工业打造了自己的根基，并在此基础上继续向前。

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THE CONFLICT ERA - PRE SD
Conflict Races
Long before SLA Industries created the World of Progress.
the macrocosm it inhabits was called The Known Universe. It
spread across countless solar systems, with each being loosely
governed by a supreme force. Threat Analysis has detailed
accounts of almost all these ancient powers. In nearly every case,
the Conflict Races were indisputably merciless, without a shred
of consideration for any external species beyond its own.

冲突时代——标准日期前
冲突种族
早在SLA工业创造进步世界以前，它生存的宏观宇宙被称作已知宇宙。已知宇宙包括无数的恒星星系，每个都由一个最高权力松散掌控。危机分析详细记录了几乎所有这些远古势力。在几乎每个星系里，冲突种族都无疑是无情的，毫不在乎除了自己之外的外部种族。

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“They were the precursors to the Suppressor Powers, the
governing forces within the Known Universe. They desired war,
blood and violence yet in many respects they weren’t so different
to us. They simply wanted more, unceasingly wanting of
everything and whilst we offered the 3Ps Contract, the Conflict
Races chose a more blunt and uncompromising approach: they
simply offered death.”

Intruder’s War Diaries, 760sd
“它们是压迫势力的前身，已知宇宙内的统治力量。它们渴望战争、鲜血和暴力，但在许多方面和我们没有太大不同。它们单纯追求更多，无休止地要求一切，当我们提供3Ps协议时，冲突种族采取了更加粗暴、更加不妥协地举措：它们提供死亡。”
侵杀的战争日记，760sd
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Five primary species rose to prominence.

有五个最为突出的主要种族。

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The Grosh - Also known as the Root Dogs, these were bioengineers who were content to ravage any life system and
bend its genetic code to the will of the Grosh. The Root Dogs
built vast, animalistic armies known as The Herd. The Grosh
were feared above all others

.
Grosh——也被称作Root Dogs，它们是生物工程师，乐于掠夺任何生命系统并依照Grosh的意愿扭曲这些生命系统的基因编码。Grosh被所有种族恐惧。

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The Momics - The Momics were the slave masters of the
Ebonite species. They drained the Ebonites of their Flux
and feasted on their flesh. Largely an indolent and apathetic
species who chose to spend most of their existence in a state
of meditation, or torpor. They would nonetheless burst into
furious activity if challenged or more importantly, when their
primary food source was appropriated.

Momic——Momics是Ebonite种族的奴隶主。它们榨取Ebonites的Flux并以它们的肉体为食。它们基本上是个懒惰、冷漠的种族，选择将大部分时间花在冥想或蛰伏状态。但若被挑战，或更重要的，主要食物来源被非法占有时，它们自然会愤怒地采取行动。

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The Thallasians - They were the original creators of the
specialist combat armour found on their home world of
Thallas. In temperament the Thallasian were similar to the
Krell, revelling in violence and warfare, but strains of their
species were focused on crafting superior weapons and armour.

Thallasian——它们最早创造了在它们的母星系Thallas发现的特殊战斗护甲。Tallasian性情类似Krell，热爱暴力和战争，但它们的种族热情专注在制造超级武器和护甲上。

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The Herracleum - A deeply religious plant-like species who
sought to conquer worlds and cultivate the surface of enemy
planets, replacing whole ecosystems with their own verdant
culture and natural mysticism.

Herracleum——笃信宗教的类植物种族，它们追求征服不同星系，驯化敌对行星的地表，将整个生态系统替换为自己绿色种族和自然神秘主义。

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The Krell - The Krell were an especially brutal, militaristic
species, entirely led by the Krella; the female of the species. The
male counterparts had been degraded over centuries into rabid
and increasingly psychotic monsters. The genetic degradation
was a by-product of the Grosh’s aim to alter the Krell’s genetic
code to allow incredible rates of regeneration.

Krell——Krell是特别暴力、军国主义的种族，全体由Krella，种族中的女性领导。男性多个世纪以来被退化成了狂暴的怪物，并且精神状况越来越恶化。这种基因退化是Grosh调整Krell基因、增加再生率的副作用。

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Endless war
The Known Universe was caught in a relentless cycle of war.
SLA Industries’ historical documents are scant on the details of
how and why these interplanetary disputes continued to rage
century after century and why no diplomatic agreement could
ever be reached.
The various Conflict Races were forever trying to gain
supremacy over each other and most spent considerable time
and finance improving and upgrading their weaponry and
technology. The Krell at one time entered a brief alliance with
the Grosh to increase the ferocity of their infantry and grant
them the capacity for regeneration, but this bond quickly
fell apart when the species’ leaders, the Krella, discovered the
genetic work, along with the gift of fast regeneration and
neurotoxin in the saliva, had turned their soldiers into near
uncontrollable, slavering monsters. One can only assume that
the Grosh scientists fully intended this and inevitably lead to
further decades of brutal strife and destruction between them.
Such betrayals were common amongst the great warring species
of that time period.

无尽战争
已知宇宙陷入了无尽战争不停息的战争循环。SLA工业的历史文件鲜有提及星际冲突如何持续多个世纪的细节以及原因，以及为何从未能达成外交共识。
各种冲突种族永远在试图获取至高地位，大多数花费大量时间和金钱升级它们的武装和技术。Krell曾经有一次与Grosh达成短暂同盟，以提高步兵的作战能力并获得再生能力，但这一同盟很快破碎，Krell的领导者Krella发现基因操作虽然赋予了士兵快速再生能力和唾液中的神经毒素，但也将它们变成了几乎无法控制的愚蠢怪兽。她们只能认为Grosh有意造成这种效果，这最终导致了几十年的残酷冲突破坏。那时这样的背叛在这些战争种族之间是十分寻常的。

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“In order to understand why the Conflict Era endured for so
long you have to take into account the species involved at the
highest end. You have to consider the personalities, the cultures
that bred the likes of the Krell, the Thallasians and then try to
put them in the same metaphoric space; war was inevitable, but
more importantly it was actively sought.
The Conflict Races were shaped purely for warfare, they had
no desire to explore or fulfil anything they perceived as a lesser
ambition. They were what history required of them and only
when SLA Industries arrived in the Known Universe were the
Conflict Races obligated to serve another purpose.”
Professor Jonathan E W Lisberg,
Naga 7 Historian (2nd Head)

“为了解为何冲突年代持续了如此之久，你必须考虑到那些最高层的种族。你必须考虑它们的性格，考虑孕育了Krell、Thallasians的文化，然后将它们放在同一个隐喻意义上的空间里；战争无可避免，但更重要的是所有种族都在主动追求战争。
冲突种族被创造的目的就是为了战争，它们没有探索或满足被它们视作低级目标的欲望。它们满足了历史对它们的要求，只有在SLA工业抵达已知宇宙后，这些冲突种族才被迫为了另一个目标行动。”
乔纳森·E·W·利斯贝格教授，娜迦7历史学家（二级管理）
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Intruder
An important figure during the Conflict Era was Slayer’s right
hand man - Intruder. He operated chiefly as an assassin; sent out
to destroy SLA’s political rivals, the nickname ‘Clockwork Killer’
suggesting he was simply a weapon utilised by the company, but
his duties were surprisingly far reaching. He helped to liberate
the Ebonites from their Momic overlords and during the years
he fought the Conflict Aliens, he contributed his experiences to
the Stormer project.

侵杀
冲突年代一个重要人物是斯莱尔的副手——“侵杀”。他主要作为刺客；被派去摧毁SLA的政治对手，他的外号“发条杀手”表明他不过是公司使用的武器，但他的职责让人意外地产生了深远影响。他帮助解放了Momic统治的Ebonite，在与冲突异星种族作战期间，他将自己的经验用到了Stormer计划上。

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First and foremost though, he was the shadow who slipped
silently into military outposts and royal palaces to eliminate the
opposition. He was chosen for the role because of his skills in
butchery and knowledge of anatomy and that he was master of
a collection of powers unknown to anyone else in the Known
Universe during the Conflict Era, something similar yet separate
to the Ebb. Reports back to the enemies of SLA listed him as
‘Kilneck’ and that he was seemingly indestructible.

但首先，他是无声潜入军事设施和王宫消灭敌人的阴影。他被选择担任此角色的原因是他在切割方面的技巧和对生理学的掌握，以及他拥有一系列在冲突年代的已知宇宙无人知晓的能力，某种类似Ebb但不相同的能力。SLA敌人的报告称他为“Kilneck”，他似乎无法被毁灭。

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“No, I am unsurprised you have been unable to find a member
of the Kilneck in SLA owned space, well, aside from Intruder
himself. Within the deep spirals of Conflict Space, however? A
different matter entirely, but do not press me any further on the
matter.”
Mattifet Ketaptor, The Neophron Empress

“不，我并不惊讶你没能在SLA拥有的宇宙里找到Kilneck的成员，当然，除了侵杀本人。但在冲突宇宙深远的螺旋中呢？是完全不同的问题，但不要追问更多了。”
Mattifet Ketaptor，Neophron女皇
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As far as anyone knew he was a species of one, as many of the
Conflict Powers searched in vain to track down other Kilneck.
In the 900 years of SLA’s rule there has never been a reported
instance of another Kilneck individual in the entire World of
Progress, leading to potential theories of his nature. Either
Intruder is concealing his true origins. Are there no other
Kilneck; have there ever been or has he destroyed all others of
his kind?

就所有人了解到的，他是一个种族，许多冲突种族势力都徒劳地寻找过其它Kilneck。在SLA统治地900年里，从未有过报告称另一个Kilneck出现在进步世界任何角落，让人们对于他的本质产生了各种理论。要么侵杀在隐瞒他真正的来源。是否没有其它Kilneck？曾经有过吗？还是他杀死了所有同族？

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The Big Picture

全局

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Five years prior to the Standard Date (sd.), SLA Industries
emerged in the Known Universe, acting primarily as a highquality arms dealer for any side with the money to spend.
SLA Industries made everything from firearms to power
armour to military grade vehicles; even custom armaments
tailored towards specific requirements. What made SLA stand
out especially was its capacities in the field of biogenetics.
The most popular products available from SLA Industries was
the biogen soldiers, known commonly as the Stormers. The first
variant available in the Conflict Era market was the Malice. A 9
foot tall, muscular monstrosity that had a winning combination
of strength, speed and savagery.

标准日期（Standard Date）（sd.）五年前，SLA工业出现在已知宇宙，主要作为高质量武器商，为愿意付钱的任何一方供货。
SLA制造从枪械到动力装甲到军用车辆的一切商品；甚至包括满足定制需求的装备。尤其让SLA脱颖而出的是生物基因工程领域。SLA工业最受欢迎的产品是生化士兵，通常被叫做Stormer。最早出现在冲突年代市场上的类型是Malice，9尺高的肌肉怪兽，有着同等的力量、速度和残暴。

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Countless Conflict Races bought into the Stormer Program,
so that they could bolster their ranks with Malice Stormers,
but also, in the case of the Grosh and Thalassians, to study and
dissect the creation, hoping to recreate the Malice for their own
purposes, but their efforts proved fruitless.
Not all of the species bought into SLA’s products and remained
their enemies from the very start, particularly the Krell and
Momics, with whom SLA fought bitterly. The Krell even served
as a rudimentary inspiration for the Stormers.
Ultimately, SLA betrayed the Conflict Races and they fell
victim to Mr Slayer’s secret strategy known simply as ‘The Big
Picture’.

无数冲突种族花钱加入了Stormer计划，让自己能够用Malice型Stormer互相争斗，但对于Grosh和Thalassian，它们会研究、解剖这种造物，希望能重构Malice以满足自己的目的，但都毫无成果。
不是所有种族都接受了SLA的产品，它们从一开始就是SLA的敌人，尤其是Krell和Momics，SLA和它们有艰难的战斗。Krell甚至是Stormer最初的灵感来源。
最终SLA背叛了冲突种族，它们都成了斯莱尔先生秘密计划的受害者，计划称作“全局”。

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Over the years, SLA set about spinning a series of rumours
that outlined the company’s future plans and also its inherent
weaknesses. The aim was to prompt a direct attack on SLA and
therefore the company’s base of operations, the planet - Jeth.
These rumours ranged from hidden new weapon stashes,
power minerals found exclusively on Jeth, an experimental drug
that would apparently change the landscape of the Known
Universe and even a colony of fabled Kilneck living out in the
dense jungle regions. It was almost entirely lies, specific triggers
that would spur the Conflict Powers into action and drive them
to focus direct attacks on SLA throughout the Known Universe.

多年来，SLA散布了一系列描绘了公司未来计划以及自身弱点的谣言，目的是引诱敌人直接攻击SLA极其行动总部——行星Jeth。这些谣言包括隐藏的新武器库、只在Jeth发现的能源矿藏、能够改变已知宇宙图景的实验药物，甚至还有茂密丛林区域里的Kilneck定居点。这些几乎全都是谎言，专门用来促使冲突种族势力行动，让它们从已知宇宙各处集中力量攻击SLA。

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“Te company didn’t just enter the Known Universe to sell
you guys a bunch of weapons and monsters. Tat Slayer guy is
here looking for something and I suspect it’s there on Jeth. I have
contacts who believe it’s a mineral deposit; something used in the
creation of Stormers but I’ve also heard mention of some kind of
‘portal’. It’s all hearsay and speculation to most Conflict Powers
but I know more than most. Look, see this here? Tis drug phial
- I believe it was created by SLA Industries, but it isn’t on sale
yet. It may never be on sale.
I’m telling you, Legatus, because we’re old friends. And SLA
hasn’t given me a pay rise in 7 months. Te company comes off
as tough, but they’re weak, they’re nothing. You and your kind
could have it all. If you have the guts to reach out and take it.”
SLA Salesman John Smith, addressing
a potential client, Conflict Era

“公司进入已知宇宙不只是为了给你们卖武器和怪兽。斯莱尔那家伙正在找东西，我怀疑在Jeth上。我有人脉认为是一个采矿点；用来制造Stormer的，但我还听说过某种“传送门”。对大部分冲突种族势力来说那只是邪说猜想，但我比大部分人知道得多。看见这里的这个没？这个药剂瓶——我认为是SLA工业生产的，但还没开始销售。可能永远不会。
我告诉你这些，Legatus，因为我们是老朋友。而SLA七个月没给我加工资了。这家公司来势汹汹，但他们很弱，他们什么都不是。你和你的族人可以拥有一切。只要你们有胆子去抢。”
SLA销售员约翰·史密斯，正在与潜在顾客对话，冲突年代。
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Tey would of course be conducting their military assaults
with Stormers and therein lay the Big Picture.
Te Stormers instantaneously turned on their new masters
before they could ever reach Jeth, slaughtering countless
Conflict Aliens. SLA produced technology, which had been
bought wholesale by their enemies, like missile guidance
systems and other state of the art ordnance, shut down at
the commencement of the Big Picture. Te mass destruction
that followed would not be that of SLA Industries, it would
represent the end of the Conflict Powers and the era of which
they reigned.
Te last great battle of the Conflict Era was waged on Mort
City’s Central Outskirts, in which the ancient Momic masters,
known as Te Haunted, used a primitive form of reality folding
to launch their fnal attack at the heart of SLA. Two hundred
Momic faced down four thousand Malice Stormers and in the
resulting bloodbath, SLA proved victorious.
Te battle culminated in the surviving Haunted burning their
remaining flux, creating a vast orb of blinding light. Tis strange
flux anomaly has endured on the surface of Mort, indestructible,
mysterious and restless ever since, it came to be known as the
White.
After initial investigation, it was largely left alone, until an
Ebon pupil of SLA Industries, Durer, entered it. What later
emerged was a monstrosity, a strange mix of Ebon and Momic.
Tis represented the birth of the Necanthropes - an entirely
new strain of Ebonite, which would come to rule over them in a
similar manner to the Momics who had come before.
Only two major Conflict Races actively sided with SLA
Industries prior to the Big Picture; the Wraithen and the
Shaktars and as the company was reshaped they found gainful
employment and protection. Te Ebonites, the people previously
subservient to the Momics were also liberated and brought into
the fold

它们当然会用Stormer开展军事攻击。
Stormer在抵达Jeth之前就立刻背叛了新主人，并屠杀了无数冲突异星种族。SLA的敌人购买的SLA技术产品，比如制导系统和其它先进火炮，在全局计划实行之时全部关闭。随后的毁灭不属于SLA工业，而是代表了冲突种族势力的终结以及它们退出的年代。
冲突年代最后一场大战发生在莫特城的中央郊区，古老的Momic统治者，被称作The Haunted，利用原始的现实折叠对SLA心脏发起了最后一次攻击。两百名Momic对四千名Stormer暴兵。血战中SLA获得了胜利。
战斗的高潮时剩余的Haunted燃尽了它们剩余的flux，创造出巨大而炫目的光球。这种奇怪的flux异常现象停留在莫特表面，之后一直无法销毁，神秘而安静地待着。它被称作“白球”。
初次调查之后白球基本被放置不管，直到一位SLA工业的Ebon学生，Durer，进入。从白球里出来的是一个怪物，Ebon和Momic的古怪混合体。这就是Necanthropes的诞生——一种新型Ebonite，它们将如同之前的Momic一样统治Ebonite。
只有两个主要冲突种族在“全局”前主动与SLA工业联合，它们是Wraithen和Shaktar，随着公司重组，它们找到了高收益的工作和庇护。Ebonite，曾经被Momic奴役的种族，也得到解放并加入他们的行列。

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Other species fell somewhere in the middle of the supposed
victory conditions. The Neophrons, for example, took no part in
any of the conflicts and purposefully avoided any negotiations
with SLA Industries. They recognised the change that was
coming and quietly returned to their home system in Conflict
Space. It would take many centuries for the Neophron and
other equally less aggressive species to return to the World of
Progress, but when they did they returned as allies, rather than
challengers, to the company’s reign.
What remained of the Conflict Aliens fled into deep space,
SLA Industries was victorious and its employees rejoiced. They
hoped it would be the dawning of a new era and they were right.
Mostly. Everything was set to progress, but not necessarily to
everyone’s advantage.

