Area Woman Finds Sith Icon in Pastebread TAUNG HEIGHTS, CORUSCANT – The Sith are alive and well and haunting tubes of pastebread, so says area woman Latika Garboren. The woman attempted to contact authorities after a dollop of pastebread she was preparing resembled what she called “the spitting image of a Sith acolyte emblem.” Unable to reach anyone in the Jedi Temple, the self-professed “history nut” contacted local security. Taung Heights constabulary detective Dherik Rule was on call. “She knows this crazy stuff pretty well. I guess it does look…
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Baby Ludi Feature Slated for this Fall CORE NODE – Kailio Entertainments have secured the rights for the Baby Ludi story, and pre-production has already been greenlighted for a feature-length presentation for the fall holo season. The studio beat out three others in its bid to secure the rights, but the final asking price has not been disclosed. According to the trade holo Verisimilitude, studios were prepared to pay upwards of 125 million credits to secure a deal, not counting merchandising rights. While no casting has been announced for what’s…
Read MoreSPECIAL REPORT: The Death Stick Scourge By Anjet Okeco Pori Nate is like many 15-year-olds. Stepping into his room at his parent’s Jrade-district domicile, you see evidence of his passions. A synth-viol rests on its docking cradle. Slickplast posters of D.T. Spool and the Skroaches’ last four tours cover each wall. His schoolpad lays unopened because he’s putting off his homework until the last minute. What you or his parents won’t find, though, is evidence of his vice. Pori is 15, and he’s a death stick abuser. “It ain’t a…
Read MorePodracing Faces Uncertain Future ELESA, ANDO PRIME – Once the undisputed favorite of velocity-blinkers, the breakneck sport of Podracing is facing dark times.While Podracing’s long-standing overlap with the legally ambiguous elements of society is well documented, a string of high-profile scandals have further eroded the sport’s reputation among the general public. The controversies began five years ago when the Ungasan Cross Country event was exposed as a front for a CSA official’s illegal mining operation. Since then, racer Elan Mak’s true identity as Fluggrian crime lord Kam Nale has been…
Read MoreBiscuit Baron to Celebrate “Heroes of the Republic” COLONIES NODE – As further support from the House of Tagge to the Republic’s unity efforts, Biscuit Baron, the Tagge Company’s largest chain of quick service restaurants, is launching its “Heroes of the Republic” campaign next week. “The goal is to educate young people, all people really, about the heroes and history of the last thousand years,” said Biscuit Baron CEO Roridan Temquill. “It’s a celebration of everything the Republic is and can be.” To that end, Biscuit Baron will be including…
Read MoreSepan Civil War Escalates SEPAN SECTOR NODE – Despite the best efforts of Jedi negotiators, the hostilities between the worlds of Dimok and Ripoblus have resumed. The decades-long civil war came to a month-long standstill during negotiations headed by Jedi Knights Empatojayos Brand, Bultar Swan and Chellemi Chuovvick. Upon the Jedi’s return to Coruscant, the conflict flared up again, this time over whether Sepan should secede or not. This was the third mission dispatched by Jedi to the Sepan sector in the past five years. A fourth one is expected.
Read MoreMissing Starship Search Abandoned MODDELL SECTOR NODE – The massive four-year rescue effort for Salek Weet has been called off following the bankruptcy filing of his father, renowned kloo horn soloist Jimke Weet.“I know that Salek is still alive somewhere,” wept Jimke. “If anyone has any information, or any of my fans are willing to donate credits to the search, please contact the Salek-Come-Home HoloNet registry.” Salek, along with friend Noa Briqualon, went missing on their starship’s maiden voyage over four years ago. The last-known responder signal from the ship…
Read MoreWeequay/Houk Arraignment End in Violence JUDICIAL ARCOLOGY, CORUSCANT – The first in a series of arraignments for offenders arrested in this month’s Eastport gang brawl between Houks and Weequay immigrants ended in violence. At a Judicial Hearing Chamber Y-76 the accused, 22-year-old Ker-Zakk and 23-year-old Egome Fass overpowered bailiffs and began fighting. After security stunned the two combatants into unconsciousness, presiding Judicial Official Warren Sloat called for an extended recess. Hearings will resume tomorrow. The cases are expected to go to trial sometime in the next two years.
Read MoreStudy: Pollution Standards Still Endanger Many CORUSCANT NODE – Vors, Shashay, and Chadra-Fan are among the 10 species labeled as “at risk” of disease from air pollution that Coruscant planetary standards fail to account for, according to a study released today.In an examination of Coruscant middle-class districts conducted by the Rhire Medical Academy, findings indicated that air pollutants caused by government industrial centers and civic traffic led to 15 times increased likelihood of debilitating respiratory ailments in the identified species. The diseases included lungrot, dioxo-brionchiectasis shock, silicalung and hemorrhagic molting.…
Read MoreHouse of Tagge Sides with Loyalists UNLOS TAGGE, TEPASI – Baroness Sanya Tagge, leader of the House of Tagge family of nobles, reaffirmed her family’s loyalty to the Republic in an address to the people of Tepasi, the Tagge throneworld.“For generations, the name Tagge has been synonymous with that of the Republic, as the blood of one of the original Founders continues to flow through our veins. We would be remiss not to broadcast to the galaxy at large our undying devotion to the union, our faith in the Supreme…
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