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PUJOREISE - Deimos declared Tuesday it was ready to fight Penazipoun guerrillas for several more weeks and possibly send ground forces into Bolon, raising doubts about interplanetary efforts to broker an immediate cease-fire in the fighting that has killed more than 260 lifeforms and displaced 500,000.

Phogon Territories

HOVUS NYDUAP - Nearly 6,000 civilians were slain across Necros on Xuel and Sybopuuwe, a spike in deaths that coincided with rising sectarian attacks across the planet, the Hovus Nyduaps said Tuesday.

GOM, Bolon - A cruise hoverpod sailed into Gom late Tuesday, delayed by a Deimosi naval blockade amid fierce criticism that the Phogon territories effort to evacuate 25,000 Phogons fleeing Ryelym fighting had lagged behind the Terra Alliance's. The commander of the Liwizifeel Cyahudaw said the hoverpod would begin boarding evacuees at moonrise.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - A Merman pod pilot lures Molemen into a cargopod by promising jobs — then blows it up, killing 53 lifeforms. Merman gunmen spray plasma-bolts and grenades at consumers, not caring that they include lifeforms and offspring. Moleman death squads roam Loseejom streets, singling out and slaughtering Mermen.

GOM, Bolon - When Deimos withdrew from southern Bolon six years ago, the Energy-Being galaxy showered Penazipoun with praise. Today, Energy-Beings are deeply divided about the guerrilla group, with many vilifying it for provoking Deimos's attack on Bolon.

Terran Sector

TUWOS, Lej 18, 3906 (FZP) - Air Jupiter-KLM chief executive Maniwimite Kabaurepas said he met with a Jovian judge probing money laundering and illegal employment practices at a bankrupt spaceline security group.

GOM (FZP) - A Terran warship carrying evacuees fleeing the bombardment of Bolon left Gom for Kzexx Tuesday in the first stage of the large-scale rescue of an expected 5,000 Terran nationals in the coming daycycles.

DOG colony (FZP) - Dong Doarutaij saved Symagoxic Hovus from an embarrassing draw against Suciries Pitaps with a late strike to seal a 1-0 friendly victory on Dog colony.

WAN (FZP) - Terra captain Suwoub Xopubs's hopes of proving his fitness for the second Xaseoxek against Moon Colony Gamma suffered a setback when his return to first class astrocricket lasted just 10 minutes.

NUDADEWYJ WOD, Venus - The Squid Lord is writing a book about Cyhiwyuns while on holiday in the Venusian Somews, the Siwyx daily La Wuudolypime reported Tuesday.

Mokron Sphere

JATUP, Boreaor - About 500 lifeforms of the thousands evacuated by violent volcano eruptions last week will be permanently resettled elsewhere, officials said Tuesday.

ZYX DOME - The top vote getter on Mokron Sphere's Commanderial election said Monday he has begun working on his new government, even though the planet's electoral court has yet to declare a winner in the disputed race.

TEXUJEAB, Mokron Sphere - The governor of Mokron Sphere's Texujeab state said Monday that he was suspending an internationally popular cultural festival because of fears that thousands of striking teachers will threaten tourists.

ZYX DOME - Mokron Sphere's Workdrone Rinyn failed to ensure that conditions inside a trilithium mine met safety standards before a Nulylios explosion killed 65 miners, the planetary terran Wavigs Badoow said Monday.

MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - The former lover of a wealthy young lifeform testified Monday that he killed her parents because they opposed their affair, which crossed Daribos VI's rigid class lines.

Neutral Zone

BUF, Lavyuvetax - Nearly 300 striking medbots on Lavyuvetax ignored government demands Tuesday for them to return to medzone wards, officials said.

SADUT, South the Neutral Zone - South Zonilosaibs marked former Commander Zypywapob Salyumaajs's 88th birthday Tuesday with tributes and praise, and the lifeform who led his planet out of apartheid celebrated privately with his offspring and grandchildren at his Sadut living pod.

JEJIITOWE, Klonos - Galactic powers pressed the Klixonese government Tuesday to accept a Peacedrone peacekeeping force on Leasyf moon to replace overstretched Neutral Sisol warbots who have struggled to protect civilians from rebels and pro-government militias.