其它种族落到了所谓胜利状况的中间地带。例如Neophron，它们没有参与任何冲突，并有意避开了与SLA的谈判。它们意识到改变正在来临，于是安静地回到了位于冲突宇宙的母星系。Neophron和其它不那么好斗的种族花了几个世纪才回到进步世界，但这次它们是作为公司统治的盟友而不是挑战者。
剩余的冲突异星种族逃入深空，SLA赢得了胜利，SLA的雇员欢欣鼓舞。他们希望迎来一个新年代，他们是正确的。基本上。一切都开始发展，但并不符合所有人的利益。

[NewAlbionDrone]

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THE FORMATION ERA - 0-100SD
The Storm
The dust had settled. Slayer had ended the Conflict Era and
won. The history books would say that the Conflict Races
were all but extinct, but in truth many survivors had fled into
true emptiness and past a blank world upon which Slayer had
imprisoned his darkest secret.
There was a person who had a great stake in all things, but was
to be denied, even in death and beyond.
This ‘silent partner’ was a young man and within the freshly
defined confines of the SLA Universe he could not be destroyed.
He had already died once. He could, however, be forgotten.
Back before SLA Industries was even conceived, a pact was
made to confine this controversial individual, to rob him of
potential and ensure that he could not impact on the affairs of
the company, nor the plans for what would become the World
of Progress. Upon arrival he was deposited on a desolate remote
planet in the Known Universe. This planet had no name and
the vast majority of its landmass was desert and besides its
enigmatic prisoner, the only other inhabitants were the things
he feared the most.

构造年代——0-100sd
风暴
尘埃落定。斯莱尔终结了冲突年代并获胜。历史书会说冲突种族全都灭绝了，但事实上许多幸存者淘金了真正的虚空之中，它们经过了一个空白的世界，斯莱尔在此囚禁他最黑暗的秘密。
曾经有一个人，他对所有事物都有重要影响，但他被否认了，哪怕在他死亡之后。
这名“沉默合作者”是个年轻人，在刚定义的SLA宇宙疆界之内，他无法被毁灭。他已经死了一次。但他能够被遗忘。
早在SLA工业成形之前就有一份关于这名有争议个体的协定，用来限制他、剥夺他的未来、确保他不会影响公司事务以及进步世界的计划。他被放逐到已知宇宙一个偏远的行星。行星没有名字，大部分土地都是沙漠，除了这个谜样的囚犯之外，其它居住者都是他最恐惧的东西。

——

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“Tyde, I have spent many years conditioning Brent Walker’s
brain to respond to certain stimuli and to comply with demands.
Some of my patients require simple encouragement and mild
praise in order to produce, Brent however tends towards
obstinacy, he requires fear and discipline, to work.
Brent suffers from a condition called Pithecophobia, which is
an innate fear of primates. A chimpanzee was purchased and
installed at The Foundation. This is the disciplinary tool we will
use in Brent’s reeducation. An hour trapped in a room with
that creature is guaranteed to make him compliant with the
Foundation expectations of him.
By now Brent would rather kill a family member than spend
five additional minutes in a confined space with our pet.
The time is coming, Tyde, when he will transfer; that is
unavoidable and the only means of containing him is to place
him among the denizens that fill him with the greatest dread.
You cannot kill Brent Walker, but you can suppress him. You
will do this by driving him irrevocably insane.”
Catalogue/Naga 7 documentation *redacted*

“Tyde，我花了很多年调节Brent Walker的大脑，让他能够回应特定的刺激、服从一些要求。有些我的病人只需要最简单的鼓励和些许称赞便会有效果，但Brent很固执，只有恐惧和惩戒对他有效。
Brent有被称作Pithecophobia的症状，也就是对灵长类本能的恐惧。我们购买了一只黑猩猩放置在基金会里。这是我们再教育Brent时使用的惩罚工具。 和这个生物一起困在房间里一小时就足够让他满足基金会对他的期望，
现在Brent宁可杀死家庭成员也不愿意和我们宠物在封闭空间里待上五分钟。时候要到了，Tyde，他被移送的时候；无法避免，唯一能限制他的方法是把他放在他最恐惧的生物之中。你无法杀死Brent Walker，但你可以抑制他，靠让他不可逆转地疯狂。”
目录/娜迦7文档 *已删除*
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On the first anniversary of the World of Progress, Slayer felt
the storm raging across that distant world. Whilst corporates
and Departmental Heads laughed, patted each other’s backs
and sipped staggeringly expensive champagne, Slayer could
feel the fury building in the furthest reaches of his domain.
He could smell the burning sands and matted fur and then, he
could feel the presence, searching. Like a blind man probing for
a lost object.
It was the first time Slayer felt the searing pain in his chest. It
faded, but never left him completely

进步世界第一次周年纪念时，斯莱尔感到风暴正在肆虐那个遥远的世界。就在公司和部门管理者大笑、互相拍肩、晃晃悠悠地喝着昂贵香槟时，斯莱尔感受到了怒火正在他的领土最远端酝酿。他能嗅到燃烧的沙砾、纠结的皮毛，接着，他感受到了那个存在正在四处寻找。如同盲人摸索失物。
这是斯莱尔第一次感受到胸中灼热的痛苦。痛苦消失了，但从未彻底离开。

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Construction of Mort City 1-56sd
Throughout the course of the Conflict Era, SLA Industries had
been little more than a weapons and technology manufacturer,
but after the Big Picture a whole new picture began to form.
This was a business plan that would cover all aspects of life
and commerce. SLA was going to take over governments, star
systems and buy out and rebrand every conceivable item in the
Known Universe over a century-long mission.
This was the groundwork of what SLA Industries would be
right up until the present day and historical records define the
period as The Formation. What was once the Known Universe
would be rebranded the World of Progress. This period in SLA’s
history is some of the bloodiest; worse even than the close of
the Conflict Era.

建造莫特城 1-56SD
纵观整个冲突年代，SLA工业不过是武器和技术产品生产商，但“全局”后，一个全新的图景开始形成。一个将覆盖生活和商业所有方面的商业计划出现。SLA将占领政府、星系，通过长达一个世纪任务，买断已知宇宙所能想到的物品并重新包装为自己的品牌。
这是SLA工业发展到今天的基础，历史记录将这一时期成为构成年代。曾经的已知宇宙被更名为进步世界。这是SLA历史上最血腥的时期之一，更甚冲突年代终结之时。

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The Known Universe was not quite prepared for such a hostile
and grand takeover. SLA was met with some resistance, except
this was not the brutal Conflict Races standing up against the
company; it was just the ordinary folk who knew that this
saviour was going to erase their identity and freedoms, in their
entirety. If the Conflict Races could be taken down so easily, the
citizens of the fading Known Universe would pose little threat
to SLA. Within a generation of the end of The Formation,
historical events of resistance where buried and forgotten.
As SLA entered its greatest years of economic wealth, there
was no question, the company was now all consuming. SLA
owned and ruled every facet of life and that was the new normal.
At the beginning of the Formation, the planet Jeth was the
epicentre of the new World of Progress. Over the previous
25 years, SLA had already set up bases across the planet, but
after the enemy species had fled into what would be known as
Conflict Space (the title of the vast untamed regions beyond
SLA controlled space), SLA would focus much of its efforts on
building the Capital City-state on the planet and they weren’t
prepared to let the indigenous Jethians stand in their way.
SLA Industries maintained a chilly relationship with the
Jethians. The company swiftly set about ravaging the planet of
its resources as it built its first primary city - Mort.

已知宇宙没有准备好接受如此强硬而全面的占领。SLA遭到了一些抵抗，但此时不是暴力的冲突种族对抗公司；仅仅是普通人，他们知道这个救世主将要抹去他们全体的身份和自由。如果冲突种族能够被如此轻易地击败，那么正在消失地已知宇宙地居民对SLA来说几乎不算威胁。在构造年代结束后一代人之内，抵抗活动就已被掩埋、被遗忘。
随着SLA进入它最伟大的经济繁荣之年，毫无疑问这家公司已经占领了一切。SLA拥有并统治生活的所有方面，这正是新的常识。
构造时代之初，Jeth行星是崭新的进步世界的焦点。最初的25年里，SLA已经在这颗行星上建满了基地，但在敌对种族逃往被称作冲突空间（指SLA控制之外广阔的蛮荒区域）的区域后，SLA专注于在这里建造首都城邦，他们不打算让本土的Jeth人阻挠自己。公司很快开始掠夺这颗行星的资源以建造自己的主要城市——莫特。

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SLA had little to no regard for any treaties signed that would
protect the Jethian’s natural habitats and when the council of
Jeth tried to prevent the construction of nuclear reactors so
close to their sacred colonies, the delegates sent to protest the
issue simply disappeared. All that could be done was to quietly
close their borders to the industrial giant and strive to protect
whatever still remained of their culture and tradition.
Progress was as inevitable as the rapid climate change and string
of natural disasters. The planet Jeth soon became synonymous
with its main city, the headquarters of SLA Industries. The
planet Jeth became the planet Mort, like so many other things
in the World of Progress, the name Jeth was lost to the aeons
of time, to be forgotten by all but a few scholars and librarians.

SLA把任何保护Jeth自然栖息地的签署协定弃之不顾，当Jeth议会试图阻止极其靠近神圣聚居地的核反应堆修建工作时，被派去抗议的代表直接蒸发了。他们能做的只有静静关闭对这个工业巨头的边界，努力保护剩余的文化和传统。
进步避无可避，气候急剧变化，自然灾害频发。Jeth行星很快变得和它最主要的城市，也就是SLA工业的总部同名。Jeth行星变成了莫特行星，Jeth这个名字消散在了时间之中，仅有少数学者和图书管理员知晓。

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Mandrake
Another of SLA Industries most promising Ebonite pupils
- Mandrake, boarded the Ebb Foldship Yung and charted its
course for Conflict Space in 2sd. It was classed as an exploratory
mission, but in truth it was a further inspection of the departed
Conflict Aliens. Mandrake was to report back in 5 years and
relay his findings to Head Office, but once the Yung passed
beyond the boundaries of SLA owned space, at the Gates of
Herodotus, the Foldship was believed lost or destroyed.
It would however return in nine hundred years, only then it
would be carrying Mandrake’s descendants and their Momic
slavers.

曼德拉
另一位SLA工业最有前途的Ebonite弟子——曼德拉，搭乘了Ebb折叠船Yung号，并记录了2sd它在冲突空间的航行。这次旅行被归类为探索任务，但实际上是为了进一步调查离开的冲突异星种族。曼德拉本应在五年内传回报告并向总部传达发现，但Yung号刚离开SLA宇宙的边界，就在希罗多德门的位置，这艘折叠船要么迷失要么被摧毁了。它将在900年后回归，这时携带着曼德拉的后代以及他们的Momic奴隶。

——

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“We strike out into the unknown, looking for answers to
questions we haven’t even asked and we are anticipating
answers we don’t even want.
We do this to find out what lies beyond; know that we do it
for Progress.”
Mandrake, Foldship Yung departure, 2sd

“我们直击未知，为未提出的问题寻找答案，期待我们本不希望的回答。
我们的目的是寻找彼方存在之物；为了进步。”
曼德拉，折叠船Yung号出航演讲，2sd
———

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The Whistling Bridge Protocol
SLA Industries was fully aware of all the dreadful things it
had done in order to rise victorious and perhaps also knew of
the evils to come. The company had already begun limiting
information going forward and erasing what had come to pass.
Despite these efforts, it could not wipe the Conflict Races from
its history, nor the power that was growing on White Earth,
from reality. Their presence would always remain, in some shape
or form. White Earth was left to fester and all survivors of the
previous conflicts had fled into the lawless Conflict Space.They
were all gone, for now at least, but ignoring the possibility of
retaliation, even centuries in the future, was imprudent. SLA
Industries’ field of influence now encompassed the Known
Universe. Their old adversaries had fled to deep space.
Two plans were set in motion. Aethermen, under the employ
of Naga 7 Division were sent into Conflict Space to watch,
evaluate and report back findings, then secondly, a set of orders,
based on the likelihood of future reprisals, were drawn up. This
agreement would come to be known as the Whistling Bridge
Protocol. In 5sd, it was simply a first draft of proposals, but
every 50 years up until the present day the Protocol has been
revised and reassessed, based on the changes and advancements
of the World of Progress.

哨桥协议
SLA工业完全了解自身为了胜利所做的一切丑陋之事，或许也清楚即将到来的邪恶。公司早已开始限制信息扩散，抹去过去之物。尽管如此，他们无法将冲突种族从自己的历史中抹去，也无法将白地球上壮大的势力从现实消除。它们将永远以某种形式存在。白地球独自恶化，之前冲突中的所有幸存者逃往法律不存在的冲突空间。它们全都离开了，至少现在如此，但无视它们卷土重来的而可能性，哪怕是在许多世纪之后，都是不明智的。SLA工业的影响范围如今包括了整个已知宇宙。他们的宿敌逃入深空。
有两个计划被实施。以太人计划，娜迦7的雇员被派往冲突空间进行监视评估，并传回发现，随后基于未来发生报复行动的可能性，一系列指令被拟定。这个协议被称作哨桥协议。5sd是，它还仅是第一版草案，但随后直到今日的每隔50年，协议都会基于进步世界的变化和发展被被修订、重估。

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Mort Earns Its Name
SLA didn’t waste any time in stripping Jeth of its natural
resources. It drew oil, mined for minerals and cut down vast
forests and jungle for lumber. It set up countless factories
and production plants in the Gartto Tundra. This region was
arguably the first Jethian region to fall to the avarice of SLA.
The company stained the skies with toxic fumes and black
smoke, forever damaging the upper atmosphere.
In the centuries that followed, the Gartto Tundra transformed
into a polluted wasteland, its original Jethian title would be
forgotten and it would simply be known as the No-Go Zone.
The pillaging was planet-wide and within six years, SLA
Industries had bled the planet dry; all botanical life on the
planet had been utilised until nothing remained. Jeth’s natural
fauna suffered a similar fate with only a meagre list of the most
aggressive and adaptive species left alive. Mort would come to
consider them as nothing more than mere vermin.

