Dates: Sat 26 – Sun 27 April 2014
Venue: Garrison Hotel, 635 Penistone Road, Sheffield, S6 2GB
Website: 7hills.org.uk
Theme: Science Fiction
Its Scarecrow here with a job for you Up Town. Its a simple Corporate Relocation job. There’s this Mr Jones, a CEO for Renholt Industries, whose fallen foul of internal politics and is currently holed up in the gated community of Tandle Hills – a maximum security playground for the …
The Omnisoft Corporation Navy – A Vocation, not a Career. Every officer becomes a full salaried shareholder with all the associated rights. Corporate share includes life-time emancipation, and the right to vote in corporate AGMs. Take control of your destiny. Join the OCN Academy and the corporate ladder. To Protect …
The Babylon project was our last best hope for peace. A self contained world five miles long located in neutral territory. A place for commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens. A shining beacon in space all alone in the night. It was the dawn …
The sun rises above a snowy, crumbling wasteland of ruined buildings as smoke drifts lazily across the city. Already there is the distant sound of opportunistic gunfire. Fyodor and Snezhana wait in the wreckage, their sights trained upon the enemy hunter’s positions. Sepp and Friedrich wait also, their sights fixed …
Weeks after your Ordination into the fleet you find yourself assigned to the First Crusade fleet and the siege of the free planet Armenia in the Bogomils System. Dangerous heretics have sought asylum on the planet. The First Crusade fleet has been charged with ensuring they are brought to justice. …
Nobody remembers life before The Burn. The eldest among us were only infants back then and their memories faded long ago. Life now is tougher than ever before. People group together for safety, shelter and companionship in communities know as hard-holds. K-Felle is one such hard-hold and has been a …
Anarchist Eco-terrorist Amelia Chen has finally been captured and imprisoned by the Planetary Consortium, her ego forcibly uploaded to a VR prison while she undergoes personality realignment. Unknown to the Consortium, an Alpha Fork of Chen has been resleeved from an old backup and has approached Firewall with an offer …
The Visitors arrived in 50 gigantic motherships, which stunned the world with their monumental size and power. A Visitor Youth program was formed, encouraging teenagers to join their ranks. The Visitors were quickly assimilated into our culture. But there were some who were sceptical, too inquisitive, they began to quickly …
In 1951, massive meteorites fell to destroy the twenty largest cities on the planet. London, Paris, New York, Beijing…all gone. The indirect damage in the aftermath was incalculable, and included the use of atomic weapons by both east and west as both sides blamed the other for the calamity. Then …
The crew of the Svartulf are delivering a mundane consignment to Cotapaxi Orbital. Upon docking for unload they receive a level one coded transmission chit from a courier dressed as a cargo-rat. Drop to Cotopaxi planetside, research station 9 (“Jungleland”) and pick up an unnamed passenger for return; instructions on …
“Welcome to the International Space Defence Fleet! We recruit members from the elite Special Forces, scientific think tanks, arts academies and special government departments. We are truly international having members from US, UK , China, Timbuctoo, France, Italy, Europe and Iceland! You are now part of a special fleet that …
It’s the year 2100. You are the crew of the Interesting Times, a cargo vessel based in the asteroid belt, a vast no-man’s land with bases of many different nations and corporations. You make a living here, transporting cargo for all paying customers, few questions asked. One day you get …