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

*** Pirate Destroyed ***

The pirate vessel Rat has been reportedly destroyed over the course of two days by a combined DTR/SMS operation in the Storm system this week, marking another victory for the APTF.

The Rat is understood to have been an unarmed 50 normal hulled solo class freighter, which was initially engaged by three light Detinus cruisers. The Rat then fled, right into the arms of an SMS battlegroup, supported by a fourth DTR light cruiser. The already battered pirate vessel did not last long in the face of massed kinetic missile fire from SMS Broadswords.


*** Yank Neutrality Accords Violated ***

Once again the peace of the Yank system has been broken, this time by a CIA battleship opening fire on and destroying an Imperial carrier class freighter. Details of the conflict have been released by angry imperial sources:

Location:

Yank (146) - {Alpha,13}

IMP Sir Nicholas (115) - Ship
Carrier Class Freighter {Light Ablative Armour}
Armour: 13.0 Scents: 1.4
Hull Damage: 68.3%
Targeted by CIA Measured Response (76715) - 4214 [5200] Damage
INTEGRITY BREAKDOWN - Ship reduced to debris
CIA Measured Response (76715) - Ship
Hal Battleship Class Capital Ship {Heavy Armour}
Armour: 80.0 Scents: 10.0
Destroyed IMP Sir Nicholas (115) - 4214 [5200] Damage

The CIA have indicated that this was yet another in a long string of unfortunate accidents to have occurred in the Yank system. They also took the opportunity to repeat their calls for the Imperial-bloc to answer for the death of 2500 civilians as reported a few weeks ago when a GTT vessel opened fire on an unarmed Confederate outpost, also in Yank.

In the meantime, our reporters have heard alarming rumours of significant arms shipments being moved into the Yank system by parties unknown.


*** Imperial Scout Destroyed ***

A small Imperial scout vessel has been destroyed in the outer rings of the Arachnid system by elements of the DTR Stellar Armada.


*** Falconian Empire Declares War On Everybody? ***

Confusing reports this week as rumours seem to indicate that some rogue elements of the FCN momentarily declared war on the entire universe.

The FCN have however indicated that this was an error of communication, and that they are not actually coming to attack us all.


*** Desperate Pirates ***

With silence lately from Pirate Large, and sounds of frustration coming from Black Dog, it seems as if there have been fewer opportunities for the pirates of late. Perhaps they have been rocked by recent successes by the APTF, or perhaps they are just on their holidays. Either way, the IGN newsroom have now surely jinxed this by mentioning it, and we expect Pirate Large to come crashing through our front office any moment now.


*** QNG News Release ***

The following press release has been received:

Greetings sentient beings!

The Hive and Hexamon have long warred and feared each other. Today this ends!

The Hexamon have evolved into the Children of Hexos and the Hive has evolved into the Matriarch Queen, superior among all other queens. We have both learned to respect and treat each other with honour, we have also realised how little differ between our two races.

As of today the COH and QNG unite in the Hive Community. It is hoped that unity will succeed where independency have failed and that the hive species will be brought to new heights of glory.

We acknowledge the need for unity and recognize the benefits that being allied with the FLZ has given us in the past. However, in this, the new beginning for our collective race, we feel that the plans and directions we wish to pursue would be counter-productive in maintaining any alliance at this point with any non-hive race.

Although we hold that out for future expansions, until we have solidified our stance with each other and have received acknowledgments from other affiliations that they recognize whom we are becoming rather than whom they believed we were, we will not be expanding our alliances at this point.

Our primary plans are to maintain a neutral-stance within known space.

We also acknowledge that any assets of ours that enter/operate within anothers Affiliations legal domain (ex: Imperial Space, CIA Space, Falconian Space, etc...) we will abide by their laws while within the respective areas.

To initiate these actions, our first action of Uniting as allies with the COH goes into effect Stardate 206.2.1 and is at the same time followed by our 2nd action:

We officially declare that as of this Stardate 206.2.1, the QNG are withdrawing from the alliance with the Flagritz Empire.

Glory to the Community!

Signed,

Matriarch Queen
Queens Guardian

Ian Jordan
Advisor to the Celestial Emperor
Children of Hexos


*** Felini Response to QNG Announcement ***

The Felini have responded with quiet approval to the announcement that the QNG have withdrawn from their alliance with the Flagritz Empire, stating that they will be welcome again in FEL space after a 2 month cooling period, to ensure enemy lists are cleared.


*** IGN Reporter Sacked ***

Responding angrily to rumours that the IGN had no idea the QNG and FLZ were ever allied, managers at the Inter Galactic News have sacked the entire alien affairs staff.

Anybody needing some cheap reporters should check their local notice boards.


*** COH Update ***

Ian Jordan, speaker for the Children of Hexos, has issued a release detailing the current state of affairs within COH holdings:

Greetings beings of the Peripheries.

His Celestial Emperor Hexos has asked me to update you all with the good news the COH are no longer at war with anyone. With the DNA accepting peace we have brought an end to that chapter and can start to make plans for the future. As for the DNA concerns over our assets in the SKY system these have been all traded to the FEL, apart from 1 outpost. That is the only fixed position in the cluster.

As part of the on going campaign to trace are 'our gods' we will be entering systems and investigating to increase our knowledge of these powerful beings.

Our starbases continue to grow and the trade deals we have with various affiliations are paying off very well. If anyone is interested in setting up deals contact this office and we will see what can be arranged.

We have found a world in which to settle in Titan and have GPI'ed for a starbase site. The Imperial Viceroy as given his blessing and we are progressing well. We should be repopulating our home system soon.

Our policy of Organic hulls only is progressing well, we only have 4 metal ships in active service these are small exploration vessels which are in the process of being replaced.

The transfer of non Hve personnel is slower than we would like but Ves Gormen is virtually HVE only. The other sites will take longer unless we can get 20,000 hve workers.

Our research capabilities are improving but again not as quickly as we would like, again shortage of workers is our problem. We have also purchased/traded 2 principles and a number of techniques/blueprints, this as aided our research efforts.

As for defence we will be increasing our platforms and fleet to meet the need of the Celestial Emperor Hexos wishes. The FET have allowed us to place a platform at the Tycoon stargate to protect COH shipping and destroy any pirates who happen by. The platform as a condition of being there will also defend FET. Any who wish to strike at the FET there please bear this in mind. The Emperor wishes to have a platform there and that is the price, this is not a change in COH policy and it will only have PIR on its enemy lists.

Thank you for your time and any comments please send them here or to my office.


*** Have Spaceship Will Travel ***

A statement from Michael G Bridge, Overlord of the Krell, Warlord of Clan Nemesis.

Sentients of the Peripheries.
I refounded the KRL affiliation, to save the Krell race from extinction, and give them the capability for self-rule, and self-determination. As well as my own adopted Clan Nemesis, two more clans have arisen to prominence, Black Rat and Dark Angel, and the racial technical base is increasing rapidly.

All of which means that I'm nearly done. When my current research lines are finished and handed over to the other Krell warlords, I will have broadly completed the three aims I set myself, to begin terraforming, and to rebuild the technological and military infrastructure.

Unfortunately, Storm is still not peaceful, for various reasons. However, I have faith that other warlords can deal with this in an appropriate manner.

So, in the foreseeable future, hopefully 1st or 2nd Quarter of this year, I will be leaving the KRL, and seeking employment elsewhere. I can offer to an employer a small fleet of general purpose ships, and several thousand troops, as the Krell do not recognise the concept of abdication, so I am effectively bringing Clan Nemesis with me.

I can be contacted at the usual address

Michael Bridge.

As an addendum to this story, we at the IGN have learnt that Warlord Bridge has virtually accepted a new position, although no official announcement has yet been made.


*** Imperial Outpost Application ***

An application has been received to exploit resource ID 12382 in the Misre system. Anyone already exploiting this resource code in Misre should inform the Viceregal Administration before day 5 week 02/06 stating the celestial body on which it is being exploited.


*** Peace Breaks Out ***

Disturbing revelations abound as it turns out the IMP-bloc and the DTR are not targeting each other in the Storm system. Frankly we are appalled at where this sense of decency and gentlemanly fair play might lead.


*** IND Press Release ***

Following recent complications with the FCN empire, Zachariah Zupkern, Independent Trader, has issued the following press release:

ZZupkern, and of course, his Uncles Third Cousin, are proud to announce that they will be continuing as trustworthy IND traders, rather than move into more nefarious pursuits, which was a bit of empty threat really, in a moment of pique, because as I said, "the last, the very last thing I would do is use an Independent position", if I were to go down that avenue.

This about face is due to the tremendous amount of encouragement and help that the people of the Peripheries has given. I was terribly upset at the time, although this might have been partly due to my uncles third cousin jumping up and down and foaming at the mouth, but as a wise council pointed out to me, everything that has been lost can be rebuilt. Indeed this is true.

Not only encouragement and advice, but real practical help also. The Immortal Chief of the DNA, who it seems has the exclusive license over the planet concerned [according to the planet message], has offered me a ship, to use as my own, with the statement that "This free gift ship from the DNA (with real cloaking ability) would really remove the need for the FCN's to compensate you, and show that affiliations can give as well as take away at this human time of good will."

There are others that are giving me real practical help also in addition to encouragement, not only ships, but fitting out, trade offers from markets previously unknown to me, who prefer to remain anonymous, buy they know who they are, and they know that they have my, and of course my uncles third cousin's, heartfelt thanks and appreciation.

So soon you may come across my ships once again trading their way around the peripheries [but not FCN it seems], if so give them a cheery honk of your horn and know that the captain and crew are smiling back in appreciation.


*** Pirate Strikes ***

The pirate vessel X-P'Rogu has attacked and successfully boarded a Felini vessel in the Kastor system.


*** News Flash ***

News agencies throughout the Peripheries have just been primed to clear space in their broadcast schedules in expectation a shattering announcement. There is as yet no further indication on what this announcement might be, or from where it might originate.


***** Periphery Classifieds *****

*** Wanted ***

I am looking for ICM, BCM, TM and SM mk2 bps.

Anyone with said bps, can contact me in private with their prices.

Warlord Slyth Dark Angel
KRL Clan Dark Angels


*** For Sale ***

1000+ Heavy Battle Tanks.
1000+ Ground Fighters
1000+ Ground Bombers

There are 12000 or so employees to be sacked from High Star, unless somebody is interested in giving them paid employment. Costs to be recouped at around 4 stellars per employee. Plus 14000 Naplian mercenaries. With an extra 800 mercs available weekly.

Please contact me in private if interested.

Daniel Haynes
IRS


*** Public Service Announcement ***

Greetings,

While you are jumping into Madonna don't forget to fly by Freedom City!

We have the best maintenance and R & R facilities this side of Quick Snack...

Everyone welcome...

RIP G T Spugman
RIP Freedom City / Quick Snack


***** From The Posting Boards *****


A change to orbital docks?

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=976&hl=


Lazy Krell Ground Parties?

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=977&hl=


Are there too few systems?

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=978&hl=


A quick in the way pick-up orders work when used as part of a squadron?

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=974&hl=


How many hours does it take to activate a complex?

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=975&hl=


Everything you ever wanted to know about planetary shield complexes, but were afraid to ask?

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=969&hl=


Erratic battle print-out generation?

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=973&hl=



*** Messages From The Editor ***


1) HVE website has been removed.

2) New QNG website address added.

3) Thank you for the get well soon messages.

4) This is now one year that I've been doing the SSS newsletter. Don't time fly.

- Simon.


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DEN - www.dewiek.net
DNA - members.optusnet.com.au/madmaxcc/
DOM - www.pvv.org/~kennetso/dominion
FCN - home.btconnect.com/Howells/fcn.htm
FEL - www.felini.org/
FET - fet.mindmuse.net/
FGZ - flagritz.cjb.net./
IMP - www.chalmore.co.uk/
MOH - www.mohache.com/
QNG - www.lwlawrence.com/QNGForum/index.php
RIP - www.rip17.com/
SMS - www.stellarmining.co.uk
WMB - wimbles.specht.co.uk/
Lausnaff Enterprises - web.telia.com/~u40927438/aft/
Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

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

*** Pirate Destroyed ***

The pirate vessel Bad Dog had an unfortunate stroke of luck this week when it ran headfirst into a fleet of Flagritz warships and two Krell warships that included the APTF vessel Seraph.

FGZ sources are understood to be particularly pleased about the destruction of the Bad Dog because the vessel, a Ticl-rani class gunboat used to belong to them before being captured by the infamous pirate Large some time ago.

*** Felini Tyranny Bans Independents ***

The FEL have announced that all INDs will be engaged and fired upon within the Onwards system with no further warning. And that any IND entering any other FEL system should register their intended presence before arrival.

This makes the latest in a series of strong-arm measures introduced to deal with rogue Independent organisations within the Peripheries. A flag which is increasingly being read as 'Black Ops' by starbase governors.

It should be noted that FEL assets within the Skye system will fire upon IND vessels without warning.


*** Skye System ***

The Felini have requested that all parties with assets in the Skye system should register them with the FEL authorities immediately. Further that any party wishing to transit the system should apply for a transit visa.

This measure is in response to alleged trespasses by parties unknown.


*** Conflict In Yank ***

A Falconian outpost on the planet Lunk in Yank was this week attacked and captured by an Independent ground party.

Enraged FCN spokesmen have declared the IND ground party in question to be Pirates, and they have moved to recapture the outpost and annihilate the guilty ground party.

The occurrence of militant INDs in the Yank system is a serious blow to the stability of the region, and casts yet more doubt on the ability of the Kastorian Military Junta to enforce the no-fire zone.

The FCN Empire has requested that any party with any information regarding the backers of the IND ground party, contact them immediately. And the use of an IND ground party in Yank has met with widespread condemnation from multiple governments.


*** FET under attack ***

A number of FET facilities came under attack this week by elements of the Confederate fleet. A CNF reporter released the following story:

"This is a report on behalf of Mr M.R.Law of the CNF.

Today a combined attack of 2 fleets under the direct control of Mr M.R.Law, engaged and destroyed three FET outposts.

The combined fleet was twenty plus ships strong of all classes. They managed to destroy all three outposts in less than one round. There is as yet no report of loss of life at this planet as a few days prior to the attack a scout ship scanned all three outposts.

This attack was planned for the previous week but was delayed for an urgent matter.

As of the last orders issued, these fleets where to move on to another system to take pot shots at a small platform belonging to the IMP block."


*** FET Announcement Imminent ***

A major announcement from the FET is expected imminently, as sources within several governments have leaked some important information to the press. As a matter of courtesy however, this news service is holding off on breaking the story in anticipation of an official press release from FET HQ.


*** Krell Go To War ***

The Krell warlord of the Black Rat clan has announced his intention to declare war against all Independents.

Many independent observers see this as the first step in the Krell plan to declare war against the entire universe - an act that seems to have almost religious significance for the Krell race. But frankly with the Krell, who knows?


*** New AFT Trading Company ***

A new branch of the AFT has opened up this week, with the CEO of Hiram Enterprises issuing the following statement:

"Gentlebeings of the Peripheries, Greetings,

I almost hesitate to interrupt the current discussions, but only almost.

I would like to announce a new trading group, operating under the AFT banner. Hiram Enterprises is operating three ships: Hiram's Junker (96429), Niankhhnum (99601) and Mettafly (60931). I will be looking at markets for interesting trade deals but am very willing to carry out commission work. Anybody interested in hiring transport should contact our head office at (douglasegan at hotmail dot com)

Thank you for your attention. We now return you to normal programming.

Douglas
CEO Hiram Enterprises"


*** The Vulgarity Of Traders ***

Harsh words have been exchanged following the Imperial Viceroy being quoted as saying he believed all trading to be "vulgar". The Fleetmaster of the AFT has demanded an apology from the Imperial Viceroy on behalf of all traders throughout the peripheries.

It is this reporters opinion that such an apology will not be forthcoming.

We have been asked to mention that anybody who wants to see something really vulgar, is invited to attend the recreation complexes of any RIP Starbase.

Honestly, those RIP advertising people get everywhere.


*** The Vulgarity Of Pirate Large ***

It seems as if pirate large has struck twice, and his associates once. This is in addition to several vessels captured over the holidays. Bringing, unless we are very much mistaken, the total of vessels captured by Large over the last three weeks to five.


*** Imperial Stellar Patrol Back In Action ***

From the Imperial news agencies:

An ISP fighting patrol engaged and destroyed a CIA Platform in Kastor and two CIA ships in Ruin during the week with minor damage to an IMP ship. In separate incidents an IMP scout was destroyed by a DTR patrol in Arachnid and an IMP Freighter fell foul of a CIA "battle computer error" in Yank.

A CNF warship had a brief brush with an Imperial Platform in the Capellan System but did not return fire.


*** ISP In Action Again ***

Our reporters have learnt that the Imperial fleet has also destroyed a number of KST vessels, on their way back to base after their raid in Confederate space.


*** COH Statement ***

Ian Jordan, advisor to the Celestial Emperor, has issued the following statement:

Greetings beings of the Peripheries.

This Statement is on behalf of the COH not the HIVE COMMUNITY

His Celestial Emperor Hexos wishes to announce that we have found, contacted and interacted with the ARC. We have been finding out about our past and each other. These great beings we worship as living GODS, have so much to offer the peripheries we are willing to act as go betweens with any one who as dealings with them. We have established friendly links which we will encourage and expand in the future.

We have found the DOM are at war with them we wish to encourage them to make peace with these great beings. Any affiliation who has had past unfriendly dealing with the ARC are welcome to contact me and we can settle any differences peacefully.

Has we have stated before the COH was originally the HEX which were servants of the ARC, these saved our race when titan went supa nova and would not be here if not for them. We have been used has armed forces but this is what we were created for. In view of this, all COH defence positions will support and defend ARC to the death.

These great being have had bad press, with horror stories told about them, in the coming months the COH will find and publish the truth about these living Gods. Any attack on these will be seen as an act of war against the COH

Thank you for your time."


***** Periphery Classifieds *****

For Sale - 75 Light Hull Caravel Class Fast Freighter

Greetings one and all,

The master shipbuilders at Freedom City are pleased to announce that they
are selling the following vessel.

1 x 75 Light Hull Caravel Class Fast Freighter.

The ship is configured as follows:

1 Bridge
40 Cargo Hold
8 ISR Type 3 Engines
1 Jump Drive
16 Quarters
1 Sensor
29 Thrust Engine

And comes complete with 50 Human Crew.

Offers for the purchase of the ship should be made on subspace channel
Doug.huges [at] btinternet [dot] com

The price is 65,000 stellars ono.

Thank you.

RIP GT Spugman
RIP Freedom City / Quick Snack


*** Wanted ***

Subject: Sector Decontamination (10015) blueprint

Greetings

Do anyone have a Sector Decontamination (10015) blueprint for sale or can make one cheaply?

Warlord Slyth Dark Angel
Krell Clan Dark Angels


***** From The Posting Boards *****

Old BSE ship types in Phoenix. Stephan is looking for information on conversion changes from BSE era ships to Phoenix ships:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=979&hl=


Transferring officers quirk:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=980&hl=


And there is some interesting info about differences between various races working at different efficiencies in various situations that some players might not be aware of in the 'Something is wrong with my GP':

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=977&hl=



******

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DEN - www.dewiek.net
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FCN - home.btconnect.com/Howells/fcn.htm
FEL - www.felini.org/
FET - fet.mindmuse.net/
FGZ - flagritz.cjb.net./
IMP - www.chalmore.co.uk/
MOH - www.mohache.com/
QNG - www.lwlawrence.com/QNGForum/index.php
RIP - www.rip17.com/
SMS - www.stellarmining.co.uk
WMB - wimbles.specht.co.uk/
Lausnaff Enterprises - web.telia.com/~u40927438/aft/
Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

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

*** FET Announcement ***

As expected for some time now, the FET have made an announcement declaring peace with the Detinus Republic and Confederacy, and withdrawing entirely from all armed conflict.

The FET Director issued the following public statement:

"Greetings Gentlebeings of the Peripheries.

Recently the FET Board of Directors have been discussing the current political climate within the peripheries, concentrating on the ongoing hostilities between the Imperial Chartered affiliations and Confederate Bloc and their allies the DTR.

There seems to be no end in sight as the two sides have been at war on and off for generations and it is all they know.

FET as a charted affiliation has always supported the Imperial cause in this conflict, but over the last year or two have become increasingly concerned about the effect this is having on the planetary populations living within each sides sphere of influence.

These populations have graciously allowed affiliations to set up installations on their planets. Do the affiliations have the right to place these citizens in danger by having assets on their planet that may become a target in the ongoing war?

The FET board having decided that the answer to that question is no!

To that end FET have decided that we no longer wish to put innocent civilians at risk and will therefore no longer participate in the war.

FET now declares itself a non-combatant affiliation.

Starting on stardate:206.4.1(January 23rd)FET drops all system claims on behalf of itself or other affiliations.

Already FET has dropped its declarations of war against the Confederate Bloc and the DTR. And the Imperial Services have withdrawn their declaration of allegiance to us. FET over the coming few days will also withdraw our allegiance from the other charted affiliations.

Having said that FET are still, until such time it is revoked a charted affiliation. We still offer to defend bases where we share planets with others if requested to do so, and will continue to defend ourselves against aggressors if need be.(but see next paragraph.).

FET will remain a non political/military affiliation until such time as other affiliations agree to form a central, multi affiliation, democratically elected Commonwealth representing the needs and views of the ordinary citizens of the Peripheries, as it is the boards view that all current forms of human government are flawed and don't truly represent the citizens within those governments spheres of influence.

By taking this course of action FET hope to minimise the danger to planetary populations and show the other affiliations that war is not the only answer.

On a personal note I do hope that all the affiliations on both sides of the human conflict respect our decision to become non-combatants and refrain from involving us in said conflict.

Thank you all for your time.

Zuvoro Norozov.
FET CEO."

A source inside the Detinus government has confirmed that the FET have indeed declared peace, and that all DTR freighters carried on FET posted lists have been delisted. Though there is as yet no comment on the extent to which political conversations might be taking place between the once warring parties, but there are rumours suggesting that tentative moves towards establishing trade relations are underway. Which, if true, suggests that a significant step has been taken towards establishing an element of peace throughout the warring Peripheries.

Of course, it remains to be seen to what extent the withdrawal of the FET from the Imperial-bloc will impact the Imperial Stellar Patrols ability to wage effective war. Independent analysts have suggested that the FET warfleet was less often seen in the front-line war effort, but that their contribution behind the scenes to garrison and reserve and supply duty must have been significant.


*** Empire Responds To FET Withdrawal ***

The Imperial news services this week have carried the following story regarding the FET announcement:

"The FET have stated their intention of dropping claims to the systems they currently claim on behalf of the Imperial Services and withdrawing from the Empire's Alliance against the DTR and their surrogates in the Darkfold periphery. The Imperial Services will be taking up these claims with immediate effect with the exception of Wastelands, which is expected to be claimed by IND Oasis on behalf of the GCE, with IMP approval.

The FET have stated that they do not intend to void their Imperial Charter at this time."

The Peripheries wait with baited breath and colouring-in pencils to see if the Wastelands system does indeed turn to GCE control.


*** Pirates sent packing ***

The Dewiek have once again proven to be the affiliation most resistant to the advances of Pirate Large, with DEN Weenie announcing the humiliating failure of the pirate ship Angelicus in its attempts to board one of her ships.

The Angelicus is however understood to have made a clean escape.


*** DOM Destroy DTR Freighters ***

Two DTR Freighters have been destroyed in the Solo system this week when they entered orbit of two DOM Starbases, including the ex-DTR base of Acheron.

The vessels were lost with all hands.


*** Imperial Stellar Patrol In Action ***

A fighting Patrol of the ISP continued its depredations in the Darkfold periphery this week. Two KST ships were encountered and destroyed and reports are coming in of a larger clash involving up to 13 CNF and CIA ships which appear to have caused them heavy casualties.

There has been no word from Confederate sources detailing the extent of this battle, or casualties caused.


*** SMS Accused Of Developing WoMD ***

Allegations have been made by the DNA that the SMS are involved in the development of nuclear weapons in the Skye system. The following broadcast has been made on the NNN news channel, which includes details of where the SMS secret research facility might be located:

"The DNA confirmed that Felini Visa's are not really required to visit SMS nuclear facilities in the Skye System as the Felini don't patrol their system. That's the SMS's job after all to provide a shield for the Felini to hide behind.

Tickets for DNA guided tours are available from most good bookshops and have stamped free access for those wishing to see the SMS tests on nuclear devices at their secret bases.

Quadrant Beta 13 - Skye System (191)

>TU 300: Enter Orbit {8027}
Entering orbit of Psi CXIII (8027)
A massive energy signature is detected near to this strange and probably
artificial world.
Scanned:
SMS OUTPOST PSI CXIII (36848) - {1-1} 31 kMus - Hiport
SMS OUTPOST PSI CXIII ORBITAL (98680) - {0-0} 1 kMus"

There has as yet been no official response from the SMS detailing what research might be underway at this base.


*** Audrey System In Flames ***

Conflict has erupted this week on the planet Mandy in the Audrey system, as DNA and SMS assets have exchanged heavy fire.

The exchange appears to have begun when the DNA Ambush Class Cruiser 'Prophecy' entered orbit of Mandy and opened fire on an SMS Orehunter class freighter. This exchange then triggered a cascade of fire, as multiple ships and starbases were drawn into the battle.

At this point there is still some confusion over exactly how this battle occurred.


*** CNF/IMP Tangle In Beach System ***

The Imperial wire is carrying the following report of a significant victory over Confederate forces:

The results of the battle in Beach last week are now coming in, The ISP lost an ammunition bowser, had one ship with medium damage and several with minor damage. All our ships were able to leave the area with additional minor damage to some as they left. The CNF lost two heavy cruisers with another six capital ships heavily damaged, ranging from 35-80%, and two less severely damaged. A passing CIA convoy lost both it's freighters and the escort was lightly damaged. Some CNF ships also received further damage as they left the area.

STOP PRESS - reports have just arrived that a further six of the CNF's damaged ships that failed to leave the battle site have been destroyed over two days.


*** Naplian News Network - News Flash - SMS attack DNA Starbase ***

The following transmission has been received from an NNN reporter on the scene with an eyewitness report of the battle:

"Darlings, this is Lily Savage reporter for the Naplian News Network. I am standing on the mountain on the planet Mandy next to the NNN shuttle. Dramatic news is unfolding in front of me. In the sea over there to my right is the DNA's last starbase the rusty old DNA Angel's Nest. Over there to my left on a large island two large SMS starbases, and in the middle a large GTT base on the main island.

The DNA starbase floats on pontoons in the rough Sea of Mandy, an amazing achievement of Naplian engineering, beaten only by the magnificent tall suspension bridge towering to mainland built by the hundreds of naplians and humans. For so long it has been peaceful until yesterday.

Reports from the Ministry of War indicated that a rogue DNA ship committed suicide by driving his ship close to the SMS starbase and gave it the bird, apparently not a squawking Falconian. A number of torpedoes departed the DNA ship as it tried to ram the SMS HQ. The SMS destroyed the Ship and set about destroying other peaceful DNA warships in orbit, suspecting a DNA attack was happening.

Reports indicate as many as 4 or 5 DNA warships were blown to pieces. SMS starbases launched all weapons against the DNA starbase, DNA warships not triggered by the battle looked on in anger and took their vengeance out on two SMS freighters nearby blowing them up. Over there in the shallows lies a DNA platform destroyed by the SMS that fell from orbit smashing into a tangled pile of steel and rust.

In a chaotic day Mad Max himself explained to the GTT that the unfortunate incident was an isolated case of the suspected suicidal syndrome bought upon by Evil Consortium oppression. Mad Max requested all forces to stand down to avoid further escalation. Mad Max has reportedly accepted GTT sanctions to restrict ship movements to keep the peace last night.

But in a dramatic escalation a large number of SMS warships entered orbit and the atmosphere and dived upon Angel's Nest unleashing a torrid battery over night. Surprisingly Angels Nest did not return fire as ordered by Mad Max but relied on its shielding to limit the damage.

It is now first light over the planet, and if we look at the SMS starbases you can see a lot of activity, and there they go.... smoke as thousands of missiles and torpedo trails light the sky heading towards DNA Angels Nest.

Oh my word, thousands of missiles and now a determined defensive barrage is being fired to knock them out. The noise is horrific and I need to change my knickers. Missiles and shrapnel lands in millions of splashes around the Angel's Nest. And still Angel's Nest does not fire back, but an angry Naplian artillery brigade fires back some shells to the Evil Consortium bases.

More missiles are launched to my left and now SMS Bombers fly over head picking up speed as they dive down towards Angel's Nest. Now the gantries light up with fire the determined naplians firing a barrage of AAA against the invaders, SMS bombers are intercepted and the rest probably 50 or so go wheeling into the gantries, all but a few exploding. Suddenly Angel's Nest launches it's own ground bombers and they chase the handful of SMS surviving bombers back to the starbase where they attack the SMS starbase.

Now over to the news desk I got to get out the way.

Thank you Lily please keep your head down.

As you can expect many military/political analysts are now studying the reports. One analyst Cladwell Bloomberger is on the line, what do you make of it Cladwell?

Well, Michael, Angels Nest seems a resilient little starbase the gantries are taking out SMS ground bombers and as seen in the footage there are thousands of craft sinking in the seas. Certainly the DNA defences are also knocking out SMS attempts to pound the starbase into dust. I have seen one gantry on fire and one pontoon sinking but I think you can give a lot of credit to the DNA defences at this starbase. It's defences have the hallmarks of Mad Max's hand.

Quite clearly the DNA is showing restraint and holding back naval fire against SMS warships, and SMS starbases, DNA warships have also left the conflict area.

However, we are talking the SMS here and they have shown they will attack in neutral or others space to seek their ends so not sure even whether they will stop. The SMS appear to be getting away with escalating the fight and punishing the DNA whilst the DNA rely on negotiation with the GTT. I suspect the revealing of a secret SMS base developing WoMD in Skye has not helped the DNA.

The populace has started to evacuate some of the less well protected parts of the starbase across the bridge and shuttles reportedly have fled although I can confirm over a dozen shuttles are lying destroyed in the shuttle ports. I don't know how long Mad Max can hold back commanders demanding a massive response to the SMS escalation.

Excuse me, we got Mike on the line on the street in Angels Nest, over to you Mike.....

......Yes... oh, hi, we are online, I am here in a shop front as you can see the explosions have smashed the glass but its intact. I heard explosions in Poontoon avenue but surprisingly most of the damage is coming from falling SMS missiles shot out the sky.

There are a number of resilient Naplian blighters that are collecting SMS missile MKIII souvenirs, their parents quickly taking them back under the gantries where they reside or into the underwater parts of the starbase.

I can count as many as 100 SMS fighters downed in the starbase itself impaled on the gantries. The night-time bombardment by the SMS ships brought down certainly one if not two gantries with a large magazine explosion.

But the DNA offensive weapons have remained silent, there is a lot of public pressure to hit the SMS for this, I got one human here, "why we suffer like this, why destroy our famous base, why the rich b*stids over the island care not for naplains or humans they want us eliminated for good, watch choice for us, we must hit back." with that he thrusts a fist up

...... connection lost."


*** Audrey System - Day Two ***

Our reporters have learnt that the second day of the SMS/DNA Battle was marked by a number of SMS warships entering orbit, and that despite appeals for calm from all sides, firing seems to have continued, and indeed intensified throughout the day. Though confused DNA captains onboard warships in orbit seem to have held their fire, lending more credence to reports that this was less a planned offensive, and more of a miscommunication. We have also learnt that many SMS warship captains entered the location with clear enemy lists too, and no direct instructions to engage anybody.

There have further been confusing reports of DNA ghost ships, such as the Ambush Cruiser Outrageous, which appeared to trigger the battle, but then vanish, leaving behind chaos and bloodshed.

The tangled web of this conflict may take quite some examination before anybody can say with certainty what happened here, though one thing is for sure - the loss of life is starting to mount up.


*** FEL Tyrant Closes Book On INDs ***

Bringing the debate on INDs within Felini space to a close, the Felini Tyrant Mrrshan has stated to the press:

"We haven't blamed all independents, far from it. We have recognised that a small but real proportion of IND positions are nothing more than fronts for inimical affiliations. We have decided that the current strategic situation (taken in it's entirety) is not one which makes taking such a risk wise. We have therefore decided to take the temporary measure of banning IND from our own space unless they have permission in advance to be there - and stated that for the moment at least we are not willing to grant such permission. Where in the above (or in any previous announcement) is there anywhere we have stated that we blame all IND for the actions of a few? We have decided it is necessary to inconvenience all of them in our own space to reduce the risk of those actions from those few by the rigorous application of laws which are already in place (Skye and Onwards have been classified restricted space - requiring permission for anybody to enter - for some time, several years)."


*** Audrey System - Day Three ***

Subject: NNN Special Angel's Nest Under Attack Day 3

Lily Savage reporting.

Darlings, for another day the SMS relentless starbase assault on Angel's Nest continue SMS Bombers have just left the smoking Angels Nest, some hits clearly have been seen after last nights SMS Orbital bombardment as well. DNA starbase not firing back.

But only moments ago, after 2 days of little or no response, DNA Starbase Angel's Nest however opened fire for the first time in the conflict on a number of SMS ships entering the war zone blowing them to into small portions with missiles and torpedoes, poor little fellas dropping from them wrapped in cling film towards our orbital scans.

SMS Steak Baguette (6266)
SMS Roast Chicken (95394)
SMS Chips in Brown Gravy (76768)
SMS Dunkin Donuts (32988)

As to why the DNA targeting computer choose these ships and ignored the fleet of warships in orbit is anyone's guess but may be the abacus's are programmed to identify meals rather then warships! Rumour has it the DNA copied illegal software from the RIP Quick Snack, but this has been denied.

Now we have reports that a Dominion ship or two is smoking and splashed with missiles. The war office has announced that they knew nothing of this attack!

The war office confirmed DNA has no beef with the DOM, and will replace any losses.

The War office has confirmed it would be contacting the software manufacturers to review their targeting abacus's which is believed to be infected with a mother of a virus and operating off it's own accord.

This is Lily Savage, looking for a toilet, back to the news Desk."


*** DNA Issue Travel Advisory ***

The DNA high command have requested that all ships avoid the orbit of planet Mandy in the Audrey system for the sake of their own safety, as continued targeting software glitches appear to make it impossible for them to guarantee your safety.


*** Pirate Large ***

The deprived vile loathsome squamous and wretched pirate Large has been boasting of his successes again, and just when the IGN spell-checkers thought they had escaped the true horror, the following communication has been received from Large, boasting of his successes, which include a FET 100 huller, and an unspecified DEN ship.

"Ahharrgghhhh me hearties..... It be aye... Pirate Large......

Well it be a while since I as put pen to paper, I had to get me kiddies some prossies over the festive period, only after I dids that, and delivered them down the chiney, me missus said she asked for some pressies....garr, well me lads enjoyed it ahharrgghh...

Well I gets me ship ready as we as spotted an FET 100 huller off the starboard quarter, we gets the boarding party ready an approaches the ship, with no trouble at all we gets on board, engages the 60 crewmen on board.

Well I as read recently, that the FET has dis affiliated itself and is trying to get out of a war, the cowards, an here I was finkin they lived on the edge, well I can assure thee, that this FET bird be livin on the edge, on the edge o me sword, an she be strugglin to takes it, it be amazing ow much a coward squeals garrr.......

Also recently I as erd that the DEN gel, a good lucker she be, wants a piece o me, well I as a big piece here if yee wants it, an she as laid down a challenge, I as only took 1 DEN ship, but it not be ers, ill keep an extra special look out for thee.

This reminds me o me time I wents to a whore house and tells the front desk person that i wants something different...something weird! She sends me up to the 3rd floor to see Lisa. I knocks on the door and this beautiful 6 ft. tall red-head answers the door.

*Anecdote Censored By IGN Lawyers *

Anyways im sure you will hear more from the glorious adventures of the pirate ship Large (and friends) ahharrggghhhh...."


*** IMP-Bloc On The Offensive Again ***

Further success for the Imperial navies this week, confounding expectations that the withdrawal of the FET would impact their offensive capabilities. The following story is being carried by IMP news agencies:

An ISP Battle group deploying in the Wastelands system ran into the CNF 25 ship group that has been raiding in the Outer Capellan Periphery. Although outnumbered more than two to one the ISP ships handed out more damage than they received. An ammunition bowser slipped into the location next day but was spotted and destroyed by the departing enemy.

The CNF group ran into another ISP Battle Group supported by Interceptor Carriers as it tried to slip away. Once again our outnumbered forces delivered more damage than they received, damaging several of the CNF ships and finishing off one damaged in the previous day's engagement. Four of our normal hulled interceptor carriers received moderate damage, which did not stop their Interceptors completely wiping out the enemy's Space Fighters. The hunt continues.


*** News Flash ***

Pirate Large strikes again!

2700 civilians believe to be lost to Large as he attacks and nearly captures an entire Mohache freighter convoy. One MOH vessel believed lost, with two others having very close calls.


*** News Flash ****

Pirate Large strikes yet again!

A further MOH freighter is understood to have fallen into the clutches of the dread pirate Large.



***** From The Posting Boards *****

The online order editor. David has spent january working on it:

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Officer experience in squadrons:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=981&hl=


Available cargo space on platforms:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=982&hl=


TU calculation errors when running squadrons:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=983&hl=


And a post from Mica:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=984&hl=

"With the introduction of combat transactions triggering skirmish battles, a standing order to not transact with positions in combat would be useful.

This would be very useful for ships on long hauls turning up in a fire zone and then being blown up when they try to deliver the usual amount of modules or pick up ore from the outpost etc."



***** Message From The Editor *****

Vast amount of news this week, but I just wanted to add this message from the WMB PD that includes some links that may be of use to new players:

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Hi all (and especially newer players),

There are a number of tools available to players to aid with their processing of all the information the game generates. I just wanted to re-advertise some of them as people may not be aware. Some of the links to things can be found on the Wimble Website: wimbles.specht.co.uk/

On-Line Research Tree : wimbles.specht.co.uk/Tech/
Peripheries Map (DEN) : www.dewiek.net/map/
Trade Route Mapper (DEN) : www.dewiek.net/markets/
Tech Manual Database : wimbles.specht.co.uk/TechMan.htm

Hope your find them useful.

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AFT - www.aftphoenix.org.uk/aft/
BHD - www.thetrueone.com/
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CNF - www.darkfold.net/
DEN - www.dewiek.net
DNA - members.optusnet.com.au/madmaxcc/
DOM - www.pvv.org/~kennetso/dominion
FCN - home.btconnect.com/Howells/fcn.htm
FEL - www.felini.org/
FET - fet.mindmuse.net/
FGZ - flagritz.cjb.net./
IMP - www.chalmore.co.uk/
MOH - www.mohache.com/
QNG - www.lwlawrence.com/QNGForum/index.php
RIP - www.rip17.com/
SMS - www.stellarmining.co.uk
WMB - wimbles.specht.co.uk/
Lausnaff Enterprises - web.telia.com/~u40927438/aft/
Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

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

*** Yank Incident ***

The Yank no-fire zone has taken a battering this week, with a number of incidents that will surely be testing the patience of the Kastorians. The first violation involved the Imperial Stellar Patrol, who targeted and destroyed a CIA vessel.

Admiral Lord Simms, the Imperial Viceroy, released the following statement:

"The Imperial Services wish to apologise to the Kastorian Military Junta and the CIA for the destruction of a CIA starship in the Yank System on 3.4.206. This was due to negligence in re-setting battle computers by one of our squadrons returning from the Darkfold Periphery. The Force Commander responsible has been dealt with in an appropriate manner and I would like to assure those concerned that every effort will be made to avoid such occurrences in the future."

A number of rumours circulated following this event suggesting that the Force Commander responsible had been promoted for his efforts. These rumours have been angrily denied by Imperial sources.

*** Criminal Negotiations ***

Subspace static dated 205, week 52, day 1 contained a suggestion to members of the criminal alliance that we sit down and rationally discuss how to restore the no fire zones to various systems. This would have allowed the systems of Yank, Solo, Skord and Twinkle to return to being peaceful trade centers instead of the combat zones they have degenerated into.

No one from the alliance has bothered to give a reply to my suggestion. But earlier in the week the DTR gave their answer, and rather than contact the GTT direct they chose to crow about it to their acolytes.

Please regard this as public confirmation that your reply has been noted.

Portha Agiadai
GTT PD

*** Skirmish In Solo ***

Elements of the APTF including RIP and SMS vessels, along with a number of AFT vessels, intercepted and engaged the pirate vessel X-P'Rogu. The pirate managed to flee, suffering light damage in the process.

It is thought the pirate was targeting an AFT freighter in the location, when it was spotted and attacked.