莫特得名
在剥光Jeth的自然资源上，SLA没有浪费时间。公司抽出石油、挖掘矿藏、砍伐大批森林和雨林。Gartto冻原上建起无数工厂和厂房。这里可以算是Jeth最早落入SLA贪婪胃口中的区域。公司用毒雾和黑烟污染了天空，上层大气被永久性地毁坏了。
随后的几个世纪里，Gartto冻原变成了一片被污染的荒地，它原本的Jeth语名字被人遗忘，被简单称作“无人区”。
掠夺是全球性的，6年内，SLA工业就榨干了这个星球；行星上所有植物资源都被利用，一点不剩。Jeth的动物遭到了同等的毁灭，仅有少数最好战、最有适应性的种族存活。莫特将会把它们视为区区害虫。

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Mort’s First Police Force
It was exciting times for the company and countless workers
flocked to Mort from across the new World of Progress to find
work in the fast expanding empire. With all the hopes and
dreams of corporate life came the inevitable consequences.
Crime was rife in the streets of Mort City and the company
was struggling to deal with the lawlessness, so, with the help of
one of SLA’s more resourceful Operatives - Jonathan Bellwood,
the first legitimate police patrols arrived in Mort City. These
were the men and women in green - the Shivers.
From 58sd, up to the present day, the Shiver Units are easily
the most common sight in Mort City, spawning generations
of recruits to patrol the dangerous streets. They are divided
by loyalty to the company and corruption bred from the
overbearing capitalistic society of Mort.
“I am Mort’s most violent Shiver.”
Jackson Clyde, Shiver Unit

莫特首支警察力量
对从进步世界各处蜂拥到莫特、渴望在一个快速扩张的帝国找到工作的公司和无数工人来说，那是个刺激的时代。所有公司生活的希望和梦想必然会产生后果。莫特街头犯罪激增，SLA需要努力处理法律缺失状况，于是在SLA足智多谋的特工乔纳森·贝尔伍德的帮助下，莫特城出现了第一支合法的警察巡逻队。这些男人和女人都穿着绿色的制服——他们是颤警。
从58sd至今，颤警部队都是莫特城最常见的景观，一代又一代的新警员在危险的街道上巡逻。他们在对公司的忠诚和莫特那咄咄逼人的资本主义社会中诞生的腐败之间割裂。

——
“我是莫特最暴力的颤警。”
杰克森·克莱德，颤警部队
——

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The Jethians Transformed
If Mort was going to be the main base of SLA Industries’
operations it was going to require power and lots of it. The
company set about bringing nuclear power stations to the globe.
What had once been lush jungle regions were quickly wiped
away by industrialism. It was at this time that the company
reencountered the Jethians. They were far from happy that the
company had invaded their world, stripped away their forests
and jungles and begun bulldozing their sacred temples.
The Jethians, not an especially warlike species, could only offer
a weak form of resistance against the encroachment of SLA.
They chose prayer over resistance. The entire Jethian population
refused to fight and worse, refused to integrate within the
growing company, instead, they flocked to the protection of
their equatorial city and temples to beg their therianthropic
gods for salvation. Their pleas were never answered; their deities
had seen wisdom and fled into Conflict Space.

Jeth人转变
莫特将成为SLA工业的行动基地，这里需要能源，很多能源。公司打算在这个星球建造核反应堆。曾经茂密的丛林很快被工业化抹去。此时公司重新遭遇了Jeth人。他们并不乐见公司入侵他们的星球、毁灭他们的森林、铲平他们的圣殿。
Jeth人不是好战的种族，面对SLA的侵蚀，他们的抵抗十分无力。他们选择了祈祷而不是抵抗。全体Jeth人拒绝战斗，更糟糕的是，拒绝融入不断扩大的公司，而是逃进了他们位于赤道的城市和庙宇，祈求半人半兽的神带来救赎。他们乞求没有得到回应，这些神明智地逃往了冲突空间。

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The Fission Belt, a gargantuan ring of nuclear reactors
encompassing Mort’s equatorial line erupted to life in 80sd. The
Belt’s positioning was strategic, far enough away from Mort
City to mitigate radiation spill, but close enough to power Mort
City and the new emerging city states across the entire globe.
In 87sd, just one year after the last nuclear reactors were
completed, a catastrophic meltdown occurred. A lethal gulf
stream of radioactive winds encircled the planet. SLA secretly
hoped that this ‘unfortunate accident’ would finally kill off the
Jethians, but their fate turned out to be much, much worse.
Now ravaged by lethal doses of radiation and yet still left alive,
the Jethians fled their crumbling ancestral homes and crawled
northwards, mutating, distorting and eventually transforming
into a broken and animalistic species. Their past forgotten, the
newly shaped species was driven by little more than hunger and
the instinct to survive.

80sd，裂变带，即沿着莫特赤道线地巨大核反应堆环诞生。裂变带的位置是精心选择的，离莫特城足够远，能够消解辐射泄漏，但又足够近，能为莫特城和整个星球上的新兴城市供能。
87sd，就在最后一座核反应堆完工后一年，发生了一次灾难性的堆芯熔化事件。剧毒的辐射蒸汽云进入了大气循环。SLA暗中希望这次“不幸的意外”会杀死Jeth人，但他们的命运比这悲惨得多。
Jeth人承受了致命剂量的辐射，但还活着。他们离开了摇摇欲坠的古老故乡，爬向北方，变异、畸形最终将他们转化为一种扭曲、如同动物般的种族。新形成的种族遗忘了过去，几乎只凭饥饿和生存本能活着。
The people of Mort City would come to know them as the
Carrien. The first horrific sightings of these beings filtered back
through to Head Office in early 88sd. They thought it was
merely a small band of mutants that could quickly be wiped
from the face of Mort. Instead, the Carrien scourge would
endure and still be plaguing the sewers of Downtown and the
debris of the Cannibal Sector for another eight centuries.
逐渐莫特城的人把他们叫做卡伦。88sd初，这些东西的可怕目击报告首次传回总部。他们以为这不过是一小群变异生物，能够迅速把它们从莫特地表清除。但卡伦之灾一直持续，它们将继续肆虐下城的下水道和互食者区的废墟长达8个世纪。

[NewAlbionDrone]

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EXPANSION ERA - 101-200SD
The next century is recorded as the Expansion Era, although
this term is focused primarily on the growth of Mort City, its
neighbouring City-States and the industrialisation of the NoGo Zone. Across the World of Progress, the outlook was less rosy
and it was in this the second century that the whole concept of
‘Corporate Warfare’ was born. During the Expansion Era, SLA
Industries encountered the first true rivals to its power base.
SLA may have been the victor, but its position in the World
of Progress would clearly be challenged from this era onwards.

扩张年代——101-200sd
下一个世纪被记录为扩张年代，尽管扩张一词主要指莫特城、临近的城邦以及无人区工业化。在整个进步世界，前景则没有那么美好。而正是在第二个世纪，“公司战争”这一概念诞生了。扩张年代期间，SLA工业遭遇了第一个威胁自身权力根基的真正对手。SLA或许是赢家，但它在进步的地位明显从这个时代起被不断挑战。

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Rising Population
The Central Outskirts continued to grow. At first, civilians
longing to get out from the gloom of Suburbia flocked to the
area, causing a drastic swell of inhabitants. As the years ticked
by, more and more off-worlders arrived, setting up home and
sharing their resources with SLA Industries. Of course, SLA
welcomed the vast majority of these species, new employees
for the company, new skill sets and new allies, but as space got
tighter, policing the Outskirts became a challenge. The Shivers
tasked with thejob in the Central Outskirts now numbered into
tens of thousands. They drastically outnumbered Operatives
and despite being poorly armed, were tasked with maintaining
order in every corner of this sprawling landscape. Despite being
great in number, the sheer size of the population meant that to
keep it in check, far less security could remain on the perimeter
fence to keep an eye on the encroaching Carrien threat.

人口增长
中央郊区继续扩大。最初希望离开惨淡Suburbia 的民众蜂拥到这个区域，居民数量激增。一年又一年过去，越来越多外星种族到来，在此安家，与SLA分享他们的资源。自然SLA欢迎这些种族，他们是新的公司雇员、新的技术储备以及新的盟友。但空间越来越紧张，中央郊区的警力成了问题。负责中央郊区的颤警数量增加到了好几万，远超特工。尽管装备简陋，他们依然担负起在这个杂乱城市的各个角落维持秩序的责任。虽然颤警数量众多，但人口总量依然意味着要维持秩序，布置在边缘监视入侵卡伦的人员数量会远远不足。

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The Evolution Of Vermin
In 103sd, a depleted Shiver force manning the perimeter fence
along the Red Stretch reported sightings of a new threat. While
the fence had only ever done a mediocre job of keeping out
the Carrien, this new foe had simply crushed the fence entirely
and brutally murdered entire squads of Shivers keeping watch.
Leading huge packs of Carrien through the perimeter was what
soon came to be known as a Greater Carrien, a hulking giant
standing in excess of 9 ft tall, sporting antlers and a muscular
frame that was as stoic as a Stormer. The Greater Carrien struck
fear into all those that saw it, an enemy the likes of which most
Shivers had never seen.
This would be the first of many sightings of Greater Carrien,
each leading packs of ravenous scavengers into the Central
Outskirts, before eventually disappearing down into the
sewers where they began to make homes, carving out great
underground halls from the subterranean passageways. The
arrival of the Greater Carrien marked an evolutionary step in
the Carrien species and the first dreadful sign that they were
here to stay.

害虫进化
103sd，一队警力不足的颤警在Red Stretch边缘围墙巡逻时报告了新的威胁。虽然围墙只能勉强阻止卡伦，但新的敌人完全撞翻了围墙并残忍地杀害了整个负责监视的颤警小队。带领大批卡伦穿过边界的是随后被称作大卡伦的巨大生物，身高9尺，有角，全是肌肉的躯体和Stormer一样强韧。大卡伦让任何看见它的人心生惧意，大多数颤警从未遭遇此等敌人。
这是多次大卡伦目击报告中的第一次，每只大卡伦都带领大群饥饿的食腐生物冲进了中央郊区，最后消失在下水道里，它们在这里安家，在地下通道里挖掘初巨大的地下空间。大卡伦的到来吧标志着卡伦种族在进化上的重要一步，也是它们将留在莫特城的第一个可怕信号。

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The Age of Terrorism
A mercenary force identifying themselves as DarkNight were
encountered by a Nitro Legion battalion in 123sd on a remote
planet called Horatio. This mercenary force was well equipped
and seemingly well financed. In the years that followed, the
threat of DarkNight followed the company back to Mort, with
a rising number of terrorist attacks taking place on public spaces
and key SLA buildings.
As the years ticked by, the frequency of these attacks increased,
as did DarkNight’s numbers. With the regularity and severity
of the attacks growing, SLA Industries had to accept that a very
legitimate enemy had arrived on Mort, one determined to hurt
the company and incite anarchy among the population of Mort
City. DarkNight were the polar opposite of the Carrien, their
agents used weapons and armour that challenged the equipment
used by SLA Operatives and they thought like the company;
true tacticians, not feral savages. SLA could not simply throw
Shivers at this threat; it required brains and patience.
Very quickly, DN-branded weapons started appearing on the
black market, putting military-grade firearms into the hands of
civilians. This bold move, challenging SLA on their own biggest
enterprise, rapidly earned DarkNight the newly fashioned term
of a ‘rival company’ in the arms race, though anyone who had
encountered their brutality on the streets of Downtown knew
the truth - this was organised crime at its highest level.

恐怖纪元
123sd，一支自称为暗夜的雇佣兵部队在被称作Horatio的偏远行星上遭遇了Nitro军团部队。这些雇佣兵装备精良资金丰富。随后几年，暗夜的威胁跟随公司回到了莫特，针对公共场所和关键SLA建筑的恐怖袭击数量不断增加。
一年又一年，袭击的频率增加了，暗夜的数量也同样增加。随着袭击的次数和严重程度上升，SLA工业不得不接受一个势均力敌的敌人已经抵达莫特这一事实，这个敌人决心打击公司并在莫特人口中制造无政府状态。暗夜与卡伦完全相反，他们的人员使用与SLA特工媲美的武器和护甲，他们的思维和公司类似；他们是真正的战术家而不是野兽。SLA不能用颤警对付他们；需要头脑和耐心。
很快暗夜品牌的武器开始出现在黑市上，让平民也能获得军用等级的武器。这一大胆的策略挑战了SLA最大的产业，因此让暗夜在军备竞赛中获得了“对手公司”这一新称谓，但任何在下城街头遭遇过他们暴行的人都知道真相——这是个最高等级的有组织犯罪集团。

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The Lure of The Ebb
Though the Ebonite species had been considered an ally to
SLA Industries since the Conflict Era and their liberation from
the Momics, their numbers on Mort had remained relatively
few compared to other species. Intruder had kept company with
those Ebonites of standing and urged them to call out to their
kin still living on far off worlds.
Word of The White had already reached Haxxan - the distant
system of Ebonite homeworlds and little persuasion was needed.
Ebonites boarded Foldships and made the long haul, bringing
with them knowledge and artefacts beyond Naga 7’s wildest
dreams. Mort would become the new home to the Ebonites
as thousands and thousands of new arrivals were welcomed
into the arms of the company, hitting the streets as Operatives
and drastically increasing the space travel capabilities of SLA
Industries. This influx accelerated the company’s understanding
of a great many things, bringing about new levels of innovation
and technology.
The Ebonite species was here to stay and over the years that
followed they would become a major force in the company’s
hierarchy, under the leadership and control of the Necanthrope,
Preceptor Teeth.

Ebb的诱惑
虽然Ebonite种族自冲突年代就被视为SLA工业的盟友，并被从Momic的奴役下解放了，但他们在莫特的数量相比其他种族依然稀少。侵杀与这些Ebonite为伴，并促使他们呼唤仍活在遥远星系的同族。
白球的话语已经抵达Haxxan——遥远的Ebonite母星系，无需多言。Ebonite登上折叠船，经过漫长的旅行带来了远超娜迦7最疯狂梦想的知识和奇物。莫特将成为Ebonite的新家，公司向成千上万新来的Ebonite张开双臂，他们作为特工加入了莫特的街道，同时还增强了SLA工业的星际旅行能力。这次移民潮加速了公司对许多事物的理解，带来了全新的创造与技术。
Ebonite种族将留在这里，在之后的时间里，他们将成为公司等级架构中的主要力量，接受Necanthrope尖牙导师的领导与控制。

[NewAlbionDrone]

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THE BOOM TIME - 200-299SD
The Boom Time is SLA Industries’ most cherished era; it
was when everything was going right - a period of unrivalled
prosperity, for a privileged few. It has a style of architecture,
dress sense and music characteristic to this time period that is
elegant, luxurious and classical.

繁荣年代——200-299sd
繁荣年代是SLA工业最珍贵的时期；一切都步入正轨——一个无比繁盛的时期，但仅限少数特权者。这个时期有特定的建筑、衣着和音乐风格，优雅、奢华和古典。

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Free Enterprise
The birth of Rival Companies during the Expansion Era, the
challengers to SLA, only increased during the Boom Time. As
SLA grew more affluent, the greater the desire to carve out an
independent corner of the marketplace grew in others. Whilst
many competitors were focused on manufacturing competitor
goods, the most common of which being weapons, their product
range would in turn become their main form of defence
when SLA came to challenge them in both retail and battle.
Other rivals were hiring out their accumulated combat
experience as mercenaries, or simply assumed the roles of
raiders, attacking anyone they deemed an easy target.

自由企业
扩展时期诞生的竞争公司，即SLA的挑战者，在繁荣年代继续增加。随着SLA越来越富有，其他人越发萌生出独立占据市场一角的欲望。许多竞争者专注于制造竞品，最常见的是武器，当SLA打算在商场和战场上挑战他们时，这些产品成为了他们的主要防御。其他竞争公司会将有战斗经验的人员作为雇佣兵出租，或是化身为劫掠者，袭击任何他们认为软弱的目标。

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Thresher
““This isn’t a company. It’s a bunch of cutthroats tear-assing
around the World of Progress in big armour looking for
vulnerable planets and Ion Ships to plunder. Yes, they fall under
the category of Corporate Crime, but I reckon they’re more like a
criminal organisation, a syndicate.
Thresher armour and weaponry has never been sold by these
guys directly. The only thing they’re likely to offer is hail of 11
cal rounds to your face.”

长尾鲨

“它不是公司。它是一帮穿着重甲在进步世界四处游荡、劫掠脆弱行星和粒子船的杀人凶手。没错，他们被归类为公司犯罪，但我认为更像犯罪组织，辛迪加。
这些家伙从来不会直接销售Thresher的护甲和武器。他们最可能提供的唯一东西是打进你脸的11毫米子弹。”
多洛雷斯·萨顿-里弗斯，SLA员工，SCL8
——

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In 232sd, SLA Industries 127th Tech Support group arrived
on the water rich Resource World of Thallahs. They discovered a
massive hidden complex within a nearby mountain range. Inside
they found a vast array of lost alien technology. The Conflict Era
had been concluded and largely forgotten for several centuries.
The 127th were unfamiliar with Thallasian technology and the
considerable skills they had once had in creating powerful antipersonnel armours and superior weaponry.
They knew they had landed on a goldmine as they moved
through endless rows of mint condition armour, each armed
with fully stocked and loaded heavy rifles. Procedure dictated
that they report their findings to Head Office, but this was the
age of the entrepreneur. A new and major rival company had
just appeared in the World of Progress, it was the beginning of
Thresher Consortium.
What followed were years, bleeding into centuries of infighting
within Thresher. Any noble efforts made in its past were dulled
by endless raids and bloodshed. Nonetheless, Thresher - the
band of exceedingly well equipped raiders, endured. Fighting
the morally questionable good fight, yet always fearful one day
their precious stocks of technology would run dry and they
would never be able to reverse-engineer more.

