Pilots Drive off Ferocious Attack on Tripoint

by Phineas Attora

(Tripoint Station) Sentient Conflux activity was first detected in The Quadrangle at 16:30 UTC and a relentless barrage went on until pilots Kanthakeh, Peng, Algore and Hammer-BS were able to destroy the sentient eel in Tripoint Station Sector at 21:22 UTC.

As overheard from pilots in the #ready-room, the attack began with the Conflux sealing off all of the jumpgates to The Quadrangle with infestations, and continued with the infestation of all gates into Tic-Tac’s Hook. At 18:13 UTC, KTRI reported the beginning of the bombardment of the Helium Nano Assembler. Active pilots assembled, blasting their way through infestations to launch their defense of Tripoint sector and its infrastructure.

The Sentient Eel was defended by numerous drones, but the gritty pilots whittled away at the Conflux horde and destroyed its leader, putting an end to the hours-long assault . Pilot Peng reported the building has sustained significant damage, but was not destroyed. Concerted repair efforts were able to restore the Nano Assembler building to functionality fairly quickly.

Conflux Target Tripoint

UUNN Newswire

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(UUNN HQ) Quantar endures prolonged Conflux Assault, Helium Nano Assembler damaged.

Sentients Infest TRI-Pact Factions

by Phineas Attora

(Solrain Core Station)  Conflux sentients began an assault yesterday (123.7.28) against all three TRI-Pact factions resulting in infested anomaly sectors in each faction’s home space.  According to logs, sentient activity was initially detected by the Octavian Shore Subspace Transceiver at 19:58 UTC — where  the same Subspace Transcever had detected Sentient activity last week.

The Octavian Shore sector was quickly sealed off by Infestations, but just as pilots began to rally to break through, more Sentient activity was reported in Solrain Space in The Fields sector.  Pilot dope of Koops Inc. risked his Viceroy freighter to observe the sentient activity in The Fields reportedly seeing a Nautiloid and Jellyfish as that sector too, began to be sealed off.

E.R.I. Responds to Recent Commodity Drain

UUNN Newswire

The following Press Release was independently submitted and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of UUNN

FROM: Edgar Reece Industries (E.R.I)

* * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * * *

In the course of distributing fine Hyperial-made Manufactured foods across the Galaxy, E.R.I. and contracted associates were able to quell many commodity leaks at various stations. In many cases this required loading what remained of the ingredients from the production line into the cargo bays of their ships. 

In Octavius Core, factory workers were being accused of embezzlement and rumors swirled about various factions smuggling off the missing produced equipment in preparation for future conflicts. There too, loading the commodities being used in the fruitless production into the cargo bays of E.R.I. vessels,  stopping any loss of additional materials.

Our on-call physician Dr. Scaggwhistle has approached the board with a strange theory about how his work with Space Madness patients has caused him to suspect the disturbance was an “aftershock” of the collapse, or a sign of galactic instability that may be the precursor for another one.  One of his most Prestigious Patients, pilot “GrimGriz”, demonstrates the symptom of false memories of flying a Monsoon loaded with Vantage Mortars and Dream Engines. This suggests to Dr. Scaggwhistle that the collapse has to do with various threads of the multiverse collapsing into a single Galaxy.

Anonymous DSS Info Submitted

by Yaz Shanndar

(UUNN HQ) UUNN recently received decrycrpted data, allegedly from a DSS.  While others have published DSS data in the past — sometimes with pretty remarkable information — this one seemed interesting in that it references almost nothing familiar . . . other than a date window that, if it is Solrain Standard, references a time over three millennia ago —  which would be the oldest historical reference  ever found.

The fragmentary information we received was:

We searched UUNN, TRINN,TRI-Databank . . . and even tri_subnet — but the only hit we got was “Trystero” (which we found on TRI-Databank).  But that particular article was about an ancient work of fiction which the TRI-D article suggested was lost when The Aethenaeum was destroyed in The Great Collapse.

There is no way to verify anything and the submitter was anonymous — which makes this even more suspect.  But if this was truly a tiny fragment of information that just possibly came from the remains of The Aethenaeum . . . well that would be truly  monumental.

TRI Scrambles to Determine Source of “Inventory Leaks”

UUNN Newswire

(UUNN HQ)  TRI Corporation has been working for several hours to try to determine the cause of what they are calling “inventory leaks” at all factional stations.

“Right now we’re trying to figure out what the hell is going on,” said Yelda Mossad, TRI Director of Station Systems and Maintenance.  “Systems show commodity inventory drain consistent with equipment production — but nothing of substance is being produced.  We can’t start working on a solution until we can figure out the problem.  Fortunately there are no parallel “equipment leaks.”

Until the “leaks” have been resolved, pilots are encouraged to not attempt to restock the primary faction stations, as that could potentially all be drained away as well.

“SDS (Depot) Stations, however, appear to be unaffected,” added Mossad, “so pilots are encouraged to move ore from Ore Depots to the SDS stations where commodities can be staged for redistribution.”