Mystery illness kills nine Dateline Blinky Q4 3198.262 Health officials in western Blinky are urgently investigating an unidentified illness which has killed nine farmers and put 11 more in hospital. The farmers were taken ill with symptoms including high fever and vomiting during earlier in the year. All the victims, who came from Highland Province, […]
BATTLE OF L’FAYET Quadrant 7, Grid 637086, Stardate 3198.240 A Exterminator Viking unit was detected entering L’Fayet and burning for the colonial main planet L’Fayet III. The L’Fayet starguard mobilised, and the L’Fayet Station protection Squadron went on combat alert. The system’s HSTS was not destroyed (contrary to known Exterminator SOP to date) so the […]
Dozens dead in fuel riots Dateline Norma Q3, 3199.178 At least 36 people have been killed in two days of violent clashes between protesters and police across Norma, police and witnesses say. Armoured security vehicles have been deployed on the streets of the capital city. Deaths were also reported in a string of other towns. […]
Battle of Flypaper Quadrant 7, Grid 648057, Stardate 3198.112 The biggest engagement of the war in Q7 so far. Huge combined fleet defeats three Exterminator Super Battleships. Battle of Odin’s Seat Quadrant 7, Grid 648057, Stardate 3198.122, Flypaper IV The first and only major ground battle of the war – the largest combined marine force […]
Second Battle of Doggie, Quadrant 6. Grid 636972. StarDate 3198.064 The Earthers learned that the Exterminator forces at Doggie were still there. Assembling new forces (including reinforcements from the Home Systems) – Task Group 9 under Admiral Smith – they resumed the war by seeking out the Exterminator enemy. Arriving at Doggie, the TG found […]
Academic conference to look at the ‘Martian Question’ Dateline 3212.200 Old Mars Q0 Drakkir HandsThe University of Old Mars’ Department of Political Science has announced a major academic conference, ‘Unravelling the Helix’, which aims to take a broad and non-partisan look at the tangled history of Earth and Mars, from the earliest days of the […]
Representatives of the alien refugees of Beldon (Q3), leave their new home on their first FTL flight. The Earth Empire has never been so unpopular, especially on Rok Q7. Some are using the stories of Earther Naval intervention in the system some 20 years ago, but many believe this isn expression of wider anti-Earth feeling […]
UPDATE: INN Reveal that Trappist is in fact in Quadrant 7 – who knew?
There was an uncharacteristic outbreak of reasonableness. Everyone signed up to acknowledging the zubatians right to exist as independent sentients. This caused a lot of political backlash on a number of worlds when the various heads of state returned home (especially on Wolf). The FWOQ mediators did an exceptionally fine job of facilitating the treaty. […]
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