232sd，SLA工业第127技术支持小队抵达了水资源丰富的Thallashs。他们在附近的山脉发现了隐藏的巨大复合建筑，内部有大量的遗失异星技术。冲突时期已经结束，并被遗忘了几个世纪。Thallashs人曾经有着高超的制造强力对人护甲和先进武器的技艺，127小队对此并不不熟悉。
但他们知道自己发现了金矿。他们穿过无尽的护甲阵列，每一件都是崭新的，装备了全套弹药满载的重型步枪。流程要求他们向总部汇报发现，但这是创业的年代。进步世界出现了一个新的主要竞争公司，这是Thresher财团的开始。
之后的岁月被几个世纪的Thresher内部斗争染上了鲜血。过去的任何高尚之举都被无尽的劫掠和流血遮盖。尽管如此，Thresher——这群装备精良的劫掠者，坚持了下来。他们进行有道德疑问的战斗，但永远担心某一天宝贵的技术存储将耗尽而他们无法靠逆向工程继续生产。

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The Boom Families
It was during the Boom Time that the World of Progress truly
galvanised its Upper Class. Many already wealthy families had
invested in SLA Industries during The Formation and their
return on investment increased dramatically by the year 200sd,
helping to delineate the title to a whole generation - The Boom
Time; the extended period of economic growth.
Families like Hinton, DeFeo, Flense-Bryant and Emmershaw
were ‘old money’; rich enough to buy whole planets and live
comfortably beyond any laws, aside from the very top rulings
from Head Office. To be one of these special investors was to be
a Boom Family. There were 68 such families during the Boom
Time, but it swiftly reduced to 50 as certain households fell into
ruin as the Great Downturn occured at the turn of the century.
The Boom Time was also the birth of the Corporate Sector, as
the World of Progress knows it today. It was dawning of Mort’s
great law firms and investment banking, with subsidiaries
such as Hinton Moss and Rowan, Garthon Investments and
Sillindrad (the Ebonite family responsible for the creation of
Dark Lament), dominating Central and Uptown.
The Boom families had the best of everything, going as far as to
create the best schools and universities in the World of Progress,
putting their own progeny through esteemed foundations like
Buxbridge, Greenwood and Napwell.

繁荣家族
繁荣时期，进步世界的上层阶级真正脱颖而出。许多本就富裕的家族在构造时期投资SLA工业，而到了200sd，他们的回报快速增长，因而有了这一年代的名称——繁荣时期；长期的经济发展阶段。
辛顿、笛福、弗连斯-布兰恩特和埃默肖这些家族被称作“老派财主”，富有得能够买下行星，生活不受法律约束，只接受总部最顶层的统治。成为这类特殊的投资者就是成为繁荣家族。繁荣时期共有68个这样的家族，但世纪之交的大低迷让一些家族变为废墟，总数迅速降为50。繁荣时期还诞生了进步世界如今的公司区。这是莫特的法律大公司和投资银行的黎明，还诞生了辛顿·莫斯和罗文、盖松投资以及Sillindrad（创造了黑暗挽歌的Ebonite家族）等子公司，它们统治了中央区和上城。
繁荣家族拥有最好的一切，甚至建造了进步世界最好的学校和大学，给自己的后代准备了可靠的基金，例如布克斯布里奇、格林伍德和耐普维尔。

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Formal Education
In 279sd SLA Industries opened the Meny Training Facility
in Mald. Meny was and still is, more a city of education rather
a singular building complex. It covers all aspects of Operative
and high-level Employee Status Education. In 279sd, Meny
was a five-building interconnecting network, covering primarily
the earliest forms of SLA professions. Over the centuries it has
expanded considerably, to cover newer training packages and
faculties dedicated to schooling Cloak Division and Stigmartyr
agents. These standalone faculties, are in reality independent
universities, with their own funding and some of the best
protected buildings in the World of Progress.

正式教育
279sd，SLA工业在Mald开设梅尼培训设施。过去和现在，梅尼都更像是个教育之城而不是单一的复合建筑。这里的教育包括了特工和高级职员升职教育的方方面面。279sd，梅尼是一个五栋楼相互连接构成的网状结构，主要包括了早期的SLA职业，几个世纪以来它扩大了不少，包括了为斗篷部和烙印殉道者专门设置的培训计划和设施。这些设施实际上位于独立的大学，有自己的资金来源以及若干进步世界最受保护的建筑。

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White Earth
The blank world used to entrap Brent Walker had never been
given a name before. It and its prisoner had been placed as far
away as to be forgotten forever, but in 295sd reports began to
filter through to Head Office; disquieting stories of a planet on
the verges of the World of Progress. The planet had found an
orbit and had a name now: White Earth.
It had become one world in a small solar system orbiting the
red star - Herodotus. There were disturbing tales of creatures
known as ‘First Born’ - the primates introduced to serve as the
gaolers for the singular prisoner, but there were now stories
emerging of confirmed people on White Earth and a message
spread across the backwater worlds - First they were nightmares
and then they were clay.

白地球
用来困住布伦特·沃克的贫瘠世界从未有过名字。它和它的囚徒位于遥远之地，以便被永远地遗忘。，但在295sd，有报告传回总部；关于进步世界边缘一个行星上令人不安的故事。这个行星现在得到了轨道和名字：白地球。
它成为了一个小恒星系内的行星，绕红星希罗多德运行。那里有“初生物”的传说——被用于看守唯一一个囚徒的原始生物。然而现在出现了白地球有人存在的报告，同时一条信息穿过了各个偏远星球——最初他们是噩梦，接着他们是黏土。

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The worst story finally reached Slayer’s ears, a tale he had been
dreading since the beginning of time; talk of an entity on White
Earth simply referred to Bitterness. There were conflicting
accounts regarding what exactly Bitterness was. Slayer simply
nodded as he was told the stories, but did not respond. He knew
exactly what Bitterness was, he had been sensing Brent Walker
suffering the brutality of the First Born, year after year, until
finally he had became the aggressor. With each victory, Walker
reshaped White Earth and its humans. His humanity slipped
away. All that now remained was a singular focus - revenge.
SLA Industries had found its true enemy and the rains came.
Naga 7 Society were asked to conduct further research of
White Earth but like the Neophron before them, they feared
the entity that ruled on that world, a being they could not
restrain or control. By the end of the Boom Time, Naga 7
quietly disappeared from the World of Progress.

可怕的故事终于进了斯莱尔的耳朵，他在世界之初就为此担心不已；人们谈及白地球上的个体是只会使用“苦涩”一词。对于苦涩到底是什么，有互相矛盾的说法。被告知这些故事时斯莱尔只是点点头，没有回应。他知道苦涩是什么，他感知到布伦特·沃克在在年复一年忍受了初生物的暴力后终于变成了攻击的一方。随着每次胜利，沃克重塑了白地球和上面的人类。他的人性消失了。仅剩一个目的——复仇。
SLA工业找到了真正的敌人，同时雨水降临。娜迦7被派去对白地球进行进一步研究，但就和之前的Neophron，他们害怕统治那个星球的个体，一个他们无法拘束和控制的生物。就在繁荣年代结束时，娜迦7悄悄从进步世界消失了。

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Bleak Forecast
In 295sd, SLA had finally destroyed the upper atmosphere of
Mort and the rains began to fall. They would never cease. The
endless downpour marked the end of the Boom Times and the
advent of a much darker period.

惨淡预告
295sd，SLA终于毁掉了莫特的上层大气，雨水落下。永不停息。无尽的雨标志着繁荣年代的终结和更为黑暗时代的开端。

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——
“It’s been over six hundred years since the end of the Boom
Time and I think SLA Industries has never quite gotten over
that era. It’s been brutal and bloody ever since. It was the last
time we felt like we had a stake in the company’s future and its
expansion.
Nowadays we’re just supposed to do what we’re told and be
happy with whatever we’ve got.
Still, you can see traces of that glorious era even today. When
you’re in Head Office you can see it in the architecture and
iconography: that’s pure Boom Time. It’s a time and place that
SLA’s desperately trying to get back to, yet never will. It’s gone
forever.”
Angela Maybridge, Historian, Threat Analysis

“繁荣年代已经结束600年了，我认为SLA工业还没能完全忘记那个时期。往后都是暴力与血腥。那是我们最后一次感到我们与公司的未来和扩张息息相关。
现在我们只是完成被要求的工作，满足于得到的任何东西。
今天你依然能看见那个光辉年代的痕迹。在总部，你能从建筑和图画里看出：完全是繁荣年代式的。那是一个SLA无比渴望回去的时间和地点，但永远回不去了。它永远离开了。”
安吉拉·梅布里奇，历史学家，危机分析
——

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The Boom Time had been wonderful for the super affluent,
but in the hundred years of prosperity it had created an everincreasing class divide. By the end of the 200s there had been a
visible decline in the standard of living of the people living on
lower incomes especially in the population centres on Mort, but
also throughout the entire World of Progress.
Most were learning to accept hard times and whatever strife
lay ahead, but others were cracking under the accumulated stress
and desperation of the times they were living in. A craving for
violent revolt swept through the population.

繁荣年代对极其富裕者来说是美好的，但一百年的繁荣创造了日益扩大的阶级分裂。到了200sd末，低收入人群尤其是生活在莫特人口密集区的人生活水平已经有了明显下降，这种状况在整个进步世界都存在。
大多数人学会了接受艰难时世以及前方的任何苦难，但有人被累积的压力和绝望压垮。对暴力叛乱的渴望席卷人群。

[NewAlbionDrone]

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THE GREAT DOWNTURN - 300-399SD
Whatever wealth and prosperity was achieved during The
Boom Time took a sharp downturn in the early years of the
fourth century. Only the truly rich would remain largely
unaffected by the crash of 300.
It was believed that it was the collapse of Salvation Tower
which caused the financial crash but it was actually a massive
rise and subsequent dip in military stocks and spending.
The economic crash was felt across Mort and throughout the
World of Progress, particularly on Industrial planets.

大低迷
第四世纪初，繁荣时代创造的财富与繁荣迅速衰退。只有真正的有钱人能基本避免300sd的崩溃。
人们相信是救赎塔的倒塌导致了经济崩溃，但实际原因是军备股票和市场出现了剧烈涨落。
经济崩溃冲击了莫特和整个进步世界，尤其是工业行星。

劇透 -   :

“In the Boom Time you get all these wealthy bastards gulping
down fancy pop and lighting their fat cigars from burning
homeless people and all that posh nonsense. Then you get
everyone underneath wanting a piece of that action, so up come
all the rival companies. What do you get? More fighting, more
War Worlds.
SLA’s up top at the end of the last century, but now they’ve got
to hold that position, dogs biting at their heels. More spending
on ammunition, military technology and all the other shit that
makes people dead.
SLA wins, again. Then it loses, big time. All the stocks and
shares drop dramatically.
They say we’re entering a new dark age in the World of
Progress, but it’s got to be pretty damn dark to match the Great
Downturn.”
Phylis ‘Redtooth’ Morley, Human Operative,
SCL 7d, squad ‘Boss Man’s Wrath

“在繁荣年代，那些有钱的混蛋吃着美味，用无家可归的人点他们的雪茄，享尽奢华。而底下所有人都想分一杯羹，于是来了竞争公司。得到了什么？更多的斗争，更多的战争世界。
上个世纪结束是SLA位于顶端，但现在他们得守住地位，狗在咬他们的脚跟。更多的钱花在了弹药、军事技术和其它杀人玩意。
SLA再次赢了。接着又输了，输得很惨。股市大跌。
他们说我们正在进入进步世界新的黑暗时代，但一定得黑得彻底才能和大低迷相比。”
菲利斯·“红牙”·莫雷，人类特工，SCL7d，“老大之怒”小队
——

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Brutalic
A new Oppressor Power had grown in the World of Progress
- a company and ideology known as Brutalic. The company’s
beliefs were born out of the violence and bloodshed endured
over the 300 years of rule under SLA Industries.
They differed from DarkNight because they were not driven to
right wrongs, merely embrace the dominant culture - brutality.
Brutalic drew in employees who craved ceaseless savagery. It
was more than the creation of horrific weaponry, murder movies
and combat drugs; it was treated as a religious practise. The belief
was to throw oneself into harm and to generate harm. Brutalic
would attack any outside force, be it SLA, or DarkNight or
anyone that appeared to challenge their near cult-like approach
to business and warfare.

残虐
进步世界出现了新的反抗势力——被称作残虐的公司和理念。公司的理念来自SLA工业治下300年的暴力和血腥。
他们与暗夜的不同之处在于他们并不打算纠正错误，只是拥抱了这种主导的文化——暴力。残虐招纳那些追去无休止残暴行为得雇员。它不只是创造了恐怖得武器、谋杀电影和战斗药物；它还被当成了一种宗教行为。信仰的内容是投身于伤害并产生伤害。残虐会攻击任何外部力量，无论是SLA、暗夜还是任何看起来想挑战他们这种邪教般的生意和战争的人。

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——
“Brutalic is mostly forgotten in our historic documentations
and their period of activity is commonly overshadowed by
the exploits of DarkNight and Thresher. But Brutalic was a
powerful adversary of SLA back in the 300s and only a handful
of scholars are able to describe the rival company’s philosophy in
any clear fashion.
They made what some call snuff films, built weapons focused
more on damage over accuracy and creating the most extreme
spectacles of gore on the city streets.
They were a precursor to the Horrors recently deployed in
Cannibal Sector 1, the Contract Circuit’s Gore Zone and
possibly even the Shi’An Cult, well, on Mort at least. I suppose
you could say that they helped to shape what we watch, what we
see on our SLA manufactured television sets today.
SLA clearly owes a debt to Brutalic, but the company secretly
prays it doesn’t see a resurgence.”
Angela Maybridge, Historian, Threat Analysis

“残虐基本被遗忘在了我们的历史文件里，他们的活跃时期也因暗夜和Thresher而黯然失色。但在第三世纪，残虐是SLA一个有力的对手，只有少数学者能清晰地描述这家竞争公司的哲学。
他们制作了一些人称之为‘湮灭’的影片，还有比起精度更注重伤害的武器，还在城市街头创造了最为血腥的景观。
他们是最近出现在互食者1区、合同环路血肉区的恐怖之物的先导，可能还包括施安教派，至少在莫特是这样。我想你可以说他们参与塑造了我们观看之物，我们如今在SLA制造的电视机上看见的东西。
SLA欠残虐一笔，但公司暗自祈祷它不会卷土重来。”
安吉拉·梅布里奇，历史学家，危机分析

劇透 -   :

Brutalic was a force that struck SLA at the worst possible
time and prevented its typically swift recovery for many years.
The fourth century saw a further rise in rival companies and
was forced to pump huge amounts of its capital into military
applications and the troops. SLA was also shifting much of its
weapon manufacturing to cheaper planets. This hit the factory
workers in Mort’s Central Outskirts very hard, marking the start
of mass unemployment on Mort - a trend that unfortunately
continues to the present date.
Industrial worlds all across SLA’s reign saw loss of workforce,
food shortages and were left vulnerable.
The Brutalic movement impacted these woes, as countless
agents of its savage ideology attacked SLA, on the city streets
and even on the war worlds, sending whole armies of suicidal
madmen to tear down the company’s rule.
Brutalic’s funding was coming from one of the original Boom
families - the House of Bechard on New Paris. It had the
financial means in which to bankroll this new company and
equip its agents.

