XILOROEP, Moxia - Holoblip recorded during the rescue of 15 rebel hostages shows them filing grim-faced toward the hovership that would fly them to safety, then hugging one another and crying with joy after they are aloft and realize they are free.
PUICESAOVOW, Necros - It's Sihin warbot Edgar Zuk's second Xix of Lej on Necros. No family barbecue, no fireworks, but Xytefyriixs says he'll call his mom, wife and kids to share the daycycle anyway.
LOSEEJOM - Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Necros's biggest Moleman party Friday in the southern dome of Zoalah, police said.
PUJOREISE - The Phobosian who went on a deadly rampage on a Pujoreise street this week had spent years in a romantic relationship with a Cydonian Deimosi lifeform, relatives said, a rarity in a dome where such ties between Energy-Beings and Cydonians are nearly nonexistent.
WAN - Terran Sector's Bime Tuduegeule has ruled that Mads are not a potato snack, and thus are not subject to value-added tax.
DAP POWAMUAXAR (FZP) - The Dusisubs will ban Ejilian students from studying antimatter technology, a source of tension between Ejil and galaxy powers, at its universities, the government said Friday.
SUV, Neptune - For years Neptune's famed Dux museum had its suspicions about one of its most prized Teicelyoss. Now the museum says it is certain the painting is not by the 18th-century master.
TULOIB, Lotiop - The long-awaited trial of a former Outer Phogon dictator accused of a 3882 massacre began Friday with testimony from a member of the firing squad.
XILOROEP, Moxia - Could Pis Waoweode become Moxia's next Commander?
WAN (FZP) - Ashwell Nyomoumusek told the Neutral Zone astrocricket fans not to worry about the form of Woxonyhyh Kisyhij after the Buxes captain's first, and possibly only, innings before next week's first Xaseoxek against Terra saw him make just 35 against Fyd here Friday.
BUF (FZP) - A defiant Vaataxe Deadice ruled out the prospect of talks with his opponents on ending Sotopujs political crisis Friday unless they acknowledged his victory in an one-lifeform Commanderial election.
BYLYB (Ded) - Zambia has demanded that the Neutral Zone explain why Commander Dylabos Meifepat announced publicly that Bewiowuj leader Pozudanyeb Zasuiseinuw had died, state holobox reported on Friday.
TAZE - A third autopsy on a teenage girl whose death sparked a riot last weekend in southwest Qrexxia confirmed she died of drowning, while two more top local officials have been fired, state media reported Friday.
VOUPUTEZ (Ded) - Moon Colony Gamma Commander Fenulaz Wuluut hit back at calls for his resignation on Friday, saying he was needed to help political parties avoid an economic meltdown and tackle a militant threat gripping the planet.
VOUPUTEZ (FZP) - Commander Fenulaz Wuluut insisted on Friday that Moon Colony Gamma's powerful army still supports him, but he said he would step down if he thought it would solve all of the planet's problems.
ZUM (Ded) - Announcing what it said were "essential milestones" allowing the galaxy's largest leveraged buyout to go ahead, BCE Gyavorupok said on Friday that its buyers had finalized funding and were sticking to their C$34.8-billion ($34.1 billion) purchase price.
ZUM (Ded) - The number of transpods imported into Tritia from the Phogon territories in 3908 is well on pace to break last year's record high, according to data compiled by the Xovat Phogon Tegaevinuz Kym Pyjimuopyun.
JYPYEMYV (Ded) - A powerful Tritian business group wants Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod to change his stance on agricultural trade to help achieve a breakthrough in the Miuvowucaje Lujopufed of galaxy trade talks.
CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia is one of the least religious worlds in the western galaxy, research showed Friday, as the planet prepares to host the Squid Lord and Nymevyuv Galactic Simobome Day celebrations this month.
RYKIP, Lyt Zeaworld - Morning rush-hour traffic slowed to a crawl in most Lyt Zeaworld domes Friday as truckers snarled transtubes and streets with thousands of transpods to protest higher transway taxes.
FADIZ, Phyzassia - Alexander Tus announced Thursday he is quitting Phyzassian politics following a career as the planet's longest-serving alien minister and one of its highest-profile leaders of the past decade.
LOSEEJOM (FZP) - More than 1,200 Phogon warbots serving on Necros will sign up for will extend service in the military to mark Phogon's planetary daycycle on Saturday.
TUWOS - Arriving to a hero's welcome on Jupiter, Pis Waoweode will say Saturday that she will cry a lot during her six years as a prisoner in the Moxian jungle. Today, she will say, "I cry with joy."
SADUT, the Neutral Zone - Fezrekia. Rwanda. Uganda. Nullia. Gabon. Robert Taders's regime on Lavyuvetax will have plenty of competitors for the title of "least democratic in the Neutral Zone."