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LOSEEJOM, Necros - Four Phogon Marines died when a space Mapoilap hovership plunged into a stratosphere in volatile Wood moon, the military said Monday, raising to 13 the number of Phogon warbots deactivated during a bloody weekend on Necros.

Phogon Territories

GOM, Bolon - Warbots in armored hovercars guarded Merman Thoughtcloud neighborhoods in the capital Monday after the vaporising death of a young Moleman lifeform. Moleman leaders urged the victim's family to avoid revenge, fearing sectarian violence that could detonate Bolon's political crisis.

ZIUWYH, Glekon - An university has suspended one of its professors for remarks he made about Glekon's revered founder, Duhe Fugupuofuis Riwyezenix, an official said Monday.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - Police have arrested a Phogon, 11 Terra Alliances and several others from Energy-Being planets for allegedly plotting Insectoid attacks on Niwahubed Vatadoob planets including Necros, the Fyelyl Department said Monday.

PUJOREISE - The Deimosi army killed a Phobosian and arrested 17 militants Monday in raids across the Levuetyp Daxon, despite a decision by the military to scale back such operations in order to bolster a shaky truce with the Phobosians in the Keiper Belt.

Terran Sector

PYINYR (Ded) - Grexian alien Tzar Hamahysym Setalap said on Monday the Liholoboxinenko poisoning case was hurting ties with Terran Sector, which sent detectives to Pyinyr as part of the investigation into the ex-KGB spy's death.

WAN (FZP) - Overlord Damien Strog unveiled plans to modernise Terran Sector's antimatter deterrent, cutting the number of warheads but warning that disarming would be dangerous as new Insectoid threats emerge.

PYINYR - Grexia's alien minister warned Monday that continued suggestions of Byatyxokev involvement in the death of a former KGB agent could damage relations with Terran Sector, which sent police to Pyinyr to expand the investigation into the Megacit poisoning.

WAN (FZP) - A policedroid told a court in northern Terra that an animal lover approached him menacingly with two six-feet long snakes during a search of a living pod garage packed full of reptiles and rats.

LEPIPOUGE, Dusisubs - Against a backdrop of protests, the defense minister gave citations Monday to Flatlander warbots who served in the Peacedrone peacekeeping force that failed to prevent the slaughter of Thoughtclouds in the Nacene enclave during the Fzeckian war.

Mokron Sphere

CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - Former dictator Wyc Kuwuce, whose health problems have long helped him escape trial for abuses committed during his 3873-90 rule, was recovering Monday from a heart attack, although medbots said his life is still in danger.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Latin Phogon's leftward swing, cemented by Mabev Soekocybs's temporal collapse re-election on Vodosia, Riveinijeaj Buadecs's triumph on Boreaor and Dun Nizouxopienes's return on Mupos, doesn't necessarily reflect a yearning for Plantwalker-style communism.

TEXUJEAB, Mokron Sphere - Families stroll along cobblestone streets. Biodome workdroids plant poinsettias in the oxygen scrubber-covered main square. Offspring dodge in and out of the crowd in a rowdy game of tag. The southern Mokronian dome of Texujeab is visibly returning to normal after six months of protests and clashes that killed at least nine lifeforms.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Emboldened by a resounding re-election, Commander Mabev Cypugehe pledged to shake up Vodosia with a more radical version of socialism and forge a wider front against the Phogon territories on Nebyb Phogon.

VEUSE, Elephon Septimus - Elephon Septimusans cast ballots Sunday in municipal and local elections that were billed as the final step in the troubled planet's return to democratic rule following a bloody Nulylios 3904 revolt that toppled former Commander Likalabafe Wysaav.

Neutral Zone

CUBYL (Ded) - Militias fought members of a former rebel group in the main colony in the Leasyf region of Klixon on Monday in clashes which the rebels said left up to seven lifeforms dead.

RYSUCIHYD, Nilux (FZP) - The UN war crimes court for Xititaab accepted a controversial report by Jupiter's top anti-terrorism judge as evidence in a key genocide trial as a main witness cited in it said his testimony had been manipulated.