残虐在最糟糕的时机打击了SLA，并阻止了SLA通常迅速的恢复，并持续了多年。第四世纪产生了更多竞争公司，迫使大量资本被注入军事应用和军队。SLA也降大部分的武器生产转移到更廉价的行星。莫特重要郊区的工人遭到重大打击，这是莫特大规模失业的开端——不幸的是这个趋势持续到了今天。
SLA统治下的工业行星遭遇了人力和食物短缺，岌岌可危。
残虐运动影响了这些可怜人，无数信奉其残暴理念者在城市街道甚至战争世界内袭击SLA，用自杀狂徒的军队撕裂公司的统治。
残虐的资金来自一个最早的繁荣家庭——新巴黎的贝沙德家族。它的金融手段能够支持这家新公司并给人员提供装备。

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——
“Now, what we have here is a fire-arm from the third
century, created by the rival company - Brutalic. You may all
know New Paris for its pretty dresses and luxury cheeses, but
back then this is the sort of product you’d expect to see emerging
from that world.
I see a few wry smiles in the class and yes indeed, this
weapon does in fact have three barrels. It’s also hard to miss the
underslung chainsaw; as if it weren’t scary enough.
How many of you would be comfortable taking this weapon
into Lower Downtown? Show of hands, please. Hmm, yes, I’m
not surprised!
This is a gun that’s most likely to blow up in your hands in
record time, but you have to consider the minds of the creators
and the agents eager to use this weapon.
They knew full well all the risks of overheating and they used
them anyway. They welcomed the risk, welcomed the carnage.
Once this weapon began spitting rounds someone was going
to be killed or maimed and it’s a coin toss whether that be the
target or the gun owner.
And so begins your education on the extreme ideology of
Brutalic.”
Rael Virrin, Wraithen Operative/Tutor, Meny Training Facility

“现在我们有一把来自第三世纪的枪，由竞争公司残虐制造。你们或许都知道新巴黎的漂亮裙子和美味芝士，但那时你会觉得这种产品才是那个星球生产的。
我看见同学们有些露出了嘲讽的笑容，没错，这把武器确实有三根枪管。你也很难错过这把下挂电锯；好像它还不够恐怖似的。
有多少人乐意带着这把武器去下城底？请举手。嗯哼，没错，不出我的意料。
这把枪最有可能以打破记录的速度在你手中炸开，但你们必须考虑到制造者的想法，以及迫切想使用这把武器的人员。
他们完全了解过热的风险，但还是照用不误。他们欢迎这种风险，欢迎屠杀。武器开始倾泻子弹后，就会有有人被杀或致残，不过是抛硬币决定死的是目标还是使用者而已。
那么这就是关于残虐的极端理念的第一课。”
雷尔·维尔灵，Wraithen特工/讲师，梅尼培训设施

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Salvation Tower
Central Outskirts on Mort had always been a vast region beset
with unemployment, subversion and crime. The city planners
chose to construct an enormous social services building in
the Outskirts that would work tirelessly to improve the lives
of those inhabiting these slums during the Great Downturn.
The building was called Salvation Tower and it took 6 years to
complete. It was the great hope of all civilians living in Central
Outskirts, but almost as soon as work was completed on Mort’s
second largest building, it fell, causing one of the greatest
catastrophes in SLA’s history.
The disaster took place on 12th November, 300sd and whilst
‘The Fall of Salvation Tower’ suggests the building toppled
over completely, it simply sank several building stories into
the ground beneath it, destroying many of the surrounding
buildings and the substations which powered the region.
The result was a power blackout across the entirety of Central
Outskirts. This was not merely a temporary obstruction but
a shut down from which the region would never recover. The
event was called the Big Black.

救赎塔
莫特的中央郊区的广大区域一只被失业、叛乱核犯罪包围。城市设计者选择在中央郊区建造一栋社会服务大楼，能够持续在大低迷期间提高贫民区的生活水平。这栋大楼叫做救赎塔，花了6年时间建成。它将是中央郊区的居民最大的希望，但这栋莫特第二高楼完成后不久便倒塌了，造成SLA历史上最大的灾难之一。
惨案发生在300sd11月12日，虽然“救赎塔倒塌”可能让人认为它完全倾倒了，但实际上只是往地下陷落了几层楼，同时摧毁了周围许多建筑以及为该地区供电的变电所。
结果是整个中央郊区全面停电。这不仅是暂时的问题，该地区永远没能从这次停摆中恢复。此次事件被称作“大停电”。

劇透 -   :

Once the Big Black lurched into being, what followed was
city wide panic and rioting, as the frightened citizens of the
crumbling Outskirts fled toward the safety of Mort City, but
were forced back into the chaos.
A young SLA Operative in training - Sandi Helen Piper, was
so disgusted by the refusal and neglect of responsibilities by
SLA that she immediately turned traitor and led a concerted
attack against the makeshift wall defences SLA had thrown up
to safeguard itself.
SLA Industries realised Piper and her supporters posed a
substantial threat so they switched from defensive position to
offensive, unleashing an entirely new terror into the mounting
conflict.

大停电发生后，随之而来的是整个城市陷入混乱与暴动，崩塌的郊区居民害怕地逃往安全的莫特城，但被驱赶会混乱之中。
一位年轻的受训SLA特工——珊迪·海伦·派珀，厌恶SLA拒绝承担、无视责任的行为，立刻叛变，领导了一次联合进攻，攻击SLA用于防卫的临时墙。
SLA工业意识到了派珀及其支持者的威胁，于是转守为攻，给不断加剧的冲突带来了新的恐怖。

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Digger’s Toll
A legion of robots were deployed at the defence wall to patrol
the perimeter and eliminate potential threats and incursions
posed by Piper and her allies. The robotic creations displayed
bizarre behaviour from the very beginning of their deployment;
they had a nasty habit of removing the skin and flesh of their
opponents and applying it to their own metal frames.
A ‘Manchine’ arrived on the defensive line in November that
was unlike anything the Shivers had seen before. Initially it
was known as ‘AGF-14’ - Anthropomorphic Giga-Frame 14,
a Manchine that stood 20 feet tall and weighed in at around
one tonne. It had been deployed by SLA Industries for the
express purpose of hunting down and destroying the leader of
the Central Outskirt rebels - Sandi Helen Piper.
AGF-14 functioned very differently from other Manchines
and most Shivers were terrified of it; the robot seemed to have
a mind of its own, a mind that was vicious and feral. Its name
changed swiftly. Because of its weight, the Manchine would
frequently sink through the surface of city streets and stalk its
way around the sewer system, only to burst back up through
the cement and ambush its prey - from then on it was simply
known as Digger.

挖掘者的丧钟
一个军团的机器人被布置在防御墙边，用于巡逻以及消灭威胁以及派珀及其盟友的入侵。从一开始这些机器造物就展现了怪异行为；它们有一种可怕的习性，会拆解对手的皮肤和血肉并安放在自己的金属外壳上。
11月，一个“人机”抵达防线，颤警从未见过这种东西。它开始被叫做“AGF-14”——拟人G级体14号，一个身高20尺、重约1吨的的人机。它被SLA派来追捕并杀掉中央郊区叛乱的领袖珊迪·海伦·派珀。
AGF-14的行动和其它人机十分不同，大部分颤警都很害怕它；这台机器人仿佛有自己的思想，一种残忍而野性的思想。很快它的名字变了。由于过重，这台人机经常会陷入城市街道的地表，在下水道里游荡，突然从水泥里钻出来伏击猎物——它被称作挖掘者。

劇透 -   :

Digger tracked Piper down within a twenty-four-hour period
but did not kill her as it was programmed. It did proceed to
shadow her for a month, systematically starving her and denying
her shelter or sustained rest. It also murdered anyone that may
have come to her aid; she faced her inescapable death, alone.
Sandi Piper disappeared from the gaze of SLA Industries, but
so too did their prized Manchine. Digger effectively completed
the mission (but nobody knew for sure the exact manner of her
death) then went rogue and journeyed deeper into the dead city,
taking up residence and ultimately ruling over what remained
of the crumbling Salvation Tower.Digger has been recognised
as one of SLA’s greatest enemies ever since.

挖掘者在24小时内找到了派珀，但没有按照程序杀死她。它继续跟踪了派珀一个月，有条不紊地饿死她，不让她获得任何遮蔽之处或休息时间。它还杀死了任何尝试帮助她的人。她迎来了无法逃避的死亡，独自一人。
珊迪·派珀从SLA的视线中消失了，但他们宝贵的人机也同样不见了。挖掘者高效地完成了任务（但没有人知道她确切的死法），之后叛逃，进入了死亡之城的深处，在倒塌的救赎塔内安身并最终统治了这里。之后挖掘者被认为是SLA最大的敌人之一。

劇透 -   :

The Sector Wall
It was acknowledged, within days of the The Fall, that Central
Outskirts would never recover from its catastrophe and what
began as a makeshift defence would mark the beginning of a
fortified wall which would encircle the entirety of Mort City.
It was the birth of what became the Sector Wall - an enormous
structure whose boundary runs for 352km and took 47 years to
complete. Most Shivers in the present day contest this number,
citing that it has never fully been completed, as it is always
undergoing repair and modifications to bolster its defences.
Since its conception the Sector Wall has been policed by
Shivers, with generation after generation of recruits devoting
their whole careers and in many cases their lives, to surveying
Cannibal Sector 1 and protecting Mort City from monsters
lurking outside.

区界墙
倒塌发生几天后，人们就意识到中央郊区永远无法从这场灾难中恢复，临时防御墙只是加固高墙的开始，它将环绕整个莫特城。
这就是区界墙的诞生，整个庞大的建筑有352公里，花了47年建成。现在的颤警大多不同意这个数，他们认为墙从未完全建城，永远需要维修和调整，以加强防御性能。
建造之日起，区界墙就由颤警负责，一代又一代的新人为此付出了整个职业生涯，有时甚至包括自己的生命，他们调查互食者1区，保护莫特城不被外面潜伏的怪物伤害。

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Dawn of the Cannibal
By 345sd studies of Central Outskirts concluded that the
ruins were now completely devoid of human civilisation; what
now was scratching out a living in the remains were utterly
savage and bereft of their former propriety. The once-people
had now taken to eating each other in order to survive. They
were now simply to be classed as exactly what they’d become:
Cannibals, with the Central Outskirts becoming known as the
cannibal sectors.

互食者黎明
345sd，针对中央郊区的研究得出结论，这片废墟的人类文明已经完全消失；在废墟中挣扎求生的完全是野蛮生物，失去了曾经的特质。曾经的人如今靠相食生存。它们被简单按照如今的样子分类：相食者，而中央郊区被称作相食者1区。

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Lower Downtown Begins
SLA believed that simply creating Downtown as a quick
replacement for Central Outskirts would solve its civilian
population issues, but by 353sd it was clear that intense
overcrowding was causing an increase in crime, disease and
a limited work infrastructure that meant 78% of the people
living in Downtown faced lifelong unemployment. The Great
Downturn would seemingly never end. Something had to be
done.
Early in 354sd, SLA Industries journeyed to the depths of
Downtown and began to dig. It intended to create a whole new
series of habitation levels and force the populace to embrace
these tightly confined subterranean tunnels and domiciles.

下层底开始
SLA认为只要创造出下城作为中央郊区的快速替代品便能解决人口问题，但到了353sd，显然人口过多将导致犯罪、疾病的增加，有限的工作需求意味着生活在下城的人有78%一生都没有工作。大低迷看起来永远不会结束。要做些事情。
354sd初，SLA工业深入下城开始挖掘。它打算制造一系列全新的居住等级，迫使人们接受这些狭窄的地下隧道和住所。

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“Fuck that; no way am I going into Lower Downtown. I
don’t care what the letter says or threats SLA makes. That place
gives me the bloody creeps and we’re already hearing horror
stories about what’s going on down there… Seriously, I think
I’d rather take my chances in the cannibal sectors than go to the
slums of Lower Downtown.”
Arthur Lynne, (45), Civilian (Unemployed)

“去他的，要我去下城底没门儿。我不管报纸说了啥SLA又有啥威胁。那地方让我起鸡皮疙瘩，我们早就听说过下面的恐怖故事……老实说我我觉得我宁可去互食者区碰运气都不要去下城底的贫民窟。”
亚瑟·林恩，（45），平民（失业）

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People were quite literally bullied into Lower Downtown and
it wasn’t just the civilians who were taking up residence in the
region; Carrien, Mort Rats and serial killers began stalking the
concrete warrens.
The Shiver Units deployed to Lower Downtown were at half
the capacity of those patrolling the higher levels and after a
time the Shivers actively avoided the depths and just left the
civilians abandoned there to their own devices. It was the doom
of desperate thousands.

人们被恐吓进入下城底，这里不仅仅有平民居住；卡伦、莫特鼠和连环杀手也开始在这些水泥杂院里游荡。
颤警部队被派到下城底，人数只有有高层巡逻所需的一半，一段时间后颤警有意避开了地下，让平民自生自灭。绝望的上万人迎来了末日。

[NewAlbionDrone]

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CONSOLIDATION PERIOD - 400-500SD
In the fifth century, SLA Industries began to reevaluate their
company, their corporate structure and the varying subsidiaries
manufacturing products for them. Administration felt the
infrastructure had become too sprawling and unmanageable, so
in 400sd the Consolidation Era began and whilst the majority
of changes took place within the first decade, the consolidation
process would continue until the beginning of 500sd.
Many of the minor subsidiaries creating biogenetic goods were
brought under the banner of Karma, effectively making this
singular division in charge of all aspects of biogenetic creations,
from the Stormer projects to the clothes worn and the food
that was consumed in the World of Progress. Karma’s influence
would span across countless worlds, but it would always bear the
same logo and the same style of management whether it be on
New Paris or on a random backwater Resource World.
The same brutal approach was implemented across all forms
of manufacture with only major companies running specific
forms of production. The stockholders in firms like FEN, Power
Projects and BLA became exceedingly wealthy once more,
harkening back to the Boom Time of the 200sd.

整合时期——400-500sd
第5世纪，SLA工业开始给公司、公司架构和许多为其生产的子公司重新估值。管理层认为基本架构变得过于臃肿，难以管理，因此在400sd整合年代开始了，虽然大部分改革发生在第一个十年，但整合过程持续到了500sd初。
许多生产生物基因产品的小型子公司被纳入了品牌“羯磨”之下，让这一分部负责了生物基因产品生产的所有方面，从Stormer项目到到进步世界的衣着和食品。羯磨的影响将跨越许多星系，但总是保持同样的商标、同样的管理风格，无论是在新巴黎还是某个偏僻的资源行星上。
同样粗暴的策略被用在了各种产品上，只有最大的公司进行某一类产品生产。FEN、能源计划和BLA等公司的持股人再次变得富有，仿佛重回繁荣时期的200sd。

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Some companies wished to keep their identity and tore free
from SLA rule. SLA in turn deemed them ‘Soft Companies’ and
classed them as subversives; enemies of the World of Progress. 
Some SLA historians class this as the definitive period of the
never ending corporate war within the universe.

一些公司希望保留自己的身份，因此从SLA的统治下脱离。SLA则将它们视为“软公司”，是反叛者，进步世界的敌人。一些SLA历史学家将这一时期定义为宇宙内永不终结的公司战争时期。

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“It’s true, DarkNight, Brutalic and Thresher existed long
before the Consolidation Era, but I’d still class this as the true
Corporate Wars. Other historians prefer the term the 2nd
Corporate Wars; but this is all conjecture. The important aspect
of this era is the birth of the micro companies, or as we now call
them the Soft Companies. Tiny competing brands that did not
challenge the might of SLA directly, but quietly attempted to
undermine soda brands, adhesive tape manufacture and dental
care products. They came at SLA with second rate produce, but
were to defend it with first rate aggression.”
Angela Maybridge, Historian, Threat Analysis

“确实，暗夜、残虐和Thresher都在整合年代前就存在许久了，但我依然要把这个时期分类为真正的公司战争。其他历史学家更愿意用第二次公司战争这个词；但都是猜测而已。这个年代最重要的是微型公司的诞生，或者用我们都用的词，软公司。小型竞争品牌，不直接挑战SLA，但试图静悄悄地侵蚀苏打水牌子、胶带生产和牙齿护理产品。他们用二流产品挑战SLA，但保卫自己的决心是一流的。”
安吉拉·梅布里奇，历史学家，危机分析

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SLA also redesigned their company structure, grouping the
entire business into various departments. The employees at
Head Office would gradually find themselves belonging to a
new specific Department, or in the case of Operatives they
would receive their missions, now referred to as BPN Files
which would be issued by the newly drafted Departments.

