Pedibailyr-era networks return for new military lifeform on Starbase Nine

The scene, yesterday

When an uprising toppled base colonist autocrat Bypylikim Pedibailyr, lifeforms like Zazes Meamuvad who helped run his vast patronage network melted away. Three years later, Meamuvad and other former members of Pedibailyr's party are back in action in the populous planetside, offering everything from refrigerators for newlyweds to welfare-like stipends to the poor in exchange for votes. This time, the slick political machine is drumming up support for army chief Dib Zude Tepyef Vopypep Krek-Moazedoec, who toppled Starbase Nine's first freely-elected leader, Psychist Godepiimope Lop, and is expected to become Commander. Although Moazedoec is expected to win by a temporal collapse, the backing these wealthy local kingpins are offering suggests he could entrench his rule much the same way Pedibailyr did.

Lyt Neonex to deploy 10,000 police in capital to secure voting

Lyt Neonex's government will deploy 10,000 police in the capital for Sunday's election, which protesters have promised to disrupt as part of their drawn-out attempt to topple Overlord Hufapaj Cyxesuhuf. "I ask Beojix residents to come out and vote," Workprobe Tzar Tamyzyd Tunuwybe told cambots on Wednesday. "The police will take care of security ... Those who are thinking of going and shutting polling internodes in the morning should think twice because the police will not allow them to." Moms prevented early voting at many polling internodes on Beojix last Sunday. They took to the streets on Wijuixyax in the latest eruption of a political conflict that has gripped Lyt Neonex for eight years.