*** Naplian Vessel Missing ***

Sources over at the Naplian news network are reporting the following story:

"NNN - Naplian War Office Confirmed that one of the Naplian hunt ships DNA SHIP Princess Christine von Salm (97141) is reported missing in enemy territory - Onwards System. Reports indicate it engaged a number of Felini ships utilising new Plasma Torpedo technology on a mission deep in enemy territory."


*** Mandy Conflict ***

Just missing the deadline for last weeks edition, we can now confirm that the conflict between the DNA and SMS on Mandy has now ceased.

The Naplians have released the following statement:

"NNN - Naplian War Office confirmed that Battles over Mandy between the DNA and SMS have now ceased on day 4 as diplomatic measures have taken preference. 11 x SMS warships were destroyed in the final conflict by DNA Starbase Angel's Nest when they entered lower orbit. In a surprising new twist, an investigation launched by the GTT leaked to the NNN appears to have identified EEM responsibility for leaving a minor software glitch in all targeting systems, and cleared the DNA of deliberately targeting SMS ships. This follows GTT software engineers being invited to view DNA Angels Nest's combat systems in action."

Inter-Galactic News Reporters have managed to obtain an exclusive interview with the SMS Fleet Commodore Hucuron Baalazar, in order to obtain his viewpoint on the engagement:

"Greetings. You have heard the ramblings of Miss Savage and now I put forward my side of this very sorry story.

On star date 206.3.5, the DNA warship Prophecy entered orbit of Mandy along with several other DNA warships. It then opened fire on the survey ship SMS EI-X Amphitrite with a barrage of light photon fire, backed up by the DNA Speeding Tomahawk, Outrageous, Ghost of Mad Max and Snowball. The DNA platform Rusty Gantry also joined in while the DNA starbase on the planet launched an artillery barrage at the 2 SMS starbases from under it's starbase shield. SMS Farcry was safely shielded and so did not return fire, however Bodyguard II (living up to it's name) opened up with all weapons to attack the threats and defend the SMS HQ. In doing so it did a small amount of damage to DNA starbase Angels Nest whilst concentrating it's weapons on the attacking warships in orbit, Speeding Tomahawk, Ghost of Mad Max, Prophecy, Snowball and the platform all fell to it's weapons. Bodyguard suffered a small amount of damage but was not able to stop the DNA warships before they destroyed the SMS EI-X Amphitrite....

We contacted and talked over the matter with the GTT PD and IMP Viceroy and agreed to clear all target and weapon lists before the next day dawned. In addition to this, I despatched 19 warships to the orbit of Mandy with instructions to not fire unless it was in the defence of the SMS. I fact none of these warships carried anything other than PIR on their enemy lists. They were instructed to defend themselves as best they can but to provide additional targets should Angels Nest decide to drop shields and fire in earnest. They agreed willingly....

A new day dawned on 206.4.1 and DNA Angels Nest opened fire once again on the two SMS starbases with all the SMS warships in orbit defending their starbases and returned fire. Angels Nest had remained under starbase shields but still fired artillery to inflict more death and destruction, so my warships replied in kind. I have to commend the people maintaining the shield because the amount of damage that was able to get through the shield was small compared to the amount fired at it but it was still a significant amount. Bodyguard to suffered a small amount of damage in defence of the SMS HQ. We once again agreed, although we were once again the injured party, with the GTT PD and IMP Viceroy to clear our target lists.

The same thing happened on 206.4.2, Angels Nest once again attacking the SMS starbases and SMS assets returned fire in defence of the SMS HQ. At the end of the day we once again, although very reluctantly, agreed to clear target lists.

We were very glad to find that on 206.4.3, the DNA had finally worked out how to switch off their targeting computers and did not fire. We had already cleared our target lists so now the clear up process can begin. At no time were the SMS on the offensive, we only defended when we were attacked. I sent 19 warships into orbit that were willing to act as targets to stop the SMS starbases from receiving the full assault, I could have easily sent in 100+ warships to Mandy, swamped the DNA starbase shield and destroyed the base. I had squadrons on standby in ring 10 of Audrey in case of all out assault but stayed my hand because I did not want to see DNA Angels Nest wiped from the face of the planet. It was only the military in Angels Nest that carried the fight on far longer than it needed to. The blood of the innocents and troops from both sides is on their hands. Max declared war on us but we have never declared war on the DNA."

We at the IGN would like to extend our thanks to both the DNA and SMS for their assistance in reporting this story.


*** Yank Incident ***

In a second violation of the Yank no-fire agreement this week, a GTT St Clair class scout was fired upon by a Detinus Broadsword.

The Broadsword in question is understood to have been on its first combat patrol, and the captain in charge failed to clear target lists before jumping into the Yank system. The Heavy Cruiser then bumped into the GTT Scout, and opened fire, along with a half dozen further Detinus Heavy Cruisers from an anti-piracy patrol squadron, who, it is understood, were just passing when they saw the shooting and just felt they had to join in.

Senator Rosmanov of the DTR has issued a full apology for the incident. And it is generally accepted by all warring parties that these accidental skirmishes will continue in the system.

It is hoped they remain of a small scale.


*** Employee Of The Month ***

In a surprise result, the craved Employee of the Month award has not gone to Admiral Lord Simms, despite his recent deification. Instead, Bundy Enterprises, no longer affiliated in any way with the kindler gentler FET, have awarded the prize to Weenie Rogue of the Dewiek, for her continued good fortune against Pirate Large.

We at the IGN maintain that Admiral Simms should have won, because we just love those outpost application announcements.


*** Imperial Outpost Application ***

Shocking revelations abound as a death-defying outpost application has been received by nude nymphettes to exploit with a cruel hand the following codes in the virginal Madonna system. 87616, 86581 and 73479.

Anyone kinky enough to already be exploiting these codes in Madonna should advise the Viceregal administration by day 5 week 5, including the celestial supple body involved in their hard message.


*** Krell Leadership Change ***

Warlord Slyth Dark Angel of the Clan Dark Angels has taken control of the KRL affiliation.

However, in a frankly unsurprising turn of events it turns out this leadership change is not undisputed, as Klan Rat issued the following statement to the peripheries press:

"Let it be known that the Krell leadership change is not undisputed!

Warlord Bridge may have fled, but we still seek him - his consignment of ethnic weaponry has been sent to a maildrop for him, and we will board any Krell vessel under his personal ownership within our grasp, in an attempt to find him, to present them in person!!

We accuse warlord Slyth of being a puppet of the Falconians, and a mere tool of offworlder oppression!!!

Let it be known that Slyth may rule out as far as near-Inversion orbit, but WE control everything else - Loyal KRT Krell Marines have replaced the mercenary Naplians on the platform 'Outer defence perimeter'!!!!

Remember - Trade Hinders War!!!!! Grymwald, KRT Minister of Information, and Tourism."

There is as yet no indication of where Warlord Bridge has gone.


*** Yank Incident: Vindicator Squadron ***

Recently spotted in the Yank system, the VSQ affiliation have wasted no time in making an impact.

A VSQ ground party was spotted on Lunk, scouting the IRS starbase Mined Games. Then, despite assurances from the VSQ to the IRS of their peaceful intentions, over 20kmus of ground attack equipment was delivered by unmarked shuttles from an as yet unknown starbase in the orbital quadrant. Prompting a major panic in the IRS starbase.

The following day the VSQ launched a massive and unprovoked attack against the IRS installation deploying nearly 3000 troops and around 900 light armoured vehicles.

They were cut down in seconds by the IRS defence forces, who sustained a handful of casualties as they wiped out the attackers with ease.

The affiliation backing the VSQ attack may however have made a terrible mistake, as there are we understand several very strong leads on who might have been responsible. And such a flagrant breach of the Yank neutrality accords is certain to bring the Kastorian Military Junta down on them like a ton of bricks. Not to mention the wrath of multiple affiliations who consider this attack to have been akin to piracy.

This attack comes on the heels of the independent ground party that attacked a FCN starbase in Yank. Marking a new and disturbing trend of deliberately offensive actions in the system.


*** GTT Raid ***

A GTT railgun warship has been raiding targets in the Straddle system this week, causing slight damage to a Detinus outpost.


*** Detinus Senate Debate Peace Moves ***

A debate and vote has been scheduled this week in the DTR House Of Lords regarding a motion to declare a state of peace with the FET following their recent unilateral withdrawal from conflict.

Early indications suggest that this motion will pass, with many DTR Senators expressing their pleasure at being able to vote for peace measures.


*** Special Report ***

Following last weeks successful engagements of Confederate forces by the Imperial Stellar Patrol, the Imperial news agencies have kindly released the following first hand report of the action, as told from the perspective of Francis Turner, a Gunnery Officer onboard the IMP Ship of the Line, Rohilkand:

Gunnery Officer Francis Turner
Reporting to Captain Hester Armstrong, IMP ship Rohilkand

Gunnery Officers Report Ensign
Date: 206.4.2

0724 hrs Status change: Amber / Gunnery crews report to stations after Deep range sensors indicate potential hostiles. Generally crew at their posts in timely manner. Ensign Chang did have a rather slovenly appearance / Weapon systems readied.

0727 All weapons systems online, though #5 Cannon reports small spike in energy levels. Chief Gunner Sanchez sent to investigate.

0946 CG Sanchez reports #5 Cannon fully operational.

1135 Deep Range Sensors confirm contacts as hostiles.

1412 Status change: Red / Course change detected / Gunnery screens patched into Deep range sensors: 25 Targets identified: - 19 100 hull, 5 75 hull and a single 50 hull ship.

1414 EEM uplink identifies Rohilkand's primary target as the CNF Eagle. Uplink established with IMP Drala Fi (DF), and Delhi Ridge (DR) to co-ordinate attack.

1445 Contact made / All offensive weaponry engaged. #1-6, 8-10 all record hits to CNF Eagle which is believed to have also sustained damage from DF. DR has launched fighters/bombers to engage / Incoming fire from a CNF ship, believed to be the Tyrant - appears to be a mix of Photon weaponry. Some damage reported / Sensor crew report incoming fighters, 40 bandits from two sources believed to be the Outland and Dogs of War / Phalanx crew reports 12 bandits destroyed. Gatling crews stand ready / No crew losses recorded.

1732 All weapons online / Cannons 2,3,7,9 & 10 record hits to Eagle. DF and fighters from DR also report hits / Incoming fire from Tyrant - unsure of level of damage as fighters from Outland and D.O.W have also engaged: seems a little light considering incoming fire from three ships. However, Rohilkand movement does appear a little more sluggish: presumably some damage taken to engines / No hits reported against fighters, though heavy outgoing fire of gatlings & phalanxes as well as evasive action is presumably hampering 68 remaining bandits from recording too many hits / No crew losses recorded.

1953 All weapons online, though Gatling 4 is down / All Cannons except #3 have recorded hits. DF and fighters from DR also report hits / More incoming from Tyrant: suspect some incoming fire is Light PG - which won't even tickle armour. Some damage taken by presumably heavier weaponry / Incoming fighters from Outland and D.O.W having more success - Rohilkand appears more sluggish still / One Gunnery Damage control crew has been sent to the Engine room to assist / One bandit destroyed - this time from Outland / 1 Targeting computer bank damaged - should not adversely affect performance / No crew losses recorded.

2251 All weapons online/ Targeting systems still functional / All cannons record hits on CNF Eagle: presumably taken a fair degree of internal damage. DF also reports hits. DR's fighter have returned to ship / Fighters from Outland/D.O.W have returned to their host ships. Phalanx crew reports hitting a further 4 bandits from D.O.W. as they returned / Incoming from Tyrant: Again hits are reported though damage appears light / No crew losses reported.

Summary.

Hits reported - 33 of 40 82.5% hit rate.
Approx 21.25% of incoming bandits destroyed.
No crew losses
1 gatling laser destroyed.

A disappointing second volley with just a 50% hit rate, though the first, third and particularly fourth volleys are testament to the training of the Imperial Services.

Damage to weapons systems minimal, morale high as we have clearly caused more damage to CNF Eagle than CNF three ships have caused Rohilkand. Reports across the squadron suggest that whilst the CNF's ship advantage was 25:10 (hulls 2325:1000), damage caused is approx 1:4 in favour of IMP. CNF ships Eagle, Broken Arrow and Battle of Fort Sumter in particular are seen to have taken damage.

Recommendation that Chief Gunners Valence, Chima Singh and Hill and their gun teams be recognized for command of Cannons 2, 9 & 10 respectively.

Recommendation that Ensign van der Hauwe be recognized for four confirmed bandit kills whilst in command of Phalanx 3.

Date 206.4.3

0104 All weapons online/ Targeting systems still functional / Sudden course change from CNF Eagle - appears to be withdrawing / Targeting systems have maintained a lock

All cannons record hits / DF also reports hits / DR has lost lock

No incoming fire/bandits: Outland and D.O.W also appear to be withdrawing - gatling & phalanx crews stand ready though

0106 Course change: Rohilkand and DF in pursuit of Eagle

0125 Long range sensors report supporting IMP/GTT ships arriving - though CNF fleet in full retreat.

0138 Large explosion detected ahead of the withdrawing CNF fleet / Sensors still pick up 25 hostiles

0340 All weapons online / All Cannons record hits on Eagle

Sensors confirm that reported explosion was IMP support ship Star of Pegasus. It appears that having freshly arrived, its ISR drives had landed it in directly in the path of the CNF fleet. RIP the brave souls on board.

0533 All weapons online / All Cannons record hits

CNF Eagle still in range - we should manage the mornings fourth volley of fire, though a couple of pursued ships have managed to engage their ISR's after three volleys.

0755 All weapons online / All Cannons record hits / Eagle has engaged ISR / CNF fleet has withdrawn from combat zone

0925 Status change: Amber / sensors detect no further incoming / gun crews ordered to perform systems maintenance.

1130 Status change: Green / Systems:- weapons: check, targeting: check / Crew stand-down / Ensign Chang to report at 1215 on slovenly appearance.

Morning Summary

Hits reported - 40 of 40 100.0% hit rate.
No incoming bandits.
No crew losses
No weapons/target systems damage

A Full house of hits- though targeting easier as Eagle concentrated more on escape than on maneuvering.

Morale high: crew buoyant that a CNF fleet of 25 ships has fled from our squad of 10.


*** Special Report ***

Lord Fell, the Xeno Emperor of the Flagritz, transmitted a partial history lesson regarding his empire this week. The text of his transmission is reproduced below:

"The Flagritz Empire was at one time the single most powerful Empire in the Universe, excepting of course the ARC(Arquitects), who in some cultures are rumoured to be the creators of the universe. Perhaps not of the whole universe, but parts of it they have responsible for.

Even so, they saw the might of the FLZ and dared not face us, for fighting us would have been too costly, so they chose cooperation. In return for peace they would grant us even further advances in science. When we developed our first jump engine, Humans were still apes.

As the ages passed we continued to grow in might, while the ARC lost part of their power. They take a millennia to grow into adulthood so any single loss in battle was a disaster. So they tried to entice us into fighting their petty wars for them. The Cliriq (warrior) caste was enchanted, finally a grand war in which to use the glorious Baseships (200 hulls) and the Fessin (traders) were delighted for new markets, but the foresight of the Xeno caste saw that if we were to help the ARC we'd become their thralls and thus blocked the alliance. The ARC were furious, but for the time being they couldn't have their revenge.

The ARC war with the Dewiek was a costly one and at one point the ARC developed living bio weapons, the HVE and finally destroyed the DEN (or so they thought, for a small band hid away). They were faced by a revolt by their own bio weapons and ended up moving away to parts unknown. Before they left, they transplanted a large proportion of a race called the felini into the space previously occupied by the Dewiek.

Ages past, the ARC visited us less often, but in their hearts revenge was still burning. They manoeuvred so that we were to come into contact with the feral felini. As expected the felini attacked us on sight, but our baseships easily swatted them. However the FLZ/FEL border was set in a system which was half of a revolution to FLZ space and half to FLZ. When the system was cut off from FLZ space, the FEL mounted a huge offensive and massacred all FLZ living there. The system is now commonly known as Battlefield, but to us its called Massacre.

All the inhabitants in the Empire cried for revenge, but revenge was difficult for we didn't know the location of their homeworld and the FEL prisoners were fanatics and would not reveal their base of operations. Here as the chance the ARC had waited so long. They offered not only the location of their system, Leonis, but also a means to reach it even while the wormhole was closed, via the construction of a artificial wormhole linking our homeworld and the Felinis homeworld.

The time came when we were ready to chastise the FEL and a grand fleet of hundreds of Baseships was sent to bring our enemies to their knees, but we were too confident and left only a token guard to defend our side of the wormhole. Warned by the ARC, the FEL commanders hid part of the fleet and as soon as our warships were committed to battle, they covertly launched a strike at Primus. Our fleet quickly doubled back to eradicate the raiders before returning to levelling Leonis, but the FEL were waiting for just that. As soon as the grand fleet entered the wormhole back to Primus, they attacked the generator and blew it. The resulting explosion destroyed most of the fleet, but it stranded or destroyed our huge fleet and worse the generator tumbled into our revered homeworld killing billions instantly, including most of leadership. After this battle both FLZ and FEL were cut off for several years as each one attempted to recover from the disaster.

Even today we are still looking to reunite all our former empire (many new self styled rulers attempting independence) while we prepare for a final showdown with FEL and then resume our place in the universes, that of masters."



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Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

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

*** Wastelands ***

A running battle between the Imperial and Confederate navies appears to have finally died down in the Wastelands system this week. The Imperial-bloc are claiming an overwhelming victory, issuing the following press release:

"The hunt for the CNF raiders in Wastelands continued all week with several small engagements resulting in the destruction of another 13 CNF warships. CNF have claimed to be "distracting" the allied fleet and are expected to issue a statement as to why in the near future. An expensive distraction that has cost them more than 16 warships overall against Allied losses of two freighters and several scouts and small gunboats. In addition the Allied ship commanders have accumulated an impressive amount of experience both in the handling of their ships and the tactics needed to intercept raiders.

Several of their ships were heavily engaged as they left battle areas during the week and have not been seen since. The fate of these ships is unknown but that they were
heavily damaged is a certainty."

A statement from the Confederacy regarding this operation is expected in time for next weeks edition of the IGN.

*** Pirate Attack in Twinkle ***

The RIP are mourning the loss of one of their vessels to pirates, as the RIP Ship Ghost in the Shell was captured yesterday in Twinkle. GT Spugman has been quoted:

"To all law abiding citizens of the peripheries, It is with a heavy heart that I report the loss of "RIP Ship Ghost in the Shell", registry number 85780, to Pirate forces. The attack took place earlier today in Quadrant Delta 8 of the Twinkle system as the ship was maneuvering towards the stargate. 140 crew are reported as missing, presumed dead or captured. I would request that any capable ship is despatched to target the aggressor "PIRATE Elemental Evil" before it manages to leave the area. The Jiggly Room at Quick Snack will remain closed for the next 24 hours as a mark of respect to the families of the lost crew."

The Elemental Evil is a previously unknown Pirate vessel, and rumours have risen suggesting it might be linked to the 'War/Pestilence/Famine' group of pirates that were destroyed a few months ago.

The IRS have suggested this is the first pirate attack in Twinkle in the last two years, and have offered a significant bounty of 200,000 stellars to any party capable of intercepting the pirate vessel and bringing them to justice.

It is understood elements of the APTF were unable to intercept either the pirate, or his captured vessel.


*** Felini Annex Twinkle? ***

With one small sentence this week, Felini Tyrant Mawat has indicated what might well amount to a permanent military intervention into the Twinkle system. Responding to the pirate attack in the system, Mawat stated that:

"FEL garrison units will be assigned to the quadrant as a permanent deterrent to PIR."

The already nervous situation in Twinkle will certainly have grown significantly more unstable following this suggestion. However, a less incendiary suggestion was made that perhaps the AFT or some other totally neutral power could establish a platform at the Stargate in order to discourage pirates.


*** Empire Bloodied In Pollux ***

A small Imperial strike force consisting of four railgun armed vessels was annihilated in the Pollux system by a well defended Detinus installation. Imperial losses consisted of two gunboats and two heavy cruisers. It is unknown what the purpose of this suicide attack was.


*** More Ground Combat In Yank ***

Following last weeks major attack by the VSQ against the IRS Starbase Mined Games, an Independent GP has apparently been in action against FCN assets.

The FCN empire, supported by elements of the APTF under the control of the AFT were able to utterly destroy the IND GP, killing over 600 Kastorians and human soldiers as they attempted to capture a FCN outpost.

It is understood this was the same IND GP that attacked the FCN outpost on Lunk recently.


*** Krell Announce Bestseller ***

The Krell self-help bible, "You have no friends. Subjugate people!", has rushed to the top of the Periphery bestseller list, following a marketing blitz on media outlets throughout the Yank system.

The sequel, 'Shoot first! Ask questions later! The Krell Guide To International Diplomacy' is expected in the shops soon.


*** QNG Expansion ***

The Matriarch Queen for the QNG has finally answered questions regarding the whereabouts of one-time Krell warlord, Michael Bridge. The following exclusive has been given to the IGN:

"Greetings sentient beings!

The Queens Guardian has worked hard to make peace among the differing hive factions but have failed to understand and make the same progress with the other species. To make up for this lack in our understanding it has been decided to create an Alien Relations Embassy (ARE). The ARE will support the Matriarch Queen in diplomatic talks between the QNG and many of the other species/affiliations.

To lead this new Embassy within the Queens Guardian we are happy to announce Admiral Michael Bridge! Admiral Bridge, formerly of the DNA and KRL, has amassed an intensive amount of experience in dealing with other species and therefore would aptly be most suited for the position as 1st Embassary for the QNG.

The Matriarch Queen welcomes Michael Bridge into the Queens Guardian and hope that he will further our cause to remain at peace with all other affiliations. The contact page on the QNG forum has been updated:

qng-28.org/Forum

Signed,

Matriarch Queen. Queens Guardian."

We at the IGN are certain that a Krell Warlord will possess ideal diplomatic skills, for navigating the tricky machiavellian world of Periphery Politics.


*** DTR Declare Peace ***

An official declaration of peace has been issued by the Detinus Republic towards the FET corporation. Reporters at the DTR House Of Lords are saying that the issue was carried unanimously, with not one single vote of dissent amongst DTR Senators.


*** Confederacy Respond To FET Peace Moves ***

Press Release from the office of the Supreme Commander, Confederate Naval Forces.
Re: Response to the FET Public Statement

Greetings,

The CNF have listened with interest to the proclamation from the FET Corporation. Broadly speaking we welcome the move by the FET to disengage from the civil war and become a non-combatant, withdrawing political and military support. I am aware of a number of peace initiatives put forward by the FET in recent years to bring about an end to the civil war albeit without much success and so to that end and with that background in mind we are willing to accept that the desire of the FET for peace is genuine and does not underlie a hidden agenda or covert set of actions.

In response to the FET declaration of peace the CNF will be initiating a move to declare peace with the FET within the next week. Additionally the CNF will not directly target FET possessions in future. Where FET-IMP-GTT mutual defence agreements on a planetary wide basis exist the CNF will respond proportionately.

At this time the CNF will not be making any moves to grant access to Confederate systems to the FET. This may be reconsidered in time when all have had time to reflect on the historic events that are unfolded and oversee the ramifications and believed intent behind them.

The CNF are granting the FET a 4 week amnesty to declare any and all illegal hidden outposts, Operatives and agents, illegal shipping, ground parties or other position in CNF space. During this time no action will be taken for the declaration of said assets. Likewise the CNF will recall any and all operatives and agents from FET positions.

Whilst I do not believe this to be the case at all - for the record - the CNF will take a very dim view of the FET covertly aiding the IMP, GTT or GCS war efforts in any way.

In closing I welcome in this new era of peace with the FET Corporation. I call on the Imperials and GTT to abandon their armed resistance of our return to the empire systems and end the civil war.

Regards,

Thomas S. Jackson
CNF Supreme Commander.


*** KRT Declare War ***

It has been confirmed this week that a state of war now exists between the Krell Clan Black Rat and the Wimble Nation.

A shocked Grandfather Lemora Enawatek of the Wimbles voiced his confusion over this surprise declaration, leading to the following statement from the KRT regarding their decision. This statement is so typically Krell that we at the IGN have no choice but to reprint it verbatim:

"I can confirm that a state of war exists between Krell Clan Black Rat, and the Wimble nation. This is in response to a variety of factors, not all to do with the WMB themselves:

1. The perception, voiced on this forum, that the Krell were 'mostly harmless'. I wish this impression dispelled forthwith. However, we are going to have to work up from taking on the relatively unmartial - contrary to human opinion in the matter, being weak and inoffensive is not a protection AGAINST attack, but grounds for BEING attacked. We would not engage in military activities against factions far stronger than ourselves.

2. Having no dealings with the Wimbles is not for want of trying. However, in response to requests for trading relations, the response has been "These items are reserved for friends of the Wimbles". We would, of course, not engage in military activities against our friends.

3. Indirect communication received via the HLQ, in response to KRT intelligence assessments that the Wimbles are simply a client state of the Flagritz, were countered by the reasoned argument that "You've got your head stuck up your **** and I'd come on there myself to sort you out, If I wasn't banned". This sounds like fighting talk TO ME.

4. We have definite intelligence reports that the Wimbles were slagging off our Shirl at our Kevs 19th birthday party.

In short, the state of war exists. However, it currently lacks significant territories in which to be prosecuted - the Wimble race being largely resident in areas to which we have no access, or are denied permission from the controlling authority to engage in hostile acts. This, with exception of the STORM system of course. If the Wimbles think they are warrior enough to stand by their words, I would expect to see a military response there, and paraphrase only the human colloquialism "You and whose navy, mate?".

If the answer to this last question is 'Flagritz', we surrender and apologise unreservedly."

Rumours are flying around the IGN newsroom that the Krell have also recently declared war on the Detinus Republic. We await confirmation.


*** Pirate Large Strikes ***


"Ahharrgghhh me hearties..... It be aye..... Pirate Large.....

It be stardate 206.3.3 when I my self tooks up the challenge o me ol mate Archie Angel an wen in against the AFT Khnumhotep (34904)

Well suffice to say we soon started mashin the heads o the crewmen on board and tooks the ship, a quick fight it be aye, an the cappan o the AFT ship Simon Goodhead, well lets just say he lived upto is name aye he did.... That be anuver 100 huller from me ole mate, and the AFT, but it not be for sale, as it were sold very quick aye.....to a willin bidder...

Anyways ill move onto me life again as I does, I recently went to see me old man in the retirement ome, I as told you a story about im before, he as recently been getting on well wiv one of the other female inmates, an he was telling me..

She be very active sexually, an we wen into this broom cupboard outta the way o the wardens like, an she started to undress when she says...."i must warn you Mr Large SNR, that my doctor says I as acute Angina" .....when me old man says "that's good news cos you got the ugliest tits ive ever seen"

Ahhaarrggghhhhh......

Anyways im sure you will hear more from the glorious adventures of the pirate ship Large (and friends) ahharrggghhhh...."


*** Mandy Aftershocks ***

Our reporters have secured two secure communications between the SMS and the DNA regarding the recent conflict between the two sides on Mandy. These communications provide no real hard evidence into why the battle happened in the first place, beyond the stories already in the public arena, however, they are reproduced here in their entirety as part of an IGN exclusive into the political aftershocks of the incident:


***
Message to : SMS Fleet Commodore Hucuron Baalazar
From : Mad Max DNA Immortal Chief

Your claims don't disguise your intent to bring 100 plus warships to Mandy to escalate the battles.

19 warships on day 1, to defend your weak HQ of course and your starbases LOL.

Once the bodies of SMS miners fell from the skies to litter the sea with the hundreds of bombers you sent, and the millions of missiles you fired, you sensed, that it was pointless. The humans and naplians grow stronger in our resolve against you, time is approaching when your citizens will overthrow you and your Captain's desert you and the SMS fragment.

Yet whilst we declare a truce on Mandy you take prisoners by raiding our fallen ships and consecrating them. The naplains and human's of Angel's Nest are appalled by your barbaric behaviour, protests will commence on Mandy until you return our hero's.

If it is peace you want I offer this opportunity.

If the SMS clear the DNA from target lists and won't support the FCN and FEL anywhere on your lists then we will not target SMS ships and declare peace with the SMS. Finally remove yourself from the Evil Consortium remove your shielding ships from their systems it is very simple, save your people. Stop wasting your platform hulls on defending the Felini.

Are the FCN and Felini really worth your deaths, do they pay you well for your bodyguard duties you provide?

Join forces with the DNA neutralise the treachery of your allies and of your past and together we can defeat the evil you shield and you can take your own place in history. SMS Corporate rule of peace, harmony and rich prosperity in Acropolis, & Skye.

Mad Max
DNA Immortal Chief

***

To: Mad Max the Immortal Chief
Fm: Hucuron Baalazar - SMS Fleet Commodore

My thanks to the SSS editor for forwarding your note onto me.

Let me first state that the DNA declared war upon the SMS not the other way around, on the day in question the DNA attacked a warship under my control in the Imperial system of Dorn. Then proceeded to open fire on 2 starbases and a exploration ship in Mandy orbit. On the second day, out of respect for Imperial Law, we sent only vessels into orbit to support our starbases and draw fire. None of these targetted any of the non-combatant DNA ships within orbit. You demand your 29 troops back but speak so ill of the 47 lives that were lost in the unprovoked attack upon the exploration vessel, also no mention of the recompense due to the SMS under Imperial Law for this 'oversight'. The SMS believes that any space faring society has a moral obligation to rescue ship personnel cast adrift in space and was fulfilling that task in the rescue of your troops. We assumed that after 3 days of fighting, if the DNA were unable to work out which switch to press to disconnect the abacus from the weapon system, your troops would surely suffer a much worse fate than just being abandoned and forgotten about. Had you have just contacted the SMS HQ then arrangements could have been made to return them to you, but you decide that name calling is preferable.

Our allies are trustworthy, which is much more than I can say for the DNA under your leadership, so I am afraid I must reject your very kind offer to turn against the FCN and FEL. I look forward to your offer of recompense in due course for the blatant disregard for the same Imperial Law which you have hidden behind for so long.

Regards
Hucuron Baalazar
SMS Fleet Commodore

***

There has as yet been no official statement from the office of the Imperial Viceroy regarding the Mandy incident.

Although we have heard reports of singing.


*** Special Report ***

Following last weeks historical perspective into the FLZ Empire, the Felini Tyranny have been in contact with the IGN newsroom, asking us to run the following response to it:

***

Flagritz Empire History � The Truth Revealed

"The resulting explosion destroyed most of the fleet, but it stranded or destroyed our huge fleet and worse the generator tumbled into our revered homeworld killing billions instantly, including most of leadership. After this battle both FLZ and FEL were cut off for several years as each one attempted to recover from the disaster."

History according to the Xeno "Emperor" ... Lord Fell.

We are happy to note that the Flagritz finally admit that the Felini never used WoMD on the Flagritz Homeworld but that it in fact was destroyed by the wormhole generator tumbling into their homeworld. I seem to recall them adamantly claiming that the Felini had bombarded their homeworld.

Like one FLZ said: "I too abhor the use of WoMD - my Homeworld was destroyed by the FEL. My training was on a once lush world that was destroyed by FEL nukes and now all civilians are forced under domes and into caves."

It is a nice set of lies is it not?

So the Flagritz Homeworld was destroyed by a wormhole generator which they themselves set up so that they could attack the Felini Homeworld. The Felini, in self defence, sent a squadron thru the wormhole to destroy the generator which resulted in it tumbling into the Flagritz Homeworld. The end result was the disintegration of the Flagritz Empire because they were so zealously guarding their system knowledge that even local FLZ commanders were not permitted to have starcharts. The result was (is) a Flagritz Empire shattered into multiple systems where each local despot has to do his outmost to survive ... including the use of slave economies ... or rather, as they claim, the use of client races to do the work for them.

"...As the Flagritz Empire expanded we encountered other races within our space the felini included. It is our duty to nurture those races, to educate them so that one day they may become enlightened sentients. The paths of enlightenment can take some species but a few generations, others it may take millennia and some may never achieve it. These races we refer to as our Client Races. The Felini are our client race... "

CLIENT RACES ........

"while we prepare for a final showdown with FEL and then resume our place in the universes, that of masters."

Masters of the Humans? The Felini? The Naplians? The Kastorians? Will they be FLZ client races as well? FLZ Masters of the Client races? Lets look at the Felini homeworld a bit. This is a description of a sector on Pride, the Felini Homeworld. It is a part of an SA which describes the results of the battles which took place on the world.

"As for the source of the pollutants, these are residues of the battle that raged across the surface of the world. Everything from biological and chemical warfare through to strategic nuking occurred on this world."

The Felini did not have WoMD prior to the FLZ visit but we certainly could have captured some. This is what the FLZ will claim and it is likely true that we did. However, the small numbers we could have captured would/could not have rendered an entire world uninhabitable. They will claim we did.

The FLZ have claimed recently that the WoMD used on Pride were not in fact WoMD :-( but rather Felini ships crashing onto the world following combat.

Xeno Emperor said:

"The nuclear fallout was result of falling debris, belonging to nuclear powered FEL warships. The captured FLz technology was what started the war. FEL pirates raiding for technology"

This is not so.

Efforts were made to clean up the world and all results show that the FLZ were responsible for the nuclear/chemical/biological devastation which had occurred on the world. Our efforts resulted in this technique being made available

planetary restoration (8620) [technology]

this will restore the planet to its state before the carpet bombing inflicted by the flagritz.

origin system: leonis,
origin planet: pride

Note: Restore the Planet to its state before THE CARPET BOMBING INFLICTED BY THE FLAGRITZ. The FLZ attacked Pride with the intention to commit genocide. They intended to destroy the Felini race. The FLZ have repeatedly claimed the Felini Tyranny were the aggressors in the war, yet everything points to them. They have claimed that FEL forces recently used chemical weapons on FLZ forces, yet they have not been able to show a casualty list of FLZ killed by these chemicals.

The Flagritz Empire is an Empire built on deceit, expansionist dreams and slave labour. Their efforts to "bring enlightenment" to client races have brought misery and war everywhere they have put their slimy tentacles. Until they met the Felini Tyranny.

Flagritz Empire � The Truth revealed part Two

A Flagritz Emperor once said: "...As the Flagritz Empire expanded we encountered other races within our space, the felini included. It is our duty to nurture those races, to educate them so that one day they may become enlightened sentients. The paths of enlightenment can take some species but a few generations, others it may take millennia and some may never achieve it. These races we refer to as our Client Races. The Felini are our client race... "

The Flagritz Empire expanded and encountered other races within their space? Their space? Leonis has always belonged to the Felini yet in their arrogance they claim all space to be theirs.

However, that was not going to be my point.

Lord Fell said :

"Ages past, the ARC visited us less often, but in their hearts revenge was still burning. hey manoeuvred so that we were to come into contact with the feral felini. As xpected the felini attacked us on sight, but our baseships easily swatted them."

Now, according to the first emperor the FLZ were expanding peacefully, nurturing heir client races as they expanded their territory, yet the second one claims that the RC manipulated them into conflict with a low tech race called the Felini � because he ARC had confidence the FEL could destroy the FLZ Empire, reputedly one of the strongest Empires in known space.

Sound odd?

The FLZ "baseships easily swatted them" � the Felini ships � and still the ARC had confidence that the Felini would overcome and survive to destroy the Master race called FLZ?

Does that sound plausible?

Or does it sound more plausible that the FLZ were expanding and they encountered a race which refused to accept them as "masters" and in doing so the FEL ended up destroying the Flagritz Homeworld thru the fluke tumble of a wormhole generator. The FEL could certainly never have had any idea of what the effect this would have on the FLZ Empire.

"The head of the snake was bitten off and the body lay writhing on the ground"

A new head has grown out and once again the Flagritz Empire will try to swallow everything in its path.

But the Felini Tyranny will bite again �.

Glory to The Tyrant
Mawet
Avatar to The Tyrant Mrrshan
Tyrant Emeritus."

***



***** From The Posting Boards *****


Two topics from David Bethel this week. The first of which concerning changes to boarding, can be found here:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=991&hl=

"Boarding ships will be changed so that each boarding produces a mini battle with all involved defenders/supporters.

So if you have an escort ship and a merchant, then if someone tries to board the merchant a mini battle is created with all 3 ships involved.

As before the position to be boarded has 4 round of combat vs the boarding ship at increase dmg/acc. The defending / supporting positions get X round of combat against the boarder also but with no modifers.

Where X is:
4 rounds if the defender/support has no locked targets
1 rounds if the defender/support has locked targets
1 round if they are a SB/platform
0 rounds if the defender/support has locked targets==Max Targets

Starbases and platforms only use a fraction of there weapons if they have multiple locked targets.

This change will come in a week or so and will be noted in SSS."


The second is a poll regarding changes to AAA:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=990&hl=

"We are proposing that AA and point defence in general should stop/intercept incoming damage from spacefighters or ground bombers before have any effect on the fighters themselves.

Aim:
To reduce fighter losses against a starbase due to AA without reducing the effectiveness of AA. Its not good to see every single fighter wiped out in 1 day.

Effects:
[1] Point defence will stop damage from bombers (space fighters) easier than blowing them up. So fighters will do less damage to a target with point defence
[2] Point defence will shot down less fighters because their damage will be 'busy' stopping the incoming damage.

We will also reduce the effectiveness of AAE's cos they stupid but we will want to know how the above ties in with this.

-It maybe an idea to only allow the above mechanic to apply to ground based targets)"


And that's your lot, for another epic-length edition of the SSS/IGN.

- Simon.


******

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AFT - www.aftphoenix.org.uk/aft/
BHD - www.thetrueone.com/
CIA - www.confederacy.org.uk
CNF - www.darkfold.net/
DEN - www.dewiek.net
DNA - members.optusnet.com.au/madmaxcc/
DOM - www.pvv.org/~kennetso/dominion
FCN - home.btconnect.com/Howells/fcn.htm
FEL - www.felini.org/
FET - fet.mindmuse.net/
FGZ - flagritz.cjb.net./
IMP - www.chalmore.co.uk/
MOH - www.mohache.com/
QNG - www.lwlawrence.com/QNGForum/index.php
RIP - www.rip17.com/
SMS - www.stellarmining.co.uk
WMB - wimbles.specht.co.uk/
Lausnaff Enterprises - web.telia.com/~u40927438/aft/
Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

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

*** Wastelands ***

With no communication yet from Confed sources, and no further details of the engagements as reported last week in the Wastelands system, unfortunately we at the IGN have no further hard information regarding what might or might not have happened, beyond a report that something in the region of 24 CNF warships might have been destroyed.

However, Zuvoro Norozov, chairman of the new kinder gentler FET has expressed his concern regarding conflict in the system, particularly considering Wastelands has recently become a GCE system.

Norozov said, 'As we all know the Wastelands system is now claimed by the GCE. So what gives the warring affiliations the right to conduct their war in other affiliations territory? An affiliation that has never had any part in this conflict. Yes, up until recently the system was claimed by an IND on behalf of FET and FET assets were attacked there just prior to the announcement about becoming non-combatants. Surely though both the IMP and CNF should have the decency to respect the sovereignty of the GCE claim and cease hostilities within Wastelands.'

It is understood that hostilities have now ceased, but the FET make a very good point.


*** Conflict Ends ***

In what is almost certainly the shortest and friendliest war in history, the mostly harmless KRT have declared peace with the Wimbles without a single shot being fired on either side.

KRT Grymwald, the Chairkrell of the peace and reconciliation commission has been quoted in the press:

"Recent communications regarding our degeneration in relations with the Wimble race have led to confusion, as commented in the most widely-read periodical in the peripheries, to whit: 'Inter-Galactic News' or 'IGN'.

I refer to clause 4: "We have definite intelligence reports that the Wimbles were slagging off our Shirl at our Kevs 19th birthday party."

Further investigations have shed light on this signals intelligence 'chatter'; and, while it is a legitimate interception by the Krell Intelligence-gathering force, It does not in fact refer to the Wimbles.

As background - It is well known that the only reason for Krell settlement on the benighted rock-ball in the outer gamma quadrant of the Storm system, is the enhanced terrestrial TV reception. This, being caused by the gravitational lensing effect of the 'Deweiks arse' nebula (more familiar as the 'Tarantula' nebula to the humans, but we know what it looks like from our side), allows earth-generated television signals, circa '1990', to be received effectively by a high-gain antenna or well-tuned Mohache hand carved crystal set.

My weekly transcript of the current affairs program 'Neighbours' seems to have been included in the Wimble 'Casus belli' file, thus showing the risks of going to war on unsubstantiated intelligence material.

