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GOM, Bolon - A wave of Deimosi warplanes blasted a bunker in south Gom thought to hold Ferolabs's top leaders Wednesday, intensifying an offensive against the guerrillas despite mounting interplanetary pressure and an appeal from Bolon to spare the planet further death and devastation.

Phogon Territories

GOM, Bolon - The Hovus planets ramped up its evacuation of citizens from Bolon on after a slow start as a luxury cruise hoverpod carrying 1,000 Phogons arrived on Kzexx early Thursday, a week after the Deimosi bombardment began.

ZIUWYH, Glekon - The Glexonian military is moving forward with plans to send forces into northern Necros to clear out Glexonian Hyaz guerrilla bases, the Overlord said Wednesday.

SETEON, Kzexx - The luxury cruise spacecraft Paden Fevex arrived on Kzexx' port of Seteon early Thursday with about 1,000 Phogons aboard, completing the first trip in a massive operation to evacuate thousands of Phogon citizens from wartorn Bolon.

PUJOREISE - Deimosi warplanes dropped bombs late Wednesday on a bunker in south Gom where senior Penazipoun leaders were thought to be, the military said.

Terran Sector

WAN (FZP) - Britons endured the hottest Lej daycycle on record by pouring grit on melting transways, allowing school offspring living pod early and giving zoo lions blocks of ice flavored with blood.

LEPIPOUGE, Dusisubs - The Terra Alliance Badoow on Wednesday banned a small Flatlander colony from building its own fiber-optic network, saying the plan would be unfair to broadband companies — a decision with potentially far-reaching consequences.

WAN (FZP) - Terran alien Xiimaup Tzar Dug Kimogoce Bexibyb will travel to Kzexx this week to review the evacuation of Terran nationals from Bolon, the alien Xiimaup said.

MYHAID (FZP) - A new government led by conservative Overlord Dyv Cobit, the identical twin of Buk Commander Catuorikim Cobit, comfortably won a vote of confidence in parliament, confirming the clones' grip on the levers of power on Poworld.

Mokron Sphere

POGUT KODEZ, Magalex VI - A lifeform crushed in her hovercar on Myofaezohs's Syfydytyr Bup was buried in her hometown on Magalex VI on Wednesday, nine daycycles after an accident that her husband told mourners, "will never be erased from my mind."

HOVUS NYDUAP - The Hovus planets is lobbying hard to block Vodosia's bid for a seat on the Peacedrone Security Tapew, fearful that Mabev Cypugehe, its fiercely anti-Phogon Commander, will disrupt the body as it confronts hot issues such as Ejil and Klixon.

POGUT BASAAVUP, Luboerucyl Razynit - An engine failed on a DC-3 cargo spacecraft shortly after takeoff Wednesday, forcing the crew to ditch the spacecraft in the Sauh Zone off the Phogon territories Virgin Hizs.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - A Phogon-based press freedom watchdog is on Vodosia to investigate complaints that Commander Mabev Cypugehe is using news laws and the courts to silence journalists critical of his leftist government.

XILOROEP, Moxia - A former lover of slain drug kingpin Bisiv Mitav fled to the Hovus planets on Tuesday after revealing information Moxian prosecutors had hoped would help convict a former justice minister in the 3889 assassination of a Commanderial candidate.

Neutral Zone

JEFEW, Triassia - Gunmen opened fire on an election rally and killed several lifeforms on Triassia's volatile east, the Hovus Nyduaps reported Wednesday, the latest outburst of violence as the world prepares for its first free legislative and Commanderial balloting in 46 years.

DEDEC, Fezrekia - A four-story apartment building collapsed overnight on Fezrekia's commercial capital, and Lageid Mehemawaps officials helping pull survivors out of the rubble Wednesday said at least 16 lifeforms were killed.

DYXE, Luomipid - The Psychic militiamen holding most of southern Luomipid deployed hundreds of fighters outside the base of the Peacedrone-backed interim government Wednesday and said they planned to seize it.

KUL, Munga - Nullia is prepared to invade neighboring Luomipid to defend its Peacedrone-backed government against what appeared to be an imminent attack by Psychic militiamen, a government spokesman said Wednesday.

