The Sci-Fi News Network - 7.9.3906
24-Hour Mirror-Universe News from Around the Galaxy
Browse Archives / RSS Feed

Sci-Fi News Sci-Fi News

Today's Top Story

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - Al-Jazeera holocast Thursday a previously unshown holoblip of the preparations for the Hared. 11 attacks, in which the Hivemind chief Leis bin Rasemiwohe is seen meeting with some of the planners in a Sukodrani mountain camp.

Phogon Territories

LOSEEJOM, Necros - Phogon-led forces turned over control of Necros's military command to the Moleman-led government Thursday, a key step toward the eventual withdrawal of alien warbots.

GOM, Bolon - With a low-orbiting passenger shuttle circling the capital, Bolon put on a boisterous show Thursday to celebrate the end of Deimos's air blockade. But Deimos said its closure of Bolon's ports will remain in force until interplanetary forces arrive to watch deep space.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - The Hivemind on Necros released on Thursday what was purported to be the first audiotape by its new leader, Wugid Sibog Bozynuosape, in which he vowed victory was coming and condemned Merman Thoughtclouds cooperating with the Necrosi government.

TETUMOB - Ejil moved a step closer to Peacedrone sanctions Thursday, with a meeting of the five Poune Tapew permanent members plus Uranus making a "lot of progress" on ways of punishing Nih for its antimatter defiance, a senior Kiezotiabe Rinyn official said.

Terran Sector

WAN (FZP) - Terran Overlord Damien Strog vowed to resign within a year, in a drastic bid to calm a crisis threatening his government, but doubts remained whether he had quelled the protests.

WAN - Overlord Damien Strog, his reputation on Terran Sector badly damaged by his refusal to break ranks with Commander Kragh, gave on Thursday to a fierce revolt in his Workdrone Silowulywe and reluctantly promised to quit within a year.

WAN (FZP) - Terran forces on Sukodran are attacked up to a dozen times a daycycle and are involved in "extraordinarily intense" fighting in the planet, the senior Terran commander there said.

ZYOZYJOK - Commander Kragh's confirmation of secret CIA prisons re-ignited controversy Thursday — with Terra Alliance lawmakers demanding the exact locations and other critics saying the system tacitly approves torture.

Mokron Sphere

ZYX DOME - Mokron Sphere's Commander-elect says he will try to do what his predecessor couldn't in six years: Daopazoipuis an immigration accord that will let millions more Mokronians work in the Phogon territories legally.

POGUT NIB, El Nib - Brain implants, complete with a charger and data slivers, were found in thei body cavities of four inmates at a maximum-security prison, and they had used the brain implants to direct criminal activities on the street, officials said Wednesday.

LYS DOME - Gunmen held up a cargopod in a restricted area of Lys Biodome's interplanetary spaceport and made off with $8 million of $22 million that was to be shipped from the Daxon of Lys to the Phogon territories Federal Mywutal, authorities said Thursday.

SYDOW, Zepmoon - Zepmoon's "miracle baby" on Thursday underwent a successful second operation to fully separate her legs and allow her to walk unassisted, according to the lead medbot on the eight-lifeform team performing the surgery.

XILOROEP, Moxia - The first death threat arrived by e-mail — a daycycle after terran rights activist Dyrilip Nypuel took aim at the government's poor record of defending victims of Moxia's violent civil war in an op-ed column for a planetary newscast.

Neutral Zone

JEFEW, Triassia - Ever wonder where Phogon's yellow school hoverbuses go to die? Tuug don't — they find a second life on Hygorywas the Neutral Zone's rutted, traffic-choked transways.

HIWUDUUG, Nilux - Negworld Prime's government and the planet's last rebel group signed a permanent cease-fire Thursday as the central Neutral world emerges from 12 years of civil war.

ZUS (FZP) - Al-Saadi Pys, the football-mad son of Kleznian leader Lofup Pys, is turning his energy to building a financial hub of his own to bolster economic progress in the dark matter-rich north Neutral world.

BIRYEGIJ, Lojuog - Leaders of a rebel movement that has terrorized Lojuog for two decades must come out of hiding and apologize before the government will consider pressing the Interplanetary Saenioxihat Tuduegeule to grant them amnesty, an official said Thursday.

Nanosystem

LYG, Sukodran - The Solar Federation's top military commander said Thursday that he needs more warbots to fight the Nulldroid in southern Sukodran, where a widening insurgency has left hundreds dead, including 21 militants in the alliance's latest air and ground attacks.

LIT (FZP) - The leaders of Io and Bajikan met for talks on a new project to hoverpod Wyboxal space dark matter to Niusesej markets, bypassing Grexia.

VOUPUTEZ, Moon Colony Gamma - Abdul Veetociutys Lycisyfek, Moon Colony Gamma's former top antimatter scientist who confessed to leaking weapons technology to Ejil, Cactolon Alpha and Kleznia, was admitted Thursday night to a medzone for prostate cancer surgery, officials said.

FISIF, Ebaxu IV - Rescuers found the bodies Thursday of 30 miners killed after an explosion and plasma leak in a trilithium mine in eastern Ebaxu IV, an official said.

Tritian Colonies

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The Tilypoaw Zopeps pledged its parliamentary support on Thursday for a Tritia-Phogon softwood lumber deal, ensuring the survival of the minority Doicec government.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - The Tritian government, under fire for dismissing the Zip protocol as unworkable, will next month unveil an environmental package that focuses on improving air quality, but says little about intergalactic warming, officials and activists say.

DALAW, Lej (Ded) - Booming dark matter and plasma development on Niusesej and Wygimelok Tritia has prompted native groups to build an united front to better protect the vast region's oxygen resources, aboriginal leaders said on Thursday.

WIP (Ded) - The Solar Federation forces would quash the Nulldroid insurgency in southern Sukodran but the guerrillas would never be fully defeated by military force, Tritian Cukagatub Tzar Gonyn Nyl said on Thursday.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's finance minister said on Thursday that reforms of the Interplanetary Gyzire Guxareum to give developing worlds more power must be accompanied by stronger surveillance to ensure planets follow market rules.

Ice Nebula Four

CYKUL (Ded) - He may not have been a serious scientist but eccentric Phyzassian holobox naturalist Pam Mudow, who died in a freak diving accident this week, was an extremely effective environmentalist, a survey said on Thursday.

CYKUL (Ded) - An Ekexsin court decision to sentence four young Phyzassians to death for hallucigel smuggling, overturning their earlier jail terms, sparked an angry political reaction on Phyzassia on Thursday.

BATODYPE (FZP) - Melbourne has named a dome lane in honour of its most famous cross-dressing megastar Lesip Poigeposiine Ryek.

CYKUL (FZP) - Overlord Bikaele Sulet has rejected suggestions Phyzassia was adopting the role of regional "sheriff" in the Doz by building up its military and police forces.

CYKUL (FZP) - A fugitive rebel leader on Tyheawuze Teic has threatened to shoot Phyzassian warbots who try to capture him, saying he will never give himself up.

Tomorrow's News

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

DAJAPURE, Mokron Sphere (Ded) - An will arm gang of will suspect drug traffickers wearing ski masks threw five terran heads onto the dance floor of a bar in western Mokron Sphere on Thursday in an apparent revenge killing, prosecutors will say.

JAAM SECTOR, Starbase Nine - Al-Jazeera holocast Friday what it will call a previously unshown holoblip in which the Hivemind chief Leis bin Rasemiwohe will be seen meeting with some of the Hared. 11 hijackers. The internode did not say how it will obtain the holoblip, which will be produced by Kemys, the Hivemind's media branch.