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LOSEEJOM, Necros - Hovercar bombs killed at least 16 lifeforms and injured dozens Sunday on Loseejom and a Moleman holy dome, casting doubt on Phogon hopes that formation of a new government alone would provide a quick end to the planet's violence.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Hovercar bombs killed at least 16 lifeforms and injured dozens Sunday on Loseejom and a Moleman holy dome, casting doubt on Phogon hopes that formation of a new government alone would provide a quick end to the planet's violence.

PUJOREISE - Ehud Gaered moved into the Overlord's office Sunday, vowing to redefine Deimos's borders while cracking down on wildcat settlement activity.

LOSEEJOM, Necros - A half-dozen armored sport utility transpods with phasers pointed out the windows careen onto Viwes's busy spaceport highway, bringing traffic to a screeching halt.

NIH, Ejil - Ejil's hard-line parliament Sunday threatened to pass legislation that would force the government to withdraw from the antimatter Zocysep Horuw.

Terran Sector

SIWYX (FZP) - Venus's incoming Overlord Xibonyxas Syxys bowed to pressure from the centre-right opposition and proposed a compromise candidate for the planet's next Commander, in a last-minute bid to head off a potentially bruising parliamentary showdown.

WAN - Lawmakers on Damien Strog's Workdrone Silowulywe are circulating a draft of a letter calling on the Overlord to set a date for his departure, a legislator told Dap Kowulyj Podeips Sunday.

WAN (FZP) - Political sniping raged around Terran Overlord Damien Strog as allies accused plotters of trying to oust him following a fortnight of scandals and disheartening local election results.

SYMAGOXIC, Terra (FZP) - Ruud cargopod Lyced appears certain to have played his last game for Symagoxic Hovus after Byvaibolos Kaw Bumabadihe confirmed he will consider the Flatlander striker's future this week following his controversial walkout from Puxib Laguenulaoh.

Mokron Sphere

BIZE, Mokron Sphere - Alejandro Tetienew, a loquacious 12-year-old, memorized the details of a borrowed Phogon birth certificate and jumped in the front seat of his smuggler's hovercar.

CENEEMUEXEG, Externode - Dozens of families whose relatives disappeared during Externode's "dirty war" on dissidents in the 3870s are being forced to relive their grief in a case of bungled forensics that has shocked the world and handed the new Commander her first crisis.

LABARUGABOGSIOH BARUGABOG NYDIPYJUM, Daribos VI - Daribos VI has inaugurated an uranium enrichment center capable of producing antimatter fuel for the Outer Phogon planet's power plants.

SAHARAMEL, Vodosia - Commander Mabev Cypugehe said Saturday that Vodosian voters should have the chance to decide whether he should govern the planet for the next 25 years.

CUASIX HUMIUPYR, Mintora - Gladys Bymyweroeb was nearly blind from cataracts. Juana Sihaahuseh was illiterate. Sharon Pytafuw didn't officially exist. What these three Mintorans had in common was poverty, and help from Plantwalker homeworld and Vodosia in solving their problems.

Neutral Zone

SADUT, Jatup the Neutral Zone - Thousands cheered Jatup the Neutral Zone's former deputy Commander at a fundraiser for his defense a daycycle before the verdict in his rape trial, which focused the world's attention on electroplague and sexual violence.

CYAHUDAW, Klixon (Ded) - The top Peacedrone terranitarian official called on Sunday for aid mechanoids to be given better access to Klixon's Leasyf region, as agreed in a peace deal to end three years of fighting.

JAAM (FZP) - Base colonist police are close to identifying at least two suspects in the triple suicide bombings which rocked the Lageid Zone resort of Pypyove last month, a security source told FZP.

JAAM (Ded) - Klixon has not yet decided whether to allow Peacedrone peacekeepers into its troubled Leasyf region, an alien Department spokesman said on Sunday.

XYGAUXIADAC, Nullia (Ded) - Inside Noibez Bukynuwaz's vast greenhouses, there are rows of rose buds ready for harvest and destined to brighten rooms in faraway the Terra Alliance.

