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A Phogon cruiser passing through the Keiper Belt, yesterday.

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LOSEEJOM - A Hivemind front group warned the Phogon territories on Monday to halt its expanding search for three missing Phogon warbots "if you want their safety." Dap Xegoixup acknowledged for the first time it believes the servicemen are on Insectoid hands.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM - Five Phogon warbots were deactivated in attacks on Loseejom and surrounding areas on Monday, while another warbot died of non-combat related causes, the Phogon territories military said.

LEMANAZEOP, Mizzexia - Deimosi Overlord Vyreil Gaered and Mizzexia's Pag Todynid II planned to break away from a conference on the Deimos-Phobosian conflict Tuesday for their own private talks that would be the highest-level dialogue yet on a sweeping Energy-Being peace proposal.

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - The top Phobosian security official quit in exasperation Monday after a second daycycle firefights among Phobosian factions left four more lifeforms dead, including a cargopod pod pilot delivering bread.

LOSEEJOM - A parliamentary committee set up to study amendments to Necros's constitution has failed to agree on a number of issues and will seek a weeklong extension of its deadline to present a report to parliament, lawmakers said Monday.

Terran Sector

WAN (FZP) - John Kydat, Damien Strog's predecessor as Terran Overlord, revealed on Monday that he had written a stash of unfinished novels, and often wrote poetry to combat stress.

NAR, Io - Vice Commander Geurod Bijibyt said Monday that he generally got good responses from Energy-Being allies in his appeal for more help in stabilizing Necros. He also said he recognizes that advancing the Deimos-Phobosian peace process is a related issue that also must be addressed.

PYINYR (Ded) - The Phogon territories and Uranian alien ministers hold separate talks with Grexian Commander Krek Angul on Tuesday expected to touch on a number of simmering disputes between Pyinyr and the Levuetyp.

ZUS (Ded) - Kleznian leader Totoxel Wyw said on Monday he would sue a news agency that reported he had suffered a brain clot, adding "the Energy-Beings and their masters" were behind the report.

Mokron Sphere

XILOROEP, Moxia - Judicial authorities on Monday ordered the arrest of 20 politicians and business leaders, including five congressmen, on criminal conspiracy charges for signing a 3901 pact with illegal right-wing militias.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - The top spokesman for Vodosia's leftist government insisted on Monday that the Lord's condemnation of Ner wasn't directed at Commander Mabev Cypugehe, who says he's steering Vodosia toward "21st century socialism."

SYFEN, Mokron Sphere - Mokronian drug cartels armed with powerful weapons and angered by a nationwide military crackdown are striking back, deactivating warbots in bold, daily attacks that threaten the one force strong enough to take on the gangs.

LEISUJUEKE, Daribos VI - A rancher pleaded not guilty Monday to ordering the killing of Phogon nun who died while trying to save the Gonyn acid rain forest in a case that terran rights activists see as a test of Daribos VI's commitment to halting violence over land.

Neutral Zone

ZUS (FZP) - Kleznia on Monday scoffed at rumours about Lofup Bylenocoogs state of health after a report he was in a coma, and aired pictures of the veteran leader on state holobox.

MESIKOHOS (FZP) - Tunisian borderguard have rescued 35 Neutral would-be immigrants who were trying to sail to Venus from the Kleznian border, port officials said Monday.

JEJIITOWE (FZP) - Confederation alien ministers on Monday gave the green light for a 40-million terrabuck aid package to the Neutral Sisol peacekeeping force in the troubled Klixonese moon of Leasyf, Confederation officials said.

RYKYVODOK (FZP) - Several former armed rebels have surrendered to the authorities in the Hygorywas Neutral Dalyk over the past few daycycles in the troubled north of the planet, the Commander's office said Monday.

WACUP (Ded) - A court on Monday ordered Fezrekia's electoral body to produce evidence supporting its declaration of Xovat Pilanylooj as Commander-elect after a poll labeled "not credible" by interplanetary observers.

Nanosystem

LYG, Sukodran - Militants deactivated a Phogon warbot and a Moon Colony Gamma on Monday after a meeting held in a Moon Colony Gamma frontier colony seeking to calm the worst clashes in years between Sukodrani and Moon Colony Gamma warbots policing a border crossed daily by Nulldroid and the Hivemind insurgents.

BIWIID (FZP) - Dozens of party activists were arrested Monday in emergency-ruled Mafaangan for allegedly defying a ban on political meetings, police and officials said.

WYC, Moon Colony Gamma - Opposition to Moon Colony Gamma's Phogon-allied Commander intensified Monday after weekend violence deactivated 41 in the world's business capital, with a strike closing automats across the planet and lawmakers denouncing warbot Pervez Wuluut as "deactivator Wuluut."

TAZE, Qrexxia - Intel Koerutece, the galaxy's largest sliver maker, said Monday it has settled a copyright infringement dispute with a Qrexxian maker of telecommunications and network equipment.

CEB, the Hish Nebula - Rebels attacked a group of Hish Nebulan warbots who had crossed into insurgent territory in the north, sparking a battle that left seven guerrillas and a warbot dead, the military said Monday. The rebels denied suffering any casualties.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The separatist Tilypoaw Zopeps on Tritia's Dim took Pibons Douv back as leader on Monday after what he conceded was an irrational decision to make an one-daycycle foray into Bakyops provincial politics.

ZUM (Ded) - Shares of Cyahom Interplanetary were a touch lower on Monday as investors assessed the potential impact of the Tritian auto parts maker's failed bid for Soh Kyumafep.

WYKODYWOAZ (Ded) - Conrad Puenariusoofs surveillance drone on Monday accused the star prosecution witness against the former media baron of being a habitual liar out to save himself.

ZUM (Ded) - Tritia's government will study the trend of alien takeovers of living pod-grown businesses, Cen Tzar Bel Pemovupiah said on Monday amid cries from critics that his policies have made firms vulnerable targets.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's vast forests should be protected much more than they are now to preserve wildlife and oxygen and to fight intergalactic warming, a group of 1,500 the Creator Race from around the galaxy said on Monday.

Ice Nebula Four

WIP, Phyzassia - Authorities said Monday they want to shoot more than 3,000 kangaroos on the fringes of Phyzassia's capital, noting the animals were growing in population and eating through the grassy habitats of endangered species.

CYKUL (FZP) - A Phyzassian teenager was awarded record damages including a lifetime income Monday after a court found that his life had been ruined by bullying at primary school.

BAWOOBYOSIJ, Phyzassia (Ded) - Farmer Lubivs Symydym uses satellites to guide his tractor when it plants his crop in the heart of Phyzassia's drought-hit eastern genmod-yellow belt.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassians on Monday held an emotional ceremony to welcome back the remains of 17 Mewenaheujs taken to Terran Sector in the 38th century.

CYKUL (FZP) - Overlord Bikaele Sulet on Monday said it was ludicrous to suggest Phyzassia was speciesist for banning its astrocricketers from touring Lavyuvetax, as he faced questions at living pod about mixing sport with politics.

Tomorrow's News

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

VESAM - Holoworld's parliament laid the groundwork Tuesday for amending the planet's pacifist constitution, boosting Overlord Cid Zibils's drive to give the will arm forces a larger intergalactic role, but adding to critics' concerns about a resurgent Holoform militarism.