A recent review of the Wimble combat prowess at the battle of endor, as shown in the military reconstruction 'The Return of the Jedi' (S4C, 21/12/97, 'English subtitles') has caused a reappraisal of the Wimble race (To 'Competent irregulars' from 'Pyjama cases'), and we hereby wish to repeal clause four, and discuss terms for the cessation of hostilities forthwith."

Despite rumours that the Wimble Nation has been tooling up for a war of annihilation with the Krell, it seems as if the Wimble Grandfather has gracefully accepted this declaration of peace.

Betting is now open on who the KRT will declare war on next. With the IGN offices currently odds-on favourite.


*** The Most Exciting Imperial Outpost Application Ever ***

An application has been received to exploit the following codes in the Tycoon system, 31171 & 36341.

Anyone already exploiting these codes in the Tycoon system should inform the Viceregal Administration by Day 4 Week 8 indicating the celestial body on which they are being exploited.

Admiral Lord Simms
Imperial Viceroy


*** GCE Issue Statement ***

Following the FET's condemnation of Imperial and Confederate aggression within the Wastelands system, the following press release has been issued by Fernando Garcia the CEO of Garcia Enterprises (GCE).

"Dear Colleagues/Nations/Organisations/Citizens,

I thank the FET CEO for his announcement of this new state of affairs in the Wasteland System. My reasoning behind the lack of communication of this new deal, is mainly due to the fact that the deal to take over the management of the Wastelands System was negotiated by the manger of the starbase known as Oasis (Current system claimants), who only recently joined the management team of GCE. My office has yet to verify that the claim has changed therefore I was unwilling to advertise the new management regime of Wastelands.

The conflict between the Imperial, Confederate and Detinus powers is not welcome in the wastelands system. GCE does not involve itself in these conflicts and we would request that this be removed from wastelands as it hinders the smooth running of the system.

GCE manages systems. We are not a military operation or police force.

GCE Oasis (3173) is maintaining its current position as overseer of the Wastelands system and all applications for exploitation/construction/exploration should be made through the Manager of Oasis.

May I also take this opportunity to announce that the Winter system in the Cluster is now also being managed by the GCE. The deal has been negotiated with the FGZ Empire and was signed yesterday with the Cliriq Ataman of the Flagritz Republic, Ro'a-lith. The current operation overseeing the management of Winter is Chelestra (35520) and applications for exploitation/construction/exploration should be made through the Manager of Chelestra.

All organisations and nations are welcome in GCE managed systems. My Thanks again go to the Leadership of the FGZ Empire and of the FET for looking to GCE to maintain and manage these two systems.

The addition of these two systems to the management portfolio of Garcia Enterprises is an enormous step forward for the company and provides us with many opportunities and challenges for the future. With these systems, we will increase our opportunities for trade and interactions with many nations."

Rumours are flying about regarding the handing over of the Winter system to the GCE by the FGZ ataman, and we expected to have more details in next weeks edition.


*** Piracy ***

The Pirate ship Largeish successfully boarded and captured a KRT freighter in the London system this week.

The KRT crew and captain fought to the last, resisting valiantly against overwhelming odds.

Despite a massive warship response from multiple affiliations, the Largeish and her victim were able to escape the London system cleanly.


*** Fresh Offensive ***

Confused reports are reaching our news room suggesting that the Detinus Republic have gone on the offensive somewhere inside the Dewiek Home Periphery. News is sketchy, given the problems getting information in or out of the DHP since the eruption of hostilities there, however initial indications seem to suggest that a re-inforced battalion of the Detinus Marine Corp have been running rampage against well defended Dewiek installations.


*** Pollux ***

A DTR scout has been destroyed by a GCS squadron in the Pollux system.


*** Twinkle Crisis ***

According to our latest information, High Star and all associated assets are now carrying Flagritz Empire flags, having joined the alien empire following prolonged and persistent pressure from the Felini Tyranny.

The FLZ have released the following press statement:

"In the coming days, all IRS positions will be reflagged as FLZ. The Flagritz Empire will not initiate hostilities against any Consortium position in Twinkle, Yank or other neutral system. Twinkle will be claimed by FLZ High Star on behalf of the Flagritz Empire (47). We are happy to enter into dialogue with certain parties regarding the future claim of Twinkle by FLZ High Star on behalf of an agreeable neutral affiliation. FLZ High Star has no stargate related technologies."

The integration of the IRS into the FLZ is surely no surprise, however the obtaining of such a large asset by the FLZ is certain to send shockwaves, particularly throughout the Consortium camp, who will now face some very serious decisions on how to proceed.

However, at this stage it seems as if Twinkle will remain an Independent neutral system.


*** Certain Death ***

Rumours from shadowy underworld sources have suggested that the pirate vessel Certain Death has been seen moving in the darkness off several well travelled spacelanes.

The Certain Death, said to be crewed by the damned, has not been sighted since it was involved in a pitch battle with a group of SMS ships and one FET vessel, where she took damage, before allegedly disappearing into a nebulae that appeared as if out of nowhere to cloak the vessels escape from the pursuing SMS battlegroup.

Settlers in remote outposts have also been reporting strange sightings, which seem to indicate that the pirates might be thinking about attacking ground installations.


*** CNF Leadership Thrown Into Crisis ***

According to Confederate news agencies, there is a rumour that Mr M.R.Law has gone missing. He went on a mission a week ago and has not been seen since. It is reportedly feared that he is dead.


*** Falconian Ban ***

The FCN Empire have banned all Flagritz Republic positions from their space.

This news when combined with reports of FGZ diplomats being withdrawn from Falconian embassies suggests stormy weather ahead.


*** Krell Claim System ***

The Krell have recently announced the annexation of a Periphery system, only they are not telling anybody which one.

Anybody with any information is invited to contact one of our reporters.

For what it is worth, our money here at the IGN office is riding on it being Venice - arguably the most heavily militarised system in the peripheries.


*** Pirate Large ***

Hardly a week seems to go by without Pirate Large claiming more victims, as he continues to strike without fear at targets throughout known space. His latest communication boasts of a further victory against the Mohache, in what is almost certainly his greatest outrage yet, as more than 2700 civilians are understood to have fallen into pirate clutches:

"Ahharrgghhh me hearties...... It be aye.....Pirate Large.....

It be stardate 206.4.3 when me look outs spotted a MOH fleet off to the aft, me is always excited when young farmers come passing by, especially them lasses, wiv thee low cut tops, garrr...now me [censored] be [censored] ...

Now we trys to go for 2 out o the 4 ships as we be greedy, an on the first boarding attempt, me boys nearly got all the ship 90% we gots, then the battle finished, as we had a union rep on board, so they downed tools and walked out o the ship. Garrr, I [censored] sliced the [censored] o that bloke, so I gets up along side o the ship Mohuu Jynaar (94601) an started boarding the ship, this time me boys weren't working short hours, an they soon started crackin the naplian crewmen defendin the ship. Well me boys tooks the ship, an we started to look for the booty.

Well one o me men likes, he comes in sayin Large Large, there be real treasure on this ere ship, ooh I says, gold, NO, Coins, NO, it be women cappan, 2700 civilians on board this ere ship waitin to be repopulated...GARRRR....well I can helps out there and double that lot aharrgghhh....

Now it be a week an a bit reporting this takes, cos that be a lot o gals to get through, but I as done the deed, an [censored] me [censored] through as many, as [censored] could take.....wiv the amount o birds I as impregnated over the last 2 years, an now the last few days, our piratin fraternity should be going for decades to come..I just hopes the Child Support Lawyers don't catch up wiv me ahhaarrrhh...Any hows we as had 2 o our crewman gets married this ere week. But they be special, during a frenzied boarding operation, "No knickers Kate" and "Dodgy Dave" copped a packet, and lost their ears in a freak, blade swishin eposiode. Well they gots married this ere week, an they both speaks the sign lingo, During this first week of marriage, they found they were unable to communicate in the bedroom when they turn the lights off because they can't see each other using sign language.

After several nights of fumbling around and misunderstandings, "No knickers Kate" decides to find a solution. "Honey," she signs, "Why don't we agree on some simple signals? For instance, at night, if you want to have sex with me, reach over and squeeze my right breast one time. If you don't want to have sex, reach over and squeeze my left breast one time.""Dodgy Dave" thinks this is a great idea and signs back to his wife, "Great idea, now if you want to have sex with me, reach over and [censored] [censored] [censored] one [censored] [censored] [censored] ."

"If you don't want to have sex, reach over and [censored] on [censored] [censored] .... [censored] [censored] [censored] ."
Ahhaarrggghhhhh......

Anyways im sure you will hear more from the glorious adventures of the pirate ship Large (and friends) ahharrggghhhh...."

Here at the IGN we hope that governments are making at least some sort of effort to secure the release of prisoners from Pirate Large. And no doubt settlers will no longer be flocking to Mohache ships in order to book passage.


*** Skirmish In Dryad ***

The Imperial Wire is carrying the following story:

"One of the escaping damaged CNF ships from Wastelands was located in the Dryad system this week. It was damaged but still managed to fight off two attempts at boarding by the ISMC. At this stage it was decided to deal with it in the old fashioned way and an ISP battle group was sent to finish it off.

Elsewhere the ISP deep penetration patrol in the Darkfold Periphery destroyed a CIA Freighter and the DTR also lost a freighter to a GTT Combat Patrol."


**** From The Posting Boards ****


What to do with prisoners:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=995&hl=



***** Message From The Editor *****

Copying this into the SSS for Stephan:

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Subject: Training Grounds

Hi all,

I've had valuable help from some of you guys in designing planets - thanks for
the work you did there.

Could those of you who haven't yet finished their planets please give me a word
on their progress, or else if they want to abandon work on that particular
world, so that I can continue on the Training Grounds?

Also, volunteers sought for the second batch of planets/moons!

Stephan, DTR

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*****KJC Update*****
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***** Inter-Galactic News *****


*** Yank Neutrality Violated ***

Our reporters have learnt that yet another breach of the peace in Yank has occurred. It seems as if a GTT heavy cruiser and gunboat escort opened fire on a CIA freighter in orbit of Mobile Bay.

The Kastorian platform Mobile Bay Defence is rumoured to have opened fire on the GTT warships, destroying the gunboat, and heavily damaging the cruiser.


*** Imperial Outpost Application ***

An application has been received to exploit the following code in the Tycoon system - 36341.

Anyone already exploiting this code in the Tycoon system should advise the Viceregal Administration by Day5 Week9, stating the celestial body on which it is being exploited.


*** Pirate Destroyed ***

The anti-piracy task force have intercepted and destroyed the pirate vessel Spirit of the Pirate (51199) in the Twinkle system. A squadron of Detinus Heavy Cruisers came across the ex-RIP vessel just after it had been boarded and captured by pirates.

The boarding vessel escaped unspotted.


*** Busy Week For Pirate Large ***

With sources indicating that Large has captured upwards of three more vessels this week alone, the vile and spell-checker deprived pirate has been in touch with the IGN offices to boast of his victories:

"Ahharrgghhh me hearties...... It be aye..... Pirate Large.....

It be stardate 206.7.1 when me look outs spot the KRT ship Pomitain (6430) in the London system. Well moi friend cappan hooker be on hand, garr and she be good wiv it as well, an she got the crew ready in er usual combat gear, and readied her self.

Marines be on board the enemy ship, and an officer, but hooker be on blob, an she not be happy.

She launched her crew ladies at the on board defenders, and split the scrotes out o every one o the crewman for a keep sakes. Garrr she be orrible when the red armies in aye she be, an she slaughtered every last one o them.

Anyways the ship was removed from site, and the Quantum drive removed for other ships, an sold on."

The second reported success for Large was even bigger, and does perhaps constitute his most daring raid to date:

"Ahharrgghhh me hearties...... It be aye..... Pirate Large.....

It be stardate 206.7.1 when me look outs spotted a FEL 100 light huller parked up in the Tychoon system, she be there next to 2 FGZ baseships aye she be, so we sent lucky eddie on board the Trivial to do the job.

He as some state o the art equipment on board aye he does, an he gets in through to the quad no problems straight past those FGZ baseships an starts to board the FEL ship. Well it be a short battle, an the ships crew an the officer jacks it in after round 1 aye they did.

Now we ad, an I mean ad, to get this ship out, it as an hyper drive on board aye she does, an this be valuable to thee, we gots it out no problems, an when back in safe area, we looks in the cargo...

Well shiver me timbers...there be tech on board, Naval Hulls Advanced, there be, bagger me I says..this could get me that swimming pool I as been after..I will have to put this on the open market an sees what I get gets for it, any bidders email me at this ere number likes."

This makes for the second Hyper Drive system to have fallen into Large's clutches, thus radically increasing his strike range.


*** Trouble Brewing In The IMP-Bloc? ***

Reports and public broadcasts between members of the once-cozy imperial-bloc affiliations seem to suggest that the withdrawal of the FET from armed conflict has lead to some disquiet between the FET and the IMP/GTT.

Though with the Detinus Republic and the Confederacy both having now recognised the FET's withdrawal from armed conflict, it seems as if the FET gamble has paid off for them.


*** Shock News From The Flagritz ***

The Peripheries have been stunned this week as the Flagritz Republic appears to be no more! Instead all FGZ positions are now carrying Flagritz Empire flags.

Ro'a-lith, the Imperator pro-tem of the Flagritz Empire (FLZ) Administrator of the Twilight amalgam and Former Cliriq Ataman of the Flagritz Republic has released the following press statement:

"Greetings beings of the Peripheries!

It no doubt has failed to escape your attention over the last week. The Flagritz Empire is whole again.

As any of you who have been following events over the years know, the Flagritz Republic (FGZ) were a faction of the Empire separated from our home by the actions of the nefarious Felini. After enduring months of mounting hostility from the Consortium faction, Republic Xeno-psychologists declared the only way we may peacefully coexist with the Felini is by adopting one of their own principles: That such a peaceful coexistance is what you humans call a 'pipe dream'. Presumably that last epithet arose from the implement you insist on using to consume your Heaven Herb. Absorption through the skin is much tidier.

Therefore, it is my great honour to announce that in accord with the directives of FLZ Ground Party "Ambassadors", who have been docked at Xenos Molaka for the last 20 or so weeks, the affiliation formerly known as the Flagritz Republic (FGZ) have been dissolved, and all positions have been amalgamated into the greater Flagritz Empire.

The conference prior to the merger was no small affair, and lasted many months. Representatives from the other residents of Twilight, namely the Wimbles and various Hive factions, were also included in the negotiations to allay any concerns they may have raised. The discussions were concluded to our satisfaction on stardate 206.7.3.

As Garcia Enterprises have already noted for your dissemination, the decision was made to grant them full ownership of the Winter (33) system in the Cluster. This decision was independent of our own plans to rejoin the glorious Empire; the GCE have long maintained the only starbase in the Winter system, and it was deemed fitting that they manage the system in name as well as in fact. We are not a vainglorious Empire, and where cooperation between mutually respectful parties benefits us both we will certainly collaborate.

Lastly, I would draw your attention elsewhere. It is my pleasure to announce that the Flagritz Empire declare annexation of quadrant Gamma 5 of the Acropolis system, and all it contains. We may well seek to appropriate further areas of the system, until such time as the Falconian Empire ceases and desists from their prosecution of war with the FLZ. Which in turn, of course, implies they must leave their alliance with the loathsome Felini. When the Falconians learn to manage their system and interstellar politics properly, we will permit them to do so.

Any who had alliances and prior arrangements with the Flagritz Republic will need to immediately contact the Flagritz Empire to clarify their situation (except for those already contacted). Glory to the Empire!"


*** Krell Announce Formation Of Grand Krell Empire ***

Following last weeks wholesale annexation of an as yet unknown system by the Krell armed forces, the KRL nation has gone even further this week, with the following announcement:

It no doubt has escaped your attention over the last week, but the Krell Imperium has begun moves to become whole again, with an alliance declared between Clans Black Rat (37), and Dark Angel (30).

Reaction from the general Krell population has been enthusiastically... violent, with proponents of unification; divided between the major factions supporting an Imperial, Federal and Confederal structure, warring both amongst themselves, and jointly against the minor factions proposing "an autonomous collective as part of an anarcho syndicalist commune". A further grouping are proposing an immediate war of territorial conquest against Garcia Enterprises, on the grounds that "as at least they've got something worth fighting about".

Yet more agitators have embraced the concept of claiming ownership of individual space sectors with enthusiasm, and have unilaterally declared annexation of 137 sectors in 19 different systems, none of which are being made public at this time."

This move now makes the mostly harmless Krell the largest powerbloc in the known Peripheries. Though it remains to be seen how long they will hold on to their annexed sectors as soon as knowledge of them becomes public.


*** RIP Vessel Destroyed ***


The RIP vessel Purple Nova strayed into DTR controlled space in the Venice system this week, and was shot down by defensive platforms.

Despite a state of peace existing between the DTR and the RIP, the Purple Nova was carried on the DTR Posted List, and as such the commander of the DTR platform opened fire on sight.

It is thought the Purple Nova has been on Detinus posted lists for many years, dating back to when it was engaged in acts of piracy. Though any persons with further details on this is invited to contact the editor.


*** Scouts At Highstar ***

A number of FCN and FEL scoutships continue to hold orbit above Highstar, despite frequent demands from the Highstar authorities that they withdraw immediately.

According to our reporters on the scene, the presence of FCN and FEL scouts has been crippling the income from Highstars merchandising complexes, making this a form of economic warfare.



***** Periphery Classifieds *****


NOT HARMLESS
Small, Single, 'Player'. AFFectionate. Seeks compatible for discrete, extra-martial mutual warplay. Must be discrete and have own place (shared occupancy here). New to this, so need small assets or amenable to restraint.

Contact KRT-G, 145-370-26158.

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Hi.
I am on the look out for Scintillators.
Lots and lots and lots of scintillators.
To Yank or Twinkle - no preference.
Could anyone with any spares, or who has a desire to mass produce them for me please drop me a line.

Thank you.
Flagritz Empire.
Party for Peaceful Integration.

***

Greetings

I need 3000 Kastorian Employees from Yank, anyone got that for sale or can recruit them fast?

Warlord Slyth Dark Angel
Krell PD



***** From The Posting Boards *****

I'm just highlighting one thread from the boards this week. It's a suggestion thread for constructive criticism of the game, and suggestions for things that need looked at, or could be improved:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=997&hl=


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Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

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

*** Wimbles Claim Twilight ***

Following the collapse of the Flagritz Republic, and subsequent merger into the FLZ Empire, the Wimble Nation have announced their system claim on the Twilight system.

Grandfather Enewatak has been quoted in the press as saying: "Access is still strictly controlled at present, although we hope to change this in the near future. All current assets within Twilight are welcome to stay and live in peace beside us. We hope the FLZ appreciate the need for stability in this region of space, and will stand by us and the peoples of Twilight."

Enewatak also said, "Any organisation that has assets within the system are encouraged to notify myself as soon as possible."

However, It seems that since this announcement was made, certain frictions have occurred within the Twilight system, which have seen a number of serious allegations made against the peace-loving Wimbles. The full nature of these allegations however is not yet known.


*** Open Communication from GCE Wastelands Management ***

The recent clashes between the Empire and the Confederacy in the Wastelands system highlighted the fact that the system claimant, Garcia Enterprises, had not yet issued any laws regarding their system.

In an attempt we assume to address this, a SpokesWimble has been assigned, and has made the following periphery-wide broadcast:

*

A comfortable looking Wimble appears in view.

ey FunMan, like the glasses, grab a seat over their behind the camera

these guys are here to shoot that cool vid to send out to everyone like everywhere man! I know it's like out of this world Man!

so ok, yeah - which button do I have to press to start the vid? - oh your already running!

do I look coolest sat here or here?

ok man Wow!

Hi guys,

I just wanted to let all you dudes and dudets in on the most bodacious news today that I just been given this like awesome job sittin in this wicked office right with all the latest gadgets an' gizmo things that go beep beep and make like wild flashy colours like you've never seen before!

Anyway right, my mate FunManDude Garcia whose like this most outrageously cool guy you ever met like axed me to sit in this room right and look after Wastelands! I mean like WOW Man! the WHOLE System! the Planets! the Asteroids! even the big bright bit in the middle that everything spins round! so I says 'Cool FunMan, I can dig that'

Now I know how harsh it can feel when some dude comes along and says 'Yo! This is MY System Now! Get with the Plan or get in the Van - Man!'

But that aint my style ya dig! - Chill out

And I know for sure that Big Man Garcia here thinks the same way - albeit through his $tellar shaped glasses - for real.

So the way I sees it is that there's way enough space here for everyone man!

So to any of you Krazy Kats who are currently in Watelands, like drop me a line and we can hook up for a wicked night out at the Oasis and I can fill you in on how we can all make Wastelands the most hip and happening place to be.

And to any of you Dapper Dogs out there who wana get in with the main seen then dial me up and I'm sure we can find a spot for you in Wastelands!

To the guys with the big guns making all the noise up there, can you turn it down a bit coz your like putting a real downer on the vibe man.

And to the homies back in Twilight! Respect Due! - Go Wimbles!

So anyway, that's all the shout outs over, hope to catch up soon,

Peace Out,

*

We at the IGN newsrooms have been asked to point out that the previous vid contains confidential information and may not reflect the views of Garcia Enterprises.


*** FET Issue Travel Warnings ***

Zuvoro Norozov, the FET CEO, has recently announced that due to a lack of response from the CIA and BHD authorities, FET installations have regrettably had to add the BHD and CIA to their active enemy lists:

"It is with great regret that I have to inform you all that although the BHD and CIA have had a month in which to respond to the FET declaration of non-combatant status in the human civil war they have chosen to ignore all my attempts to contact them, both publicly and privately. So we in FET have no choice but to once again add all BHD and CIA ships to our bases/outposts ground and space enemy lists. Although our ships will take no offensive action against the BHD and CIA we can only assume that these two affiliations intend to continue hostilities towards FET assets and we have to act in accordance with that assumption until such time we receive clarification on whether both affiliations wish to continue hostilities or not.

I hope that their allies the CNF and DTR whom have already dropped their at war status against FET understand why this is necessary.

As stated above Footwall not take any hostile actions towards any CIA or BHD assets, but any ships/GPs belonging to these two affiliations entering orbit of any FET bases or Outposts will be fired upon. Thank you."

Where this leaves the FET is open to question, as a great conflict could surely be triggered if DTR or CNF warships choose to come to the defence of BHD/CIA assets that might come under fire.

This issue does however highlight the disturbing silence currently emanating from the headquarters of the Brotherhoods higher echelons, with rumours of nefarious political skullduggery going on behind the scenes, many commentators are starting to ask just exactly what has happened to the BHD.


*** Children Of Hexos Issue Ultimatum ***

The COH pursuit of the ARC seems to have borne some fruit recently, as Ian Jorden, advisor to the Celestial Emperor, has indicated that a number of ARC Creches sites have been contacted, and that a dialogue has been established between the COH and the ARC.

"We would like to announce in the open that the COH have successfully found a number of ARC cr�ches sites and contacted these Godlike beings." Said Mr Jordan, "We will being using our resources to protect and defend the where we can, these places of worship. We have established that the ARC are responsible for saving our race from the Titan Supa Nova. These beings can offer a great deal and have taken no aggressive action for years, since the DEN wars as far as I can gather which were over 500 years ago. The COH have placed a number of affiliations in contact with the ARC with good results all round. The COH would also like to thank the FGZ as it was for there help."

The Emperor and Prof Daboo who as been touched by these great beings find it intolerable that the DOM are at WAR with the ARC are gods, we therefore give them 2 weeks to drop this declaration as it has no bases on reality. The ARC have not attacked them at all, so why are they at war. The ARC and DEN are not at war and have not been for over 500 years long before the DEN/DOM were allies. After this time the all trade deals will be cancelled, the DOM will not be welcome in COH starbases or Orbit of COH starbases. Further action will be considered later. The COH as been forced into this situation by the DOM not answering private communications on this subject. We hope a public statement will nudge them into action.

The COH have also successfully contact the TCA, these however have a more chequered past with a recent history off attacks on starbases and ships so care should be taken when contacting them. Some affiliations have had successful encounters but caution is advised. This statement does not involve our allies the QNG who do not worship the ARC."


*** DNA Launch Raid ***

The following transmission has been received from the Naplian News Network.

Subject: NNN - Special - DNA ships raid deep into the Evil Consortium

A number of DNA ghost ships carried out a daring raid in Battlefield this week and almost pulled off a clean sweep as the Naplian resistance continued against the Evil Consortium.

They slide through Battlefield like a knife through genetically modified butter, the SMS guard was down. It was not long before the found the furry underbelly of a Felini target, an undefended strategic large outpost within the secure heart of Battlefield. The Naplian ship PU-240 struck many times pounding the starbase with photon rays and torpedoes all directly hitting the large FEL OUTPOST WYTCHWOOD (25191) - {2-1} 78 kMus.

Attacking FEL Wytchwood (25191)
-------------------------------
Round 1: 50 Light Photon Guns
- 50 hits - 1250 [1250] damage - 100%
1 Photon Cannon
- 1 hit - 90 [90] damage - 100%
4 Torpedo Launchers (Torpedo)
- 4 hits - 2400 [2400] damage - 100%

round..2..3..4 etc

Expecting immediate reprisal and sitting in the middle of the system the DNA ships headed to a new target, but the slower PU-240 was caught by a single FEL SHIP BF DAY OF SACRIFICE (49201) - {100 Heavy Hulls} - Attacking Panther Pounce Class Capital Ship {Heavy Armour}

The Felini shiped launched an impressive armament of (Plasma Torpedo) and Cloaked Kinetic Missiles, at the DNA ships.

Incoming Fire from FEL BF Day of Sacrifice (49201)
--------------------------------------------------
Round 2: 10 Missile Launcher mkIIs (Cloaked Kinetic Missile)
- 2 hits - 45 [120] damage - 99%
- Point Defence shot down 8 Cloaked Kinetic Missiles
15 Torpedo Launchers (Plasma Torpedo)
- 15 hits - 809 [4500] damage - 95%
- Point Defence reduced incoming Plasma Torpedo fire to 47%
......etc

The DNA Broadsword ship PU-240 took direct hits and after day 1 it continued the battle into the second day using its last efforts and delivering its own deadly photon cannon attack as the space square was ablaze with exchange fire. Finally, however, it crumbled under the fire of the larger and technologically better equipped ship.

However, to the annoyance of the Pride of the Felini the DNA ship the Pirate Bounty escaped the claws of the FEL Panther ship and the slipped away into the dark not to return. No doubt the Felini will be scratching themselves to find this ship.

The DNA Ambush Cruiser Two Headed Cobra (22046) raided inner rings of Acropolis yesterday getting deep into FCN territory. It reportedly was involved in a large 50 ship battle against the FCN, SMS warships that were trying to remove the Flagritz in Acropolis. The Two Headed Cobra has not reported in and is assumed MIA but not before it intercepted transmissions from a secret FCN WoMD Test Base. The 2nd breakthru in identifying their WoMD ambitions in as many months

Officer Plutop posthumously awarded the Naplian Stik of Bravery for leading her daring raid. Officer Hammer posthumously awarded the Naplian Stik of Bravery for leading his daring raid.

Mad Max stated when asked for a comment "For every Naplian ship lost 2 more replace it, the silent DNA ships will continue to exploit each and every weakness in their defences. I cannot comment on the FCN WoMD Test Base other then we are continuing investigations, and not surprisingly Harkon is trying to remove lately each and everyone from Acropolis so it is not discovered"


*** Felini Respond to DNA Attack ***

A FEL military spokesman has been in contact with one of our reporters to provide the following quote regarding the recent DNA attack:

"A lone DNA ship attacked a Felini outpost in Battlefield earlier this week. Despite delivering over 14,000 MU's of damage, no casualties or losses of material goods were reported. One can only presume that the DNA have discovered how to target gaps between structures...."

We at the IGN are indeed at a loss to understand how so much ordnance can be delivered without causing any actual damage, and with any hope one of our reporters will be able to visit the installation in person to tour the craters.


*** Terrorist Attack Foiled ***

Dramatic events have unfolded recently in the Acropolis system, as the planetary defence forces of Falconia detected a contagion in the atmosphere of their homeworld.

The contagion was traced to a bioweapon, that had been released into the environment with the intent of destroying the ecosphere of the entire planet, rendering the homeworld of the FCN Empire uninhabitable.

Fortunately however the FCN detected the contagion in time to prevent it's spread. And the security of the planet has been protected.

It is rumoured that this bioweapons attack is in some way linked to the Alien Spore Of Id affair that was foiled by the APTF over a year ago.

An arrest warrant has been issued for the arrest of IND Rose, who was behind the Alien Spore of Id affair, and a significant reward is offered for his or her capture.


*** Krell Versus GTT ***

This week the Krell have taken up arms as mercenaries, and the following press release has been received by the IGN:

*

To the controller of GTT Ship White Lion.

Be advised that wef 206.10.1 KST ships in the Kastor system may be defended by mercenary Krell Clan Black Rat vessels. We would urge against retaliation outside the limited bounds of this contract

KRT Jumping Jaques

*

The existence of other mercenary contracts is rumoured. And the Krell have assured us that details of the battle reports between themselves and the GTT will be forwarded to our newsrooms, just as soon as the GTT fleet has run out of bits large enough to target.


*** Conflict Erupts In Acropolis ***

Naval clashes have begun throughout the Acropolis system this week as Consortium forces including SMS and FCN warships have turned their attention to the FLZ presence in the system.

A number of FLZ platforms are understood to have been wiped out for very little damage to the attacking fleets, and the FLZ starbase is now understood to be blockaded by a strong Consortium naval presence.


*** Imperial Success ***

The IMP news agencies are reporting the destruction of a medium sized CNF Platform by an ISP Combat Space Patrol in the Darkfold Periphery this week. A CIA freighter that happened to be passing by was caught in the cross fire and blew up.

It is as yet unclear on what exactly a 'medium sized' platform is. Though estimates range between 400-600 hulls.


*** KST/GTT Tensions Continue ***

As skirmishes continue between the KST and GTT, a GTT patrol has boarded and captured a KST freighter.


*** More Imperial Success ***

From the IMP news wire:

Two freighters, CNF and DTR, were destroyed in the Kastor system by a GTT Combat Patrol this week. The ISP patrol working deeper into the Darkfold failed to find any suitable targets.



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***** Inter-Galactic News *****
*****KJC Update*****
Planetary ISR Fields
As stated in the online rulebook, worlds with active command complexes project ISR fields into the planet. These have two side effects.
First is that they can be detected and therefore the presence of a base will be known. As this is a non-localised field, there is no way to use the field to determine the location of the base.
Second, the ISR damps WoMD, including nuclear missiles and various other big weapons. Without an ISR field, the target will suffer 100 times the normal damage (in the form of 100 attacks at the same rating as the original).
Example: A nuke will deliver 1000 damage if it successfully hits. Without an ISR field, it will deliver 100 hits at 1000 damage each.

The ISR field takes four weeks to build up, but multiple complexes, bases will reduce this time - while building it will register as unstable. It also takes a similar time to dissipate. Even unstable ISR fields damp blasts.

The ISR field extends into orbit protecting ground parties in orbit. Ships and platforms are also protected by their active ISR fields, as are space stations with active command complexes.

*** FET Meet With Success ***

Following recent complications in their withdrawal from armed conflict, the FET are reporting that they have finally reached a settlement with both the CIA and BHD regarding their non-combatant status.

Negotiations are apparently still underway, but the tidings appear positive, as FET enemy lists are once again cleared of all DTR/CNF/BND/CIA assets.

Zuvoro Norozov, the FET CEO has been quoted in the press as saying, "It is hoped that over time a mutual trust will evolve between FET and the above affiliations and that we may live in a new era of peace."


*** New Stellar Object ***

The asteroid 'Warlords Seat' has been moved into orbit of the Krell homeworld in the Storm system. It is understood a significant engineering effort was made by the Krell to shift this asteroid into high orbit.

As the name suggests, it is suspected this world serves as the fortress of the Warlord of the Krell Clan Black Rat.


*** Dyson System ***

The Dominion appear to have been suffering from unexpected visitors in the Dyson system this week, as the Overlord of the DOM, R. Trevalliant, has issued the following statement to the press:

"The Dominion would like to point out to all Starcaptains that the Dyson system is strictly off limits. As of tomorrow any ship found to be encroaching into this system is running the risk of being reduced to atoms. All platforms will now be carrying active enemy lists."

There is no word on who might have been trespassing here however.


*** Imperial Outpost Application ***

An application has been received to exploit code 20385 in the Tycoon system.
Anyone already exploiting this code in Tycoon should inform the Viceregal
Administration by Day 5 Week 10, indicating on which celestial body it is
being exploited.


*** Conflict In Pollux ***

The Detinus installation Hideout, in the Pollux system, has come under imperial attack. The IMP ground party Pollux Liberator Cappa, heavily supported by the Imperial navies, moved into orbit and commenced a sustained barrage of weapons fire against the DTR base.

The Imperial ground party has apparently shown no sign of wishing to engage the base in a contest for control, and seems instead content to sit in orbit and exchange weapons fire at long range. Whether this is as a prelude to a more sustained assault is as yet unknown.


*** Detinus Republic Hit By Large ***

Two DTR vessels have fallen in quick succession to Pirate Large. The Antibes and Affinity, two Detinus freighters, fell in the London system to the dread pirate. All hands are believed to have been lost. Both vessels, and the original pirate boarders, escaped cleanly, despite a large armed response from Confederate patrol forces.


*** Pirate Makes Close Escape ***

The Pirate vessel Angelicus had a near escape this week as forces from the APTF narrowly failed to pin it for combat.

The Angelicus is reported to have sped away under a vast acceleration, leaving even rapid response units of the APTF floundering in its wake.


*** Pirate Destroyed ***

In a busy week for piracy, the pirate vessel The Teeth Of Esther Rantzen, has been destroyed by a Falconian Platform.

The Rantzen has had several successes in the past, and her destruction is celebrated by many throughout the Peripheries.


*** GTT Raider Destroyed ***

A GTT Indiaman class Light Railgun armed capital ship has been destroyed as it attempted to close and bombard a Detinus outpost in the Straddle system.

Unescorted, the Indiaman proved easy prey for a squadron of DTR Heavy Cruisers.


*** Another Pirate Destroyed ***

The APTF are reporting the destruction of the pirate ship Infinity Awards, a Super Carrier class vessel of 200 x-light hulls that blundered into two squadrons of SMS warships, and was torn apart in very short order.


*** Pirate Large ***

Continuing his vile depredations, Pirate Large has broadcast the following message:

"Ahharrgghhh me hearties...... It be aye..... Pirate Large.....

It be stardate 206.7.5 when me look outs spotted the DEN ship Santa Maria (53029) in the yank system.

Well the Den theys been a braggin bout how they is going to stops me boys, so I felt it be about time I myself went and made sure the job be done good. 44 Dewiek crewmen on board there be, an no match for thee, 2 rounds o fightin an the inbread mongrels soon gaves in..pah, warriors my aaarrrrrrrrsse.

Well we had a barbecue that nights aye we did, an the hind quarters o these things be tastin good likes, very tasty, we kept their officer Rob Unger alive, and blimey he wasn't well fed wiv a name likes that and had some o the meat as well. Although we didn't tell him what it be, garrr....

Anyways, ill be payin them DEN boys anuver visit shortly. I do loves me job you know, eatin the prey is one o the perks o the job, I remembers when I were a lad, that I got one o me first jobs in a broffel."

It is the Editors opinion that really, our fine readers do not need to read about the further adventures of the young Pirate Large in his first job at the brothel, as when we had finished censoring his adventures, there really wasn't much left.

New readers are reminded that they can find the full transmissions of Pirate Large on the regular comms channels, as listed at the end of the SSS.


*** GTT Stomp On Krell ***

Following a brief war of words, conflict has erupted between the GTT and Krell clan Black Rat. In time-honoured Krell tradition, the Black Rats picked a glorious fight with a superpower.

GTT armed forces flooded into the Storm system, and attacked multiple KRT possessions, including the KRT vessel Galvoie, which was destroyed, and the KRT Jarvis Bay, which was boarded and captured by GTT troops.

The KRT outpost, Krell Citadel, also came under heavy attack from GTT Stormtroopers.

With no formal declaration of war having been made, some commentators are causing this armed action by the GTT an act of piracy. However, the GTT have stated that their action was in response to the KRT declaration that they would be providing mercenary assistance to the KST - a faction that are known to have been a thorn in the side of the GTT for some time now.


*** Acropolis Update ***

Our reporters contacted the Falconian government for an update on the state of war in the Acropolis system. They were kind enough to issue the following press release:

"The spacelanes of the Acropolis system are again safe for our trader friends.. The five small platforms are destroyed by an Consortium assault.. after taking no significant losses.. The 6th Platform which was significant larger is now in control of the Falconian Empire and is renamed to FCN PLATFORM Fruit Salad. A name worthy of this platform..

The small FLZ starbase which is tucked away in the gamma5 quadrant is being ignored at the moment.. Our navy will deal with it...

Lone FLZ raiders are being swatted whenever they are spotted.. Our warships are patrolling the system on a regular base. Of course no DNA warship has dared to enter Acropolis after we destroyed their cruisers..

We will keep you posted on the situation."


*** Fear And Loathing In Riva ***

From the pages of the Riva IMPquisitor:

"Construction of the Behemoth of Riva complete!"

The Behemoth is officially unveiled!...well, not so much as unveiled as it would have taken a systems worth of tarpaulin supply to actually cover the statue that stands not only as a dedication to the native bison of Booker, but also to the ingenuity, craft and labour of humanity. The gracious lines - admittedly softened by the use of precious metals - add a soft edge to the thousands of tonnes of stone. The fiery eyes of deep ruby gaze at those who leave the starport proper to the base itself. Anyone who enters the starbase should feel suitably humble at the feet of the Behemoth!

When asked "why?!" Governor Duluke Le Gatte replied "The Behemoth stands as a testament to the endeavour of the people of Riva, Booker and the Empire. The grandeur of this statue, is a celebration of humanities expansion and how we have made this planet - and many more besides - home."

Whilst the statue has been generally accepted amongst the population of Riva, and Booker itself, there are those that have expressed some concern. Le Gatte went on to say "Suggestions that a statue of this size could have implications on the planetary rotation are codswollop. And whilst there are some homes that now only get half an hour of natural sunlight per day, we have more than compensated those families with free passes to the sunbed clinic"

Le Gatte also went on to deny suggestions that this is just an attempt at self-aggrandisement "I can assure the people of Riva, and Booker that the actions I take are primarily for the benefit of them, not me. Admittedly there has been some conversations about a proposed new Governors Palace, but these are merely discussions and this coincides with the need to look at the effectiveness of ones environment so that one may fulfil duties for the people whose interests one looks after"

Lady Le Gatte was unavailable for comment in relation to rumours that the Governor has gone one step further than having a big gravcar to make up for a presumed inadequacy in the trouser department."

A team of investigative reporters from here at the IGN newsrooms have investigated this statue more, and uncovered that it has platinum coated hooves, and rubies for eyes. The Colossus is more than 600 metres high, and more than five kilometres long.

Described by the local news networks as both a testimony to the ancients and a civil engineering masterpiece it has also been lampooned as the largest penis extension in the Peripheries with comical pictures of the governor stood at one end of a giant ruby ended phallus being supported by the world's population above a caption reading the 'Behemoth of Riva'.

Detinus Republic engineers are understood to have commenced working on an even larger Colossus.


*** Mysterious Goings On In The Detinus Republic ***

The following story has been picked up from the DTR Court News Channels:

"Breaking news from New Tate this morning, as a number of surprise announcements have been made from the Speaker of the DTR's house of lords office, Michelle Diaz, regarding the mysterious disappearance of Grand Admiral Sivar.

Ms Diaz has been quoted as saying, 'Of course Sivar is still alive, he has simply been moved into my high security detention centre for the good of his own health.'

Diaz moved swiftly to deny any allegations that this period of detention has anything to do with any rumours that Admiral Sivar might or might not have been spreading. Denials that included the detention of all reporters who dared to ask any questions.

This reporter would just like to finish this piece by saying, all hail our glorious leader!"

Our own IGN reporters have been dispatched to ask many annoying questions.


*** GTT Make Assassination Attempt ***

In a week that has seen the GTT accused of Piracy, they are now facing further accusations of utilising assassination as a legitimate policy tool. Documents have been passed to the IGN newsroom that appear to detail the intention of the highest echelons of the GTT leadership to attempt to assassinate the leader of the Krell clan Black Rat, Grymwald.

It is a mystery why the Krell Clan Black Rat, a faction of the Krell race, based in the Storm system, should seemingly actively seek to antagonize first the Falconians, who claim system ownership, AND the GTT and the RIP in short order - ALL of whom have a presence in the Storm system.

