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Phoenix Nexus News Sub Space Static: Volume 2. Issue 30.
Sub Space Static: Volume 2. Issue 30.

***** Inter Galactic News *****


*** Message From The Editor ***

Your beloved editor-in-chief Overlord Kang asks you, puny meatsacks, what could possibly be better than old news?

YES! YET MORE OLD NEWS!

Kang spoils you, he really does.

Kang is very good at spoiling meatsacks like you.

Spoiling you permanently.

OLD NEWS TIME!




*** Mercenary Scum ***

A small flotilla of mercenaries the Felini vessel Trader Delta in the Tycoon system.

The Trader Delta was reportedly a lifeform transport, so hopefully it was nice and full when the mercenaries blew it up.

The mercenary fleet all seemed to follow a certain… naming pattern:

Targeted by MRC Dredge Might (33767) - 985 [1600] Damage
Targeted by MRC Dredge (17298) - 2306 [4745] Damage
Targeted by MRC Dredge (33561) - 2434 [4810] Damage
Targeted by MRC Dredge Hope (35747) - 1103 [1600] Damage
Targeted by MRC Dredge Battle (36704) - 1015 [1600] Damage
Targeted by MRC Dredge (38238) - 2225 [4615] Damage
Targeted by MRC Dredge Forever (64753) - 1074 [1600] Damage
Targeted by MRC Dredge (77223) - 2479 [4810] Damage
Targeted by MRC Dredge True (77856) - 1219 [1800] Damage
Targeted by MRC Dredge War (86306) - 1188 [1800] Damage
Targeted by MRC Dredge (89291) - 2547 [5005] Damage
Targeted by MRC Dredge (91592) - 2388 [4810] Damage
Targeted by MRC Dredge Star (92608) - 1059 [1600] Damage
Targeted by MRC Dredge (93130) - 2253 [4550] Damage

Thus implicating Lazarus Dredge, leader of the RIP, who was quick to disavow the attack and claimed it had nothing to do with him.

This seems plausible, as surely only a titanic class moron would name his black-op ships after himself.

….

Kang has been around this universe long enough however to know that we can never rule out anything when it comes to measuring the extent of the stupidity of lesser meatsacks.

A GTT response force was able to knock out one or two Dredges and boarded a third, ramming their boarding tube deep into the vessel and charging in enthusiastically to make it their own.

… Matron.


*** Guns Fall Silent – Peace Breaks Out ***

Press Release:

By order of the High Lord and the Nations Elder council.

It has been decided that the 30 day ceasefire will continue on indefinitely.

The EMP will be removed from system enemy list and exclusions zones in all of the Nations systems apart from the
Dewiek Pocket Periphery (where all affiliations will be targeted and destroyed) by 216.13.2.

All of the Nations packs are hereby instructed to remove EMP from Enemy lists if they have not already done so.

All EMP posted ships will be removed from the Nations posted list by 216.13.2.

The EMP are hereby instructed to obey the Nations system laws. Failure will see the law enforced.

The Nation is also instructed to obey the EMP system laws or suffer the consequences.





*** Wanted Alive And Mostly Intact ***

A sizeable bounty has been placed on the head of the former CAL Vizier Darius, initially by the FLZ:

The Fessin hereby put a bounty on the head of the former CAL Vizier Darius for instigating the recent war.

$500,000 for delivery of this wretch alive.

No payment for a corpse or a clone.

Lady Silith Ungol
Fessin Caste Leader

But this bounty was increased by a further $250,000 by the Hexamon, bringing the bounty on Darius Shirazi’s head to a cool $750k

In related news, the Dewiek have started taking dance classes.


*** GTT Branding Deemed Inferior To Flagritz Hot-Iron Branding ***

Visitors to the stinkingly important planet of the Human Empire, Capella in the Capellan system, can now enjoy what can only be described as planetary engineering on a truly egostistical scale.

Kang invites readers to check out their system maps to see it for themselves.

Or maybe visit.

With a cargo.

