Inter-Galactic News

March 1999 Issue 45

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Outer-Comm.

Falconian Tax system

The permit system of Acropolis have changed a bit, so that you don't need permits for everything.

Exploration Permit: Exploration Items: No restrictions.; Naval Items: No more then 25% of Main Section.; Military Items: No more then 25% of Main Section.; E/S/D Lists: Can use Defend Lists.
Enforcer Permit: Exploration Items: Restricted.; Naval Items: No restrictions.; Military Items: No more then 50% of Main Section.; E/S/D Lists: Can use Defend Lists, must E/S/D FCN.
Colony Permit: Equipment: May not possess FCN Personnel and Alien Factories.; E/S/D Lists: Can use Defend Lists, must E/S/D FCN.
Transport Permit: Exploration Items: Restricted.; Naval Items: No more then 25% of Main Section.; Military Items: No more then 25% of Main Section.; E/S/D: Can use Defend Lists.

Special, if you wish to transport something illegal through our system, then contact us, we will need to know of the Cargo in question. This permit cost stellars too have, but how the cost will depend on your affiliations.

Mercenary Permit: Exploration Items: No restrictions.; Naval Items: No restrictions.; Military Items: No more then 50% of Main Section.; E/S/D: Can use Defend Lists, but must E/S/D FCN.

Special, your assignment is to help the Armed forces of the FCN and you will be considered FCN while in our service.

These are all of the permits, so you no longer need permission to enter Acropolis, you don't need permits to trade with us and its not illegal to orbit Falconia.

To: General Public
From: Bureau of the Governor, DTR Babylon
Subject: Colony for sale

Gentlebeings, the Detinus Republic is currently considering closing down our trade centre on Mobile Bay, DTR colony Babylon (2350), and relocate the facilities to another location in the not too distant future. Obviously, the greater part of the population and equipment will be shipped to the new colony site. However, since the complexes and PSUs cannot be fully salvaged, the current idea is to leave lifeforms and items for a skeleton class 5 colony at Babylon, plus the existing complexes (including the hiport). Please contact this bureau for details if you are interested in purchasing a class 5 colony on Mobile Bay/Yank. We feel that this offer might be especially interesting for small affiliations or trading enterprises not yet present with a colony on Mobile Bay, such as the DNA, FCN, SQM, KRL or an IND enterprise. Of course, this offer is open to other affiliations as well.
Please remember that this project is only in its early planning stages and that DTR Babylon and its market will remain there for you until further notice.
This bureau will also keep you posted on the progress of opening up the new DTR trade centre in the Yank system if the plans are to be carried out.
For the greater glory of the Republic, Stanley Tweedle, Governor of DTR Babylon

##CNN NEWSFLASH##

"We now go live to an undisclosed location somewhere within Darkfold"
<The screen changes to show a silhouetted figure seated behind a desk. An electronically scrambled voice starts to speak ...>
"Greetings to you all"
"Due to various outside interests and a lack of time to fulfil the duties required of the post, Director Hakon has decided to step aside to the post of Deputy Director."
"As of 12 199 I, Samuel Toridan, am assuming the position of Director General of the Confederate Intelligence Agency."
"Director Hakon has served us well for many years and it is hoped that with a lighter burden we will continue to have the benefit of his services for many years to come."
"There will be no change in CIA policy and this transition of power will be seamless. This message now ends."
<The screen cuts back to the CNN logo>

Clan Recruitment

A varied and diverse society, the Clans are looking for recruits.
We are looking for warriors, traders, merchants, explorers, colonisers and hauliers.
We are looking for the brave, the resourceful, the independent and the intelligent.
In short, we are looking for you!

Still recovering from a devastating civil war that left the vast Clan armadas and armies shattered almost beyond repair, the Clans nevertheless stunned everybody when they reclaimed their territory from the human invaders. Now we are in a period of rebuilding that which was lost and recovering that which was forgotten. But danger still lurks - our enemies exist - watching, waiting for their opportunity to drag down the Clan Alliance.

And so, because of this, the Alliance is looking for new recruits and experienced commanders to crew the war, trade and exploration vessels of the Bast fleets.

