Slough? Why Slough? And as a supplementary, why the Hammers? We’ll let Kate tell you in her own words:
The Hammers of Slough creation story by Kate Russell
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." (The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul)
In December 2012 I launched a crowd funding campaign on Kickstarter, to finance the purchase of a writers pack on the Elite Dangerous Kickstarter that was running at the same time. This much you probably know if you’re a Fantastic Books fiction fan. A lot of the writers pack licenses were funded on Kickstarter due to the tremendous enthusiasm and generosity of the game’s long term fans - perhaps in part because they had waited 21 years for a sequel in the Elite franchise so had money to burn when it finally arrived? Fantastic Books ended up publishing a lot of these stories and have continued to give fans of the series a place to enjoy and share their love of all things Elite and sci-fi.
So, this much you know, and my story was based around a planet called Slough.