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[Baron Munchausen]

Renegade 13 said:
GNN, Quadria IV

In a bizarre incident earlier today, the genetically altered cattle being experimented on in the BioCreations lab on Quadria IV's moon Idaria seized control of the facility, killing all the scientists and handlers working at the facility.

Reports indicate that the geneticists had, against the Genetic Alteration Act of 2355, somehow managed to endow the critters with consciousness and some measure of intelligence. From what little we have been able to piece together, it seems the cattle organized the action seamlessly, broke from their holding pens and executed the scientists and handlers with heavy-duty cattle prods, effectively electrocuting the hapless victims. Currently, the favored approach to this attack is to destroy the facility and all the genetically altered cattle from orbit, although there is the inevitable outcry from animal-rights groups against this, who say the cattle should be approached as a new and intelligent species capable of interacting with us in normal society...

For more on this story, join us in one hour for our update on this tense situation.

And now reports are coming in that the cattle have declared themselves an independent state, calling themselves the Texrak Hegemony...

[AngleWyrm]

Mostly, it's just for entertainment. I was looking at the newspaper yesterday, and wondered how the headlines might translate into this game universe. Some of it fits quite nicely, and could be turned into 'events'. Others are just flavor type of things.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

NNN, Net-News Division

Chaos erupted on Inter-Galactic Speedway #43214546 when two tankers, one with a load of neo-gen-fish from Altaira and one with a load of pre-whipped generic whipping cream colided, sending 1.4mt of non-processed fish and 8mt of whipped cream across the spaceway. Authorities had nearly restored order when a school of space-dolphins and a hairball of space-cats arrived on the scene, nearly simultaniously.

'It was horrendous' commented one spectator. 'There were guts everywhere. I'll never eat fish again!'

'We just left. There was nothing we could do' Said one patrolbeing, who asked to remain annonymous.

When asked for comment, one of the space-dolphins said 'Yeah, it was pretty good'

No comments were obtained from the space-cats, although the Redway-Glenwood-Xcl'cx hospital informs us that Bob's scratches should be completly healed in a month. Sorry about that, Bob. But even with a granite carapace, you really shouldn't have come between the cats and all that creamy fish.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

This seems to have died...

[AngleWyrm]

GNN, Cornelia,

Shuttlecraft Flight school attendant Blurb Xaxica went on a rampage today, killing 120 civilians before ramming the school office building with his shuttle. Local authorities say it's much too early to assess motives, but a fellow student says he was failing to please one of the dead teachers.

[Renegade 13]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Shouldn't that be the Texras Hegemony?

[Fyron]

Then it wouldn't be a race from SE4.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

This is GNN.

Earlier today, a mysterious crash on Vulcan has left authorities baffled. All satellite scan logs indicate the ship, piloted by a Vulcan, flew at high speed into the Vulcan asteroid belt, where the ship met up with others in a race. The Vulcan craft, a beefed-up warp sled, clipped a large asteroid and lost a nacelle. The pilot then lost control over the craft and it spun down to Vulcan, where the pilot died in the crash.

Authorities are currently trying to track down the other racers. More news will follow.

And now we pause for commercials.

[El_Phil]

This is Jose Traxis for GNN, live from the frontlines of the Terran-Phong war.

The much anticipated Terran invasion of Beta Aqualine IV failed to materialise today when the Terran fleet commander realised there were no troops on his transports. When asked for comment the Admiral's staff said the troops must have been 'Forgotten' when the 3rd Fleet left Devonshire II. More on this story later, only on GNN