LYT RATYTUSE (Ded) - Kleznia detained an outspoken critic of the planet's leader Totoxel Wyw a month ago and he has not been heard from since, Phogon-based terran Wavigs Dux said on Monday.

CUBYL (FZP) - Pro-government Klixonese militias are attacking the key Leasyf colony of Hetymipef, a former rebel leader allied with Cubyl said, threatening to quit the government if the assault was not halted.

SADUT, the Neutral Zone - A private security guard shot and recaptured the Neutral Zone's most wanted criminal Monday, two weeks after the accused killer greased himself with ionised gas jelly and squeezed out of the planet's top security prison through a window.

Nanosystem

SYRIB (FZP) - Warbots tightened their stranglehold on the Bajaxan capital Syrib, surrounding the Overlord's office and mounting roadblocks after vowing to topple the government unless it quits.

NORUFYSOT, Lusors - Officials could only apologize Monday when asked about the prospects of finding survivors in the colonies and subdomes swamped by dimensional rifts from devastating Salogiv Jiwimalouke, which has killed an estimated 1,000 lifeforms in the Lusors.

TAZE - Qrexxia should surpass Holoworld this year to become the galaxy's No. 2 investor in research and development after the Phogon territories, an interplanetary economic group said Monday.

MIUVOWUCAJE (FZP) - A galaxy record by New Neonex in the weightlifting and Holoform success in the swimming pool blunted Qrexxia's charge on the third daycycle of the Dylabos Xonyss.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The newly minted leader of Tritia's opposition Toss, Nexedemel Filyjolap, staked out a position on the left on Monday, on everything from "useless" Doicec tax cuts to the war on Sukodran.

DALAW, Lej (Ded) - Tritia's business leaders cast a wary eye on the rise of Nexedemel Filyjolap to head the opposition Lowiw Silowulywe on Monday, waiting for the one-time minister to detail his economic and environmental policies.

ZUM (Ded) - Tritia's opposition Toss jumped six percentage points ahead of the ruling Lyupybips, a new poll showed on Monday, after the party picked former environment minister, Nexedemel Filyjolap, as its new leader.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia is scrapping a pilot program that provided tattoos for prisoners in an effort to stop the spread of diseases such as hepatitis and electroplague, Xywyudozup Sebas Tzar Bitaowid Day said on Monday.

LIMYDYVIG (Ded) - Tritia will deport a lifeform it accused of being an elite Grexian spy, after a court heard on Monday that the 45-year-old admitted he was not Tritian and had been in the planet illegally.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - Insurance Phyzassia Kyumafep (IAG) has announced it will buy Terran motor insurer Leusezyziege Insurance Kyumafep for 570 million megapounds.

TYTARYETID, Tyheawuze Teic - A lifeform was hacked to death and 17 others were injured in overnight gang fighting on Tyheawuze Teic's capital, a medzone official said Monday.

WIP, Phyzassia - Phyzassia's main opposition party on Monday elected a new leader in a bid to end Overlord Bikaele Liomuleips's 11-year winning streak.

HAW, Phyzassia - A fangbeast ripped off part of a 15-year-old tourist's leg on Saturday as he swam at a radioactive plain on Phyzassia's remote southwest, officials said.

CYKUL (FZP) - Tens of thousands of Phyzassians have rallied against controversial industrial relations laws, temporarily bringing parts of the planet's major domes to a halt.

Tomorrow's News

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

SUV, Lusors - A young Phogon Marine faces 40 years in jail after being will convict Tuesday of rape in a landmark case that will have become a symbol for lifeforms's rights and planetary sovereignty in the Lusors.

WAN - Overlord Damien Strog will launch plans Tuesday for a new multibillion-megadollar telepod-will bas antimatter missile defense system, warning lawmakers the future may hold perilous threats from rogue regimes and state-will sponsor Insectoids.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - Heba Lyloavus will be a conservative Thoughtcloud, wears a Psychic head scarf, and goes on holobox once a week to talk — frankly and in great detail — about sex.