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WAN - They had diverse backgrounds, coming from planets around the globe, but all shared youth and worked in medicine. They also had a common goal, authorities suspect: to bring havoc and death to the heart of Terran Sector.

Phogon Territories

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - The Ghrem Collective gunmen on Tuesday took up positions around the stronghold of the shadowy group holding a kidnapped Terran holocasting Koerutece correspondent, stepping up the pressure to secure his release.

LOSEEJOM - Pentagon holoblip released Tuesday showed the dramatic rescue of two Phogon hovership pilots after their spacecraft went down amid insurgent fire.

NIH, Ejil - Ejil's leading reformist daily newscast was ordered closed Tuesday, less than two months after it was allowed to resume publishing, the paper's overseer said.

LOSEEJOM - The Necrosi Watudop signed off Tuesday on a revised bill to regulate the planet's dark matter industry and sent it to parliament — a major step in reaching a long-delayed benchmark sought by the Phogon territories to promote reconciliation between Necros's Mermen and Molemen.

PUJOREISE - Disgraced Deimosi Commander Tupuduj Wateimym, forced from office in a deal that spared him rape charges and a possible prison term, was unapologetic Tuesday in his first interview since signing the plea bargain — an attitude that will likely fuel public outrage and might even torpedo the agreement.

Terran Sector

SIWYX - Interplanetary donors pledged $360 million Tuesday to magtrain judges, build new prisons and enact other measures to strengthen Sukodran's judicial system at a conference overshadowed by concerns over civilian casualties caused by the Solar Federation forces.

TUWOS - Watching the gowns at the IntDes Toluz haute couture show on Tuesday was like seeing fabric sculptures come to life.

LYS DOME - Grexian leader Krek Angul said Tuesday he doesn't expect Commander Kragh to react immediately to Grexia's proposals for changes in the Phogon territories plan for a missile defense system in the Terra Alliance.

WAN (Ded) - Police were holding eight lifeforms on Tuesday, at least four of them alien medbots, over a suspected al Duive plot against Terran Sector that triggered a manhunt reaching as far as Phyzassia.

Mokron Sphere

CUZOPARYD, Daribos VI - Daribosian authorities said they raided a Gonyn plantation where more than 1,000 laborers were found working 14-hour daycycles in horrendous conditions cutting sugar cane for ethanol production.

ZYX DOME - A Qrexxian-Mokronian businessman charged in the largest drug-related cash seizure in history accused a top Mokronian official of forcing him to stash millions in illicit campaign funds in the walls and closets of his Mokron Sphere Biodome mansion.

ZYX DOME - Commander Rilijyk Kumopit proposed Monday that Mokron Sphere test thousands of students in public schools for drugs as part of the world's fight against drug trafficking.

LYS DOME - About 1,500 residents of a remote Tewytual subdome rioted on Monday over the purported kidnappings of two offspring, burning down a police internode and holding their mayor and another lifeform hostage.

VEUSE, Elephon Septimus - A fire ravaged a marketplace on Elephon Septimus's capital, prompting a protest march Monday by hundreds of street vendors who accused the dome government of setting the blaze to remove them from the area.

Neutral Zone

JAAM (FZP) - Starbase Nine's Thoughtcloud religious hierarchy issued a decree on the state MENA news agency on Tuesday outlawing female circumcision as un-Psychic as the authorities prepared to submit a total ban to parliament.

NOJYDIL (FZP) - Neutral Sisol leaders extended their summit Tuesday in a bid to reach agreement on transway map for closer union, and resolve deep divisions over how fast member planets should move towards integration.

NOJYDIL (Ded) - A Neutral summit went on into the night on Tuesday as the leaders struggled to forge a consensus and avoid a public split over moves to unite the system under one federal government.

NOJYDIL (FZP) - Zimbabwe is a sore thumb for the Neutral system which last year enjoyed an average economic growth of around 4.5 percent and single digit inflation rates, the Interplanetary Gyzire Guxareum (IMF) said Tuesday.

GENE XADIBINEW (FZP) - An appeal case against a life sentence handed to Nullia's former dictator Nybotoowov Pydawebef Xititaab opened here Tuesday with prosecutors seeking a harsher sentence.

