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 ====== Upcoming events ======
+The next event, PIONEERS: The Ulysses Protocol: "Activation" will take place at Silverwood Scout Camp in South Yorkshire, on the weekend of 18th - 20th October 2019.
+Booking forms are available here:
+Player booking: https://goo.gl/gxdkLt
+Crew booking: https://goo.gl/Ma88d9
+The price of the event for players is £60 until the 1st June 2019; thereafter £65 until the 1st September 2019; thereafter £70. For more details please see the event page (to follow soon!).
+===== The Ulysses Protocol: "Activation" =====
+The story so far...
+The great civilisations of the known galaxy - the Old Earth Empire, the Federation of Humanity, the Cooperative, the insectoid Many, the reptilian Zebulon, and the mechanical Distributed Process, were forced into a loose alliance - the Pioneer Initiative - in order to avoid all-out war over the discovery of the resource-rich planet Reddeluto and its vast wealth of Ardanium, the rare mineral that makes interstellar travel possible.
+This alliance was brought yet closer together when the Pioneers learned of an approaching deadly threat to all civilisation: a great world-devouring, Ardanium-hungry Entity, worshipped by the bear-like Javrim as a god, was drawing close to Reddeluto, and threatened to consume it - and after that, many other inhabited worlds lay in its path...
+Working together, the scientists and military leaders of the Pioneer Initiative developed a vast, spaceborne weapon - the Gradient Cannon, essentially a huge Ardanium-powered gravitational rail-gun - to use as a last-ditch attempt to destroy the Entity, if no other means of stopping it could be found.
+With no opportunity to test-fire the weapon before it became necessary to use it against its target, the live broadcast of the weapon's activation was a moment where all civilisations held their breath and hoped that its engineers had got their calculations and designs right first time.
+Fortunately, the Gradient Cannon was fired successfully - its massive superluminal projectile shattered the Entity and saved Reddeluto and all civilisation - but there was an unexpected side effect.
+The gradient generated was so large as to capture Pioneer Treaty Station, and every ship in the fleet in orbit of Reddeluto, aboard which were all members of the Pioneer Initiative themselves - and fling them an unknown distance into unexplored space on the far side of the galaxy.
+After an initial period of disorientation and disaster recovery, the now stranded Fleet has managed to get itself back on its feet and into some semblance of order.
+The Pioneers, now even more worthy of the name, are beginning to prepare themselves for a new period of nomadic existence in an unknown sector of the galaxy, inhabited by unfamiliar, entirely new forms of life. What will they discover on the strange new worlds that now await them? Can they locate the resources that they will need to survive and sustain the Fleet and its inhabitants? Will they ever be able to find their way home...?
+Welcome to PIONEERS, Season 2: The Ulysses Protocol!
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 The crisis on the planet Reddeluto intensifies. The unknown entity, the Javrim 'God', that appears to feed upon time itself, approaches ever closer, seemingly intent upon feasting on the rare and valuable mineral Ardanium, with which this world is so unusually rich.
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 Silverwood Scout Camp website: http://www.silverwoodcamp.org.uk/
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-====== Past events ======
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