Seeking to discount rumours of substance-abuse-invoked temporary insanity, on the part of krell PD Piram 'Jumping' Jaques, a KRT spokesman was eventually led to respond: "Categorically NO! - Nothing beyond normal weekly background levels. He might be a bit grumpy because he's recently lost his pet dwarf lop-eared Wimble though".




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We have two Blueprints for 75 light hull Caravel class freighters for sale.

If you want to guarantee that you get the technology .... fly along to Freedom City and buy them from the open market (price is 100,000 stellars).

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

*** Last Transmission ***

Following on from the recent reporting of the destruction of the RIP vessel Purple Nova by DTR platforms, the RIP authorities have released a transcript of the vessels final entries in the audio log systems:

*

The innocent cargo vessel, Purple Nova, was reduced to debris on stardate 206.8.1 by the combined fire from two DTR platforms. Unfortunately all hands were lost and 1400 mus of humanitarian aid was scattered across the quad. An extract from the last few moments on board was recovered from the ships blackbox.

FO: Captain are you sure this is a good idea.
C: What do you mean? What is your problem you've been
acting worried since we took that cargo on board.
FO: Its not the cargo captain, but more where you want to
deliver it.
C: What is wrong with New Darien? Its always been a
reputable trading base. I know we've had problems
with the DTR in the past but they haven't banned
traders yet.
FO: Ermm... you do know they have posted this ship
right captain? Some claim of piracy years back.

C: Posted? Are you sure?
FO: Thats what this warning light thats has been
flashing since we entered their space means.

C: Oh bugger....

As a result of this unfortunate incident the privateer 'Learn to be a starship captain in 21 days' course at Quicksnack has been updated to include a lesson on basic safety precautions.

*

As a point of interest, the DTR posted list currently stands at:

IMP SHIP Hentai Dreams (2117)
IMP SHIP Tenochtitlan (3519)
IMP SHIP Nile (2482)
FET SHIP Jen-Elen (4271)
AFT SHIP Seven Seas (833) - 10000 stellar bounty


*** Imperial Bombardment ***

More news has surfaced regarding the Imperial attack in the Pollux system. With the IMP news networks carrying the following story:

*

At the beginning of the week a large IMP Ground Party was inserted onto the Asteroid Detinus 1 in the Pollux system and a long range attack was commenced on the DTR Outpost Hideout. After several days bombardment the outpost defences have been severely reduced and speculation is rife when an assault on the outpost itself will take place. Curiously the DTR do not appear to have made any effort to relieve their besieged outpost at the time of going to press. Several GTT scout ships have been destroyed whilst entering the asteroid's orbit during the week.

*

The apparent inactivity of the DTR Stellar Armada during this Imperial operation has indeed raised eyebrows throughout the Peripheries, particularly in the Detinus Senate, where several strong questions have been asked of the beleaguered Grand Admiral, Lord Sivar.

The DTR Outpost is understood to still be under siege as we go to press.


*** Pirate Large ***

The rampage of Pirate Large continues yet again this week, as several shadowy underworld sources have started to suggest that Pirate Large might now not be so much an individual, as a group, given that the extent of his depredations seem to indicate a far larger organisation than one man could operate.

"Ahharrgghhh me hearties...... It be aye..... Pirate Large.....

Well this be a full time job aye....an I as ad that much action, that I is writing a group of attacks below, uvver wise I is going to need a writer to follow me abouts.

First hit for Cluster Large

Cluster Large a vessel primarily searchin through the Twinkle area found its first target, a RIP ship, the Spirit of the Pirate (51199). Now this one be a good first catch I thought, a 100 huller, nice to get me new boys into the task, when a newly despatched group from them poofs in the APTF came along an blew up my newly aquired ship garrrr.....bugger it."

Our news rooms have indeed been contacted by several independent writers who are keen to join up with Pirate Large for 'journalistic purposes'. Clearly the IGN cannot endorse this sort of dangerous journalistic activity.


*** GTT Continue Stomping On Black Rats ***

Conflict has continued this week with more elements of the GTT armed services destroying or capturing several KRT vessels and installations. And in further action, the FCN have launched a series of ground assaults against a KRT starbase in Yank.

The KRT Starbase Black Rat has resisted several FCN Ground Parties, as the FCN seek to take back the base. We are at this point unsure as to what the history is of this conflict. However, it does stand yet again as a further example of more armed conflict in the Yank system.

Reacting to allegations that the Falconian Empire have been less than decent in their turning on the Krell peoples - a race that were after all living in Storm under FCN Empire protection - a FCN Spokesperson has issued the following statement to the press:

"The Falconian Empire was nothing but insistent on the GTT's need to pay compensation and halt its assault on the KRT. Unfortunately the KRT was also insistent on its intention to use WMD against the civilian population surrounding FCN Vjun on Inversion regardless of our stance against the GTT.

The KRT also seem to be willingly dismissing the large relief GP sent by the FCN to remove the GTT from their assets.

They also seem somewhat negligent in informing the galaxy that they are holding a starbase that was generously leased to them by the FCN hostage. Threatening us with its destruction, its theft or its handover to the FLZ unless we do as they wish. Our people are not to be made hostages by any party for political gain."

Apparently lacking allies, things do indeed look bleak once again for the Krell race.


*** Confederate Vessel Commits Suicide ***

The IMP news wire is carrying the following story:

*

Early in the week a CNF suicide ship armed with a massive number of missiles attacked IMP Ecalpon in the Blowton system. The majority of the outpost's space defence hardware was destroyed but the CNF ship also blew up.

*

This appears to indicate that CNF strategic planners are following the GTT in loading up suicide vessels with Missile Launchers and going in to pound outposts.

The conflict at Ecalpon appears to have continued though:

*

Next day a CNF Ground Party was inserted before a relieving force from the ISP could get there. In the subsequent battle with the outpost Ground Forces the CNF GP showed a similar level of incompetence and low accuracy as we have come to expect from their warships and the defending forces destroyed the attacker in half a day's battle.


*** Pirate Large Slaughters Captives ***

More from the vile pirate:

"Double Whammy. The DTR found out the ard way what double entry means, and lost 2 freighters on the same day to one o me boys in the London system. After fairly easy battles, me boys got on boards the ships an did the business, to avenge the DTR APTF hittin the spirit o the pirate above, we slaughtered a further half o the crew men on board the Antibes (45771) and Affinity (62216) in fron o their cappans. We took the cappan back an let them know what a jolly roger is, an they soon found out it be a happy poof."

There has as yet been no official response from Detinus sources regarding the slaughtering of DTR prisoners by Large, but we understand that funding for DTR APTF patrols has been significantly increased, with there now being upwards of 20 DTR warships carrying APTF flags.


*** KRT Destroy GTT Vessels ***

Despite being engaged in a one-sided conflict with a superpower, the KRT have managed to destroy at least one GTT Gunboat.


*** Yet More From Pirate Large ***

"Ahharrgghhh...... It be aye..... Pirate Large..... On stardate 206.10.2 an after the DEN seems to be a braggin I myself went for a 2nd DEN target, the Southern Star 41103, as I was hopin that gal from the DEN, Weener or somefing was going to be on board, I as heard she be firey and can work hard between the sheets likes, so I was hopin for a good shag...but alas she not be on board so we had to slaughter the bloody lot again for another good barbecue, we tooks the ship no problems and took the cappan away."

And finally, we hope, for the week, one more tale of success from the one man disaster zone:

"The CIA, members of the under world, found out the hard way an all, what its like to work by coming in the back door, some o them beggars wont be walking right for a while.ahaaargghhh anyways they be lucky as they be taken by the Beauties of cappan hooker an her band o sluts, she only killed 9 o them in the battle, an has kept the cappan for her special treatment aye she as..

Anyway as yee can see, I is under pressure to get me stories out, so very short versions, there be other pirate actions, an me communications portal as been updated, but needs a bit more work...

It also has the Loss of the Cappan on the Teeth of Esther Ranzen, an associates ship, who took it up the rear in a battle after takin a 200 huller off them HLQ boys, both ships be lost, but he died fightin for his cause, that be free sex, booze, an treasure...ahaaarrgghhh

Anyways im sure you will hear more from the glorious adventures of the pirate ship Large (and friends) ahharrggghhhh...."


*** Dewiek Engage Detinus Republic ***

A DEN platform in the Noctollis system destroyed two DTR Needle Class vessels today.

Curiously both of the Detinus vessels were named 'Suckers'.


*** Dominion Destroy DTR Ground Parties ***

Three tiny DTR scouting parties appear to have been detected today by the DOM starbase Acheron. Needless to say the scouting parties were blown to bits by this ex-DTR Starbase in the Solo system.



***** From The Posting Boards *****


There's been an important change to ISR field reporting this week, and I would urge all players, particularly those with hidden bases, to check this thread:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1006&st=0&hl=


A question about crew factors with regards ground combat:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1005&hl=


And finally hospital complexes, and the happy news that plagues will be implemented soon. Hurrah.

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8&hl=



******

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FET - fet.mindmuse.net/
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IMP - www.chalmore.co.uk/
MOH - www.mohache.com/
QNG - www.lwlawrence.com/QNGForum/index.php
RIP - www.rip17.com/
SMS - www.stellarmining.co.uk
WMB - wimbles.specht.co.uk/
Lausnaff Enterprises - web.telia.com/~u40927438/aft/
Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

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

*** Imperial-Bloc Captures Pollux System ***

The big news this week is regarding the change of hands of the Pollux system, with the following announcement being made by the Imperial patrol commissioner:


FROM: Patrol Commissioner
Imperial Services Broadcast:
Press Release

People of the peripheries, for 2 weeks Imperial ground forces under the command of JJ McClure has entered into battle against the DTR in the Pollux system.

The Pollux system was previously owned by the GCS, an ally of the IMP. The system was captured quite some time ago, and heavy losses were inflicted on the GCS at the time. The DTR attempted to fortify the system by building a facility on an asteroid and set about protecting it with a 2000 hulled platform in the orbit.

Several Months ago, in a combined raid the allies removed this platform, paving the way for other actions. These actions started with a large ground based bombardment after the ground party went through the orbit. The defences of the facility attempted to launch several thousand missiles at the gp, but all incoming fire was neutralised with the exception of a few light rail guns.

Once the ground actions started it was felt that the attack would be in our favour, and this has shown to be the case, with almost total destruction of the DTR facility and the thousands of troops and masses of equipment stationed there.

We can therefore tell all members of our allies, and our friends that the allied forces have recaptured the system of Pollux, and we will be returning it under the control of the GCS. As with all things that have changed ownership, these things can be difficult to retain, but we are confident that the system will be under stable GCS control in the near future.

I would like to thank all the allies for their help during this battle as it was a combined effort. Further updates will be released over the next week

Communication ends

There has as yet been no official response from the Detinus Republic or any of her allies, but with no attempt to contest the system claim, it seems as if the Pollux system has indeed changed hands. This marks a significant step for the Imperial-bloc, who have for some time now been perceived as being on the back foot.

The Imperial News Wires were carrying the following related story:

"The ground forces attacking on DTR Hideout continued the long range bombardment throughout the week. The target outpost has now been so reduced that it can no longer establish a valid claim the Pollux system. The control of Pollux, a key system into the old Inner Empire from the Capellan Peripheries, has now reverted to the Allies once more. The bombardment continues."


*** Resignation ***

Our reporters have learnt that due to ill health, Pope Sean McGovern has decided to step down from his position as spiritual leader of the Brotherhood.

There has been no specific mention of the nature of this ill-health, but Pope McGovern is understood to be taking a lengthy sabbatical at an undisclosed location, that might or might not include beautiful beaches.


*** More Good Will ***

Following a request made by the FET, it seems as if the DTR are willing to unpost the sole FET vessel carried on their affiliations posted list.

Information from the office of the DTR Solicitor Generals has given the backhistory of the FET vessel Jen Elen (4271):

First scanned as a BHD Surveyor ("The Barrichello") 21.197;
Captured by RIP in or prior to 45.197;
Recaptured by BHD in or prior to 49.197;
Upgraded to Runner and renamed to BHD "Lerchery" in or prior to 42.199;
Captured by FET and renamed to "Jen Elen" in or prior to 6.200.

The Solicitor General's office has been unable to provide our reporters with any indication as to why this vessel was originally posted so many years ago, other than the fact that it had been captured by the FET, and that this was a posting reason.


*** Detinus Senator Wins Award ***

Senator Marcus Rhodes of the DTR has won the DTR 'Bad Driver' award this week, finally taking the cup away from long-standing holder, Michelle Diaz.


*** The Krell Situation ***

It has been a quiet week it seems in the Krell/GTT conflict, with no further reports of battles or vessel losses. And it is possible that the conflict has now simmered back down, having boiled over in recent weeks.

However, the KRT have contacted our newsroom, and have requested that the following statement be released to the press:

"The Free krell peoples wish to issue a statement, to counter the seriously misleading and inaccurate statement by the Falconian Warlord in last week's issue, and add a few points pertinent to the history of the conflict.

The Falconian Empire made NO KNOWN moves to insistent that the GTT pay compensation and halt its assault on the KRT. Contrast this with mere weeks ago, when an attack on KRT positions in Skord, totally outside any declared sphere of FCN influence, was responded to by a threat of a declaration of war against the KST, without even consulting the KRT first!

In fact, the FCN ground party which eventually did arrive, did so despite the KRT refusal to accept the only terms offered: "just take the slapping and they'll leave" when it was pointed out how total inaction on the Falconians' part would reflect on them, given that their entire system claim was based on the role of protecting the Krell, the only INDIGENOUS natives of the Storm system.

In fact, the GTT attack was used as an opportunity to destroy moves by the Krell peoples for seeking some measure of independence on our own homeworld, moves which had already been responded to with threats of destruction by the Falconian warlord Harkon, against BOTH the KRT and KRL.

This betrayal by inaction is made all the worse by recent activities IN SUPPORT of Falconian efforts to remedy the woefully under-defended state of the Falconian homeworld, a state as left by Harkon himself; the delivery of more than 600 missile launchers, both delivered for free and sold at below market value, largely undertaken by the very vessel which was seized on the first day of conflict, the Falconian trade fleet being 'too busy' to undertake such endeavour. This number of launchers are sorely missed now, of course. Possibly Harkon is unaware of Krell efforts on his own race's part, he being incommunicado by a bout of ennui, reportedly brought upon, sadly, by a less than fatal bout of bird flu.

As for 'Black Rat' the acknowledged leased base in Yank, after spending several weeks in developing this starbase, including shipping IN more than ten thousand mass units of modules, and purchasing twenty thousand of Thorillium, it was considered unrealistic to vacate it at a mere few day's notice, given that the mass production lines had not even finished tooling yet. The communication that "of course we do not want to declare war on you" was not believed, and this viewpoint is justified by the subsequent attack, a blatant contravention of the sadly, largely theoretical, 'Neutrality of Yank'.

Possibly the statement by Krell spokesman that: 'If war is declared we might invite the FLZ to assault it against the same level of defences we acquired it with" was misinterpreted as "giving it away". This is bourne out by the fact that, despite the Falconian figurehead leader, having unrestricted access to the base, using this to pick up every item of defence, and every employee present, it was successfully defended only a day later by a scratch force made up of anti-boarding troops already in orbit and military materiel purchased from the open market of QNG Queens Haven earlier in the same day. The fact that the assault force, made up entirely of the mobile elements of it's former defenders, was wiped out to the last MU shows both it's paucity, and explains why the Falconian figurehead leaves military operations "Totally to Harkon".

Finally - The Krell peoples HAVE NEVER made any threats against FCN Vjun in the normal sense of the word, certainly none involving WoMD (which we do not possess anyway). Given that some 90% of the entire Krell species live within its surrounding environs, this would be nonsensical, however irrelevant this would be to the state of the planet. No, the 'Threats' all come the other way: Total annihilation against KRT or KRL assets in response to any efforts to lead our race away from total subjugation and dependency on the FALCONIAN starbase, which might impact it's efforts in support of a war against the FLZ in which the Krell would take no part by choice. The position of a Krell native as puppet leader over this installation does not fool anyone.

KRT Secretary."

We at the IGN would like to offer our apologies that this statement was not run in last weeks edition, due to a communications failure.


*** More Good News For The FET ***

The FET Director, Zuvor Norozov's gamble to withdraw from armed conflict seems to be continuing to pay dividends for him, as the following press release seems to indicate:

"I am happy to announce that the BHD have dropped their at war status towards FET.I would like to thank the BHD leadership for their show of trust. Of course as of yet no FET assets are granted access to Confederate or DTR systems. This is understandable, but hopefully sometime in the future trade will open up.
On a related note the CIA have also been in private communication with FET and have stated that they will cease all hostile actions against us, although at this time the at war status remains. Again I am hopeful that the CIA will follow the example of their allies and move forward to a more peaceful existence in due course."


*** News Flash! ***

An Inter-Galactic News reporter in Osgiliath, one of the major centres of Brotherhood power and influence, and the centre of their religion, has just filed the following story:

"It is calm, in Osgiliath. One would think that, every day there is a Conclave of Cardinals to elect the new Pope. But as they is only one candidate it sort of spoils any excitement.

With almost indecent haste, White Smoke issues from the Chapel of the True One. A new Pope has been chosen.

The Papel Camerlengo and Great Elector Alys Kajalos steps into Saint Roswell's Square. The new Pope is Naz Kodrix."

Our political team here at the IGN HQ is scrambling to secure an interview with ex-CIA regional director Naz Kodrix, in order to throw further light on this shock revelation that he has apparently left the Confederate Intelligence Service, and become the new Pope.



***** From The Posting Boards *****


Squadrons losing Tus:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1011&hl=


Officer training in GPI skill, is it useless or what:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1010&hl=



***** Message From The Editor *****


Hi,

Congratulations this week to the new Phoenix babies, and their mothers, who did all the hard work.

Fathers get a manly slap on the shoulder, and a cigar, which they are no longer allowed to smoke anywhere in this country.

And of course a warm welcome to the no-sleep club.

Seriously, congratulations chaps.


- Simon.

Message from Mica
Thanks to everyone for their warm response - we are all doing well - if not sleeping much.

******

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MOH - www.mohache.com/
QNG - www.lwlawrence.com/QNGForum/index.php
RIP - www.rip17.com/
SMS - www.stellarmining.co.uk
WMB - wimbles.specht.co.uk/
Lausnaff Enterprises - web.telia.com/~u40927438/aft/
Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

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

*** Conflict In Acropolis ***

A vast armada of Consortium warships moved against the Flagritz Empire starbase Fessin Did'Achi and associated outposts in Acropolis this week.

Consortium forces have been kind enough to allow reporting via an IGN reporter stationed with the battlegroup. So all of our information in this story comes from firsthand reports.

After brushing aside the defences and destroying the few FLZ vessels in orbit, taking very little damage from desultory missile launcher fire from the starbase, Consortium rail gun armed warships commenced bombardment. Return fire from the starbase ceased very quickly, with multiple reported hits on all FLZ weapons installations. Over 1000 FCN and SMS space interceptors were on hand to deal with 750 fighters that took off from the FLZ base.

During the bombardment, a ground party attempted to move out from the base, but was very quickly targetted and blasted to shreds.

The orbital rail-gunning reduced the size of the starbase from 2845kmus to 1773 kmus in the space of four days battle.

We also have reports that the desperately under-fire defenders have been attempting to pick up items from nearby outposts, transactions which came under extremely heavy weapons fire from prowling Falconian warbirds.

Huge plumes of smoke obscure currently attempts to discern just exactly how much damage the starbase has taken, but it seems fair to say that the Consortium will very soon be able to say that they have successfully removed the FLZ presence from the Falconian home system, at remarkably little cost to themselves. We can confirm that not a single Consortium vessel has so far been lost.

One question remains however. From day one when Consortium warships first made their move, there has been no sighting of any main-line FLZ warships. Which raises the question of just how serious the FLZ empire was of maintaining their presence in Acropolis?

Again, we have to thank the SMS for their transparency in allowing our news-room to follow in great detail the unfolding of this battle.


*** Dewiek Announce Victory ***

The run of bad news for the Detinus Republic continues with reports that the DEN have destroyed a Detinus installation in the Acrux system.

The Dewiek system lord, MaiChiKwai, has released the following statement:

"Important Announcement to All DEN Members. I, MaiChiKwai, System Lord of Acrux, Governor of Impervious, would like to announce our latest victory in the Acrux system.

Highly trained spotters recently identified an illegal DTR outpost under construction in our system.

Since we were training a new officer, we gave him the honours of the first shot. He destroyed the outpost with a magnificent display of firepower, and our re-enforcements were not needed.

He will be promoted with a level 5 Dewiek ceremony, during the next full moon, assuming we can gather the required sacred sacrifices.

(It's so hard to get good party supplies out here in the peripheries.)

Full battle dress is required."

It would be crass for we at the IGN to comment on the nature of Dewiek ceremonial occasions, suffice as to say they probably do not include a pi�ata.


*** Pirate Large ***

The DTR freighter, Impossible Starlight, has fallen to Pirate Large in the London system this week.

DTR APTF forces launched a massive response, with reports of over fifty warships jumping into the London system in an attempt to make an intercept, but so far it seems as if both Pirate Large, and the captured freighter, have escaped in one piece.


*** Krell News ***

The following statement has been received:

Lord Goth has left the GTT in order to lead the KRL (30) affiliation. The circumstances surrounding his take over of the Bloody Fist Clan are murky at best. It has been stated by some of the survivors of the purges that "Warlord Goth is more Krell than most Krell".

Warlord Goth sends the following message from an undisclosed location:

"The Krell clan Bloody Fist is now in my control and is the voice of the Krell people. All former vendettas and actions while I was with the GTT are wiped clean as I look to improve the lives of my Krell Children. If you would like to work with us as we venture out into Galactic community, please feel free to contact me. I hope old enemies will be turned to new friends...." contact me at Gothingarn [at] yahoo [dot] com


*** Wanted, Soldiers and Scouts.

I'm looking to buy small quantities of Naplian Scouts and Naplian Soldiers, so if anyone is selling them or maybe rent out the BP's to me, as I don't want that many. Alternatively, would anyone want to go halves on a Naplian Soldier BP from Balmoral? I buy it, do my training, then sell it on?

Jon, QNG



***** From The Posting Boards *****


For those that think they are up to the challenge of understanding it, the formula for calculating shield depth is here:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=398&hl=

And because it amuses me, here is the equation from David Bethel:

"Shield Depth=((Shield factors / (Surface Area*Shield Mod))^(0.5))*Shield Mod

if Shield Depth>Shield factors -> Shield Depth=Shield factors

Shield Mod = 50 for most ships there are some items that can change it and its net
effect is to make the shield depth tend towards it.

Surface area=8.0*((0.2 * Hulls + 0.8 * Cargo Space of Hulls)^0.666)

It that does not correlate I'll have another look - I'm just paraphrasing from the code. And this is only for ships."


Erratic battle report print out generation:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=973&hl=


Thread for nice to have suggestions for new orders:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1015&hl=


Officers information:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1012&hl=

"Officers

* Officers are no longer unique items in the game and carry all their individual information on their positions. They have no item number but can be transferred via the new pickup/deliver orders using the position based identifier.
Officers are displayed as
Officers Name (#1)
and you can use #1 (not 1) to refer to them in pickup/delivers. However the #id of the officer will change when they are transferred to another position, so it is not as final as transactions with normal items.
* Officers will lose their current experience and have it replaced with training points equal to their experience % that can be spend with a training complex visit (existing officers can do this order anywhere + its free).
* Training points are gained via civilian and naval activities. Each time any skills is raised by 1 lvl the training point to raise any skill in that category increase. Max skill lvl is 4.
* Skill point progression is 1/2/4/8/8/8......
So lvl 3 Navigation + Lvl 2 Leadership costs ([1+2+4]+[8+8])
* Training points are gained for combat and time spent on active starships
* The 'Train Officer' order allows experience points to be spent at starbase training complexes to train your officers. The cost is [500/1000/2000/4000] stellars for each lvl of training (10% goes to starbase owner).

Officer Experience
Combat Experience per battle is:

* Took damage: 1pt
* Took damage > 25dmg/surface area: 1pt
* Did damage: 1pt
* Did damage > 25dmg/surface area: 1pt
* Destroyed an enemy: 1pt

Civilian Experience is sometimes earnt during the cause of a turn (I am not being more specific).
Exp per officer = combat/Civilian Exp / (number officers) ^(1/2);
Exp is only gain on ships but works on other positions. Officer can spend skill points in civilian or naval.

Officer Naval Skills

* Dodge [+.5g dodge/lvl] (Ships only)
* Accuracy [+.5 acc/lvl]
* Fleeing [+.5g dodge when fleeing]
* Leadership [+5% crew factors per lvl]
* Sensors [+5% sensor power]
* Stealth [-5% Visible Surface Area/lvl] (Ships only)

Officer Civilian Skills

* Exploration [Flagged to GM]
* Trade [-1 Tus Transactions/lvl]
* Prospecting [-5% Tus/lvl]
* GPI [+25% GPI Sensor factors/lvl]
* Navigation [+5% man speed per lvl]
* Jumping [-5% Jump time per lvl]"



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

*** Conflict In Acropolis ***

The battle between the Consortium and Flagritz Empire ended in dramatic fashion this week, as the beleaguered Starbase seems to have succumbed to a vast explosion rather than accepting the FCN invitation to unconditionally surrender.

After an entire week of pounding from orbit, which saw the size of the FLZ base being steadily and dramatically reduced, the end came when a barrage of missile fire from the SMS warship Orca appears to have set off a stockpile of weapons, and early reports seem to indicate that the entire facility was vaporised, along with almost all of the defenders. Early reports of the blast seem to further indicate that it may have been a nuclear incident.

It is too early to say if this was a terrible accident, or a deliberate act of scorched earth sabotage.

However, the SMS have announced that the planet is now clear of all FLZ presence, and it is assumed that the conflict in Acropolis is now at an end.

What the future holds for the 32,000 strong civilian population, is however another matter, and we await now the first eye-witness reports from the planet surface, where the full extent of the destruction will become clear.

***Galactic Crest Securities(10)***

Press release

Earlier this week three GCS squadrons along with elements of both the GTT and IMP battlefleets entered orbit over a rebel, cnf base, which they had the cheek to establish within GCS territory.

It was a joy to behold as half the covering cnf fleet fled without firing a shot, and scurried into the imaginary protection of their own base. Leaving behind their comrades in arms to show that at least they knew how to die as over half the remaining fleet was reduced to derbis.

It appears that the cnf internal security convinced some of the cnf cowards that they had a better chance of survival by entering the combat on the second day, rather than cowering in their boltholes in the base. But there again maybe it was the massive amount of damage the base itself sustained that done the convincing. Either way a dozen rebel ships joined the battle in a vain effort to replace those already lost.

They staggered into orbit just in time to witness their final line of defence, their platform explode.

After two days of relentless bombardment our armada withdrew, leaving a smoking ruin of a rebel base, a wrecked platform and smashed rebel ships. Even the ships the rebels had abandoned in the starport, when their crews fled were dented.

The rebels should regard that as a warning and pack their bags and get out of GCS territory while they still can.

Ivan K. Grigorovitch
Officer commanding
Cappellan periphery

*** Krell Clan Rat Under Pressure ***

Conflict has continued against the KRT, with yet more KRT facilities and vessels falling to the Krell. The internecine Krell conflict appears to have spread however, with reports that SMS and FCN warships have joined in as part of a joint task force that levelled the KRT headquarters Krell Citadel on Warlords Seat. Many sources are commenting that the Storm system has become a free-fire zone for engaging KRT assets, as there is no clear indication of why the SMS have become involved.

The engagement of KRL assets against the KRT seems to be in direct contradiction of the new leader of the KRL, who was quoted recently as saying: "All former vendettas and actions while I was with the GTT are wiped clean as I look to improve the lives of my Krell Children."

We at the IGN have to thank the KRT authorities for allowing IGN reporters to have front-line access to all breaking news at it happens. Despite the fact that we have had to start paying said reporters significantly more danger money, as more and more firepower is levelled against beleaguered KRT forces.


*** KRT Vessel destroyed ***

An unarmed KRT coaster class freighter has been intercepted and destroyed by FCN marauders in the Storm system. There are no reported survivors.


*** Raiders In Solo ***

A Falconian freighter, the HFT Sunshine, was destroyed by a DNA ambush class cruiser in Solo this week, in violation of the systems neutrality.

With the neutrality of the Solo system already stretched past breaking point following the repeated Dominion attacks against DTR assets, and the continued DOM occupation of said assets, it remains to be seen how the AFT will respond to this event.


*** KST In Action ***

Reports have reached the newsroom that on 206.13.5 a GTT Torpedo boat attacked a KST freighter in the quad/orbital of Kastor. The freighter made a clean escape and the torpedo boat was hammered into very tiny bits by a strong KST patrol group.

Following this engagement a GTT strike fleet of 13 vessels moved to the battle location, where they engaged the KST patrol group. Reports indicate that both sides took roughly similar damage, with the GTT losing another Wren class torpedo boat, before the GTT fleet withdrew.

The KST authorities are announcing that they have successfully repulsed a massed strike and there have been scenes of jubilation amongst civilian populations that the KST appear to be regaining control of the Kastor system against the GTT incursors.


*** Imperial Announcement ***

FROM: Patrol Commissioner

PRESS RELEASE

Update on the recapture of the Pollux System off the DTR

The IMP are delighted to announce that the system of Pollux has been handed over in a victory celebration to the GCS as indicated in our last broadcast.

The remaining DTR positions on the asteroid have now been captured or completely destroyed and the control of the system is now felt to be as safe as can be expected at these early stages.

No further Imperial troops have died since the last broadcast in the bombardments, as the offensive capability of the DTR positions were nullified.

It is felt and hoped that the DTR and its allies realise that these systems captured by their forces, do not want to be under control of the aggressors, and that they wont return to the Pollux system as the peoples of the planets do now want them there.

Further updates will be broadcast on the development of any actions regarding the Pollux system.


*** Detinus Scouting Operations ***

Reports have been buzzing in across the wires of multiple air raid warnings over imperial facilities in four or five separate systems, as DTR scout ships have apparently been very active, with several having been reportedly destroyed by ground based weapons fire.

This has lead to increased speculation that the long-quiet DTR Stellar Armada might be moving into action at last.


*** News Flash ***

An IGN reporter on the ground near the ruins of Fessin Did-Achi alongside an SMS investigative team, has just confirmed that the explosion that destroyed the FLZ starbase was non-nuclear in origin.

Many deep breaths of relief have been heard throughout the Peripheries.


*** News Flash ***

Imperial naval forces are once again in action, this time against a Confederate base in the Trinity system, as the IMP continue their offensive in the Pollux/Trinity corridor.

However, the attack seems to have gone badly for them, as Imperial fire control computers suffered a Barn Door glitch, and after a very brief battle the Imperial forces withdrew at speed for no immediately apparent reason.

Confederate strategic analysts are understood to be scratching their heads.


*** News Flash ***

RIP vessel falls to Pirate ship Jolly Roger.


*** Imperial Outpost Applications ***

Contain yourselves.

Applications have been received to exploit the follow codes in the Madonna
system. Anyone already exploiting these codes should inform the Viceregal
Administration by Day 5 Week 14, indicating the celestial body on which they
are being exploited.

17379, 89732, 77896, 29223, 49775, 87001, 86581, 16190.


An application has been received to exploit code 91361 in the Capellan
system. Anyone already exploiting this code should advise the Imperial
Administration by day 5 week 14, including the celestial body on which it is
being exploited.


*** Pirate Large ***

Despite his lack of communications, Pirate Large is still very active, as in the last week he has taken a FET 100 light huller, a 40 normal hulled IND, the previously reported DTR freighter, and a HLQ 75 light huller.


*** Travel Advisory ***

FCN Vjun has destroyed another Independent vessel, the IND Kelly Bundy. All IND captains are cautioned to avoid FCN starbases unless they are certain approach will be safe.


*** Ships For Sale ***

The FET have announced a number of Pioneers have become available for sale to the general public at the price of 60,000 stellars.

Interested buyers should contact Kasumi Shinzawai sooner rather than later, as demand is very high indeed.


*** And Finally ***

The following item has been brought to our attention by Warlord Bridge of the QNG.

The Outpost 'Enigma' on Inversion was originally FGZ, then given to the KRL. It was then transferred to the KRT, whereupon it was invaded by the GTT, then handed over to the FCN, returned to the KRT before it was transferred to the QNG.

It is our opinion here at the IGN Newsrooms that this is something of a record.


***** Rumours *****

(Being an occasional collection of scurrilous rumours, half truths, strange and whispered tales from around the Peripheries. If you have a rumour you'd like to have included in the SSS, please contact The Editor.)


*** Missing ***

A vessel is said to have vanished in the Madonna system, disappearing from orbit with no warning or indication that something might have been wrong. Communications simply cut off, as the void claimed it.

*** Unidentified Flying Objects ***

Inhabitants of DTR system worlds are reporting many sightings of strange lights in the sky. The DTR ministry of defence has denied any involvement. Stories of abductions are spreading throughout isolated regions, with one popular satirical Detinus magazine claiming that Michelle Diaz has been taken over by an alien pod person.

*** Ship Of The Dead ***

A remote asteroid mining base has been said to have fallen to the pirate vessel Certain Death, the crew of the undead were recruiting, and the bodies of the fallen miners were carried onboard the black and rotting pirate ship, never to be seen again.

*** Renaming ***

The outpost Enigma has apparently been renamed by popular consensus to 'Bombsite'.

*** FET Freighters ***

Rumours are circulating that the FET Pioneers offered for sale recently are actually scale model replicas of Pioneers, that cost $3 to knock up in a FET sweatshop, only to be sold for an impressive $59,997 profit. It is hard to say for sure, but this does seem like exactly the sort of thing the FET would do.

*** Article ***

The following clipping has been run in several publications throughout the Peripheries, it's authenticity and true origin is unknown:

Pg. 37 - Lost and Found.

I appear to have mislaid 2500+ hulls of platform and shipping. Almost 2 million mass units of outpost and starbase and at least 15k+ troops. Last seen next to a Consortium training fleet. If found please return to:

c/o Flagritz Empire - Party of Strategic Planning.



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Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

***KJC Update***
Easter Bank Holidays
As per the usual arrangement, there will be no processing on Friday and Monday. There will be a double processing day on Thursday 13th and Tuesday 18th April.

Happy Easter to all our players.

***** Inter-Galactic News *****
*** Doubt Cast On GCS Victory Claims ***

Following last weeks story regarding the GCS victory against a Confederate installation in Trinity, further details have been released to the press from an anonymous source, rumoured to be somewhere in the system:

"The GTT supported by their allies the GCS and Imperials launched a major 160 capitol ship attack on the Confederate/DTR installation previously Imperial in Trinity on stardate 206.14.2. Both sides have taken heavy losses to hulls and life from the GTT attack (The GTT and allies lost 1200 heavy and 660 normal hulls whilst the CNF have lost 1587 heavy hulls as of 3rd day fighting). Whilst the Confederate platform has been lost to overwhelming forces the starbase remains intact and functioning at optimal efficiency which is why the GTT and allies have had to pull out of orbit or face defeat, leaving 2 GTT and 1 GCS stragglers which were picked off at confederate leisure. The starbase and supporting ships have so far defended against the onslaught with no backup intervention from colleagues."

A further report concerning the action has come from the Imperial news agencies, who have been carrying the following press release from IMP central command:

An allied fleet led by the GCS attacked a CNF fleet parked in the orbit of Proton in the Trinity System this week. Over a two day battle a number of ships on both sides were destroyed and others damaged. The allies did not attain their primary objective of destroying all the CNF ships, mainly because a number were in the Starbase starport on the first day and so several allied Battle Groups were deprived of their targets. Almost all the allied losses and damage was delivered by the starbase, as had been expected. It is assumed that CNF ships are considerably larger than barn doors as one ten ship IMP Battle Group destroyed two 100 heavy hulled ships on the first day of battle. The starbase was attacked by two rail gun ships which reduced its size by 5.5% and not the 8-10% previously reported. Other ships engaging the starbase due to battle computers being erroneously set did little or no damage because of the high level of point defence.


*** Detinus Republic On The Offensive ***

After many months of mysterious silence, the DTR Stellar Armada has swung into action against Imperial-Bloc targets in the Trinity system, and throughout the Capellan system.

At time of press Detinus Nebulons appear to be in absolute control of all Capellan space outside of planetary orbits.

Initial casualty figures indicate that upwards of 25 imperial and Dominion vessels, mostly freighters and gunboats, have been destroyed, along with an IMP platform, and two Imperial outposts on Quellon.

There have been no Detinus casualties.

A small Confederate Task Force is rumoured to be operating alongside the DTR navies.

After four days of rampaging through the Capellan system, it does not appear as if the Imperial Navies are keen to bring the main DTR fleet to battle.


*** Bloodbath On Storm ***

This week has seen what may well be the last action in the short and violent history of the Krell Clan Black Rat. A huge contingent of the KRT, largely composed of civilian Militia, calling themselves the Krell Home Army, threw themselves at the Falconian Starbase, Vjun, where they were cut to shreds by a vast assembly of firepower, including nearly 5000 robotic defence bunkers, and significant orbital bombardment from nearby KRL and FCN warships.

The KRT fought bravely, and first hand reports of the battle indicate that even those civilian militia who were armed with nothing more than agricultural implements, threw themselves into the face of massed Falconian volleys.

The heavily fortified base Vjun is reporting very little damage, and it seems as if the installation is a permanent feature of the Krell homeworld.


*** Imperial Marines Capture Outpost ***

Imperial marines have stormed and captured a minor CIA outpost in the Darkfold Periphery, in an action that is certain to be embarrassing for the Confederate-bloc.


*** Cost Revealed ***

The recent Imperial ground assault against DTR installations in the Pollux system has recently been revealed as costing upwards of a quarter of a million stellars, according to an audit released by the IMP Tax Office.


*** Anti-Matter ***

Recent visitors to the planet Capella in the Capellan system have been reporting the presence of super-bright flashes of monumental energy release over the SMS starbase Little Italy. These energy signatures are compatible with the testing of weapons systems based on Anti-Matter, a destructive power that vastly overshadows the capability of nuclear weapons.

Worried observers also question whether or not the IRS damping field of Starbase command complexes would provide any protection against an Anti-Matter bomb.

The presence of this technology surely signifies a new arms race in the makings.


*** DNA Breaking The Law ***

Following last weeks attack against a FCN freighter in Solo, it seems as if the DNA have once again been violating neutrality laws by attacking an SMS Murmansk Class heavy cruiser in Yank.

It is understood that no shots were fired, even though a battle was triggered, indicating that the DNA vessel was carrying active enemy lists.


*** DNA Newsflash ***

Following last weeks destruction of a FCN vessel in Solo, the DNA Naplian News Network have been carrying the following story:

Lily Savage Reporting >

Orders were given to Naplian ship "Pimped up Cruiser" to mark and eliminate a FCN freighter for destruction at any cost. Intelligence identified it carrying a nuclear device presumably for Acropolis. Orders were carried out, to the sound of boom, boom, boom, shake your butt and the FCN ship reportedly exploded rather too easily. The Ambush Cruiser ship avoided sweeping warships as it selected the ghost button in preference to the volume button.

Reports indicated that the Ambush Cruiser had a high ranking officer on board, an indication of the importance of the mission. FCN communications lit up like Xmas tree after the strike, giving no doubt as to the importance of the cargo that had been lost.

Mad Max apparently spoke out in war council this week at the destruction by the Consortium of the KRT bases on Inversion. .. further details are unknown..


*** IND Vessel In Trouble ***

The IND SHIP ENTERPRISE NCC-1702-CL has apparently been impounded by RIP APTF officials for questioning. There has as yet been no word on why.


*** News Flash ***

Pirate Large has been spotted in the Audrey system.



***** From The Posting Boards *****


Waiting for Tus:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1022&hl=


Starbase Ground Forces reporting:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1024&hl=


Changing the name of a squadron:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1020&hl=


Orbital docks and sensor profile:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1021&hl=



***** Message From The Editor *****

The QNG website address has been changed.

- Simon.


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Lausnaff Enterprises - web.telia.com/~u40927438/aft/
Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

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

*** One Of Our Planets Is Missing ***

The lead news story this week concerns a missing planet in the New Sussex system. The following communication has been received from the GTT:

"Map error.

The GTT wish to advise all shipping that the current map of the system New Sussex is wrong, deliberately misleading and downright dangerous.

There is no planet Coombes at sector B6, instead there is a massive asteroid field which should be regarded as a danger to navigation.

As our exploration has shown this asteroid belt is also highly radioactive and it appears that it is possible that someone using a massive advanced nuclear type of device has destroyed the planet.

