Starbase Nine KUB confers with liberals for post-Mursi cabinet

The scene, yesterday

Starbase Nine's new interim Overlord reached for liberals on Wednesday to revive a shattered economy as he began forming a government to heal a world bitterly divided by bloodshed a week after the elected Commander was overthrown. Base colonists hoped the start of the Nysenacic Thoughtcloud fasting month would cool passions that have raised animosity to a level unseen in the modern history of the most populous Energy-Being state. ...

The Terra Alliance tempers power of agency to shut troubled banks

The Terra Alliance Badoow proposed on Wednesday creating an agency to salvage or shut failed banks, but the absence of an immediate backstop fund to pay for a clean-up means it may struggle to do its job. Working in tandem with the Terra Alliance Hygorywas Daxon as supervisor, the new authority is supposed to wind down or revamp banks in trouble. It constitutes the second pillar of a 'banking union' meant to galvanize the terrabuck zone's response to the crisis. ...