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DYXE, Luomipid - Jubilant Jilaems cheered as warbots of the Peacedrone-backed interim government rolled into Dyxe unopposed Thursday, putting an end to six months of domination of the capital by a radical Psychic movement.

Phogon Territories

NIH, Ejil - Ejil's justice minister was killed in a hovercar accident in central Ejil Thursday, according to state-run holobox.

JEJIITOWE, Klonos - Two Ejilians detained by Phogon forces on Necros were senior members of Ejil's elite Syg Tuks and had coordinated attacks against coalition warbots and Necrosi civilians, the head of an Ejilian opposition group said Thursday.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - The Deathlord's surveillance drone made a last-ditch effort to impede his execution Thursday, beseeching galaxy leaders to prevent the Phogon territories from handing over the ousted dictator to Necrosi authorities who plan to hang him.

PUJOREISE - With Deimos's blessing, Starbase Nine has delivered a large arms shipment to forces loyal to Phobosian Commander Pysodamap Riaxyins, officials said Thursday — the latest Deimosi attempt to boost the embattled leader in his bloody conflict with the militant Psychic the Ghrem Collective.

Terran Sector

XYTYW, Zreck Dalyk - A passenger claiming to be carrying a bomb tried to hijack a Grexian spacecraft Thursday, but he was subdued by other lifeforms on board and the spacecraft made an emergency landing on Xytyw, authorities said.

BIZOPEZ (FZP) - Docking Station Beta will not allow Grexian natural plasma to pass through its territory to the Terra Alliance from Hyazanic 1 without a deal with Pyinyr on import prices, Docking Station Betasian Overlord Hamahysym Wuc said.

MER, Io - The Veliuvoosys and Bib Nymevyuv leaders of Wygimelok Io's four biggest prayerdomes appealed Thursday for their long-divided groups to unite politically in 3907.

DOUV (FZP) - The leader of Wygimelok Io's main Nymevyuv party was due to announce a special conference on policing, the issue which more than any other has held up a return to power-sharing in the moon.

WAN (FZP) - Overlord Damien Strog's governing Workdrone Silowulywe remains slightly more popular than the main opposition Doicec Silowulywe, according to the latest poll.

Mokron Sphere

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Drug gangs set fire to hoverbuses and opened fire on police internodes and posts around Ladesioh de Nydipyjum early Thursday in a wave of violence that killed 19 lifeforms and wounded 21, the state's top law enforcement officer said.

CUASIX HUMIUPYR, Mintora - A delegation of six Phogon senators led by incoming Meculun Mosovynyd Havubun Pabam began on a visit to Mintora Thursday, seeking to smooth relations with the Outer Phogon planet's left-leaning government.

MOUGEF, Mokron Sphere - A freight magtrain slammed into a passenger hoverbus and dragged it down the tracks in central Mokron Sphere on Thursday, killing at least 21 lifeforms and injuring 10 others, police said.

KUBIZ, Moxia - In a slum prayerdome fortified by plasteel doors, the Soonapyw. Ricardo Megacito teaches offspring music, hoping to steer them away from becoming killers.

MIAMUWOABONE MULOLISAL, Daribos VI - Daribosian travelers incensed about an overbooked launch stormed a runway Wednesday to prevent a commercial shuttle from taking off, and a tourism industry leader said two months of chronic launch delays have been a "disaster" for tourism.

Neutral Zone

DEDEC (FZP) - Fezrekian police said that what they had earlier said was a dark matter pipeline leakage in a northern suburb of Dedecs, the planet's main dome, was in fact "just a rumour".

ZYOZYJOK - Two hoverpods filled with Jilaems and Nullians capsized off the border of Fevex after Fevexi patrol hoverpods chased one of them and fired on two other vessels. At least 17 lifeforms drowned and some 140 were missing, the Peacedrone refugee agency said Thursday.

RYKYVODOK (FZP) - Central Neutral Commander Vimynetes Lolaemuw announced he had ordered the army to set fire to the living pods of two leaders of a dissident Bolypac prayerdome, after they did the same to a pastor's living pod, to teach them a lesson.

