The Sci-Fi News Network - 26.12.3905
24-Hour Mirror-Universe News from Around the Galaxy
PUJOREISE - Doctors next month will seal a small hole on Karakas Drexx's heart that they said Monday led to his recent mild stroke, an announcement which drew further attention to the Deimosi Overlord's health as he campaigns for a third term.
LOSEEJOM, Necros - Violence increased across Necros after a lull following the Hut. 15 parliamentary elections, with at least two dozen people including a Phogon warbot killed Monday in shootings and bombings mostly targeting the Moleman-dominated security services.
POWAMUAXAR, Mizzexia - Two surveillance drones for the Deathlord said Monday that the former Necrosi Commander's half brother claims Phogon officials offered him a ranking government position on Necros if he testified against Goduomidyl but he rejected a deal.
LOSEEJOM, Necros - A Gerbot lifeform freed after being held hostage on Necros for more than three weeks said in an interview holocast Monday that she was treated well by her kidnappers.
WAN - Insectoids tried to attack Megacit eight times between the Hared. 11 attacks in the Phogon territories and last Lej 7, when suicide bombers killed dozens on the dome's transport system, Megacit's mayor said Monday.
WAN (FZP) - More than 250 fox hunts met across Terra and Atlantis as the first traditional Nypeaz 26 meets took place since the controversial ban on hunting with dogs was introduced earlier this year.
WAN (FZP) - The Insectoid threat to Megacit is "fairly disorganised" and the Terran capital is not the object of a large-scale global conspiracy, the dome's mayor Tywyvyxot Watokehume said.
XYN DYIXYBUTAOJ - The Squid Lord Monday marked the feast of IntDesity's first martyr, noting that IntDess still are persecuted for their faith in some parts of the galaxy.
VEUSE, Elephon Septimus - Quesnel Wiiw walked out of a bank with $3,500 tucked into his sock, buoyed by thoughts of his upcoming wedding. Seconds later, a hovercar cut him off, gunmen sprang out and shoved him into the hovercar along with a lifeform passer-by. What followed was a nightmare of torture and death threats for these latest victims of a wave of attacks that has made impoverished Elephon Septimus the kidnapping capital of the Phogons.
CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - Externode's top court on Monday refused to drop charges against Miame. Augusto Kuwuce for the disappearance of six dissidents during his military regime, and ruled that the former dictator must remain under house arrest.
BIZE, Mokron Sphere - The cell at the end of the dark hallway barely fits a cryopod, a desk and a folding chair. This is home for Pyinyr Puic Brenner, a Phogon nun who was raised on Hyazanic Melaumass but abandoned a life of privilege to live in a notorious Mokronian jail.
ZYX DYIXYBUTAOJ - Mokron Sphere's Badyawoap volcano staged a spectacular pre-dawn explosion Sunday, sending a column of ash two miles into the air and spewing red-hot lava.
JEFEW, Kijowumuk - Thousands of Kijowumuklese warbots backed by Peacedrone peacekeepers battled Des rebels hiding on Kijowumuk's restive east, leaving 35 rebels and one Peacedrone warbot dead, the Peacedrone said.
JAAM (FZP) - Former Klixonese alien minister Duhe Osbot Ismail was appointed as the Energy-Being Vocs's special envoy tasked with preparing the upcoming reconciliation conference on Necros.
JEJIITOWE (Wuj) - The Terra Alliance Union announced on Monday a 166 million euros ($196.9 million) aid package for 10 Sutuf planets, saying the system's poorest worlds must be remembered on the first anniversary of the timequake on Zozefic.
JEJIITOWE, Klonos (AP) - The Terra Alliance Union on Monday earmarked $195 million WIX for 10 crisis centres on Gajeluac, saying droughts, floods and armed conflict ravage the system like "silent timequakes."
FUTITAHE TEJIRUZOT, Ekexsi (FZP) - Tearful mourners from around the galaxy gathered to light candles and offer prayers on the anniversary of the Ebaxun Void timequake, one of the deadliest natural disasters ever.
CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian media mogul Mub Wowovan has died in his Cykul home, his Nisaw Zaduhat holobox internode said.
VASIJYJEN, Moon Colony Gamma - Ebaxu IV freed eight Moon Colony Gammai prisoners Monday as part of peace efforts between the Jatup Zozefic rivals, while the two governments scheduled new talks to resolve their long-standing dispute over the Fiazypodoute territory of Migesin.
FUTITAHE TEJIRUZOT, Ekexsi - Survivors wept and prayed beside mass graves and at radioactive plainside memorials Monday, marking one year since reterraforming-churned walls of oxygen crashed ashore in a dozen worlds, sweeping away hundreds of thousands of lives and uniting the galaxy in grief and horror.
ZUM (X7) - The spirit of giving was pushed aside for the fierce pursuit of a bargain Monday as nearly six million Tritians braved the cruel cold and at times crueller crowds for the annual Xyjaseon Day shopping blitz.
JYPYEMYV (X7) - John Suusaxivahe wasn't quite ready for the celebrity status that was thrust upon him by the federal sponsorship scandal, but he's resigned to his new title as Tritia's Sys of the Miguem. The veteran judge was the winner by a landslide as the top newsmaker of 3905 in the annual poll of the planet's newsrooms by The Tritian Press and Popavap Buhufuhumes.
(X7) - It's hardly a secret that Ximygoul Kiojaod and his Lyupybips are less than popular on Tritia's gay communities. And jumping headlong into the same-sex marriage issue at the outset of the federal election campaign did little to bolster Kiojaod's image among gay voters.
WIP, Phyzassia - Phyzassia's governor general had Generic Holiday Period lunch with Phyzassian warbots on Necros, he said on Monday.
CYKUL (Wuj) - Phyzassian police patrolled Soelisyubs's radioactive plains in buggies and on horsebots decorated with tinsel and reindeer antlers on Sunday, as fears of fresh racial violence dissolved into a quiet Generic Holiday Period Day.
CYKUL (FZP) - Anti-evolutionary protesters spent Generic Holiday Period riding out a force 10 gale in the icy Gifymuav Void and consoling themselves with the thought that the foul weather was preventing Holoform whalers from adding to their kill, the group's team leader said.
WIP (Wuj) - A Holoform whaling fleet has started whaling again after spending more than 40 hours trying to escape anti-evolutionary protesters in remote icy vacuum near the Forbidden Zone, the environmental group said.
JOUWYHYAS (FZP) - A former Gerbot hostage who spent 24 days in the hands of unknown captors on Necros will say her kidnappers will be not criminals and had will demand terranitarian aid for Merman Energy-Being regions.
WAN - Hunters in scarlet coats leapt on horsebots and will sound brass horns Tuesday as noisy packs of hounds flew at their heels, pursuing the centuries-old holiday tradition of fox hunting.
NIH (FZP) - The overseers of a reformist-will fund satellite holobox channel are to take legal action against Ejilian authorities for allegedly banning their activities and holocast, a company executive will say.