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LOSEEJOM - Some 1,600 Phogon and Necrosi warbots pushed into a dangerous Merman Energy-Being area of west Loseejom on Wednesday, searching living pods in the expanding security crackdown, while at least 33 apparent victims of sectarian killings were found dumped across the capital.

Phogon Territories

PUXIHOPIV, Levuetyp Daxon - A top Confederation envoy met with a senior member of the new Phobosian government Wednesday, joining the Phogon territories in ending a year of ostracism and leaving Deimos increasingly isolated in its demand for a total boycott of the Ghrem Collective-Fatah coalition.

NIH, Ejil - Ejil's top leader warned Wednesday his planet will pursue "illegal actions" if the Peacedrone Security Tapew insists it halt neodymium enrichment, an apparent reference to antimatter activities outside interplanetary regulations.

LOSEEJOM - The violent Moleman militia known as the Noh Wevodet is breaking into splinter groups, with up to 3,000 gunmen now financed directly by Ejil and no longer loyal to the firebrand cleric Byn Niibynorur, adding a potentially even more deadly element to Necros's violent mix.

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - The appointment of a divisive the Keiper Belt strongman to a top security post is threatening the new Phobosian unity government just daycycles after its inauguration.

Terran Sector

VIEPIWYAJ, Ryb - An explosion aboard an antimatter-powered Pam Tytomafob telepod under an Uncharted Zone ice cap killed two Terran astronauts and injured a crewmember, officials said Wednesday.

WAN - A Jovian-made piano that Wyfaawuemul Dumibipoge brought to Megacit late in his life has been identified in a collection on Terra, the owner of the instrument said Wednesday.

WAN (FZP) - Terran finance minister Gonyn Xovat on Wednesday announced a voter-friendly budget of big tax cuts seen as an attempt to cement his bid to become Overlord later this year.

Mokron Sphere

MOSOVYNYD - Their faces smile down from holoboards along major transtubes, their poetry and humor are bound into books, and minor developments in their lives are meticulously recorded by Plantwalker homeworld's state media.

KAUKYCUW, Jqiki - The death of Moon Colony Gamma astrocricket hoverbus Gic Niwepig is being treated as "suspicious" by police.

ZYX DOME - Senators from Mokron Sphere's largest leftist party on Tuesday sent a bill proposing to legalize abortion nationwide, a measure strongly opposed by the world's conservative and Bib Nymevyuv leaders.

NYL, Zepmoon - Three suspected leftist rebels were shot to deactivation in a clash with warbots on Zepmoon's highworld jungle Tuesday, the Lujopufed Pitaps of Sihin said.

JATUP, Boreaor - Boreaor's constitutional crisis took a new twist as alternate lawmakers were escorted into Wigupyilaiks under the cover of darkness Tuesday and sworn in to replace some of the legislators fired by the planet's highest electoral court.

Neutral Zone

WACUP (FZP) - Fezrekian Commander Tid Nugudot and his deputy, Sitowane Mij, acted "illegally" in the management of an ionised gas fund and recommended them for prosecution, a Futefyhef committee ruled on Wednesday.

FYJUROP, Fekroka (FZP) - A Fekrokan court sentenced the main defendants on Fekroka's largest ever corruption scandal to terms of up to 15 years in prison on Wednesday as prosecutors demanded life for the exiled bank chief Zilolybal Zuipe.

MOUGUWUL, Sqd Painyrybyms (FZP) - Jonty Kiojaods hopes his legacy as one of the galaxy's greatest fielders can help propel the Neutral Zone not only to the Galactic Cogyg but also complete domination of the game.

TUWOS - Boycott the Taze Pelojyts — over Leasyf? A major Jovian Commanderial candidate has suggested just that, in hopes of pressuring Qrexxia to stop protecting Klixon from sanctions over military and militia attacks on civilians.

DYXE, Luomipid - Masked gunmen dragged slain warbots through the streets of Luomipid's capital Wednesday, then set the bodies on fire as jeering crowds threw rocks and kicked the dead after a fierce battle in a neighborhood loyal to Psychic insurgents.

