MEDIA BREAK #1

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Item: Gagarin Mokoena, star of Getyani and The Deimos Boys, will play Alexander Hamilton in Hanaru Colfer’s new live-staging of Hamilton. The musical, about a famous old Earth politician, has been updated to the Centuri Declarations – which is proving controversial for purists and Earthers. The latter are claiming this is the latest in a line of adaptations that ignore the history of pre-Gagarin Earth. Click to hear Colfer discuss the need to keep old material fresh for new audiences!

Item: Tonight in the Procyon system, the United Carrier, Hauler, and Transport Workers of Altair and Zhenjiang Stations have voted to strike, after contract negotiations with the O’Khama Shipping Consortium broke down at the eleventh hour. Altair’s Governor Tarseem Tooms, a noted social activist, has put out a statement in support of the union. Will this strike impact prices in your system? Click here to find out more!

Item: The governor elections in Altair system continue to prove dirty. The controversial Senator Rebma Tillinghast, Lunar Gallica, has accused Governor Tooms of having the radioactive waste from the Altair Yankee orbital platform dumped in the poorer Elysium system. Tooms has yet to comment. Click here to find out more about Decision 671!

Item: Construction of the controversial Teleport One gate has been completed in the Robin Alpha system. Experiments into whether ‘wormhole gates’ are scientifically possible will begin in a few days, which could turn centuries of sci-fi into sci-fact, but critics argue this is a waste of funds. Click to hear Senator Sally Cohen, Equatorial Tian, speaking against the Teleport Project at the Capital!

Item: Contact has been lost with the Puritan indiecolony of Micah, in the Sparrow Zeta system, and its garrison. While communications are routinely lost for days with religious indiecolonies, Sparrow Zeta borders the Lizak Republics. Click to learn more about this potential war!

You’d like to know more about Micah? The lunar colony was founded fifty-one years ago by Protestant Christian settlers from New Suriname, who, in their charter, rejected human space as being sinful and godless. Their claim was sponsored by the mining corp Vought-Chen Consolidated – a ‘claim jump’ that meant Sparrow Zeta II was human territory before the Lizak expedition could reach it. Corporate security forces and the old New Suriname Fleet fought three wars between them against Lizak raiders. Micah itself has twelve thousand inhabitants centered on two settlements and is a primarily agricultural colony – deliberately so, aiming for an early first-century existence.

Contact has now been lost with Micah for two days. While this has happened before, the patrolship Watching Five is en route to the indiecolony to make sure. Click to learn more about Micah and the settlers! Click to learn more about Lizak-Union relations and the three previous wars! Click to return to our main broadcast.

Welcome back to All-Amal Now, bringing you all the latest breaking news in the Union – the time is 13:57 Beijing Mean Time 10:37 local, 671 A.G. by Earth orbit.

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