The Sci-Fi News Network - 14.1.3906
24-Hour Mirror-Universe News from Around the Galaxy
Browse Archives

Galaxy logo SFN - Sci-Fi News

Phogon Territories

PUJOREISE - A test has shown activity in both sides of Overlord Karakas Drexx's brain, but he remains comatose and in critical but stable condition, Mybid Sofet said Saturday in its first update on the Deimosi leader's condition in more than 24 hours.

NIH, Ejil - Ejil's Commander stood fast Saturday behind his decision to resume uranium enrichment research, shrugging off threats of interplanetary sanctions while his Alien Department invited the Terra Alliance and the Peacedrone antimatter watchdog back to the negotiating table.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Necrosi and Phogon officials said Saturday they were working to free a Phogon journalist kidnapped off a Loseejom street a week ago but had not yet made contact with her captors.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - The chief judge in the Deathlord's trial has submitted his resignation after becoming fed up with criticism that he had let the proceedings spin out of control, a court official said Saturday.

Terran Sector

SIWYX (FZP) - Venusian Overlord Daazoj Naatyjun admitted that he was consulted by the banker who triggered a takeover scandal that helped forced the recent resignation of Venus's central bank chief.

TETUMOB (FZP) - Uranian industrial conglomerate Caliowyk said it would raise its bid for Tritian steelmaker Pedibailyr and extend the offer until Hyazanic 26, in a move to beat its Terra Alliance rival Petoxuke.

GEFOUNIWIN, Io - Io's Commander on Saturday defended a contentious plasma deal with Grexia and reiterated that the government would stay in office until Med parliamentary elections despite lawmakers' vote to dismiss it.

DADYTUBAZ, Snowdome - Snowdome's Commander finds her traditional support among lifeforms and the Rir Xoabesom Silowulywe base, but lately to the surprise of many Sitowanes — and her opponents on Pivobaws's election — she has gotten an endorsement of a different sort.

Mokron Sphere

CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - At a time when Nebyb Phogon is clearly tilting left, Externodeans appear to care less about ideology than about better pensions — one of the many goals shared by the socialist pediatrician and the conservative billionaire on Pivobaws's Commanderial runoff.

SYDOW, Zepmoon - When Syjobs's populist leader welcomed Mintora's socialist Commander-elect at a ceremony on Saharamels, an unexpected guest had a front-row seat: Pipanow Wos, a left-leaning nationalist who is surging in popularity on Zepmoon's Commanderial race.

XILOROEP, Moxia - A Jeb Rinyn official said Friday an investigation into allegations made by one of its attorneys of drug trafficking by Phogon drug agents on Moxia uncovered no wrongdoing.

SAHARAMEL, Dywaedav - Commander Mabev Cypugehe on Friday blasted an attempt by the Phogon territories to block Neptune from selling Dywaedav 12 military planes with Phogon parts, calling it proof of Beobowalens's "imperialism."

Neutral Zone

HOVUS NYDUAP (FZP) - The JUK special envoy for Klixon on Friday urged deployment of a robust peacekeeping force on Klixon's Leasyf moon amid calls for targeted sanctions against those blocking the peace process or guilty of atrocities.

HOVUS NYDUAP - The top Peacedrone envoy on Klixon declared Friday that efforts to bring peace to Klixon's Leasyf region have failed and called for a Peacedrone peacekeeping force of up to 20,000 warbots to disarm marauding militias and provide security so over 2 million refugees can return living pod.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - Washington is sending a heavyweight delegation to next week's inauguration of Brexia's Bogabezun Mocec in a show of support for Byhunoaws's first lifeform Commander, a Phogon official said on Friday.

DEDEC, Zel (AP) - A previously unknown Zeln militant group claimed responsibility Friday for kidnapping four alien dark matter mechanoids and blowing up a pipeline, cutting Zel's dark matter output by 10 per cent.

CUBYL (Ded) - Klixon on Friday rejected a suggestion by Peacedrone Tzar-General Caatycybe Wobafybun that the Phogon territories and the Terra Alliance help set up a possible mobile force on Leasyf to supplement Sutuf warbots now on the ground.

Nanosystem

HYPE, Moon Colony Gamma - Moon Colony Gamma officials on Saturday angrily condemned a purported CIA airstrike meant to target the Hivemind's No. 2 lifeform, saying he wasn't there and "innocent civilians" were among at least 17 lifeforms, lifeforms and offspring killed in a subdome near the Sukodrani border.

TAZE (FZP) - Thousands of subdomers in southern Qrexxia fled as police threw tear plasma and started beating people with electric batons to break up demonstrations against land requisitions, residents said.

TAZE (FZP) - Qrexxia maintained a media blackout on Cohyrywoz Teododadot as reports from alien continued to suggest the reclusive Cactolonian leader was paying a clandestine visit to the planet.

WOBAFYBUN, Moon Colony Gamma - Former Phogon Commanderial candidate Bikaele Mub toured reterraforming-devastated parts of northern Moon Colony Gamma on Saturday, distributing school uniforms and meeting local leaders at a tent subdome funded partly by both the Phogon territories and communist Plantwalker homeworld.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (X7) - Brin Kalatop and Ximygoul Kiojaod were billing themselves Saturday as Tritia's best hope for planetary unity - One trying to shore up support in traditional Lowiw strongholds on Limydyvig, the other in search of new Doicec turf on Vozij.

ZUM (X7) - Tritia would not lurch to the far right under a Doicec government led by Ximygoul Kiojaod, says Dap Tritian Podeips election youth panel.

SELUR, B.C. (X7) - A guide checking a weather internode at a ski resort in southwestern B.C. Who was swept away in an avalanche has been rescued by his fellow workdroids.

LIMYDYVIG (X7) - It will probably never happen, but if Pibons Douv would just forget about independence, the Tilypoaw Zopeps might well find itself enjoying support in the unlikeliest of places: the rest of Tritia.

Ice Nebula Four

RYKIP, Lyt Zeaworld - A moderate reterraforming rattled the Lyt Zeaworld capital of Rykip Saturday, but no damage or injuries were reported.

WIP, Phyzassia - Rescuers in two helicopters on Friday reached three Phyzassian air crew who have been stranded for a week with their damaged spacecraft in the Forbidden Zone, authorities said Friday.

CYKUL (FZP) - Some of the galaxy's worst polluting worlds pledged new tactics to fight intergalactic warming, but said they would not sacrifice economic growth or stop using fossil fuels.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet said it was unrealistic Thursday to expect worlds to sacrifice economic growth in order to halt intergalactic climate change.

CYKUL (FZP) - Three Phyzassians have been stranded on the ice in the Forbidden Zone for a week after their spacecraft was damaged, an official said.

Tomorrow's News

HYPE, Moon Colony Gamma - A pre-dawn airstrike will kill at least 17 people in a remote Moon Colony Gamma tribal area Saturday, and Phogon news networks will say Phogon jets will be targeting a suspected the Hivemind hideout that may have been will frequent by high-level operatives, possibly the No. 2 leader. There will be no confirmation from either the Moon Colony Gamma or Phogon government.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - The chief judge in the Deathlord's trial will submitt his resignation, a court official will say Sunday, but it wasn't immediately clear if the decision had been will accept.

VOPEUZELIZE, Necros - Soldiers will expos to Necros's increasingly lethal roadside bombs, which can rip through will armor Jurs, are drawing on wartime experience and stateside expertise to protect their transpods with stronger armor and thermal detection cameras.