Item: The political fight over the Altair Yankee orbital station is heating up tonight. Protestors from New Minoa in the Elysium system have arrived in Altair to protest Governor Tarsem Tooms’s alleged policy of dumping of nuclear waste products from the controversial orbital reactor in their colonial backyard. At press time, Tooms’s office had not responded to our requests for a comment. Tooms’s spokesman, Deke Masisi, has previously stated Tooms is too busy preparing for his re-election campaign to –

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The Lizak Republics have invaded Union space!

An open attack on the Sparrow Zeta system, home to several Puritan indiecolonies, was first confirmed six hours ago by patrolship Watching Five. At least sixteen Unions servicers were killed as Watching Five fought its way back to safe space.

Solon Marshall has invoked the Mutual Threat Act, suspending all non-essential travel across the Union-Lizak border systems, and ordered the Third Fleet to mobilize around New Suriname. Click to hear post-broadcast if the travel restrictions will affect you! The Blue Spear and Black Arrow rapid-response forces have already deployed in-system. Under the Mutual Threat Act, All-Amal Now cannot expand on this part of the story.

Under the Treaty of Edenite, the High Commissioner and his staff, along with all five hundred humans in Lizak space, are being expelled under escort; the Lizak High Commissioner and four hundred citizens are being returned to the Republics.

The Lizaks occupied Micah for six months in 634 A.G. after defeating Vought-Chen Consolidated’s private enforcement teams in the Second Mican War. Thirty-seven colonists died in the occupation before the New Suriname Fleet drove the Lizaks back in the third war. The current occupation looks far bloodier; footage from Watching Five shows the colony capital of Ephesis has been bombarded from low orbit. Click to have this footage streamed to you post-broadcast.

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