Polaris News for Day 99

From: "Kerry Harrison" <kerry@io.com>

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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Crystal Palace Offers Research Aid

Executives from Crystal Palace have apparently offered assistance to Terran
multiglobal Caspian Manufacturing in it's troubled efforts to construct a
mass transit system linking Dvora Colony and the Dauphine Settlement. Once
the Carthage research institute is up and running, Crystal Palace scientists
could be put on the job to figure out a way to get the transit system
operating in the muddy, swampy conditions present on Kappa-6. If successful,
Crystal Palace spokesman suggest that Caspian engineers might be able to
construct other transit systems, elsewhere, in similar circumstances;
reducing costs by shortening the transit routes significantly. Analysts were
tonight unsure whether Caspian was ready to accept the assistance of Crystal
Palace.

OTHER NEWS

Uldra Enraged by Jupitus Weapons

Apparently in response to unconfirmed reports regarding the nature of the
three relay platforms under construction in the Careen system (Candida
Expanse), the entire Uldran delegation today staged a walkout during a
Senate debate on quantum communications. The move, which prompted dismay in
the Senate, followed suggestions that Jupitus Telecommunications was fitting
the relay stations with fighter hangars and powerful missile batteries.
Jupitus won the contract to build the platforms from the Constutitional
Government last year. While admitting that relay stations were not usually
armed, Terran representatives claimed that the systems would only be used to
defend the stations, and the civilian personnel aboard them.

Axacco Nunmyia Arrested

The controversial Maunii Cleric, Axacco Nunmyia, was in trouble again last
night following his detention at a religious rally. The rally, which was
transmitted live across Monn, was organised to draw attention to the lifting
of import restrictions on MO Agricultural Modules, which the High Priest is
known to fiercely oppose. Nunmyia's speech was inflammatory from the start,
calling for the reinstatement of official theocratic control over the
business of the Maunii state. Demanding the abolition of the Maunii
democratic chambers, Nunmyia broke a catalogue of public order edicts which
were brought into force last month. The cleric was arrested following the
conclusion of his speech. As news of his detention spread, fellow religious
figures predicted serious disturbances would arise throughout Maunii space.