It is our considered view that someone, probably the CNF who claim New Sussex, has been messing around with anti matter and got it badly wrong.

Although our investigations are still at an early stage we feel we must go public with this as soon as possible, due to its implied threat to mankind.

We invite all interested parties to come to New Sussex and carry out there own investigation into this failed CNF experiment.

Portha Agiadai."

Our reporters have been able to confirm that the planet Coombes has indeed vanished, and been replaced by an asteroid field that has already destroyed two Tempest class freighters.

When approached for comment, the Confederate authorities released the following statement:

"The CNF would like to formally repudiate any accusation or suggestion that it is responsible for the destruction of the planet Coombes in New Sussex. This action has been carried out without the knowledge of or sanction of the legitimate Confederate ruling body. We are currently conducting our own investigation into the matter and events here but it should be noted that GTT shipping was operating in New Sussex in violation of CNF laws and the event transpired only after initial GTT scouts were recently sighted.

The CNF would like it to be known that it views this as an attack on Confederate sovereign territory and will take retaliatory action against the transgressor which befits the crime of deployment of weapons of mass destruction against us.

Furthermore the CNF will remind any tempted parties that any kind of exploration, travel or other action in violation of terms of access agreements in any part of Confederacy space will be responded to accordingly. For the duration of our investigation beta 6 is otherwise off limits to shipping. We will be happy to share any information we gain in due course with the general public and would urge anybody who may know something of this event to come forward and speak to Confederate authorities."

It is understood that the planet Coombes had no native population, and was an airless barren planetoid hanging in space, however we cannot rule out that it played host to a secret weapons facility.

However, a number of sources have suggested that the destruction of Coombes might be entirely unrelated to weapons testing. Though we can at this point divulge no further information.


*** Suicidal Pirates ***

In one of the more bizarre stories we've ever reported, the pirate vessel Marie-on-Line has been destroyed in orbit of an SMS starbase in the Pegasus system.

Speculation is rife considering exactly what the pirate was doing there, the most likely explanation so far has been either a desire to commit suicide, or the belief that they had not been spotted.

Either way, a significant pounding from SMS assets soon sorted them out.


*** Detinus Republic Continue Tour ***

Following a brief cessation of hostilities during a phase of unusual subspace activity that rendered long distance communications impossible, the DTR Steller Armada have continued their rampage through Imperial space, continuing to engage targets with impunity throughout Capella, and on into the Pollux system, where an Imperial platform is understood to have been destroyed, along with several more Imperial-bloc vessels.

Independent analysts are asking just exactly how much longer the Imperial claim on the Pollux system will stand.


*** Pirate Large ***

A communication has been received from Pirate Large here at the IGN offices. It came wrapped in a package containing several bloody log books from the vessels reported lost:

"Ahharrgghhh me hearties...... It be aye..... Pirate Large.....

Well I feels I is letting me victims down a bit by not publicisin me victories. I as been out there trying to nick thee ships, but as asn the time to tell yee all bout it. Anyways a brief run down of my pirate activity over the pas couple o weeks aye

FET 100 huller taken

A FET 100 huller was taken on stardate 206.12.3 after a shorts type o battle aye, it was a dragon name on board an it be 1 of many taken off what mus be 1 merchant arm o the FET. I is keen that this chap be in business as he be givin me is ships at knock down prices aye he be.

IND Ship taken in St Dismas

The IND ship revenge (99971) got a visit from Large him self and lost their ship to me in a few rounds o battle. I always loikes the IND vessels as they usually as differing species on board aye they do, an if differs me [censored] life a bit when I me [censored] [censored] in any available [censored] [censored]. This ship as humans which I as plenty of back ome, but some kastorians got the [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored] [censored] the [censored] aye.

HLQ 75 huller taken in yank

A 75 light hulled ship was unlucky to be parked up in yank with a ful cargo o spy ships on board ready to deliver them to IMP space by the looks of it aye, before I comes along and shoves a blade frew the necks o the crewman on board. We as had some success recently against these poofs in the HLQ and I hopes to do more business wiv em in the near future.

Due to sensor ratios an the fact we ad to dispose of the several small scout ships we ad to chuck em out o the olds quick as it gives away me position.

DTR 150 Xlight huller taken

As reported in the SSS, me boys or should I say luckily for the DTR, me gals visited the Impossible Starlight (11501) in the London system. Wiv thigh boots donned, thongs loaded, and their vibrators ready, the combat starts. The DTR gaves me gals a shock as we usually wear this type o clothin, but the DTR senate wears what they likes, an me gals soon got their slim legs wrapped round some o the crewman, after half an hour of a [censored] they gives up and the big ship be ours. It is understood the gals o the ship as killed all but the cappan in a 2 weeks sex frenzy as the vessel is reported to belong to a senior member o the APTF. Still it could a been worse for em aye, if I had tooks em, they would have had [censored] the size o [censored].

FEL 75 huller taken in Audrey

The FEL ship The Court and Kitchen (95780) was taken on stardate 206.15.2 by me myself again visitin them for a short hack n slash. When I tolds me boys they be getting some pussy, they cleaned their teeth ready for the action, an action is what they gots, they been pickin hairs out o their teeth for a week now, but wive most o the crew of the FEL vessel livin, they got a taste o what us pirates can dish out.

No story this week, as the editor o the SSS as a great challenge in cutting bleeding great chunks out o me mail, so I is trying to gives him an easier life.

i is about to announce ransoms for cappans taken, i as plenty getting a good rogering at the minute, but they be gettin slack an i needs fresh meat. i will offer the cappans names an numbers shortly via the press.

Anyways im sure you will hear more from the glorious adventures of the pirate ship Large (and friends) ahharrggghhhh...."


*** Large Escapes ***

Details of a massed operation to attempt to intercept Large following his capture of the previously reported Detinus Republic freighter the Impossible Starlight have been leaked to the press.

These documents indicate that upwards of fifty Detinus Cruisers and patrol vessels descended on the London system, and ran multiple sweeps of the system that lasted for four days before the dejected captains and crew were recalled.

How pirate Large and his captive ship were able to elude detection remains a mystery.


*** Large Defeated ***

It hasn't all been plain sailing for Large however, as a rare defeat for his band of marauding pirates has been reported . The captain and crew of the CIA freighter Yehonala Tzu-Hsi has fought off a significant force of pirates from the PIR vessel Largish in the Darkfold system.

A compliment of CIA marines provided timely support to the crew of the CIA vessel, and the Pirates were forced back taking heavy casualties as they retreated to their own ship, before making good their escape before Confederate gunships arrived on the scene.


*** Imperial Navy Implicated In Piracy ***

A recent pirate attack has lead to accusations by the CIA that the Imperial-bloc are in league with the dreaded Pirate Large.

A low-profile Imperial St Clair Class sensor ship was spotted vacating the scene of a pirate boarding attempt, leading to the suggestion that the Imperial navy is either directly backing pirate Large, or supplying him with up to date tactical information on ship movements.

This allegation has been strenuously denied by Imperial sources. And indeed it should be noted that the Imperial Stellar Patrol have had a representative on the APTF since that organisation was founded, indicating that the IMP have been very active in hunting for pirates.



*** Imperial Announcement ***

The following press release has been issued:

*

FROM: Patrol Commissioner
Press Release

REF: Pollux system

The DTR, the people whom make us believe that they liberate systems have again entered the Pollux system and started attacking the GCS.

It was stated before and I hope that the DTR them selves realise that the citizens of the Pollux system do not want to be under DTR rule, infact they probably have no desire to be under IMP rule. But GCS rule.

We liberated the system and handed over control back to the owners.

If the DTR do have votes and do "Care" about the citizens and persons in the systems that they seem to be hell bent on attacking, then they must realise that they don't want them there.

I hope the GCS can hold off he aggressors successfully and the DTR realise they are not wanted there.

*

According to a report received by one of our offices, there are conflicting reports from the people of the Pollux system, with some indicating that they do indeed wish to exist under Imperial law, while other reports indicate they seek self-determination.


*** Krell Crisis ***

Following the recent desperate attack against the Falconian base in Storm, a few more details have come to light concerning the details of this desperate and suicidal assault by the Black Rat clan.

The militia defence force are understood to have rallied behind a promise of avenging the Falconian betrayal of the Krell peoples, many leaflets have been recovered carrying the phrase, 'If you would ever have your kin live on a world where you may walk and breath free, here or elsewhere, rally NOW!'

Most the militia were made up of a Krell warband that had recently been disbanded, eager to kill what they call Krell sell-outs that had betrayed the Krell and flocked to the FCN banner.

Wherever the truth of this matter lies, it is clear that a significant proportion of the Krell race consider the FCN presence on their homeworld to be an armed and unwelcome occupation.


*** News Flash ***

The DTR have destroyed the Imperial facility that holds the claim to the Pollux system.


*** News Flash ***

Multiple DTR raiders and scouts have engaged targets throughout Imperial space.


***** Special Report *****

Following last weeks revelations concerning the research into Anti-Matter weapons by the SMS, a number of sources wishing to remain anonymous have contacted the IGN newsrooms with further information regarding Anti-Matter weaponry.

Our sources have indicated that a number of prototype Anti-Matter based warheads have already been test-detonated, including a number of detonations above Starbases.

From the results of the data that our science correspondent has gone over, it seems as if ISR Fields do have a dampening effect on Anti-Matter explosions, just as they do on Nuclear explosions, channelling off the energies into subspace. Thus leading to a significant sense of relief, that we are happy to pass on to civilians throughout the Peripheries. However, we do understand that the effect of the explosion, and the associated energy pulse, would have catastrophic effects on unshielded targets, including civilian population centres.

With these weapons being apparently of very little use against Starbases, we do have to question why research is being done into a weapon system that seems primarily designed for attacking soft targets.

We have also been informed that several more governments and organisations are conducting anti-matter weapons research.


***** Periphery Classifieds *****


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offensively, but most importantly, they can be used to blow up stuff!

Each week we add the following to our market:

*** 10 Assault Tanks (833) *** 5 Patches (45) *** 5 combat Engine
mkIIs(165) *** 10 Thrust Engine mkIIs (161) *** 40 Light Photon Guns (300)
*** 5 Shuttles (803) *** 4 Heavy Battle Tank mkIIs (830) *** 5 Armour
Plates (450) *** 15 Robotic Defence Bunker mkIIs (841) *** 30 Kastorian
Marines (634) *** 10 Light Tanks (821) *** 20 Gatling Lasers (215) *** 10
Ablative Armour Plates (460) *** 25 Space Interceptor mkIIs (243) *** 20
Shield Generators (119) *** 25 Shields (115) *** 3 Fighter Bays (238) ***

NEW!!! Market updated - As of this week we also add the following items:

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stellars!

Queens Haven is interested in buying both regular and unique trade items.
Contact the governor and work out a deal that will benefit you as well as
the starbase.

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--- End of advertisement ---



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DEN - www.dewiek.net
DNA - members.optusnet.com.au/madmaxcc/
DOM - www.pvv.org/~kennetso/dominion
FCN - home.btconnect.com/Howells/fcn.htm
FEL - www.felini.org/
FET - fet.mindmuse.net/
FGZ - flagritz.cjb.net./
IMP - www.chalmore.co.uk/
MOH - www.mohache.com/
QNG - www.qng-28.org/
RIP - www.rip17.com/
SMS - www.stellarmining.co.uk
WMB - wimbles.specht.co.uk/
Lausnaff Enterprises - web.telia.com/~u40927438/aft/
Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

***KJC Update***
Mayday Bank Holiday
Due to the bank holiday, as per usual, there will be no processing on Monday a double run on Tuesday 2nd May.


***** Inter-Galactic Krell News Special *****

*** Shock Resignation ***

Our lead item this week is the stunning news that the head of the GTT, Portha Agiadai, has left that organisation. The following press release has been issued by the GTT department of information:

"The GTT head Portha Agiadai is on his way to the Inner Empire with elements of the GTT battle fleet and ground forces to ease the merge with the GCS. We in the GTT feel this mission will reap great rewards and benefits for both companies, reuniting them after to long apart.

While this can not be done over night Portha Agiadai feels he might be away for a very long time and the GTT will be serve better by a new head. To that effect Ian Jordan as left the COH and will use his experience to guide the GTT through these difficult times. No major changes are planned in GTT policy at this time though there will be some internal reorganising going on.

Anyone with any question about deals treaty etc should contact this office to confirm that it has been passed over."

With new leadership, a new age has dawned throughout the Peripheries, particularly throughout the Imperial-Bloc. And only time will tell where this development leads.


*** Mysterious Transmission ***

The following broadcast has been received from an as yet unconfirmed source:

The vid screen is filled with screens of carnage and devastation. Images are shown one after another, fields of bodies on spikes amidst the ruins of a city. Krell Warbands flocking to the home of the Imperial Dynasty on Inversion. Some responding to the call from the self proclaimed First Warlord of Storm, Mace Death, whilst others are
travelling to tear that crown from his head. Medical facilities and cultivated regions,
recently established by the Falconian administration, are seen to be burning. A few
dedicated fire control teams attempt to maintain the damage as best they can...

####static####

Tanks are seen rolling by their thousands. Bodies and trophies trapped to the fronts of their battering rams. Some of the bodies don't look quite as dead as the others...
Two tanks almost collide over the rough terrain so the Commanders decide to settle things by blasting each other to pieces, the victor rejoins the column and moves on...

####static###

A darkened dome covered in a mixture of Falconian and Krell glyphs drawn in fresh blood. The camera is panned somewhat nervously around the room until it finally rests upon a large Falconian seemingly asleep in its centre... It turns itself slowly to face the camera and with a subtle flick of its feathers the lights in the room raise slightly. The Falconian is in a heavily modified flax, obviously for combat rather than comfort due to the extra maneuvering jets attached to it.

The being holding the camera approaches cautiously and seemingly kneels a few distance units from the Falconian. Seemingly content with the placement of the recording device the Falconian leans forward eyes closed and is finally seen in full light. It is the Once-Emperor of Falconia, Harkon, battle scarred with what seems to be radiation burns across its face. In a slow deliberate movement the creature moves one of its claws into a clear view of the camera, clasped within is what seems to be a med-pack. "My right talon brings life" it finally speaks. With another casual movement it reveals its left claw, dripping with blood "My left talon brings death." The camera is nervously moved back slightly. The Falconian opens its eyes, the glow a baleful red in the artificial light of the room "My eyes bring vengeance."

####transmission terminated####


*** War Breaks Out On Inversion ***

Tensions on the surface of Inversion between the FCN and KRL have finally boiled over. It began last week with the following transmission from the Bunker of Warlord Goth, Bloody Fist Tribe (KRL):

"For far too long the Krell have been slaves to the Falconian Empire. The Bird-men claim to be there at the invitation of the Krell but this is not true. We will no longer stand for the insult of their occupation of our homeworld... They must leave now....

This terse announcement was followed by a massed assault as the KRL attacked a FCN outpost and platform using 100HH and 50HH warships, along with their starbase, Ground Zero.

Heavy damage was inflicted upon the outpost and platform, along with reportedly moderate damage to Ground Zero itself. In the meantime, large numbers of Krell troops, both regulars and civilian militia, have been mobilising, in what can only be assumed to be a repeat of the doomed KRT assaults against FCN positions of recent weeks.

The following day several squadrons of SMS heavy cruisers, along with FEL and FCN warships turned up and commenced a blockade of Inversion, with the intention of preventing the conflict from spreading. The SMS stated that they would not fire on the Krell or their homeworld, but would defend their allies within the system.

An IGN reporter stationed with the SMS Heavy Cruiser contingent can confirm that this was indeed the case, and the SMS had no intention of entering orbit to commence bombardment of Krell positions.

However, a number of Krell vessels came out to engage them, in a singularly one-sided encounter that saw impossibly brave Krell warship crews engaging a vastly superior force. Initial reports indicate that upwards of a dozen Krell vessels were destroyed, and more may have been destroyed as they attempted to withdraw.

An initial assessment of the naval engagement by the SMS Admiralty suggests that the Krell navy has more or less ceased to exist as a viable force, and that the rest of this conflict will be fought out on the surface of Inversion, with the Falconians holding the strategically critical orbit of the world.

22 SMS crew are understood to have been killed in the battle.

Accurate reports from Inversion are at this point hard to come by, but it is understood that conflict is continuing as we go to press.


*** Warlord Goth Issues Statement ***

From the Bunker of Warlord Goth, Bloody Fist Tribe (KRL):

"Most beings of the peripheries know or care little about the Krell. This is understandable because they do not have the power to even control their own homeworld. We will not try to convince anyone that we are a noble race, we are primitive by most standards.

There is a horrible reality that has gone hidden for many years. The Falconians have taken over our world and run it by their own whim. They gather what little population there is into "camps" by their base and force the population to buy everything from them. They allow no contact between these concentration camps and the "feral" Krell population outside the ghettos.

We have told the Falconians that we no longer need their "protection" and were threatened with genocide.

As of today, The Krell have decided to fight. We would rather die fighting than live as slaves. We will wait to see if the Falconians can handle the tiny Krell slaves by themselves or if they do indeed need the SMS to once again do their fighting for them. Whatever the case, we will fight to the death and hurt the Falconians and anyone who supports them in any way possible.

We have invited the SSS reporters in to witness the genocide of the Krell race...."

Our reporters are en-route to the Storm system as we go to press. And the Falconian Emperor, Harkon, has refuted most, if not all, of the Warlords claims, as well as issuing a chilling retort that "of course you wont be around long enough to see that now. I have instructed the Grim Reaper clan and their Warlord Mace Death that they now have free reign in the response to this attack... This wont be for the squeamish."


*** Detinus Warfleet Moves On ***

The depredations carried out by the DTR Stellar Armada over the previous two weeks appears to have come to an end, with their guns falling silent and their warships disappearing once again into the dark.

The Imperial news wire is carrying the following story:

"The blockade of several major allied installations in the Capellan system was lifted as the DTR Fleet and CNF flotilla moved on. They attacked and destroyed a GCS platform and wiped out the tattered remains of their old outpost in Pollux. Elements of the IMP Ground Party that destroyed the outpost were destroyed before their withdrawal could be completed but the bulk of the IMP Ground Forces has already been withdrawn."

Relating to this, the IMP news wires have also released a story regarding the DTRs stay in Capella:

"Having arrived too late to bail out their CNF Running Dogs in Trinity a very large DTR fleet with a small CNF flotilla in attendance have spread themselves out in groups of 130 plus ships around the Capellan System, blockading the planets with major Allied installations and destroying a small IMP observation platform in the process. Three heavily damaged warships returning from Trinity for repairs stumbled over them on the first day and were destroyed along with some passing freighters. Since then some more freighters have been attacked, one dumped cargo and escaped, others, including a Space Liner on a mission to transport hundreds of civilian employees between starbases, were destroyed."

An anonymous Detinus source has stated that it is deeply unfortunate that a civilian transport was hit, but that the warship captain involved in the engagement understood the freighter to be carrying marines, on a boarding operation.


*** Imperial Victories ***

The IMP raiding Fleet that has seen such great successes throughout the Darkfold Periphery has been in action again this week. Several CIA warships and a CNF freighter have been destroyed in several small skirmishes. With the Confederacy apparently having no reply.


*** COH News ***

With the departure of Ian Jordan, we understand that the COH have reverted to HVE, and a new leader has come to the fore.


*** Imperial Outpost Application ***

An application has been received to exploit code 61341 in the Audrey system. Anyone already exploiting this code in Audrey should inform the Viceregal Administration by day 5 week 17, indicating the celestial body on which it is being exploited.

An application has been received to exploit code 32384 in the Audrey system.
Anyone already exploiting this code in Audrey should inform the Viceregal
Administration by day 5 week 17, indicating the celestial body on which it
is being exploited.


*** Reporting Error ***

Last week we reported that the Imperial outpost holding the system claim to the Pollux system had been destroyed by the DTR. This was not in fact the case, and we apologise for providing incorrect information.

At time of writing, the Pollux system remains in Imperial hands.


*** The Krell Crisis ***

The continuing crisis on Inversion has won the attention of several independent journalists. We are happy to provide the thoughts and perspectives of Mr Steven Rhodes, an entirely independent journalist operating outwith the IGN:

"The following is an opinion based on the reports reviewed here on this forum. There are some serious questions being asked by both sides. And appearances to the rest of us may not be the way things really are.

1. Apparently there is a disagreement on who is protecting the interests of the beings of storm.
2. The FCN are trying to protect these people within this system. They do this by making war against the Krell.
3. The Krell claim they are the ones trying to protect the people.
4. The results being, so far, that the real ones suffering are the People of the system.
5. The SMS and FEL. When they allied with the FCN did they intend to be fighting a war against someone skilled in tactics and guerrilla warfare? One who was willing to sacrifice anything and everything for his cause?
6. Like him or not, the bloody gothic fist is making fools out of the FCN right now.
7. Yet, in their behalf, what are they to do? They could join with the SMS and FEL and wipe Goth out in three days battle if they wanted. But at what cost? The very lives they're trying to protect.
8. The SMS and FEL are unfairly being involved in this, but I'm not sure that the FCN is to blame for that.
9. Goth can be defeated, but again, at what cost? The FCN could back out in the interests of humanity, but then, if they are right in their claims, that would be leaving Storm open to Tyranny. If Goth backed out he would feel that we were branding him a coward, and that the beings (victims?) of Storm would be taken into slavery. Again, the beings of storm are the ones who suffer.

It is this reporters opinion that this war, like most other wars are stupid. The problem in this one though is that there very likely may be a good guy and a bad guy, but no one knows which group that is, yet.


*** Special Report - Krell History Lesson ***

Courtesy of Admiral Michael Bridge the Warlord of Krell Clan Nemesis who has now joined the QNG, we are able to provide his perspective on the history of the current Krell crisis:

"A History lesson, for those who were not present at the time. A few years ago, the DNA and FCN both had colonies on Inversion, and no independent KRL affiliation existed. Both affiliations claimed to work in the best interests of the Krell race, and neither trusted the other. I, as a member of the DNA, spent some time and effort keeping the peace between Mad Max and Emperor Harkon. Max also suggested a planet-wide vote to see who should rule, and went as far to research Voting Booths, for distribution over the planet. (To be sure, voting would be more complicated than with other species. The Krell are not democratic by nature, being split into autonomous clans independent of all other, with no single unifying authority.)

Nobody else, it seemed, was interested in the concept. As DNA:FCN relations were becoming increasingly tense, and I was growing increasedly concerned that war would break out on Inversion, over which affiliation truly acted in the Krells interests, I chose to leave the DNA, and refund the KRL, so I could support the Krell wholeheartedly, without any conflict of interests. I freely admit that I did not lead the Krell the way they expected. I rebuilt the society, gave the Krell their longest uninterrupted period of peace in their history, and researched ways to terraform their homeworld back to it's pre-apocalyptic state. I had hoped after I left with my adoptive clan, that they would have learnt the benefits of peacefully rebuilding, but I am not the first to underestimate Krell ferocity.

I am afraid I cannot take sides in this. I understand Clan Bloody Fist's desire to be in charge of their own planet - it is completely in keeping with Krell psychology. However, I also understand the time and effort the Falconian Empire has invested in Inversion, including a lot of restoration and relief work, and they also have a warrior ethos. I still have the terraforming information, which I have freely given, and will continue to give to any interested party on Inversion. I also still have 1000 MU's of Voting Booth, if anyone still wants to try that. I would only ask Warlord Goth and Emperor Harkon to please try and resolve their differences peacefully, one last time."


*** Krell Referendum ***

The issue of holding a referendum amongst the Krell people as suggested, originally by the Ex Krell leader Michael Bridge, has found favour amongst many governments who struggle to understand where the truth lies in the morass of claims and counter-claims surrounding the conflict on Inversion.

Warlord Goth, current leader of the free Krell, has publicly announced that he would be prepared to adhere to the results of a referendum amongst the Krell people, regarding who they wish to control their homeworld, the Falconian Empire, or the Krell. However, both the Falconian Empire and the Felini have declared that such a referendum is impossible and unwelcome, and that they have no intention of holding one.


*** Rich Spoilt Teenaged Girls ***

The following transmission has been received from the Naplian News Network:

Mad Max Speaks out on the Krell issue

a.. The DNA War council have indisputable evidence of the Falconians attacking the Krell in Yank. FCN ships in Yank can expect retaliation for their strikes against the Krell in Yank.

b.. The Falconian's are perpetrating genocide and slavery against the Krell and the civilians in Storm as well.

c.. Least we forget the Krell. The DNA have not.

d.. Any affiliation identified trading weapons with the FCNs has blood on their hands, and one a day a spear through their chest. Every FCN trade and freighter is being watched any carrying weapons will be attacked. If you trade military items with the FCN's you can expect appropriate retaliation on your home soil.

e.. To prevent the spread of WoMDs and to support the on-going military trade embargo against the FCN's - Please send any daily detailed scans of Falconian ships anywhere with last known location to madmax [at] optusnet.com.au

f.. In other breaking news - A number of DNA ships entered Felini Controlled Leonis un-harmed this week to capture significant information on a Felini starbase. One Naplian life was lost to bring this information.

g.. Finally Mad Max calls the SMS immoral for whining like rich spoilt teenage girls about a DNA warship giving an SMS warship the bird in Yank, carrying active lists for at least a nano second. The SMS turn a convenient blind eye as their FCN allies commit evil atrocities in Yank and Storm every second, of every hour of every day, with their immoral blessing. The SMS should be thankful the DNA is not targeting them just yet.

Mad Max DNA Immortal Chief.


*** News Flash ***

A breaking story indicates that a major power may have been implicated in the atrocities of Pirate Large. More details as we receive them.


***** Special Report *****

Lord Lawrence Scrimm the CIA Intelligence Director this week delivered a rare lecture in the heart of the Confederacy regarding the ongoing Krell Situation. We at the IGN are happy to be able to scam it off the airwaves and reprint it here without paying any royalties whatsoever.


Subject: The Krell Situation - an outsiders perspective

Much of what has been occurring on Inversion is of little consequence to me, so I have not been following the situation as closely as I would like. That being said, there are some interesting historical similarities that present themselves.

1) The Krell were a warlike, pre-spaceflight race, balkanized into clans striving for control of Inversion.

2) Aliens came to Inversion claiming to aid and uplift them to civilized status within the peripheries (whether they wanted it or not). This resulted in the Krell attaining spaceflight.

3) When the Krell sought their own 'homerule' the aliens that came to Inversion to uplift the Krell were unwilling to let them do so, for their own good apparently. As a result, War breaks out. The technologically advanced aliens and their allies outnumber and outgun the Krell, forcing the Krell to adopt 'non-conventional' tactics.

I realize that this observation is highly paraphrased, yet I hope that it serves to illustrate that the FEL and KRL have more in common than either side would like to admit. I sincerely hope that history will not repeat itself in this instance...

There will be those that will grasp upon what I say for political gain and propaganda purposes to further their own agendas - that is not the purpose or intent of my observation. My intent is to illustrate the commonality of the situation so that the warring factions of Inversion can be brought together at the negotiating table to work out a solution that, if not amenable, is at least fair to all involved parties.



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*** Market Error ***

The Brood Master has got his finger / feathers / whatever twisted again... He does not use these forums but asked for the following message to be passed on:



I would like to request that no-one tries to sell Red Beak Feathers (30403) to Fessin Rahm (664). There should have been a market requirement for a quantity of 5000 at $9 stellars a piece, not the current market requirement for a quantity of 9 at $5000 a piece! This shall be sorted ASAP.




*** VSQ ***

Would a representative of the VSQ kindly contact Senator Jerusalem via the Editor contact address listed below, on a matter of extreme urgency.



***** Message From The Editor *****

Hi,

There was an absolute ton of news this week. I think I've probably not managed to cover anything, but, apologies in advance if I've gotten anything totally wrong.

-tSimon.


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Supace Static Continued....

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Tuesday 25th
Week 17
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>TU 156: Special Action {...} {...}
Action:
The Captain and crew of the Political Advisor will map the nuclear strike locations on Brighton in an effort to determine precisely how many WoMD were utilized, of what general type and approximately how long ago the deed was performed. The ship will also perform corona scans of the Gas Giant in an effort to determine if there is a danger to planetary populations located on the moons surrounding the Gas Giant.
Result:
Investigation/New Sussex/Brighton/Level of Attack From scans of the upper atmosphere of the giant, the team suspect that the level of attack must have been in the region of 500 nuclear weapons. Without an ISR field, this damage would have been around the 50 Million mark. While devastating enough the team suspects that there must have been some other trigger mechanism that caused the atmosphere to boil out smashing Coombes. The team note that meteorites are still raining down on the moons although these are now relatively small and burn up in the atmosphere - the danger has now passed. They are however, likely to prove a navigation hazard
for some time to come as the larger rocks break down to smaller rocks.

>TU 156: Special Action {...} {...}
Action:
The ship will direct it's sensors at the HVE Emperors Scimiter (31619) - specifically the hull housings - scanning for radiation exposure and meteoric impacts that would be consistent with the nuclear detonations that occurred on Brighton in New Sussex and also to take a radiological 'fingerprint' of the craft that would place it at the location should it indeed be the culprit.
Result:
Special Action/HVE Emperor Scimitar (31619)/Damage from Asteroids The ship is looking fairly battered. This is consistent with moving through an asteroid field although there is very little residual radiation. By the same token however it is likely that after launch the ship would have moved to the far side of the planet's orbit and was probably saved by the body of the planet from exposure. The ship is certainly looking suspicious.

>TU 156: Special Action {...} {...}
Action:
With Hive permission, board the HVE Ship Emperors Scimiter (31619). Investigate the 123 WoMD Launchers (2050) to confirm that they have been recently used and what type of weapon was launched.
Result:
Special Action/HVE Emperor Scimitar (31619)/WoMD Launchers The inspection of the ship reveals a large gap that presumably once housed a number of launchers. These could have been standard launchers although detailed scans previously indicate that they had been rigged to fire WoMD consistent with ones that were fired into Brighton. There is residual radiation, only detectable at close quarters also consistent with the storing of nuclear weapons. It is not looking too good for the innocence of the crew.

>TU 156: Special Action {...} {...}
Action:
Conduct a search of the ships data banks to discover where the WoMD were picked up from.
Result:
Special Action/HVE Emperor Scimitar (31619)/WoMD Launchers From the records the ship never picked up any items although it did accept a delivery of various 'goods' some for installation. These were from an unidentified COH ship. The mass is consistent with a lot of launchers and nukes.

IC Letter from the GTT
This is an announcement from the GTT department of information.

The GTT head Portha Agiadai is on his way to the Inner Empire with elements of the GTT battle fleet and ground forces to ease the merge with the GCS.

We in the GTT feel this mission will reap great rewards and benefits for both companies, reuniting them after to long apart.

While this can not be done over night Portha Agiadai feels he might be away for a very long time and the GTT will be serve better by a new head. To that effect Ian Jordan as left the COH and will use his experience to guide the GTT through these difficult times. No major changes are planned in GTT policy at this time though there will be some internal reorganising going on.

Anyone with any question about deals treaty etc should contact this office to confirm that it has been passed over.

Yours. Ian Jordan


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Wednesday 26th
Week 17
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Letter from the HVE Leadership (formerly COH)

Greetings, your Excellency

At first we did not believe the allegations brought against us by your holiness and the free people of the Confederacy.

But after studying the data you sent us in detail, we found more than a few inconsistencies. For one, the ship in question was not supposed to be in this region of space.

After we retrieved the flight recorder and decrypted the mission orders, it became clear that the ship had received its orders directly from the Emperors office; it was to rendezvous with another unidentified vessel in a region of space near New Sussex.

Unfortunately the recordings weren't complete as the device had been severely damaged by asteroids.

Due to the seriousness of the situation I have had an audience with the Emperor to discuss the matter in detail. It seems that while the mission carries the seal of the Emperor, the Emperor had no prior knowledge of any such mission. The Emperor therefore immediate dispatched the royal elite drones to arrest the few trusted officers who had access to the command centre the day in question.

Everyone was accounted for, except for one officer; the Emperors personal adviser Ian Jordan, a former employee of the Galactic Transport & Trade. Ian Jordan was assigned as personal adviser 6 months ago, as he had proven to be a talented negotiator for the Children of Hexos. He was therefore hired to further human and hive relation.

Unfortunately we have not been unable apprehend Ian Jordan as he has fled our colony. Rumour has it that he has returned to the GTT and has been assigned a top position within their ranks.

Although we can not prove that Ian Jordan was directly involved in this tragedy, everything points in that direction. Why else would he flee? Why did he get a high ranking position with the GTT immediately after? The hive does not know how to produce nuclear weapons, the GTT does. He is the only person not accounted for the day the mission was carried out.

It is our belief that Ian Jordan acted on the behalf of GTT, and that his position as 'adviser' for the Emperor was a cover. It seems that the GTT wanted to execute a dubious plan to nuke the moon of Coombs and then blame it on the hive.

What we don't understand however, is why? Why was it so important for the GTT to destroy that moon? As far as our records show, the moon was an inhospitable and barren world with no obvious value. Why would they go to such extraordinary lengths to destroy it?

We regret this incident every occurred. But let it be known, the hive denies any responsibility for the destruction of Coombs. The drones onboard the Emperors Scimiter are not to blame, they simply carried out orders as they are suppose to - no questions asked.

It is our hope that we can solve this crisis in a peacefully manner, and that the free people of the Confederacy and the children of the True One can see that the hive has been set up.

The hive awaits your response...

Yours sincerely, Teuciidae Xaerr
Hive Swarm Lord


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Thursday 27th
Week 17
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>TU 156: Special Action {...} {...}
Action:
The Sidelong Glance will use all available sensors to scan the location surrounding the HVE Ship Emperors Scimiter (31619) and correlate with last known trajectories to attempt to locate the 123 WoMD launchers in deep space (based upon the assumption that they were jettisoned from the ship)
Result:
Special Action/HVE Emperor Scimitar (31619)/WoMD Launchers The sensors reveal chunks of metal and various ices that may have been hydraulic fluids in the region of space near the ship. These could well be the remains of WoMD launchers. Presuming that the WoMD were jettisoned, they were removed in the standard hack and dump manner so as to preserve the integrity of the ship. Also when jettisoning something, it tends to swiftly drop of sensors due to being very small and rapidly moving away from the ship due to lack of friction and gravity. There is certainly nothing to salvage - just a lot of circumstantial evidence.

>TU 156: Special Action {...} {...}
Action:
The Political Advisor will investigate what other possible trigger mechanism could have caused the Gas Giants upper atmosphere to boil off and destroy the moon Coombes. This will be cross-indexed with information coming from the CNF and BHD wrt the location of the TCA Nymph growing within Brighton. The COH have already indicated that they destroyed the Nymph, the purpose of this investigation is to determine if the use of Nuclear Weapons was the method by which said destruction occurred and if there were unforeseen consequences of said action resulting in the loss of Coombes, or whether a prudent individual would be able to infer that large scale destruction would be the result.
Result:
Investigation/Brighton/Method of Destruction
It is clear from the residual radiation that a concentrated blast of hundreds of nuclear strikes aimed at a specific location succeeded in causing a cascade reaction that ripped through the atmosphere causing the outer envelope to boil into space. The icy moon Coombes was unfortunately directly above the plume and melted before being scattered by the surging tidal gravitational forces and internal jets caused by boiling gases. It could however be argued that the timing was specific... The team suspect that the presence of the TCA cr�che may well have proved part of the trigger mechanism behind the cascade.



The GTT and Ian Jordan have strenuously denied their involvement in this matter. The Inter-Galactic News have set up a poll where you can cast your vote regarding this matter, proceed to:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1031&st=0

And indicate whether or not you think that Ian Jordan has a case to answer.

There will no doubt be more on this story in next weeks edition, but for now our printing department are informing us that we have badly gone over our transmission budget for this week.


***** Periphery Classifieds *****


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Pleasure and death is our business.

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*** Cash Wanted ***

The Krell have been granted a substantial amount of stellars from a group who wish to help but need to stay anonymous. We now have the financial ability to lease warships if there are still organizations out there who wish to make some easy money. The fleets I am up against are poorly designed (I will send the weapons configurations to interested parties) so I won't need more than 20-30 warships to break the blockade of my homeworld (depending on your ship config).

Please respond with prices and terms.

Warlord Goth
Bloody Fist Tribe (KRL)

(Of course, discretion is always maintained)


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


*** Krell Referendum ***

The issue of a referendum being held on Inversion to determine who the Krell peoples wish to be in charge of their planet - the FCN or KRL - appears to have died, with absolutely no interest being shown in such a solution by the FCN Empire.

Warlord Goth released the following statement regarding the issue:

"We did not ask for voting until you and your Tyrant claimed that more than 50% of the Krell population supports the FCN on Inversion. I say that this is an outright lie, if it were not a lie, a vote would be an easy way to prove me wrong. Simple.

The Krell are voting right now by joining my ground forces by the tens of thousands...can you say the same? Even knowing that you will try to slaughter them, freedom from you is that valuable to them.

If I were in your shoes I would simply admit the truth and be done with this moral high ground you seem to need. Just admit that your "consortium" is a bully organization that will exploit any weaker race/affiliation as long as there is no risk of losing... There, that would end the chatter."

Despite this brazen challenge, the Falconians have not picked up the gauntlet, and the battles on Inversion continue.


*** Krell Forces destroy numerous Falconian Ground Parties ***

Krell forces are claiming the following victories this week:

"Apparently, the Falconians believed that almost a week of non-stop bombardment was enough to weaken the resolve of the Krell freedom fighters, they were wrong.

2 Falconian armies attacked our base ground zero and were destroyed... Not all was lost though, rumours abound that there was a large barbeque after the battle was over....extra crispy!!!"

However, our reporters understand that given overwhelming FCN firepower, the battle has not been going the way of the plucky under-equipped Krell.


*** Ground Zero Falls ***

As we go to press, it seems as if the battle for Inversion is winding down, with the Falconian Empire having successfully destroyed the Krell base, Ground Zero. With most normal communications links down, Warlord Goth has managed to transmit the following via Subspace News Links:

"It is a sad day for the Krell race... The only Krell starbase on our Homeworld was finally destroyed today. The brave Krell who died there today in the hope of a better tomorrow will be remembered through the ages.

The future of the Krell is in doubt. We refuse to live as slaves and now we are paying the price. There will be no outside help as the affiliations that do have the power, do not have the will to help free us.

As we watch the last hopes of freedom fade, we wonder what it would take to make the big powers of the universe do something honourable instead of just in their own self-interest. No matter, we knew the risks when we made the run for freedom, we can only hope to go down fighting...."

It is understood a number of aid convoys are in the process of disembarking and heading to Inversion. Small scale skirmishes continue, but it seems as if organised Krell resistance has been crushed.


*** Pirate Spotted In Wastelands ***

The pirate vessel HMS Blacky launched an unsuccessful boarding attempt against a Felini freighter in Wastelands earlier this week Despite significant military response, the pirate managed to successfully sneak away.


*** FCN Repossess KRT Asset ***

Osidiradadumpf, spokesfalconian for the FCN Empire has announced that the starbase Dark Angel has now been returned to FCN hands after it's fraught lease/handover to the KRT. The following statement was issued:

Its a good day for traders all over the Peripheries... FCN Dark Angel (#12440) is again back into FCN hands. For the last couple of months this base was leased to the Clan Black Rat, but after some disputes the KRT decided that it would keep the base.

Of course the FCN didn't agreed with this and filed an complaint with the controlling forces within Yank. The Military Junta agreed with the FCN that the occupation of the KRT of this base was illegal and allowed the FCN to use ALL military means necessary to retake or destroy the base.

DIRECT QUOTE:
The Kastorian Military Junta give official permission to seek a military solution to the KRT situation.

FCN was counting on this and was already in the process of building up an force strong enough to take the base with minimal losses. It is with great pleasure I can tell you, that after this information was relayed, the KRT finally came to its senses and transferred the base to the KAS, which in turn transferred the base back into FCN hands.

Sadly after inspection we found that the bases was looted from all possible assets. FCN is in the process of moving equipment to the base and the forces planned to capture the base are now protecting our lost base.

We are therefore thankful that the KRT decided to prevent major bloodshed, by finally giving in to our just demands, and we would like to thank the KAS for their impartial support in this matter."


*** Mysterious Transmission ***

The latest in an occasional series of strange broadcasts has been received by our news-room this week:

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The Grey Beards Strike Back.

Admiral H'Rung of the GBN hadn't been told Operation Peal a Pear's full purpose, but knew how hard pressed the navy was before FOOL's GOLD. That suggested that the operation was very important, given the strength of his own task force. Not that the task force was his alone. Dagger was present to oversee the operations and any screw up was bound to mean demotion or dishonourable discharge, if not death. Dagger was a wizened little grey beard who looked like someone's harmless uncle, but appearances were deceiving. He was known to be ruthless, having on one occasion killed a captain for failing in his duties.

