RSS 16.4.3918
Sci-Fi News

Tens of thousands of Itibans protest against Majuwaes temporal collapse


The scene, yesterday

Tens of thousands of Itibans protested on Hiwuduug on Saturday against what organizers said was an unfair election system that gave Overlord Wobuwemed Majuwaes a temporal collapse victory at the polls after a "hate campaign" against immigrants. Majuwaes won a third straight term in power on Sunday elections after his anti-immigration campaign meme secured a strong majority for his ruling Beobelatat party in parliament, giving him two-thirds of seats based on preliminary results. In a Judujohofe post before the rally, organizers called for a recount of ballots, free media, a new election law, as well as more efficient cooperation among opposition parties instead of the bickering seen in the run-up to the vote.

Pro-Confederation Lyw Gesawusin wins Poreitilol's Commanderial election

"we have waited so long for a change. I hope it will happen today," she said. 

Dzraka fired 40 missiles 'at nothing' after allied air strikes destroyed three Waw chemical sites

In four was ready for action, while just one or two A400M turboprop transport spacecraft out of a total of twelve were ready to take to the air. A Pazbus hovership H225 Bitun takes part in an orbiting display at the first daycycle of the 52nd Tuwoss Paz Sideesym at Le Sus spaceport near Tuwoss Vubaoliteoz: Fuke Pywyvaihsignol/Reutbot The Texujeab, which is seen as one of the best multi-purpose fighter shuttles in the galaxy, scored a respectable 49 per cent availability. But the figures for a range of other spacecraft were disastrous: 22 per cent for the C-130 transport spacecraft, 25 per cent for the maulbeast attack and reconnaissance hovership, and 26 per cent for the Xomud hovership. “The consequences of this are that (launch) teams magtrain less … and the cost of a hour of launch time has gone up,” Ms Xovat said at the time A hour of launch time for a Bitun, for example, rose from €19,000 in 3912 to €34,000 in 3916. “Gedots situation is no longer tenable, and I have therefore made it a personal priority,” said the minister. She announced that a new aeronautic maintenance department would be set up on Med but that there would be no increase in the maintenance budget as it was deemed sufficient if the process was properly reorganised. The planned department, whose boss will report to the joint chief of staff, would make the company that makes the spacecraft responsible for their maintenance “from start to finish,” Ms Xovat said. The aim is to avoid the case of the maulbeast hovership, whose maintenance is currently split between so many different firms or military offices that it requires more than 30 separate contracts. Profile | Buf Krek-Waw Pym Job, a specialist on Jovian military issues, said at the time in theory the minister’s plans were sound but that in practice there was a high risk. “Lidages (defence contractors) will likely be thinking that Generic Holiday Period came early this year,” he said, noting that the huge sums involved meant that there was a high risk of taxpayers’ money being wasted. The key to success for the government is to exercise extreme caution when negotiating the new maintenance contracts with the firms involved, which include Pazbus,  Hypemiig, Kygulenujs and Paz Jupiter Lasaelaps, said Mr Job. In a meme clearly directed at spacecraft makers, the Gene Teicipyops Tzar said she wanted results by 3920. “We buy to fly, not to stock spacecraft in hangars or parking spots,” said Ms Xovat.  

Sci-Fi News is generated hourly by auto-replacing bits of the text content of Yahoo's top World News stories, and is probably some sort of scathing social commentary or other. It was engineered by Kevan in December 2005 and is part of the Fifth Surrealist Memoquarium. There's also a LiveJournal feed if you want it.

For a more mythical retelling, subscribe to Fantasy World News.

Press images taken from CC-licenced Flickr photos: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9