Some time back, there was talk about posting news from our various
campaigns. I wrote a file, but forgot about it up to now.
Since the campaign are a one-time-a-year-but-then-it-is-a-whole-week affair,
there won't be any more news until next summer.
(And the campaign will probably never come into sync with 'real' gametime :-(
Scattered News:
Mora/Spinward Marches (3124 AA99AC7-F) Date: 110-1116
o Questions have been raised about the reliability of the Naasirka MasterMek
XT-3 mekbot after the Al-Morai liner 'Profitous Venture' appeared insystem
yesterday.
o The ship was preparing to jump from Fornice to Maitz when the robot took
control of the engineroom and change the destination to Mora.
o A Naasirka spokesophont claimed that the robot in question was not a
genuine MasterMek, but a copy from Gvurrdon.
Wroclaw/Deneb (0226 C4667BF-7) Date: 132-1116
o Several members of a mercenary unit, among other the CO and several high
officers were today found guilty of multiple counts of murder, assault and
destruction of govenment property.
o The mercenaries had engineered incidents to get an extended contract.
Mora/Spinward Marches (3124 AA99AC7-F) Date: 169-1116
o According to usually well informed sources in the Navy, a heavy jump tug
belonging to the 73rd fleet has been missing for at least three months with no
clues to it's whereabouts.
o "The ship isn't lost! We've just don't know exactly where it is for the
moment." a Navy spokesophont claimed.
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Thingen/Deneb (0518 B467998-D) Date: 231-1116
o About eight thousand civilians and more than five hundred marines died
today when AraPacian terrorists first hijacked, then destroyed an orbitral
spaceport.
o The terrorists were led by an unidentified human who identifyed himself as
'Colonel Svoboda' called themselves 'The AraPacis Army for Independence' and
demanded that Thingen stop their interference in the civil war on Ara Pacis.
o The terrorists had held the station for about eight hours, fought back two
boarding attempts and were performing a hostage exchange when a unidentifyed
Navy ship rammed the station. Mere seconds later, the station and the ship was
destroyed in an nuclear blast.
o Among the victims were the wellknown physisist, Sir Dirac F. Legendre,
Marquis of Equus and Professor at the Rhylanor Institute of Technology, also
known as 'Mr Nuclear damper' for his work during the Fifth Frontier War.
o Speculations linking the presence of the Marquis and an Navy transport
with secret cargo onboard the station have been dismissed by the Navy.
o A highly placed source in the Thingian govenment claims that the Navy have
done several siezures of recordings and transcrips from the negotiations with
the terrorists.
Thingen/Deneb (0518 B467998-D) Date: 232-1116
o As of early this morning, the Imperial Navy have placed the Thingen system
under limited martial law. Navy ships are rumored to conduct searches in the
outer parts of the system and all interplanetary and interstellar traffic is
strictly controlled.
o In a comment to yesterdays events, Admiral Pigadkiirish: "I don't give a
flying <beep> about how Thingen behaves on AraPacis! That don't give them a
blank check to blow up several thousand Imperial Citizens, kill Imperial
Marines and destroy Imperial Vessels."
o A Navy source claimed that the Navy will come down hard on AraPacis and
said that yesterdays attack was the most stupid thing any AraPacian could have
done.
o A film has surfaced which supports recent allegations that the terrorists
used several Navy ships to board the station.
o Naval authorities refused comment.
Seleen/Deneb (0517 A310467-E) Date: 251-1116
o Prince Ghaenloghz, on the way to signing an important trade agreement
departed Seleen in anger after being accosted by an unidentified person who
called him, among other things,'Illegitimate son of a Hiver and a K'Kree'.
o The perpetrator then loudly declared himself to an agent of solsek and was
spirited away from the scene by compatriots while singing 'Solomani Uber Alles'
and yelling 'Hail Terra'
o The Seleen chief of police said that she was convinced that the whole
affair was a work by Vilani Supremasists who are known to have been active on
Seleen in the past. She futher expressed surprise that they thought that
anyone would fall for such a clumsy attempt to cast the blame on the Solomani.
o Prince Ghaenloghz have stated that the trade agreement is scrapped.
Thingen/Deneb (0518 B467998-D) Date: 257-1116
o Lieutenant Janna Ukwa of the Thingen Customs Police was today placed under
arrest by persons believed to be working for Imperial Naval Intelligence
immediately when she debarked the liner from Seleen.
o The report to Thingen Customs Police that she sent by radio from the liner
was siezed by armed marines who forced their way into the Customs HQ on
Thingen High.
o Lieutenant Ukwa was listed as a casuality of the recent terrorist attack
and sources within the Customs Police claims that she was working on the
station that was hijacked when the highjacking occured.
o Naval authorities refused comment.
Thingen/Deneb (0518 B467998-D) Date: 258-1116
o The Thingen Imperial Naval Base today went on full wartime alert.
Shoreleaves were canceled, all of-duty personell were recalled and the number
of Navy ships leaving the base reached an all time high since after the Fifth
Frontier War.
o Naval authorities refused comment.
Tha-tha-tha-thats all folks.
- -bertil-
- --
"And your vehicle takes four suspension hits. You are all thrown out of your
seats as your tank's 'suspension of disbelief' fails with a grinding noise.
'I won't buy this anymore!' your vehicle says. 'This is ludicrous! Totally
unrealistic! I'm outta here!' it says and drives away into the sunset."