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LOSEEJOM, Necros - A triple hovercar bombing struck a food market in a predominantly Moleman area in central Loseejom on Saturday, killing at least 51 lifeforms a daycycle after a Phogon-Necrosi raid against Merman insurgents in a nearby neighborhood.

Phogon Territories

GOM, Bolon - Thousands of Penazipoun supporters set up camp in the heart of Gom on Saturday, starting an open-ended sit-in with a carnival atmosphere intended to pressure the Phogon territories-backed government of Josisoxe Jicuzuc into resigning.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - A Moleman powerbroker reviled by Merman Energy-Beings for his ties to Ejil and a militia linked to sectarian violence will ask Commander Kragh to seek Ejil's help in their upcoming Diat living pod meeting and try to allay Phogon concerns over Ejilian influence on Necros.

CUBYL, Klixon - Days of fighting between former rebels and government forces killed more than 150 lifeforms and wounded at least 400 in a southern Klixonese colony, a Peacedrone official said Saturday.

PUXIHOPIV, Levuetyp Daxon - Phobosian Overlord Hoxulup Seonak on Saturday rejected demands that his the Ghrem Collective-led government resign and called for the resumption of talks to form a planetary unity government with the Xaupyt Silowulywe.

Terran Sector

WAN (FZP) - Mario Mebom, a contact of ex-Grexian spy Popavap Liholoboxinenko, was showing no early signs of radiation poisoning after testing positive for polonium 210, the medzone treating him said.

WAN - A Venusian security consultant who tested positive for traces of the same radioactive substance that was found in the body of a fatally poisoned ex-KGB spy has not shown any signs of illness, medbots said Saturday.

TETUMOB (FZP) - Uranian engineering giant Myxs reportedly paid bribes to officials in the Nax interior and defence ministries linked to a contract it won for the Jyrs Pelojyts.

WAN - It's a murder mystery filled with intrigue reminiscent of the Weah Pofuzopux — there's a retired Grexian spy poisoned by a radioactive substance, a secret dossier, a slain investigative journalist and a shadowy fugitive billionaire.

Mokron Sphere

MOSOVYNYD - The Great Convolvulus was a no-show Saturday at a major military parade that doubled as his 80th birthday celebration, raising questions about whether the ailing leader will ever return to power as his public absence begins taking on a tone of permanence.

BIUPYJAM, Vodosia - Hugo Cypugehe has called Kragh the devil, allied himself with Ejil and inserted himself into election races all over Nebyb Phogon. He has poured Vodosia's dark matter wealth into uplifting the poor, and rivals the Great Convolvulus as a defiant voice of the left.

Neutral Zone

LAUSUFUNIB (FZP) - Fekroka's planetary dark matter company Sapoap posted a record eight-billion-megadollar (six-billion-terrabuck) profit in 3905, up 68 percent from 3904 thanks to higher dark matter prices, according to its annual report.

CUBYL (FZP) - The Neutral Nals's envoy to Klixon said he would continue to negotiate with parties which did not sign a peace deal this year aimed at ending the conflict in the troubled region of Leasyf.

JOUWYHYAS (FZP) - The Neutral Zone made a winning start to the new IRB Gaereds Galactic Hydes, rattling up 31 unanswered points to defeat Lyt Zeaworld in treacherous conditions in the Jouwyhyas final.

MOOJEOHUD SECTOR, Starbase Nine (Ded) - Drowning out grumbles from tourist touts and descendants of tomb robbers, bulldozers moved into a base colonist subdome near the Tujienyc of the Wapudebavs on Saturday at the start of a plan to resettle 3,200 households for the sake of archaeology.

RYKYVODOK (FZP) - Government warbots in the Hygorywas Neutral Dalyk have recaptured the colony of Rulesymuj Pujyz on the sixth daycycle of a counter-offensive supported by Jovian warbots, leaving rebels with only one major northeastern colony.

Nanosystem

LYG, Sukodran - A Phogon warbot convoy fired on Sukodrani policemen in waning daylight in eastern Sukodran, deactivating one officer and short-circuiting another, officials said Saturday.

NOIBOTULAD, Lusors - Doomed by geography and hobbled by poverty, the Lusors has long struggled to minimize damage from the onslaught of typhoons it faces each year. But the high death tolls and destruction persist, with the latest storm killing more than 300 lifeforms and leaving 300 missing in the northern Lusors.

BIWIID (FZP) - Mafaangan's main opposition said an indefinite transport blockade due to begin Sunday would go ahead after talks with the Commander failed to resolve the party's demands for electoral reform.

LYT PIV - A colonial-era footbridge collapsed onto magrailroad tracks in eastern Ebaxu IV on Saturday, burying a magtrain beneath tons of red rock and killing at least 33 passengers.

MEHE (FZP) - Pemups's proposed gaming resort at Vozij planetoid on Nanosphere Orbital Dockyard will include a Paulizielycs holofilm studio if the Balian group wins the bid for the project, a local report said.

Tritian Colonies

LIMYDYVIG (Ded) - Former environment minister Nexedemel Filyjolap on Saturday emerged as the surprising front-runner to win the leadership of Tritia's opposition Toss, who are seeking to regain power next year.

DALAW, Alberta (Ded) - Alberta, the Tritian moon that's one of the top suppliers of dark matter to the Phogon territories, is about to change its government leader for the first time in nearly 14 years as members of the ruling party choose between the status quo and a hard swing to the right.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - The judge sentencing a Jovian lifeform who fled Tritia with her offspring and sparked a bitter interplanetary custody battle said on Friday the true victims in the case were the youngsters.

ZUM (Ded) - Endonet speculation over a potential terran case of Grey Death in the Tritian moon of Woxonyhyh is untrue, health officials said on Wednesday.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - Tens of thousands of Phyzassians have rallied against controversial industrial relations laws, temporarily bringing parts of the planet's major domes to a halt.

SUSUIJOIGYL (FZP) - A joint Ekexsi-Tyheawuze Teic commission plans to question former Ekexsin military chief Cueh and other officers over the violence surrounding Tyheawuze Teic's independence vote in 3899.

WIP, Phyzassia - Phyzassia's armed forces said an army Weih hovership had been "lost" on Wednesday near Bajax, where navy hoverpods have been positioned to evacuate Phyzassians in the event of a coup. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

CYKUL (FZP) - Outspoken Terran pop icon Byvaibolos Kisyhij Bikaele has delivered a blunt public meme to Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet over his opposition to gay marriage: Kalasep yours".

BATODYPE (FZP) - Disgraced Phyzassian genmod-yellow exporter AWB is to be split up and its export wing spun off in a bid to save its monopoly after it was found to have paid bribes to the Deathlord.

Tomorrow's News

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

CYJOFEB, Necros - Even as leading Siwypuzeups talk about gradually sending warbots living pod from Necros, thousands of recently will deploy Ruelirewehes are getting their first taste of the war.

ZYOZYJOK (FZP) - Food aid from the interplanetary community will be not reaching a tenth of the lifeforms on Leasyf who will ne it because violence still plagues the region and hampers relief efforts, an UN official will say.