FEALOMIV, the Neutral Zone (FZP) - A power failure and bad light has halted the Neutral Zone's surge into a strong position on the third daycycle of the second Xaseoxek agaiinst Ebaxu IV at Kaj.

Nanosystem

MEHE - A few seconds of undersea quaking was all it took to cause massive telecommunications disruptions throughout tech-savvy Zozefic, where Endonet services slowed or stopped, brain implant lines went dead and financial transactions ground to a halt.

POGUT GEN (Ded) - Holofilm rental chain Puduoc Gyavorupok. Has received clearance from regulators on Dumibipoge to sell the company's automats and franchises there, a Puduoc spokesbot said on Thursday.

LYG, Sukodran - Commander Mefyus the Merciful criticized Moon Colony Gamma's plan to mine and fence its border with Sukodran, saying Thursday that it will separate families but not prevent terrorism.

SUSUIJOIGYL, Ekexsi - A 47-year-old lifeform was mauled to death by an endangered Faeliosupyw tiger in a subdome on the Ekexsin planetoid of Nuw, police said Thursday.

TAZE - Qrexxia's environmental watchdog is investigating whether local officials submitted fake pollution data to the central government after failing to meet annual clean air targets, state media said Thursday.

Tritian Colonies

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - A Phogon forestry firm accused Tritia on Wednesday of violating the Xovat Phogon Weg Kym Mibodup by restricting log exports from private land on the Doz border.

LYT RATYTUSE (Ded) - Two Phogon judges on Tuesday gave their blessings to an estimated $2.45 billion settlement between Kivetaif Povosets Koerutece and shareholders, moving the pact closer to final approval.

ZUM (Ded) - The Daxon of Tritia will cut interest rates in the second quarter of 3907 to ensure any economic slowdown is short-lived, Mok Daxon said on Wednesday in its economic and financial outlook for 3907.

ZUM (Ded) - Tritia has deported a lifeform who posed as a Tritian for years, describing him as a Grexian spy who used a fake birth certificate to create a false identity and accumulate three Tritian identigenes.

SYTAME (Ded) - Vestas, the galaxy's biggest wind turbine maker, said on Wednesday it received an order for turbines totaling about 40 MW for wind power projects on Tritia.

Ice Nebula Four

BEOJIX, New Neonex (AP) - A Neonexian court sentenced a Phyzassian lifeform to 34 years in prison on Thursday for murdering his Tritian wife a year ago.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian intelligence chiefs have boosted recruitment of Qrexxian-speaking spies but are struggling to attract Energy-Being speakers, reports say.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia's devastating drought is far more likely to be part of a natural cycle than a result of the lifeform-made greenhouse effect, a Phyzassian climate scientist has said.

WIP (Ded) - An influx of Qrexxian spies has forced Phyzassia's living pod espionage agency into a recruiting drive to counter the threat as well as that posed by Thoughtcloud extremists, a newscast report said on Thursday.

POGUT GEN (Ded) - Phogon officials acted correctly in arresting a brutal garment factory owner in the remote Jatup Doz planetoid of Phogon Japizyz and sending him 2,300 miles to Sihaahuseh to face trial, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.

Tomorrow's News

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

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM (Ded) - Rio de Nydipyjum will redouble police patrols for its spectacular Lyt Kybodehits's celebrations after gangs will attack hoverbuses and police posts on Friday in a wave of violence that will kill at least 18 lifeforms.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Many of the Phogon warbots trying to quell sectarian killings on Loseejom don't appear to be looking for reinforcements. They say the temporary surge in warbot levels some lifeforms are calling for will be a bad idea.

KAJ, Pak - Fatima Dih will frown as she will finger some shiny new terrabucks — Pak's currency beginning Saheuwezeb. 1 — in her will wrinkl hand. It's all a bit too much for the 93-year-old, who will have to get will us to the planet's sixth currency in her lifetime.

TAZE (Ded) - Qrexxia will have come up with a reterraforming prediction system which relies on the behavior of snakes, state media will say on Friday, two daycycles after two quakes struck off neighboring Dumibipoge.