Thos who choose to join their fate with that of the Combined Clan Stellar Services can look forward to a challenging career, with plenty of opportunity for advancement in the ranks. These lucky few may also take advantage of the unique technical and racial advantages that we have over the other races, including:

Advanced weapons technology.
Combat capable crew
Large Ships - Mammoth (25-160-37) class Trader, Grizzly (35-100-35) class battleship and the Cheetah (8-20-12) class cruiser.
Immunity to drugs
The ability to build factories twice as quickly.

And others!

The trials are numerous, and only those who survive the inferno may emerge. Are you up to the challenge? If you are, then write JOIN CLN(69) on your turncard and join one of the most challenging affiliations known.

If you join, or if you want further information, then please contact the CLN PD, at the address below.

Edward Lafferty
34 Cluny Gardens
Clady, Strabane
County Tyrone
Northern Ireland
BT82 9RL
e-mail: lafferty-ej@ulst.ac.uk

From: Enkar Gorod, Starcaptain aboard the IND Carrier Alexander II
In response to the FET announcement in SSS/wk 9

Dear Sirs,
I find your flat ban on all independent ships even into the orbit of worlds with a FET colony unacceptable for several reasons:
1) I feel that I (and my whole enterprise, which includes a number of starships and ground parties) are being penalised for what I presume was FET inability to protect their assets against a criminal IND operation in which I had no part.
2) The FET have not even bothered to issue a list of their colonies. You have thus tried to ban my ships from certain areas without specifying those areas which, by all legal standards, leaves the ban null and void.
3) Most importantly, I do not recognise FET authority to ban any shipping in Kastorian, Imperial or other space. By all legal standards, only the respective government could issue such a ban; however the FET is an IMP chartered affiliation. Therefore, unless the ban is confirmed by the IMP and KAS for their respective space, I do not consider it binding beyond the FET colonies themselves, especially not where access to planetary orbits is concerned.
I do, however, respect your wish to avoid contact with IND positions. From week 10 on, I will not have my ships land at your colonies and interact with your starport complexes. There are other starports who will gladly accept my payment in return for employing the services of their starport complexes.
You have no right to deny my ships access to other colonies on the same planet or even the planetary surface as long as access is permitted by the IMP and KAS.
Should the FET post or even attack a position from my enterprise I will demand a full compensation for unjustified attack from the FET under IMP law.

New Clan Ship

After months of secret preparations, the Clans have announced that the first spaceship of a new design is to be launched tonight. The configuration is a well-kept secret, though it has been rumoured that this ship is bigger than the Grizzly battleships. Our reporter Liggo Budew Vo is live now at the shipyards at Antioch.

<picture shows an amoebalike being overlooking an enormous crowd of Bast, which has gathered in front of a huge opaque dome>
...Liggo Budew Vo here, reporting from Antioch shipyards. With me I have the Clan Alliance Warleader, Regon Itch, who will provide the technical details. But first, the unveiling...
<the crowd becomes silent as the dome starts to glow in a faint blue tone. A single Bast is seen approaching the dome through the crowd which parts while bowing>
....that is the Patriarch, Kyrt Furey,...
<the Patriarch stops before the dome, and delicately places three claws of his right paw against the dome.>
"Through THE CREATOR you have come to exist. Through THE DESTROYER you shall end. Let your years upon the widths of space be ever guided by the UNIFIER. You shall be known as the new Mammoth. Your name shall be Death Touch"
<A single powerful stroke by the Patriarch creates three rips in the fabric which rapidly extends up across the huge dome, releasing rays of blue light up towards the sky>
...and now it comes...
<a huge roar is heard from the crowd as the fabric collapses to reveal a truly huge ship, glistening blue in the light from the floodlights>
...wow, that is large! Warleader Itch, tell us about the ship, please...
Well, it is an upgrade of our old Mammoth trader. The new configuration is 25-160-37 giving it a basespeed of 2.1 and a cargo capacity of 3200mu. Sadly, <the Warleader wipes away a small tear>, sniff, it can not be equipped with space weaponry.
...no weaponry? According to my sources you have been in favour of a battleship design, isn't this correct?...
<the Warleader seems about to explode>
Bohoooooo! I wanted a Titan or a Leviathan with everything built in and some nice Warp Generators complete with enhancers for double damage! Is this asking too much? "100 years" they said! "100 years just for the orbital shipyards"! Engineers, what do they know? They should listen more to the Seekers, they told me it might be possible to reactivate a Wraith or a Cougar in a year or two. But that would be but a speck of dust compared to the immense Leviathans. Still, even a Cougar would be a formidable ship compared to the Grizzly, not to mention the Mammoth...
<the Warleader regains his composure and turns to his wristcom unit>
Imperator, pick me up. Let's give Death Touch an honorary escort.
<the Warlord steps into a shuttle with a group of beefy Clans warriors. The shuttle takes off and docks with a huge green ship which descends from orbit>
...my, he was short. As I was say..
<the ground starts to rumble as Death Touch fires its thrust engines for the first time. The amoeba-reporter covers its hearing organs with a horde of new limbs, while the Bast warily withdraw from the immediate vicinity of the ship>
...it's taking off!...
<slowly and majestically the Mammoth begins to rise up towards the sky. It is joined by the green Grizzly commanded by the Warleader, as both ships accelerate away into the night sky above Antioch. Soon the noise dies away and the ships are visible against the backdrop of the galaxy only as a pair of stars, one green and the other, brighter, blue...>

