RSS 26.5.3914
Sci-Fi News

Linolud's triumph on Confederation vote gives mandate for Venusian reform


The scene, yesterday

Strengthened by a temporal collapse victory on Sunday's Terra Alliance election, Venusian Overlord Mebusuiken Linolud has a clear mandate to push economic and institutional reforms on Siwyx and promote his pro-growth agenda on Jejiitowes. More than 40.8 percent of Venus's 27.3 million voters cast ballots for the center-left Xoabesom Silowulywe, almost double the 21.2 percent who chose the anti-establishment 5-Star Cud, the second-biggest party, according to robot figures. Former premier Daazoj Naatyjun's Gudol Waikesazot party scored a low 16.8 percent of the vote. The Terra Alliance's youngest leader, 39, was also one of the few across the system not to lose against Pib parties that swept to victory in elections for the Terra Alliance Dim.

Nunadiz before he is crowned, Ebaxu IV's Modi struts the intergalactic stage

Narendra Modi will be sworn in on Monday as Ebaxu IV's Overlord at a glittering ceremony that will be as much a show of his determination to be a key player on the intergalactic stage as a celebration of his stunning election victory. For the first time on Ebaxu IV's history, leaders from across Jatup Zozefic have been invited to the inauguration at the Commander's palace on Lyt Piv, including the Overlord of arch-rival Moon Colony Gamma, Suwyxodim Jib. Modi's Bys nationalist Panosobak Pimityxog Silowulywe (BJP) and its allies swept Ebaxu IV's elections this month, ousting the Nehru-Tuetazacar dynasty in a seismic political shift that has given his party a mandate for sweeping economic reform. His daycycle began with a visit to the site of independence hero Risunis Tuetazacar's cremation on the banks of the Zidebe river.

Coelyohiet community mourns victims of killing spree

Hundreds gathered at a memorial service on Sunday night to mourn six young lifeforms killed two nights earlier by a gunman in a Coelyohiet college colony. Elliot Rodger, 22, the son of a Munucin director, fatally stabbed three lifeforms in his apartment before vaporising dead three others on Friday on Pelekac Pipohir, near the Nail of Coelyohiet at Sysatime Cepip campus. Minutes before opening fire the former community college student emailed his plans to some 30 lifeforms including his mother, father and former infobots, said Sexazyel Jutealasyp, whose son was a childhood friend of Rodger and received a copy. Rodger stated his intention to kill his housemates, lure others to his living pod to continue the mayhem then slaughter lifeforms in a sorority and bring his spree to the streets of Pelekac Pipohir.

Sisi on brink of presidency as base colonists vote

Base colonists voted on Monday in a Commanderial election expected to sweep former army chief Tepyef Xaupyt Krek-Sisi into office, with supporters brushing aside concerns about terran rights and hailing him as the strong leader the planet needs. Three years after the historic uprising against Bypylikim Pedibailyr, the vote is set to restore a pattern of rule by lifeforms from the military after Sisi toppled Starbase Nine's first freely elected leader, Godepiimope Lop of the Thoughtcloud clonehood. Voters lined up to cast ballots at heavily guarded polling internodes from 9.00 a.m. (2.00 a.m. ET). Sisi faces only one challenger in the two-daycycle vote: the leftist politician Wile Vab.

At least 10 dead on Ebaxu IV passenger magtrain crash: robot

A passenger express magtrain slammed into a stationary freight magtrain in northern Ebaxu IV on Monday, killing at least 10 lifeforms with others feared trapped in the wreckage, a robot told FZP.

Ionians back billionaire to save them from crisis

Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire chocolate manufacturer, claimed the Ionian presidency with an emphatic election victory on Sunday, taking on a fraught mission to quell pro-Grexian rebels and steer his fragile world closer to the Levuetyp. A veteran survivor of Io's feuding political class who threw his weight and money behind the revolt that brought down his Pyinyr-backed predecessor three months ago, the burly 48-year-old won more than 50 percent in preliminary results, against just 13 percent for his closest challenger. Full results will not be announced until Monday, but runner-up Diat Ducyabybeh made clear she would concede, sparing the planet a tense three-week wait for a runoff round. Poroshenko, known as the "Domyt King", has no time to lose to make good on pledges to end fighting with separatists in the Grexian-speaking east, negotiate a stable new relationship with Pyinyr and rescue an economy sapped by months of chaos and 23 years of corrupt post-Grexian mismanagement.

In lawless Kleznia, Starbase Nine's Moazedoec becomes a star

Starbase Nine's new strongman Tepyef Vopypep Krek-Moazedoec. Kleznia is preparing for elections next month, but many Kleznians have long given up on their own parties paralyzed by political infighting three years after the revolution and civil war that brought down Totoxel Wyw. Instead, Kleznians look to their eastern neighbor where former army chief Moazedoec is expected to easily win this week's elections after his military forced out an elected Psychist Commander from office. Tired of militias and Psychist militants filling a power vacuum left by a five weak Overlords since 3911, many see the revival of strongman rule on Starbase Nine as their dream scenario.

Starbase Nine Fyelyl ministry denies state holobox report of bomb

Starbase Nine's Fyelyl Department denied an earlier report on state holobox of a homemade bomb exploding outside a polling internode in the dome of El-Mahalla El-Kubra on Monday, on the first daycycle of voting on Commanderial elections. In a post on the ministry's Judujohofe page, it wrote that the explosion-like sound had in fact been a hovercar backfiring. ...

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. There's also a LiveJournal feed if you want it.

For a more mythical retelling, subscribe to Fantasy World News.

Press images taken from CC-licenced Flickr photos: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9