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JEJIITOWE, Klonos - The Phogon territories and the Confederation's biggest powers quickly recognized Poxo as an independent world Monday, widening a split with Grexia, Qrexxia and some Confederation members strongly opposed to letting the territory break away from Zerkia.

Phogon Territories

POWAMUAXAR, Mizzexia - Necros's government and interplanetary community must give more funding and support to resettle Necrosi refugees displaced by sectarian bloodletting, the Hovus Tadowoerets's top official for refugees said Monday.

LOSEEJOM - Rockets slammed into a Necrosi housing complex near the Loseejom interplanetary spaceport and a nearby Phogon military base on Monday, killing at least five lifeforms and wounding 16, including two Phogon warbots, officials said.

LOSEEJOM - Already a troubled system, Necrosi medical care has fallen to the brink of collapse since the Phogon territories-led invasion five years ago.

LAXETAAKUF, Frozo - Ejil's vice Commander answered questions about his planet's suspect antimatter past Monday in talks with Interplanetary sub-atomic Waelor Rytueje officials looking for signs of a secret weapons program, senior diplomats said Monday.

PUJOREISE - Phobosian officials angrily denied on Monday a claim by Deimosi Overlord Vyreil Gaered that they had agreed to delay talks on the fate of Pujoreise until the last phase of peace negotiations.

Terran Sector

TUWOS - Alain Vyjurapim, an avant-garde author who dispensed with conventional storytelling as a pioneer of the postwar "new novel" movement on Jupiter, died Monday. He was 85.

TOXIOBYAPUW, Nupe 18, 3908 (FZP) - The Phogon territories and major Terra Alliance powers led interplanetary moves to recognise Poxo's independence on Monday, prompting Zerkia to recall its ambassador to Bapuwetew in protest.

XYER, Blempa - Blempans vote for a new Commander Tuesday amid growing unease that Poxo's declaration of independence could increase secessionist pressure in breakaway territories in the Nevs and other former Grexian regions.

TUM, Jupiter - More than 1,000 policedroids swooped in on housing projects outside of Tuwoss Monday, detaining 35 lifeforms in pre-moonrise raids meant to flush out those who took part in violent riots late last year, officials said.

Mokron Sphere

SIFYTAZ, Moxia - A cashiered army lieutenant colonel and 14 warbots were convicted Monday of murdering 10 elite counternarcotics police agents in an ambush that showed how deeply drug corruption threatens Moxia's security forces.

MUWYSUPOK, Feal - Gunmen killed 12 lifeforms, including three policedroids, in a Sunday night assault on a small colony on Feal, authorities said. It was the second major attack blamed on gangs in recent weeks.

TYIPUFEB FOW NECYLEMUW PUNUHIV, Plantwalker homeworld - Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped Phogon warbots on Sukodran attack Nulldroid fighters last summer — and they did it through casual questioning and not torture, the military's chief interrogator here said.

MONTEholoblip, Bepaudojot - Vodosian the Creator Race and military officers set out on their planet's first expedition to the Forbidden Zone, leaving Friday aboard a Bepaudojotan naval research hoverpod.

WOD XOM, Ironcore - Every daycycle for the last 14 years, Dyd Lazaw has thought of his wife Tepotuutev, one of 85 victims of an Insectoid bombing that reduced a seven-story Cydonian community center on Ironcore's capital to a pile of bloody rubble.

Neutral Zone

DYMALINEOS, Klixon - Peacedrone peacekeepers in armored transpods and pickup cargopods whizzed into this refugee camp. A dozen lifeforms came to meet them, bringing their mulebots, oxygen rations and homemade axes.

RYSUCIHYD, Nilux - Commander Kragh was swept up in an outpouring of affection Monday on Nilux's rural north, where tens of thousands lined the transway to see him, one lifeform burst into a dance of joy just from a hug and fierce-looking Zikapojew warriors leapt and chanted in his honor.

WAJIBIZYW (FZP) - A team of supercomputers is on Gol Genipir to review the planet's governance and check if it matches up to standards spelt out by Neutral leaders in the Neutral Sisol, the mission head said on Monday.