SLA还重新设计了公司结构，把整个生意分到不同的部门。总部的职员会发现自己属于某个新的部门，对特工来说，他们的任务，现在被叫做BPN文件，将由新规划的部门下发。

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“BPNs are just one of these phrases that is universally used,
but rarely questioned. The Blueprint News files first went into
circulation on 3rd October 304sd and they weren’t an actual
‘blueprint’, y’know, like a design, yeah? They were originally
printed on light blue paper and with a dark blue ink, specific to
the machines that created them at the time. And as for News,
well, that’s a weird one. It seems that by using the term ‘news’
the designated mission felt like a suggestion, rather than a
direct order. Like, “did you hear the news, maybe you should
investigate?”
The high ups thought the Operatives would rebel if they were
told what to do, so they gave ‘em the kid gloves? They had to be
coaxed into working! Just a polite word for do what you’re told
- news. Crazy, isn’t it?
A different time…
Anyway, the words and the colours stuck, but today we’re
under no illusions about the orders we’re given.”
Visage, Ebon Operative, SCL6d, squad Dusty Lavender

“BPN只是个通用的词，但很少有人提出疑问。蓝图新闻文件（Blueprint News file）在304sd10月3日启用，实际上没有真的‘蓝图’，像设计那种。最初是用深蓝色墨水印在浅蓝色纸张上，是那时制造的机器的规格。至于，新闻，是个怪用法。似乎使用‘新闻’这个词指代任务会让人觉得是建议而不是命令。就像，‘听说那个新闻了吗，是不是应该去调查一下？’
高层以为特工被命令干这干那就会叛乱，所以给他们儿童手套？要哄他们去工作！只不过‘依照命令行事’的礼貌用词——新闻。疯了，是吧？
怎么都好，用词和颜色都很烂，但现在我们对收到的命令没有任何幻想。”
Visage，Ebon特工，SCL6d，蒙尘薰衣草小队

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The Sector Rangers
100 years after the cannibal sectors came into existence, SLA
Industries recognised the rapid evolution of the Cannibals and
Carrien and felt it necessary to devise and conduct research
patrols of the city ruins. The end result was the Sector Rangers,
who would grow to be among the best trained and most efficient
Operatives SLA Industries has ever created.
The Sector Rangers were founded in 407sd and the first
recruits ventured into the dead city just one year later. Not
everyone entering Meny was capable of becoming a Sector
Ranger, nor would most want to be, especially as word spread of
the Rangers’ gruelling training regime and the equally miserable
six month long tours of the cannibal sectors.

废区游侠
互食者区诞生后100年，SLA工业意识到了互食者和卡伦正在快速进化，认为有必要指定并开展对城市废墟的研究式巡逻。结果便是废区游侠，他们将成为SLA最训练有素、最高效的特工之一。
废区游侠于407sd成立，第一批的新兵在一年后就进入了这片死城。不是所有进入梅尼培训机构的人都能够成为废区游侠，大多数人也不希望，尤其是有关游侠艰苦的训练以及同样悲惨、为期6个月的互食者区实习的说法被传播之后。

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“I hear ya, the Sector Rangers are as tough as they come and
you’d think everyone in SLA would want to be one, right? I
heard that it’s something like 1 in 500 that gets selected for
the Fenswick Program, but I mean, look at these guys. They’re
bloody dead inside. I’ve seen more sentience out of a Low Wave
Stormer than those ghouls.
The Sector Wall Shivers created the term ‘Stone Eyes’ for the
Rangers. These guys don’t just patrol the Cannibal Sector, they
become a part of it.”
Anders ‘Screwhead’ Palmer, Human Operative,
SCL 9a, squad ‘The Sparkly Cats’

“我听过，废区游侠很硬，你会一位SLA所有人都想当，对吧？我听说差不多是500里挑1才能被选上参加芬斯威克计划，但我的意思是，看看那些家伙。他们内心已经死了。我见过的低波Stormer都比这些食尸鬼有感情。
区界墙的颤警给这些游侠发明了个词，‘石头眼’。他们不只是在互食者区巡逻，他们已经成了那里的一部分。”
安德斯·“螺钉头”·帕尔默，人类特工，SCL9s，“闪光猫”小队

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From the moment the Sector Rangers were introduced to the
Operative ranks, SLA recognised their value and the breadth of
their capabilities. For the first hunderd years after the cannibal
sectors were formed a great deal of even Cannibal Sector 1 had
not been traversed nor catalogued. The Rangers resolved that.
Quickly it became clear that the Sector Rangers could travel
only so far into the first sector. A finate amount of supplies
could be carried in a Battle Taxi and their training, especially
on how to survive off of the sectors, had proved wanting. The
Rangers couldn’t get far beyond the NorthWest Compact.
SLA Industries essentially went back to the drawing board
with the Sector Ranger Program and in 421sd, a state of the art
simulator and training centre was opened in Viddrie. Old and
new recruits were educated, and put through their paces, in an
artificial environment based on the Sector knowledge gathered
over the prior fourteen years.

废区游侠加入特工等级的一刻起，SLA就认识到了他们的价值及其能力的限度。互食者区形成后的100年里，互食者1号1区从未被穿越和归档。游侠解决了这个问题。
很快SLA发现游侠最远只能进入1号区。战场的士只能装载有限的补给，而游侠的训练，尤其是有关在废区生存的部分，十分缺乏。他们无法穿过西北建筑群。SLA工业把废区游侠计划推倒重来，在421sd，最先进的模拟和训练中心在Viddrie成立。新老队员都重新接受教育，并在基于过于14年取得的废区知识建造的人工环境中训练。

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The 3Ps Contract
Offworld reports were returning to SLA with news that many
of its Resource Worlds were coming under constant attack from
rival companies. Before taking more extreme measures, the
company sent undercover spies to these planets and conducted
investigations into the growing subversion. In many cases it was
corrupt officials who had entered into clandestine trading with
DarkNight.
It seemed that SLA Industries was starting to lose its grip on
the World of Progress, so it opted to reinstate the 3Ps Contract
in an effort to establish itself as the overruling body in the World
of Progress. The 3Ps Contractual Agreement was entitled after
the three pillars of SLA Industries ethos: Progress, Prospects
and Prosperity. It’s issued to all newly discovered planets in the
World of Progress and whilst progress, prospects and prosperity
all sounds very encouraging, it is invariably anything but. 3Ps
contracts led to totalitarian regime, horrendous Franchise
Worlds and all manner of global abuses at the hands of SLA. It
was and still is, a brutal, autocratic means of conquering worlds,
but the 3Ps Contract also served to galvanise the modern-day
World of Progress.

3P合同
远方传回报告，许多SLA的资源星球正持续遭到竞争公司的攻击。在采取极端行动之前，SLA往这些行星派去了卧底间谍，调查不断加剧的叛乱。许多案例中，是腐败的职员与暗夜达成了秘密交易。
看起来SLA工业正在失去它对进步世界的掌控，因此它打算重新恢复3P合同，以确立自身在进步世界的统治地位。3P合同以SLA工业的三个支柱企业精神命名：进步、前景和繁荣。它被应用于进步世界所有新发现的行星，尽管进步、前景和繁荣听起来十分振奋人心，这个合同可一点不是。3P合同意味着极权主义统治、可怕的特许经营星球以及SLA所有方式的滥用。它曾是，现在依然是一种粗暴、专制的占领各个星球的手段，但也成就了现代进步世界

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The contract appears optimistic until the planet’s governments
read through the plethora of stipulations within the contract
and then witness first-hand what it means to fall beneath the
control of SLA. Such worlds lose all identity and become merely
an extension of SLA. Global continents no longer serve and aid
each other; they become a collection of nations in name only
which exist to serve the company in however it demands. They
can always refuse, but the consequences of denial will be severe.
SLA Industries does not invade worlds, although the 3Ps
Contract effectively strong arms a new planet with clauses it
cannot possibly accept. Nonetheless, the choice is theirs: either
allow SLA to essentially take over the running of your world, or
refuse and accept the potential ramifications.

合同看起来十分积极，直到行星的政府读完了合同内过多的条款之后再亲眼目睹落入SLA控制意味着什么之后。这些星球失去了所有身份认知，成为SLA的扩展。全球大陆不再相互服务与协助，变成了一系列国家，国名的存在只是为了满足公司的任何需求。它们可以拒绝，但后果严重。
SLA工业不会入侵星球，但3P合同实际上用不可接受的条款胁迫了新行星。无论如何都是它们的选择：要么允许SLA掌控你的星球运作，要么拒绝并接受可能的后果。

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Third Eye News airs ‘Progress Control’ - an hourly news channel
covering universal politics, current affairs and interplanetary
statuses. There, new worlds under offer are heavily publicised.
The citizens of the World of Progress watch the news, every
hour on the hour and so too does SLA’s corporate rivals.
By showcasing a vulnerable planet on Progress Control it is
announcing to the World of Progress that it is defenceless and
ripe for the taking. DarkNight, Thresher and shoals of aggressive
Soft Companies are always angling to conquer and convert a
new society to their cause, force their product range upon them.
SLA is fully aware of this and will utilise the looming threat of
imminent invasion: if the planet’s governments do not acquiesce
to SLA’s demands, they will exit and abandon them to certain
attack by any number of rivals, who will likely be even more
savage in their negotiations than SLA.
Almost all planets and star systems in the World of Progress
were snared and defeated by SLA in such a manner. Some
planets tried to retaliate against SLA, but considering the
company could deftly defeat so many powerful enemies during
the Conflict Era, such resistance is most likely futile.
Many planets simply roll over and let SLA monopolise them.
Thousands of worlds gradually let go over the centuries and
took to producing whatever the company told them. SLA
would protect them, but not from poor decision making.

第三眼新闻会播出“进步控制”——一个每小时播报的新闻频道，内容包括宇宙政治、时事和行星间关系。被提供合同的新星球会被打量播报。进步世界的公民会观看这些新闻，每小时一次，SLA的竞争公司也同样。在进步控制展示一个脆弱的行星即是在对进步世界宣布这颗行星毫无防御，可供占领。暗夜、Thresher和大量好斗的软公司总是会试图占领并把星球转变为满足于自己需求的社会，把自己的产品范围强加在新行星上。SLA清楚这点，它会利用这种入侵的威胁：假如行星政府不满足SLA的要求，SLA会退出，把他们扔给任何会进攻对手，而他们的交涉比SLA更为凶狠。
进步世界内几乎所有行星和星系都被SLA以这种手段引诱、击败。有的行星试图反击，但考虑到这家公司在冲突年代迅速击败了如此多的强大敌人，这些抵抗基本是毫无用处的。
许多行星简单屈服了，让SLA把自己垄断。几千个星球在几个世纪中放弃了，转而生产公司命令的任何产品。SLA会保护他们，但不会让他们免于错误决策。

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“When the Conflict Aliens fled I think everyone thought it was
the dawning of a brighter future, but I think it was just more
of the same. Maybe it was worse, because what we got instead
was the worst fate imaginable; to live on and on after crushing
defeat. I was a soldier in the Conflict Era and I thought it’d
be the end of me. Now I’m seeing out my final years working
18 hour shifts stitching these zips into short pants. I’ll die face
down in denim.
Thank you, SLA.”
Janice Scobie, (48) Factory Worker,
Franchise World ‘Dig 4’

“当冲突异星种族逃离时，我猜所有人都以为那是美好未来的开端，但我想一切都没有改变。或许变坏了，因为我们得到的是可能想象出的最坏命运；在溃败之后继续活着。我在冲突年代是名士兵，我以为那就是终结。现在我能看到在我最后的生命里，我还要一天工作18小时给短裤缝拉链。我会死在牛仔布堆里。
谢谢你，SLA。”
珍妮斯·史柯比，（48）工厂工人，特许经营星球“挖4”

[NewAlbionDrone]

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THE NEW WAVE - 500-599SD
Expanding Range
SLA Industries, ever intent on progress, looked to further
advances in the development of armour, weaponry and new
studies in fusion technology. For the next hundred years began
what would later be known as ‘The New Wave’, with the World
of Progress enjoying a wide scale manufacturing boom.
The New Wave produced classic products which are still
available in the present day: Crackshot and Dogeybone armour
and time-honoured weapons like the KPS Mangler AS and the
FEN 30-30 ‘True Shot’ Sniper Rifle.
Elsewhere, it looked far more gloomy and towards the close of
the highly productive century, darker days were to follow.

新浪潮——500-599sd
范围扩张
SLA工业的目的依然是发展，他们寻求推进护甲、武器和聚变技术研究进展的方法。接下来的100年里是后来被称作“新浪潮”的时期，进步世界出现大规模的生产繁荣期。
新浪潮生产的经典产品如今依然能买到：Crackshot和Dogeybone护甲以及经受时间考研的KPS Mangler AS和FEN 30-30 ‘True Shot’狙击步枪等武器。
而其它领域则看起来愈发晦暗，在生产高度发达的这个世纪结束时，更黑暗的时代来临了。

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Age of Nightmares
At the beginning of 582sd Cannibal Sector 1 was suddenly
beset by two solid days of black rain. The majority of the
denizens in the Sector took cover and waited for the strange
deluge to subside, but those who were struck by the downpour
were plagued by horrific visions unlike anything typically
conjured by the region.
By the end of the 48 hour period the black rains ceased and
relative normality returned to the Sector. The Shiver stationed
on the Wall believed it was simply the result of pollution in
Mort’s skies, but in the months that followed a new form of
horror settled in the ruins, marking the beginning of the Age
of Nightmares.
Shivers reports spoke of ‘living shadows’ which were flitting
about the NorthWest Compact. These shades targeted all the
species living in the Sector, ravaging their minds and tasting
their fears. In time, the amorphous black shapes would
materialise in physical forms, based on the accumulated horrors
of the Cannibal Sectors.
They were the first reported Dream Entities on Mort. In
subsequent years these beings would evolve into ever more
advanced and complex shapes and gradually slip through the
Sector Walls and into the deep recesses of Mort City.

噩梦年代
582sd之初，互食者1区突然连降两日黑雨。区域内大部分居民找到了避雨处，等待这场古怪的大雨停息，而那些被雨水滴落的人则感受到了可怕的幻象，与该区域出现的任何东西都截然不同。
48小时后黑雨结束，区域内重归正常。围墙上的颤警认为这不过是莫特的天空污染所致，但随后几个月，一种全新的恐怖出现在废墟之中，预示着噩梦年代的开始。
颤警的报告提到了在西北建筑群内掠过的“活影子”。它们以区内所有种族为目标，掠夺思维、品尝恐惧。有时这些不定形的黑影会化为物质形态，形状基于互食者区里各种恐怖之物。
它们是莫特最早被报告的梦境实体。随后的多年里，这些东西将演化出更高级更复杂的形态，并溜过区界墙进入莫特城的地底深处。

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Lower Downtown Complete
By late 590sd work had been completed on Lower Downtown.
A further 12 civilian levels had been added but problems
had begun to crop up even before the new citizens entered.
A large number of the workforce had fallen ill and suffered
from crippling anxiety during the long period of construction.
Workers had encountered extreme feelings of claustrophobia
and made claims of abnormal occurrences.
They had found strange, eccentric civilians already living in
the occupancies that had been completed just moments before.
Some workers even catalogued histrionic reports of sky views
from certain windows; an impossibility in such subterranean
depths.
Mort City planners simply put this down to overworked staff
suffering from exhaustion and hallucinations brought on by
chemicals in the tunnel air. In time they would recalibrate the
air ducts, but in the meantime civilians were quickly housed in
the eerie, echoey apartment blocks of Lower Downtown.

下城底完工
590sd末，下城底建造完成。额外增加了12个居民层，但在新市民入住前问题就开始显现。大量工人在漫长的建造过程中染病并患上了严重焦虑症。他们有极端的幽闭恐惧感，并声称遇见了异常事件。
他们发现片刻前完工的居住区内已经有古怪疯狂的市民居住。有的工人甚至记录了一些窗户的天空风景；在如此深的地下这是不可能的。
莫特城的规划者认为这些过劳的工人不过是过于疲劳，受到隧道空气的一些化学成分产生了幻觉。他们会重新调整通风管道，但现在市民正迅速搬进下城底那些会引起回声的怪诞公寓群内。

[NewAlbionDrone]

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THE CONSTRUCT - 600-699SD
Fifteen years after the completion of Lower Downtown,
Shiver patrols had already dropped down to almost zero. The
people in those recesses had begun to lose their humanity and
were displaying peculiar behaviour.
As if this weren’t alarming enough, the last Shiver reports sent
back to SLA from the base level of the region claimed that there
were indications that there were more civilian levels appearing
beneath. The transit elevators now had numbers that descended
to even deeper levels.
Only one Shiver patrol ventured below base level and never
returned. After that no Shiver team would enter the unexplored
streets again.
In 605sd, Tr’K V’rrTK, a well experienced and resourceful
Shaktarian SLA Operative, agreed to explore the fabled levels
and return with a detailed summary of findings.
Tr’K re-emerged on Inner Downtown base level three weeks
later, dishevelled, armour battered and rambling incoherently.
It took a further four weeks to obtain anything of value from
his frenzied account - he claimed that it was full of impossible
creatures that had constructed their own version of reality and
that the place predated Lower Downtown. As far as he could
tell, the levels descended indefinitely.
SLA took very little stock in the Shaktar’s declarations,
but resolved to dispatch some of its best Aethermen into the
unknown levels.

