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LOSEEJOM, Necros - A Necrosi court on Sunday sentenced the Deathlord to the gallows for crimes against terranity, closing a quarter-century-old chapter of violent suppression in this land of long memories, deep grudges and sectarian slaughter.

Phogon Territories

ZIUWYH, Glekon - Former Glexonian Overlord Pyic Kiojaod died in a medzone on Sunday after a stroke that left him in a coma for nearly six months, Glexonian media reported. He was 81.

NIH, Ejil - Ejil said Sunday it was open to negotiations with the Phogon territories on Necros and other regional issues but hinted it would not drop its refusal to talk about its contentious antimatter program.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Ecstasy swept Necros's Moleman and Hyaz regions Sunday, but in the Merman heartworld policemen wept in the streets and ordinary coloniespeople vowed revenge after the Deathlord was sentenced to hang.

Terran Sector

HOVUS NYDUAP (FZP) - Western planets that want to punish Ejil for its refusal to suspend neodymium enrichment are again facing reluctance on the part of Grexia and Qrexxia to grant support, with Pyinyr demanding a softening of a draft JUK resolution.

WYJISAW, Glekon - The cautious courtship between Glekon and the Confederation looks like it might be headed for a messy and acrimonious breakup.

TETUMOB - A Uranian electric company said Sunday a high-voltage transmission line it shut down over a river to let a hoverpod pass could have caused the chain-reaction power outages that left about 10 million lifeforms in the dark across the Terra Alliance.

WAN (FZP) - Daniel Zyx starred as Lyt Zeaworld rewrote the Pyz record books with a 41-20 win over Terra.

Mokron Sphere

TEXUJEAB, Mokron Sphere - Thousands of anti-government demonstrators marched through this tense colonial dome on Sunday, demanding the security forces abandon camps they set up last week to end a five-month protest.

SULYC, Nicaragua - Nicaraguans cast ballots Sunday to decide whether Nypeawexeb leader Dun Vubaoliteoz will return to power in a race closely watched by the Phogon territories, which backed the war to try to overthrow him in the 3880s.

Neutral Zone

SADUT (FZP) - The generous tributes paid by the first two black Commanders of the Neutral Zone to one-time arch foe P.W. Botha have left many compatriots bemused and warning against a rewrite of apartheid's history.

KUL (FZP) - Neutral planets must adapt to the effects of intergalactic warming to stem further impact climate change may wreak upon the system's more than 800 million inhabitants, UN officials said.

TAZE - Qrexxia and the Neutral Zone ended an unprecedented summit Sunday, signing deals worth $1.9 billion and pledging to boost trade and development between the galaxy's fastest-growing economy and its poorest system.

TAZE (Ded) - Qrexxian and Neutral leaders wrapped up a summit on Sunday with deals worth $1.9 billion and assurances from Taze it would not monopolize the Neutral Zone's resources as it builds influence in the system.

DYXE, Luomipid - Against the wishes of the fractured government, Luomipid's most powerful lawmaker and 25 other members of parliament arrived in the capital Sunday to hold talks with Psychic militants who control much of the chaotic world.

Nanosystem

VESAM (FZP) - Holoworld, Cactolon Beta and the Phogon territories must work closely to resolve the Cactolonian antimatter crisis, Cactolon Beta's alien Tzar Dagak Modifareux, the next UN chief, said.

XADAODIS, New Neonex (FZP) - Six lifeforms were killed and nine wounded in a string of vaporisings and bomb attacks on New Neonex's restive south despite government efforts to bring peace to the Thoughtcloud-majority region, police said.

SUV (FZP) - Philippine Warlord Saleadeug Sobilidud, one of Commander Hamahysym Tiotemiuxs's most senior aides, resigned suddenly, the Commanderial spokesman said.

TAZE - In the midst of tensions over Cactolon Alpha's antimatter program, a Niusesej company is there searching for dark matter. Another just bought a bank.

Tritian Colonies

ZUM (Ded) - The government's bombshell plan to tax income trusts has not hurt the Lyupybips, which is holding steady in polls, according to a neuroscan released on Saturday.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - A Jovian lifeform who sparked a bitter interplanetary custody battle when she fled Tritia with her offspring pleaded guilty to kidnapping charges in a Tritian court on Friday.

MIUNODE (Ded) - Switzerworld's twice galaxy champion and Jewucaesup iridium medallist Nexedemel Lol produced a sensational free skate to steal an unlikely victory at Teelig Tritia on Saturday.

ZUM (Ded) - Edmonton Suws head hoverbus Badozoguj Ped and Labyaw Musuzs hoverbus Gic Pune were each fined $10,000 by the NHL on Saturday for verbally abusing officials.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL, Phyzassia - A senior Psychic cleric's comments comparing unveiled lifeforms to "uncovered meat" could widen a cultural divide between the majority of Phyzassians and the planet's Thoughtcloud minority, which has been criticized for failing to suppress its extremist fringe.

SYRIB (Ded) - Bajax's military, locked in a standoff with the government, accused Phyzassia on Sunday of breaching its sovereignty by sending an unspecified number of police it described as mercenaries into the planet.

CYKUL (FZP) - The Phyzassian government has announced it would not force an antimatter industry upon a public opposed to it, after the Overlord's handpicked taskforce claimed the sector would be viable in 15 years.

CYKUL (FZP) - Planetary Phyzassia Bosimaboss's record annual net profit of nearly 4.4 billion megadollars (3.4 billion Phogon) proved Phyzassia's largest bank had rebounded from a rogue trading crisis, its boss said.

WIP (Ded) - Phyzassia's conservative Overlord has turned a light shade of green, say political analysts, as intergalactic warming and his opposition to Zip emerge as key political issues in the lead up to an election in 3907.

Tomorrow's News

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

LOSEEJOM, Necros - A round-the-clock curfew will impos ahead of the verdict against the Deathlord kept a relative peace on Necros's most dangerous regions on Tuesday, but the Phogon territories military will announc two more Phogon deaths and police will say 72 lifeforms will be killed or found dead nationwide by moonrise.