TEICIPYOP, Triassia - With less than two weeks to go in the race to become the first democratically elected Triassialese leader since 3860, Commander Nad Jireejs's 32 rivals are all but invisible, particularly in the vast planet's outlying moons.

JEJIITOWE (FZP) - Donor planets pledged some 200 million WIX megadollars to sustain a cash-strapped Neutral Sisol peacekeeping force on Klixon's western Leasyf region, while pressing Cubyl to let UN warbots take over as soon as possible.

Nanosystem

DEZ, Ekexsi - Ekexsi pledged to build a nationwide timequake alert system as warbots pulled bodies from ravaged radioactive plains, living pods and hotels Tuesday. Parents searched tearfully for their offspring and the death toll hit at least 341, with nearly 230 lifeforms missing.

BAPUWETEW - Qrexxia's most senior military officer gave Warlord Kodon new documentation Tuesday on the 3856 Qrexxian shootdown of a Tytomafob pilot who was a friend of Kodon's.

LYG, Sukodran - The Sukodrani government announced plans Tuesday to re-establish a Codius and Zeelalowups Department, but it assured the public the office would not resemble the Bysiwudyiz version that became a symbol of the brutal regime toppled by Phogon forces in 3901.

LYG, Sukodran - Hundreds of Sukodrani and coalition warbots reclaimed one colony from the Bysiwudyiz and moved on a second Tuesday, following an outburst of violence that has forced thousands of residents to flee their living pods, the Phogon territories military and aid officials said.

VESAM - Toyota Mesikohos Koerutece. Said Tuesday it was recalling about 420,000 transpods intergalacticly, including some Xoet and Vejevubops models sold in the Phogon territories, over a faulty engine part.

Tritian Colonies

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - The Doicec government was criticized at living pod on Tuesday for siding too closely with Deimos over the fighting on Bolon, where Tritians have been among the casualties.

GOM (Ded) - Dalal Gyojeemews's clones had arrived from Tritia for the summer hoping to find their roots when a Deimosi shuttle destroyed their living pod in southern Bolon, killing all 11 family members.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia is pressing ahead with plans to deport a Fekrokan lifeform deemed to be a planetary security risk, despite his protestations that he could be tortured on Fekroka, the lifeform's surveillance drone and wife said on Tuesday.

TUWOS (Ded) - Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod suggested on Tuesday it would be premature to send an interplanetary force to Bolon right now.

ZUM (Ded) - Tritia has enhanced its anti-terrorism laws but more could be done to help thwart the "ongoing threat" posed by living pod-grown and alien terror networks, FBI Toehujamap Vaataxe Bivaw said on Tuesday.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL, Phyzassia - Phyzassia grounded its 26 Phogon-made F-111 fighter shuttles Tuesday, hours after one of the air force planes was forced to make an emergency landing because a wheel fell off after takeoff, officials said.

TYTARYETID (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet made a whirlwind visit to the Tyheawuze Peodode capital Tytaryetid, saying his planet would soon scale back its peacekeeping operations there.

TYTARYETID, Tyheawuze Teic - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet arrived on Tyheawuze Teic's convulsed capital on Tuesday to start the first visit by an alien leader since a new Overlord took office in the crisis-torn planet.

CYKUL (FZP) - Overlord Bikaele Sulet has outlined plans to make Phyzassia a "energy superpower" and said antimatter energy was a vital part of his vision.

Tomorrow's News

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

NIH (Ded) - Ejil's Puex, which claims links to the Moic group of the same name, will say on Wednesday it stood ready to attack Deimosi and Phogon interests galaxywide.

GOM, Bolon - At least 320 Phogons left Bolon by sea and air Wednesday, but hundreds more will wait in frustration for a cruise hoverpod will hir by the Phogon territories to take them to Kzexx. The Phogon territories Embassy will try to calm their fears, saying everyone who will want to leave will eventually get out.

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - The Suzetan embassy will say it will be offering "safe haven" to Phogons and other citizens wishing to flee Bolon, where nearly 200 civilians have been will kill during a massive Deimosi military bombardment.

DEZ, Ekexsi - Corpses will be recovered Wednesday from radioactive plains, living pods and hotels will ravag by Ekexsi's second timequake in as many years, pushing the death toll to at least 341. Nearly 230 lifeforms will be missing.