GNN Emergency Update

[Craines]

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Today, on the seventeenth of February, the first reported incident involving the man known as Doctor Artifice has been reported. The heinous man of 'science' broke through a Liberty Navy blockade, destroying the three battleships, nine cruisers, and countless other ships of varying size. There were no escape pods found at the scene when reinforcements arrived.

However, a few hundred kilometers away from the blockade, fifteen corpses were found in Nomad Brain cases. Each one had been surgically-grafted to robotic augmentations, such as having entire limbs replaced, or eyeballs. The strangest part was that the coroner on board the Battleship Kentucky said that they were all technically alive, but that they were in a vegetative state, much like that of a coma patient. All fifteen were declared dead this morning.

All attempts to find Doctor Artifice have gone awry, it seems. There has been talk between the major governments that a combined attack could produce a favorable outcome, although the Heads of Bretonian and Kusari Governments were unwilling to give any forces to the coalition if the other was; they would not work together. Rheinland and Liberty forces have been seen flying together in formations, although our sources within the Liberty Government tell us that nothing has been finalized.

The last known trajectory of the Ska Ralla, as it entered a jump hole of its own creation (says an eyewitness, Captain Lucas Martel of the Gas Miners Guild) pointed the Ska Ralla towards the Omega systems, albeit which one is still unknown.

A general advisory against going to any of the Omega systems has been issued by all four governments. At the few known jump holes and jump gates leading into any of the Omega systems, automated outposts have been placed, which issue the general warning and give information to alternative routes around the systems. These outposts are also equipped with radio-and-visual recording devices, so any pilot who enters or exits will be known. Should he or she go missing, Government forces will know why.

In other news, Galaxy Gab has gone off the air, much to the approval of many viewers.

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