SLA Industries (pronounced `Slay Industries`) is an award-winning
pen-and-paper role-playing game that was first published in Scotland in
1993. The game is a horror noir science-fiction setting set in a
dystopian reality in which the majority of the known universe is either
owned or indirectly controlled by the eponymous corporation SLA
Industries. The game incorporates themes from the cyberpunk, gothic
horror and conspiracy genres, and has always been praised on the quality
of writing and art. The World of Progress, the universe in which SLA
Industries operates, is a science-fiction image of the 1980s, where the
fax machine spews out information alongside green-screen computers and
vat-grown biogenetic monsters, who compete with humans and exotic alien
races for work in an overgrown city that plunges deep underground.
Players in SLA Industries take on the role of an Operative, the
highly-trained and well-equipped freelancers that serve as the company`s
agents, investigators and enforcers. Operatives perform tasks for both a
pay packet and the promise of an increase in their security clearance,
as both provide them access to an increased standard of living, better
equipment, progression up the corporate ladder and sponsorship
opportunities. Most of all though, they strive for the one thing that
everyone in the media-driven World of Progress wants: Notoriety.