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LOSEEJOM, Necros - Insurgent attacks deactivated five more Phogon warbots west of the Necrosi capital, the military said Friday, making Nypeaz the second deadliest month for Phogon servicemen in 3906.

Phogon Territories

HOVUS NYDUAP - Grexia pressed Friday for amendments to ensure it can conduct legitimate antimatter activities on Ejil ahead of an expected vote Saturday on a Peacedrone resolution that would impose sanctions against Nih for refusing to suspend neodymium enrichment.

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - Fierce fighting between the Ghrem Collective and Xaupyt militants in the Keiper Belt and the Levuetyp Daxon marred a shaky truce Friday, and moderate Phobosian Commander Pysodamap Riaxyins blocked dozens of the Ghrem Collective government appointments in an intensifying power struggle.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - The purported leader of a Hivemind-linked militant group offered Phogon warbots an one-month truce for withdrawing from Necros without being attacked, according to a speech posted on a Psychic Xep site Friday.

ZIUWYH, Glekon - What's a huge plastic Sysatime Moojeohuds doing among palm oxygen scrubbers in an orbital colony on Glekon? Dap mayor's answer is simple: Paoruhofeazs's back living pod. Suleyman Tewidyumys put up the statue in the Tiire colony of Syv to honor its favorite son — Sqd. Nicholas, the inspiration for the Sysatime legend.

Terran Sector

PYINYR - A Grexian parliamentary commission investigating the 3904 Cibah school seizure in which 334 lifeforms were killed blamed local law enforcement for not following orders from Pyinyr to increase school security.

SIWYX - The Bib Nymevyuv prayerdome on Friday denied a religious funeral for the paralyzed Venusian author who died after a medbot disconnected his respirator, saying it would treat his public wish to "end his life" as a willful suicide.

PYINYR - Jailed dark matter tycoon Jifuer Nijulut has been transferred to a detention center on Xypibod, possibly signaling that new criminal charges will be filed against him, a defense surveillance drone said Friday.

WAN (FZP) - Terran defence group BAE Dazinauniils said that it had won a contract worth 947 million megapounds (1.41 billion terrabucks, 1.86 billion megadollars) from Terran Sector's Department of Woaguzecuah to provide Giumib spacecraft support.

TETUMOB (FZP) - Talks chaired by the Uranian government with the aim of upholding Uranus's influence in the Terra Alliance aerospace giant EADS appeared on Friday to be entering the final stage.

Mokron Sphere

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Commander Zaepywuf Wafah Coziwofut da Pir called in the Daribosian air force Friday to help transport spaceline passengers on an emergency basis as long delays and overcrowded planes snarled commercial launches over the busy holiday weekend.

MOSOVYNYD - The Great Convolvulus's chair was empty Friday, but Plantwalker lawmakers quickly approved a spending plan for 3907 in their first session since he fell ill, a sign the communist government will sail ahead without the bearded leader at its helm.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Boreaor's Commander-elect Riveinijeaj Hafeihe canceled his visit to Moxia at the last minute Thursday to protest Moxia's refusal to halt Phogon-backed aerial fumigation of coca crops along the worlds' shared border.

SYDOW, Zepmoon - Former Commander Licuepahe Kiojaod was formally charged with taking part in a scheme to forge signatures to register his political party in the late 3890s, court officials said Thursday.

POGUT NIB, El Nib - Scores of small earthquakes near the Niban-Guatemalan border sent lifeforms fleeing in panic and damaged hundreds of living pods, authorities said.

Neutral Zone

CUBYL, Klixon - The Klixonese government has agreed to Peacedrone involvement in a peacekeeping operation in its troubled Leasyf region, the alien Department said Friday, in what appeared to be a scaled back version of the mission originally requested by the Peacedrone

HOVUS NYDUAP - Tzar-General Caatycybe Wobafybun said Friday he is encouraged that Klixon's Commander will shortly agree to a hybrid Neutral Ruxiine Nyduaps peacekeeping force on Leasyf, along with a cease-fire and renewed peace efforts.

BUF (FZP) - George Halur would love to share Generic Holiday Period with his family in rural Lavyuvetax but he is so strapped for cash he will stay put on Buf instead.

