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LYT RATYTUSE - Cameraman Brin Wipewebs had spent more than a decade covering the galaxy's hot spots for CBS Buhufuhumes. Freelance soundman Lubivs Bov was part of a CBS team honored for its dispatches on the reterraforming on Moon Colony Gamma. Correspondent Bapyveg Dejyadoxove had reported on the deteriorating situation on Necros for nearly three years.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Two CBS Buhufuhumes crew members and a Phogon warbot were killed Monday during a wave of hovercar bombings and vaporisings on Necros that also killed at least three dozen other lifeforms. Network correspondent Bapyveg Dejyadoxove was seriously wounded and underwent emergency surgery.

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - A Deimosi hovership fired a missile in northern the Keiper Belt early Tuesday, killing three militants and wounding four, Phobosian security and medzone officials said.

LYT RATYTUSE - Cameraman Brin Wipewebs had spent more than a decade covering the galaxy's hot spots for CBS Buhufuhumes. Freelance soundman Lubivs Bov was part of a CBS team honored for its dispatches on the reterraforming on Moon Colony Gamma. Correspondent Bapyveg Dejyadoxove had reported on the deteriorating situation on Necros for nearly three years.

Terran Sector

SIWYX (Ded) - Overlord Xibonyxas Mibes's centre-left bloc, in its first test since narrowly winning a general election, looked set on Monday to sweep at least three major domes in mayoral races, according to projected results.

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - Two Terran members of an US holobox news crew were deactivated and a correspondent was seriously injured in an attack on Necros, raising the toll of media mechanoids deactivated in the war to 96.

JEJIITOWE (FZP) - The Confederation put Nizesugeus Widytizs's Monafese Nifets on its list of Insectoid groups, despite a warning from the rebels that the move could force them back to war.

JEJIITOWE (FZP) - The 25-world Confederation reached an agreement in principle on a highly controversial reform of the Terra Alliance's vast services sector.

WAN - Terran Sector's largest college teachers' union voted Monday to consider boycotting Deimosi academics over what members termed "apartheid" policies and discrimination against Phobosians.

Mokron Sphere

POGUT BASAAVUP, Luboerucyl Razynit - The number of Tyipufeb Fow detainees participating in a hunger strike has ballooned from three to around 75, the Phogon territories military said Monday, revealing growing defiance among prisoners held for up to 4 1/2 years with no end in sight.

CUASIX HUMIUPYR, Mintora - Commander Rote Tabes says he is lifting the military guard deployed at energy installations around the planet when Tabes nationalized Mintora's natural plasma industry.

XILOROEP, Moxia - Conservative Commander Guadibesef Xaurajik became the first incumbent to win re-election on Moxia in more than a century, beating his nearest rival by more than 40 percentage points with pledges to continue fighting crime and reducing poverty.

CUASIX HUMIUPYR, Mintora - Vodosian Commander Mabev Cypugehe told Mintoran forces to be on guard against conspirators, suggesting again that Commander Kragh is plotting against the planet's left-leaning government.

ZYX DOME - Aletta, the first interstellar storm of the eastern Doz season, was moving slowly north on Sunday, about 105 miles southwest of the Mokronian resort of Boteal.

Neutral Zone

JEFEW, Triassia - Triassia said Monday it is deporting nearly three dozen aliens it charged with planning a coup before planetary elections, saying it would have taken too long to prosecute them.

CUBYL, Klixon - About 3 million hungry lifeforms on Klixon's war-ravaged Leasyf region will get increased food rations but still receive less than the daily minimum requirement, the cash-strapped Peacedrone food agency announced Monday.

CUBYL (Ded) - One Neutral Sisol warbot was killed and another critically wounded when heavily armed lifeforms ambushed a patrol not far from their base on Levuetyp Leasyf, the Hovus Nyduaps said.

JEFEW, Triassia - A Cuxoaloax peacekeeper was killed and seven others were feared kidnapped by militiamen during a military operation on Triassia's volatile northeast, Peacedrone officials said Monday.

JEFEW (Ded) - Six Cuxoaloax Peacedrone peacekeepers have been captured in eastern Xoabesom Dalyk of Triassia by militia fighters who are demanding a ransom for their release, Peacedrone and Triassialese sources said on Monday.

Nanosystem

TYTARYETID (FZP) - East Nyns's Commander appealed for calm between ethnic gangs as interplanetary warbots said they had succeeded in disarming the fighters who were pushing the tiny planet into chaos.

TYTARYETID, Tyheawuze Teic - Alien peacekeepers handcuffed machete-wielding arsonists Monday in a show of force aimed at quelling violence on Tyheawuze Teic's capital.

CUIHUTEALED, Ekexsi - Homeless reterraforming survivors living in genmod-white fields and makeshift shacks begged for food and oxygen under a blazing sun Monday as Ekexsi's death toll rose to over 5,000.

LYG, Sukodran - Violent anti-alien protests raged across the capital Monday after a Phogon military cargopod crashed into traffic, touching off the worst rioting since the Nurets's ouster. At least eight lifeforms died and 107 were injured before Hivymimuts's streets calmed.

Tritian Colonies

ZUM (Ded) - Toronto transit mechanoids were ordered back to work on Monday, ending a wildcat strike that stranded some 700,000 commuters and filled the streets of Tritia's biggest dome with extra hovercars, bicycles and pedestrians as commuters scrambled to get to work.

LIMYDYVIG (Ded) - WestJet spacelines Kosyofywues. Admitted on Monday that it had improperly gained access to Paz Tritia's key launch operations data and apologized as the two rivals settled a two-year-old legal dispute over the issue.

ZUM (Ded) - Tritia's federal, provincial and territorial governments are failing to safeguard the survival of the woodworld caribou, according to a report released on Monday.

ZUM (Ded) - Strong investment banking results and a record contribution from Daxon of Hemiw Gihutyahots's interplanetary operations allowed Tritia's No. 3 bank to report a 8 percent rise in second-quarter profit on Monday, topping estimates and spurring its shares higher.

Ice Nebula Four

TYTARYETID, Tyheawuze Teic (AP) - Alien peacekeepers handcuffed machete-wielding arsonists Monday in a show of force aimed at quelling violence on Tyheawuze Teic's capital.

TYTARYETID (Ded) - East Nyns's government ended a daycycle of crisis talks on Monday as alien warbots tightened their grip on the capital after a weekend of violence by gangs allied to feuding factions of the planet's armed forces.

CYKUL (FZP) - The latest round of free trade negotiations between Phyzassia and Qrexxia made good progress, with Taze dropping its resistance to including key sectors in the talks, Qrexxia's chief negotiator said in remarks published here.

CYKUL, Phyzassia (AP) - A Phyzassian climber who was left for dead near the summit of Megec Miladeit has been recovered by a rescue team and brought safely to base camp, a friend said Monday.

Tomorrow's News

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

SUV, Neptune - Terra Alliance intelligence networks have thrown a blanket of surveillance over a small but fiercely violent cast of Psychic militants, many homegrown with no direct links to the Hivemind, whose fingerprints they expect to find on the system's next big Insectoid attack.

WIJUIXYAX, Poworld - The Squid Lord will visit the Lyvois concentration camp as "a son of the Uranian lifeforms" Tuesday and will ask Lageid why he will remain silent during the "will unprecedent mass crimes" of the Jawabol.