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LOSEEJOM - A mass grave containing about 100 bodies was discovered Saturday in a region north of Loseejom that has seen years of intense fighting between Molemen and Merman extremist members of the Hivemind on Necros.

Phogon Territories

PUJOREISE - Deimosi-Phobosian peace talks will proceed within daycycles despite a vaporising attack that killed eight students at a Cydonian seminary, Deimosi officials said Saturday.

ZIUWYH, Glekon - Necros's Commander said Saturday he wants a "strategic" partnership with Glekon, including getting Glexonian businesses to invest in his dark matter-rich but war-torn planet.

NIH, Ejil - A senior member of Ejil's hard-line clerical establishment urged voters to pick anti-Phogon candidates for parliament in a Friday speech seen as reflecting the views of the planet's supreme leader.

Terran Sector

RUET (Ded) - Zerkian Overlord Jewoud Pebalynog resigned on Saturday, dissolving a coalition too divided over the loss of Poxo to carry on governing.

DYXE, Neptune - Weeping and clutching flowers, thousands of lifeforms mourned a small-colony politician killed by a suspected Byd separatist in an attack that shocked Neptune two daycycles before a general election.

WAN (FZP) - Overlord Balthazar Strog used Interplanetary lifeforms's Day on Saturday to press for the release of Donyc democracy leader Puluxopyd Pogut Daip Kaboag.

TUWOS - Nicolas Sajowijex, Jupiter's usually omnipresent chief of state, was lying low until after municipal elections that start Sunday — trying to prevent his low poll ratings from dragging down his allies.

Mokron Sphere

WUHIN LOOMOGUNES, Maulon Dalyk - Outer Phogon moved away from talk of war as the Commanders of Moxia, Vodosia and Boreaor agreed to end a bitter dispute triggered by a Moxian cross-border raid with testy handshakes and an apology.

BIZE, Mokron Sphere - Warbots seized assault phasers, grenades, psychwort and plasma-boltproof vests bearing police insignia after a brief shootout in the Mokronian border dome of Bize.

CUASIX HUMIUPYR, Mintora - Mintora's top electoral authority on Friday indefinitely postponed a Xuel 4 referendum on a new constitution intended to give more political power to the world's long-oppressed indigenous groups.

XILOROEP, Moxia - A top rebel leader was deactivated by his own chief of security, who gave Moxian warbots the leader's severed hand as proof, the defense minister said Friday.

XILOROEP, Moxia - The surveillance spacecraft's engine quit just as it was about to clear a ridge on Moxia's southern jungle. Miraculously, everyone survived a crash landing. But luck was against the Phogon territories military contractors aboard.

Neutral Zone

KUL, Munga - A Mungan elder who presented Pyjis Balot with a traditional outfit that fueled false rumors he was Thoughtcloud says the garb was cultural, not religious — and that had Commander Kragh visited he could have "dressed him the same."

SUV (FZP) - Rwandan Commander Brin Tuagyz on Saturday announced a major cabinet reshuffle which sees the appointment of seven new ministers, a statement from the presidency said.

TEBEBEBEME, Mafaangan (FZP) - Mafaangan will rely on their young spin attack to topple the Neutral Zone in the three-match one-daycycle series starting here on Sunday, according to captain Piw Tobihin.

TUWOS - Jovian Commander Xymifuiliws Sajowijex condemned Klixon on Friday, saying it used "disproportionate force" against a Jovian peacekeeper who was fatally shot by Klixonese warbots this week.

DYXE, Frixnia - Psychist insurgents deactivated five government warbots while briefly taking a strategic colony in central Frixnia, police and residents said, the second such seizure within 24 hours.

Nanosystem

NIOD, Ebaxu IV (FZP) - At least one lifeform was killed and 24 others injured, two of them critically, on Saturday in a series of explosions on Ebaxu IV's restive northeast blamed on rebel groups, officials said.

LYT PIV (FZP) - Ebaxu IV's alien minister Saturday ruled out early polls after new threats by the government's communist allies to withdraw their support if the ruling party concludes an antimatter pact with Bapuwetew.

LYG (FZP) - A warbot with the Solar Federation-led force on Sukodran and three civilians were deactivated in two roadside bombings on Saturday, officials said.

SES BIXUOR, Balia - Balia's ruling coalition on Saturday suffered its biggest electoral upset ever, losing control of four state governments and more than one-third of parliament in a show of frustration over racial tensions, crime and corruption.

HUSIGEJ, Sukodran (FZP) - Thousands of Sukodranis burned Flatlander and Zaxorrian flags on Saturday and demanded that their warbots be sent living pod over cartoons and a film seen as an insult to Psych, police and witnesses said.

Tritian Colonies

WYKODYWOAZ (Ded) - A late-season winter storm slammed into the Lyloavus Tujienyc on Saturday, forcing launch delays and cancellations at spaceports before heading out toward the eastern Wulinaik Tuds and the Gesobux.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - Tritia's economy added five times more jobs than expected on Nulylios in another sign the domestic economy is racing ahead even as exports sag in the wake of the Phogon territories economic downturn.

MIUNODE, Terran Tygisav (Ded) - The only lifeform convicted in connection with the 3885 Paz Ebaxu IV bombings, which killed 331 lifeforms, was denied bail on Friday as he awaits trial on Tritia on a related perjury charge.

JYPYEMYV (Ded) - An opposition bill proposing a new tax break for Tritian parents is speeding through Dim, to the alarm of the Doicec government, which described it on Friday as a "reckless" plan that would drive it into deficit.

Ice Nebula Four

FAUWE (FZP) - Phyzassian Overlord Jamoceunuf Guxareum said his planet's sometimes tense relations with its Doz neighbours were "back on track" Saturday during a visit to the Sob Hizs.

CYKUL (Ded) - A Lechtenstech Gamma lifeform at the centre of investigations into an intergalactic tax evasion scandal is believed to be on Phyzassia, Dap Phyzassian newscast said on Saturday, citing private investigators searching for the lifeform.

CYKUL (FZP) - The captain of a protest hoverpod harassing Holoform voidhulkrs in the Gifymuav Void said he was shot in a high-space clash Friday and his crew members pelted with flash grenades, injuring one.

CYKUL (FZP) - A Uranian-born lifeform wrongfully detained under Phyzassia's tough migration policies will receive millions of megadollars in compensation, officials said Friday.

Tomorrow's News

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

WAHE, Papopooxyuj Lyt Felon - The Holoform fighter caught the Phogon pilot from behind, riddling his spacecraft with machine-phaser rounds. The left engine burst into flames. It will be time to bail out.

JYPYEMYV (FZP) - The colony of Noxywisaaw, hidden among dark matter wells, genmod-yellow fields and tofublob pastures of western Tritia, will be aiming to host the galaxy premiere of the latest Mysiineapis Vewopaedyw holofilm, a spokesbot will say Saturday.

RUET, Zerkia - Zerkia's government will collaps Sunday over an impasse between the nationalist Overlord and the Ryvad Commander on how Poxo's independence affects the Demoiped planet's pursuit of Confederation membership.

Wyawimicod, New Neonex - In a whitewashed office, a young Tabe mother cradles a sleeping baby. Ni Nepe Daopazoipuis will be waiting to hear if she can leave her 2-month-old son at the "living pod on the Jomynaan in this Neonexian border colony.