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| UK/London (Sol) |
Football fever is beginning to mount with the approach the the World Cup
this June. Tickets for all first round matches have already been sold out and tickets for
the France-Hannover game are now circulating at over 2000 pounds each.
The odds have been extremely fluid the last few weeks but England, the current champions
are favorite.
Example odds (Lloyds of London):
England 2-1
France 3-1
Bavaria: 5-2
Hannover: 7-1
Brazil: 4-1
Argentina: 20-1
Texas: 25-1
Scotland: 100-1
Wales: 6-1
Austrovienna: 4-1
Indonesia: 14-1
Hopes of making history by winning the world cup 3 times in a row are high for England but
both Bavaria and France offer still competition.
(The Times, Home Counties Edition) |
| Tirane (Alpha Centauri) |
Latest news in from reports unconfirmed sightings of a large human
like beast covered in hair, living in the wild. New Chicago is a small timber products
town located in the rough foothills of the White Spine Mountains near the New Canberra and
Ameratsu borders. Like most of Tirania, New Chicago has experienced an economic downturn
in the past decade. However the town is going through a boom as American, Australian and
Japanese tourist flock to experience the first ‘bigfoot’ sightings reported off
earth.
Local Peace Commissioner Peter Roget has dismissed claims that the sightings are a mere
hoax, “I saw the creature with my own eyes. I swear it was real... real ugly too and
what a stench.” Apparently the creature resembles the typical ‘bigfoot’
appearance of being over two meters tall and covered in hair. Like most
‘bigfoots’ reported it is extremely elusive.
Psychologists and Anthropologist have dismissed the sightings, pointing to the lack of any
physically comparable species native to Tirane and 350 years of psychological evidence of
cryptozoology witnesses on Earth... (Worlds News Weekly)
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| La Salle Station (Tau Ceti) |
| The Republic of Texas Department of ExtraSolar Colonization announced
that AusCo requested a recall of the recently delivered Cabeza De Vaca Class Survey
vessel. Company officials were unavailable for comment, but Texas' DEC reported the
possibilities of defects in the survey sensors as the reason for the recall.
The De Vaca is currently undergoing a shakedown cruise while visiting
Austin's World and is expected to arrive at Tau Ceti by the end of the month. (La
Salle Daily Sentinel) |
| Doris (DM+20 5046) |
| The Canadian Coast Guard Cutter ""Champlain""
was lost with all hands to a freak refueling accident in High Orbit at the systems primary
gas giant. Department of Transportation officials have not released a full report. But an
unnamed source within the Department of Transportation stated "Initial
evidence suggest a freak collision with a micrometor during refueling"
A full investigation has been ordered by the Coast Guard, Colonial Department and the
Department of Transportation." |
| Montana (Omnicron 2 Eridan) |
Tempers flared again this week in the Omicron 2 Eridani System as a
Brazilian freighter inbound to the Montana Refueling Station was first warned then forced
off of it's flight path by several Argentinean Warships. The official Argentinean response
to this was the flight path intersected Restricted Space in orbit over
the INAP installation drilling the so called ""Super Deep Core, Drilling
Installation"". What is known is that several shots were fired and at
the time of this release the Brazilian Ambassador has been removed from Buenos Aires
again. Unofficially we have determined that several Brazilian Ships have been
dispatched to the Latin Finger several months early. Their crews in all probability
annoyed at having their 2 month rest and refit cut short...
(Xyu XianXia Reporting for the Asian World Network)
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| Ellis |
The ninth joint Australian/American outpost was officially opened today.
Named after pioneering 22nd century American astrophysicist Nina J.
Contreras the new station is located in the DM+452743 system. This
outpost, of the latest design, has both orbital and planetary sections
will open up access to the Highland sector. The two promising new worlds
Avalon and Alighieri can only be accessed through this system and
observers predict a big push to colonize these planets now that Nina J.
Contreras Station is operational. |
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