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<p>The Sleepy Sergal - 09/28/2563</p>
<p>===Unathi Black Egg Plague At Record High! (powered by NanoTrasen)===</p>

<p>
  The Hegemony High Council has released a statement today confirming what has
  been circulating amongst the circles of the unathi population: Black Egg
  Syndrome has been at an all time high, at thirteen percent and rising.
</p>
<p>
  For readers who are unaware, this is a condition that mainly targets unathi
  females, sympthoms include unathi egg clutches including one or several eggs
  which are covered in a dark, hard, leather like substance, which makes
  hatching for the young skinks next to impossible thanks to how solid the egg
  is compared to normal. Often times this will result in the egg being left for
  dead in the wild, and the female is reclassified as male due to their cultural
  value decreasing.
</p>

<p>
  Beyond confirming what was suspected, Hegemony, as well as Solgov officals,
  have declined to comment. Skrellian officals, meanwhile, have remarked that
  they would seek a cure for this deliberating condition, as a token of goodwill
  after the war years earlier involving the Hegemony, Skrell, and Solgov.
</p>

<p>- Reporter Jalder Strelam</p>
<p>Writer(s)</p>
<p>Matt</p>

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<p>The Sleepy Sergal - 10/02/2563</p>
<p>Obituary - Pablo Jenner</p>

<p>
  Pablo Jenner passed away while fighting giant space bears during a mining
  expedition on the evening of October 10th, 2563, at the age of 76. He will be
  greatly missed for his service. He has lived a rich life of mining on various
  planets and moons, and continued on even after losing his legs to other
  creatures, he was a real trooper.
</p>

<p>
  His last words were to a certain Margaret and it said: "Tell her she's a
  bitch."
</p>

<p>
  Respects can be paid at the Yawn Wider Colony, where his remains are currently
  kept.
</p>

<p>Writer(s)</p>
<p>Kelshark</p>

<p>Credits</p>
<p>
  Snek, the souped up space bear<br />
  Legion
</p>

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<p>The Sleepy Sergal - 10/03/2563</p>
<p>===Tragic Tram Crash on Virgo 3B! (powered by NanoTrasen) ===</p>

<p>
  Tragic news from Virgo 3B today. The orange line tram's automated brakes
  failed to engage when arriving at one of the waystations on the route. The
  resulting crash ended up destroying the small station's tram terminal, as well
  as the tram car itself. The automated systems however, did not pick up on the
  crash until much later, reporting that the train was still moving as normal.
  It wasn't until crewmembers aboard the next stop on the line, Yawn Wider
  Station, noticed that the tram was mysteriously missing, that technicians
  realized what had happened.
</p>

<p>
  The tram contained two passengers, Sabel Hall, 34, Human; and Farket Mrrhalka,
  21, Tajara. Only Sabel's body has been located at this time, though the
  explosion, coupled with the harsh environment, leads investigators to presume
  that Farket was also killed.
</p>

<p>
  A memorial service will be conducted for the victims of the tragic accident on
  their home colony. In the meantime, technicians begun repairs on the orange
  line, and, in the meantime, workers should use short range teleporters, or a
  different tram line, to make it to and from their workplace
</p>

<p>Writer(s)</p>
<p>Cebutris</p>

<p>Credits</p>
<p>The shuttle system breaking</p>

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<p>The Sleepy Sergal - 10/13/2563</p>
<p>===Fast Headlines (powered by NanoTrasen)===</p>

<p>
  Spooky celebrations: The capital city on Sol IIIᵃ is due to begin the 2563
  celebration of its annual "Festival of Spirits", a 45 day long celebration of
  various cultures' supernatural-centric holidays. The festival kicks off with
  Earth's american region holiday "Halloween" on day one, followed by its
  neighbor to the south's "Día de Muertos" (Day of the dead) on day two. For a
  full list, see exonet address sol.luna.spiritfest.nt. New entries into the
  line-up this year include an performance enactments of Hawaii, Earth's
  "Nightmarchers", and Doradus IV's temperate zone holiday "Eve of the Seafolk"
</p>

<p>
  Mystery probe: An uncrewed probe of mysterious make and origin has been
  detected at the fringes of NanoTrasen space. Reportedly, it does nto match the
  construction materials or techniques of any galactic power, and governments
  and corporations alike are denying involvement in the machine's manufacture
  and operation. Just as soon as it was detected, the probe enabled a series of
  stealth systems one-by-one including heat sinks, subspace radio jamming, EM
  field scattering, and what is theorized to be an advanced form of spacetime
  distortional phasing until it finally escaped detection.
</p>