Special Report From Twilight*

This report just in from our Agricultural Correspondent in the twilight system, where he was preparing an article on WMB Farming Techniques.
A series of usual events and rumours are abound in the Twilight System. The first of which is a definite Confirmation that the FGZ have formally taken over the Administration of the Wimble Nation, While here at one of the former Wimble Colonies of Hong Kong I witnessed for myself the Arrival of a FGZ Vessel, After which came the unexpected news that the Governor of the Colony had been Replaced by a new FGZ Governor, Dormant Lot, the market had been eliminated and the name of the colony changed to Xenos Wimble. No troops were seen entering the Colony so one can only assume that those in charge of the colony must have been forewarned of the change and had either agreed or decided that resistance was futile and declared the Colony open.
As yet unconfirmed rumours are coming in that the wimble colony on celeste had undergone the same fate. The fate of the tiny class 1 colony in yank is also unknown at this time.
Other rumours buzzing around the starport are that in excess of 30 + FGZ ships of all classes have passed through the twilight stargate in the last week alone. To this Reporter that alone seems strange as the Stargate only links to the Inferno stargate and as of the time that I passed through this was blockaded by a Imperial or one of there allies Vessels. No rumours of battles from either the FGZ or the IMP sides leaves one to wonder at the ship movements Further reports Involve the fate of the original FGZ Home System, it seems, if one can believe the tales overheard in Bars, that the FGZ have somehow managed to discover the events that took place in their Home System after the Expeditionary force that came through the Inferno Stargate into the Capellan Periphery where trapped when the Stargate at the other end suddenly Collapsed, trapping them forever in our part of the Galaxy. The storey runs along the lines that whilst they were in the final throws of a titanic war with a race known as the felinni, the FGZ having virtually succeeding in eliminating the entire felinni race. The FGZ had sent their entire remaining fleet of Baseships to destroy the Capital of the Felinni (their last remaining Colony), The Felinni having sensed their impending doom mustered every available Warship and Troop carrier and waited in the far reaches of the FGZ system for the move they knew the FGZ where about to make. The FGZ Baseship Fleet Arrived at the now defenceless Felinni capital and reduced it to a Pile of Ashes. Meanwhile the Felinni fleet assaulted the FGZ Homeworld with everything that they had, this included ancient nuclear weapons long thought destroyed, the devastation rendered the whole planet uninhabitable, the FGZ Baseships Fleet receiving the Cries of the homeworld returned and destroyed the last remaining felinni forces. The victory was a hollow one with the Stargate no longer functioning and the only other system known being the felinni one the remaining Baseships attempted to find unspoilt planets and moons in the 2 systems to settle and rebuild, a few survived for several generations but the technology and equipment from both races was beyond their means to recreate and being warriors they eventually where reduced to fighting amongst themselves for what little resources where left.
The ultimate outcome being the demise FGZ in that part of the Galaxy. This would suggest that unless other expeditionary forces where also trapped around the galaxy and managed to survive the same as they have in the capellan periphery. Ours are the only Surviving FGZ left anywhere.
This is Iseeit All reporting from FGZ Colony Xenos Wimble.