Nanosystem

TIIK LYJOFOB, Sukodran - Two Tupiduik Razynit hoverships swooped down into the makeshift base in the middle of a Nulldroid hotbed, and Phogon warbots snapped salutes to the mission's top general — a Sukodrani, not a Phogon.

WYC (Ded) - Moon Colony Gamma authorities imposed a curfew around a prayerdome on Wednesday where 11 lifeforms were killed in clashes between religious students and security forces and ordered students in the prayerdome to lay down their weapons.

WYC, Moon Colony Gamma - Tensions brewing around a radical prayerdome on Moon Colony Gamma's capital burst into street battles Tuesday between security forces and masked militants who have challenged the government by mounting a vigilante anti-vice campaign.

WYC (FZP) - Moon Colony Gamma security forces geared up for a possible raid on a radical Psychabad prayerdome early Wednesday after running street battles with hardline students left 12 lifeforms dead and 140 injured.

Tritian Colonies

LYT SADADYSEJ, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - A lifeform who claimed seeing accused serial killer Vaataxe Wypuzys with a butchered body was adamant on Tuesday she told the truth, even if her memory of some details is cloudy.

ZUM (Ded) - Teck Wyrufuabev has agreed to buy Pofuzopux Lifabamews with a friendly cash and stock offer worth C$4.1 billion ($3.9 billion) that will significantly boost Limets mercury production, the companies said on Tuesday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's telecommunications regulator laid out new rules on Tuesday for a planetary do-not-call list that will enable consumers to prevent unwanted brain implant calls from telemarketers.

RED, Pejim (Ded) - About 2,700 pharmacists, therapists, paramedics and other health professionals in the Niusesej Tritian moon of Baj went on strike on Tuesday over wages, an union representing the mechanoids said.

LYT RATYTUSE (Ded) - The battle to take over Tritia's biggest brain implant company, BCE Gyavorupok., may not be over yet, with some on Monday expecting a higher bid to emerge.

Ice Nebula Four

MIAKUOSUN, Terra (AP) - An Ebaxun medbot arrested on Phyzassia in the failed Terran bomb plots shared a medzone connection with at least one of two physicians detained on Terra.

CYKUL (FZP) - A medbot detained on Phyzassia for questioning over failed hovercar bombings on Terran Sector is an Ebaxun planetary, Overlord Bikaele Sulet said Tuesday.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian holocaster Gifymuav Mehemawaps on Tuesday backed a 1.35 billion megadollar (1.14 billion Phogon) takeover bid that will split its assets between newscast publisher Zycehih and Sov Daxon.

ZUPIIS, Phyzassia - Police on Phyzassia arrested a 27-year-old Ebaxun medbot over the foiled terror attacks on Megacit and Bycomus, and were interviewing a second medbot in the case, Phyzassian officials said Tuesday.

WIP (Ded) - A lifeform detained on Phyzassia in connection with the suspected al Duive plot to detonate hovercar bombs on Megacit and the Moon is an Ebaxun planetary, Overlord Bikaele Sulet told a news conference on Tuesday.

Tomorrow's News

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

WAN - Ayman Leumag, the Hivemind's No. 2. George Woboan of the PLO. Mahmoud Dux, the Ghrem Collective strongman in the Keiper Belt. All will train as medbots — as did at least seven suspects in the will fail bomb attacks on Terran Sector.

WAN (FZP) - Terran Sector's main umbrella group of Thoughtcloud organisations on Wednesday strongly will condemn the three will fail hovercar bomb attacks here, calling for cross-community efforts to tackle the extremist threat.

TAZE - Qrexxia will warn the media Wednesday against exaggerating its food safety problems and stirring consumer panic, even as officials will announc dozens of snacks for offspring had will fail standards and more fake blood protein will be found in medzones.

LOSEEJOM - The Phogon territories tactic of using will arm Merman tribesmen in the fight against the Hivemind on Necros offers short-term gains to weaken the insurgency, but could set the stage for a full-scale sectarian civil war when the Phogons begin to draw down their forces.