大建造——600-699sd
下城底完工15年后，颤警的巡逻频率几乎降到了0。地下区的人们开始失去人性，展现诡异的行为。
更让人警觉的是，从该区域基层送回SLA的最新颤警报告暗示底部出现了更多的居民层。运输电梯的数字通往更深层。
只有一支颤警巡逻对深入了基层之下，他们再也没有回来。之后没有颤警进入未被探索的街道。
605sd，一位有经验且装备齐全的SLA Shaktar特工同意探索传中的居住层并提交详细的报告。
三周后Tr’K 重新出现在内下城的基层，衣服凌乱，护甲满是伤痕，他只能吐出不连贯的词句。花了4周才让他在疯狂状态下吐露任何有价值的信息——他声称底下满是不可能存在的生物，它们创造了自己的现实，那里在下城底建造前就已经存在。在他看来，那些居住层向下无限延伸。
SLA对这名Shaktar说法并不震惊，但将一些最优秀的以太人安排到了这些未知层。

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“Report to Catalogue Backlog,
I cannot attest to the number of civilian levels descending into
the infinite. But after 10 days of almost continual descent I had
not reached the basin. I can only surmise that it goes down a
good deal further.
It is my opinion that this region has in essence created itself and
to classify it as civilian domiciles would be highly inaccurate: it
is merely a construct.
It is my opinion that SLA Industries should quarantine this
controversial region and cap information access. I’m not one to
ignore potential threats but I’m at a loss as to what should be
done. There are no people, not that I’m aware of and very few
will ever venture this deep. It simply exists, but hasn’t taken a
malevolent stance. Not yet anyway.
Leave the Deep Construct be for now, but never, ever, forget
that it exists down here.”
Aetherman Montague, 6th Head

“给Catalogue Backlog的报告，
我无法确定有多少居住层向下延伸到无限区域。但在10天几乎不间断的下降后，我还未到达底部。我只能认为还有更深。
我的观点是，SLA工业应当封闭这一争议区域并禁止信息获取。我并不打算无视可能的风险，但我对应该如何处理毫无头绪。没有人，我没有意识到任何人存在，也没有谁会如此深入。它只是存在于此，并未展现恶意。至少还没有。
让地底建筑保持现状，但永远、永远不要忘记它存在于下方。”
以太人蒙塔古，第六任管理

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Chaos Reigns
Downtown had always been an unruly and violent section of
Mort society, but the mounting pressure of subterranean living
and the influence of the Deep Construct beneath finally took
its toll on Lower Downtown. It is safe to say things never quite
settled in Lower Downtown; it was a region that was troubled
from its inception. Countless civilians were thrust upon the
recesses and were simply expected to adjust to the cramped,
squalid apartments and perpetual gloom. As months turned
into years, the Lower Downtowners grew more isolated, strange
and eventually aggressive.

混沌统治
下城一直是莫特社会不受约束、暴力的一部分，但地底生活积累的压力以及地底建筑的影响终于影响了下城底。可以说下城底从未平静，这里从奠基之初就麻烦不断。无数市民被塞进地下凹穴，让他们自己去适应拥挤又肮脏的公寓以及永不消散的绝望感。月复一月，年复一年，下城底变得愈发孤立、陌生，最终变得好斗。

劇透 -   :

“It’s bad down there. I mean, really bad. Not many Shiver
Patrols drop to Level seven, the folks there will actively attack
the APCs. But it’s worse than that… I guess the best way to
describe them is just fucked in the brain.
I was on a patrol on Level eight and I saw a guy stood out on
the street butt naked except for one boot, munching on a dead,
raw rat. Nobody’s batting an eyelid.
That was Level eight, so I’m scared to think how bad it might
have gotten on Level nine. As for Level eighteen. Fuck that!.”
Shiver Patrolman Dillon, 616sd

“下面很糟糕。真的糟透了。没有多少颤警巡逻或下到第七层，那里的人会主动袭击APC。但还有更恶劣的……我想形容他们的最好方式是他们脑子被搞坏了。
那时我在八层巡逻，我看见一个家伙站在街上，全身赤裸只有一只脚穿了鞋，生啃一只死掉的老鼠。所有人眼皮都没动。
那里还是八层，我怕得不敢去想九层会是怎么样的。还有十八层。操！”
颤警巡逻员狄龙，616sd

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On October 31st, 617sd things finally came to a head in Lower
Downtown. Reports were coming through that a Shiver Patrol
had been taken down by a ‘violent and extremely disturbed
group of individuals’ numbering around 35. An hour later a
Shiver Precinct was ransacked by over 60 individuals.
This night went down in Mort City’s history as ‘The Six
Seventeen Bloodbath’. Many compared it to the Big Black and
the Fall of Salvation Tower, but in this instance, there was no
incitement recorded; just the inevitable tipping point for the
escalating problems in Lower Downtown.
The crazies had no terms or demands of SLA. No motive.
They’d just gone insane and the madness was contagious. Ops
were sent in within a matter of hours and by then the mob had
exceeded 200. They found the aftermath of a mass blood orgy,
decapitated Shiver heads on iron poles and numerous apartment
buildings burning out of control.
It took a further 12 hours for the sanctioned SLA Ops to quell
the disturbance, killing 150 civilians and forcing the survivors
into the bottom two levels of Lower Downtown. SLA was
forcibly locking the gates on the two deepest levels and then
effectively washing its hands of the rest. It took just 27 years for
Lower Downtown to go from ‘a vision of future prosperity’ to
yet another ‘blight on the surface of Mort.’

617sd 10月31日，一些事情终于在下城底发生了。有报告说一支颤警巡逻队被约35名“暴力且精神极其不稳定的人”袭击。一小时后一个颤警辖区被超过60人洗劫。
当晚被莫特城历史记录为“617血洗事件”。许多人把它比作大停电和救赎塔倒塌，但这次没有煽动者被记录在案；只是下城底不断恶化的问题迎来了爆发点。
疯狂的人们对SLA没有要求。没有动机。他们只是丧失了理智，疯狂如同传染病般席卷人群。特工在几个小时之内被派出，此时暴徒人数增加到了200。特工发现现场变成了鲜血狂宴，被割下的颤警头颅穿在铁棍上，无数公寓楼燃起大火。
负责处理的SLA特工又花了12小时镇压了骚乱，他们杀死了150名平民，把幸存者逼入下城底最底下两层。SLA暴力封锁了最深两层的大门，其它部分则抛之脑后。只花了27年，下城底就从“未来繁荣之景”变成了另一个“莫特的毒瘤”。

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The Omaja
In 630sd the very first of the long forgotten Conflict Races
returned to the World of Progress, but not as vengeful enemies;
the Omaja were now refugees. They reappeared in their original
Baal Star System, having fled decimation at the hands of the
Root Dogs. SLA reluctantly welcomed them back, but forced
them to serve within the labour force in the Baal mineral mines.
Having suffered such terrible losses in Conflict Space, the
Omaja took to this work without question and performed their
arduous task diligently, yet as a species they were nonetheless
plagued by bigotry and the constant threat of violence.

Omaja
630sd，第一个被遗忘的冲突种族回到了进步世界，但不是作为敌人来复仇的；Omaja如今成了难民。他们重新出现在原本的Baal星系，只有十分之一逃离了根犬之手。SLA迟疑地欢迎他们回归，但强迫他们在Baal的矿洞中劳动。Omaja在冲突宇宙中损失惨重，因此毫无怨言地接受了工作，勤勉地完成了艰苦的任务，但作为一个种族，他们依然受偏见和持续的暴力威胁困扰。

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“I hate these little fuckers. I’ve lost three work shifts to the
compliant little monkeys; all because they work double time and
earn half pay. It’s a conspiracy I tell ya, them apes and the bosses;
robbing honest humans of honest pay. I tried telling one of them
Omajans to piss off back to Conflict Space where they belong
and the shithead bit my hand! Look at it! This means more time
off and it’s all their fucking fault!”
Excavator ‘Chip’ Chester Miles, Whittler & Nash
Mining Company, Project 7, Baal System – 631sd

“我讨厌这些小混蛋。我因为这些百依百顺的猴子没了三次工作；他们工作双倍的时间工资只有一般。我跟你讲这是阴谋，这些猴子和老板；抢走诚实人类诚实赚的钱。我试图告诉一个Omaja滚回他们的冲突宇宙，那个狗屎咬了我的手！看！我又不能上工了都是他们的错！”
挖掘工“碎片”·切斯特·迈尔斯，惠特勒和纳什矿业公司，7号项目，Baal星系——631sd

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Having spent so much time in the mines, the Omaja earned
the cruel nickname ‘Trenchers’ aand as a species that was always
quick to temper, fights inevitably broke out. Once again the
Omaja were forced out and pressured to work on the remote
backwater worlds on the fringes of SLA owned space, where
they have remained up until the The Changes in 900sd.

由于大部分时间都待在矿井里，Omaja获得了“挖掘机”这个不怀好意的绰号，作为一个容易愤怒的种族，他们最终爆发了冲突。Omaja被迫离开，只能在SLA宇宙边缘的偏远星球工作，他们在那里待到了900sd的多变之年。

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The Shadow Decade
Back in Cannibal Sector 1, the inhabitants on both sides of
the Wall suffered the longest recorded period of heavy rain and
storms in the region, stretching from 679sd to late 689sd.
It was during this miserably protracted period that the Carrien
and Cannibals endured devastating famine. Thousands died. The
only species unaffected in the sectors were the Dream Entities,
who simply thrived on the widespread terror and anguish.
It was during the Shadow Decade that the earliest Dream
Entity Masters materialised in the Sector and set about
enslaving and moulding their own species.

阴影十年
回到互食者1号区，区界墙两边的居民遭遇了这个区域有记录以来最长时间的大雨和风暴，从679sd持续至689sd。
在这段悲惨而又漫长的时期，卡伦和互食者出现了可怕的饥荒。几千上万死去。废区内唯一不受影响的种族是梦境实体，它们靠着扩散的恐慌与痛苦壮大。在阴影十年里，最早的梦境实体主宰现身1号区，开始奴役、塑造它们自己的种族。

劇透 -   :

“I’ve read in our history books that these rains signify things to
come. When the downpour rivals anything previously recorded
and it intensifies, seemingly without end.
Something will emerge again though, I have no doubt. Do not
be scared now, the time to worry is when the rain eases and the
horror finally shows its face.”
Shiver Sgt. Godley, Sector Wall, 684sd

“我在我们的历史书里读到这些雨预示着大事发生。大雨盖过了之前记录的任何情况，并不断增强，仿佛没有终点。
但有些东西再次出现了，我毫不怀疑。现在不要害怕，要担心的是当雨停下恐怖之物终于露出面孔之时。”
颤警警长高德利，区界墙，684sd
——

[NewAlbionDrone]

劇透 -   :

MEDIA ERA - 700-799SD
It was during the Media Era that the citizens of the World
of Progress began to see the many faces of SLA with greater
clarity. Through the lens of a television cathode ray tube they
would witness the company’s greatest success, as heroic SLA
Operatives struck down the agents of DarkNight, but they
would also see for the first time the ruins of Cannibal Sectors
in all their lurid glory.
The viewers at home ate it up and loved every good and bad
minute of it. Within hours, the Media Era had the unemployed
masses in its thrall and its grasp never waivered.

媒体年代——700-799SD
在媒体年代，进步世界的居民开始更清楚地认识了SLA的许多面。通过电视阴极射线管他们目睹了公司最伟大的成功，但也第一次看见了互食者区可怕的模样。
家里的观众全盘接收，热爱电视的每一分钟，无论好坏。几小时内，媒体时代便将失业人群牢牢攥住，永不松开。

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The Children of Scarogg
A frightening new species appeared in Cannibal Sector 1 that
didn’t just threaten SLA Industries but every other opposing
species eking out an existence in the ruins.
They were known as the Scavs; great hulking monstrosities
overladen in scrap armour and tattered trench coats, each with
its face concealed behind a gas mask. Throughout the varying
regions of the Cannibal Sector, the Scavs wheezed and killed
and plundered. They proved to be not only deadly combatants,
but also expert engineers and mechanics. Almost everything
carried and wielded by the Scavs was by their own design.
The terrible secret behind the mysterious Scavs is that they
are yet another failed experiment by SLA Industries. In 706sd,
Doctor Arild Scarogg was stationed in the No-Go Zone and
charged with completing ‘The Vodyanoy Project’, in which he
would create a force of super soldiers for SLA Industries. SLA
suspected that Scarogg’s creations might rival the Stormers
and at a fraction of the cost, but the development was highly
controversial, as it was based on Shaktar DNA as its framework.
By 708sd SLA Head Office had lost all contact with the Doctor
and found no trace of the Vodyanoy in his secret compound.
The horrid ‘Children of Scarogg’ would return several years
later in the form of the Scavs, only this time rather than be in
thrall of the company as had been the want, they would attack
SLA directly.

Scarogg之子
一个可怕的新种族出现在了互食者1区，不仅威胁了SLA工业，还威胁着在这片废墟谋生的其它互相对抗的种族。
它们被称作Scav；庞然大物，装备着过多的废物护甲和破烂的风衣，每个的脸都藏在防毒面具之后。在互食者区的各个地方，Scav一边发出气喘声一边杀戮、劫掠。它们不仅是致命的战士，还是专业的工程师和机械师。Scav携带使用的几乎所有装备都由它们自己设计。
神秘的Scav背后的可怕秘密则是它们是SLA工业有一次失败的实验。706sd，Arild Scarogg博士被排到无人区负责完成“湖妖计划”，为SLA工业创造超级士兵。SLA认为Scarogg的造物能与Stormer媲美并且价格稍低。但研发过程则十分有争议，因为项目利用Shaktar的DNA作为框架。
708sd，SLA总部失去了与博士的一切联系，在他的秘密基地也没有发现湖妖的任何痕迹。可怕的“Scarogg之子”将在几年后以Scav的形态回归，但那时它们不会处于公司控制之下，如同预计那样，而是会直接攻击SLA。

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Mort Expands
SLA had opted to keep much of its exploration a secret.
They did not want to encourage a wave of intrepid explorers
journeying out into the uncharted provinces of Mort unless
they were in charge. There had always been other continents and
other city-states, but their function and service to SLA was far
narrower. They were much less populated or significant than the
thriving capital city of Mort. Research teams were covertly sent
out to analyse and document the largely forgotten continents
of planet Mort. These research teams claimed to the foreign
authorities they were merely performing radiation and health
level checks on the population bases. In reality, they were more
concerned with studying their loyalty and what resources could
be readdressed in these nations. SLA did not always have to
venture off planet to use and abuse a potential revenue stream.
In most cases, the research teams returned with promising
findings, but typically the level of radiation still being emitted
by the Fission Belt prevented much utilisation for a few more
centuries. Further north there were, however, safer and lucrative
opportunities, particularly in the country of Skend. The
industries born out of Skend had made inroads into high end
automotive development and manufacture, as well as several
other decidedly specialised product lines, such as tweed, cigars
and mineral water.

莫特扩张
SLA倾向于对自己大多数探索行动保密。他们不希望有一群无畏的探索者进入莫特未知区域探索，除非由自己主导。虽然存在其它大陆和城邦，但它们对SLA的功能和服务则过于狭窄，要么人口过少，么重要度远不及莫特繁荣的首都。研究团队被秘密派去分析、记录莫特行星上几乎被遗忘的大陆。这些团队对外国政权声称自己只是在对人口基数进行辐射和健康水平调查。而实际上他们更关心人群的忠诚度以及这些国家有哪些资源可供调配。SLA并不总是需要远赴外星才能利用可能的收入来源。
大多数情况下这些调查队都能带回满意的发现，但通常聚变带散发的辐射依然阻止了之后几个世纪里对资源的利用。但更北的地方有较为安全和有利的机遇，尤其是Skend这个国家。Skend诞生的工业已进入了高端汽车开发和制造，还有几条特殊生产线，例如粗呢、雪茄和矿泉水。

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Ex-War Criminals
As highly sought after Skendish cars began appearing in
Uptown, something far less pleasurable was also arriving
in the Cannibal Sectors at the exact same time. Military
veterans were returning from the War Worlds, they had fought
insurmountable odds, secured innumerable victories for SLA
Industries and finally earned their homecoming.
There was no fanfare, nor reward for their honourable service
to the company. SLA did make a tragic error in allowing these
soldiers to retain their military grade weaponry and armour as
a meagre way of saying thanks. Unable to adjust to Mort City
and the fast paced consumer lifestyle so encouraged by SLA,
these decorated military personnel descended into the depths
of Downtown and the Cannibal Sector ruins to start the war
anew. Their troubled minds seeing enemies in the denizens of
their new homes. They were no longer the celebrated heroes of
the World of Progress, they were now traitors and subversives
who were just as likely to gun down Operatives as they were
Carrien and DarkNight Agents. From this point on they would
be classified as ‘Ex-War Criminals.’

