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+<p>Starfire Report - 08/16/2564</p>
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+<p><b>Swarmers Escape Station</b></p>
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+<p>A mysterious group of swarmer robots struck NLS Southern Cross last night. Occasionally encountered in unexplored reaches of space, little is known about swarmers. Swarmers typically appear without warning and begin repurposing all available metal into more swarmers and a new structure. Xenoarchaeologists conjecture swarmers may be construction robots left from an extinct civilization but have uncovered little to confirm this hypothesis.</p>
+<p>Swarmers within settled space tend to be rare due to most governments destroying the robots with extreme prejudice before they can tear down important installations. The appearance of such robots expectedly resulted in a swift response from VirGov once made public, a government taskforce deploying and thoroughly inspecting NLS Southern Cross despite NanoTrasen’s protests.</p>
+<p>Crew testimony suggests these swarmers were somehow different than the variety encountered throughout unsettled space. While the swarmers did begin disassembling Southern Cross, they apparently built and escaped through a special gateway. No trace of a gateway was recovered; NT insists the swarmers were ordinary and completely eradicated shortly after embarking on the station.</p>
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+<p>Writers</p>
+<p><b> Mirkracresh Kalzar </b></p>
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+<p>Starfire Report - 08/03/2564</p>
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+<p><b>Firefight Breaks Out Over Southern Cross</b></p>
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+<p>Unknown factions battled across NLS Southern Cross late last weekend. Confirmed details remain sparse but crew accounts describe a fight between hostile entities to obtain an object guarded in the station’s vault. Crew insist NanoTrasen instituted penalties over the loss of the object while NanoTrasen insists no such object exists and the intentions of the hostile parties remains unconfirmed.</p>
+<p>The anti-NT terror group known as the Syndicate claimed credit for the attack, stating it was a targeted assault meant to damage NT assets and send a message that no NT facility will be safe from damage so long as the company continues to exist. Details from the crew contest this claim, suggesting some of the assailants possessed supernatural abilities and fought against both NT crew and members of the Syndicate.</p>
+<p>VirGov officials condemn the Syndicate attack and the group as a whole, stating the organization is nothing more than a terror organization using profit as a justification to kill and maim unarmed civilians. Throughout the chaos surrounding the terror attack, questions about the hostile non-Syndicate elements have been swept aside and ignored. Perhaps we shall never uncover the identity or intentions of the unconfirmed group.</p>
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+<p>Writers</p>
+<p><b> Mirkracresh Kalzar </b></p>
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+<p>Starfire Report - 07/23/2564</p>
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+<p><b>Medibot Pain Awareness Added (Sponsored by NanoTrasen)</b></p>
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+<p>The medibot received a software update several days ago. A classic NanoTrasen product commonly deployed on stations with high risk of workplace injury, medibots have long been seen as an important staple to fighting off the dangers of injuries in space. Thanks to this new update medibots are better than ever.</p>
+<p>”Everybody’s always thinking about the next big product but sometimes you just need to improve the essentials,” an NT mechatronic engineer responded to my correspondence. “So we thought, why not make them more like crew? We couldn’t really fit in thoughts and feelings but it was pretty simple to make a panic response. So now they can feel pain and feel like the rest of the crew.”</p>
+<p>This new response is easiest observed by tipping a medibot over. The medibot will then cry for help until either somebody helps or it manages to upright itself. Apparently that’s not just a simulation; the medibots are now programmed to actually experience distress when tipped over.</p>
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+<p>Writers</p>
+<p><b>Arielle Wood</b></p>
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 <p>Starfire Report - 07/13/2564</p>