********** We now return to normal programming *****************

To: All
From: Armand Digriz, GTT Commercial Director

Digriz Foundation
1st Capellan Starcaptain's Award
$50,000
Following the announcement of this award in IGN 42, the Digriz Foundation received numerous, extremely worthy nominations. Many long hours were spent in sifting through these self and third party nominations. The final choice for this generous award will this week receive the sum of $50,000. It is hoped that this encouraging gesture will result in a starcaptain of outstanding benefit to his affiliation.

Our congratulations to the captain and crew of:

Light Cruiser Last Frontier (4029)

Sponsored by: The Digriz Corporation - An arm of Galactic Transport & Trade.

To: All Trainee Starcaptains
From Armand Digriz, GTT Commercial Director

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Priority Markets

S.O.	Colony	Sys.	S.S.	Item	Buying	Selling	Price
CLN	CLN Antioch (4822)	25	839	Fissionables		3000	10
CLN	CLN Antioch (4822)	25	839	Structural Units		1980	20
CLN	CLN Skypoint (1824)	38	3032	Processed Thorlium	1000		125
CLN	CLN Gomorrah (3170)	98	1555	Fissionables	2000		20
CLN	CLN Gomorrah (3170)	98	1555	Pulac Crystals	5000		30
CLN	IND High Star (1971)	103	1841	Condensed Metals	4000		12
CLN	IND High Star (1971)	103	1841	Metals/Non-Metals	30000		2
CNF	CIA Serpent's Hold (4341)	4	251	Chemicals	10000		100
CNF	CIA Serpent's Hold (4341)	4	251	Mines		100	3000
CNF	IND Weregild (2332)	4	2349	Hive Eggs	100		200
CNF	CIA Shadowland (4748)	4	2349	Alien Pets	3500		5
CNF	CIA Shadowland (4748)	4	2349	Colonists	1500		15
CNF	CIA Langley (2301)	17	1636	Fissionables		10000	5
CNF	CIA Langley (2301)	17	1636	Untooled Factories		10	5000
CNF	IND Thorn (140)	17	2258	Ambrosia		500	50
CNF	CIA Armoury (179)	17	2456	Waste	2000		30
CNF	CIA Armoury (179)	17	2456	Luxury Foodstuffs	6000		8
CNF	BHD Osgiliath (1440)	17	3047	Fissionables		9500	40
CNF	BHD Opacus Custos (3012)	18	2352	Indigon	100		500
CNF	BHD Opacus Custos (3012)	18	2352	Mines	56		4000
CNF	CIA Entropy (488)	24	2342	Colonists	2000		10
CNF	AFT Return (4313)	41	1850	Heaven Herb	10000		15
FCN	FCN Dark Sun City (586)	162	1148	Luxury Foodstuffs		20000	4
FCN	FCN Dark Sun City (586)	162	1148	Processed Thorlium	500		300
FCN	FCN Falencia (3351)	162	1148	Jacium	300		600
FCN	FCN Falencia (3351)	162	1148	Precious Metals	470		150
IMP	SMS Moria (1565)	1	349	Luxury Foodstuffs		9586	25
IMP	FET Tortuga (4734)	1	349	Colonists		10000	7
IMP	GTT HQ (467)	1	1440	Colonists		4600	5
IMP	GTT HQ (467)	1	1440	Luxury Goods	1000		7
IMP	EEM Hypso (4802)	1	1939	Ambrosia	500		50
IMP	EEM Hypso (4802)	1	1939	Luxury Goods	1000		5
IMP	FET Serendipity (3379)	132	357	Euphoria		8000	40
IMP	FET Serendipity (3379)	132	357	Medical Supplies		8000	40
IMP	FET Dragonnest (227)	147	2832	Colonists	10000		20
IMP	IND Freedom City (2653)	149	2150	LBCM	1000		600
