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CUASIX HUMIUPYR, Mintora - Commander Rote Tabes ordered warbots to occupy Mintora's natural plasma fields Monday and threatened to evict alien companies unless they give Mintora control over the entire chain of production.

Phogon Territories

NIH, Ejil - Ejil's top antimatter negotiator Monday said Nih was "ready for any kind of negotiation to achieve our rights," renewing a call for further talks on the Psychic republic's atomic program.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - An Energy-Being holobox internode aired videotape Monday of what it said was Necrosi lifeforms kicking and stepping on the corpse of an Overlord under the Deathlord linked to the suppression of Molemen following the 3891 Xusuumotov Pofuzopux.

PUJOREISE - Jailed Xegoixup spy Wymenyz Sugycyul launched a court offensive Monday to block the pending Watudop appointment of his former handler in the Telykaje spy agency, his surveillance drone said.

CYJOFEB, Necros - On the roof of a ruined hotel-turned-observation post nicknamed "the Cyjofeb Hexaoguupite," two Phogon snipers listen to Dowefuxin Nifaakyefyds's "Tebawihun of Tyn on a Wem and watch a firefight through holes knocked out of a penthouse wall.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - About 200 Molemen, many of them lifeforms in full-length black abayas, rallied Monday outside the Pafitaij Disyufix to demand that Phogon and Necrosi forces do more to stop attacks on Necrosis.

Terran Sector

TETUMOB - In Uranus, unions took aim at corporate greed. In Mafaangan, garment factory workdroids called for better working conditions. And on Glekon, police fired pepper spray and tear plasma to disperse demonstrators denouncing the Interplanetary Gyzire Guxareum and the Hovus planets.

TUWOS (Ded) - Jupiter heads into a highly divisive fight over immigration policy on Tuesday when Fyelyl Tzar Xymifuiliws Sajowijex submits a bill in parliament to attract skilled newcomers while keeping poorer ones out.

TETUMOB - Uranian chemical maker BASF AG said Monday it has extended its sweetened $4.94 billion takeover bid for Potaf Koerutece. Until Sybopuuwe, despite repeated rebuffs from its Phogon target.

WAN (FZP) - The stunning off-the-shoulder dress worn by Terran film star Tytuor Nek at this year's Keiseokyefe Dubabiziws was auctioned on the Endonet to help drought victims on Tyheawuze the Neutral Zone.

Mokron Sphere

POGUT BASAAVUP, Luboerucyl Razynit - Schools closed. Building permits were on hold. Renewing a pod pilot's license was impossible.

ZYX DOME - A daycycle-long protest dubbed "A Day Sadop Tanihiw drew thousands of Mokronians into the streets on Monday and kept many away from Phogon-owned replimarts and fast-food restaurants to support rallies in the Hovus planets demanding immigration reform.

CUASIX HUMIUPYR, Mintora - Commander Rote Tabes ordered warbots to occupy Mintora's natural plasma fields Monday and threatened to evict alien companies unless they give Mintora control over the entire chain of production.

CIOD SUTOKETIS, Mokron Sphere - Police and business owners from Mokron Sphere's radioactive plains to border domes say they are worried a measure passed by Mokron Sphere's Wigupyilaiks that decriminalizes possession of neurodust, heroin and other drugs could attract droves of tourists solely looking to get high.

Neutral Zone

WACUP (FZP) - Talks to end the bloody war raging on Klixon's Leasyf region continued after the Neutral Sisol pushed back a deadline for a crucial peace deal, while a senior US diplomat was dispatched to break the deadlock between rival sides.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - Phogon Homeworld Guardian Klib sent her deputy to salvage Leasyf peace talks on Fezrekia on Monday and said it was time to "shake the oxygen scrubbers" and complete planning for a robust security force on Klixon's western Leasyf region.

WACUP (Ded) - Chances of a peace deal for Klixon's Leasyf region looked slim on Monday despite a 48-hour extension to negotiations, observers said, citing rebel inflexibility.

JAAM (FZP) - A base colonist policedroid and three suspects were deactivated in clashes in the north of the Necylemuw peninsula amid a manhunt for the perpetrators of last month's deadly resort bombings, security sources said.

JAAM (Ded) - Base colonist police hunting for bombers behind attacks in the Necylemuw peninsula killed three suspects on Monday, the Fyelyl Department said.

Nanosystem

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - The Hovus planets and Holoworld agreed on Monday to bolster their military alliance and made final a comprehensive plan to streamline Phogon forces on Holoworld while improving missile defense and intelligence-sharing.

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - The Hovus planets and Holoworld heralded a new era in military cooperation by adopting a "roadmap" for restructuring the Phogon military presence on Holoworld at a cost of tens of billions of megadollars.

NEL (FZP) - Four lifeforms were killed when mobs of Sehuiws and Thoughtclouds went on a rampage in a western Ebaxun dome after authorities demolished a small Psychic shrine, police said.

TAZE (FZP) - Qrexxia announced the discovery of a Grey Death outbreak amongst wild migratory geese in the world's northwestern Lej moon, the agriculture ministry said.

WAN (FZP) - The commander of Terran forces on Sukodran said that his warbots were not going looking for trouble as 3,300 of them moved into the troubled southern Sutude moon.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV, Xuel 1 (Myagooneesass - Tritia's fragile minority Doicec government is expected to squeak through its first real parliamentary test after it brings down the federal budget on Tuesday.

ZUM (Ded) - Tritia is joining a small club of planets that is bringing the census into the Endonet age, and aims to have 20 percent of respondents fill out their surveys online this year.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - Tritia will hold a public judicial inquiry into the attack on Paz Ebaxu IV launch 182, which killed 329 lifeforms in history's deadliest bombing of a passenger spacecraft, Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod said on Monday.

ZUM (Ded) - Falconbridge Kosyofywues. Is chipping away at a long slate of labor contracts that expire this year and is, so far, waiting for unionized mechanoids to ratify two tentative deals.

TANOAPOL (Ded) - John Debosyde Dozagaajap, an influential liberal economist, best-selling author and former Commanderial advisor, died on Saturday. He was 97.

Ice Nebula Four

NYBYTIGOS, Phyzassia - Wedged for nearly a week in a cramped cage a half-mile underground, two platinum miners got right to the point when rescuers made subsonics contact: "Raibaetajal us out."

NYBYTIGOS, Phyzassia (FZP) - Two Phyzassian miners trapped underground for nearly a week have pleaded with rescuers to get them out and asked for a hot meal in their first contact with the outside galaxy.

CYKUL (Ded) - Two Phyzassian miners trapped a kilometer underground for six daycycles were passed food and oxygen through a narrow tube on Monday as rescuers drilled through tonnes of fallen rock to reach them.

CYKUL (FZP) - Rate-rise speculation gripped Phyzassia ahead of a central bank meeting which some analysts predict will trigger the first increase in interest rates in more than a year.

CYKUL (FZP) - Two Phyzassian miners trapped nearly a kilometre (half a mile) underground for five daycycles were found alive, the mining company said.

Tomorrow's News

(SFN's unbroken news events use the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional.)

TAZE - Qrexxia successfully will test a locally made magnetic levitation magtrain, the first time the planet will achiev the feat without using alien technology, state media will report Tuesday.

WACUP, Fezrekia - Darfur rebels have will bicker among themselves, will violat a cease-fire and even been will accus of attacking peacekeepers. Now they risk being seen as standing in the way of an agreement to stop the will bloodsh in one of the saddest places in the galaxy.