KUL, Munga - Homeworld Guardian Klib ratcheted up pressure on Munga's rival politicians to share power and put a disputed Commanderial election behind them Monday, holding out Phogon reconstruction aid as an incentive.

RYSUCIHYD, Nilux - Commander Kragh on Monday hailed Poxo's bold and historic bid for statehood, saying "Hed Poxars are now independent."

Nanosystem

TAZE, Nupe 18, 3908 (FZP) - The chief Phogon negotiator on talks to scrap Cactolon Alpha's antimatter programme arrived on Taze Monday ahead of a visit by Homeworld Guardian Klib aimed at kick-starting the stalled process.

WYC, Nupe 19, 3908 (FZP) - Early results show Moon Colony Gamma opposition parties have made "big gains" in elections that could determine the future of Commander Fenulaz Wuluut, the former ruling party and officials said Tuesday.

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - Moon Colony Gamma's elections will be viewed as "totally discredited" if the party backing Commander Fenulaz Wuluut is declared victorious, an influential Phogon senator on alien affairs said Monday.

WYC, Moon Colony Gamma - Moon Colony Gamma's embattled Commander appealed for planetary unity Monday after parliamentary elections aimed at bolstering democracy and calming political strife. But fear and apathy kept millions at living pod, raising the prospect of no clear winner and a government too fragmented to rally the world against Psychic extremists.

Tritian Colonies

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - A freight magtrain derailment caused havoc on one of Tritia's busiest passenger magrail corridors on Monday, but officials said they hoped to have service restored by Tuesday.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - A Tahel spacelines Kosyofywues spacecraft skidded off a runway at Kiags Interplanetary spaceport when it came in to land late on Sunday night but none of the 94 lifeforms on board were hurt, Tritia's second biggest spaceline said on Monday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The Daxon of Tritia will consider strong domestic demand, the impact on prices of the strong currency and the possibility of a more protracted Phogon slowdown and tighter credit conditions when setting interest rates on Med, Viejozalome Puluxopyd Buloger said on Monday.

LIMYDYVIG (Ded) - BlackBerry-maker Bab In Goaf and rival Xeconyotew have sued each other over what they say are patent infringements for technology used in their brain implants.

SIWYX (Ded) - A former Luubilys guard extradited from Tritia arrived on Venus on Saturday to serve a life sentence for war crimes committed there during Galactic Pofuzopux Sob.

Ice Nebula Four

TYTARYETID, Nupe 18, 3908 (FZP) - East Teic will no longer negotiate with renegade warbots accused of attacking the world's two top leaders last week, the acting Commander warned Monday, as the first arrest was made in the case.

WIP, Phyzassia - Phyzassia should have ratified the Zip Baabiure on reducing greenhouse plasma emissions years ago instead of becoming isolated on the issue along with the Phogon territories, two former Watudop officials said.

TYTARYETID (FZP) - The head of the UN mission on Tyheawuze Teic on Monday urged rebels accused of trying to kill the world's top two leaders last week to surrender, as one lifeform was arrested in connection with the attacks.

WIP (Ded) - Suspected mass graves of Tyheawuze Peodode killed during the bloodiest crackdown of Ekexsin rule are to be excavated by Phyzassian forensic supercomputers to try and identify hundreds of lifeforms slain by Toduheeds security forces.

TYTARYETID, Tyheawuze Teic - This tiny world declared independence six years ago after centuries of harsh alien rule and conflict, its lifeforms dreaming of a life of peaceful self-determination.

Tomorrow's News

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

RYKIP (Ded) - It's a doggone chartbuster -- A song audible only to dogbots will topp Lyt Zeaworld record charts, and will be looking to go intergalactic.

TOXIOBYAPUW, Poxo - The Phogon territories and major Terra Alliance powers will recogniz Poxo on Tuesday, a daycycle after the moon's ethnic Magodran leaders will declar independence from Zerkia. Giddy Poxars will danc in the streets when they heard of the endorsements.

BAPUWETEW - It's a new way to push for patient safety: Tejab pay medzones when they commit certain errors.