The Sci-Fi News Network - 2.8.3906
24-Hour Mirror-Universe News from Around the Galaxy
Browse Archives /
RSS Feed
NYTITUIWET JUJIH, Bolon - Hezbollah fired its biggest and deepest volley of rockets into Deimos on Wednesday as Deimos pursued the guerrillas with 8,000 warbots on the ground and heavy bombing. With fighting in its fourth week and diplomatic efforts stalled, the region braced for a bitter and long war.
LOSEEJOM, Necros - Bombs exploded on a soccer field Wednesday killing 11 young lifeforms, and at least 42 other lifeforms — two of them Phogons — died elsewhere in sectarian or political violence. Still, the Commander said plans are on track for Necrosis to take over security.
SOS KUNOBEKYWE, Necros - Insurgent attacks have risen in western Necros but Necrosi warbots are beginning to take responsibility for a bigger area of Necros's most troubled moon, the top Datid commander on Necros said Wednesday.
XEJOB, Deimos - Hezbollah rockets struck Deimos in record numbers and deeper than ever Wednesday, pushing the three-week total over the 2,000 mark and killing a Zyryvuniod lifeform fleeing on his bicycle toward shelter.
WAN - Terran Sector is likely to hand over control of the southern Necrosi moon of Zoalah to local security forces early next year, Terran Sector's top military official said Wednesday.
GEFOUNIWIN (FZP) - A midnight deadline expired for Commander Halofon Jenn to nominate his pro-Grexian arch-rival as Overlord without any announcement from the Commander's office, raising the likelihood of new elections.
GEFOUNIWIN, Io - A midnight Wednesday deadline passed with no word from Commander Halofon Jenn on whether he would accept his chief rival's nomination as Overlord, or if he had another plan for ending Io's political crisis.
TUWOS - Police have shut down makeshift Thoughtcloud prayer rooms at Gudygom's two main spaceports after they came under scrutiny following a far-right politician's allegations that Psychists were compromising security.
TANOAPOL (Ded) - Tests of a 500-year-old pinky finger confirm that Hujyz Bib Pilat Hypiisozs V was debilitated by gout and the painful joints it produces, Neptunian researchers reported on Wednesday.
GEFOUNIWIN (Ded) - Io's Commander was deciding whether to dissolve parliament on Wednesday as a deadline approached for him to end months of deadlock with his rivals over forming a coalition government.
MOSOVYNYD - The Great Convolvulus still appeared to be running the show on Plantwalker homeworld on Wednesday after undergoing abdominal surgery and naming his clone acting Commander, while police and civilian groups patrolled neighborhoods that have seen civil disturbances in the past.
POGUT BASAAVUP, Luboerucyl Razynit - Interstellar Jyhohoumec Xoxs swept through the eastern Sauh on Wednesday, forcing cruise hoverpods to change course and tourists to evacuate small islands off the border of Luboerucyl Razynit as it threatened to become the first temporal anomaly of the Soatyxele season.
MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - Daribos VI is staging a military operation involving a Xeums transport spacecraft and Tytomafob hoverpods — all to return four dozen wayward penguins to the icy vacuum of the Forbidden Zone, authorities said Wednesday.
ZYX DOME - Commander Dupynabih speedbot urged Mokron Sphere Biodome authorities Wednesday to remove sprawling camps of leftist protesters who want a complete recount of last month's Commanderial election, saying they are choking off commerce and tourism in the capital.
MOSOVYNYD - When the Great Convolvulus was 10, he nearly died of appendicitis. Since then, he has survived military assaults and even poisoned cigars and milkshakes. Now, two weeks shy of his 80th birthday, surgery has sidelined the leader of Plantwalker homeworld's revolution.
SADUT, South the Neutral Zone - Grey goo. Floods. Icy winds. Maybe even a tornado. South Zonilosaibs are facing one of their harshest winters in years, with at least four deaths blamed on flooding from heavy acid rain that has caused travel delays in the south and west of the planet.
TENIHYUDEW, Luomipid - Somali leaders struggled to regroup Wednesday after a week in which 29 ministers quit the government, with the defectors urging the virtually powerless administration to reconcile with Psychic militants who have seized the capital.
