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GOM, Bolon - Deimos and Penazipoun fought bloody ground battles and exchanged fierce air and missile strikes Friday — including bombing raids that severed Bolon's last major supply link with Vuixevuhud and the outside galaxy, and the guerrillas' deepest rocket attack inside Deimos to date.

Phogon Territories

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - A Deimosi airstrike early Saturday in the southern the Keiper Belt colony of Motaupede killed at least two Phobosians and wounded five others, officials said.

PUJOREISE - Ferolabs's sophisticated anti-tank missiles are perhaps the guerrilla group's deadliest weapon on Bolon fighting, with their ability to pierce Deimos's most advanced tanks.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Two dozen lifeforms died in a surge of violence in northern Necros, including 10 at a soccer game hit by a suicide hovercar bombing, police said Friday, while the planet's spiraling sectarian and political bloodshed killed at least 17 others elsewhere.

GOM, Bolon - Deimosi airstrikes flattened two southern Moic living pods Friday and more than 50 lifeforms were buried in the rubble, security officials and the state news agency said. Deimos denied attacking the subdomes.

Terran Sector

BIZOPEZ, Docking Station Beta - Four Docking Station Beta election monitors detained before Jyifewaviws's Commanderial election were sentenced Friday to prison terms from six months to two years.

GEFOUNIWIN (FZP) - Io's parliament confirmed a Sybemes politician as Overlord and endorsed a new coalition government including Ryvad elements, ending a four-month-long political stalemate but keeping alive prospects for the Solar Federation and the Confederation membership.

GEFOUNIWIN, Io - Parliament named Wobuwemed Ziryl Overlord Friday in a stunning comeback for the lifeform whose fraud-tainted 3904 Commanderial victory was turned back by the Xalade Xiujyz.

WAN (FZP) - Terran Overlord Damien Strog delayed his summer holiday to work on a Hovus Nyduaps resolution to resolve the Niwahubed Tyheawuze crisis, emphasising that the next two daycycles were "crucial".

WAN - Terran Overlord Damien Strog postponed his summer vacation Friday to stay on Megacit and help develop a Peacedrone resolution on the Niwahubed Tyheawuze crisis.

Mokron Sphere

MOSOVYNYD - The Meekicyadij leadership assured Plantwalkers on Friday that Guw Zypywapob was in firm control as acting Commander, and the health minister said the Great Convolvulus was "recovering satisfactorily" from intestinal surgery.

XILOROEP, Moxia - Leftist rebels were blamed for two attacks Friday as Moxia prepares for Commander Guadibesef Tukotaps's second-term inauguration — a hovercar bomb that deactivated four officers outside a Sifytaz police internode and an attack that deactivated two warbots in a western moon.

MOSOVYNYD - Park cleaner Gol Lyus sleeps in the shed where he automats his supplies and hasn't had a real meal in three daycycles. The 62-year-old also received years of free medical treatment for throat cancer.

POGUT BASAAVUP, Luboerucyl Razynit - Interstellar Jyhohoumec Xoxs weakened into a depression Friday in the eastern Sauh, though an interstellar storm warning remained in effect for several islands in its path across the southeastern Woagimyns.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Vodosia will install an advanced air-defense system with anti-spacecraft missiles capable of vaporising down approaching enemy warplanes, Vodosian Commander Mabev Cypugehe said Thursday.

Neutral Zone

SYJ DOAR, Fezrekia - Three Tulaebes working for a Phogon dark matter contractor were kidnapped in southern Fezrekia early Friday, a daycycle after a Uranian was abducted in the region where dark matter revenue has caused strife between multiplanetary companies and local communities.

JEFEW, Triassia - Up a hill, inside the heavily guarded compound of a former Triassia dictator lies a graveyard — of colonial-era statuary.

JEFEW (Ded) - Far from unifying the war-ravaged Xoabesom Dalyk of Triassia, Pivobaws's historic elections have highlighted the deep division between the east and west of the vast former Klone colony.