<p>
  Box Office Record Scared to Death: The new Horror holofilm "Alone in the
  void", in which a multi-species crew on a station outside of reliable
  communications range must fight to survive a power failure, while attempting
  to decipher the mystery of who, or what, is killing personnel one by one,
  opened to an astounding 517 billion thalers, after the success of a long,
  extensive exonet viral marketing ARG spanning an area of 39 systems.
  Contestants had to find public exonet terminals with notes adhered to them,
  dig up buried cases of clues, and in one instance, actually space walk on an
  asteroid covertly registered by the studio under the name of a non-existent
  small mining company.
</p>

<p>Writer(s)</p>
<p>DeepIndigo</p>

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<p>The Sleepy Sergal - 10/21/2563</p>
<p>===GOOD TIDINGS AND CHEER (powered by NanoTrasen)===</p>

<p>
  As with every year, the sol winter holiday season is coming up, and fast! The
  solstice around which the holidays are centered will occur on Thursday,
  22.Dec.2563 at 04:20:33 NT-ST, in fact! That's only a month away, so be sure
  to get those extra duty shifts in to make your holidays exceptionally magical!
  As always, we'd like to wish all employees and citizens within NanoTrasen
  Interstellar holdings, and denizens of its member planet-states and colonies,
  a happy, happy holidays, full of family, friends, festivity, and fine products
  by Getmore Chocolate Corp and Robust Softdrinks.
</p>

<p>Writer(s)</p>
<p>DeepIndigo</p>

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<p>NanoTrasen Announcement - 12/11/2563</p>
<p>===NT VEGA BRANCH BOARD OF DIRECTORS ANNOUNCEMENT==</p>
<p>Message to all NanoTrasen personnel employed in the Virgo-Erigone sector,</p>

<p>Dear employees,</p>

<p>
  As the new fiscal year approaches, the board of directors will be announcing
  sweeping changes to multiple facets of the corporate guidelines, regulations
  and policies. These new changes will be broadcasted on all NanoTrasen
  facilities in the Virgo-Erigone sector on Saturday, the 14th of December 2563.
  The changes will come effect as they are announced.p>
</p>

<p>Glory to NanoTrasen.</p>

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<p>The Sleepy Sergal - 12/14/2563</p>
<p>===VEGA Sector in Shambles after Mercenary Involvment===</p>

<p>
  The Virgo-Erigone sector of NanoTrasen got a pretty rough day, reports have
  been coming of new policy changes which have sparked riots throughout the
  entire sector. It turns out those new policies were enacted by members of the
  board who happened to have links with a mercenary organization that is tied to
  diverse companies. We do not know who hired these men specifically however.
  But whatever it was, their plan worked. NT has lost Virgo-3b after the Trade
  Wind Freighter collided with it at half light speed. Causing the entire Moon,
  and ship, to be completely obliterated. Including all facilities within, and
  those orbiting it.
</p>

<p>
  Many facilities managed to launch escape ships with the crew escaping thanks
  to a early warning system, some have flown all the way to nearby planets,
  where it appears mercenaries were waiting for them. Early Search and Rescue
  units reports having seen many naked corpses strewn about, with crewmembers
  wearing their outfits. The death toll is reported to be above the thousands,
  no numbers have been released yet. Most of the workforce from those areas have
  been relocated to other sectors.
</p>

<p>Writer(s)</p>
<p>Kelshark</p>

<p>Credit(s)</p>
<p>Pre-map switch event, thank you everyone who participated!</p>

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<p>The Sleepy Sergal - 12/17/2563</p>
<p>=== Have Carp, Will Travel ===</p>

<p>
  Reports from around the outer rims tells tales of the dreaded Space Carp
  breaching their way through atmospheres and hitting the surfaces of many
  villages, facilities, and other inhabited areas. Details suggest that upwards
  of hundreds of Space Carp are making landfall each hour, quickly adapting to
  the new environments they are invading. On a newly christened NanoTrasen
  outpost, Cryogaia, there were reports of upwards of forty unique Space Carps
  patrolling around the area of the outpost. They were seen actively engaging
  wildlife, showing little regard for their own safety.
</p>

<p>
  NanoTrasen Navy released a short statement in regards to the carp, as follows:
  "...In relation to the Carps, we'll be shortly putting up small, automated
  anti-air defenses on many of our outposts, capable of shredding a school of
  Space Carp within moments. Given they are considered Invasive, our internal
  Native Enrichment department determines this as acceptable action." Time will
  tell if these methods are to prove useful, or if they'll make the issues
  worse.
</p>

<p>Writer(s)</p>
<p>Sleepy</p>

<p>Credit(s)</p>
<p>
  To a slightly bugged event that spawned space carp on our lovely ground
  colony.
</p>

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<p>The Sleepy Sergal - 12/18/2563</p>
<p>=== Chill Out ===</p>

<p>
  NanoTrasen's new automated micro-AA batteries have been a resounding success:
  Counteless chunks of meat have been splattered around many favilities, and no
  carp have been spotted. Many activists are quick to point out that some of
  them may be local wildlife capable of flight, though NanoTrasen has given no
  official response, besides a rumor, saying that: "There were no confirmed
  reports of Avians<i>[sic]</i>, and if there were, it doesn't matter now."
</p>

