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<p><title>Welcome to SPACE Magazine</title></p>
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<p>
  SPACE Magazine is a new force in Journalism in the 26th Century- bringing news
  and information to the multitudes of Star Systems settled by Sentient Life,
  letting everyone know what's happening across the Stars, millions of miles
  away. News if first and foremost our forte, but articles over important
  individuals and new developments will also be here in the magazine, which we
  shall ship out every month with a new issue. This, is our very first issue,
  and we hope to continue for many years to come.
</p>
<p>
  In this first issue, we will address a few incidents that have come up as of
  recent days- a attempted, but disastrous attack by Pirates against the colony
  of Onaios Prime, thwarted by the latest in weapons technology. A meteor shower
  that rained disaster on the colonial world of Brinkburn in the lucrative
  system of Nyx, causing many citizens to leave the planet. An attack by
  terrorists on the colony of Asilliss VII, resulting in many deaths, and the
  Great Carp Migrations that have been occurring in recent days in the Nyx
  System.
</p>

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<h2>Pirates Underestimate Colonial Defenses</h2>
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<p>
  This week, a pirate group that has stolen a SolGov Battlecruiser has attempted
  to commit a raid with it upon a colony world Onaios Prime, in the Onaios
  system. However, it was quickly eradicated along with its escort by a
  planetside battery of Mass Drivers produced recently by Dawnlight Celestial
  Defence. After this incident Dawnlight has registered an influx of demand from
  other colonies, as their weapons are relatively affordable, registering slight
  growth in stock ratings for the first time in 250 years, when the success of
  Dawnlight even competed with corporations like Hephaestus. We have found a
  written account of one of the writers of local news agency, and with their
  permission are including it in this article.
</p>
<p>
  It was almost midnight when I was driving around the AURA 2, a new
  anti-orbital installation, on my way home from my office, after some overtime.
  I have heard of its construction project and have never paid much attention to
  it, the world of Onaios Prime that I live on has always been only moderately
  wealthy, and peaceful... until last night. A loud siren played from the
  complex's direction, breaking the silence of the night. I stopped my vehicle
  where an overhang down to the valley let me look at the platform, from 50
  meters above it, and about 300 meters away from it, and I saw it for my first
  time.
</p>
<p>
  A great bunker in the middle was having its windows shut in blast doors,
  shying away from the reason this is an anti-orbital installation: The jeeps
  and trucks that were scurrying to hide in the bunker were but the tiniest
  little dot, compared to the massive Mass Drivers, that slowly, but so
  steadily, with a bass, gentle hum, began towering to the sky, reaching out to
  it with a barrel so long you would need two loaded semi-trucks to cover the
  length. The barrels aligned, and I could still hear the humming, but it
  started growing stronger, stronger... before one of the barrels sparked inside
  a few times, and I was blinded by a vast flash... Only then, the humming cut
  off, only then, I heard the lightning, and only then, a spiking, overwhelming
  pitch of capacitor discharge plummeted to my eardrums, only to be followed by
  an encroaching thunder of a blastwave, shunting masses of air against me.
</p>
<p>
  Only after a few seconds, I regained my hearing and sight to feel the echoes
  of the blast, and to see another Mass Driver was discharging, sparking. I
  covered the sight of it in time, to see the entire valley was lit for a split
  second as well as the sun could do, and I heard the discharge again, and I
  heard its calling. Every spike, a declaration of freedom. Every thunderblast,
  a declaration of sovereignty. The Mass Drivers would flash, marking dawn upon
  the invaders to signal the humanity made its stand here, and it shall
  persevere. The warhead that it would expel was our fist that would smite them
  from our sky. I did not know who have we fought against at that time, but at
  that moment, and ever since, I never looked at the night sky the same way
  again. I believe that that sky is our home. -Written by Liun Asitero, Onaios
  Daily
</p>
<i> Written by Lucas Shiito </i>