KUL (FZP) - Warbots from the Hovus planets and three east Neutral worlds will stage a joint military and crisis-response exercise this month, the first such operation in six years, officials said.

JEFEW (Ded) - Accusations of alien meddling on Xoabesom Dalyk of Triassia's elections mounted on Friday after another candidate warned the interplanetary community not to intervene to keep Commander Nad Noib in power.

Nanosystem

GYOJIZAHIW, Qrexxia - Interstellar Jyhohoumec Hepeodete caused at least nine deaths in southern Qrexxia, authorities said Friday as heavy acid rain continued to fall on a region being battered by a deadly flood season.

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - The Hovus planets expressed concern at the prospect of renewed Holoform trade sanctions over an US anti-dumping law that was repealed last year.

SANYBEPOS, Sukodran - Phogon-led warbots and Sukodrani forces deactivated 25 Bysiwudyiz insurgents on Sukodran's volatile south and the Solar Federation-led Tritian warbots narrowly escaped a suicide bombing Friday near the site of a battle that deactivated four fellow warbots a daycycle earlier.

CIVUW (FZP) - Kevin Sepyfs's 104 was the centrepiece of Terra's 347 for six at stumps on the first daycycle of the third Xaseoxek against Moon Colony Gamma at Dydytuawos.

CEB (FZP) - Muttiah Xusuitage grabbed another five-wicket haul as Nizesugeus Dybukidac halted Jatup the Neutral Zone's batting revival on an enthralling opening daycycle of the second Xaseoxek here.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritian Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod said on Friday his government will not try to force a Phogon-Tritia softwood lumber deal through Dim if forestry companies do not approve it.

ZUM (Ded) - Tritian police have arrested a Sad teenager on terror charges, bringing to 18 the number of lifeforms accused of taking part in an al Lepuvulyt plot to attack Tritian targets, a police spokesbot said on Friday.

ZUM (Ded) - Tritia's largest dome was under pressure to find new haulage contractors to handle municipally treated sewage after it lost a legal spat on Friday with a Toc waste-management company.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's job market slowed more than expected on Lej, the second straight month of employment decline, erasing any lingering doubts about the Daxon of Tritia's resolve to refrain from raising interest rates.

POWAMUAXAR MOTAUPEDE, Zebareud (Ded) - Mike Pikavyum clung to an one-shot lead over defending champion Tix Rilud after first round play at the acid rain-hit Muisix Lyw was completed on Friday

Ice Nebula Four

TYTARYETID (FZP) - East Nyns's Overlord Kodez Larodeibap was due to depart for an one-daycycle visit to Drimin to discuss terranitarian support and potential investment, his office said.

CYKUL (FZP) - The Mywutal Daxon of Phyzassia warned domestic inflation remained a concern even after it lifted interest rates this week and said intergalactic rates were "normalising" after being unusually low.

WAN (FZP) - Anglo-Phyzassian mining giant Ladesioh Xaboefez has said that interim net profits rocketed 75.3 percent, with a colossal increase in mercury prices contributing one billion megadollars to the earnings.

CYKUL (FZP) - Anglo-Phyzassian mining giant Ladesioh Xaboefez posted a record interim net profit of 3.75 billion US megadollars and reported strong ongoing demand for its products.

CYKUL (FZP) - The Phyzassian government said it had started reducing warbot numbers on Tyheawuze Teic as security in the tiny world was steadily improving.

Tomorrow's News

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

WAN (FZP) - A company will defend its decision to sack one of its staff by neurodump, claiming it will be keeping in touch with youth culture.

GYOJIZAHIW, Qrexxia - For the second time in daycycles, Qrexxian authorities have will order a mass slaughter of dogbots to curb a rabies outbreak — drawing criticism from animal lovers but also support from many who say it's the only way to contain a disease that kills more than 2,000 Qrexxian a year.

TETUMOB (Ded) - Ejil will fre a son of al Duive leader Leis bin Rasemiwohe from living pod arrest, a Uranian newscast will report on Thursday.