"So the operation is on schedule Admiral?" Dagger's voice interrupted H'Rung's thoughts.

"It is, Sire. We will jump almost on time and be at destination within 10 tu's of planned arrival."

"Purrrfect".

Admiral H'Rung returned his attention to his plot as 55 ships of the GBN, headed by 17 Titan Class superdreadnoughts, initiated their jump drives.

*

Other transmissions similar to this one have appeared to be concerned with elements within the Consortium, or indeed referring to some secret society calling itself the Mayhem Corporation. However this time further details are hard to come by. There has been no news of any battle, or any sightings of a 55 vessel armada including Titan Class superdreadnoughts. So we are at a loss to understand just what this strange transmission refers to.

We do however think it might have something to do with recent sightings of Elvis within the Storm system.


*** KRT Skirmish with FCN ***

A small skirmish has been fought between the KRT and FCN in Storm this week, a small FCN flotilla appears to have engaged a KRT platform and escorting warship. Light damage was inflicted on both sides before they withdrew.


*** KRT Turn Down Money ***

Our reporters have learnt that the KRT turned down a significant sum of money from a mysterious third party who were seeking to provide backing to them to wage war against the FCN.

Upwards of $100,000 was offered to the KRT if they would wage unrestricted warfare against the FCN, up to and including the deployment of WoMD and biological weapons, with the intention of committing Genocide.

This was considered unacceptable by the KRT, who returned the initial sum of monies, and have refused any further dealings with the unknown third party.

We at the IGN congratulate the KRT for their stance on this issue.


*** Naplian Ultimatum Provokes Fury ***

Following last weeks announcement by the Naplians regarding their opinion on anybody who sells or trades in arms with the Falconian Empire, the QNG - one of the larger weapons dealers in the Yank system - have issued the following statement from the Matriarch Queen herself, to the press:

"Mad Max is truly mad to believe he can dictate to whom and what we sell. The Queens Guardian will continue our sales of weapon systems and we will closely monitor any and all DNA shipping around our facilities. Until section D is properly amended, we will conduct no business with the DNA. The Matriarch Queen decides what the Queens Guardian may or may not do.

We call upon ALL races and affiliations to take notice of the threat of war that the DNA is imposing on ALL affiliations in Yank and to issue a trade embargo until it is rescinded or modified to exclude Yank.

This issue is also at this very moment being discussed diplomatically with the Kastorians. If Mad Max continues his slander the Queens Guardian will ask for permission to target DNA ships within Kastorian space."

A full list of affiliations known to have traded arms with the Falconians at some point is unknown, but surely many governments have. Which, if this continues, could see the DNA at war with even more affiliations than the Detinus Republic.


*** Captains Ransom ***

Pirate Large has branched out into the ransom market, with the following chilling communication being broadcast earlier this week:

"Ahaarrgghh there maties.......... i as plenny of cappans locked up in me cells, heads n arms in stocks bent over wi their trousers down, getting regular service from me pirate mates, an i thoughts they as done their time. there is a slight requirement though, to get yee cappans back yee must pay me 10000 stellars per person.

this be the May bank holiday weekend sales, a once in a life time offer, an i means that literally, if yee dont get backs to me within 10 days then 1 cappan will be "rogered to death" every day until they be gone.

the cappans names be as follows, an if yee cares about yer cappans then gets dealing wiv me. moneys to be transfered to me Large (1118)

1 Boater [FGZ Prisoner] (#) {FGZ Prisoner}
1 Franz Mirabel [AFT Prisoner] (#) {AFT Prisoner}
1 Gideon Fairchild [RIP Prisoner] (#) {RIP Prisoner}
1 Nadia Galway [AFT Prisoner] (#) {AFT Prisoner}
1 Svetlana Morgan [SMS Prisoner] (#) {SMS Prisoner}
1 Tyramut [RIP Prisoner] (#) {RIP Prisoner}
1 Water Bird [DNA Prisoner] (#) {DNA Prisoner}
1 Jack Ryan [FET Prisoner] (#) {FET Prisoner}
1 Afad Jynaar (#) {MOH Prisoner}
1 Sau'nton (#) {FEL Prisoner}
1 Pete (#) {ICE Prisoner}
1 Mary Varanasi (#) {DEN Prisoner}
1 Rob Unger (#) {DEN Prisoner}
1 Igor Shalimov (#) {DTR Prisoner}
1 Tatsuo Shoji (#) {DTR Prisoner}
1 Elena Gonzalez (#) {CIA Prisoner}

there be more cappans than this in "transfer stage", a couple more DTR etc etc but these be the ones ready for release if yee pays up the 160000 stellars for that lot. I has me sword ready, an i be prepared to butcher them if the money doesnt shows up."

At time of press the response from many governments remains that they do not deal with pirates, however, Pirate Large has been in contact with our news room to inform us that 6 captains have had their ransom paid, and will be spared from execution. But with only hours to go, the fate of the rest is looking bleak.


*** COH has become HVE ***

An official statement has now been released regarding the change-over of the COH to the HVE, following the departure of Ian Jordan to the GTT. Hive Swarmlord Teuciidae Xaeer has taken up the reigns of leadership:

"As of stardate 206.16.4 the Children of Hexos (23) aka. ANT/HXM has converted into Hive (68).

At this moment in time the affiliation is part Hive and part Hexamon but extensive research is being conducted into making the affiliation a true (pre-Phoenix) Hive. So in time the affiliation will not represent any Hexamon faction.

The new Hive should be seen as an independent entity. As such the reformed Hive does not currently have any friends or enemies. The initial stance towards any affiliation is that of neutrality. The Hive will however honour any outstanding deals the COH made prior to the conversion.

If you have any questions or enquiries please contact the Hive Swarmlord Teuciidae Xaeer at: teuciidae_xaerr [at] twistedspace [dot] eu."


*** Krell Pull Off Daring Rescue ***

An independent reporter stationed with the Krell has filed the following story:

A daring rescue of the Battleship Gothic Silver Dragon was pulled off according to preliminary reports. This ship was badly damaged by the SMS "protection" fleet and had its jump drive and back up jump drive blown off. As the other ships of the Gothian floatilla escaped further harm, this ship had to limp into the outer rim quads and hope the Consortium battle fleets assumed she jumped to Yank.

During the night, a brave captain of the Gothian Barge 2400, volunteered to jump in with a repair crew to install emergency drives and add piloting computers to allow a quick jump to safety....

It was a long night and the crew spotted a FCN freighter that the escort destroyer was tempted to attack but held back. Surely the rescue had to work tonight or by tomorrow the whole rescue team would be slaughtered....

Scout Commander Rote was on hand to report back to Warlord Goth and is happy to report that all ships made it home and all hands were saved. With this battleship back home, the Krell have only lost 2 Battleships in the whole affair. Of course, the surviving ships will be out of action for a while unless there are good repair facilities in Yank that will help us patch them up.


*** Pirate Attack ***

A Detinus Republic installation has, according to sources within the DTR Ministry Of Defence, come under heavy attack from a pirate fleet this week.

The attack, at an undisclosed location, has all the hallmarks of a black-op, and not true piracy as such, and indicates another example of a Periphery power utilising pirate mercenaries to act anonymously.

When asked if this attack was in retaliation against the DTR for their recent joint anti-piracy operation with the SMS that saw a major hidden pirate base holding WoMD captured, Senator Cassius Jerusalem was unable to make comment.


*** News Flash ***

Pirate Large has completed four successful hits within the Yank system over the course of the last week. Apparently Large took some hull damage, but shrugged it off and successfully completed the boarding attempt.

It seems as if nothing can stop the fearless pirate.


***** Special Report - Genocide: The Destruction Of Coombes *****

Following the recent news that the moon Coombes had been destroyed, a major political storm has erupted over who might have been responsible. The Confederacy has released a sizeable dossier concerning the results of their thorough investigations to date, and the weight of evidence seems to fall squarely against Ian Jordan, the one-time leader of the COH, who recently moved on to take up leadership of the GTT.

Given the extreme seriousness of the allegations, rather than attempt to summarise the CNF evidence, we instead present their initial broadcast in full:

++ Confederacy Press Release ++

By way of accusation via Inter-Galactic News (IGN) Transmission in Week 16.206 the GTT alleged the CNF had been weapons testing in the system of New Sussex leading to the destruction of the moon Coombes in the system.

I can now present the full evidence to show that not only is this accusation completely unfounded but the accusation is a cover for a plot involving the GTT leader Ian Jordan to commit huge atrocities against the Confederate peoples.

Specifically the Confederacy alleges that Ian Jordan, leader of the GTT, through collusion and backing from the GTT and via unlawful manipulation of alien powers did organise and cause by his own order the following crimes against the Confederacy:

- The detonation of over 500 nuclear devices in the Gas Giant Brighton (665), in direct violation and breaking of the Tau Ceti treaty governing the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction, resulting in over 50 million damage to the Gas Giant.
- The purposeful destruction of the CNF Moon Coombes (389)
- The genocide of more than 25,000 confederate civilians on the planet Botolphs (757) and the attempted genocide of nearly a million others.

Ian Jordan, we allege that you are a war criminal of unparalleled brutality the likes of which we have not seen since the first days of the civil war.

We call on the GTT board to take some accountability for the actions of it's CEO and surrender Jordan for a warcrimes trial.

The deaths of our civilian citizens will not go unchecked.

Thomas S. Jackson
CNF Supreme Commander

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Evidence and History of Events:
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August 204
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CNF exploration report to high command:

Low Pass Scan/Brighton/TCA Cr�che
The scan of the lower altitudes reveals some interesting masses that are generating emf. The amount produced is nearly lost in the background although this scan specifically for TCA nymphs is able to discern something that appears to be in line with the organic growth of one of these ships.

Investigation/Brighton/TCA Nymph
The scan of the emissions from within the giant points towards the presence of a nymph stage TCA vessel within the depths of the giant. This nymph is quite advanced and appears to be close to completion, possibly only requiring a few more years at the most (it is currently around 390 normal organic hulls). No attempts are made to contact the nymph, as it is likely to be capable of leaving the giant and may well prove to be hostile. Currently though it is deep within the atmosphere (below the 'surface').

Investigation/Brighton/TCA Nymph/Current Activity/204.35
At the present time the ship appears to be doing little more than moving between quiescent regions of the giant's atmosphere. A closer inspection reveals that it is actually basking in the natural upward plumes of gases from deep within the atmosphere. The speculation is that it is slowly growing by absorbing trace chemicals. At this rate it is likely to only grow a single hull per year.

Investigation/Brighton/TCA Nymph/Final State
From fragmentary records and scanning the superstructure of the nymph it is clear that it is close to reaching maturity. The ship is expected to be four hundred hulls in size. It is expected to reach full maturity by 214.

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February 206
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Extract from message from the COH:
I have found a TCA Nymph in CNF space. In New Sussex on the gas Giant Brighton. There is a brotherhood ship in orbit. I have spoken to he Nymph with no trouble.

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Saturday 11th March
Week 10
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Letter from the COH, Ian Jordan

We have done a number of [investigations] with the TCA ship and found it was on a war of conquest. A snippet of what it wants follows The only other thing that the nymph would like is approximately 100,000 meklan, more if possible, failing that, 100,000 humanoid life forms suitable for meklanisation. It also required 50 Twinkle stargate keys

Its attitude got more hostile and we dispatched ships to protect our exploration vessel. We also contacted the ARC to see if they could shed any light on the situation, the reply was that certain TCA ships resort to hostile acts due to the original process of breeding them, a throw back so to speak it recommends it be destroyed if its has committed any hostile acts as they will get worse. We showed the ARC your information confirming your ships destruction, its demands for 100,000 troops /Meklan well know TCA troops. This confirmed its suspicious and we were direct to destroy the SHIP.

We understand we may have gone against CNF laws but hope you understand that the ship was fully grown and about to leave. The ARC also said the COH should destroy it so there know it would be done without delay.

Confirmation this was done is below.
Entering orbit of Brighton (665)
Scanned:
DEBRIS NYMPH (90449) - 16 kMus
BHD SHIP SNATCH (98511) - {25 Light Hulls}
Kangaroo Class Freighter {No Armour}

We have left the Debris for you. We hope you understand how hard this was to do for our people, since the TCA saved our race. But a bad dog needs to be put down before it kills someone.

We hope this will not effect our relationship. Look forward to hearing from you.

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Thursday 19th April
Week 16
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Extract from report regarding RIP exploration:
The Clarion Call carrying Janos Wolf was en route to CNF Nemesis when she was destroyed by a 'new' asteroid belt orbiting the gas giant and associated moons in Beta 6. All hands are feared lost although rescue operations are currently underway.

Extract from report from CNF Political Commander
Following tempests lost on route to Nemesis in New Sussex after running into an asteroid field. Time of Weeping (49559) Twilight of Youth (79633)

SSS Extract:
*** One Of Our Planets Is Missing ***

The lead news story this week concerns a missing planet in the New Sussex system. The following communication has been received from the GTT:

"Map error.

The GTT wish to advise all shipping that the current map of the system New Sussex is wrong, deliberately misleading and downright dangerous. There is no planet Coombes at sector B6, instead there is a massive asteroid field which should be regarded as a danger to navigation. As our exploration has shown this asteroid belt is also highly radioactive and it appears that it is possible that someone using a massive advanced nuclear type of device has destroyed the planet. It is our considered view that someone, probably the CNF who claim New Sussex, has been messing around with anti matter and got it badly wrong. Although our investigations are still at an early stage we feel we must go public with this as soon as possible, due to its implied threat to mankind. We invite all interested parties to come to New Sussex and carry out there own investigation into this failed CNF experiment. Portha Agiadai."

Our reporters have been able to confirm that the planet Coombes has indeed vanished, and been replaced by an asteroid field that has already destroyed two Tempest class freighters.

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Thursday 20th April.
Week 16
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>TU 235: Detailed Scan {31619}
Scanned:
COH SHIP EMPERORS SCIMITER (31619) - {150 Heavy Hulls}
Dominator Class Capital Ship {Advanced Heavy Armour}
Aff: Children of Hexos (23)
LifeForms: 75
Class: Dominator
Hulls: 150 Heavy Organic Hulls (88)
Armour: 262 Armour Plate mkIIIs (452)
Hull Damage: None
Max Boarders: 1306

INSTALLED ITEMS
7 AI Combat Navigator (920)
1 Alien Construct Core Housing (120003)
1 Battle Bridge (101)
15 Bunks (98)
40 Combat Engine mkII (165)
30 Gatling Laser mkIV (218)
1 Inertial Damper (195)
1 Integrity Stabilizer (190)
15 ISR Type 4 Engines (155)
1 Jump Drive (175)
1 Jump Drive - Backup (176)
7 Magazine (135)
10 Phalanx (211)
15 Sensor mkIII (105)
20 Targeting Computer mkII (108)
19 Thrust Engine mkII (161)
-----> 123 WoMD Launcher (2050)

CARGO
24 Hive Drone (569)
50 Hive Marine (570)
135 Phalanx Missiles (212)
Total TU cost for this action is 50

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Friday 21st April
Week 16
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>TU 184: Special Action
Action:
CNF Freighters have encountered a heretofore uncharted asteroid field in New Sussex in B6 and have further noticed that the moon Coombes (389) of the Gas Giant Brighton is 'missing'. The System Scan of New Sussex performed by the Political Advisor should ascertain if this is in fact true. If so, the Political Advisor will use it's sensors to sweep the area from B7 and pick a safe passage through the debris of the small moon as it enters the orbit where the moon used to be. All the while, the ships crew will be gathering readings from the debris to attempt to piece together what happened to the moon and whether it was artificially caused.
Result:
Investigation/New Sussex/Asteroid Belt
The captain is completely correct - there is definitely no bloody asteroid belt on the maps but there the bastard is surround the gas giant and its moons. Hold on a moment - there is a moon missing and the surface of the gas giant Brighton is incandescent. Coombes has been destroyed - somebody or something has bloody well destroyed an entire moon! Directly blowing up a moon might have proved too difficult but it would seem that dropping a few hundred nukes onto a gas giant with an unstable outer envelope did the trick.

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Monday 24th
Week 17
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>TU 260: Special Action
Action:
Manoeuvre close to the ship HVE Emperors Scimiter (31619) and attempt a detailed scan of the WoMD launchers found in the recent detailed scan. Is it possible to see if the WoMD launchers have been fired recently, and if so, what WoMD's they fired?
Result:
The ship does not appear to have any WoMD Launchers. It is likely that they have been jettisoned or that they have been picked up/delivered to another position (presumably around the time the COH ship was transferred to the Hive).

>Date 17.1: Special Action {...} {...}
Action:
The governor has noticed a significant drop in world economics in the past week. Look into this with all haste, is the governors sinking feeling that this is linked to the COH nuking of the gas giant and subsequent new asteroid belt well founded?
Result:
Investigation/Botolphs/Merchandising
The hail of meteorites hammering into the planet has killed a good few people although it would have been worse if the world didn't have an ISR Field. There has been a drop in merchandising corresponding to the damage inflicted on the civilian population. Estimates place the damage that must have been pumped into the giant to cause such an event to be in the order of 50 Million! Whoever delivered such a strike must have been well supported.

>Date 17.1: Special Action {...} {...}
Action:
Conduct an immediate population census and correlate to previous records, has there been a drop, what is it and what is the cause?
Result:
Investigation/Botolphs/Census
Contacting the Feather King and the civilian authorities reveals that approximately twenty five thousand people were killed during the rain of fire. Some of this was from direct hits of civilian structures but most was from choking gases and dust that caused the civilians that took flight to fall from the skies. There were few Felini fatalities.

Continues on next News�

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

*** COH Celestial Emperor Deposed ***

The following story has been transmitted by an affiliated news agency, the Inter-Galactic-News reprints it here in full:

BREAKING NEWS - Fall of the COH Celestial Emperor.

In the aftermath following the allegations of Hive involvement in the destruction of the moon Coombs in the New Sussex system, the Celestial Emperor of the Children of Hexos has been arrested.

In what only can be described as a vicious military coup the Imperial palace was stormed by Hive forces earlier today. The Celestial Emperor of the COH was taken into custody for pending trials by the CNF for crimes against humanity.

Reporter: We have with us today Professor Slompweed who has been studying the former Hexamon colony from the day it was founded. The Professor is an expert on the insectoid races we call Hexamon and Hive. Professor what is you reaction to the latest development regarding the Hive coup?

Slompweed: This is an ill omen indeed. We have been studying the colony
known as Ves Ghormen for years. The colony was founded by the Hexamon. The
Hexamon seemed well structured and were very beneficial to the planet. Their
workers worked the land making it very fertile.

[..Slompweed facial expression turns serious and bitter..]

I tell you this though; since the Galactic Transport & Trade took over the
commercial aspect of the colony everything has gone downhill. Well, I am not
saying they did a bad job because they made a good profit. Unfortunately
they interfered with the social structure of the colony by introducing real
Hive life forms and organic ships. The colony is now tainted by the Hive and
the latest development suggests that the last of Hexamon will soon be gone.

Reporter: You spoke to us earlier about proof of genocide - can you tell our
viewers a bit more about that?

Slompweed: Yes hmm - three days ago one of the local farmers found a dead
hive worker in one his crops fields. This is not unusual because we
regularly find dead insects round these parts. This insect however had some
strange markings and features that we have never seen before. So we decided
to bring it into our labs for further testing.

[..Slompweed pull a jelly like substance from a jar..]

This is what we found. Do you know what this is?

[..Before the reporter could even answer, the professor continues..]

It's a human liver!

[..The report looks at the jelly substance and says:..]

Surely that cannot be the case, it looks more like a jellyfish to me?

Slompweed: At first I didn't believe it myself, but we have studied the
substance very carefully and there is no mistake, this -is- a human liver!

Reporter: But how can that be? Insects don't have livers, do they?

Slompweed: You are so right, insect don't have livers... This can only mean
one thing; the Hive has been injecting hive eggs into human subject killing
the host.

Reporter: Are you saying that the CEO Ian Jordan of the GTT were right about
his allegations that the Hive has been using human subjects as hosts for
hive off springs?

Slompweed: There is no doubt whatsoever, this is the case... We fear the
latest development within the colony can only mean that the Hive Queen now
has complete control over the colony. Not only that, but now we hear rumours
that the Hive uses weapons of mass destruction to achieve their goals! Gee,
when does humanity wake up? These bugs are a menace to humanity and they
need to be dealt with immediately before they can do any more harm!

Reporter: But surely professor, you must be mistaken. If that was the case
why would the Hive extradite the COH Celestial Emperor for trials against
humanity?

Slompweed: It's a trick, I tell you. I have been studying their tactics for
years. They are just buying time. With the help of the ARC the Hive is now
the most dangerous species in the peripheries. We must act NOW!

Reporter: Thank you professor...


*** Krell Announce Blood Feud ***

Despite horrifying losses, the Krell people seem intent on continuing to fight for their planet. Warlord Goth has broadcast the following transmission on relayed subspace link:

A Krell blood vendetta has been lodged against the SMS and the FEL.
The blood of over 100,000 freedom fighters drench their hands. The
FCN, although cowardly in their methods, are not included in the
vendetta since they were attacked and were defending their assets. The
fact that the FCN are on Inversion illegally does not justify vendetta.

Of the three murderers, the SMS are by far the worst and most immoral
in their actions. The SMS did not want to get their hands dirtied
with the slaughter going on via their allies, so they simply blocked
any relief and watched the murder.

The FEL did not try to candy coat their intentions and bombed our
people from the safety of orbit just as the FCN did. Though cowardly,
there can be no false sense of chivalry there.

Therefore, the SMS owe the Krell race 60,000 lives and the FEL owe
40,000 lives in their relative guilt. Once the blood debt is paid in
full, we can discuss the material damages. There will be no peace
until vendetta is satisfied.


*** Detinus Republic Declare War ***

An official declaration of war has been issued by the DTR against the Vindicator Squadron, following the VSQ involvement in the piracy and trafficking of a DTR freighter, captured by Pirate Large.

Michelle Diaz, Speaker of the Detinus House of Lords, appeared unruffled as she delivered the following address: "As of today, the DTR are at war with the VSQ. As such, all VSQ positions are banned from DTR space and will be attacked on sight. This is due to the VSQ directly supporting Pirate Large in selling off pirated ships.

I will also reiterate what Senator Jerusalem wrote with regard to the Firehawk class freighter the VSQ is attempting to sell. This is a DTR design and the only Firehawk ship outside of DTR control. As such, the DTR advises all affiliations not to purchase this ship. Purchasing said ship will be akin to directly dealing with pirates and will be treated as such."

The Harvest Master of the VSQ responded in typically elliptical fashion, fuelling rumours that he/she/it is not human:

"How the mighty have fallen. They let loose the dogs of war. To oppose the free and the oppressed. But I shall not fear. Though I walk thru the valley of death. I shall persist. For I am the Master of Death. The Harvester of Souls. My ships are Legion."

Our reporters understand that there is still a major announcement still to break regarding this story. More next week.


*** Krell Launch Raids ***

SMS and FCN outposts have been attacked by Krell PT boat raiders this week, causing light damage. These attacks came as some surprise, as the offensive capabilities of the Krell had been believed to have been worn down by the Consortium naval forces over recent weeks.


*** Scandal In The DTR ***

Tabloid papers are carrying stories this week regarding the shoe-budget of Speaker of the House, Michelle Diaz. Apparently the amount spent on the Speakers shoes could rival the stellar turn-over of several small affiliations.

Rumours persist that several Detinus Senators are running entire planetary operations simply to raise the stellars to keep Diaz in footwear.


*** Mohache Repel Boarders ***

A story has surfaced from the crew of the MOH ship Albaa Quu Gurrin, which was boarded by the pirate vessel Black Bill Graves in the Yank system:

"Me and some of the boys were haulin' a load o' fresh eggs through Yank when we decided to pull into orbit o' Bondy, ya know to see the sights and such. All o' a sudden, I smell something wasn't right and it weren't the eggs going bad in the hold. Sure enough, I see a black ship sneakin up on us from the port side. I ring the bell to wake up all the boys. Grabbin' what we had to hand, mostly huntin' shotguns and such, we hurried over to meet the rogues and show them they ain't welcome.

Sure enough they dock 'long side and begin cuttin' through the lock. Me and the boys are gettin' ready when I see old Stormcrow rollin' a barrel of lard down from the galley. We spreads that lard real quick like all 'long that hallway. Black Bill Graves cuts through and starts shoving his lads in like he don't care how many get kilt. They start slipping and sliding everywhere while we start blasting away with everything we have. Every now and when one slides all the way down still live, young Arms Like Trees bashes 'em on the head with a hoe.

Things are still starting to look a grim as there had to be ten of them to every one of us. When they have just enough bodies on the floor to walk on without slippin', Old Stormy pulls out a cuttin' torch and sets that lard on fire. You ain't never seen such a lard burnin', smoke belchin', pirate cussin' time in all your life. Those bloody pirates had enough, they got back on their little ship and disappeared back into the black of space.

I hope those danged pirates remember from here on that we Mohache are peaceful peoples, so leave us alone unless you want to be bashed on the head with a hoe and fried in lard. And keep your thievin' hands off my eggs!"

This story provides yet more evidence of the chilling martial might of the Mohache peoples. And we at the IGN fear what might happen if this race of peaceful farmers ever decides to turn violent.


*** One Of Our Planets Is Still Missing ***

With public pressure still very much mounting concerning with the destruction of a moon in the Brighton system, the GTT public relations department has issued the following statement containing shocking revelations regarding the whole affair.

From the Department of GTT public relations.

The CNF have accused the GTT and Ian Jordan of ordering terrible deeds and the slaughtering thousands of people. We of course refute this claim as anti GTT propaganda. Now follows the truth of what happened by Ian Jordan himself.

"I left the GTT and set up my own trading affiliation Ian Jordan enterprises IJE. After a couple of months the COH approached me and ask if I would take on an advisee role to help them through some troubled times. Never one to back down from a challenge I excepted. I was given a remit by the Emperor which included contacting the ARC/TCA making COH positions wholly Hve and ships of the organic nature only. Also to bring the COH to a weekly profit. With this firmly in mind I opened up the recruiting complexes made Leffingwell wholly Hve and got to work. I dropped the COH out of the Consortium, returned/sold/traded a number of ships/positions and made the COH profitable and manageable. Then I found the ARC it was like the flood gates opening the COH had returned into the fold and wanted to prove themselves to the ARC, who they started to worship like Gods. After a while they proved themselves and found the TCA, the ARC ordered the TCA ship destroyed which they did against my advice as I thought the CNF would react with war. It was this time I found my advice being sort less and less. the Governor of Ves Ghorman ordered all non Hve to be injected with Hve eggs so they would become Hve in a horrible manner. I was informed of plans to do the same to me. The ARC also came out with the bombshell that they wanted the TCA cr�che site destroyed, the only reliable way of doing this was to fire at least 500 nuclear missiles into the Gas giant. Which of course they did with the unexpected result of blowing Coombs up and the resulting deaths. I escaped back to Vectis my original base and rejoined the GTT taking up the CEO position soon after.

That is what happened.
The COH picked up launchers and nuclear missiles from a ARC storage site.
TU 136: Pickup Item Type {11295} {0} {7060} {} {Install - No}
You picked up 536 Nuclear Missiles (2060) from ARC Reliquary (11295).
You picked up 400 WoMD Launchers (2050) from ARC Reliquary (11295).

These were then taken to Ves ghorman to be fitted into the COH ship Scimitar
TU 20: Deliver {281} {2060} {536} {} {Install - No}
You delivered 536 Nuclear Missiles (2060) to COH Ves Ghormen (281).
Total TU cost for this action is 10

>TU 10: Deliver {281} {2050} {400} {} {Install - No}
You delivered 400 WoMD Launchers (2050) to COH Ves Ghormen (281).
Total TU cost for this action is 10

>TU 280: Pickup {281} {2050} {125} {} {Install - Yes}
You installed 125 WoMD Launchers (2050) from COH Ves Ghormen (281).
Installation reduced Integrity to 90.9%.
Total TU cost for this action is 10

>TU 270: Pickup {281} {2060} {500} {} {Install - No}
You picked up 500 Nuclear Missiles (2060) from COH Ves Ghormen (281).
Total TU cost for this action is 10

They were then fired at the gas giant Brighton. Notice Glory to the ARC not anyone else.

Launch the 4 salvoes of 125 nuclear missiles at the Gas Giant as per the
ARC instructions. Record results of what happens.
Glory to the ARC.
Result:
Special Action/Brighton/Launch 500 Nuclear Missiles to Destroy TCA
Cr�che/206.13
Within the orbit of the gas giant, the captain gives the order to launch
the 500 nuclear missiles into the atmosphere of the giant. Four volleys of
nukes hammer down first exploding in a bright white glare that requires the
sensors to be dimmed, until the ship can move around to the far side of the
giant.
The energy release equivalent to 50,000,000 damage is sufficient to destroy
any nymphs in the orbit but also destroy the nannites responsible for the
cr�che and TCA growth.
As the team watch in awe the surge of superheated gases expand beyond the
atmosphere of the world, smashing into Coombes with the heat of a thousand
stars. The surface ice is instantly evaporated. As the heat penetrates
deeper, the whole moon starts to fragment, pushed apart by the boiling
gases and spreading out into the surrounding orbital quadrant. The
destruction of the moon takes a few hours but the expanding ring of debris
creates huge blinding streaks of meteorites into the atmospheres of the
other moons. It is clear that some of these meteors will reach ground level.


The communication from the ARC ordering the destruction of TCA Nymph/ship.

This said, if the COH are as trustworthy and faithful as they believe, then they
are to attack the TCA Nymph they have been in communication with and
destroy it - no questions asked.

The results

The Nymph passively views the data showing the destruction of the TCA
vessel. The next step is to destroy the cr�che preventing any more TCA
Nymphs being seeded into the atmosphere of the giant. In order to achieve
this, approximately 500 nuclear missiles need to be launched into the giant
- but only after all ISR fields have been destroyed (if any are present) as
they will dampen the explosions.
The Nymph knows of a cache of missiles in the Night system - can the COH
reach this system?


The conclusions are.
The ARC ordered the attack with the full knowledge of the Emperor(who as now been arrested as stated by the HVE) The ship was outfitted for the attack at Ves Ghorman the COH's major base with the full knowledge of everyone. Are the COH signatories of the Tau Cetic Treaty no only humans. Did they attack humans No, they were killed in an unexpected after blast. Ian Jordan knew of the attack but did not order it or was he able to stop it.

Are the CNF upset that a 150hull banned ship entered they space, orbited one of they gas giants, waiting for the right moment then launched 500 nuclear missiles into it destroying a orbiting moon, creating a asteroid field which a GTT ship entered and was destroyed. so they issued a navigational warning. Was this the first ship or did the CNF/allies lose one but forgot to let anyone know of the dangers.

The COH and the CNF used me has an escape goat, the COH/HVE have now excepted the facts and are dealing with the Emperor. Will the CNF react in the same way, I hope so. If not no surprise.

The GTT is a company. The Imperials and the CNF are the same, soldiers once serving together brothers in arms putting down the Empires enemies(the DTR rebellion springs to mind where these same people nuked defenceless planets), now fighting amongst them selves because they do not know how to stop."


This full and frank declaration by the GTT is to be applauded, it does however raise some dramatic concerns, particularly regarding the activities of the Architects (ARC) who, after a long period of absence from the Peripheries, appear to be moving once again, through agents and auxiliaries. And surely their intention towards the sentient races of the Peripheries is not kindly.

Could this be a threat that the warring Peripheries as a whole are simply unprepared to face?


*** Embargo on military trade with the FCN Junta ***

Mad Max, the immortal chief of the DNA has issued an update on his previously reported embargo against all agencies who trade in weapons with the Falconian Empire.

Military update:

These ships may be targetted if scanned by the DNA supporting Military FCN Junta against the Krell.

FET SHIP GREEN DRAGON (62133) - {75 Light Hulls}
AFT SHIP ILEX (43807) - {50 Normal Hulls}

As to how the AFT and FET will respond if DNA forces do indeed engage their freighter traffic, we can only imagine. Though it is not likely to be favourably.


*** Piracy Update ***

A new pirate is rumoured to be plying the space lanes, going only by the name of 'Missy', she appears to be a foul associate of both the repellent Pirate Large and the appalling Ghost Of Black Bill Graves.


*** Krell Gunboat Hunted Down ***

An SMS patrol squadron with an IGN reporter embarked, successfully intercepted and destroyed a KRL PT Gunboat in the Storm system this week, in retaliation for the KRL raids against SMS installations.


*** Imperial Forces Seize Platform ***

Imperial marines have captured a 15 hull Detinus platform in the Straddle system. Sources indicate that the loss is unlikely to constitute a major disaster for the DTR Defence Department.


*** Krell Probe FCN Defences ***

A lone Krell scout ship this week managed to penetrate to the heart of the Falconian Empire, dropping into orbit of Acropolis, where the major FCN Starbases promptly open fired and blew it out of the skies.

In typical Krell fashion this gloriously short and one-sided battle lead to scenes of celebration across the surface of Inversion, while everybody else took quiet note of the extent of FCN firepower defending their homeworld.


*** Piracy ***

An anonymous report of piracy was received this week via the morally decrepit Pirate Large, in which an as yet unidentified pirate vessel captured a Krell freighter. The text of the communication is as follows:

"This be a story from a pirate associate who wanted to tell yee is story.........

"Uh, how ghastly, a Krell freighter...'Coal Train', not exactly an uplifting name for a ship is it?"

"A freighta' be a freighta' cappan'"

"Yes, one appreciates that, but Krell!...one did not sign-up for this job in order to go around [censored] Krell. Where's the joy in [censored] a captive only for them to go on about how they have been [censored] harder by the Falconians?"

"Well, cappan'...tha's all very well but we ain't taken no bounty for some time. The lads 'as pent up aggression, and this be a prime target"

"Yes, yes.very true.but I mean look - it's a bloody Caravel.and an ore freighter at that.and look, typical of the Krell they've been using the wrong shade when they've patched it up.just no appreciation of aesthetics"

"We could still sell it captain...and with it being a Caravel makes it a bit easier to sell on see - 'cos everyone 'as access to them, so it don't stand out"

"Hmmm.yes"

".and with that money cappan', we could have aaargghhselves some good aaargghh 'n aaarrgghh. That sort of money can get you access to the high class ladies.or ahem.boys.at the Jiggly Room"

"Yes.very well.prepare the crew.just remind the Naplians that gaffa tape is not required combat equipment"

Later that day

"Report please"

"We 'as secured the ship, cappan'.9 human marines, and a KST officer captured"

"KST officer?...on a KRL ship?....that's interesting, and its something the other prisoners are not Krell I guess.any casualties?

"Two grunts, sir.seems they'd had a bit too much grog before they charged in"

"I wish the lads would refrain from using that stuff before combat, it doesn't mix well with their pre-combat nerves - I'll have to get some more air fresheners ...and the cargo?"

".err. metals sire.4800 of 'em"

"Oh, how bloody wonderfull.I'm sure that's going to draw a lot of interest... I guess we've blown a Krell plot to feed the Falconians iron filings in their feed. Oh well, onwards we go. lets makes ourselves scarce, and tell the Coal Train crew to get to the rendezvous point"

"yessir.err, one more thing cappan'..."

"Yes?"

"Those nine captured. they all be chaps"

"ooh bugger"

".exactly sir"

The reference to the well known night-spot the Jiggly Room in this communication has raised eyebrows throughout Periphery police forces.


*** Yet More Piracy ***

With yet more stories of success for the pirates, a 150XL hull GTT freighter, and a further DTR caravel, have reportedly been captured in two separate incidents.


*** Even More Piracy ***

Finally some good news regarding the piracy epidemic. An SMS Battlegroup has intercepted and destroyed the PIR vessel Clueless, a 10 hull yacht, in the Wastelands system, along with the PIR vessel Mistress Missy, again in the Wastelands system. Admiral Baalazar, whilst making no official statement, did appear to be exceptionally pleased during a press conference.


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BHD - www.thetrueone.com/
CIA - www.confederacy.org.uk
CNF - www.darkfold.net/
DEN - www.dewiek.net
DNA - members.optusnet.com.au/madmaxcc/
DOM - www.pvv.org/~kennetso/dominion
FCN - home.btconnect.com/Howells/fcn.htm
FEL - www.felini.org/
FET - fet.mindmuse.net/
FGZ - flagritz.cjb.net./
IMP - www.chalmore.co.uk/
MOH - www.mohache.com/
QNG - www.qng-28.org/
RIP - www.rip17.com/
SMS - www.stellarmining.co.uk
WMB - wimbles.specht.co.uk/
Lausnaff Enterprises - web.telia.com/~u40927438/aft/
Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

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

*** Fleet Battles ***

This past week has seen significant skirmishing between elements of the Imperial Stellar Patrol and their opposing numbers amongst the Detinus and Confederate navies.

The engagements appear to have commenced when an ISP fleet conducting raiding operations in the Darkfold met with significant success. The following extract from the IMP Jax Examiner casts more light on this:

"The ISP fleet currently operating in the Darkfold Periphery chalked up further successes this week with 5 CNF warships and a DTR freighter destroyed in three engagements. In the first engagement three IMP ships on their way to join the main fleet ran into fourteen CNF warships. In spite of the odds in their favour the CNF were only able to destroy one IMP 75 NH Carrier with the loss of a similar ship of their own."

Initial IMP victories appear to have been in the London system, whereupon the Imperial raiders moved on to the Ruin system, where a further 100 hull DTR freighter, carrying a full cargo of Thorlium, was destroyed.

It was at this point that rumours indicate that the Ruin system suddenly became home to the full navies of both sides, operating in several squadrons, attempting to outmanoeuvre and trap each other, with the vengeance-minded DTR/CNF fleet hunting down the elusive IMPs.

Early reports indicate that a number of skirmishes were fought, one of which resulted in the destruction of around a dozen large Imperial warships when an IMP squadron was caught by an overwhelming force of DTR/CNF warships. A different skirmish saw 10 small CNF scout vessels destroyed when they blundered into the firing lines between a fleet of IMP ships of the line exchanging heavy fire with DTR Nebulons.

Taken altogether, it seems fair to call this Darkfold operation a draw, although at time of press operations are still ongoing. Though it seems at this point that the long-anticipated cataclysmic clash between the Imperial and DTR/CNF navies is not likely to happen this week.


*** Imperial Marines Capture Platform ***

A very small DTR platform in the Straddle system fell to elements of the ISMC in a short and virtually bloodless skirmish.


*** Further News Regarding Darkfold Operation ***

The IMP news agencies are carrying the following story, indicating yet more successes for their raiders earlier in the week:

"The IMP raiding fleet operating in the Darkfold periphery destroyed a BHD freighter and its escorting Carrier in Darkfold and seven CIA Warships in three separate engagements during the week."


*** Krell Plea ***

In slightly worrying news this week, the Krell issued the following request:

"Warlord Goth procurement Requirements for Purchase (RFP):

The Krell people are in need of certain techs/bps/equipment. These items will only be used to further the cause of Krellian freedom. In many ways, the items could be considered "Humanitarian Aid". We are open to new ideas on weapons as well (You could consider this an RFI as well as an RFP). Of course, unlike many previous Krellian calls for help, this is not a RFC (Request for Charity)...we pay well and have a good economy to support ongoing investment.

Interested in:
Combat Applications
Armor
Nukes
Stealth weapons
Chem weapons
Bio Weapons
Cloaks (any type)."

Such an open appeal to purchase weapons of mass destruction has raised eyebrows throughout the Peripheries, with several hitherto neutral governments indicating that should the Krell actually deploy any WoMD that they obtain, then measures will be taken. The Krell for their part remain resolutely Krell-like with regards the whole situation, and have made it clear that they will do anything in their power to remove the Falconians from their homeworld.


*** Swarmlord Departs ***

The recently appointed leader of the COH, Swarmlord Teuciidae Xaerr, has resigned after a very brief stay in office. During his short time, the Swarmlord was instrumental in averting the single greatest disaster to face the COH race since the Hexamon Wars - the Coombes Incident, which could have seen the entire COH affiliation wiped from the Peripheries should the Confederacy have chosen to retaliate in kind.

It is a testament to the political peace-making skills of the Swarmlord that this situation was avoided, and that the COH and CNF-bloc have somehow apparently managed to resolve their differences.

New leadership has arisen amongst the COH, and we wait to see what direction they will travel in now.


*** Piracy ***

A HVE passenger liner nearly fell foul to a group of pirates that may well be even more perverse and disgusting than Large earlier this week. Fortunately a GTT patrol cruiser arrived on scene, and apparently provide sufficient discouragement to the Pirates.


