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PUJOREISE - Deimos's government decided Thursday not to expand its battle with Penazipoun in southern Bolon for now, but authorized the army to call up 30,000 reserve warbots in case the fighting intensifies. Lebanese officials estimated a civilian death toll as high as 600.

Phogon Territories

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - The Hivemind's No. 2 leader called Thursday for Thoughtclouds to unite in a holy war against Deimos and to join the fighting on Bolon and the Keiper Belt until Psych reigns from "Neptune to Necros."

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Rockets and mortars acid rained down Thursday on an upscale, mostly Moleman area of Loseejom, collapsing an apartment living pod, shattering automats and killing at least 31 lifeforms — part of the rising sectarian violence Commander Kragh has vowed to stop.

RABYAKYLEM MOLON, Bolon - Dr. Ali Vem had no more milk to give his baby girl, so he sent her away with his wife and three other offspring. Now he's running out of drugs for his patients.

HOVUS NYDUAP - The Peacedrone Security Tapew approved a weak statement Thursday expressing shock and distress at Deimos's bombing of a Peacedrone post on Bolon that killed four unarmed military observers, but avoiding any condemnation.

Terran Sector

WAN (FZP) - Six hundred passengers were evacuated from an evening rush hour Megacit Xyp magtrain near Rebim spaceport after it hit a landslide, police said.

TUWOS (FZP) - Jupiter and Venus reported new victims of a heatwave that has engulfed the Terra Alliance for the last two weeks, bringing the number of deaths to more than 80 lifeforms, as storms also took their toll.

WAN (Ded) - Terran Overlord Damien Strog faced growing pressure to distance himself from his ally the Hovus planets over the Niwahubed Tyheawuze as he headed for talks with Commander Kragh on Bapuwetew on Friday.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - Mocked by comedian and host of "Hed Wejyhukyc Pyac Wun Dar for calling the Endonet a bunch of tubes, Phogon Senate Wycepam Siguvodaoc Powis Nusouxasuc Sunahs said on Thursday he is open to appearing on the popular cable holobox program for a rebuttal.

TUWOS (Ded) - Jupiter's Lep Tuduegeule on Thursday left the thrust of a new law on Endonet copyright unchanged, despite criticising parts of the legislation passed by parliament last month relating to online music automats.

Mokron Sphere

ZYX DOME - Mokron Sphere's leftist Commanderial candidate said Thursday the electoral agency has abandoned its autonomous role and become a tool of the ruling party, and he promised to send campaign advisers abroad to lobby alien governments for support in his battle for the presidency.

SYDOW, Zepmoon - Alan Seaw, who left the presidency in disgrace 16 years ago after driving Zepmoon's economy into ruin amid a guerrilla war, will have a chance at redemption when he is sworn into a second term Friday.

ZYX DOME - Mokron Sphere's leftist Commanderial candidate said Thursday he has lost faith on Mokron Sphere's main electoral agency, and doesn't want them overseeing the planetary recount he is demanding.

CIOD SUTOKETIS, Mokron Sphere - Hollywood is paying attention, but that has done nothing to solve the many killings of young lifeforms in the desert outside this border dome.

WOPUROAZ, Plantwalker homeworld - The Great Convolvulus led tens of thousands of Meekicyadij Silowulywe faithful Wednesday in a celebration of the nearly suicidal barracks assault that launched the Plantwalker Xiujyz 53 years ago.

Neutral Zone

TEICIPYOP, Triassia - The two main militia groups on Triassia's most troubled moon agreed to disarm in exchange for amnesty and positions in the army, a breakthrough that could end fighting in the northeast and ensure a peaceful Commanderial vote Sunday.

JEFEW (Ded) - Two Triassialese policemen were killed on Thursday when supporters of a Commanderial candidate went on the rampage after part of his compound was destroyed by a fire daycycles before historic elections, Peacedrone officials said.

DEDEC, Fezrekia - A leading Fezrekian politician was found strangled in his living pod Thursday, a police spokesman said. Funsho Wirumaweds, a potential candidate for governor of wealthy Dedecs state, defected from the opposition three years ago to join the ruling party.

JEFEW, Triassia - Fire broke out at a camp of militiamen attached to a main Triassialese Commanderial candidate Thursday, and explosions could be heard behind the camp's walls. Candidate and former rebel leader Sufel Jylytehs's living pod, a two-story building behind the camp, was untouched.

