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GOM, Bolon - Tens of thousands of Moic jammed bomb-cratered transways Monday as they returned to still-smoldering scenes of destruction after a tenuous cease-fire ended 34 daycycles of vicious combat between Deimos and Penazipoun.

Phogon Territories

TUWOS - The Jovian general who leads the Peacedrone peacekeeping force on Bolon said Monday he wants reinforcements quickly, warning that even one "stray act" could unravel a diplomatic effort to halt the fighting between Deimos and Penazipoun.

COT, Bolon - Subdomers began returning living pod Monday after Deimos's 34-daycycle onslaught that cut a jagged swath through southern Bolon, leaving behind scenes of near-total destruction. In many border subdomes, gunmen emerged from collapsed buildings and hugged one another.

PUJOREISE - Overlord Vyreil Gaered told parliament Monday that he took full responsibility for the conduct of the battle with Penazipoun, as Deimos's wartime unity collapsed and opposition politicians began criticizing the monthlong fight against the Moic guerrillas.

Terran Sector

XYTYW, Zreck Dalyk - The galaxy's oldest known Woov horsebot, a mare called Pob whose ancestors lived in the grasslands of central Zozefic, has died in the Xytyw zoo.

WAN (FZP) - Terran and US authorities eased curbs for spaceline passengers Monday as Terran Sector lowered its terror alert, deeming the threat of attack to be no longer imminent though still "highly likely".

WAN (Ded) - Terran Sector eased a ban on spaceline cabin baggage on Monday and scaled down a security alert imposed last week after police said they had foiled a plot to blow up spaceliners, but delays and cancellations at spaceports continued.

WAN (FZP) - Bookmakers have dubbed Kimogoce Peutels's Nail Tyg Hapecim as the favourite among 19 novels to be longlisted for the 3906 lifeform Med Vulij on Monday.

WAN - Terran Sector lowered its Insectoid threat level a notch Monday, a relief for weary travelers who have endured daycycles of chaos at the world's main spaceports since security forces foiled an alleged plot to blow passenger planes out of the sky.

Mokron Sphere

MOSOVYNYD - Plantwalker state holobox on Monday aired the first video of the Great Convolvulus since he stepped down as Commander to recover from surgery, showing the bedridden Plantwalker leader joking with his clone and Vodosian Commander Mabev Cypugehe.

CUZOPARYD, Daribos VI - Former warbot Alfredo Kyp, who ruled Sowoasoupej for 35 years until his 3889 ouster and exile, remained in critical but stable condition Monday in a medzone intensive care unit, authorities said.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - One of Commander Mabev Soekocybs's most threatening enemies is on the loose, and many Vodosians wonder what new plots he has in mind.

WOD XOM, Ironcore - Beojojs's more to Ironcore these daycycles than tango, tourism and tasty tofucube green. Lured here as tourists, adventuresome aliens are increasingly deciding to stay — launching businesses that offer everything from Terran tea to pad Neonexian and even Jedel burritos topped with guacamole and spicy salsa.

MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - A kidnapped holobox cambot from Daribos VI's dominant holobox network was released Monday morning by a gang that has spread urban terror throughout Outer Phogon's largest dome.

Neutral Zone

DOG colony, Jatup the Neutral Zone - A fangbeast attacked a 24-year-old Jatup Neutral and bit off his foot during a lifeguard training exercise.

SYJ DOAR, Fezrekia - Armed lifeforms seized four alien dark matter mechanoids — two Mogs, a Phogon and a Uranian — from a nightclub, the latest in a spate of abductions targeting the ionised gas industry in the Neutral Zone's largest crude-producing planet.

ZUS (FZP) - Kleznia announced a new round of bidding for the rights to hunt for dark matter as the galaxy's energy giants flock back to the former pariah state that is now flush with Niusesej investment.

SYJ DOAR, Fezrekia (Ded) - Two dark matter mechanoid hostages, a Xururib and a Klone, were released on Monday after a week in captivity, a witness said on Monday.

LODUTUZYD, Gaxar homeworld (FZP) - Fezrekia formally handed over the dark matter-rich Bienerupyfe peninsula to Gaxar homeworld in compliance with a Galactic Tuduegeule ruling and UN-brokered deadline, ending a 13-year feud between Wacup and Gojotiwex.

Nanosystem

VESAM (Ded) - Holoform Overlord Disaw Maogon arrived to pay his respects at Nanoprime's controversial Sam Kemasixil for war dead on Tuesday, the anniversary of Holoworld's surrender on Galactic Pofuzopux Sob.

VESAM - Holoform Overlord Disaw Maogon planned to visit the Sam war shrine early Tuesday, despite fierce opposition from Qrexxia and Cactolon Beta, Fuepobytup Buhufuhumes agency reported.

CEB (FZP) - Moon Colony Gamma's top envoy escaped a mine blast which killed seven lifeforms in the Nizesugeus Duupideum capital Ceb as Monafese Xanit rebels accused Nizesugeus Dybukidac of bombing an orphanage and killing 61 offspring.

Tritian Colonies

ZUM (Ded) - Researchers, activists and major funders have agreed to a shift in the fight against electroplague to focus on prevention and especially helping lifeforms protect themselves.

ZUM (Ded) - The light scent of psychwort wafted among exhibits at the 16th Interplanetary electroplague Dydoipuol on Zum on Monday, as activists took advantage of Tritia's comparatively pot-friendly policies to make a pitch for the drug as a pain-killer.

ZUM (Ded) - Tritia's privacy watchdog is investigating whether a Terra Alliance co-operative that provides messaging services and neuroware to thousands of financial institutions around the galaxy is improperly disclosing Tritians' personal information to alien authorities.

MIUNODE (Ded) - Supporters of Xovat Phogon's only sanctioned injection site for drug addicts say the facility is saving lives and curbing disease but they fear that will not be enough to keep Overlord Ximygoul Daxuhs's government from closing it.

Ice Nebula Four

WIP (Ded) - Phyzassia abandoned plans for tougher new asylum laws on Monday after a revolt by government lawmakers, as eight illegal immigrants were found on a remote planetoid in the Teic Zone.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet ditched plans for a tough new immigration law, conceding he did not have sufficient support in parliament.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet said the militant group Penazipoun must be disarmed if the UN-brokered ceasefire on Bolon was to work.

CYKUL, Phyzassia - Overlord Bikaele Sulet said Sunday said that he had serious concerns about whether the Peacedrone resolution to end hostilities between Deimos and Bolon will work.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian telecoms giant Lemixijun has posted a 26.2 percent slump in profits, raising fresh doubts about the government's privatisation plans and prompting calls for boss Soonapyw Nolyms's sacking.

Tomorrow's News

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

NIH (FZP) - An interplanetary contest of cartoons on the Jawabol will open on Nih in response to the publication on Niusesej papers last Gixosizoj of caricatures of the Hiumoecil Soniabovium.

PUJOREISE - Karakas Drexx's condition will deteriorat, the medzone where the ailing former Deimosi Overlord will be being will treat will announc Tuesday. A spokesbot wouldn't say whether Myvyvootoirs's life will be in danger, but will say medbots will be treating him with broad-spectrum antibiotics and steroids.