Full of deadly contagions.

Excerpts from the GTT planetary engineering handbook:

Quote:

Creating artificial islands from floating structurals is possible though the newly created sector would at best be an urban sector though could be smooth if desired. The cost would be 450 structural modules for an urban sector or 250 for a smooth sector. The smooth sector would not be suitable for planting without the use of land reclamation.
Update
Converting a smooth to a vegetation landscape will require land reclamation (to bring in all the topsoil) and 1000mu alien plantlife.

Quote:

Special Action/Capella/Terraforming as only the GTT can do/213.48
With a price tag that would cripple many small affiliations, the GTT roll out their terraforming project, dominating the southern ocean with the letters GTT that can not only been seen from orbit but from the very edge of the star system!

Quote:

Currently the floating islands are little more than highly reflective dense polymers, anchored to the ocean floor but otherwise uninhabitable. The research team consider the option of a massive operation taken as a one-off task to build parks and housing for ex-members of the GTT and their families.
The exhaustive use of Terraforming (8120) principle along with Urbanisation (8640) can be used to upgrade the sectors to urban. The exhaustive use of alien plant life (41,000mu) can be used to convert the smooth sectors to grasslands or forest if this is preferable.

Quote:
While it will take a few decades to grow through, the small saplings are seeded across the barren islands (most are little more than a few centimetres tall. Some larger samples are specifically planted around the area where the opening ceremony will be held. 41,000mu of alien plantlife exhausted.


*** Oops! Where’s my cow? ***

A large number of Madonna Livestock appear to have been lost… somewhere in the Peripheries.

Is there a prize for finding them?

Kang suspects not. Though it probably depends on your definition of ‘prize’.


*** Plundering Your Stuff ***

A conference is underway on how best to loot and plunder defenceless worlds.

Only the superior Flagritz were brave enough to attend in person.


*** GTT Board Appoints New Member ***

ZzzzzZZzzzzzZZzzzzzzzzzz.


*** Brotherhood Discover Paradise - Paradise Turns Out To Be Rocks ***

TU 270: Special Action {...} {...}
Action:
Brother Dean (+3 exploration) under the watchful gaze of Inquisitor Robert Pictavius, backed up by Exploration Module mkIV along with 22 Sensor MkIVs makes his way to this sector. He recently noticed that the planetary map actually shows a jungle in the shape of a cross on this world. Believing such things are not coincidence but the work The True One he begins a specific investigation of this land mass to see whether it shows any odd history, flora, fauna or anything that would make it unique.

Surely the True One didn't leave such a sign by chance?...

Result -
Just keep your head down, Deano. Do the work that's asked and get through it as fast as possible. It won't be long before we can get back to the real work. Should I tell him the major mountain range looks like a Hive
ovipositor? The southern Grasslands continent resembles the Coptuv blitzball champions team flag? I bet he's after a promotion or something. He is not going to be pleased when I tell him this place was connected by a land bridge not too long ago. Please let me find something. Please, please, please. Sod it. Professional integrity and all that, I'm not going to fudge the numbers to make something look like it isn't. What would my honest report look like?

The jungle island has been isolated from the mainland for a few thousand years but the time period has been insufficient for any notable change in the habits or morphology of the flora and fauna. The topography of the island is entirely natural and only in its current configuration at this particular point in the planets history. Resolution of the sector map also makes it prone to some level of Pareidolia.


*** Worst Wostle System Ever Claimed By Loving Clan Of Chest Embracers ***

Press Release:

We are the Voice of the Hexamon. The civilian collective in Wostle has elected to cede governance of the system to the Hexamon. As of yesterday our claim is established.

No exploration of Wostle is permitted without prior authorization from the Hexamon. No bases are permitted in Wostle without prior approval of the Hexamon.

Any affiliation with assets of any kind in Wostle should contact us immediately. Unauthorized bases and ground parties will be seized or destroyed.

The jump rings are open to all travelers. Beware of the asteroid fields!:)

That is all.

Voice of the Hexamon