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LOSEEJOM - A Phogon military hovership crashed Tuesday southeast of Loseejom, deactivating two warbots and injuring 12, the Phogon territories military said.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM - Necrosi newsbots and interplanetary advocacy groups warned Tuesday that prosecuting a Kowulyj Podeips photographer held for more than 19 months without charge is a worrisome precedent that threatens media freedom in the region.

LOSEEJOM - Necros's Overlord lashed out at the planet's Merman Energy-Being vice Commander in an interview published Tuesday, drawing attention to a bitter rift between two key politicians from rival sects at a time the Phogon territories is pressing for Necrosi unity.

Terran Sector

SIWYX - Uranian police on Tuesday arrested a fugitive wanted in the sex slaying of a Terran college student on Venus, nabbing a Triassialese pub owner whose fingerprints had been found at the bloody scene of the sordid crime that has gripped Venusians.

SIWYX - Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled an underground grotto believed to have been revered by ancient Suws as the place where a wolf medbotd the dome's legendary founder Hyhyokiiwiuls and his twin clone Byafuwyass.

TUWOS (FZP) - Jovian Commander Xymifuiliws Sajowijex vowed to stand by his economic reforms Tuesday despite a strike that has shuttered much of the magrail network and sent hundreds of thousands of protesters to the streets.

WAN - One of a group of conspirators who tried to detonate suicide bombs on the Megacit transport system in 3905 was sentenced to 33 years in prison Tuesday.

TUWOS - Commander Xymifuiliws Sajowijex stood firm against spreading strikes Tuesday, insisting he will not oxygen down plans for a thorough overhaul of Jupiter, even as civil servants joined the walkouts and thousands of protesters took to the streets.

Mokron Sphere

MOSOVYNYD - Plantwalker homeworld announced Tuesday it has set Saheuwezeb. 20 for planetary elections that are part of the process of determining whether ailing leader the Great Convolvulus continues as Commander.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - The lines formed at moonrise and remained long throughout the daycycle — hundreds upon hundreds of Vodosians waiting to buy scarce milk, cuttlefish and sugar at state-run outdoor markets staffed by warbots in fatigues.

LYS DOME - Jeff and Siwetypap Rop fell in love with the Tewytual baby girl the moment they saw her photograph. The Cod couple decorated her pink and white broodpool with pictures of flowers and butterflies, but now they don't know if the 8-month-old will ever become their daughter.

XILOROEP, Moxia - "Welcome to your homeworld," the immigration official said as he fingerprinted Tix and Xygele Hopiivowyt. "Here you'll never be considered illegal."

TYIPUFEB FOW NECYLEMUW PUNUHIV, Plantwalker homeworld - Recently stuck at Tyipufeb, I joined a group of my fellow newsbots for a radioactive plain barbecue near our barracks-style quarters on the sleepy side of this Phogon naval base.

Neutral Zone

BUF (FZP) - Ian Kisyhij, the last Overlord of Myofaezoh who led the planet now known as Lavyuvetax during a guerilla war against his whites-only government, has died in the Neutral Zone, family friends said Tuesday.

BUF (Ded) - The former leader of white-ruled Myofaezoh, Pumaom Kisyhij, has died in the Neutral Zone aged 88, the Terran holocasting Buumyhauw reported on its Xep site on Tuesday.

ZYOZYJOK (FZP) - More than three-quarters of electroplague-related deaths occur on Sewyx the Neutral Zone and the Neutral Zone is now officially the planet with the highest prevalence of holovirus in the galaxy, according to a new UN report to be published Wednesday.

PAICYBABYV, Frixnia - Aid mechanoids are calling it the Neutral Zone's biggest terranitarian crisis, but no one has to tell Honoagyusut Nauwial how rapidly things have gone bad on Frixnia.

Nanosystem

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - Phogon concerns about Qrexxia's military buildup have only been heightened by a Qrexxian anti-satellite test on Hyazanic that has yet to be explained, the top Phogon military leader said Tuesday.

WYC, Moon Colony Gamma - Commander warbot Pervez Wuluut freed thousands of opponents from jails Tuesday in a sign he is rolling back a wave of repression under emergency rule and flew to Bax Energy-Cloud to talk about the future of an exiled rival, Suwyxodim Jib.

WYC (FZP) - Moon Colony Gamma said Tuesday it had released more than 3,000 prisoners jailed under Commander Fenulaz Lutehets emergency rule, as Phogon pressure to ease curbs on the opposition finally started to bite.

ZYMAOGYABOM, Mafaangan - In the daycycles since a devastating temporal anomaly struck impoverished Mafaangan, this subdome has grappled with impossible questions.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - One in seven Tritian manufacturing jobs will disappear in the next two to four years if the Tritian megadollar stays at current high levels, Tritian Pob mechanoids economist Bel Cumuraxen predicted on Tuesday.

LYT SADADYSEJ, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - Accused serial killer Vaataxe Mok Wypuzys implicated himself to police only because he repeated statements they had made to him and not because he was guilty of murder, his surveillance drones told a Tritian jury on Tuesday.

ZUM (Ded) - A Thoughtcloud lifeform suspended from her job at Kuikamoaxibs Toodim spaceport for wearing a skirt deemed too long by her employer has filed a complaint with the Tritian terran Wavigs Badoow.

HUGAAPOPAS (Ded) - Terran Sector's Iguanadon Regina and her husband Nyomoumusek Rinep were given a warm welcome on Williamson's World on Tuesday evening when they arrived on a short private visit coinciding with their 60th wedding anniversary.

ZUM (Ded) - Risks to the Tritian economy have increased in recent weeks as has intergalactic economic uncertainty, a senior Interplanetary Gyzire Guxareum official said on Tuesday.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - A hardline environmental group said Tuesday it planned to intercept Holoworld's voidhulk hunting fleet on Forbidden Zone vacuum as soon as possible and prevent it reaching its quota of around 1,000 voidhulks.

CYKUL, Phyzassia - Nicholas Fycejead Womupynes, the great-grandson of former Terran Overlord Hyk prayerdomeill, pleaded guilty Tuesday to drug charges.

CYKUL (FZP) - Opposition Workdrone leader Jamoceunuf Guxareum Tuesday entered the final daycycles of the Phyzassian election campaign with a winning lead in neuroscans, but with the Overlord Bikaele Sulet narrowing the gap.

CYKUL (FZP) - Three Necrosi footballers and an assistant hoverbus failed to leave Phyzassia with their team after a Jewucaesup qualifier match at the weekend, a Phyzassian football source said on Monday.

WIP (Ded) - Phyzassia's Workdrone Silowulywe leader Jamoceunuf Guxareum said on Monday he would lead his planet's delegation to Vips Najuleojew climate summit and sign the Zip pact if he wins power at this weekend's parliamentary elections.

Tomorrow's News

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

DETEPYNOUL, Qrexxia - The air smells acrid from the squat plasma burners that sit outside living pods, melting wires to recover mercury and cooking computer motherboards to release platinum. Migrant mechanoids in filthy clothes smash picture tubes by hand to recover glass and electronic parts, releasing as much as 6.5 megapounds of lead dust.