IMP	IND Freedom City (2653)	149	2150	Photon Guns	1000@200	1934@360
IMP	GTT Outcasts (1821)	150	1034	Artworks		1000	8
IMP	GTT Outcasts (1821)	150	1034	BCMs		100	300
IMP	AFT Eclypse (1124)	150	2232	Photon Guns		719	180
IMP	AFT Eclypse (1124)	150	2232	Waste	2086		150
IMP	GTT Xanadu (4810)	158	1146	Ambrosia		1000	250
IMP	GTT Xanadu (4810)	158	1146	Fissionables	1500		40
IMP	IMP Sevastopol (4997)	159	2438	Medical Supplies	7324		50
IMP	IMP Leeward (4871)	159	2438	Clothing		4000	5
IMP	IMP Leeward (4871)	159	2438	Green Troops		450	60
IMP	FET Port Royal (1571)	160	740	Luxury Foodstuffs		4000	45
IMP	CLN Outreach (1758)	160	740	Pulac Crystals	500		40
IMP	GTT Bannockburn (3411)	160	740	Luxury Foodstuffs		10000	5
IMP	SMS Ironhold (1512)	160	2557	Processed Thorlium	1		100
IMP	DEN Aslan (1665)	163	2856	Stargate Key 163		2	30000
IMP	DEN Aslan (1665)	163	2856	Teleporters		4	25000
IMP	FET Falconhaven (4806)	165	2259	Colonists	10000		10
IMP	FET Falconhaven (4806)	165	2259	Luxury Goods		1000	20
IMP	GTT Liberty (3240)	165	2936	Metals/Non-Metals		10000	5
IMP	GTT Liberty (3240)	165	2936	Xbureaucrat		80	500
IMP	IND Amity (1831)	166	1745	Metals/Non-Metals		6180	5
IMP	IND Amity (1831)	166	1745	Processed Thorlium		100	170
IMP	FET New Hope (951)	166	1745	Strion		7716	160
IMP	AFT Mare's Nest (848)	167	647	Luxury Goods		140	10
IMP	AFT Mare's Nest (848)	167	647	Luxury Foodstuffs		148	10
IMP	Heartbreak Ridge (2963)	172	1642	Medical Supplies	1000		80
IMP	Heartbreak Ridge (2963)	172	1642	Metals/Non-Metals		1000	5
IMP	AFT Amythest (282)	173	532	Life Supports		90	20
IMP	IMP Cezta (2625)	173	532	Fissionables		1996	20
IMP	IMP Cezta (2625)	173	532	Warbots		500	50
IMP	GTT New Christiania (4707)	173	532	Veterans	100		600
IMP	IND Oasis (3173)	175	2150	Colonists	1600		40
IMP	IND Oasis (3173)	175	2150	Pulsar Tanks		196	1400
IMP	GTT Thermopylae (1152)	178	1742	Teleporters	2		15000
IMP	GTT Thermopylae (1152)	178	1742	Alien Pets		3000	6
KAS	CIA Sin City (209)	146	631	Veterans	80		500
KAS	EEM Balmoral (4100)	146	2857	Condensed Metals	1000		6
KAS	EEM Balmoral (4100)	146	2857	Untooled Factories	10@8000	5@10000
KAS	SQM Windhooks (2071)	146	1947	Luxury Foodstuffs		5000	4
KAS	SQM Windhooks (2071)	146	1947	Processed Thorlium		5	2000
KAS	KAS Rubis (4063)	146	2951	Chemicals	9200		100
KAS	KAS Rubis (4063)	146	2951	Jacium	9370		300
KAS	GTT New Atlantis (2069)	146	2951	Processed Thorlium	500		150
KAS	AFT New Aurora (4428)	146	2951	Food		1925	3
KAS	FET Alliance Station (604)	146	2951	Jac/Thor Alloy	100		50
KAS	DEN Minotaur (1322)	146	2951	Stargate Key 121		10	30000
KAS	DTR Babylon (2350)	146	2951	Small Arms	1770@10	1848@12
KAS	DTR Babylon (2350)	146	2951	Veterans	70		400
KAS	DOM Mycenae Sound (3114)	146	2951	Jacium	250		325
KAS	CIA Atlantis (3315)	171	1433	Colonists	20000		10
KAS	CIA Atlantis (3315)	171	1433	Condensed Metals	5000		15