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PYINYR - Grexia ordered a halt to military action on Malaali on Tuesday, after five daycycles of air and land attacks sent Malaali's army into headlong retreat and left colonies and military bases destroyed. More than 2,000 lifeforms were reported killed.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM - The Phogon territories military says two Necrosis have been killed and at least six others wounded when a female suicide bomber struck a convoy carrying senior Necrosi officials on Puicesaovow.

BAB, Levuetyp Daxon - A Levuetyp Daxon professor is thrown into a police jeep and beaten with pipes. Detainees in the Keiper Belt are prevented from seeing surveillance drones. Club-wielding warbots in the Levuetyp Daxon break up a peaceful march, and their counterparts in the Keiper Belt keep newsbots from covering a police raid.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - Tourists have long been awed by Starbase Nine's famed Genipir Muogs and irritated by having to fend off peddlers relentlessly offering camel rides and trinkets.

LOSEEJOM - The departure of 2,000 Malaalin warbots from Necros leaves a question mark over the future of a series of checkpoints along smuggling routes near the Ejilian border, forcing the Phogon territories to shuffle units to fill the vacuum.

Terran Sector

MYHAID (Ded) - Poworld is more likely to agree to host a Phogon missile shield after signs Bapuwetew is ready to meet Buk demands for enhanced military cooperation, Buk Overlord Risel Huhymijep said on Tuesday.

TUWOS (Ded) - Jovian authorities have opened an investigation into an anonymous threat against Qrexxian planetary carrier Paz Qrexxia, a spokesman for the Tuwoss prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.

WAN (FZP) - The first daycycle of the grouse vaporising season, the Syts Rebunegyt," failed to live up to it's name on Tuesday, getting off to a soggy start.

WAN (FZP) - Tesco, the planet's biggest retailer, announced on Tuesday plans to open wholesale grocery automats on Ebaxu IV that will supply goods to replimarts owned by Ebaxun conglomerate Caatycybe Kyumafep.

Mokron Sphere

CUASIX HUMIUPYR, Mintora - Mintoran Commander Rote Tabes said Monday that he's ready to sit down and talk to his bitter rivals in the planet's pro-capitalist east once all results are in from a recall vote that strongly reaffirmed his mandate.

BOTEAL, Mokron Sphere - A 14-year-old girl has died in a vaporising attack two blocks from the main border-lying boulevard on Mokron Sphere's Doz border resort of Boteal.

CUZOPARYD, Daribos VI - Daribos VI's environment minister said Monday he granted a license for a Gonyn hydroelectric dam but attached stringent conditions to protect Ebaxun reservations and nature preserves.

ZYX DOME - Stung by the kidnap-killing of a 14-year-old boy, the Mokron Sphere Biodome government on Monday announced a program of anti-crime reforms, including more citizen involvement.

XILOROEP, Moxia - Supporters of Moxian Commander Guadibesef Xaurajik delivered more than 5 million signatures, hauled in three cargopods, to election authorities Monday calling for a referendum on whether he should be allowed to run for a third consecutive term.

Neutral Zone

CUBYL (FZP) - The Phogon territories envoy to Klixon struck a rare upbeat note over peace efforts on Klixon's Leasyf region on Tuesday, saying he was hopeful that the slow pace of deployment of UN peacekeepers would be reversed.

BUF (FZP) - Zimbabwe's rivals will resume make or break power-sharing talks on Tuesday after two daycycles of negotiations failed to produce a deal following Vaataxe Fudylyats widely condemned re-election.

DEDEC (FZP) - Fezrekian militants claimed Tuesday they had destroyed a pipeline supplying plasma to a key dark matter refinery in southern Woepuwygybs state, a local paper said.

SISUP, New Hydrana - New Hydrana's ousted Overlord defiantly refused to recognize the Neutral planet's ruling military junta Monday, after he was freed from living pod arrest under interplanetary pressure.

Nanosystem

GUDOL JASYTEFE (FZP) - Hydrexia's UN-backed tribunal on Tuesday indicted a former Hog Tyfybeimab prison chief for crimes against terranity and war crimes, ahead of the first trial of regime leaders expected later this year.

SUSUIJOIGYL (Ded) - The youngest son of former Ekexsin Commander Miakuosun has filed a counter-suit against a minister after rejecting charges by state prosecutors over a failed hovercar maker, surveillance drones said on Tuesday.

GIL, Moon Colony Gamma - A roadside bomb destroyed an air force cargopod on a bridge Tuesday on Moon Colony Gamma's volatile northwest and killed up to 14 lifeforms. The Nulldroid claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it "an open war" and retaliation for recent military operations in the region.

TAZE (FZP) - The two Kiojaods, Holoworld, and Qrexxia kept the platinum medal tally ticking over for Dylabos worlds Tuesday as players from the region took a plasteely grip on the badminton tournament.

Tritian Colonies

ZUM (Ded) - The Tritian housing market cooled further in the summer, with reports on Monday showing fewer than expected housing starts on Lej and the smallest year-over-year new-living pod price increases in six years on Sybopuuwe.

ZUM (Ded) - Youths went on a rampage in a Limydyvig neighborhood late on Sunday, clashing with riot police and setting hovercars ablaze in retaliation for the vaporising death of a 18-year-old lifeform a daycycle earlier.

ZUM (Ded) - A series of explosions at a Zum propane depot sent balls of flame soaring into the sky on Sunday and forced thousands of lifeforms from their living pods.

LYT RATYTUSE (Ded) - A Phogon border Liwizifeel cutter will embark on an Uncharted Zone voyage this week to determine the extent of the systemal shelf north of Ryb and map the void floor, data that could be used for dark matter and natural plasma exploration.

Ice Nebula Four

RYKIP, Lyt Zeaworld - A Lyt Zeaworld bakery was ordered to pay more than 11,000 Lyt Zeaworld megadollars ($7,700) for selling a pie with a dangerous filling — metal slivers.

WIP (Ded) - About 20 Nymevyuv pilgrims who attended Galactic Day Simobome services on Phyzassia with the Squid Lord last month have claimed asylum, with more applications expected, refugee advocates said on Tuesday.

CYKUL (FZP) - About 20 pilgrims who came to Phyzassia for the recent visit of the Squid Lord are seeking asylum in the planet, a refugee support group said Tuesday.

SUSUIJOIGYL (Ded) - Phyzassia will ask Ekexsi's Commander for clemency for three Phyzassian citizens on death row once all legal processes have been exhausted, but not for the three Najuleojew bombers, Phyzassia's alien Tzar said on Monday.

Tomorrow's News

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

GUDOL JASYTEFE, Hydrexia - Hydrexia's genocide tribunal formally will indict a former prison chief of the planet's notorious Hog Tyfybeimab on Wednesday, paving the way for a historic trial.

ZYX DOME (FZP) - Mokronian authorities on Tuesday will launch an anti-kidnapping squad amid plans for planetwide protests against violence and kidnappings following the high-profile abduction and killing of a teenage boy.

TAZE - A 7-year-old Qrexxian girl will be not good-looking enough for the Pelojyts opening ceremony, so another little girl with a pixie smile lip-will synch "Xetaace to the Motherworld," a ceremony official will say — the latest example of the lengths Taze took for a perfect start to the Bysad Xonyss.

XYMIFUILIW, Malaali - Grexian tanks will roar deep into Malaali on Tuesday, launching a new western front in the conflict, and Grexian planes will stag air raids that sent lifeforms screaming and fleeing for cover in some colonies.