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<h2>Brinkburn Refugees and Sapient's Rights</h2>
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<p>
  One of Nyx's planets, Brinkburn, has had a catastrophe happen in form of a
  meteor storm three days ago. Nyx has lashed out with a solar corona that,
  while having a miniscule effect on traffic and stations, has managed to
  deflect several asteroids from the belt natively present around Brinkburn.
  This caused massive, unsustainable damage to the habitation complexes present
  on the planet that are occupied by several hundreds of settlers, and given
  their scarce material stocks, they had no other choice but to escape, to find
  another place to survive in.
</p>
<p>
  The situation was further complicated by the very asteroid rings that have
  started this misfortune; the refugees did not have sufficiently advanced
  navigation computers on their pods to steer them safely through the rings.
  Approximately 20% of population is estimated to have not made it through. The
  shuttles that have shipped the settlers on the world in the first place needed
  to be dismantled and used for scrap to expand the living area, and the more
  advanced components were used to wrangle the escape pods together.
</p>
<p>
  Most of the refugees have found their way to Emerald Habitation, a station in
  Nyx. The station already has issues with over-population and air purification,
  and the sudden influx of human settlers has introduced even more problems.
  Firstly, it has made it much harder to process travelers passing through,
  making travel in Nyx either very dangerous through Void Star, or very
  expensive through NAS Crescent. Secondly, Emerald Habitation has been housing
  a large number of Unathi, which have been harassing the refugees, some of them
  are even a part of the station's security, making appeals to them only worsen
  the situation.
</p>
<p>
  We can only hope a new home will be found and built for the poor refugees, and
  that the Skrell present on station, that are keeping the situation relatively
  free of casualties, continue to sustain a safe, if not non-hostile environment
  on the overpopulated station.
</p>
<i> Written by Laura Hunton </i>

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<h2>Terror Attack on Asilliss VII</h2>
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<p>
  Planet Asilliss VI has been a civil uprising hotspot for a few weeks now, and
  things have recently yet again escalated. A research facility belonging to
  NanoTrasen, one of several to be specific, that specializes on an undisclosed
  project, has been attacked by a group of masked raiders armed with automatic
  weapons, using several buggies for transport. Two hours after the incident,
  Asilliss Liberation Force claimed responsibility. "Companies like NanoTrasen
  are advancing us, but into slavery and containment! Their technology only
  brings control to the corrupt over the honest people of Asilliss! We cannot
  stand idle! Join us and befall those who take our lives from our control!",
  claimed a man hiding in a shade on video that was sent to a local
  entertainment station to be broadcasted under threat of attack.
</p>
<p>
  Up until now, the government's militia has been relatively ineffective at
  quelling this terrorist cell, while their statistics register a number of
  arrests and casualties, the group is still registering influx of recruits.
  However, NanoTrasen seems to have been highly impacted by this attack, judging
  from press release of NanoTrasen, Nyx Division: "As a company, we must
  maintain our safety standard for our employees, as well as secure our
  installations. The continued unrest on Asilliss that is resulting in loss of
  investments is forcing our hand to resort to particularly prejudicial measures
  and we are arranging cooperation with the governmental forces."
</p>
<p>
  We have information from a trusted source, who we shall allow to remain
  unnamed, that NanoTrasen is arranging a loan to Asiliss in form of acquisition
  of a small number of vehicles from Terraphistus Military Armor and small arms
  shipped all the way from Mars Security Industries, as well as hiring services
  from a newly instated PMC, SAARE, to protect other NanoTrasen's installations.
  We have very little information on SAARE due to its novelty, except that it
  has accepted several decorated veterans from various security forces and
  armies, and specializes on top secret operations. Only time will tell if these
  measures shall be taken and how shall they affect the unrest on Asilliss IV,
  but be sure that we shall provide our readers with full coverage!
</p>
<i>Written by Johnathan Townsend</i>

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<h2>The Great Carp Migration</h2>
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<p>
  Carp and Pike have plagued space station windows and ship paint jobs for the
  past hundred years, and while local businesses make money off of eradicating
  them by the hundreds, they only seem to increase in number and size.
  Xenobiologists at Brickburn have come to the conclusion that that these pests
  most likely came from Erebus. "Was really hard to figure out at first," says
  researcher Gregory Hills, "They really like to, you know, bite things. But
  once we got a few hundred tagged ones out there the answer became pretty
  obvious." He went further on to explain that through their research they've
  created a basic carp life cycle, starting at the center of the gas giant and
  ending in the upper atmosphere, "They tend to die there.", he remarks, "Carp
  don't really survive in space unless they are really, really big. Hence why we
  get so many." When asked why the carp come to space in the first place, he
  shrugs, "We don't really know. We think maybe they can sense the stations up
  there somehow and are looking for food."
</p>
<p>
  Sadly this does not help much in protecting the citizens of the stars from the
  dreadful beasts. In the last month, there have been a reported 37 deaths due
  to Carp and Pike related incidents, making the Erebus Beasts a serious threat
  to people thinking of working on a station. Scientists believe that at some
  point this year, stations and ships in the Nyx System will be subjected to the
  largest migration of Carp and Pike that has ever been seen, and it may cause
  serious damage to interests in the system.
</p>
<i>Written by Peggy Re'saih</i>