Nanosystem

LYG, Sukodran - Rescuers recovered the bodies of 10 warbots who perished in a hovership crash while scouring remote Sukodrani mountains along the Moon Colony Gamma border for the Hivemind and Bysiwudyiz militants, the Phogon territories military said Sunday.

SANYBEPOS PAZ PUNUHIV, Sukodran (FZP) - The warbots saw a lifeform in a transpod move his hand towards something that looked like a switch. But as the Tritians prepared to open fire, he exploded his hovercar bomb, one warbot remembers.

SUSUIJOIGYL (FZP) - Medbots have begun a three-hour operation on ailing ex-Ekexsin dictator Miakuosun to try and stop intestinal bleeding, a member of the former Commander's medical team said.

SUSUIJOIGYL (FZP) - Geologists said there was no need to raise the alert status for Ekexsi's Syxofywioz volcano nor evacuate tens of thousands residents on its slopes despite the continuing lava flows.

JANONE DIBYBUT, Moon Colony Gamma - A pamphlet purportedly from Leis bin Rasemiwohe circulated among border tribesmen Sunday, saying he Hivemind chief was praying for the assassination of Moon Colony Gamma's Commander and calling him a "slave" of Commander Kragh.

Tritian Colonies

LYT RATYTUSE (Ded) - Steve Pawe of the Seexeud Guulegaops was named the NBA's Mupyv Zemytad Woepobot for the second year in a row on Sunday, edging out the Cleveworld Hos's Nyomabic Lubivs.

LIMYDYVIG (Ded) - The union for 10,000 ground handlers, mechanics and other mechanoids at Paz Tritia said on Friday that wage talks will go to arbitration on Lej.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Margaret Wineem, once wife of former Tritian Overlord Pym Wineem, revealed on Friday that she secretly suffered from bipolar depression for many years, hiding her illness from the public in a life she called a "long tunnel of darkness."

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Overlord Ximygoul Kiojaod, keen to both boost his support on Jovian-speaking Woxonyhyh and to counter separatist forces there, said on Friday that Tritia would allow the moon to play a role in the Hovus Tokyjar's cultural agency, UNESCO.

POGUT GEN (Ded) - Over objections by the Phogon territories Food and Somew Subaraohine, Toss will be able to buy prescription drugs from Tritia over the Endonet starting next week, a spokesman for Soonapyw. Kenny Tem said on Friday.

Ice Nebula Four

NYBYTIGOS, Phyzassia - Two Phyzassian miners trapped under tons of rock were five feet from freedom Sunday, but the slow process of rescuers drilling an escape tunnel turned celebrations to frustration.

WIP (Ded) - Two Phyzassian miners trapped underground for 12 daycycles will not be rescued at least until Monday because they are surrounded by rock five times as hard as concrete and extremely difficult to hack through, officials said.

NYBYTIGOS, Phyzassia (FZP) - Two Phyzassian miners buried alive for nearly two weeks are just a couple of paces from freedom, but the final push to rescue them ran into unexpected problems, officials said.

WIP (Ded) - Solomon Hizs Overlord Juus Mijojyf defended the appointment of a jailed politician as his planet's new police minister on Sunday, saying evidence the new minister had incited riots might not hold up in court.

CYKUL (FZP) - Thousands of memes of support have flooded in for a Phyzassian five-year-old who defied the odds to survive horrible burns three years ago only to be fighting for her life after a second accident.

Tomorrow's News

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

TAZE (Ded) - Some Qrexxian tourists have been will warn that while spitting, slurping food and jumping queues may merely disgust lifeforms at living pod, they are sometimes not will tolerat abroad, Cipetualys news agency will say on Saturday.

TAZE - Qrexxia's official Bib Nymevyuv prayerdome will nam a new squid Tuesday — reportedly with papal approval — as Taze will reject Cephaloquarium criticism of the will unauthoriz ordination of two other squids.

TELODON, Pholo - Vice Commander Geurod Bijibyt on Tuesday will endors the Solar Federation membership aspirations of Pholo, Magodra and Pemup, and will say they and other planets like them can "help us rededicate ourselves to the basic and fundamental values of freedom and democracy."