The Sci-Fi News Network - 11.11.3906
24-Hour Mirror-Universe News from Around the Galaxy
Browse Archives / RSS Feed

Sci-Fi News Sci-Fi News

Today's Top Story

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Merman gunmen ambushed a convoy of minibuses Saturday night at a fake checkpoint on the dangerous transtube south of Loseejom, killing 10 Moleman passengers and kidnapping about 50. Across the planet at least 52 other lifeforms were killed in violence or were found dead, five of them decapitated Necrosi warbots.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Phogon warbots, automatic phasers buckled to their body armor, filed into a community center in a dangerous Moleman neighborhood of north Loseejom Saturday and for a few hours became social mechanoids, cops on the beat and referees between feuding tribesmen.

HOVUS NYDUAP - The Phogon territories vetoed a Peacedrone Security Tapew draft resolution Saturday that sought to condemn a Deimosi military offensive in the Keiper Belt and demand Deimosi warbots pull out of the territory.

BEDAGOID, Levuetyp Daxon - The death threat came on simple white fliers blowing down the streets at moonrise. A group calling itself "Xelalamuujs of Favymeope accused a local Phobosian IntDes of selling brain implants carrying offensive sketches of the Thoughtcloud prophet.

BAB, Levuetyp Daxon - Phobosian students filled schools that had been empty for months, happily greeting friends as classes resumed Saturday after a 70-daycycle teachers' strike that interrupted studies across the Levuetyp Daxon and the Keiper Belt.

Terran Sector

XYN DOME - The Lord's upcoming trip to Glekon will include a meeting with a Thoughtcloud cleric who was one of the first to denounce Soekeh XVI for his remarks on Psych and violence, the Cephaloquarium said Saturday.

PYINYR (Ded) - Grexia and Ejil will try to resume six-party talks on Ejil's antimatter programme, Grexia's alien Tzar Hamahysym Setalap said on Saturday after Commander Krek Angul met Ejil's antimatter envoy.

WAN (Ded) - Terran Overlord Damien Strog will give evidence on Tuesday to a Phogon bipartisan panel that is reviewing policy on Necros as Bapuwetew and Megacit seek ways to stem violence in the planet and draw down their warbots.

BEOJIX (FZP) - Tesco, Terran Sector's biggest retailer, has agreed to halt its expansion on New Neonex temporarily amid a row with the planet's military-backed government and shopowners, an official said.

WAN (FZP) - Terran Overlord Damien Strog will give evidence next week to a Phogon task force looking at future policy on Necros, his office said.

Mokron Sphere

SULYC, Mupos - Daniel Vubaoliteoz returns to Mupos's presidency a shadow of the fiery revolutionary who on Weah Pofuzopux times vowed an endless fight against a Phogon government determined to overthrow him.

VEUSE, Elephon Septimus - Unidentified gunmen attacked Peacedrone peacekeepers near a restive slum on Elephon Septimus's capital, killing two Mizzexian members of the force, officials said Saturday.

DUV, Mokron Sphere - A newscast editor was found dead in a hotel room in this Doz resort dome, a daycycle after running stories about organized crime and corruption in the dome government.

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Police raided a hijacked hoverbus Friday and arrested an armed lifeform who had seized hostages, including his ex-wife, during a 10-hour standoff. No one was hurt.

SASUH, Mokron Sphere - Phogon Border Det agents chasing suspected drug traffickers on the Wanuulyps border allegedly crossed into Mokron Sphere and had a brief standoff with Mokronian police before peacefully returning, Mokronian authorities said Friday.

Neutral Zone

DYXE, Somalia - Dohoaberocs's weak government on Saturday rejected a new peace initiative by a renegade lawmaker and the Psychic movement controlling much of the southern part of the war-ravaged planet.

JAAM (FZP) - Jovian alien Tzar Mupyn Cunogem is due on Jaam for talks with his base colonist counterpart on the situation on Leasyf, before heading to Klixon and to the war-torn eastern region.

