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Hope&Glory: Part of the Machine

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Buried beneath the ice of Europe’s perennial winter, the Imperial Palace of Tsaritsin is a wonder of engineering and art, and a house divided.
In the upper floors, the aristocracy enjoy a fantasy-like life of parties and trysts, gossip and duels, trying desperately to forget about the horrors of the Catastrophe.
In the lower levels, the chemically-enhanced worker class toils at maintaining the machine going, growing food for the elites.
And the dread Secret Police sees that the two halves of this universe do not meet.
Looking into the sudden death of her chambermaid looked to

Capricious and spoiled like all aristocrats, countess Varvara Boleslavskaia thinks rules are made to be broken.
But her last indiscretion might break more than the rules, turning Varvara’s world upside down before she gets killed.
And the Secret Police might be her only friend.


Part of the Machine is a story set in the universe of “Hope & Glory”, a game setting developed for the Savage Worlds rules.
The “Hope & Glory” universe exists for the game and for the gamers, and attached to the novel there's a roundup of gaming information for those readers that would like to start playing straight away.


Welcome to a new world... On the 21st of October 1852, the citizens of London and Paris were awed at the sight of the western sky turning suddenly a strange shade of purple andred. The first seismic shocks were felt all over the world in the following hours, and by the dawn of the 23rd of October, the giant waves hit the coasts of Europe. In the evening of the same day, while the tremors continued, catastrophic waves also hit the coasts of Asia. Whole cities, blasted by the earthquakes, were submerged by the sea. Millions of lives were lost. Then the Black Rain began, washing the ruins and leaving behind a thick layer of ashes. Dark, impenetrable clouds hid the sun, and the Thirty Years Winter began. In the Northern Hemisphere crops failed, snow-bound cities went up in flames as the populations rioted and the governments tried to find a solution, the means to survive.
One hundred years have passed now since the Catastrophe, and humanity has survived. In the former colonial domains of Africa and South America. In the blasted plains of China. Among the remains of the Japanese archipelago. In Russian palaces sealed against the howling winds of the steppe. In the land that once was India. With sacrifice and ingenuity, with courage and hope, new nations have crawled back from the brink to claim the new world.
Science is a beacon to the future.
From the frozen wastes of Europe, where the mammoth roam, to the proud Zulu Nation of Africa, from the technological wonders of the Anglo-Indian Raj to the mist-shrouded shores of Lost America, these are the stories of a new, strange world.



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July 8th, 2018
"Part of the Machine" expands the narrative world of Hope & Glory with a tale of investigation. A post apocalyptic Russia ruled by a decadent aristocracy. A strong female protagonist (who melds the private eye archetype with the black wid [...]
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