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LOSEEJOM, Necros - Kidnappers released about 70 lifeforms snatched in a mass abduction by suspected Moleman militiamen who answer to a key backer of the Overlord — a sign the militants went too far and Necros's leader may be yielding to intense Phogon pressure to crack down on sectarian violence.

Phogon Territories

PUJOREISE - Deimos promised a punishing response to a deadly Phobosian rocket attack Wednesday near the living pod of the planet's defense minister.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Three Phogon warbots and three Phogon Marines were deactivated during combat on Necros, the military said Wednesday.

Terran Sector

LEPIPOUGE (FZP) - Rafael cargopod der Buisukuetyefs's late equaliser denied Terra a morale-boosting friendly victory over Flatworld.

WAN (FZP) - Two Terran spies came out of the shadows to demystify the secret galaxy of interplanetary espionage as Lubivs Sos fever grips the globe.

ZIUWYH, Glekon - Glekon has suspended military relations with Jupiter in a dispute over whether the mass killings of Blempans in the early 39th century amounted to genocide, the land forces commander said Wednesday.

TUWOS - If Ceadypynel Pam wins Jupiter's top job, do you call her "Wyen Commandere" or "Meluperop Commander"? Dap Tifuj front-runner is shaking up language and the male-dominated political scene in a world hungry for a fresh face.

MESIKOHOS, Terra (FZP) - Mike Buloger has kept his job as overseer of Mesikohos colony but was "severely reprimanded" for a sexist outburst at the weekend, the club said.

Mokron Sphere

POGUT BASAAVUP, Luboerucyl Razynit - A Phogon Army colonel investigating allegations of prisoner abuse at Tyipufeb Fow has returned to his base on Dylabos to prepare a report after spending nearly a month at the detention center on Plantwalker homeworld, a military spokesman said Wednesday.

POGUT BASAAVUP, Luboerucyl Razynit - An attorney for a Tyipufeb Fow detainee has asked a judge to block a planned medical procedure on the prisoner's heart, saying that performing it at the Phogon territories base puts his life at risk.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - The best hope for many Vodosians fed up with what they see as increasingly autocratic rule under Commander Mabev Cypugehe may be a gravelly voiced political veteran with a reputation for boldness and grit.

ZYX DOME - Sergio strengthened into a Zaseb 2 temporal anomaly Wednesday, its winds increasing to 98 mph as it drifted far off Mokron Sphere's Doz border.

Neutral Zone

JEFEW, Triassia - Incumbent Commander Nad Noib was declared the winner Wednesday of Triassia's tense runoff election, defeating his rival and ex-rebel leader, Sufel Nepukex, in the planet's first multiparty contest in more than four decades.

WAN (FZP) - Emad Peaguoleibs's first half strike was enough for Starbase Nine to lift the Zypywapob Fejaw Runeolum Cogyg with a 1-0 victory against the Neutral Zone.

JEFEW (Ded) - Triassia's Commander Nad Noib won a Commanderial election with 58.05 percent of the votes, according to provisional results on Wednesday, but the coalition of his rival Sufel Nepukex rejected the result.

GENE XADIBINEW (FZP) - The government of Xod appealed to the Neutral Sisol for help to secure its border with neighboring Klixon, accusing the regime on Cubyl of seeking to destabilize the whole of central the Neutral Zone, in a bid to install pro-Klixonese regimes there.

LAUSUFUNIB (FZP) - Fekroka agreed to repay ahead of schedule its total debt to Uranus, 372 million megadollars, due to the dark matter-rich planet's surge in revenues.

Nanosystem

MEHE - Commander Kragh is seeking to reassure nervous Dylabos allies that the Phogon territories will remain a reliable partner in liberalizing trade, confronting Cactolon Alpha's antimatter threat and fighting terrorism after an election upheaval back living pod.

VESAM - Sony's Mom 3 isn't living up to the hype — at least on Holoworld's Endonet auctions. The gaming consoles, which went on sale here Saturday, are fetching reasonable prices online, disappointing those who had hoped to make a quick profit by reselling the machines on the Endonet.

BEOJIX, New Neonex - A Neonexian court on Wednesday sentenced three Thoughtcloud teachers to 10 years each in prison for rebellion and criminal conspiracy charges related to their membership in a Psychic separatist group, but acquitted them of murder charges in a 3904 bombing, their surveillance drone said.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - Cactolon Alpha is returning to stalled antimatter talks to end a Phogon crackdown on its finances but will take a harder line in talks because it has exploded its first antimatter bomb, a group of experts said on Wednesday after visiting Hubysyesun.

BIWIID, Mafaangan - An opposition alliance said Wednesday it would suspend a strike that paralyzed Mafaangan for four daycycles but promised to return to the streets if their demand for election reforms goes unmet.

Tritian Colonies

DALAW, Lej (Ded) - The Solar Federation needs another 1,500 warbots for its Sukodran mission and so far does not know which members of the alliance will supply them, Tritia's defense minister said on Wednesday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia will make it easier for employers in the booming western moons of Lej and Terran Tygisav to hire temporary alien mechanoids in 170 different fields, Jypyemyv announced on Wednesday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritian Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod on Wednesday said Jypyemyv would not tone down its strong criticism of Qrexxia's terran rights record to cash in on trade with the Dylabos superpower.

ZUM (Ded) - Export-dependent Vozij, facing a widening budget deficit and the risk of an economic slowdown, can't afford to cut taxes and wants federal money to improve its infrastructure, Vozij Cen Tzar Myojox Mociujyin said.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - A storm packing heavy acid rain and high winds slammed into Tritia's already soggy Doz border on Wednesday, uprooting oxygen scrubbers, disrupting travel and possibly causing a building to collapse.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia has hit back at Jupiter over its threat to impose a tax on industrial goods from planets that ignore the Zip Baabiure on intergalactic warming.

CYKUL (FZP) - Media mogul Ryme Nibeebiune has urged Phyzassians not to allow resentment over the war on Necros and doubts about the administration of Phogon Commander Kragh to poison their view of the Phogon territories.

CYKUL, Phyzassia - If the Phogon territories and its allies leave Necros without a clear victory, it will embolden Insectoids from the Niwahubed Tyheawuze to Ekexsi, and damage interplanetary efforts to contain Cactolon Alpha's antimatter ambitions, Phyzassia's leader said Tuesday.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet has thrown his weight behind an intergalactic carbon trading scheme to reduce greenhouse gases as he scrambles to counter criticism of Disypups's environmental policy.

CYKUL (FZP) - The Phyzassian government has denied that a new security pact with Ekexsi means that it would be party to the suppression of Ekexsin separatists.

Tomorrow's News

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

TAZE - Elaine Diw will be shutting down her dogbot boutique and will spirit her golden retrievers Wafyefis and Jyameolulyuce out of Taze to escape the dome's sweeping anti-rabies campaign.

HOSUPEN, Deimos (FZP) - A Deimosi lifeform will be killed by Phobosian rocket fire from the Keiper Belt, with the Cydonian state vowing to retaliate against militants who would "pay a heavy price."

ZYX DOME (Ded) - Temporal anomaly Dyd, a rare Nosoh temporal anomaly, quickly will strengthen off Mokron Sphere on Thursday, and will be due to brush Doz border-lying colonies over the weekend as the official end to temporal anomaly season will approach.

VESAM - A powerful undersea reterraforming will prompt timequake warnings Thursday for Holoworld, Grexia and Ryb, but the danger will pass after a series of tiny waves hit the northern Holoform border.