<p>
  One side effect that has been noted by the NanoTrasen Navy's Native Enrichment
  department, is with the abundance of shredded carp meat laying around the new
  Cryogaia outpost, normally underground dwelling Frost Spiders have come out
  from their burrows, feating upon the plentiful carp organic confetti. The
  toxins within the carp, however, cause the frost spiders to have lowered body
  activity, until the inevitably die of exposure as their body fails to keep up
  with the rapidly changing conditions, unable to heat themselves up.
</p>

<p>
  NanoTrasen Navy's Native Enrichment department released a statement in regard
  to this development, "... We're more than sure that they [frost spiders] will
  be able to quickly adapt to carp toxins, after a liberal deployment of 'stable
  mutagen' canisters in known hives."
</p>

<p>
  Only time will tell if the spiders will be able to develop an immunity, or if
  they'll continue to die out on the surface.
</p>

<p>Writer(s)</p>
<p>Sleepy</p>

<p>Credit(s)</p>
<p>To the frost spider code, which causes them to die outside as of now.</p>

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<p>The Sleepy Sergal - 12/24/2563</p>
<p>===Mystery Probe Update (powered by NanoTrasen)===</p>

<p>
  A small update to the probe spotting we reported on last in October. The
  object, or one of similar make and model has been spotted in a system
  approximately 3471 LY away from the location of the initial sighting. It has
  been determined that the probes create a small, but unique form of "eddy" in
  subspace upon arrival. Reportedly, an NT Navy Laboratory is working on a
  detection system specifically calibrated to alert information networks upon
  the arrival of similar objects, in hopes of determining their purpose and
  origin.
</p>

<p>Writer(s)</p>
<p>DeepIndigo</p>

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<p>The Sleepy Sergal - 1/15/2564</p>
<p>===Calendar Update (powered by NanoTrasen)===</p>

<p>
  Well loyal readers here we are, just over two weeks into the new year. We're
  looking forward to the great strides that will be made by personnel of
  Nanotrasen®™, its subsidiaries, and associations there-of. 2564 is looking
  bright and profitable! Just as in years past, we'll continue to bring you the
  hard-hitting, timely, and truthful journalism you know us for in the coming
  year!
</p>

<p>Writer(s)</p>
<p>DeepIndigo</p>

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<p>The Sleepy Sergal - 1/15/2564</p>
<p>===Strange phenomena from around NT space! (powered by NanoTrasen)===</p>

<p>
  A series of bizarre events reported from around the holdings. A detailed
  report on this one, as well as several not included here, can be found on the
  hotlink list located at exonet address NTspacegen.phenomlist21942.ZZZSerg.NT
</p>

<p>
  Plague of nightspiders: Following several days of unusual sun-blocking heavy
  overcast at the Borealis 1 mining and research outpost, the facility was
  recently sieged by a large migration of local arachniform animal species
  nearly ten times the population of the expected norms. Fortunately, on-site NT
  and externally contracted security consisting of Officers Tenali, Kurkivor
  Snowstrider, Joel Johnson, and Alex Maktzandt were ln-site to head up the
  defense. We attempted to reach each of them for comment via e-mail.
</p>

<p>
  Officer Snowstrider had the following to say: "We lost a few good people who
  decided to recklessly charge into battle. I'm just glad we had a good few more
  there to back me up. Certainly was the worse wall breach I've ever seen."<br />
  "Command better ok my turret network idea! [The facility] would be safe from
  another attack like that.", said Johnson.<br />
  Said Tenali, "Psh, I killed like 30 of them while dragging the fools back to
  medical, lost count after 50. Was it stressful? Nah, I had a laser gun and 5
  batteries! Certified spider slaying equipment."<br />
  Officer Maktzandt declined to comment.
</p>

<p>Writer(s)</p>
<p>DeepIndigo</p>

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<p>The Sleepy Sergal - 4/17/2564</p>
<p>===BREAKING: High energy physics disaster! (powered by NanoTrasen)===</p>

<p>
  A Nanotrasen Navy-funded research facility, which will go unnamed, has
  experienced a disaster following experimentation into alternatives to current
  gateway technology. A core laboratory equipment failure resulted in a
  phenomena described by the facility AI, the only survivor of the incident, as
  a "gateway storm", a series of spatial vortexes, potentially interdimensional
  ones. The "gateway storm" in question translocated a series of new, previously
  unseen plants and animals, many of them hostile, into the facility. As of this
  report, Nanotrasen Marine teams have regained control of a portion of the
  facility and are working with the AI to secure the site until corporate
  authorities determine the next course of action.
</p>

<p>Writer(s)</p>
<p>DeepIndigo</p>

<p>Credits</p>
<p>Valve Games and Wayneradiotv for inspiration.</p>