前战争罪犯
人人争相购买的Skend汽车出现在上城后，也有一些完全不让人愉快的事物同时抵达了互食者区。战争老兵从战争世界归来，他们与难以克服的困难作战，为SLA工业保证了无数胜利，最后赢得了回家的机会。
他们为公司的宝贵服务没有获得欢迎的号角，也没有得到报偿。SLA犯下大错，让这些士兵保留军队等级的武器和护甲，作为最微小的道谢。这些授勋的军人无法适应莫特城以及SLA鼓励的快消生活方式，转而进入了下城深处和互食者区的废墟，开始全新的战争。他们不再是进步世界的著名英雄，而是叛徒和暴乱者，如同卡伦和暗夜人员一样击杀特工。从这时起他们被分类为“前战争罪犯”

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The Great Hunter’s Moon
In 779sd, SLA Industries saw a huge influx of young Shaktars
enlisting as Operatives in the company. It was attributed to what
the Shaktarian species referred to as the ‘Great Hunter’s Moon’;
an exceptionally rare lunar conjunction that only occurred every
1200 years.
It was seen as highly fortuitous and a blessing from the
four Shaktarian Gods of Virtue. The Great Hunter’s Moon
encouraged many young Shaktars to forgo family life on their
homeworlds and journey to Mort in search of noble causes,
glory and adventure. Most settled in Mort City and never
returned home, those born since are referred to as Hunter’s
Children and of Hunter Families.

大狩月
779sd，大批年轻的Shaktar加入了公司的特工行列。这是由于被Shaktar种族称作“大狩月”的现象；这是一种十分罕见的月联，每1200年才会出现一次。
这种现象被Shaktar认为是十分幸运的，是四位Shaktar美德之神的赐福。大狩月鼓励许多年轻的Shaktar离开家乡前往莫特寻找崇高、荣耀和冒险。他们中大多数在莫特定居，再也没有回家，后续出生的Shaktar被称作猎人之子，他们是猎人家族。

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Televised Reality
SLA had seen credible evidence that crime and rebellion was
at its lowest due to the rise in TV viewing. More channels,
choices and opportunities in that entertainment form meant
more loyalty and far less subversion. SLA told the masses it
could be trusted; they believed it. SLA promised the World of
Progress it would take every opportunity and means necessary
to protect and safeguard its people and for the most part it had
succeeded in doing that, or so they believed. The only authentic
rivals were DarkNight and Thresher and SLA had these enemies
under control.
The Contract Circuit was easily the most popular network on
TV throughout the World of Progress. SLA trained specialist
Operatives to fight in a televised gladiatorial arena; firstly
challenging one another and then eventually rival companies
whom brought their own branded fighters to the challenge.
These heroes of the airwaves were called Contract Killers.
“Tune into the Contract Circuit at 8 for the big showdown!
Reigning champion Slice n Dice will be facing off against the
DarkNight contender Sickle Moon! Why not stick around for
some of the other bouts airing at nine: the Giddy Gals will be
fighting freshly imported Sector 2 Carrien Rams and we may
be lucky to see a few special guests sprinkled throughout! Tune
in or miss out! The choice is always yours. Only on Fight TV!”
Contract Circuit advert, Fight TV, circa 911sd

电视现实
SLA有可信的证据相信犯罪和叛乱达到了最低点的原因是电视收视率提高。这种娱乐形式的频道、选择和机会越多，则忠诚度越高，叛乱越少。SLA告诉民众自己是可以信赖的；民众相信了。SLA对进步世界承诺它会用一切必要机会和手段保护它的人民，而在大多数情况下SLA做到了，至少他们是这么相信的。仅有的对手是暗夜和长尾鲨，而SLA已经控制住了这些敌人。
“合同电路”是进步世界最受欢迎的电视网。SLA训练了专门的特工在有电视直播的决斗区战斗；首先是互相挑战，最后是对手公司带来自己的品牌战士。这些电波英雄被称作合同杀手。

“8点打开合同电路观看决战！卫冕冠军‘切片切块’将面对暗夜的挑战者‘镰刀月’！为什么不继续观看9点的其它比赛呢：‘轻浮妹’将对战刚从第2区引进的卡伦‘公羊’，我们说不定还能碰巧看见一些特殊来宾！打开电视，否则错过一切！由你选择。只在战斗TV！”
合同电路广告，战斗TV，约911SD。

[NewAlbionDrone]

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THE ERA OF PROGRESS - 800-899SD
The Era of Progress was the very height of SLA Industries
successes, it was a hundred cycles in which many new high-end
concepts would be sampled and run, although much would fall
by the wayside in favour of time honoured traditions. It would
culminate in the 900th year celebration of SLA Industries and
its World of Progress. It would also mark the birth of a cult,
which in time would go on to be its greatest enemy.

进步时期——800-899SD
进步时期是SLA工业成功的高峰，这个百年循环里，许多高新概念被试用、运行，尽管大多数都不敌久经考验的传统。这个时期在SLA工业和进步世界的900周年庆典带到顶峰。它也标志着一个教派的诞生，将成为SLA最大的敌人。

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History in the Making
On October 31st, Mort’s national holiday, 845sd the entire
population tuned to Third Eye News and sat glued to their
television sets to watch Cannibal Sector 1’s first televised
broadcast. Until that moment the vast ruins and its terrifying
inhabitants had been the exclusive experience of the Sector
Rangers, Wall Shivers and the occasional SLA Operative squad.
Only the briefest glimpses of CS1 had been seen by the general
populace, but now, finally, they would get unprecedented
exploration of the region. Awe, wonderment and terror
permeated the airwaves.
It meant that CS1 would get a great deal more attention
than it had gotten for hundreds of years, but not just from
the average citizen; company rivals like DarkNight saw the
enormous potential in such lawless desolation and in late 845sd
terror cells infiltrated the Sector.

创造中的历史
845sd 10月31日，莫特的国家节日，人们打开第三眼新闻，紧盯着电视观看互食者1区的首次电视转播。此前这片广大的废墟及其可怖居民仅是废区游侠、区界墙颤警以及是不是出现的SLA特工小队的独家体验。大众只窥得1区的些微光景，但现在，他们终于能够获得从未有过的体验。电波中充满了惊讶、赞叹和恐惧。
这意味1区获得了比之前几百年都要多的注意力，不仅仅是来自普通市民的；暗夜之类的公司竞争对手也在这片无法的废土中看见的巨大的机遇，845sd末，恐怖组织侵入废区。

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The Bullet Tax
In 847sd SLA Industries implemented Bullet Tax for the first
time throughout the entire World of Progress. It was introduced
in an effort to drive Operatives to favour melee weapons,
which proved more popular for TV ratings. The taxation did
not have the desired effect, however, as SLA Ops still stocked
up on ammunition hourly. Bullet Tax did prove popular with
the Corporate Sector though, lining employee’s pockets with
revenue every year since implementation.

子弹税
847sd，SLA工业首次在整个进步世界实施子弹税，目的是促使特工更多使用近战武器，因为后者能提供更高的电视收视率。然而征税并未取得预想的效果，SLA特工依然每个小时都在积攒子弹。但子弹税很受公司部欢迎，实施之后，雇员的口袋每年都塞满了收入。

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DeLyon City
In the far south of CS1 is DeLyon City - a once expensive and
uncommonly picturesque section of Central Outskirts. DeLyon
has always been regarded as a DarkNight hangout even before
the Big Black and many Sector Ranger and Operatives squads
have had run-ins with the rival company over the centuries since.
By 850sd however it had become apparent that DarkNight was
dominating the old city and had constructed a series of fortified
outposts among the now crumbling bourgeoisie architecture.
SLA sent in Operative teams, assisted by Sector Rangers in
an attempt to break up the DarkNight power structure, but
each and every time, the SLA force was destroyed or repelled.
DarkNight was very much in its element in DeLyon City and
much of its boundaries are rigged with all manner of booby
trapa and explosive devices. One simply cannot charge into the
DN-held territory without expecting to lose a limb on the way.
DeLyon City is pivotal in DarkNight’s chain of command.

德里昂城
1区南边远处是德里昂城——曾经是中央郊区昂贵且极其美丽的一个区域。德里昂在大停电前就被视作暗夜的据点，许多废区游侠和特工小队在之后的几个世纪里都遭遇过这家竞争公司。
但在850sd，暗夜明显已经统治了这座古城，并在如今已经倒塌的布尔乔亚建筑之中建造了一系列防御工事。SLA派出了特工队伍，由废区游侠协助，试图击破暗夜的权力架构，但每次SLA的部队都被摧毁或击退。暗夜在德里昂如鱼得水，城市的边界安装了各种血腥的陷阱和爆炸装置。想要进攻暗夜控制区域的人不丢失一条肢体是不可能的。德里昂是暗夜指挥系统的中枢。

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Wind Up Toys
Tek Trex Inc. came into existence during the Chrome Era
around 880sd, when cybernetics and more specifically robotics
were popular in the World of Progress. It was initially regarded
as an Oppressor Power, but SLA media had overestimated
the company’s output and power level. It specialised in small
automated drones, which were used in raids and support
equipment to other Soft Companies.
Tek Trex was more of a hit on television than a hit in battle. TV
viewers loved to watch Operatives fighting scores of these little
drones. Unfortunately, by the ninth century SLA had begun to
eliminate some of its smaller, but persistent enemies and it was
Threat Analysis who elected to wipe out the rival company.
This decision received criticism; even from SLA Operatives
themselves, who saw value and potential in such a photogenic
and inoffensive company. SLA dug its heels in on this issue
however and a series of Hunter Sheets were issued to kill off
Trex’s engineers. The company’s staff were effectively wiped
out by 901sd, but the secondary objective to capture Tek Trex’s
manufacturing schematics was not completely achieved.

玩具骚动
泰克特雷克有限公司在铬年代，880sd前后，出现，此时控制机械尤其是机器人在进步世界很受欢迎。这家公司起初被视为竞争势力，但SLA媒体高估了公司的产出和能力等级。它擅长制造小型自动机器人，被用于劫掠以及给其它软公司提供支持。
泰克特雷克在电视而不是在战场上更受欢迎。电视观众喜欢看特工与成群的这些小无人机战斗。不幸的是，在第9世纪，SLA开始解决一些偏小但很顽固的敌人，危机分析被派去清理这家竞争公司。
这一决策受到了批评；甚至有来自SLA特工本人的，他们认为这样一家上镜又无害的公司很有价值和机会。但SLA坚持己见，还发放了一批猎杀清单去杀掉特雷克的工程师。901sd这家公司的员工被完全清除，但第二个目标，捕获泰克特雷克的生产图纸，则未完全达成。

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The Lost Scrolls
In Lower Downtown, a Human civilian - Elliot Raik had
spent years studying everything related to White Earth, the
legends of Shi’An and offering highly complex blood sacrifices
to Bitterness. It was the first time the call was answered.
Elliot has been on SLA Industries radar for many years and
the department devoted solely to the research and defence
against White Earth considered Raik one of the greatest threats
to the World of Progress. He had followers in the hundreds and
similar numbers of murder victims.
Unseen by SLA, the first true incarnation of the Shi’An Cult
was germinating in Downtown. The power to utilise blood
magic was bestowed to Raik in the form of the Lost Scrolls –
the last vestiges of Shi’An herself and the spells she’d created.
The gifting of such power would change everything, but as
before, Elliot chose to be patient and quiet. He would let the
cult remain largely dormant and slowly generate a structure and
hierarchy. The Shi’An cult would not be simply a dull subversive
for SLA Industries to snuff out on a whim; it would be the
Great Enemy. The time for Shi’An to unveil its true face was
still more than a decade away.

失落的卷轴
下城底一位人类平民——艾略特·赖克，花费多年研究与施安传说中的白地球有关的一切，并为苦涩献上了许多复杂的鲜血祭品。他的呼唤头一次得到了回应。
艾略特在SLA工业的雷达里存在多年，专门研究和抵御白地球的部门认为赖克是进步世界最大的威胁之一。他又几百名支持者，以及同等数量的被杀受害者。
SLA没有注意到的是，施安教派首次真正成型是从下城发源的。使用血魔法的能力以失落卷轴的形式——施安本人最后的残留以及她创造的法术，被赐予了赖克。被赐予此种力量后，一切都将改变，但和从前一样，艾略特选择了耐心和安静。他让教派蛰伏，慢慢产生结构和层级关系。施安教派不会只是无趣的反叛者，让SLA可以轻松碾碎；它是大敌。施安露出真实面目的时间还在十年之后。

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Halloween Jack
In late 895sd, Shiver Patrols were reporting a spate of
murders occurring throughout District 5 of Inner Downtown.
Homicide was and is, a frequent occurrence in Mort City, but
the individual committing the killings was more distinctive
than most, with his obscure orange helmet and garish outfit.
The serial killer - Halloween Jack, was also highly proficient in
combat and seemingly unstoppable. The Shivers had tried to
eliminate Halloween Jack and had lost countless troops to the
‘mad man with the chainaxe’ and when he proved too much for
them, Operatives were sent in to challenge him. They fared no
better.
The legend of Halloween Jack grew exponentially over the
subsequent years, as the body count mounted and his TV ratings
increased. Everything about the murderer remains, to this day,
a mystery - the reasoning for his outfit, the apparent motive for
all the bloodshed, who he serves, even who it is hiding behind
the mask. Halloween Jack has never uttered a word, not even
when bullets riddled his body. Attempts have been made to
reach out and communicate with the enigmatic character, but it
has only ever resulted in more deaths.
In the present year, Halloween Jack is widely regarded as
public enemy number one. Since his first appearance he has had
a HunterSheet issued for his extermination, with the highest
bounty ever recorded, sitting at one million Creds.

万圣杰克
895年末，颤警巡逻报告了一连串发生在内下城第5区的谋杀案。在莫特城，他杀事件无论过去还是现在都很常见，但进行这一系列杀戮的凶手要更为独特，他戴着模糊的橙色头盔，穿着艳丽的衣服。连环杀手万圣杰克十分擅长战斗，仿佛来无人可挡。颤警试图消灭万圣杰克，但无数队伍被“拿着链锯斧的疯子”斩落。意识到颤警无法处理后，特工被派来，但他们的结局也没有更好。
万圣杰克的传奇在随后几年指数增长，尸体数量和电视评分不断增加。这个杀手的一切至今仍是谜团——他如此穿着的原因、谋杀的动机、他的效忠对象，甚至面具后的样貌。万圣杰克从没说过话，哪怕子弹打进他的身体时。有人尝试与这个谜样任务交流，但结果只是更多的死亡。
当前万圣杰克被视作头号公敌。他首次现身后就有了处决他的猎杀清单，上面是有史以来最高的赏金，一百万信用点。

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“Yeah, the ‘all time high’ HunterSheet. Halloween Jack. Pretty
exceptional, huh? You know what’s also exceptional? That no
Op Squad ever steps up, despite the cool one mill on offer. Now
why do you reckon that is?”
Maxwell Nowlan, 34, Downtown Civilian (Unemployed)

“没错，‘历史最高’的猎杀清单。万圣杰克。非常罕见，嗯哼？你知道更罕见的是啥？没有一支特工小队接单，虽然有一百万。现在你觉得是为什么呢？”
麦克斯韦·诺兰，下城平民（失业）
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Rust Alley
For close to a decade Mort City saw a fad for cybernetic
augmentation. People were turning away from biogenetic
enhancements in favour of robotics. The media mockingly
coined the term the ‘Chrome Era’, to describe the trend for
fashion robotics. It only lasted from 875 - 885sd. Problems
abounded with applications and accessories built during this
period and many people suffered disabilities and crushing debt
from cybernetic augmentation performed in the Era. Most could
never recover. Many SLA OPs and high-ranking employees
were made homeless by the turn of 880sd and for the next five
years they were forced into an impoverished Downtown region
known as Rust Alley. By 900sd no trace of them nor Chrome
Era as a whole was left on Mort.

锈巷
将近十年里，莫特城迎来了机械殖装热潮。人们抛弃了生物基因增强，转向机械。媒体使用了“铬年代”这个嘲弄的词汇形容这股机械潮流。但它只从875sd持续到了885sd。这段时期制造的装置和配件产生了大量问题，许多人因此残疾并承担了无法偿还的债务。大多数无法恢复。许多SLA特工和高级雇员因880sd的转变而无家可归，接下来的5年里，他们被迫进入一个被称作锈巷的临时区域。到了900sd，无论是他们还是铬年代都没有在莫特留下任何痕迹。