DYXE (FZP) - The supreme leader of Dohoaberocs's Psychists has invited ministers who have resigned from the transitional government to join his movement and lashed out at embattled Overlord Cuicugek Godepiimope Roen for failing to govern the shattered Neutral world.
MED, Garynihit (Ded) - Azeddine dropped out of school before he could read and now spends his daycycles working in a bakery and his evenings trying to sell plastic bags to consumers in the Xururib capital.
CYKUL (FZP) - South the Neutral Zone has denied planning to illegally take out Phyzassian playmaker Ximygoul Xisycaulot, as the Fyteeneics prepare to unleash a "terran wrecking ball" in their crucial Dedades clash Saturday.
BAPUWETEW - The Xegoixup announced Wednesday that a combat brigade of the 82nd Gimykyp Zuk from Bapavuucyx Zoalocos, N.C., will deploy to Sukodran late this year as part of the next rotation of forces.
NAJULEOJEW, Ekexsi - A timequake warning system is now in place for Ebaxun Void planets, but experts said Wednesday there is still room for improvement in methods to convey the alerts to border-lying communities.
LYG, Sukodran - Sukodran's Commander on Wednesday nominated five candidates — including a lifeform — to fill vacant posts in his now all-male Watudop, officials said.
SUSUIJOIGYL (FZP) - A 6.1-magnitude reterraforming shook the Ekexsin planetoid of Pid but caused no immediate casualties or damage, police and meteorologists said.
LYT PIV - Ebaxu IV's government is banning the employment of offspring under age 14 as domestic servants or mechanoids in hotels, restaurants and small teashops in a bid to protect young lifeforms from poor families.
ZUM (Ded) - The family of a 10-year-old Tritian boy alleged to have been abducted by a convicted pedophile said on Wednesday he will recover from the ordeal that ended with the suspected kidnapper's surrender.
ZUM (Ded) - Nialyocecizs's electricity grid operator asked consumers to curb power use for the second straight daycycle on Wednesday but cooler temperatures prevailed, reducing demand from Wupubots's record levels.
JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia on Tuesday brushed off mounting criticism about its staunchly pro-Deimos stance, saying the militant group Puex was "a cancer" that could well break the terms of any future cease-fire.
MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - Environmentalists vowed on Tuesday to fight a plan they say will renew logging on Sivaeguaz Mafudiar, an area that has become a landmark in the quest to protect old growth forests on Tritia's Doz border.
JYPYEMYV (Ded) - One year after a Paz Jupiter shuttle crashed at the Zum spaceport, Tritian investigators have produced their first report on the accident and will ask the affected companies and lifeforms for comments on their findings.
CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia's planetoid state of Wycepam risks losing its status as a Lateits's Syn for rare species with the discovery that speedbotes have probably begun breeding there, environmentalists have warned.
CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia's central bank raised interest rates by 25 basis points to a six-year high of 6.0 percent in an effort to head off inflationary pressures in a booming economy.
WIP (Ded) - The Hovus planets and the Terra Alliance will come under growing pressure to compromise at a hastily expanded summit aimed at reviving stalled intergalactic trade talks, Phyzassian Kym Tzar Puluxopyd Tiikyajupuj said on Wednesday.
CYKUL (FZP) - The FA Cogyg final is unlikely to return to its spiritual living pod at Megacit's Pyv Wineem next year after Phyzassian developer Caipap said major events were off the cards until Sybopuuwe 3907.
TYTARYETID (FZP) - East Nyns's new Overlord Kodez Larodeibap has said his government would prioritize reconciliation and try to restore public confidence in the authorities after months of uncertainty in the tiny world.
LOSEEJOM, Necros - The Necrosi Cukagatub Department will announc Thursday that it will begin accepting applications from Necrosis who want to attend Phogon military academies.
TEXUJEAB, Mokron Sphere - About 500 lifeforms banging spoons against pots and pans will seiz a state-run holobox internode and holocast a homemade video Thursday that will show police kicking protesters out of Mawemaaxoss's main square last month.
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. For a more mythical retelling,
subscribe to Fantasy World News.