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            ....Current Program: IGNM News Report; Source: OMNET Central, Mnemen IV Life-Ring....

            *A human-like shadow of a face, neck and shoulders floats to the left of the screen. You can see it belongs to a man of sharp lines. His mouth moves and, acompanying the audio a line of text in the Ur-Dargi language scrolls the low part of the video screen.*

            "...Remember to turn to TransComm 002 for up-to-the-second reports on local Quantum weather. Now, on Galactic news..."

            *The right side of the screen lights up with the spinning tri-dimensional image of the Federated Stellar States' emblem. While the man speaks, it changes to images of war and several hulky cargo ships exploding in space.*

            "Today, in another yet unusual chapter of the war between the Blizz Republic and the People.Alliance.Coalition or PAC, two Mayor powers got involved as a caravan of three FSS cargo ships exploded shortly after leaving a PAC SpaceHand. FSS technicians had announced the explosives had been installed while their stay at the SpaceHand Docks, but made no accusations.
            While the PAC claims innocence and blaims a Blizz infiltrate, the 453th War-Wing of the Stellar States is already moving into position to escort the remaining FSS ships out of the contested zone. Said zone, only 121 light years from the official Fartrade Coalition border, is now being announced as "untouchable" by the Council of the Bar. The Bar expressed concern about the FSS fleet taking sides at the Blizz-PAC dispute, and anexing said space to their own Empire.
            The 453th War-Wing holds position at PAC space waiting for a FSS announcement."

            *The image now changes to that of a lone red planet.*

            "The K'Tan offensive against the Area Empire in Sector Q made the unthinkable yesterday: they stopped. After a week's conflict which ended with the desimation of the Area fleet and the invasion of two of their three colonies, the K'Tan 21st Fleet halted 2 light years away from the third colony, Uilo. Humanitary relief vessels with the Ephorate symbol failed to approach the Area planets due to the hostility of K'Tan forces, and their situation is unknown.
            On Sector B, the K'Tan Imperial Forces have also decided to limit their movements to patrol routes along their bordes and through many nearby Empires, presumably as a show of force."

            *A female's face of long-black hair and fair skin appears to the right of the reporter's avatar.*

            "Her name is Barêthil and she's been reported escaped this morning by the Pluzhiak authorities. The woman, a Hur'an by birth, entered illegaly the Imperium four years ago and thus was considered a slave by Pluzhiak law. According to Border Patrol's reports, she hijacked the "Grace", a passenger shuttle, with only a knife and a small energy weapon. She requested the ship to land at Serac II, a colony of the Thur Imperium, where she left the shuttle. Her location is yet unknown.
            She is only one of the three hundred cases of scaped slaves reported by the Imperium every week. The Imperator is said to be considerating harsher punishment for said crime."

            *A cloud of debris fills the screen, rotating slowly and blocking the background stars.*

            "A massive explotion registered early this week at the Dra'Keshi Empire had its cause at the sudden and unexpected core-desestabilization of Ember, one of the Dra'Keshi Homeworlds. The authorities reported the missing or dead sentients at over the three-thousand."

            "This was Vestis Apsius Dakarrus reporting from Mnemen IV, OMNET Central, for the Intra-Galactic News Matrix. IGNM: a Universe of perspective you can Trust."

            ....Next Program: The Union of Stars Economy Update; Source: Begroise Citadel, UoS....

Written by Esteban