*** RIP Navigation Malfunction ***

Two RIP freighters have been destroyed in Confederate space when they apparently wandered into a restricted area. The RIP Rising Sun was destroyed when it entered an orbit in the Plague system on stardate 206.19.3 the RIP Rickety Rackety (71240) later entered the same orbit and suffered the exactly same fate.

A Confederate source is quoted on the matter: "For those RIP starship captains that are slow on the up-take, this means you are not allowed there. Whatever search parties you are sending out to investigate the lack of communication from two vessels and why they both sent an identical last message saying "Oh Sh....." followed by static I advise you to turn back. You will be fired upon."

An anonymous RIP starcaptain has further been quoted as saying, "It's much more fun accidentally violating those DTR restricted zones, at least they deploy cow-tractors and not photon batteries."


*** Vindicator Squadron ***

Following the DTR declaration of war against the VSQ, a close encounter between 3 DTR patrol cruisers and a VSQ freighter has erupted into a political storm this week.

The controversy began when the VSQ issued the following statement to the press:

"Swift blazing flag of the regiment
Eagle with crest of red and gold
These men were born to drill and die
Point for them the virtue of slaughter
Make plain for them the excellence of killing
And a field where a thousand corpses lie
'War is Kind' by Stephen Crane.

The excellence of killing in the void of space. The mighty and arrogant have forgotten their freedom fight. They spout their nonsense and do as they please. "Death to liberty" is their motto. The grassroots are no more. Only the vain, their greed, their power and their soulless quest for destruction and conquest ... that is all. That is their Sol.

DTR APTF have attacked their declared enemy in the Twinkle system. APTF now wage war on behalf of oppression and conquest. Death to the hypocrites. Death to the liar Diaz and her pleasure slaves."


According to an APTF spokesman however, this was certainly not an APTF operation as claimed by the VSQ.

In an attempt to clear up the situation, Michelle Diaz, speaker of the DTR house of lords has issued the following statement:

"Late last week, a Behemoth class freighter under VSQ banner was spotted in Twinkle by the DTR. Following the public announcement of the state of war between the DTR and the VSQ, the Twinkle authorities based at High Star were contacted and gave the DTR permission to attack the VSQ position. DTR warships then carried out this action forcing the VSQ ship to dump cargo and flee without any shots being fired.

Prior to this action, a number of things were taken into consideration. The VSQ have demonstrated to be a front for Pirates and that the VSQ have no regard for system neutrality. Whilst there have been various accidents in Yank (such as ships not clearing enemy lists), the VSQ have launched a significant ground assault against a Starbase in the Yank system. Such an assault cannot be claimed as an accident in any form whatsoever. In addition, the DTR contacted the system owners of Twinkle, that being FLZ Fessin High Star, and received authorisation for this action prior to the action taking place. Finally, we confirmed with the FET prior to the action that the ship in question used to be FET Larceny (1806) which had been boarded by pirates within the last 2 weeks at the Twinkle Stargate. Clearly this was a pirated ship which the pirates/VSQ had not been able to sell onto others. We are just sorry that we were unable to re-capture the ship; instead the cargo on the ship will be returned to the FET.

Whilst the DTR believe that we were justified in launching this operation, we respect other affiliations opinions that this has damaged the neutrality of Twinkle and will reconsider whether we will do this sort of action again in the future. The DTR warships stationed in Twinkle were on APTF patrol and launched this attack under the APTF flag. However, this action was solely a DTR action and the APTF neither had any prior knowledge of the action nor sanctioned said action. Therefore we wish to apologise to the APTF organisation for not re-flagging the ships in question and hope that this incident has not tarnished the APTF in any way."


*** News Flash ***

Chemical weapons have been deployed on the surface of Inversion. More news next week!


***** From The Posting Boards *****

Been too much news to run this the last few weeks, but here's a return of the weekly roundup of items on the posting boards this week.


Can naval officers train in civilian skills:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1040&hl=


A thread on the Hive being under new management:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1039&hl=


A thread on the tech tree:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1038&hl=


The problem of inactive players:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1036&hl=


Can you mass produce with less than 10 factories:

www.spacious.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1037&hl=



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DEN - www.dewiek.net
DNA - members.optusnet.com.au/madmaxcc/
DOM - www.pvv.org/~kennetso/dominion
FCN - home.btconnect.com/Howells/fcn.htm
FEL - www.felini.org/
FET - fet.mindmuse.net/
FGZ - flagritz.cjb.net./
IMP - www.chalmore.co.uk/
MOH - www.mohache.com/
QNG - www.qng-28.org/
RIP - www.rip17.com/
SMS - www.stellarmining.co.uk
WMB - wimbles.specht.co.uk/
Lausnaff Enterprises - web.telia.com/~u40927438/aft/
Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

*****KJC Update*****
Forthcoming Changes
These will be introduced during week 24. These are essentially some minor changes (though with some significant implications) that stamp on some of the loopholes that we have noticed have been getting a little more interest than is good for the game.

Anti Personnel devices
APD have had their damage increased to 1. They are only effective on assaulted starbases when the control is >80%. They are no longer affected by the x10 initial damage modifier that is applied to defenders weapons. Also as they are considered reactive/response items, the active number will be based on the attacking force. This means that they are an effective defence but are not only thing that is needed to defend a starbase.

Weapons on Trade Ships
The number of space weapons that can be installed on XL/L hull ships has been changed to 10mu/hull. Weapons include fighter bays but not ammunition. The weapon space is quoted on the installed list. Any excess weapons on existing ships will be dumped into a friendly starbase next time you dock for no integrity loss. Any designs that have weapons in them will have the weapons dumped out of them after construction, and should be amended (this is because players are still attempting to find new and inventive ways of creating the one-shot-wonder). ISR damage will remain in the game to sort out shrimps.

Offensive /Defensive Items
Items are now either considered normal/offensive/defensive. Most items are normal, the other types are currently
Offensive: Warbots
Defensive: AAE/RDB
Defensive items can only be used starbase. Offensive items cannot be used by a starbase.
If a position can not use a type of item it is not consider in ground combat - i.e. it does not soak damage, contribute control points or damage. This is reflected in the position ground combat report. This means that SB can keep as many warbots as they like without the negative control effect.

Note: AAE accuracy -> 40% since it was silly

Armour on Items
Items can now block (on average) a certain amount of damage before they are in danger of being destroyed. If items with 1 armour takes damage then 0-2 damage will be blocked (based on a bell curve around 1 damage). Currently this is implemented on trained troops (1 armour), veteran troops (2 armour), veteran mercs (1 armour) and officers (5 armour).
So with these armours; 1000 mercs shooting a veteran troop will still kill him. However 5 mercs vs veteran troop will most likely mean the veteran survives for some time.

Battering Starbase shields
If a starbase's shields are absorbing a large amount of damage then the accuracy of ground weapons fired from the starbase will be reduced. This will stop starbases from having planetary control while being heavy shelled from orbit. This will all allow forces to be built up on the ground in order to capture the starbase.
Acc modifier is: -1 acc /50 dmg (absorbed by the shield) /shield complex.
So if a starbase taking 1000 dmg per round and only having 1 shield complex but absorbing 100% of the damage will have a -20acc to its ground weapons.

Slave Revolts
Slave revolts have been added. If you have more crew factors than you have slaves there will not be a revolt. The more security complex you have the more effective the crew factors will be at containing slaves.
Each active security complex adds 100% to your crew's effectiveness per 1000 slaves.
So if you have 10 security complexes and 20000 slaves then you get +50% bonus to your crew factors for dealing with slaves.
It takes a minimum of 5 weeks for slaves to revolt and there are warnings each week.

Meklan
Less than 1000 meklan in a position presents no problem, more than this incurs a % chance each week that the meklan will get messy. Certain artefact may increase the number of meklan that can be safely controlled.


26-05-2006: SUBSPACE STATIC: 206 WEEK 21 DAY 5

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06-06-2006: SUBSPACE STATIC: 206 WEEK 23 DAY 2

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

*** Weapons Of Mass Destruction Deployed ***

Compelling evidence has been presented that the conflict between the KRL and the FCN has escalated horrifically.

Lord Goth has been quoted on subspace stating the following, "There is much guessing and conjecture regarding the use of improvised chemical weapons on Inversion. I will clear it up as I ordered the attack. The day before the attack was to take place, KRL ground parties all over our Homeworld warned all KRELL to leave the Falconian compounds around VJUN. Any KRELL who stayed there was considered an enemy of the KRELL race and subject to being killed. As far as we know, all KRELL left the attacked sector. It was not an unannounced attack on civilians. The fact that the KRELL did not warn the ALIENS and let them die in the attack proves they do not want the ALIENS alive on our Homeworld."

Inter-Galactic News reporters stationed at Vjun witnesses the deployment of chemical weapons in civilian sectors close to the Starbase, they are however unable to confirm what the civilian casualty figures are, or indeed how much truth there is in the Krell announcement that civilians were provided with the opportunity to evacuate. There are further confusing reports that the sites targetted were FCN concentration camps. In which case it is hoped the prisoners there were allowed the opportunity to flee before the chemical weapons were deployed.


*** Inversion Population ***

While exact figures of casualties on Inversion are difficult to come by, a recent shuttle survey provided by an independent observer scanned 1,065,444 Krell lifeforms on the surface of planet. This compares to a figure of 1148694 at the beginning of the year. Indicating that there has been a significant population drop.


*** Vindicator Squadron Piracy Issue Rumbles On ***

The FET, the aggrieved party in the recent engagement of the VSQ in the Twinkle system by the DTR, have issued the following statement:

"A FET ship was boarded by VSQ on stardate 206.18.5 in orbit of the Twinkle stargate without any prior warning of hostilities and since no reasons have been given. The ship in question was under the command of this office before capture. The DTR contacted the FET about the ship and the circumstances of it becoming a VSQ ship. They were informed of what happened. DTR had discovered information about the ship and this office asked them to follow it up and if possible to engage the ship.

DTR did this in Twinkle, where the VSQ had originally captured the ship. Unfortunately the ship managed to escape after dumping its cargo. DTR are at the moment making arrangements with me to return the cargo that was on board the ship when it was boarded by the VSQ. I would like the thank the DTR for their efforts in these events. Relations between DTR and FET are still tense after a long period of hostilities, but with actions like these on both sides hopefully we will see a future where both sides will not view each other with suspicion.

There has been a lot of people trying to score points against DTR over this incident, hopefully this will put an end to that. DTR acted in good faith in this incident and were only trying to put a stop to, having been the victim of VSQ, can only call pirates. I would like to see some sort of statement from VSQ explaining there unprovoked attack on peaceful FET shipping in Twinkle, but I don't hold out much hope for a sensible response from these pirates."

While the engagement itself was a small affair, with no shots being fired, it can at least be said to have done much to the benefit of DTR/FET relations.


*** Piracy ***

The Dread Pirate Missy has been the source of much speculation this week, with many commentators speculating that the latest in a line of vile pirates plaguing the spacelanes might have employed a PR department.

We at the IGN couldn't possibly speculate, but a straw poll of freighter captains indicates that nine out of ten captains would prefer to be boarded by Missy, rather than Pirate Large.


*** Imperial Outpost Applications ***

An application has been received to exploit Codes 54789, 2238, 6983 and 2390 in the Rebellion system. Anyone already exploiting these codes in Rebellion should inform the Viceregal Administration by Day5, Week 21, quoting the celestial body on which they are being exploited.

An application has been received to exploit codes 45674, 60438 and 2521 in
the Rebellion system. Anyone already exploiting these codes in Rebellion
should inform the Viceregal Administration by Day 5 Week 21, indicating the
celestial body on which they are being exploited.

An application has been received to exploit code KRL in the Storm system. Anyone already exploiting this code in Storm should inform Warlord Goth, indicating the celestial body on which they are being exploited.


*** DNA News Conference ***

IGN reporters have recently been invited to attend a question and answers session with the Immortal Chief of the DNA, Mad Max. The interview took place at an undisclosed location, with questions that had been supplied by local Naplian news teams.

Reporter: Is it right you have repealed laws against using WOMD.

Mad Max: Yes, it was unanimously voted, they are required to terraform planets for the Krell.

Reporter: Is it right the DNA are now have the capability?

Mad Max: Yes, this gives us greater terraforming capability.

Reporter: Will you terraform Falconia?

Mad Max: Well if the FCN can't get out of Inversion then we should invert Falconia as one suitable test area as a temporary Krell holiday area as they wait for Inversion. We have not yet worked out why the Falconian feathers get ruffled and fall out leaving them nude if these bombs explode near them? May be we can offer them some Naplian duct tape to stik them back?

This interview can be read as nothing more than a direct threat against the Falconian Empire, and with nerves already under strain following the deployment of WoMD by the Krell, things can only be expected to deteriorate further.


*** Imperial Announcement ***

The following press release has been received from the office of the Patrol Commissioner:

"Civilians of the peripheries, we are pleased to announce a recent tour of duty into enemy space, which started with attacks in the Darkfold system itself against CIA and CNF ships and positions.

An out post was destroyed in the initial engagements and several enemy battleships up to 150 heavy hulls. Over the coming fortnight the ISP attacked in the Darkfold system and then pulled back into the London system. The move continued trying to locate battle groups of the enemy to engage.

During the whole operation, the ISP consisting of a maximum of 60 ships, not a vast force in comparison to that used by our enemies, and the targets we attempted to engage were of military type.

Over the total patrol in which elements of forces belonging to myself, Duck-worth Lewis, Wulf, and Lee Fairchild took part, our ships destroyed a total of 41 vessels, consisting of 25 main warships, 100HH, 150HH and 100 normal hulled in type, 5 freighters of varying sizes, and 11 small heavy hulled warship/scout type vessels. In total up to 12 IMP 75 and 100 hulled ships were lost to enemy action, 1 of which was captured after suffering 93% damage and 2 boarding attempts by rebel marines.

The remaining ships have taken light damage in the majority and the enemy can expect continued harassment in the very near future.

If these draw's are common then the Viceroy has forwarded his congratulations, and would like to see more of them in the near future.

Our commanders have learned vital lessons in the engagements, and can rectify their tactics accordingly

Press release ends....."

The SSS/IGN would like to point out that our reporting last week of the Darkfold Engagements were based solely on information received at the very end of the operation, from when DTR assets became involved. Up until then, no information had been received from either side, so our views and opinions were based upon the best information available to us at the time.

We would like to thank the Imperial and Confederate sources who came forward over the course of the past week to provide more detailed casualty figures.


*** Twinkle Crisis Re-Erupts ***

The issue of Felini spy ships in orbit of FLZ High Star continues to cause tension, with further threats this week that they would be removed by force.

With the handover of High Star from IND authorities to the FLZ, it does seem only a matter of time until the neutrality of the Twinkle system falls apart. However, it should be noted that the FLZ have repeatedly stated that they seek to maintain the neutrality of the system, and do not appear to be doing anything to hamper Felini traffic through the stargate.


*** Would You Like Some Slug With That? ***

IMP Riva - home of the Booker Steak - would like to announce a forthcoming new product line, that will shortly be made available to the Peripheries: The Sea Slug.

In recent marketing tests, we found that the tender and succulent flesh appealed to most races, but in particular to the Felini who perhaps imagined they were tucking into Flagritz spawn...

The Governor's Office welcomes interest in this product, but would particularly like to hear from those who have a Felini population to sell to, in the interests of providing them access to this fine product (and to hear more stellars jingle in the till...)

When asked on her view, Chief Cook Deliah Smythe, said "...these slugs are just divine. Place them in a pan of hot oil for literally 30 seconds, season with a little salt and you have the perfect appetiser for a main course of Booker Steak with Milkrun Dairy Product Mash"

For further information please contact the governor at

sjobin[at]blueyonder[dot]co[dot]uk

Sea Slug (30502) - 1 mu

There are over two hundred species that vary in colour and taste, but
as they are exploited equally, they are classed as a single resource.

Item Type: Trade Good (Perishable)
Race: Felini
Value at Source: 0.5 (Stellars/mu)
Local Value: 1.5 (Stellars/mu)
Origin System: Audrey


*** Krell Action ***

One of our reporters had a rare opportunity this week to observe a Krell operations. At an undisclosed location, in the company of Warlord Goth himself, our reporter was able to file the following story:

"The Falconians will never have a good night's sleep while they rape our blighted home world. The resistance proves that the Falconians do not have the ability to protect anything outside their own starbase:"

Two bombs are deposited on the outside of a couple of the agriculture domes and detonated before they can be stopped. The resulting explosions expose the fields within to the hostile atmosphere of the planet quickly bringing death to the vegetation within. There are only a few casualties and due to the disperse nature of the domes the damage is more to Falconian pride than to the economy. Modification to the planetary merchandising and life demand have been made.

"We will not make any assurances that the next attack will not include casualties to sympathizers (if there are any left)."


*** Naplian Marauders ***

From the Naplian News Network:

..... Inside a Naplian DNA ambush ship the [Cloaked Marauder] ... the boredom sets in.

What we goin to do Judva? Says a young Naplian scallywag on a new Naplian Ambush Cruiser

"Rig for silent running." Comes the order.

Do you really think the Felini will be here, we have been in Felini Battlefield for over two weeks hunting for them and now another call to "Rig for silent running". " Can we move on elsewhere to fight?"

"Young one, you are young and impatient, Mad Max needs us to be patient as he alone knows the weakspots in their defence and our target. Why is it we escape their squadrons because Mad Max said we would. Leave it be, we will continue and we WILL get our tonnage as Mad Max said we would - have Faith."

Shortly after... "Captain, Long range sensors ,, picked up one large vessel approaching..beta 10 up periscope sensor.. lets see what we have!

FEL Sirrus 1 (40519) - Ship Titan Class

"Looks like we have our prize my young naplian get to the torps and arrange the surprise. "

Out of dark another DNA warship appears and another as they close in on the Felini Titan. She is a big one, let her come closer, and NOW large spread first volley, fire torpedoes, 1,2,3,4,5,...12,13. Trailers and lights burst into space and the battle commences.

Instruct the other ships to come to the kill, launch the Angels to fly to the target. The Naplian warship [Little Alien Angels] sends out a swarm of screaming naplian space fighters as it reaches top speed like an exploding Hive.

As the Felini's ships point defence struggles bravely to take out all but one torpedo of the first volley, a more deadly second round is closing in as the screaming Space Fighters (Angels) hit their target and the Felini ship is overwhelmed by the firepower and explodes like a cat under a wheel of a forty tonne truck.

The DNA ship Angel Wings watches in the wings silently, content to see the destruction of the Felini ship after a mere 1.2 rounds of fire.

The naplian's break into song as they continue on their journey behind enemy lines,

"Marauders at night, Angels in the day, the Felini lie dead, now we are coming your way ! "

FEL Sirrus 1 (40519) - Ship
Titan Class Freighter {No Armour}
Hull Damage: 100.0%
BLOWN UP!
Retreated from battle
DNA Cloaked Marauder (xxxxx) - Ship
Ambush Cruiser Class Destroyer {Medium Armour}
Retreated from battle
DNA Little Alien Angels (xxxxx) - Ship
Ambush Cruiser Class Carrier {Medium Armour}
Hull Damage: 0.0%
Retreated from battle
DNA Angel Wings (xxxxx) - Ship
Ambush Cruiser Class Destroyer {Medium Armour}
Retreated from battle


*** VSQ In League With Pirates ***

A VSQ ground party operating in conjunction with a pirate vessel attempted to engage and board a COH vessel in Twinkle this week.

Many affiliations have now declared the VSQ to be a pirate affiliation, and they will be treated accordingly.


*** News Flash ***

Pirate Large has struck in Twinkle.


***** Message From The Editor *****

Players are reminded that the Spacious forum is now closed following the hacker. While your humble editor is unaware of what happened with that, I should maybe point out that the email sent out from the forum contained a link to a virus, and that I believe the hacker also put a virus in the control panel of the Spacious Forum. So if your computer is acting oddly, run a virus check.

The new forums will, I understand, be located on KJCs server, the previous ones were player-run.

Simon.


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DNA - members.optusnet.com.au/madmaxcc/
DOM - www.pvv.org/~kennetso/dominion
FCN - home.btconnect.com/Howells/fcn.htm
FEL - www.felini.org/
FET - fet.mindmuse.net/
FGZ - flagritz.cjb.net./
IMP - www.chalmore.co.uk/
MOH - www.mohache.com/
QNG - www.qng-28.org/
RIP - www.rip17.com/
SMS - www.stellarmining.co.uk
WMB - wimbles.specht.co.uk/
Lausnaff Enterprises - web.telia.com/~u40927438/aft/
Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

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

*** Nuclear Weapons ***

Reports from the surface of Inversion have confirmed that the Krell resistance forces have unleashed several dirty nuclear weapons against cultivated sectors.

These cultivated sectors were reportedly not part of FCN Empire holdings, and provided food to the planetary population. Domes and terraforming equipment have been destroyed, and the estimated cost of cleaning up the fallout is expected to be very high indeed, as the Krell continue their war to evict the FCN from their homeworld.


*** Nuclear Genie Out Of The Bottle ***

With the Peripheries still adjusting to the recent deployment of nuclear weapons in the FCN/KRL conflict, our reporters are hearing increasingly convincing rumours that vast stockpiles of nuclear weapons have been assembled across the surface of not one, but several major populated worlds in various systems.

Several governments have called for calm, but with planetary populations increasingly nervous, it seems only a matter of time until a holocaust is unleashed somewhere.


*** Krell Announce Free-Fire Zone ***

Warlord Goth has recently announced that any and all traders doing business with the Falconian Empire may come under fire from Krell, or Krell-sponsored forces. Goth himself has been quoted on the subspace as saying: "With all the talk about neutral systems and such, I just wanted to remind the rest of you that Storm and Acropolis are not neutral systems. Both of those systems are warzones and traders are strongly advised not to trade/enter either system. Acropolis is the capital of the FCN warmachine and as such is a prime target for anti-consortium forces. Those trading in that system could easily be considered helping our enemies. For the record, starting immediately, anyone trading with the Falconians in Acropolis or Storm will be fair game..."

Many affiliations have reacted angrily to this announcement, stating that if their forces are fired upon, they will take measures in response. Independent observers have noted that this is surely the first step of the grand Krell plan to declare war against the entire universe.


*** Falconian Trade Embargo Expands ***

Mad Max, the leader of the DNA forces, has indicated that DNA vessels will assist the KRL in their embargo of all vessels attempting to trade with the FCN Empire. The following communication has been received by the IGN newsroom:

"The following KST ships are under investigation after entering the orbit of Falconia last week. They were identified trading with the Falconians.

KST SHIP AE FIVE ACES (478) - {75 Light Hulls
KST SHIP GREED 8 (64684) - {75 Light Hulls}
KST SHIP GREED 5 (18936) - {75 Light Hulls}
KST SHIP GREED 6 (42295) - {75 Light Hulls}
KST SHIP GREED 9 (60040) - {75 Light Hulls

Actions may be taken to ensure the Falconian military trade embargo remains tight."


*** Wimble Announcement ***

From the office of Oran Guutan (86080), Soothsayer to the Wimble Nation:

It is with great sadness that the Wimble Nation must announce today news of the injury and incapacitation of Grandfather Lemora Enewatak. The former leader of the Wimble Nation is currently in hospital accommodation on life support systems. No evidence of brain activity has been noted since his admission.

Exact details of events are still unclear. It would appear that Grandfather Lemora was carrying out his normal weekday chores on his family farm when a fence gave way under a surge of pressure from a herd of prize Miniature Hairy Cows being corralled for vaccination. The fence failure led to a stampede which ran through the farmyard. Grandfather Lemora was at the time in livestock quarters, inspecting Pigmy Rat accommodations. The sudden noise of the stampede is believed to have led to a startled rush by the many thousand Pigmy Rats in the quarters.

When others on the farm managed to make their way through the destroyed quarters they found the body of Grandfather Lemora lying isolated in an empty circle of earth, surrounded by the rats. His body was trampled and scratched but otherwise untouched. He appears to have entered a coma state whilst suffocating under a scrambling mound of frightened pigmy rats.

Grandfather Lemora's body was immediately transferred to hospital facilities and attached to life-support equipment. Shallow breathing and a faint irregular heartbeat have been noted but there are no signs of brain activity at the moment. He is being attended on a twenty-five hour basis by medical staff. We have no idea when, if at all, he will recover.

An urgent conclave of senior Wimble family representatives has met and agreed the following two resolutions that will take effect from Galaxy Standard Date 206.22.1.

1) The position of Wimble Grandfather and all responsibilities thereof shall be assumed with immediate effect by Oran Guutan, head of the Guutan Clan, current Soothsayer to the Wimble Nation.
2) Grandfather Lemora shall henceforth be referred to as Revered Forefather Lemora Enewatak.

Over the next days and weeks, I shall try and get in touch with various affiliations to review and confirm existing agreements between them and the Wimble Nation. Anyone aware of particular agreements or situations that might require urgent attention is requested to contact me immediately, rather than waiting for me to contact them, to avoid unfortunate delays.

Public contact details concerning the Wimble Nation will be updated as and when possible. However, I can be contacted at the following address: oranguutan at googlemail dot com

Any messages of condolence, contributions to memorials, flowers or similar items directed to Revered Forefather Lemora's family and clan can safely be transmitted through my office.

Oran Guutan.


*** Krell Implicated In Piracy ***

Controversy erupted this week as the Krell were accused of running pirate vessels in Acropolis, for the purpose of targeting third parties trading with the FCN Empire in contravention of the KRL/DNA trade embargo. A pirate vessel was spotted by APTF forces, which carried similar markings and ID signals as a vessel that had previously belonged to the KRL.

With the KRL thus far unwilling to say how this vessel might have ended up in pirate hands, many parties have considered this to be damning evidence of Krell intent. However, with the Krell happily owning up to using chemical and nuclear weapons, on the face of it, running pirate vessels seems a moderately small crime.


*** Krell Support Piracy ***

We at the IGN newsroom will let the following public service announcement from Warlord Goth speak for itself:

"The first bounty for ships trading with the Falconians in Acropolis
has been paid. It is bad business to buy or sell from the Falconians
in Acropolis or Storm as a Genocide supporter recently found out (MOH).

The current bounty is 100 stellars per hull destroyed in Acropolis or
storm (killing a 100 hull freighter in Acropolis is worth $10,000).
This bounty includes any freighter in the Acropolis system.

The only exemption is in Storm with ships trading with the RIP base as
they are there legally.

Killing a Falconian/Fel/SMS freighter in any system other than Yank
or Solo is worth half that amount. Simply send a copy of the battle
report to me and I will send payment wherever you like. I don't care
if it is done under the flag of an affiliation, pirate or independent.
Regular pirates will get a $10 per hull prize for any consortium ship
stolen (just an incentive, we don't want the ship). Just send us the
battle report and the account to send the reward to.

End transmission............."


*** Piracy Update ***

The pirate vessel Black Bill Graves has successfully captured a DEN freighter, the Orrible Bitch. There are reports of much celebrating amongst the pirate fraternity, as the DEN vessel belonged to long-standing Dewiek scourge of piracy, Weenie.

Reports indicate that the vile individual responsible for this attack was the dread pirate Missy.


*** Broadcast From inversion ***

The following transmission has been made across subspace transmission lanes:

### The Vid feed is picked up mid-feed to show a gigantic Krell in a murderous rant about some insignificant runt ###

"You are a waste of genetic matter and unfit to claim to the title Warlord. The Conclave decides who lives and dies on this world and your defeat left you fit only for death. Now you hide but we are coming for you... Perhaps if you bring a suitable tribute to us when your Clan surrenders you may be allowed to die last. But die you will."

The figure in the video feed has been identified as the mysterious figure Mace Death, the so called First Warlord of Storm.


*** Pirate Large ***

The IGN thesaurus has run out of verbs to describe the repellent and rugose pirate Large, so instead we will simply say that the big stinky pirate Large has been in touch with our newsroom, with the following tale of success:

"Ahharrgghhhh me hearties.... It be aye... Pirate Large......

Well me boys as been in action again, a few stories to tell yee,

Firs off, me new setup in the Twinkle region gets off to a good start, as me
vessels interecepted the AFT ship Wind of Dawn (3911), a 100 huller she be
an no match for thee. Well nearly actually cos the new cappan on that ship
forgot to put the other troops on his boarding party aye the pillock, an
that meant only a few troops wen in, still we gots there in the end and took
anuvver cappan prisoner. His name be Toshio, and he can tossio alright, he
be as gay as a meatball, an luckily for him, half the crew on that ship be
bum bandits.

On the same day the CIA ship Yasuki Pride (95897) was spotted, and me boys
wen in for the kill, marines an crew there be on board that ship, an we
foughts our way in an killed 14 o the crewmen. In a short boarding action me
boys toooks the ship, garrr..it be good to be a pirate

Larde dar, dumde dum, great to be a pirate, lar de dar.

Cappan, there be ships in Yank 206.22.5, that be today cappan, ok send crabs
from the new pirate ship we tooks off the FGZ, to board that one, and send
todger to get the other, they be closest.

Lar de Dar, Dum de dum.....

Cappan reports are coming in, Todger done it, hes inside the gal now
finishin his duties as a pirate, garrr. good stuff...

Lar de dar, dum de dum.....

Cappan, cappan, reports coming in, looks likes we as lost the fost un, the
X-P'Rogu, she be destroyed, Garrrr...fook....oh well it ad to happen,
reports to follow soon sir, when we gets the reports, I will put the updates
on the communications portal this ere evening....she be a small 50 hulled
boarding ship, looks like the AFT might have their first kill....ope it aint
that archie bloke, hell be braggin all week end."

We should note before somebody calls into question the accuracy of our reporting, that the size and stinkyness of pirate Large is a matter of conjecture, rather than hard fact.


*** KRL Freighter Destroyed in Yank ***

The KRL freighterVanguard III has been destroyed by two FCN warships in the Yank system. The incident is currently under investigation by the Kastorian Military Junta.


*** Piracy Update ***

The IND freighter Judith Durham has been successfully attacked and boarded by the pirate Trivial. The trivial is understood to be part of Pirate Large's operations.


*** Environmental Catastrophe On Pralor? ***

A beacon in orbit of the planet Pralor is carrying the following message:

"FCN Invasion of Storm and destruction of DNA outposts is being avenged by the DNA. You will never sleep safely in your nest no matter how much you reinforce them. Mad Max moves unseen. But he sees all; he infiltrates all, and eliminates all."

Further, it is apparent that the planet is losing its atmosphere at a terrifying rate. The mechanism for this disaster is unclear, though apparently it is the result of something done by the DNA.


*** Twinkle Crisis ***

The war of words in Twinkle between the High Star authorities and the Felini has finally boiled over, as at last High Star has opened fire after months of warnings.

On a two normal hulled Felini spyship.

The High Star authorities have released the following statement:

"All sentients be aware, the Felines attempted to move another spy ship into orbit of Sapphire last week and the ship was destroyed. We regret the loss of life (probably nav comps) but will not sit idle as our economy and that of our neighbours is targetted. The feline nation may respond by agreeing to stop spying , which will see the ban on FEL shipping at Sapphire lifted. High Star and associated emplacements will target all FEL ships until such time as they act with honour.

We regret to inform that we expect the opposite, and prepare for Consortium (note not just FEL) fleets in orbit shortly. FCN/SMS will not be targetted although, our defences are solid and our retaliation will be venomous. All missile batteries and point defence are fully operational. Feline shipping outside of Sapphire orbit will not be hindered."

We can confirm that the FEL spyship in orbit of High Star was indeed destroyed, thanks to first hand reports from IGN personnel on scene.


*** Falconian Markets Close ***

Several FCN markets throughout the Peripheries are closing this week, as a major Falconian political has announced his retirement. We expect there will be more on this story next week.


***** Message From The Editor *****

Yahoogroups have recently introduced a change to the way their digest messages display, making it much easier to navigate around discussions on the Phoenix yahoogroup. I mention this here because for players who find the avalanche of mail a little too much, you might want to try this new improved digest version, it makes it much easier to find and read the information you want, without having to plough through posts that have no relevance to you.

Also, I think this is me caught up now with the news, but if I have missed anything that you particularly wanted to be included, please drop me a line. You will understand I had more than a few hours worth of email to sort through.

- Simon.


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DNA - members.optusnet.com.au/madmaxcc/
DOM - www.pvv.org/~kennetso/dominion
FCN - home.btconnect.com/Howells/fcn.htm
FEL - www.felini.org/
FET - fet.mindmuse.net/
FGZ - flagritz.cjb.net./
IMP - www.chalmore.co.uk/
MOH - www.mohache.com/
QNG - www.qng-28.org/
RIP - www.rip17.com/
SMS - www.stellarmining.co.uk
WMB - wimbles.specht.co.uk/
Lausnaff Enterprises - web.telia.com/~u40927438/aft/
Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

*****KJC Update*****
The update will be run on Thursday 206.25.4 (a week later than promised due to a couple changes).

Anti Personnel devices
APD have had their damage increased to 1. They are only effective on assaulted starbases when the control is >80%. This means that they are an effective defence but are not only thing that is needed to defend a starbase. Only hit as many times as there are targets, so excessive APD have no effect.
Are affected by control like all other weapons i.e. x10 likelihood of hitting at 100% control. Can not be hit in short range, only by collateral damage (so they can not soak damage).

Weapons on Trade Ships
The number of space weapons that can be installed on XL/L hull ships has been changed to 10mu/hull. Weapons include fighter bays but not ammunition. The weapon space is quoted on the installed list. Any excess weapons on existing ships will be dumped into a friendly starbase next time you dock for no integrity loss. Any designs that have weapons in them will have the weapons dumped out of them after construction, and should be amended (this is because players are still attempting to find new and inventive ways of creating the one-shot-wonder). ISR damage will remain in the game to sort out shrimps.

Offensive /Defensive Items
Items are now either considered normal/offensive/defensive. Most items are normal, the other types are currently
Offensive: Warbots
Defensive: AAE/RDB
Defensive items can only be used starbase. Offensive items cannot be used by a starbase.
If a position can not use a type of item it is not consider in ground combat - i.e. it does not soak damage, contribute control points or damage. This is reflected in the position ground combat report. This means that SB can keep as many warbots as they like without the negative control effect.

Note: AAE accuracy -> 40% since it was silly

Armour on Items
Items can now block (on average) a certain amount of damage before they are in danger of being destroyed. If items with 1 armour takes damage then 0-2 damage will be blocked (based on a bell curve around 1 damage). Currently this is implemented on trained troops (1 armour), veteran troops (2 armour), veteran mercs (1 armour) and officers (5 armour).
So with these armours; 1000 mercs shooting a veteran troop will still kill him. However 5 mercs vs veteran troop will most likely mean the veteran survives for some time.

Battering Starbase shields
If a starbase's shields are absorbing a large amount of damage then the accuracy of ground weapons fired from the starbase will be reduced. This will stop starbases from having planetary control while being heavy shelled from orbit. This will all allow forces to be built up on the ground in order to capture the starbase.
Acc modifier is: -1 acc /50 dmg (absorbed by the shield) /shield complex.
So if a starbase taking 1000 dmg per round and only having 1 shield complex but absorbing 100% of the damage will have a -20acc to its ground weapons.

Slave Revolts
Slave revolts have been added. If you have more crew factors than you have slaves there will not be a revolt. The more security complex you have the more effective the crew factors will be at containing slaves.
Each active security complex adds 100% to your crew's effectiveness per 1000 slaves (up to a maximum of +200%).
So if you have 10 security complexes and 20000 slaves then you get +50% bonus to your crew factors for dealing with slaves.
It takes a minimum of 5 weeks for slaves to revolt and there are warnings each week.

Meklan
Less than 1000 meklan in a position presents no problem, more than this incurs a % chance each week that the meklan will get messy. Certain artefact may increase the number of meklan that can be safely controlled.

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


*** Crisis On Earth ***

The Imperial news agencies are carrying the following story:

"Rumours and vague reports are coming in from the former Inner Empire of a food crisis on Earth in the Sol system. It is rumoured to have been caused by a disruption of supplies from out of system sources. Consideration is being given to the provision of Food Aid from the peripheries."

This story confirms several rumours that have been heard around the IGN newsroom for some time, but never substantiated until now, that the once mighty homeworld of humanity has fallen into a state of significant disaster.

There are further disturbing rumours coming out of the Inner Empire regarding the use of weapons of mass destruction.

It is too early to tell if this story means that the Imperial-bloc have finally won the race back into the Sol system, but clearly they have at least opened up lines of communication.


*** DNA Spy Attempts Fail ***

A number of DNA sponsored agents have been caught entering SMS installations in recent weeks. Alert SMS security forces have intercepted and detained a number of such agents, whose efforts have been described by an SMS spokesman as 'pitiful'.


*** Update On Imperial Fleet Action ***

The Imperial wire is carrying a further update on the recent naval engagement in the Darkfold.

"A very large DTR fleet appeared in the Ruin system, presumably the Darkfold rebels were despairing of doing anything serious about the ISP raiding fleet that has been running more or less unopposed around their periphery for the last four weeks or so. Both DTR and IMP fleets got split up and a number of smaller actions caused us to lose another ten ships, making a total of eleven for the whole operation. Balanced against overall kill of forty four rebel ships during the incursion this makes the operation reasonably successful with the added bonus of pulling the DTR fleet back into the Darkfold.

The CIA are making noises about "unfair advantage" and crying foul. It is assumed that they are trying to draw attention away from the abysmal performance of their own ships."


*** Detinus Republic Ban Krell ***

Michelle Diaz, Speaker of the House of Lords, has appeared on Detinus news networks, giving the following statement to the Peripheries press:

"During recent weeks, there has been a significant escalation in
claims and counter claims between the Krell and the Falconians.
During this time, the DTR have been asked to make a stance on this
matter. When the conflict was confined to Inversion, the DTR could
understand, if not necessarily agree to, the Krell desire to use
whatever means (including WoMDs) to remove the Falconians from their
home world.

There has also been some breaches of neutrality in Yank and hope that
both parties take additional steps to prevent further conflict in
this system and that they keep to tradition by offering compensation
to the offended party.

However, the Krell announcement that they will attack neutral ships
trading in Acropolis or Storm sets a worrying precedence. In
addition paying bounties to other affiliations and also to pirates to
attack Consortium ships across the peripheries can only promote and
encourage piracy which the DTR condemn outright. For this reason,
the DTR Senate has with immediate effect voted to ban all Krell
positions from DTR claimed space."


*** Dominion Launch Offensive In Solo ***

At time of press our reporters have no further information on this story, other than that contained within a recent statement from the Dominion Overlord. The statement reads as follows:

Citizens of the Peripheries

Due to the ongoing conflict with the DTR, the Dominion has kept a tight
security sweep of the planet Haven. despite warnings of this nature some
affs still insist on non-disclosure of hidden outposts / starbases. This has
ended in a recently discovered outpost belonging to an affiliation we are
not at war with being destroyed. The Dominion take no responsibility for
this and blame the loss of life on the negligence of that affiliation. The
Dominion hopes that this serves as a reminder to the rest who may still have
undisclosed outposts to mention them now less they end up in the same fate.

The owner of the destroyed outpost is at this time unknown.

There has been no statement from the AFT, who administer the Solo system, regarding this incident. Which has lead to speculation regarding exactly who now administrates the Solo system.


*** Imperial Outpost Application Causes Riot Of Excitement ***

An outpost application has been received to exploit the following codes in the Starling System. Anyone already exploiting these codes should inform the Viceregal Administration by Day 4 Week 25, indicating on which celestial body they are being exploited.

#38549 & #10163


*** New Falconian House Emerges ***

A new power has arisen amongst the Falconian Empire, House Raven, led by their ruler, Thoriqal. In the following statement, Thoriqal appears to have stated his intent to wrest control of the empire from the ruling House Vulture:

"We have managed to escape the clutches of the Vultures. We now control various bases in the Empire and we will continue our struggle to liberate the rest from Vulture control."


***** Periphery Classifieds *****


*** Governors Sought ***

Dear all fellow beings

The BHD are looking new Starbase Governors.

We are looking for beings with enough enthusiasm to help build up the BHD.

The Brotherhood is built on the holy three stones of Faith, Technology and Violence. We will consider any applicant, Alien or Human, Novice or Experienced, even females ( to a certain degree). We will not accept any WOMD using megalomaniacs.

Pope Naz


*** Ships for Sale ***

I've three Pioneers(100 light hulls) for sale at the bargain price of 60,000 stellars.
Any interested parties get in contact quickly, before they are gone.
Regards,
Kasumi Shinzawai

Byrnekd [at] eircom [dot] net


*** Beware ***

Their time is coming.
What was once will be again.
By their agents shall we know them.
From the dark spaces they approach.
And all shall be swept away.


*** Ships For Sale ***

100 light hull behemoth freighter.