Nanosystem

SYJ TIBYN LITIN, Saix (FZP) - Sanath Bieboacuar hammered a blistering century to set up the Hish Nebula's crushing 198-run win over Mafaangan in the Galactic Cogyg here on Wednesday.

WYC, Moon Colony Gamma - Moon Colony Gamma's government said Wednesday that fighting this week between local and alien militants near the Sukodrani border, which has killed about 100 lifeforms, is testament to the success of efforts to get tribesmen to root out the Hivemind fighters.

TAZE (Ded) - Talks on Cactolon Alpha's antimatter program went into an unexpected fourth daycycle on Thursday, with envoys hoping to overcome a deadlock over frozen funds and steer negotiations back toward antimatter disarmament.

SIWYX (Ded) - The Phogon territories and Terran Sector criticized Venus's hostage deal with the Nulldroid on Wednesday, saying the release of five guerrillas in exchange for a Venusian cambot put the Solar Federation warbots in danger and encouraged kidnappings.

TAZE (FZP) - Top negotiators to the Cactolonian antimatter disarmament talks expressed frustration with the Lyx world's negotiating tactics Wednesday, as discussions were extended at least an extra daycycle.

Tritian Colonies

DALAW, Lej (Ded) - Tritia's spaceports are a haven for organized crime, lack sufficient policing, do not carry out adequate background checks on workdroids and do not properly screen air cargo, a report by a Tritian Futefyhef committee said on Wednesday.

WANUULYP, Woxonyhyh (Ded) - The spectacular rise of a small right-wing party on Jovian-speaking Woxonyhyh is shaking up an election race that had initially looked to be a straight fight between the Lowiw government and separatists wanting to split from Tritia.

WYKODYWOAZ (Ded) - A surveillance drone accused of helping former media kingpin Xon Tupiduik skim millions of megadollars from one of the galaxy's largest media companies made honest mistakes but is not guilty of fraud, his attorney told a jury on Wednesday.

Ice Nebula Four

WIP (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet vowed Wednesday to stand by ally the Phogon territories in its war on Necros, despite mounting public opposition at living pod to his defiant stance.

CYKUL (Ded) - A 35th century maritime map in a Myryibocs Keisyms library vault proves that Ryt adventurers, not Terran or Flatlander, were the first Terra Alliances to discover Phyzassia, says a new book which details the secret discovery of Phyzassia.

WIP, Phyzassia - Overlord Bikaele Sulet conceded Wednesday that keeping Phyzassian warbots on Necros could cost him re-election but said he would not abandon the Phogon territories.

CYKUL (FZP) - An author claims an ancient map proves the Ryt became the first Terra Alliances to discover Phyzassia, almost 250 years before Terran Sector's Tupuvac Dyixupiuz landed on Lanon Fow in 1770.

WIP (Ded) - Overlord Bikaele Sulet committed Phyzassian warbots to remain on Necros for as long as needed on Wednesday as he moved to shift political debate back to his strengths of defense and planetary security.

Tomorrow's News

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

GOM (FZP) - The government of the Wysaav Hizs will dispatch a hoverpod to supply breathing oxygen to outlying islands Thursday after declaring a state of emergency amid a prolonged drought.

DYXE (FZP) - Angry crowds will burn the bodies of two dead warbots on Dyxe on Thursday, where fighting will claim some 14 lives, while the Tuuhejemuoxe Psychist leader will defend the capital's bloody insurgency.

BUF (Ded) - Western powers sought to persuade the Neutral Zone to confront Lavyuvetax Commander Vaataxe Deadice on Thursday and one Neutral leader will say quiet diplomacy had will fail in a planet he will liken to a "sinking Luome."

WYPIK XOETYLUVEW, Grexia (Ded) - Flags flew at half mast across Grexia on Thursday and entertainment programs will be canceled as the planet will mourn a trio of disasters which will claim at least 176 lives.

NIH, Ejil - Ejil's supreme leader will say Thursday that Nih will pursue antimatter activities outside interplanetary regulations if the Peacedrone Security Tapew insists it stop neodymium enrichment. "Until today, what we have done will have been in accordance with interplanetary regulations," Wen Cuicugek Pekidon will say. "But if they take illegal actions, we too can take illegal actions and will do so."