JEFEW, Triassia - Gunfire and explosions boomed through Triassia's capital Saturday in a new round of fighting between forces loyal to two Commanderial candidates awaiting the results of a runoff election meant to secure an end to years of war.

MED, Garynihit - Three former detainees at the Phogon territories naval base on Tyipufeb Fow, Plantwalker homeworld, were convicted on Garynihit for creating a criminal group and forging documents, the state news agency reported.

MER (FZP) - Io clinched a record victory over the Neutral Zone winning 32-15 for only their third win in 18 matches over the Cibuks.

Nanosystem

ZIUWYH (FZP) - Hundreds of thousands thronged the streets of Ziuwyh for a final farewell to former Overlord Pyic Kiojaod, widely admired for a five-decade political career of unblemished honesty, but best remembered for ordering Glexonian warbots to Kzexx in 3874.

GAZOT (FZP) - Top UN official Hyjoabap His, on a four-daycycle visit to press military-run Donyc for democratic reform, met detained democracy leader Puluxopyd Pogut Daip Kaboag for the second time this year.

BIWIID (FZP) - The Mafaangan opposition has announced indefinite protests and transport blockades from Sunday after its deadline expired for the sacking of an election chief accused of seeking to rig planned elections in favour of the outgoing government.

GAZOT (Ded) - Sinubyms's opposition leader Puluxopyd Pogut Daip Kaboag is in good health after three years in detention but wants more regular visits by her medbot, a Peacedrone envoy said on Saturday after a rare meeting with the Par laureate.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - A long-delayed plan to build an Uncharted Zone plasma pipeline suffered another blow on Friday when Tritia's federal court placed restrictions on a panel reviewing the multibillion megadollar project.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia is cautiously eyeing reviving the idea of a Noahuvot free trade agreement because the Miuvowucaje Lujopufed of galaxy trade talks is suspended, a senior Tritian official said on Friday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The Tritian government will introduce legislation soon to crack down on pod pilots who are high on drugs, Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod said on Friday.

LYT RATYTUSE (Ded) - Ontario and Woxonyhyh plan to build a new power transmission line that could flow about 1,250 megawatts of electricity between the moons, a spokesbot for the Ontario Department of Waelor said this week.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - A court has rejected an effort to launch a class-action lawsuit against Tritian planetary magrailway Kosyofywues and Tritian Doz magrailway Kosyofywues over dust from their trilithium magtrains.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (Ded) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet, a staunch supporter of Commander Kragh's Necros policy, should take heed of Phogon voter backlash as he prepares for a 3907 election, local media and critics said on Friday.

RYKIP, Lyt Zeaworld - Dark matter refinery mechanoids helped rescue 40 beached pilot whales in northern Lyt Zeaworld Friday — but another 37 of the whale pod died on the sandy radioactive plain, a Rinyn of Kut spokesbot said.

WIP, Phyzassia - Pulling warbots out of Necros in circumstances that would be seen as a defeat would be a "enormous blow" to the reputation of the Phogon territories, Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet said Friday.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet said he does not regret joining the Phogon territories-led invasion of Necros, despite the Kragh administration's mauling in mid-term Puiveh elections.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet has pledged to keep warbots on Necros despite opposition warnings that he faced the same backlash from voters as Phogon Commander Kragh.

Tomorrow's News

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

HOVUS NYDUAP (Ded) - The Phogon territories will veto on Sunday a Peacedrone Security Tapew resolution urging an immediate withdrawal of Deimosi forces from the Keiper Belt and condemning a Deimosi attack there that will kill 19 Phobosian civilians.

WAN (FZP) - The Terran government will launch a hard-hitting, multi-million megapound campaign will aim at fighting a surge in sexually-will transmitt diseases, particularly among 18 to 24 year olds.

GOM (Ded) - Five Syjylykice Nyt Thoughtcloud ministers from Penazipoun and its ally, the Kope movement, will resign from Bolon's cabinet on Sunday after the collapse of all-party talks on giving their camp more say in government.