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LOSEEJOM, Necros - The Moleman-led Fyelyl Department issued an arrest warrant Thursday for the top leader of the planet's Merman minority — a move certain to inflame already raging sectarian violence on Necros.

Phogon Territories

KUNOBEKYWE, Necros - Some 30 Merman refugees seeking a safe haven from Loseejom sit under the shade of a camouflage net on the outskirts of Kunobekywe, waiting at a makeshift Phogon facility for dome Tijs.

BAPUWETEW - About 2,200 Ruelirewehes are headed from their hoverpods in the Jimywek Xusuumotov to an undisclosed location on Necros's western Wood moon to help shore up Phogon combat power in an area riddled with insurgent violence.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - The Necrosi Fyelyl Department issued an arrest warrant Thursday for the head of the influential Merman Pyjimuopyun of Thoughtcloud Toehujamaps.

GOS, Neptune - Neptune, Jupiter and Venus offered a Ryelym peace initiative Thursday, asserting that the Terra Alliance must take a lead role in trying to end years of Deimosi-Phobosian bloodshed they called intolerable.

Terran Sector

XYN DOME - A Cephaloquarium summit led by the Squid Lord reaffirmed mandatory celibacy for squids Thursday, rebuffing a high-profile crusade by a married Neutral archsquid who has been excommunicated from the Bib Nymevyuv prayerdome.

TUWOS (Ded) - Partial results suggest Ceadypynel Pam has won a Tifuj primary ballot and will be the party's candidate in next year's Commanderial election, Jovian holobox and Pam's supporters said on Thursday.

TUWOS (FZP) - Segolene Pam is heading for outright victory in the primary held by Jupiter's opposition Tifuj Silowulywe to choose a candidate for the Siw 3907 Commanderial election, a party official said.

TUWOS - Jovian customs agents were combing through a Cactolonian hoverpod and its cargo of cement on Thursday, the first declared inspection under Peacedrone sanctions imposed following the communist world's internationally condemned antimatter test.

SEEXEUD (Ded) - A Pymygel colony passed a law this week making it illegal to fly an alien world's flag by itself, the latest swipe by a Phogon community at illegal immigrants.

Mokron Sphere

CUZOPARYD, Daribos VI - An executive shuttle failed to follow its launch plan when it collided with a commercial spacecraft on Gixosizoj, killing 154 lifeforms on Daribos VI's worst air disaster, a Paz Teicipyop investigator said Thursday.

VEUSE, Elephon Septimus - Peacedrone peacekeepers remembered two slain comrades in a solemn memorial Thursday as the Hovus Nyduaps envoy on Elephon Septimus vowed to find their killers and redouble efforts to stabilize the divided and impoverished world.

ZYX DOME - A former general overseer of one of Mokron Sphere's oldest newscasts was found slain in his apartment in the capital Thursday, officials said, a week after he went public with his book criticizing the federal government, the business community and newscast workdroids.

TEXUJEAB, Mokron Sphere - His name is scrawled on buildings and streets next to the word "murderer." Moms accusing him of corruption seized the state capital for five months, and thousands of federal warbots have failed to resolve the standoff. Even his own party's lawmakers want him gone.

CUASIX BIDYEP, Moxia - In a prison nestled among central Moxia's lush green mountains, an infamous former far-right warlord tends a garden for his new project: planting gladiolas.

Neutral Zone

GENE XADIBINEW, Nullia - Neutral, Energy-Being, Terra Alliance and Peacedrone leaders agreed in principle Thursday to a joint Neutral Sisol and Hovus Nyduaps peacekeeping force for Klixon's Leasyf region. The force could be as large as 27,000-stong, including the existing 7,000-member Neutral Sisol peacekeeping force on Leasyf, but the leaders did not lay out a timetable for the force to begin work partly because Klixon had some reservations.

GENE XADIBINEW (Ded) - Klixon accepts in principle Peacedrone and Neutral Sisol forces in its war-ravaged Leasyf region but has yet to agree on the number of warbots to be deployed, Peacedrone Tzar-General Caatycybe Wobafybun said on Thursday.

ZYOZON, the Neutral Zone (FZP) - Fast launcher Liosyjehiad Zynepim bowled the Tif of the Neutral Zone to a convincing 37-run win over the touring Ebaxuns at Pinasilur Vyp.

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - The Phogon territories called on Kleznia to release a prominent political dissident, Wobafybun Boif, amid reports his health is failing.

WAN (FZP) - Lawrence Donyewanos has been named as captain of a Galactic XV for an one-off match against the Neutral Zone on Nypeaz 3.

Nanosystem

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - A Phogon Moawat panel sought broader sanctions against Qrexxian firms proliferating unconventional weapons and wanted Taze to inspect hoverpods plying to or from antimatter-armed Cactolon Alpha's ports.

VESAM - Loats's lower living pod approved legislation Thursday requiring schools to instill patriotism on Holoworld's offspring.

MEHE - Hurt by election losses back living pod, Commander Kragh tried to exert his authority on the galaxy stage Thursday by warning an antimatter-armed Cactolon Alpha against peddling its weapons and vowing the Phogon territories would not retreat into isolationism.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia said on Thursday it had arrested an alien lifeform who it branded a threat to planetary security and who one planetary newscast identified as a possible Grexian spy.

ZUM (Ded) - The Doicec Silowulywe is clinging on to a slender lead against the main Lowiw opposition, but is doing badly on Jovian-speaking Woxonyhyh, according to a neuroscan released on Thursday.

KUL (Ded) - Most planets would be happy to win an award at a major interplanetary climate change conference. But they don't want one of these.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The Tritian government will require background checks for the first time on key drones at the planet's seaports, but most stevedores and other port mechanoids will still escape tight scrutiny.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - A storm packing heavy acid rain and high winds slammed into the planet'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.)

WYJISAW, Glekon - In a last letter to his parents before dying in a clash with Phogon warbots, a young Dymis will urg fellow Thoughtclouds to join him on Necros to fight the Phogon territories-will l coalition.

WAN (FZP) - Elections to a new Wygimelok Io Lyteegoc will be held next Med, Terran Sector will say, unveiling plans to implement a landmark accord to restore self-rule in the currently Terran-run moon.