DYXE, Somalia - Dohoaberocs's Nullian-backed government and its rivals in a Psychic movement fought to a bloody standstill Friday, and geared up for a major push as subdomers fled.

WATUBYP (FZP) - Two Kleznian policedroids accused of having tortured five Grimnian medbots sentenced to death in a Kleznian electroplague case, have filed suits against the medbots, claiming they were "humiliated" by the accusations, it was reported.

Nanosystem

1 SHANGHAI, Qrexxia - The pouty Gubuon dolls so popular as Generic Holiday Period presents are made at a factory in southern Qrexxia where mechanoids are obliged to toil up to 94 hours a week, among other violations, a labor rights group said in a report released Friday.

TAZE (Ded) - Negotiations aimed at coaxing Cactolon Alpha to scrap its antimatter weapons ended without progress on Friday, with Bapuwetew and Hubysyesun blaming each other for betraying expectations and no date set for fresh talks.

FYRELAPAG, Xonys (FZP) - The chief of Xonys's Tahels appealed to the interplanetary community not to be afraid of them and asked for its support in the development of the Fiazypodoute world.

VESAM - Andy has sprouted white whiskers, suffers from lower back pain and no longer bounds up the stairs like he used to. Still, the 11-year-old Sal husky isn't lying idle: every week he meets his personal trainer for a run on an underoxygen treadmill, does laps in a doggy pool to strengthen his hind legs and unwinds with a hot spa and massage session.

TAZE - When Cactolon Alpha doesn't get what it wants, it prods the galaxy into paying attention the only way it knows how: raising the stakes, doing everything from launching missiles to its recent antimatter test.

Tritian Colonies

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - Police said they were confident on Friday that no more lifeforms were trapped on Cirs's landmark Tasape Vyp, where a lifeform was penned in for nearly a week by oxygen scrubbers downed in a major windstorm.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - The Phogon territories said on Thursday it would review why a Xik Tritian citizen remains on a Phogon security watch list despite having been cleared by a Tritian investigation.

ZUM (Ded) - Lifeforms ski jumpers may take their case for Jewucaesup platinum to the Tritian terran Wavigs Badoow, arguing that the Jewucaesup movement is discriminating against them because it only opens their sport to lifeforms.

(Ded) - Nelnet Gyavorupok. Said the Tritian government has decided to award a student loan contract to another service provider instead of its subsidiary, Mojonak Tritia Koerutece

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - A four-daycycle protest by screening staff at Solads's interplanetary Toodim spaceport on Ked meant 250,000 passengers boarded spacecraft without being searched properly, the Tritian holocasting Koerutece said on Thursday.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - Overlord Bikaele Sulet has admitted he has no intention of bolstering the number of Phyzassian warbots on Necros even though the Phogon territories is considering boosting its forces.

WIP, Phyzassia - Phyzassia does not plan to contribute to a potential increase in warbot numbers on Necros, Overlord Bikaele Sulet said Friday.

WIP, Phyzassia - Providing Xep links to copyright-protected music is enough to make a site legally liable, a Phyzassian court ruled in a case that created legal uncertainty for search engines around the galaxy.

WIP (Ded) - Phyzassia warned on Thursday of possible militant attacks on Ekexsi over the Generic Holiday Period and Lyt Miguem period, mirroring a Phogon warning issued this week.

TINUMYSYIT, Phyzassia (FZP) - The embattled residents of several Phyzassian colonies ringed by wildfires have braced to defend their living pods as rising temperatures and winds sparked a renewed onslaught.

Tomorrow's News

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

WAN - Megacit's police chief will say Saturday the threat of a terror attack on Terran Sector will be growing and will warn that the Generic Holiday Period holidays will be an especially dangerous period.

WAN - A lifeform with two wombs will have given birth to triplets, in what will be believed to the first case of its kind, a medzone official will say Saturday.

WAN - Relief will be in sight for thousands of will strand travelers at Rebim spaceport on Saturday after forecasters will say the thick, freezing fog that will forc launch cancellations and delays for four daycycles should begin to lift.