OFFICIAL RULES

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NO PURCHASE, FEE, OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN, AND PURCHASES, FEES, AND PAYMENTS WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING DEPEND ON THE JUDGING OF THE QUALITY OF YOUR SUBMISSIONS BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF HOMESTATION MAGAZINE AS WELL AS LOCKWOOD PUBLISHING LTD (THE "CONTEST JUDGES”), ACCORDING TO THE CRITERIA SET FORTH BELOW. CONTEST OPEN TO PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED WRITERS WHO MEET THE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH BELOW. SUBMISSIONS WINDOW ENDS AUGUST 4TH, 2012 AT 11:59 PM GMT (THE "SUBMISSIONS PERIOD”).

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ELIGIBILITY: Contest open to individual persons who are 18 or older as of the time of their initial entry and have a registered PSN account in SCEE Home or SCEA Home. Members of the HomeStation Editorial Staff are ineligible.

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TO ENTER: To be eligible to win prizes, your submission(s) must meet all of the following criteria: Your submission(s) must be in English, your submissions must be your original work, and you must not assign or license to any other party any copyrights or other rights in your articles. Submissions should not contain material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, pornographic, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable. Proper spelling and grammar also help. Submissions must be between 1,500 words and 4,000 words in length. Submissions must be consistent with what is already established by Lockwood Publishing Ltd as canonical for the Sodium Universe. You and your submissions must comply with HomeStation Magazine's Terms of Use/Member Agreement, available at HomeStation Magazine’s website at http://www.hsmagazine.net . To enter your eligible submission(s), register at HomeStation Magazine's website at http://www.hsmagazine.net , provide the registration information (including name, username, valid email address, and password), and submit your article(s) to the appropriately marked submissions thread in the HSM website forum. This will automatically enter the submission(s) into the contest for review and possible publication. ONLY SUBMISSIONS SENT TO THE PROPER THREAD IN THE HSM FORUM CONSTITUTE VALID CONTEST ENTRIES. You may submit as many entries as you like. Your article(s) must be submitted during the Submissions Period.

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RATING AND JUDGING OF ARTICLES: Each entry that you submit during the Contest Period will be rated by the HomeStation Editorial Staff, in order to determine whether or not your submission meets all of the eligibility requirements set forth in these Official Rules and that the Editorial Staff judge, in their sole discretion, as worthy of being submitted to Lockwood and possibly being published in HomeStation Magazine as well as the Lockwood Gift Machine. THE CONTEST PERIOD IS SEPARATE FROM THE SUBMISSIONS PERIOD. Submissions must be entered by midnight GMT, August 4th, 2012. Winners will be announced by HSM and Lockwood Publishing on August 8th, 2012.

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PRIZES AND NOTIFICATION: Two (2) finalist contest prizes: the Lockwood VICKIE bodysuit, Sijed and Bijel virtual companions, and a Sodium2 starter pack. One (1) finalist grand prize: the Lockwood VICKIE bodysuit, Sijed and Bijel virtual companions, a Sodium2 starter pack, choice of a Silicon Lounge or Blaster's Paradise personal estate, publication of entry as a web article and/or magazine article in HSM, and publication of entry in the Lockwood Gift Machine. Contest winners will be notified by e-mail on or about August 8th, 2012. Each winner will be notified by electronic mail, using the email address that he or she provided in his or her online registration with http://www.hsmagazine.net . The name of each winner will be posted on the HomeStation Magazine website and/or in issues of HomeStation Magazine, and the grand prize winner's entry will be published at the HomeStation Magazine website at http://www.hsmagazine.net or in an issue of HomeStation Magazine, as well as in the Lockwood Gift Machine if Lockwood Publishing Ltd so chooses. Winners must respond to HomeStation Magazine by electronic mail, providing any information requested, within five (5) calendar days after email notification is sent or they will forfeit their prizes. Winners who respond to the email notification in a timely and correct manner will receive prizes as described above within fifteen business days from point of response. HomeStation Magazine reserves the right to validate information provided on any online submission forms and to verify eligibility before awarding any prizes. If a prize, or any portion thereof, cannot be awarded for any reason, HomeStation Magazine reserves the right to award another prize of approximate equal value. No substitute prizes are allowed except at the sole discretion of HomeStation Magazine or Lockwood Publishing Ltd.

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OWNERSHIP AND USE OF WINNING ARTICLES: All entrants, by participating in this Contest and submitting contest entries, grant Lockwood Publishing Ltd and HomeStation Magazine and any of their respective successors and assigns the perpetual and irrevocable right, license, and ability to use and publish all submitted entries (in the format submitted or in an altered format and in complete form or in excerpted form) on Lockwood Publishing's and/or HomeStation Magazine's websites, on other websites, and in other media, for any purpose. Entrants’ opportunity to submit their articles and participate in this Contest constitutes full consideration for the foregoing grant. The foregoing grant requires no further consideration and is not dependent on entrants winning any prizes. Lockwood Publishing Ltd and HomeStation Magazine can publish or decline to publish, or use or decline to use, any submitted entries in HomeStation Magazine's sole discretion.

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GENERAL CONDITIONS: All online submissions become the property of HomeStation Magazine and will not be acknowledged or returned. All entries and submissions are subject to verification. HomeStation Magazine assumes no responsibility for entries or submissions that are lost, late, misdirected, stolen, illegible, undelivered, garbled, damaged, mutilated, incomplete, reproduced mechanically, forged, falsified, altered, or tampered with (and any such entries or submissions are ineligible), or for any computer, online, telephone, or technical malfunctions that may occur. HomeStation Magazine assumes no responsibility for any technical problems in connection with the transmission or receipt of entries, including faulty electronic data transmission, traffic congestion on the Internet or on websites, hardware or software error, equipment failure or malfunction, or other online communications problems. In the event of disputes regarding the identities of the persons submitting entries, entries will be deemed made by the individuals who identify themselves on the entry forms. Winners may be required to provide proof of identity in order to receive prizes. Winners are solely responsible for any taxes associated with any prizes. HomeStation Magazine will publish the names of all winners. If for any reason this contest cannot be run or completed as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other cause which corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of the contest, HomeStation Magazine reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who is responsible or who tampers with the contest, and to modify, cancel, or terminate the contest and select winners from all eligible entries received prior to the cancellation or termination. HomeStation Magazine reserves the right, under its sole discretion, to disqualify any individuals who do not abide by the Membership Agreement. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CONTEST MAY VIOLATE CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, HOMESTATION MAGAZINE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES OR OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTEMPT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. In addition, HomeStation Magazine may modify the terms of the Contest with or without prior notice. This Contest is subject to all applicable laws and regulations, and is void wherever prohibited or restricted by law. Entrants agree to abide by the Official Rules and the decisions of HomeStation Magazine with respect to this contest, which are final.

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WINNERS’ LIST: A list of winners will be posted at the HomeStation Magazine website, at http://www.hsmagazine.net , and/or in an issue of HomeStation Magazine.

Although this contest is sponsored by Lockwood Publishing Ltd it is administered by HomeStation Magazine, which bears full responsibility for it.

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