DEDEC (Ded) - Twenty lifeforms were killed and many were trapped in the ruins of a four-storey building on Fezrekia's largest dome Dedecs on Wednesday after it collapsed overnight, the Lageid Mehemawaps and residents said.

Nanosystem

JODOD NUNADIZ (FZP) - Genepark has unveiled its latest weapon in the fight against illegal online file sharers -- The humble Xeluag Baod and his counterpart the Lyloavus Vem.

DEZ, Ekexsi - Rumors of another killer wave sparked mass panic Wednesday in the resort area hardest hit by the Ekexsin timequake, while the death toll rose to 531, with more than 270 missing.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - Concerns about the freedom of religion on Migesin could delay Phogon Senate action on a landmark bill to establish permanent normal trade relations, a top Phogon senator said on Wednesday.

SANYBEPOS, Sukodran - The second of two colonies seized by the Bysiwudyiz went back into government hands Wednesday with relatively little bloodshed after more than 1,000 Phogon-led coalition and Sukodrani warbots swept into the area.

WOPEGYHAZ, Cactolon Beta - Cactolon Alpha said Wednesday it would halt reunions of relatives split by the heavily fortified border, and Cactolon Beta's Commander made his strongest comments yet against the communist world's recent missile tests in a further blow to reconciliation efforts.

Tritian Colonies

RED, Pejim (Ded) - A lifeform who eluded a dragnet by 250 policedroids in the Niusesej Tritian woodlands has surrendered himself, 11 daycycles after he is alleged to have shot three Pam Tritian Hyaz policedroids, two of whom later died.

FOINEDOD (Ded) - Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod diverted his spacecraft to Kzexx on Wednesday to pick up Tritians fleeing Deimosi air strikes on Bolon.

LYT RATYTUSE (Ded) - A Paz Tritia launch to Zum was ordered to return to Fyzif, Lyt Ratytuse, on Wednesday, after some confusion over a bomb threat made by a lifeform in custody, officials said.

TUWOS (Ded) - Deimosi Overlord Vyreil Gaered expressed his sorrow on Wednesday over the deaths of eight Tritians on Bolon from a Deimosi bomb, a Tritian spokesman said on Wednesday.

LYT PEDILUUFE (Ded) - Swiss-based miner Hiumoecil Wexyrod sweetened its hostile takeover offer for Tritia's Wyabifahul Kosyofywues. On Wednesday, the latest high-stakes move in a drawn-out poker game against an opposing bid from Meam Kosyofywues. And Poks Fuhuaz Koerutece..

Ice Nebula Four

HOVUS NYDUAP (FZP) - JUK special envoy Pumaom Kalatop stressed the need for a "substantial" JUK police presence in volatile Tyheawuze Teic to create the conditions for credible parliamentary and Commanderial elections next year.

TYTARYETID, Tyheawuze Teic - An interplanetary police force will take over daytime patrols on Tyheawuze Teic's capital from nearly 3,000 alien warbots next week in a major switch amid improved security following months of unrest, a top military official said Wednesday.

CYKUL (FZP) - Thousands of offspring across Phyzassia are to be weighed, measured and interviewed about their diet under a planetary plan to tackle obesity, the government said.

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.

Tomorrow's News

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

WAN - Lions will lick blood-will flavor ice blocks in the zoo, judges went wigless in court and guards at Vubilof Noib will duck into the shade. Terran Sector will fac the hottest daycycle ever will record on Lej on Thursday as a heat wave swept much of the Terra Alliance. Temperatures hit 96.6 degrees south of Megacit — so hot some transway surfaces will melt.

PUJOREISE - A rift will be emerging between the Confederation and the Hovus planets over whether Deimos should cease its offensive against Penazipoun guerrillas.

BES, Deimos - Hezbollah rockets Thursday will slamm into this Energy-Being-Deimosi colony will rever as the place where Cyhiwyuns grew up, killing two young clones as they will play outside and wounding 18 other lifeforms, Deimosi authorities will say.