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OOC General Info:

This event will start with the AGM. Exact timing of Time in will depend on how long the AGM takes.

Exact timings will be announced nearer the event

This event is catered for all. Please ensure that the secretary has your food allergies and intolerances.

Location is Alfrey Activity Centre

This site has bunks and these will be available to all crew and players across a number of central heated buildings.

Event Costs

A ticket to play is £70 a discount of £5 will be granted if you are willing to camp and forgo a bunk.

A deposit of £20 must be paid within 48 hours of booking with the remainder paid by 7^th December 2018. Failure to meet either of these deadlines WILL result in loss of place if the event has a waiting list. Cancellation may result in a refund depending on date of cancellation and proximity to event.

Payment by Paypal please include £4 for fees, payment to stargate.sglrp@gmail.com

Payment by bank account transfer contact Sec/Treas for account details

Booking dates. All bookings start at 7pm on the date given

Friday 28th September 2 week period for Event 52 crew to use priority booking. Password for this booking group will be given to the refs of that event

Friday 12th October 3 weeks period for members to book

Friday 2nd November bookings open for any and all.

Directions:

Alfrey Activity Centre Broadwater, Maxstoke Lane, Meriden, Warwickshire CV7 7HR

From Birmingham

Take the A45 towards Coventry. Just after the entrance to The Packington Estate there is a left turn signposted Meriden, Maxstoke Forest of Arden Hotel. Take this left turn. Follow the Road to a T Junction and at the T junction turn Left (Towards Maxstoke and Marriot Hotel) Follow this road for about a mile then turn left into the entrance for the Marriot Hotel Forest of Arden Golf Course. About 50 yards up as the road bends to the right there is a left turn, on a gravel Track. Follow this through a gate and enter the campsite. Follow the drive to the very top and the car park.

From Coventry

Take the A45 towards Birmingham. Follow the signs to Meriden and Maxstoke, you will come off the A45 on a slip road to a T Junction. At the T junction turn right (Towards Maxstoke and Marriot Hotel) Follow this road for about a mile then turn left into the entrance for the Marriot Hotel Forest of Arden Golf Course. About 50 yards up as the road bends to the right there is a left turn, on a gravel Track. Follow this through a gate and enter the campsite. Follow the drive to the very top and the car park.

OOC Event Specific Info:

This event occurs IC between Monday 24th of December and Wednesday the 26th of December, with the Saturday of the event being Tuesday 25th of December so prepare to bring your Christmas cheer, or best ‘bah humbug’.

Unlike previous Christmas social events this event is happening at an event where players are ‘on duty’ in an off-world location, security will be provided by SEF and Scrapper NPCs to prevent PCs having to worry about being on sentry duty. This also means that, as you are using a joint JTF/Scrapper Outpost, there will not be a shared mess, but rather separate NCO and Officers messes.

This is an event focused on social roleplay, and the traditional training sessions, but there will be opportunities to engage with wider plot via some exploration missions – and what sort of Christmas would it be without reuniting with old friends, and uniting families…even ones trapped in other Universes?

IC Brief

Magellan, gateway to the Magellanic Clouds, the only known Stargate location that bridges our home galaxy and these twin dwarf galaxies within its orbit. Many refugees from recent and past galactic conflicts have fled through this world seeking refuge in the hope of peaceful worlds far removed from the recent upheavals in the Milky Way. These disparate groups have come together to survive, they scavenge and scrape together a living in the Clouds, these ‘Scrappers’ are an emerging faction in the Galaxy, their control of the Magellan bridge-world makes them of special importance for the SEF’s ongoing mission statement of exploration, as the Magellanic Clouds offer a whole new region barely investigated by the SEF.

First contact with these refugees happened nearly two years ago, when the SEF encountered them during a search and rescue operation which evolved into a confrontation with the fanatical ‘Crusade’. The SEF thwarted the Crusade, but at the cost of one of their own, Dr Alba Cross, who gave up her physical form to become one with an ancient machine of a forgotten race.

Now, the time has come to return to Magellan, not on a mission of mercy this time, but one of friendship. The ‘Scrappers’ have reached out to Earth and the Alliance, seeking aid in maintaining the stability brought about by the SEF’s intervention. The Alliance JTF have aided the Scrappers in the construction of an Outpost on Magellan, giving them a hub to train and control traffic through the bridge-world’s gate.

Nobody likes to work on Christmas, but the SEF have drawn the short straw, arriving to relieve JTF forces at the outpost on Magellan over the winter holidays, at a time where the locals are looking worriedly towards new challenges to their young faction.