The NSA, GCHQ, Edward
Snowden…
That was just the
beginning. The digital war is happening right now as we speak.
/out of CTRL
A CROSS-PLATFORM PROJECT
Netwars is a unique global cross-platform project created by leading German
publisher Bastei Entertainment, following a group of hackers dealing with the
impending threat of digital warfare between cyber terrorists and governments.
Published as six eBooks, the netwars
project will also include three graphic novel apps and an interactive web
documentary, with award-winning actor Nikolai Kinski (Aeon Flux, The Sinking of the
Laconia, Yves St Laurent) playing
the connecting character across all platforms. Each project can be followed as
a standalone or as complementary to the other projects.
Just a few minutes after a
nationwide blackout, life in the cities collapses. Famines, lootings and riots
follow. It resembles a nuclear warfare movie scenario. But you don’t need a bomb
to induce such a catastrophe… Just a computer is enough.
1. THE GRAPHIC NOVEL APP: The Butterfly Attack
An amazing interactive graphic novel app, animated
in stunning 3D motion, The Butterfly
Attack takes the viewer into a virtual cyberwar.
It’s 2017
and with new malwares created every day, Cyber Security is the No.1 top concern.
By order of the European Defence Agency, elite security team Sixth Column are
launching a hacking simulation to test their new security software. Led by former
hacker Max Parsons, they are to conduct a secret cross-border cyberwar exercise,
hitting the water supply, crippling power groups, and taking out transport
networks in Norway. But then, there’s an explosion in Ranafoss power plant...
Someone else
has taken over the exercise. Someone from Max’s past? What started as a
simulation has become deadly serious. With lives and the country’s security at
stake, the six skilled hackers need to find and fight this unseen enemy.
The first of three episodes of The Butterfly Attack will be released as
graphic novel apps available on iOS, Google Play, Amazon and Samsung in
English, German, Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish on 15th May 2014,
price £1.99 per app.
See the trailer here: http://vimeo.com/89293355
2.
THE EBOOKS: The Code
Don’t ask for forgiveness, nor pardon, nor grace.
Just understand this:
If you cannot live by the Code, you must die by the Code.
Scott Mitchell is a reformed
criminal hacker, by day working for a government agency to prevent cyber-crime.
At night, he stalks the Deep Web undercover as Strider, anonymously executing
criminals who have breached his personal Code. But after taking out Anthony
Prince, the corrupt head of security firm PrinceSec with a nasty penchant for
preteen girls, Mitchell realises that his target was part of a bigger, more
dangerous group of cyber criminals than he imagined.
Links emerge between Prince
and Black Flag – an organisation of highly skilled and extremely dangerous
hackers. With national security threatened, lives at stake, and Mitchell’s
undercover alias jeopardised, the race is on to stop Black
Flag before it’s too
late.
The
Code is an eBook serial novel and will be
released in six weekly instalments in English, German and Chinese on the 16th
May 2014, price £1.49 per episode.
knowing.
3.
THE WEB DOCUMENTARY
Imagine this: war is raging, and you’re right in the middle of it –
without even
In this specially tailored interactive web documentary, meet the Salesman
and learn about a cyberwar that has been going on for years.
Starring award-winning actor Nikolai Kinski,
the five-part series explores the impending
threat of cyber warfare. Blurring fact with
fiction and featuring interviews
from top
security and hacking experts, it explains the
background of the netwars setting and gives insights into past,
present and future international
hacker attacks. From the US-Israeli assault on
Iran via Stuxnet in 2010; to today’s mass data
collection by the NSA, and the
multibillion dollar industry of digital security, the cyberwar is here.
A specially tailored
interactive experience, the series makes one thing very clear – you are not in control.
Watch Episode 1: Out
of CTRL
Watch Episode 2: Remote
Attack
Watch Episode 3: Back
Up Your Life
Watch Episode 4: Hacking
The Mind
Watch Episode 5:
The Industry of Fear
ABOUT M.SEAN COLEMAN: AUTHOR OF THE
BUTTERFLY ATTACK AND
THE CODE:
M. Sean Coleman was
born in the UK and raised in South Africa. He started his career as
a
writer working for Douglas Adams on Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Online.
Now,
he is a writer of film and television drama, a novelist, and an
award-winning writer and
producer of cross-platform drama and reality series. He
holds a BA in Scriptwriting from
Bournemouth, and an MA in Screenwriting from
LCP. He wrote the script for The
Butterfly Attack graphic novel app, and is the author of the complementary Netwars series
The Code.
The Netwars cross-platform project is published by Bastei Entertainment
and will launch globally on
the 15th May.
For copies of the eBooks or
the graphic novel app, please contact Emma Draude or
Sophie Goodfellow on 020 8299
4541 or email emma@edpr.co.uk
or sophie@edpr.co.uk
See the trailer here: http://vimeo.com/89293354
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