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Fresh clashes between lizard hunters, the EHS (Exo Hunt Saboteurs) and
conservationists from AlienRights broke out last week at Wolf 359. In a bizarre twist to
this increasingly bitter dispute, an EHS party of four booked incognito onto a
DinoSlaughter package holiday to the Duoma Reserve on the Southern Continent. Within hours
of setting out, they used their hunting rifles to kill the two guides, and then disarmed
and seized the other twelve members of the fee-paying party. As they were opening
negotiations with Duoma Leisure PLC they, in turn, were ambushed by a paramilitary squad
of conservationists from AlienRights armed with mortar-launched nerve agents, acting in
the belief that the EHS were merely "more hunters on holiday". With this
escalation in the fighting, the head of the tourist company (and the employer of the two
guides), Deniz Chuntz, has pulled all his men from the reserve. "This is
ridiculous: we're not here to do police work", he said. Chuntz is now urging a
visiting French Frigate to open up Smartrock spacestrikes.
Independent researchers have calculated that almost 50% of the Reserve is now outside
the control of Duoma Leisure. (HubCom) |
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Berlin / Earth (Sol) |
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The trial of Spiro Palidomes is now entering its second week. Palidomes is accused of
seven murders carried out during an industrial espionage mission against Byron Solutions.
He has so far refused to identify his employers on the basis of "professional
etiquette". The trail's outcome may have serious ramifications for corporate
"black" operations, the scale of which has been attracting growing public
concern. (Infocorp) |
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Robotic surveyors operating deep within the Clarke Ocean on the Jovian side of Europa
have continued to map the die-offs of Europan native life, believed to have been caused by
the large scale release of radioactives into the water. These radioactives are presumed to
stem from the French-owned nuclear powered survey vessel Cousteau. The submarine,
captained by Anne-Marie Bois, was the first manned vessel to operate under the surface of
Europa for any length of time, and produced a large amount of knowledge regarding this
complex and involved eco-system. Contact was lost with the submarine late last year, and
it was assumed to have broken up with the loss of all hands. (Interstellar Planetographic)
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Mars (Sol) |
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Harlon Quinn, 120MLv winner of the this year's Paris Lottery, is rumored to be
spending the bulk of his win on a personal space habitat to be situated in a pole-to-pole
Martian orbit. The habitat, largely made from a converted Pallas-series freighter, should
be completed early next year. It is reported that Harlon, the ex-cargo loader from
downtown Libreville, has said on numerous occasions that "this win won't change my
life". (Hola!) |
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UK / Earth (Sol) |
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Researchers at Oxford University have uncovered a potential flaw in the latest
generation of navigation software based on the new Schroedinger Tunneling Confidence
algorithms. Under extreme circumstances they claim it is theoretically possible for
the core of the stutterwarp drive to become LY saturated during restarts from all-stop
drive powerdowns - depending on external gravitic fields and when in a near-saturated
state - but add the assurance that the circumstances are highly unlikely to ever occur. Harry
Verduici, a spokesman for the Interstellar Passenger Safety Executive, says:"it is
extremely worrying that such a potentially disastrous possibility has even a theoretical
likelihood in any safety-critical situation. The Executive will be looking for assurances
and upgrades from the companies concerned." A spokesman for Microsoft, makers of
the popular Columbus navigation system added "We are not aware of any such
dangers and reassure the public that all of our products are completely and rigorously
tested on our own test vessels. If you are running Columbus in our company's suite of
ship-control systems, then you know you're ok". (HubCom) |
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