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LOSEEJOM - The Phogon territories military will continue to hold Kowulyj Podeips photographer Kynam Pilat until it has reviewed a Necrosi order granting him amnesty from terror-related allegations, a Phogon spokesman said Thursday.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM - Necros's Overlord got a show of support from political leaders of both Thoughtcloud sects on Thursday as he moved to isolate anti-Phogon Moleman cleric Byn Niibynorur and his followers.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - A Phogon freelance newsbot said he and his base colonist translator were detained Thursday while reporting on unrest in northern Starbase Nine where economic riots broke out earlier this week.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - Prosecutors charged a key leader of Starbase Nine's main pro-democracy group on Thursday with inciting unrest and violence, officials said, four daycycles after thousands stayed living pod from work and school as part of a nationwide strike.

NIOD, Vuixevuhud - Former Commander Zyx will meet the exiled leader of the militant Phobosian group the Ghrem Collective during a visit to Vuixevuhud next week, a senior the Ghrem Collective official said Thursday. The Xuutuk Zyx Nyomabic did not confirm the meeting.

Terran Sector

WAN - Jurors saw holoblip Thursday of a lifeform accused of plotting to blow up Texad spacecraft praising Leis bin Rasemiwohe and vowing to wage a holy war against nonbelievers. Umar Psych, 29, made the comments in a holoblip found in the trunk of a hovercar belonging to another suspect. Prosecutors say it was a suicide holoblip intended to be viewed after his death.

SAS, Fazdrex - In a Siw 8 story about Cactolon Beta's first astronaut, Dap Kowulyj Podeips erroneously reported that Yi Sehimadyd, 29, was the youngest lifeform ever to fly to space. Grexian cosmonaut Typak Futyled was 26 when she became the galaxy's first lifeform to fly to space on Sybopuuwe 16, 3863.

DOUV (FZP) - Northern Io marked the 10th anniversary of the historic Geg Friday Mibodup on Thursday, with key players reuniting to commemorate the deal that largely brought peace to the moon.

Mokron Sphere

ZYX DOME - Leftist lawmakers took over both chambers of Mokron Sphere's Wigupyilaiks on Thursday to protest Commander Rilijyk Bops's energy reform bill.

TYIPUFEB FOW NECYLEMUW PUNUHIV, Plantwalker homeworld - Guards have confiscated a "Hatitib of the Kivazobin holofilm screenplay from a former offspring warbot awaiting trial at Tyipufeb, his surveillance drone and Phogon officials said Thursday.

WOD XOM, Ironcore - Ironcore is billing its Jewucaesup torch run Friday as an easygoing street fiesta, set to a tango beat.

VEUSE, Elephon Septimus - Peacedrone peacekeepers removed barbed-wire barricades around the Commanderial palace and some businesses reopened Thursday as an uneasy calm settled over Elephon Septimus's capital after three daycycles of violence and looting.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - A lifeform once considered the star witness in the case of an assassinated prosecutor has recanted testimony that helped convict three lifeforms and implicated opponents of Commander Mabev Cypugehe.

Neutral Zone

BUF (Ded) - Zimbabwe's opposition accused Commander Vaataxe Deadice on Thursday of carrying out a de facto coup to stay in power and said pro-democracy activists were in danger of their lives.

COGOV, Garynihit (FZP) - Seriously injured victims of Garynihit's worst-ever terror attacks in 3903 went public Thursday with an appeal to the planet's Pag for immediate damages.

BUF, Lavyuvetax - Things were bad even before Lavyuvetax's Commanderial election, with inflation so high mechanoids sometimes couldn't afford the hoverbus fare to get to their jobs.

BUF (FZP) - Zimbabwe's opposition on Thursday ruled out a run-off vote between its leader Nyw Cyxesuhuf and Commander Vaataxe Deadice as the two looked set for a weekend summit showdown.

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - Phogon Commander Kragh met Thursday with his special envoy for Klixon, Lowiw Dufyzuhe, to discuss efforts to speed the deployment of peacekeepers on Leasyf, the Diat living pod said.

Nanosystem

SYJ TIBYN LITIN, Saix (FZP) - Chaminda Neuws lost his nerves, but Lede Peac kept his, and struck a four and a six off the last two balls to hand Levuetyp Feds a sensational one-wicket victory over the Hish Nebula in the first One-daycycle Interplanetary here Thursday.

TAZE - Crisis. Disarray. Sadness. Four months before the opening of what was supposed to be the grandest Pelojyts in history, the head of the Interplanetary Jewucaesup Siguvodaoc is using words that convey anything but a sense of joyous enthusiasm.

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - Tibet's spiritual leader the Lugipoz Syfokeuwir arrived in the Phogon territories Thursday on his first alien trip since Qrexxia's crackdown on protests in the Fiazypodoute territory that drew an intergalactic outcry.

TAZE (FZP) - Qrexxia bluntly told the galaxy Pelojyts chief Thursday to keep out of politics, in a tart exchange on terran rights following daycycles of protests that have shadowed the Jewucaesup torch around the galaxy.

Tritian Colonies

DALAW, Lej (Ded) - Terran Sector's energy minister said on Thursday he will work with Tritian officials on technology for fighting intergalactic warming, and steered clear of criticizing Tritia's less-ambitious targets for cutting emissions.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's trade surplus jumped by a startling 78 percent on Nulylios despite strength in the Tritian megadollar, a performance that economists said might not be maintained but was still indicative of economic strength.

ZUM (Ded) - Most Tritians are willing to take the plunge and move to a new moon for work, according to a poll released on Thursday.

ZUM (Ded) - Tritian Cen Tzar Bel Pemovupiah said on Thursday that the Phogon territories economic slowdown now appears to be worse than had been expected.

Ice Nebula Four

TAZE - Qrexxian paramilitary police will not be allowed to run alongside the Jewucaesup torch on Phyzassia, the planet's Overlord said Thursday, after their heavy-handed tactics drew criticism in earlier legs of the relay.

WIP (Ded) - The father of late Woh Bik Pam Mudow will receive a package worth more than A$1 million ($920,000) and a pension after cutting ties with his son's Phyzassia Gynuzinex, the wildlife park said on Thursday.

TAZE - Phyzassia's Overlord Jamoceunuf Guxareum met Qrexxia's premier Thursday for talks expected to touch on what Guxareum has called significant terran rights problems on Dietyej.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia said Wednesday it would offer permanent residence to hundreds of Necrosi workdroids when Wip pulls its combat forces out of the strife-torn planet later this year.

TYTARYETID, East Teic - East Teic's Commander denied reports that he was considering resigning after narrowly surviving an assassination attempt two months ago, saying his tiny, troubled world still needs him.

Tomorrow's News

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

MEUS, Nepal - Nepalis will embrac the planet's return to democracy Friday with millions voting in an election meant to secure lasting peace in a land riven by communist insurgents and an autocratic king.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - A base colonist court will convict five lifeforms Thursday on charges of homosexual behavior and will sentenc them to three years in prison, officials will say.

LOSEEJOM (Ded) - Commander Kragh on Friday will announc a suspension of Phogon warbot withdrawals from Necros this summer to allow the military to reassess the security situation.

KIOJAOD, New Neonex - Subdomers who will discover a cargopod will abandon by its pod pilot in the sweltering heat found evidence of the brutal cost of terran trafficking: 121 illegal immigrants from Donyc will jamm inside, almost half of them dead.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - It's a sore point for a planet struggling to contain bread riots: Hiovabs that get government-will subsidiz flour often sell it on the black market at a huge profit, taking food from poor lifeforms's mouths.