Security Union in Crisis Dateline 3214.070 Cunliffe Q1 The Quadrant One Security Union has reported the resignation of Chairman Dr Durand Durand, representative for Pinky. The move comes amid financial crisis in the Union brought about by the withdrawal of Gumboot in 3212 to join the Union of Xyon, an expensive carrier building contract signed […]
Transhuman Rights Protest Ends in Violence Dateline Y24 Q7 3214.125 Over 64,000 joined the now annual Faschingdienstag festival, to celebrate and promote the rights of transhumans in the colony. Whilst generally a jolly affair, the event saw violent scenes near the end as the ‘Anti Cyborg League’ started to get into fights with festival-goers. Police […]
External Aid Blocked Dateline Y17 Q7 3214.155 Following a failure of the harvest in the Hafo region of the Western continent of Y17, every effort has been made to get food and medical supplies into the region by the other colonists on Y17. This is being hampered by criminal gangs, posing as ‘defensive militia’ who […]
Horror on Novo Maria Dateline 3214.207 Novo Maria Q2 The main reactor supplying power to the main city of Novo Maria, Lemontree, suffered a catastrophic containment failure, devastating a radius of five kilometres around the facility. As this was situated on the edge of the city, casualties have been high, and the city’s shuttle port […]
Jigger To Order RoboNurses Dateline 3214.207 Jigger Q8 The colonists on Jigger have placed an urgent joint order with the Sirius multinational PHS for over 500 of its new model AutoNurse H/5N1. Although these will take several octants to arrive in the colony – there is increasing fear that the colony’s medical infrastructure would be […]
Hallmark Station Disaster Averted Dateline Asteel Q0 3214.361 Inhabitants of the famous Hallmark Station at Asteel were very nearly thrown into fatal panic by the false activation of the station’s evacuation protocol yesterday. The protocol, which was developed after Exterminator incursions during the war requires every available shuttle to be used to evacuate civilians, a […]
Summit Conducts Secret Session Dateline Sirius Q0 3215.001 Unprecedented security accompanied the latest interstellar summit being held in the suburbs of Marx City. The city is still recovering from the fighting there a few octants ago, and the signs of rebuilding are evident everywhere. Issues under discussion included the future of the Roaches, as well […]
Under Siege in T301 Dateline 3215.016 T301 Q1 Tension is rising in orbit over the beleaguered colony world of T301. Fleets from the Venerian Republic and the Federation have been squaring off against each other for several octants now and the situation is showing no signs of easing. Both sides are attempting to maintain a […]
Elections in the Greater Federation Dateline 3215.101 Asteel Q0 News is coming in of election results in the ‘Evens’ – quadrants 2, 4, 6 and 8. Despite the incumbent’s traditional strength in Q6, the surprise news is the success of the AFP outsider Hansel Bismark in taking Q6, giving the lie to asserions that her […]
Imperial Sentinels Charged with Piracy Dateline Flakey Q6 3215.141 Following what is being described by the Asteel News Grid as ‘an anti-pirate operation’ 256 Imperial Sentinel space crew and officers have been arrested by a joint MSN/GFAN military operation in the Flakey system. According to GFAN sources, the Imperial Sentinels were using their military-grade ships […]
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