150 light hull Titan freighter.

50 light hull freighter.

Make me an offer.

hmruath [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk


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Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

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

*** Nuclear Weapons Detonated ***

Nuclear weapons have been detonated on the surface of Falconia. The story broke on the Naplian News Network, where the following story was broadcast:

"Naplian scientists report that multiple "DNA mushroom bombs" (as the naplians call these) terraforming devices, have been successfully tested on Falconia with the intent to terraform the surface to something resembling the Krell homeland.

Whilst the startled civilian population have been spared there is a smell and taste of crisp chicken and burnt spicy hot wings in the charred forest suburbs. Radioactive levels appear to be rising effecting the market produce which I am sure will be dumped into the market at very cheap attractive prices.

Mad Max said "Glow in the dark seasonal Turkey's may be a new product line, I encourage all friends of the Falconians to come and taste them and take then back to their starbases".

This report was prepared some 3 weeks back when the events occurred, if you have bought Falconian product from Falconia within the last 3 weeks the DNA advises you to return or destroy the product from your shelves.

This health tip has been bought to you buy, Naplian Home and Health Magazine."

When approached by IGN reporters, the DNA were able to confirm that at least two nuclear weapons were detonated:

"DNA confirmed that they still have way to go to cover the surface, but tests
were encouraging, terraforming is a slow process, it takes many methods.
Eye witness reports from fleeing flocks confirmed at least 2 Mushroom clouds
of black smoke could clearly be seen from close to the main Falconian
starbase whether there was anymore across the planet is unclear due to the
poor visibility and widespread panic and immediate news blackout by the
Falconian Junta. Even after 3 weeks reports are only now just coming out. Black Ravens have been seen on Falconia and this looks like a bad omen."

And in even more worrying news, other Naplian news resources have received information that indicates new Consortium dwelled planets are about to be targetted by nuclear weapons.

An IGN reporter was able to obtain the following eye witness report: "...a nuke in the middle of the forest...The mushroom is easily spotted rising as black cloud. The blast while still quite large is damped by the world ISR field."

There does however still exist some confusion, if these nuclear attacks were three weeks ago, why are we only just hearing about them now? And what of the threatened KRL nuclear attacks against the FCN?

Only time will tell.


*** Crisis On Earth ***

Our reporters have learnt that a joint GTT/FET/IMP expeditionary group has begun delivering 50,000 mus of food per week to the planet Earth.

According to the Imperial Viceroy, "It appears that rebellions, and activity to suppress them, against the GCS rule in parts of the old Inner Empire have disrupted the regular food supplies that Earth relies on to feed its population. This operation is pledged to continue as long as it is required."

While it is not explicit, it does indeed appear that GTT/FET/IMP vessels are once again active within the Sol system, and that the Imperial-Bloc has quite decisively won the race to return to the cradle of humanity.


*** Pirate Destroyed ***

A pirate ship was engaged by an IMP armed escort as it attempted to board an IMP Freighter in the Audrey system. The pirate ship suffered enough damage for a probable kill to be claimed by the Heavy Cruiser escort.


*** Imperial Outpost Application Form ***

An application has been received to exploit the following codes in the
Rebellion system. Anyone already exploiting these codes in Rebellion should
inform the Viceregal Administration by day 5 Week 26, indicating the
celestial body on which they are being exploited.

12039, 85793, 25525

An application has been received to establish an outpost to exploit code
15286 in the Starling system. Anyone already exploiting this code in
Starling should inform the Viceregal Administration by Day 5 Week 25,
including the celestial body on which it is being exploited.


*** DNA In Hot Water ***

Following last weeks banning of the KRL from Detinus space, this week has seen the DNA banned from Imperial space.

The office of the Imperial Viceroy has released the following statement from Admiral Lord Simms:

"The DNA have committed several hostile acts against positions legally
present within the borders of the Empire over that last few months. Our
patience has finally been exhausted and the DNA have been advised that they
are personae non gratia and will be expelled from the Empire's systems. They
have been granted up to Day 5 Week 30 to remove their fixed assets. They
have not deigned to answer the message informing them of this. Whether this
is due to Mad Max's disdain for Imperial Laws or that DNA communications
systems have not advanced beyond the string and empty tins level is open to
question.

Any individual acquiring fixed assets in our systems from the DNA is
reminded that they must get permission to hold the said assets from the
Viceregal Administration BEFORE the position is re-flagged."

The IGN news-team are uncertain how many major DNA assets there are within Imperial space, and note with some interest that all DNA markets have appeared to have closed.


*** Pirate Large ***

There has been not one, but two communications from the (insert adjective here) pirate, Large, this week:

"Ahharrgghhhh me hearties.... It be aye... Pirate Large......

Carnage in Yank.

Well we as been in action an is ere to reports that the IND ship Judith
Durham was boarded by me boys on stardate 206.22.5, it be the same day that
the AFT whalloped one o me boarders in yank, so we wons one and lost one
that day. But on stardate 206.23.1 the AFT trys to retake the Judith. Me
boys as never had to stop a boarding action before an was excited. They
readied them selves at the atch, as 540 marines trys to get into the ship.
The hackin n slashin gets underway, as we was cutting them down before they
gets frew. Well all the boarding actions were repelled an we gots the ship
out,

In the battle aye we lost over 80 men defending our new capture, but the AFT
well they not be used to dying in such large numbers, an it is felt that
180+ o the marines died in the hatchway. They now knows how tough it be when
yee gets involved in attacks.

Well we gots the Judith out as I says, an tooks the 3 living prisoners backs
to base, to get our moneys worf."

And the second communication:

"Ahharrgghhhh me hearties.....It be aye... Pirate Large......

It be stardate 206.24.5 when I wens back into yank again, when me look outs
says, cappan small MOH freighter loiterin in the Alpha quad. Ahharghh, it be
a baby, but I dun discriminate aye.

Me boys readied their cutlass, an we caught up wiv the ship, opened the
hatches an stormed aboard, garrr, I loves these MOH gals, the smell o cattle
[censored] hits yee when you gets on board. An the crew seemed just too nice to do
much killin, infact they looked like they wanted some luvin, and gives in
wivout out me havin to kill anyone at all. They saws that Large himself as
graced them wiv his presence, and the gals soon loosened their knicker
elastic when I whips out me [censored] .....

Aye well I tooks them all on board me ships and gets out o yank, and spend a
fews days [censored] me [censored] wiv the birds, these helfy livin types be good
in the hay. And I treat them all nice. No cargo on board which be a bit of a
downer, but hey its another ship aye it be.

I don't know if yee remembers me telling yee stories abouts me crew, but I
though id pass on this ditee likes o one o me crewman."

This ditee has been censored by the IGN news-team, because, apparently, we are just big killjoys and spoilsports.


*** Nuclear Explosion In Aladdin ***

Visitors to the Aladdin system are being treated to an impressive light show, as the aftereffects of a massive nuclear explosion echo around the system.

Entering orbit of Brass (12)
206.22 Highly energetic emissions indicate that a nuclear detonation of moderate size has occurred.

It does not seem too much of a stretch to assume this event is in some way connected to the recent nuclear explosion unleashed in the Cluster Periphery, in which case we can assume that another TCA cr�che site has just been destroyed by an as yet unknown ARC-sponsored power.


*** WoMD For Sale ***

FET Invincible this week placed Bio-Chemical warfare Tech on its open markets. A move that provoked a few raised eyebrows in this day and age in the Peripheries that is seeing a fresh deployment of WoMD almost every week.

The director of the FET issued the following statement:

"It was researched by the previous governor of the base (who is no longer with the company)during the time we were active participants in the human civil war. As the peripheries know FET are now non-combatants in that conflict and therefore have no interest in technology such as this. And before our former enemies start up about use of WOMD I would like to ask them if they too haven't researched such technology. FET conducted this research as a deterrent, as do all those affs who have the technology to produce WOMD. So as FET no longer need such weapons and wanting to recoup some of the expense the base decided to put the tech on the open market. That is better than trying to keep such technology in the dark and selling it to someone with less than peaceful motives. This way it hopefully shows that FET are looking at new ways to succeed in the peripheries."


*** Krell On The Offensive ***

Warlord Goth via subspace link:

"Last week every member of the consortium was hit by various Krell attacks. The Falconians had their home system defiled once again and the FEL got a base blown to crap. On Tuesday, Warlord Goth authorized a surgical strike to finish off an SMS base in the Storm system which the SMS were building back up from a previous strike. This time, the Krell decided to send in troops to storm the mining outpost. The base fell in one day and the troopers were happy to note that the SMS had placed a stack of gatling lasers to protect the base....Guessing that they would get hit the same way twice (bad guess). The cyborg warriors that breached the outer defences of the outpost were allowed "first dibs" on the remaining SMS personnel."


---------------------------------BATTLE
REPORT----------------------------------

Shields are down
Scint Coverage: 31.7
Ground Combat tactic:
Storm Position [Control x2 - Casualties x4]
Entering a control battle for SMS Training Camp Alpha (67175).

Ground Battle for the Control of SMS Training Camp Alpha (67175)
----------------------------------------------------------------
Round 1: Battle is 377:7 in favour of Attacker
Defender lost 8.91% control [91.09%]
0.04% chance of losing control
Round 2: Battle is 476:9 in favour of Attacker
Defender lost 9.28% control [81.81%]
0.36% chance of losing control
Round 3: Battle is 157:3 in favour of Attacker
Defender lost 9.16% control [72.65%]
1.23% chance of losing control
Round 4: Battle is 213:4 in favour of Attacker
Defender lost 9.65% control [63%]
3.04% chance of losing control

SMS Training Camp Alpha (67175) has fallen to the attackers.
The defenders retreated to SMS Training Camp Alpha Defence Force
(27534)


*** Dominion Annex Haven ***

Following last weeks announcement, the Overlord of the DOM has this week announced his annexation of the planet Haven within the Solo system:

"As Overlord I repeat the statement. Let us know of your outposts on Haven, as we will not be held accountable. All DTR and allied shipping is to stay away from the Orbit and all affs must ask the Dominion for landing rights on Haven to avoid destruction. The Dominion does not recognise the AFT's ability to be either neutral or a protectorate in this matter and is forced to rely upon its own devices to ensure the continued survival of its people."

Following a public condemnation of the original DOM statement by the AFT, tensions are understood to remain high between the DOM and AFT


*** News Flash ***

Detinus Republic freighter in Monk boarded by Pirate Large!


***** Periphery Classifieds *****


*** Wanted ***

We are looking for good deals on certain products. We are looking
for supplies of Heavy Hulls (metal or organic) at good prices. We
are also looking for cheap ablative armour. We would be willing to
buy both items on regular order and for an extended period if the
price is right.

We are also looking for about 1500 Industrial mods and 500
structural mods if the price is good.

We would also be willing to buy Heavy or normal hulled ships that
are either obsolete or surplus (we will refit and recondition them
ourselves).

Finally, we could also use a stack or 2 of magazines so if you have
them laying around...drop us a price.

Oh, we could also use any working nukes, chem bombs or agent x that
is taking up warehouse space (discretion is the word here).

Goth


*** Desperately Seeking Missy ***

We at the IGN newsrooms aren't even going to mention how many people are looking for the dread Pirate Missy. We are not a dating site, no matter what Michelle Diaz might tell you! Find her yourself!


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

*** Fleet Engagements ***

Reports are reaching our newsroom of a major engagement between the Imperial-Bloc navies and the Confederate Naval Forces. Early indications are that both grand fleets bumped into each other in the Teutonic system, rather by accident, where the CNF found themselves outnumbered.

Heavy fire was exchanged between hundreds of combatants, leading to the destruction of an Imperial Belter class scout, and two GTT Hoplon class carriers. Confederate forces for their part lost three heavy cruisers, two escort carriers, and a Retribution class battleship.

Fleet reports indicate that many more ships on both sides were heavily damaged, and that hardly a single vessel made it through the first day of battle without taking some form of damage.

Meanwhile further elements of the Confederate navies were pinned down by a Dominion battlefleet in the Darkfold system itself, at the centre of Confederate power. Two DOM Man-o-War class carriers are reported to have been destroyed.

Early suggestions are that the Imperial fleet was on its way to support the DOM battlegroup in the Darkfold system as part of some audacious strike at the heart of the Confederacy, but they were waylaid in Teutonic and did not arrive in time, leading to the DOM taking more damage than they planned.

As we go to press, reporters at the Detinus Republic Fleet Headquarters in Venice are filing stories of hundreds of DTR main warships leaving their docks, and heading into deep space.


*** Krell Withdraw Support For Piracy ***

Responding to the recent announcement by the DTR that the Krell are banned from DTR space, Warlord Goth has issued the following statement via subspace link:

*

The Krell feel just terrible about our image and will no longer
encourage piracy in any form, even against the Consortium.
Effective immediately, the Krell will no longer pay bounties on
ships blown up or captured by pirates....

(Goth turns away thinking the channel is closed)...

Goth to his body guard: "Do you think that will do it? I had heard
that there were some great vacation spots in the DTR space and you
know I was never allowed there in the old days." Body guard looking
worried, "Uh, sir, I think they just don't like Krell.... I don't
think it is anything against you personally."
Goth cocking an eyebrow, "hmm, I guess it is hard to imagine the
j*rk*ffs taking a stand against genocide or attacks in Yank when
that might tip the fragile imaginary balance of power against
them....." mutter, mutter, mutter, trailing off complaining and
farting.

*

Although somewhat backhanded, we can assume that the Krell have indeed withdrawn their sponsorship of pirate actions against those who trade with the Falconian empire. Which, given this would have lead to a state of war with most of the major powers in the Peripheries, seems the wisest course of action.


*** More Fleet Engagements ***

The Storm system, hitherto operating under the uncontested control of Consortium patrols, this week saw that control challenged by a strong raid from KRL forces. A 10 ship SMS patrol ambushed and destroyed a KRL torpedo boat, but was in turn ambushed by a large KRL fleet that included several 150 and 200 hull warships. Capital ships that bear a striking resemblance to ex-GTT and FLZ designs.

Warlord Goth has appeared on news screens, and is quoted as saying: "The Krell have launched another raid against an SMS patrol which was defiling our home system. Even though the SMS fleet had twice the Heavy Hulls, our ships used a combined arms approach to tip the combat to our favour. The Krell were able to destroy 300 Heavy Hulls worth of battleships for the loss of only a couple scouts. The Krell will never give up fighting for their home world. We brought independent reporters to witness the carnage."

We at the IGN would like to take a moment at this point to thank both Krell and SMS forces for allowing our reporters full access to first hand information from their captains and crews.

The Krell lost in the first day of battle, two small gunboats, and in return destroyed two SMS Ships of the Line. Special mention should be made of the captain of the SMS Ship of the Line, Ironfist, who saw his vessel take 96.2% damage, yet kept it in one piece, ready to be nursed back to drydock for a horrendously expensive repair job.

Following their successful ambush, KRL forces withdrew in the face of an overwhelming Consortium response that has seen the Storm system flooded with FEL/SMS/FCN warships. Two further small KRL gunboats were destroyed, as their main fleet managed to withdraw, taking light fire.


*** Black Dog ***

The Pirate Black Dog appears to have had a narrow escape this week, following a close encounter with SMS patrol forces.


*** Pirate Large ***

Cluster-Large has struck audaciously in Alpha-4 of the Twinkle system, failing to board a RIP freighter.


*** Imperial Outpost Application ***

An application has been received to exploit code 41741 in the Audrey system. Anyone already exploiting this code in Audrey should inform the Viceregal Administration by Day 5 Week 27, indicating the celestial body on which it is being exploited.

Does anybody read these? Really? Anybody at all?

Contact The Editor.


*** Stop! Or my Basic Module will shoot! ***

This one speaks for itself. If anybody can beat it, let the Editor know�

>TU 148: Deliver {} {410} {250} {} {Install - No}
You delivered 250 Basic Modules

Tussnelda (#1) gained experience.
3 Human Marines (506) were promoted to veterans.


*** Imperial Press Release ***

The following statement has been issued to the press:

Order In Council.

The orbit of the Gas Giant Bork's Dilemma (851) at Beta 14 in the Rebellion
(144) System is herby declared to be a Restricted Area. Ships and Ground
Parties entering the orbit of the said gas giant without the express
permission of the Viceregal Administration shall be liable to be removed
with extreme prejudice.

Admiral Lord Simms
Imperial Viceroy

It is hard not to draw the obvious conclusion that this announcement may in some way be related to recent nukings of various Gas Giants throughout the peripheries.


*** DOM Attack DTR ***

A Detinus Republic outpost, Outpost Marley, in the Acrux system has fallen to Dominion forces following a hard fought two day battle. The initial assault was met by heavy resistance, and the attacking DOM troops were beaten back by massed defensive fire. However, the second day the DOM commander called in orbital bombardment support, and the DTR defenders were quickly suppressed and chased out of their trenches.


*** Pirate Large Releases Captains ***

Ransoms have been paid, and Pirate Large has kept to his word and released 16 captains. There is no word on the anonymous backer who paid the ransom. The captains are yet to be seen by the press, and are understood to be undergoing debriefing, before being returned to their families.


*** Skirmish In Skord ***

An SMS and KRL fleet has skirmished in the Skord system in contravention of the systems neutrality. The Krell forces admitted it was their fault, and an accident, and reparations have been agreed between the warring parties, that will see the Krell pay compensation to the SMS for all damage suffered.

The SMS lost 124 crew and a Heavy Cruiser, along with 4 or 5 other ships needing a good paint job.

The Krell commander in charge of the fleet will surely be dealt with harshly, as this engagement cost them dearly, both in terms of the reparations, and in damage taken as they attempted to disengage from SMS railgun armed vessels that peppered them as they withdrew.


*** Krell Capture SMS Outpost ***

The SMS outpost Training Camp in the Storm system has fallen to KRL forces. The SMS defenders launched a brave but foolhardy attempt to recapture the outpost, and were destroyed.

The loss of this outpost is hardly significant to the SMS, however, it has served as a symbolic victory to the Krell people on Inversion.


*** News Flash ***

The battle in Teutonic has ended, with the Imperial-bloc navies ceding the field to the Confederacy as the first elements of the DTR fast response fleet arrive on scene in time to aid in the destruction of two GTT Warspite class capital ships and a single Imperatritsa Mariya class capital ship that were not quick enough to disengage. Achieving in the process odds of local superiority in the order of 100:1.

It is expected the two sides will now commence a deadly game of hide and seek, as they seek to bring each other to battle once again under favourable odds.


***** Periphery Classifieds *****

*** Ships For Sale ***

Greetings beings of the peripheries,

I would like to announce that Tollar's New Dawn (84145), on Spritzer (256) in Yank (146) has 4 ships of the following configuration now available for sale at a price of $80k each. Would any interested parties please contact me at the following address,

Hadktor Bennim
Gvnr of Tollar's New Dawn (84145), Spritzer (256), Yank (146)
tollar [at] mohache [dot] com

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|-Installed Items--------------------------------------------------------------|
| |
| 1 AI Navigator (915) - 10 mus |
| 1 Bridge (100) - 50 mus |
| 45 Cargo Hold (180) - 100 mus |
| 1 Cryo Pods (129) - 25 mus |
| 8 ISR Type 3 Engines (150) - 20 mus |
| 1 Jump Drive (175) - 50 mus |
| 3 Sensor mkII (104) - 10 mus |
| 21 Thrust Engine (160) - 20 mus |
| |
| Install Space: 5245/5250 Weapon Space: 745/750 |


***** From The Posting Board *****


Mica has posted the following article on the new Posting Boards, I reproduce it here:


Why did our cavalry not fire a single shot?" in forum "Questions/Rules Discussion".

The Situation
A warfleet hits a small convoy but does not manage to wipe it out.
The next day the cavalry comes, joining the ongoing battle.
The warfleet however pulls out. It is engaged by the convoy ships that were in the battle on the previous day, but the cavalry does not get to fire a single shot off at the retreating warfleet - for the difference it made it might well of not turned up

Game Design
There were effectively two options we could have had, either allow the cavalry to shoot at the retreating fleet, or not.

We went for the second option as we feel this is fairer to the smaller faction and encourages strategic play. It also makes the game about more than just resources.
A much larger fleet can move with impunity and does not fear being engaged.
A smaller fleet fearing engagement and moving every day can only be stopped by being directly intercepted either after it has moved on a specific day or mid-movement.

The onus is therefore on the larger fleet to track them down either though breaking their fleet into smaller units or through using lures.

The breaking of a large fleet into smaller units might well mean that they are then tackling a fleet larger than themselves. The point here though is that even though this is the case, the larger fleet must still leave combat on the following day as enemy has multiple smaller units. They will bolster the one that found the enemy just in case the enemy decided to hang around. Further as the warfleet pulls out it will be raked by skirmish fire from the smaller unit.

Also note that if a smaller warfleet is to remain unengaged by the larger force it must keep moving. This means that it will rarely have its full amount of TU's.

Overall, this can on the surface appear frustrating for the owners of the large fleet have spent a vast fortune building it up but when they bring it to battle the fight is over and the enemy are fleeing. From the other side however it does mean that you actually do something safe in the knowledge that the enemy cannot simply run a couple of orders and bring to bear sufficient firepower that a skirmish makes all actions pointless.

Consider the KRL - they have half a dozen ships to their name - hulks for the most part. They hit an FCN warship and rake it a bit, the FCN turn up with fifty fast ships, if the code allowed them to even skirmish with a minor battle; the KRL would loose their ships while trying to flee and probably the will to play the game. The feeling of complete apathy would be too much. Currently however the FCN would be wise to split their fleet into five units of ten ships and cover likely points of escape.
Even if one did find the KRL, at least they would still have some fun and games tackling something that is less overwhelming.


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07-07-2006: SUBSPACE STATIC: 206 WEEK 27 DAY 5

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

*** IND Offers Safe Haven ***

The IND starbase Peurto Bello has made an offer to the Krell and FCN that they will provide a temporary haven to refugees from the KRL/FCN conflict. Free food and clothing along with de-lousing and anti-radiation treatments are available for any civilians wishing to take up the offer.

*** Imperial News Reports On Battle ***

Further details have been released by the Imperial news networks regarding last weeks clash in Confederate space:

"On the first day an allied fleet on its way to a target in the Darkfold System was intercepted and stopped by a CNF picket ship, which promptly disintegrated due to ISR stresses before a shot was fired.

Since the enemy were now aware that the fleet was in the area it was decided to go elsewhere. The CNF picked a location on our route as a blocking position. A squadron of Interceptor Carriers slipped by them and continued to the intended destination. Unfortunately the DOM squadron with the fleet had problems with their navigational computers and went on to the original target. The bulk of our fleet met the CNF fleet and we were outnumbered about three to two. In spite of this the allied fleet destroyed 6 enemy ships to three of ours lost. Since two of our casualties were 150 NH carriers the honours were considered to be about even in this battle.

The DOM squadron meanwhile found itself in some trouble at the original target and suffered the loss of two capital ships.

The Interceptor squadron encountered a squadron of CIA Gunboats and suffered minor damage, doing non in return as the opposition had no space fighters.

Next day all three allied groups, with the exception of three GTT ships with engine problems, withdrew successfully to a common rendezvous, noting that a DTR fleet, hastening to answer the usual call for help by the CNF, was arriving at the main battle location as we left. The three ships left behind were destroyed by the combined DTR/CNF Fleet.

Overall the battles must be considered as a successful defence by the rebels and it was of interest to note that many of the CNF ships were more effective than they have been in the past."

There have been no further battles in the past week, suggesting that both sides disengaged successfully.


*** Nuclear Explosion ***

Further to last weeks story, the Imperial News Networks have released the following story offering a few more details:

"Evidence has been received of a medium sized nuclear explosion at a Gas Giant in the Aladdin system. The matter is being investigated by the Imperial Services. One of the lines of enquiry is looking into the possibility of another ARC strike against a TCA Creche. Should this be the case it is assumed that a third party might be involved, acting on behalf of the ARC."

Speculation is rife regarding the identify of the mysterious third party, with eyes naturally turning towards the Children Of Hexos, who have remained silent on this matter for some time now.


*** Queens Guardian Bloody Pirate Large ***

QNG warships flying in close escort of a QNG freighter have successfully intercepted and destroyed one of Pirate Large's henchvillians. Large has reported the loss himself:

"Garrr, it be wiv regret that i is gettin reports that the Trivial (17705) as
been lost in a contact raid on a freighter today, further reports will be
released as we knows likes.

The Trivial, she be a ship we stole quite some times back, a 40 light hulled
ship aye she be, an we converted it for boardin.

The Trivial has taken at least 6 ships in er time, an the cappan be one o
the succesful ones. so, wiv out further borin you, may yee all holds a tipple o rum up to the boys n gals o the Trivial. May thee have eternal pleasures wiv the wenches o hell..............."


*** The Dominion Join In With Kick-Pirate-Large Week ***

The DOM freighter Dragon's Claw was attacked this week by the pirate vessel Method Of Madness, in delta 10 of the Twinkle System.

The boarding however did not go the pirates way, with the attacking Naplian and Human mercenaries being cut to shreds by defensive fire from the DOM marine compliment onboard the freighter:

Round 1: 68 Human Crew - 7 [68] damage
>> 90 Human Marines - 32 [180] damage
>> 4 Human Veteran Crew - 2 [8] damage
>>
>> Incoming Fire from PIRATE Boarding Party (66650)
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> Round 1: 111 Naplian Mercenaries - 2 [222] damage
>> 108 Human Mercenaries - 2 [216] damage
>>
>> Attacking PIRATE Boarding Party (66650)
>> ---------------------------------------
>> Round 4: 65 Human Crew - 18 [65] damage
>> 87 Human Marines - 20 [174] damage
>> 4 Human Veteran Crew - 0 [8] damage
>>
>> Incoming Fire from PIRATE Boarding Party (66650)
>> ------------------------------------------------
>> Round 4: 38 Naplian Mercenaries - 0 [76] damage
>> 39 Human Mercenaries - 0 [78] damage

The Method Of Madness is suspected to be one of Large's new Cluster flotilla, though given the use of untrained mercenaries on the boarding party, some doubt exists as to this. However, over 140 pirates were killed for the loss of only half a dozen defenders, illustrating again the benefits of fighting a defensive battle.

DOM marines were reportedly ready to counter-attack the pirate vessel itself, forcing the surviving pirates to beat a rapid retreat, as the Method Of Madness turned tail and fled.


*** Inter Galactic News Under Attack ***

The Imperial viceroy has this week declared the IGN reporting of the recent major naval battle in the Darkfold as "laughable", full of "Wild inaccuracies and baseless speculation."

We at the IGN consider baseless speculation to be one of the things we do best here.

Tune in next week for a special report on how the Imperial Viceroy allegedly likes to eat freshly boiled puppies and kittens.


*** Confederate Raiders Destroy Food Convoy? ***

Rumours are circulating that CNF raiders have destroyed an Imperial food convoy bound for Earth. We are at this time unable to substantiate this claim which has been made by the Imperial Viceroy.


*** Pirate Destroyed In Acropolis ***

FCN Patrol forces have destroyed the pirate vessel Mongoloid in the Acropolis system. The pirate, a probe class scout, does not appear to have been a conventional pirate, and rumours persist that this was a vessel engaged in a black-operation.


***** Periphery Classifieds *****

*** Blueprints Wanted ***

Interested in 2 ship bps.

1 * 50 to 75 light hulls, set-up to move lifeforms.
1 * 50 to 75 light hulls, set-up for standard transport.

Anyone with those surplus, contact in private with prices.

Warlord Slyth Dark Angel
Krell Clan Dark Angels


*** Plantlife Wanted ***

I'm looking to buy plantlife. Doesn't have to have a particular use, so
long as it photosynthesises. Generic Alien Plantlife, Spland Moss,
Holdfast, Hydrograss, Swampweed, whatever. Seeds/Grain are fine, as long
it's viable.
Let me know what you've got, and what you want for it. Part payment in
Metals does me, I've got more than I know what to do with.
Actually, Fungi would be great as well.

Jon, QNG


*** Trade Goods Wanted ***

Greetings all beings of the peripheries,

I would like to announce that Tollar's New Dawn (84145) on Spritzer (256) in Yank (146) is looking to buy the following items:

* Unique trade items, in particularly if they are favoured by the Naplians.
* Unique trade items that are sourced from outside of the Outer Capellan periphery

If you can combine both the above requirements all the better :O)

* Vat Grown Morph (9) - (OOC: if you can supply these please also supply a TM first)
* Precious Gems (26)

At the moment only the Gems are on the 'buy' list at the market as I am open to suggestions for the other items from potential suppliers.

If you feel you may be able to fulfil any of these requirements I look forward to your trade at Tollar, so please contact me at the address below.

I wish you all good trade and harvests,

Hadktor Bennim, Gvnr of Tollars New Dawn


*** Cold Hard Cash Wanted ***

Greetings

I am looking for a temp loan of 150.000 stellars, to support KDA expansion.

Warlord Slyth Dark Angel
Krell Clan Dark Angels



***** From The Posting Boards *****

Hospital Complexes:

ccgi.kjcgames.com/phoenix/forum/index.php?showtopic=144

"Are there any guidelines as to how many Hospital complexes a starbase should have n relation ot the number of personnel it has? Or indeed how many medical supplies re needed? I am trying to prepare, (at least knowledgewise), for when the infrastructure changes come in, but I can't find this information anywhere."


Phantom Battle Reports:

ccgi.kjcgames.com/phoenix/forum/index.php?showtopic=145

"Seeing as how I've been asked this question and can't answer it myself, I thought I would try to get a proper answer... Every so often, a freighter's turn report will come in with the subject line beginning 'Phoenix Battle:', but with no sign of any actual battle. What causes this?"


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Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk

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

*** SNAFU In Venice ***

Historic events this week in Venice as the first FET freighter to peacefully trade at the Detinus Republics primary trade centre, New Darien, made its way to the markets. Marking a new era of peace and prosperity.

Regrettably somebody forgot to inform the commander of a nearby DTR Cow Tractor Platform that the FET were friends now, and the FET vessel MM Maine was blown to pieces by massed photon battery fire.

Senator Marcus Rhodes, the DTR foreign minister has been quoted in a leaked internal memo to fleet headquarter as saying, 'Oops!'

This incident was followed by a flurry of embarrassed DTR Senators rushing around to check where else the FET might be accidentally shot at, and our reporters have learnt that as of today, the FET were still on active enemy lists at Scuba Station. A situation that is expected to have been remedied by time of press.


*** Pirate Destroyed In Audrey ***

The pirate vessel Pear Poacher ran into overwhelming force in the inner quadrants of the Audrey system yesterday when it attempted to intercept a Flagritz Empire convoy. The pirate, a Zephyr class gunboat, was annihilated by FLZ warships and an SMS APTF patrol under the command of Commodore 'Hurky-poo' scourge-of-the-pirates Baalazar.

It is understood an Imperial anti-piracy patrol was also in the area hunting for the pirate.


*** Pirate Boarding Attempt Thwarted ***

A Detinus Republic caravel class freighter was boarded this week by pirates in the Skord system. The pirate ship Wolf docked with the DTR freighter and disgorged a very racially diverse boarding party:

Incoming Fire from PIRATE Boarding Party (42215)
------------------------------------------------
Round 1: 10 Demons - 0 [100] damage
20 Falconian Marines - 2 [40] damage
247 Flagritz Startroopers - 8 [494] damage
7 Human Scouts - 0 [7] damage
10 Human Veteran Marines - 0 [40] damage
30 Human Veteran Soldiers - 0 [240] damage
2 Human Veteran Startroopers - 0 [8] damage
90 Kastorian Marines - 4 [180] damage
5 Naplian Veteran Mercenaries - 0 [20] damage

Unfortunately for the pirates they had the misfortune to attack a DTR troop carrier with a full battalion of the DTR marine corp onboard.

Attacking PIRATE Boarding Party (42215)
---------------------------------------
Round 1: 30 Human Crew - 6 [30] damage
739 Human Marines - 244 [1478] damage

9 Detinus marines lost their lives during the battle, which saw approximately 205 pirates massacred.


*** Success For The Pirates ***

Unfortunately there has been some good news for the pirates this week, with reports coming in that the dread pirate Missy has successfully captured a GTT freighter in the Lewis system, along with the captain of the GTT ship, Helen French along with 13 members of her crew.

Pirate Missy has been on the public airwaves boasting of her success:

"In retrospect, Weenie Rogue was right. Eweee, it was like, when we came on board they all mooned me! Human crew are the worse. Being bent over like that may impress some, but not I. After a few carefully guided sword thrusts, they yanked their pants up and surrender the old fashion way. I really don't know what they expected me to do. And Helen French? A perfect lady, but only after I got her attention. She'll be eating out of a straw for a couple weeks. They think because they have a little rank that they can order just anyone around. Oh well, if anyones in the market for a ship, you can leave a message.

One question. That Hurcuron fellow that Black doggy poo hates so much, how did he lose his arm? I mean how did he really lose it? Black Dog says he had it shoved up somewheres and sat down too hard, but Blacky does tend to exagerate. Besides, I think Hurkey-poo is cute!. Well, I'm off to bed Love you all."


*** More Success For The Pirates ***

The Inter-Galactic News is turning into the pirate-report-gazette this week it seems.

Pirate Large has been in action:

"Ahhhaarrgghhhh me hearties................ it be aye............. Pirate Large............

firstly, i as to report that the Trivial as indeed gone down wiv all hands,
trying to takes a QNG freighter. the cappan was a succesful chap who did the
business in the past. the vessel was 40 light hulls, and used to belong to
some IND chap before i boarded it quite some time back aye she be. anyways i
can confirms that many o me pirate mates wen down wiv the ship.

also in an unusual move for me this week, i as broken the pirates code, in a
fashion, and tooks another pirate ship. the 50HH pirate ship Azyuna (54374)
was sat and spotted by my scoutsmany weeks ago aye, an i left her there, but
after spottin and spottin the same ship in Fetlock i figured that the cappan
as taken leave of his senses, an i went in to board it aye. i spokes proper
to the crewman to get them over to our side o the fence, an they agreed very
quickly.

It would appear the cappan wasn a proper pirate and he is now in the brigg,
what i can tell yee is that the cappan on capture reverted to his original
affiliation as a prisoner givin away his loyalty, an also givin away whom he
is working for, a major affiliation aye, which could be interestin to some o
you peoples out there. I is not going to break the pirates code and give you
this man noe the ship, but every man n pirate as is price.

the cappan well i asnt decided is fate yet, a true pirate he not be, likes
some o them out there, killin without profit, not be the true path o us. an
sat in a ship likes that doesn do the good name of us pirates any favours.

remember the code, those who fall behind are left behind, an this cappan not
be worthy of protection or parlee, also remember the code, capture the ship
first, shag em, then kill, or kill em an shag em, i dont cares, but dont
just blow them away, not unless your bein paid good likes...............

i will very shortly be announcin that is is movin from me old ship Large
1118, this ship will be renamed an i is relocatin on anuver ship, i will
change that ship name to Large so you knows it be me, i isn afraid to get
out there, but i is upgradin, that be the perks o me position aye.

Anyways im sure you will hear more from the glorious adventures of the
pirate ship Large (and friends) ahharrggghhhh...."

There has been no further detail released yet on the captain of the Azyuna and which affiliation he might or might not have been working for.


*** Naplians Issue Statement Regarding Imperial Threats ***

Sincere apologies to Mad Max, this item slipped under our radar last week, and is appearing a week later than it should have:

"To Simms IMP Leader

Simms you are well aware of the correspondence to the DNA from the GTT regarding the Mandy incident.

Are you going deaf, or cannot you read the small print? May be, if I, poke my stik in your ear you can hear better, or thrust up your saggy eyelids. Oh sorry forgot the cotton wool a pointed stik will have to do.

There was no time limit put on the SMS to receive their compensation by the GTT, we are still saving up for the 50,000 stellars.

In the meantime, the DNA complied fully to GTT demands with the restricted access to Mandy as requested and furnished the DNA shipping list to the GTT. This will stay in place until such time we can afford this huge some of 50,000 stellars and a ship to supply the SMS as agreed with the GTT.

The SMS whine profusely like teenage girls and tell Daddy Simms "Daddy it's all the DNA's fault".

You won't find the DNA running to Daddy Simms whining at operative actions of the Consortium activities at Angels Nest. This DNA market message and their activities have been clear for anyone else to see but you. You want to see the blueprint that was destroyed by operatives in Angels Nest and the assignation attempt, no stop, I am starting to sound like the SMS teeniest.

| MARKET MESSAGE |
| Warning - Naplian parties are more dangerous then the Consortium operatives |
| trying to sneak around to explode things. |
| |
| No reward is offered for Consortium spies let them in that's what I say We |
| need some party poppers and entertainment.

I await your cruel justice after Day 5 Week 30, and we will celebrate our last party with our remaining funds as your troops come across the great friendship bridge, for we all will pass into immortality, as your bullets rip us apart.

Mad Max. DNA Immortal Chief."


***** Periphery Classifieds *****

*** Vines Wanted ***

MOH Tollars New Dawn is interested in buying a fairly large number of Vines. If anyone is interested in fulfilling this requirement please contact me at the address below to discuss details.

May your harvests grow wild and varied,

Hadktor Bennim
Gvnr of MOH Tollar's New Dawn (84145)
Tollar [at] mohache [dot] com


*** Vessel Wanted ***

I'm looking for a fast little runabout that I can us for TMs and hauling small cargos.

To that end, does anyone have a ship with 20 heavy hulls they would be willing to sell? Preferably something with Korondite Armour? I plan on no weapons so would prefer to have it be stealthy.

roger.books [at] gmail [dot] com


*** Vessels For Sale ***

Good harvests, beings of the peripheries!

Not to be outdone by our sober colleague in Yank, I would like to announce
the following vessel for sale:

MOH SHIP FOR SALE (14131)
Hlq Freighter (771) Class Fast Freighter

Equipped to the following specification:

2 AI Navigator (915) - 10 mus
1 Bridge (100) - 50 mus
160 Cargo Bay (134) - 25 mus
8 ISR Type 3 Engines (150) - 20 mus
1 Jump Drive (175) - 50 mus
10 Quarters (131) - 25 mus
10 Sensor (103) - 10 mus
21 Thrust Engine (160) - 20 mus
10 Thrust Engine mkII (161) - 20 mus

We are offering this vessel for the bargain sale price of $70,000.

Please contact this office at the following address if interested.

Smokes in Mountains
Mohache Kiowo
smokes [at] mohache [dot] com




***** From The Posting Boards *****

Political Reports:

ccgi.kjcgames.com/phoenix/forum/index.php?showtopic=148

"The political report lists all of the assets owned by a player. Would it be possible for the ship information on the report to show the date each ship was last issued an order? This would bring the level of information supplied to the same as that given on the 'affiliation assets' information which PDs and some other players are privy to�"


The cost of officers:

ccgi.kjcgames.com/phoenix/forum/index.php?showtopic=146

"I wish to bring up the cost of using officers."


Officers and Morale:

ccgi.kjcgames.com/phoenix/forum/index.php?showtopic=147

"An interesting thought from the officer debate and lower costing officers for smaller ships is the prospect of adding the roleplaying element of morale. The idea is that officers have a morale value and that this will determine their actions under stress. Officer morale will increase and decrease due to environmental factors (fleet size, in home/enemy territory, surviving fights, destroying enemies, loosing allied ships etc) and the skill of the officer. During an encounter there could be a morale test to determine if the officer (with the support of the crew) is prepared to carry out his orders. Examples include lone ships attempting to stop a large fleet or entering orbit of Venice with DTR on the enemy list. Failed morale checks would result in surrender (nobody surrenders to Pirates) or inaction.

This could allow for cheaper officers for smaller ships, but do not expect these ships to make much of an impact on combat - the captains may well refuse to participate irrespective of the odds (they don't need us, we will look busy loitering).


***** Message From The Editor *****

Mica has boldly gone through the affiliation links section below and dead links have been removed, specifically the BHD/CIA/FGZ webpages.

If you have a webpage that isn't listed here, please contact the Editor.

New link added:

www.jumpmap.com/

Map of the basic entry-level systems.

There are also maps at the AFT website:

www.aftphoenix.org.uk/aft/jumpmap.html

Also, it seems as if the Dewiek.net webpage might have died. I'll leave it on the list below a week or two to see if it comes back.

Simon.


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FEL - www.felini.org/
FET - fet..mindmuse.net/
IMP - www.chalmore.co.uk/
MOH - www.mohache.com/
QNG - www.qng-28.org/
RIP - www.rip17.com/
SMS - www.stellarmining.co.uk
WMB - wimbles.specht.co.uk/
Lausnaff Enterprises - web.telia.com/~u40927438/aft/
Jump/System maps - www.jumpmap.com/
Pirate Large - www.piratelarge.dk