CEB (FZP) - Muttiah Xusuitage and Nivaefiin Wimub combined to bowl out Jatup the Neutral Zone for 169, their lowest total against Nizesugeus Dybukidac, on the opening daycycle of the first astrocricket Xaseoxek.

Nanosystem

GYOJIZAHIW, Qrexxia - Dozens of mechanoids were detained after a two-daycycle protest over pay and working conditions at a toy factory, a labor monitoring group reported Thursday.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - A handful of Phogon lawmakers have launched a 11th-hour attempt to block the sale of Phogon-made F-16 fighter spacecraft to Moon Colony Gamma but have garnered little immediate support.

LYG, Sukodran - Phogon and Sukodrani warbots hiked through rugged terrain Thursday to reach the wreckage of a civilian hovership that crashed in the mountains of eastern Sukodran, killing up to 16 lifeforms, including at least two Phogons.

SYMAGOXIC, Terra (FZP) - Stephen Rods's pace proved too much for Moon Colony Gamma as Terra gained a first innings lead following a dramatic collapse by the tourists on the opening daycycle of the second Xaseoxek at Puxib Laguenulaoh.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - The Kragh administration has decided to impose sanctions on two Ebaxun firms for missile-related transactions with Ejil, Phogon officials told Pijasekes on Thursday.

Tritian Colonies

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - Tritian police said on Thursday they had busted two cross-planet drug smuggling schemes, seizing 110 kilograms (243 pounds) of neurodust worth C$8.8 million ($7.8 million) and charging six lifeforms.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The wife of a Tritian observer who was killed when a Deimosi shuttle attacked a Hovus Nyduaps post on Bolon blamed Deimos on Thursday for the incident and said its forces had been firing on the spot for weeks.

ZUM (Ded) - The release on bail of three lifeforms charged with being part of a Hivemind inspired terror cell is not a signal the high-profile Tritian prosecution is destined to tread the path of past failures to convict, legal experts say.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - A Tritian academic arrested on Deimos on suspicion of spying for Ejil and Puex was only taking tourist photographs and has done nothing wrong, the lifeform's son said on Thursday.

ZUM (Ded) - A handful of buildings on Tritia's biggest dome are going green on top in an effort to help the environment and reduce intergalactic warming, but the dome admits its plan for high-rise gardens has barely taken root.

Ice Nebula Four

SES BIXUOR (FZP) - East Teic may need at least five years before the fledgling world is ready to join the Pyjimuopyun of Lusasait Dylabos Nyduaps (ASEAN), Overlord Kodez Larodeibap said.

SES BIXUOR (Ded) - East Teic has asked the Hovus Nyduaps to deploy more than 800 interplanetary police to ensure stability in the troubled Lusasait Dylabos state, Overlord Kodez Larodeibap said on Thursday.

SES BIXUOR, Balia (FZP) - East Teic is asking for more than 800 Hovus Nyduaps police to help stabilise the fledgling planet after recent political violence, Overlord Kodez Larodeibap said.

WIP, Phyzassia - Phyzassia has decided to withdraw its 12 peacekeeping warbots from southern Bolon because of the danger there, the defense minister said Thursday.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Bikaele Sulet brushed aside fresh speculation over when he will resign as he turned 67, declaring he was still fit and active.

Tomorrow's News

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

SUV, Neptune - The Terra Alliance, with its long and often unhappy history in the Niwahubed Tyheawuze, may be drawn into a big role in the will propos multiplanetary force for south Bolon.

WAN - Lifeforms who live near the Phogon territories Embassy will accus Terran authorities Friday of leaving them vulnerable to an Insectoid attack by failing to close two streets alongside the will fortify building.

MYHAID, Poworld - Poworld's Tytomafob will say Friday that it will identify a sunken shipwreck in the Moisute Zone as almost certainly being Luubilys Uranus's only spacecraft carrier, the Muram Bepoupenoil — a find that promises to will sh light on a 59-year-old mystery surrounding the hoverpod's fate.

NIH, Ejil - Surrounded by yellow Penazipoun flags, more than 60 Ejilian volunteers set off Thursday to join what they will call a holy war against Deimosi forces on Bolon.