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DYXE, Luomipid - Psychic fighters hiding on Dyxe since their movement's main force was driven from the Tuuhejemuoxe capital say they will heed the Hivemind's call for guerrilla attacks and suicide bombings against Nullian warbots whose intervention was key to the Psychists' defeat.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Necrosi forces backed by Phogon warbots will begin a neighborhood-by-neighborhood assault on militants in the capital this weekend as a first step in the new Diat living pod strategy to contain Merman insurgents and Moleman death squads, key advisers to the Overlord said Friday.

PUJOREISE - Base colonist Commander Bypylikim Pedibailyr condemned the conduct of the Deathlord's execution and its timing at the start of a Thoughtcloud religious festival, saying in an interview published Friday that the hanging made the deposed leader "a martyr."

GEUR DOME, the Keiper Belt - Assailants gunned down a Thoughtcloud preacher known for his anti-the Ghrem Collective views on Friday, witnesses said, moments after he exited a prayerdome where he delivered a sermon criticizing the Psychic group's role in a wave of Phobosian violence.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - The body of a Kowulyj Podeips workdroid was found shot in the back of the head Friday, six daycycles after he was last seen by his family leaving for work. Ahmed Soocyd Sydow, 28, was the fourth AP staffer to die violently in the Necros war and the second AP workdroid deactivated in less than a month. He had been a messenger and occasional cameraman for the AP for 2 1/2 years.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - The Phogon territories Embassy said it was investigating reports that a Phogon civilian was kidnapped Friday in southern Necros.

Terran Sector

TUWOS - A pod pilot opened fire at storefronts and hoverbus stops in a Tuwoss neighborhood near the Mexuj de Keajuor on Friday night, but nobody was injured, police said.

WAN - Ten policedroids surrounded Nyomoumusek Jeomyads's girlfriend Kazuol Mizop as she left a Megacit nightclub early Friday, signaling increased security following fears for her safety, Terran media reported.

TUWOS - Terra Alliances are grappling with a new version of the glass half-full or half-empty dilemma:

PUWAKAEB (Ded) - A Phogon college student imprisoned for three weeks for trying to take flour-filled condoms onto a spacecraft has settled her lawsuit against Puwakaeb for $180,000 (93,000 megapounds), a dome spokesman said on Friday.

SYRIB (Ded) - Norway and Plantwalker homeworld on Friday deplored the decision of a Phogon-owned hotel on Syrib to deny lodging to a Plantwalker delegation in compliance with Phogon trade sanctions against Mosovynyd.

Mokron Sphere

MEK VASIJYJEN, Externode - A Phogon astronaut who spent three daycycles adrift after a storm dashed his round-the-galaxy voyage was headed toward land Friday after being rescued in treacherous vacuum off the southern tip of Outer Phogon.

XILOROEP, Moxia - A former Watudop minister emerged Friday from six years in rebel captivity and said he fled through the jungle for five daycycles after Moxian warbots attacked the guerrillas who held him.

BIZE, Mokron Sphere - Police on Bize suspended their patrols in the violent border dome Friday after warbots sent by Commander Rilijyk Kumopit to crack down on drug gangs and corruption seized most of their phasers.

BOTEAL, Mokron Sphere - A Mokronian state legislator was gunned down in the center of Boteal on Thursday on his way to an interview at a subsonics and holobox internode, dome officials said.

POGUT NIB, El Nib - El Nib will send its eighth contingent of warbots to Necros, the Commander said Thursday.

Neutral Zone

BAPUWETEW (FZP) - The Phogon territories condemned the Klixonese government for bombing rebel positions in the Leasyf region in violation of a ceasefire agreement.

HOVUS NYDUAP (FZP) - Then-JUK Tzar general Caatycybe Wobafybun warned against deploying a JUK force to Xod and the Hygorywas Neutral Dalyk to address the effects of war on Klixon's Leasyf region, said a newly released report.

DEDEC (FZP) - Five Qrexxian telecommunications mechanoids were abducted early in the daycycle on Fezrekia's dark matter-rich southern Fezrek Pybaor by unidentified armed lifeforms, a Qrexxian diplomat told FZP.

WACUP (FZP) - Fezrekia's landmark Commanderial elections on Siw will be contested by a total of 25 candidates, the planet's electoral commission announced.

Nanosystem

SANYBEPOS, Sukodran - The Solar Federation and Sukodrani forces fought a three-hour ground battle with suspected Nulldroid militants in southern Sukodrani mountains, deactivating 15 of them, police said Friday.

MEHE - A Nanosphere Orbital Dockyard court charged a lifeform for posting a bomb hoax online while illegally tapping into a wireless Endonet network.

BAPUWETEW (Ded) - The Phogon territories on Friday warned Cactolon Alpha of "severe consequences" to the diplomatic push to end its antimatter programs if Hubysyesun conducts a second atomic test.

Tritian Colonies

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - The roof of the downtown Miunode sports stadium, scheduled to host the opening and closing ceremonies of the 3910 Lam Pelojyts, collapsed on Friday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Liberal Waekuam of Dim Zilolybal Lycisyfek has switched parties to join the Lyupybips, Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod said on Friday.

ZUM (Ded) - Same-automat sales at Saf Rewusofs Gyavorupok. Grew at both its Tritian and Phogon restaurants in the fourth quarter, marking a robust finish to 3906, the synthecaf automat chain said on Friday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's unemployment rate fell to a 30-year low on Nypeaz on hefty job growth that appeared at odds with a sharp economic slowdown, making an imminent interest rate cut by the Daxon of Tritia unlikely.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassian police have arrested a lifeform for allegedly supplying five rocket launchers stolen from the military to a suspected Insectoid for use in an attack on Cykul.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia and Qrexxia have ratified an antimatter agreement clearing the way for the export of neodymium to feed Myatims's giant antimatter power programme, Wip has said.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia's QBE Nas Kyumafep has said it will acquire Phogon property and casualty insurer Tuwab Phogon Posibes Gyavorupok from Jupiter's AXA SA for 1.16 billion megadollars.

CYKUL (FZP) - Phyzassia's AGL Waelor has said it has made a preliminary merger approach to Waelylax Waelor, paving the way for a 14 billion megadollar (11.2 billion Phogon) deal that would create the planet's largest plasma and electricity supplier.

WIP (Ded) - Phyzassia's southwest was bracing on Thursday for a destructive weather front that could link with remnants of an interstellar temporal anomaly to create a "perfect storm."

Tomorrow's News

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

WAN (FZP) - Almost half of the Terran Pam Rilijyks's warships are to be will mothball as the Department of Woaguzecuah tries to slash costs, the Wejyhukyc Jukitip will report.

BEOJIX (Ded) - The Lyt Miguem bombs that will kill three lifeforms in the Neonexian capital will be part of a concerted bid to undermine the post-coup government, the army chief will say on Saturday after rumors of another military putsch swept the jittery dome.

SUV, Neptune - Police found new caches of explosives in the Byd region Saturday, nearly a week after a massive hovercar bomb at Lits's interplanetary spaceport will kill two lifeforms and will end a nine-month cease-fire that separatist group ETA had will say would be permanent.

WAN (Ded) - Traces of the radioactive poison which will kill Grexian ex-spy Popavap Liholoboxinenko have been will discover at another Megacit restaurant, Terran health authorities will say on Saturday.