Salliche Ag Sues Dasobo Meats for Gornt Copying LESWAN, YULANT – The Salliche Ag corporation is suing Dasobo Meats, a regional food distributor, for intellectual property theft when analysis of Dasobo product revealed it to be of Salliche origin. A nanoscopic analysis of a five-pack of Dasobo’s Finest Gornt Cutlets revealed Salliche genetic branding. “Somehow, probably through theft, Dasobo was able to acquire a lot of Salliche engineered gornt embryos and has been growing our product as their stock,” said Salliche Finance Officer Losibaru Jenks, Representatives from Dasobo hope the…
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Loyalist Committee Split on Vote Special Report by Jacen Kodash GALACTIC CITY, CORUSCANT – Though they stand united in their efforts to preserve the Republic, even the Loyalist Committee is split when it comes to deciding the outcome of the Military Creation Act. A look at campaigning efforts by the key Loyalists in the past few weeks reveals their likely votes. Senator Ask Aak has long been a proponent of an increased military presence throughout the Republic, an opinion shared by most Gran of Malastare. Following the death of Senator…
Read MoreCybot Galactica Tries Proprietary Limbs MONDDER, ETTI IV – For the first time in 300 years, Cybot Galactica will manufacture droids that do not comply with the Universal Socket Interface standard. The company announced today that select units shipped later this year will instead utilize their proprietary Advanced Appendage Bus to connect limbs, heads and other appendages to the central processor. Competitors claim the move by Galactica is an attempt to leverage their market share to cut smaller operations out of the lucrative droid replacement part business. Where today the…
Read More100 Metric Tons of Ryll Seized BAGGADO, KARNST – Earlier this week Jedi and Judiciary forces seized approximately 100 metric tons of illegal ryll spice with the impounding of the light freighter Moulee-rah Patogga in the Karstaxon Regions, and are now beginning an investigation into the source of the illicit narcotic. The freighter, registered to the Besadii Hutt clan, was stationed at a Xizor Transport Systems-owned refueling depot for emergency engine realignment following a blown alluvial damper. “They needed to put down for repairs and fast because of that melted damper,” said…
Read MoreNoviee Exposed as a Changeling PALESIA, LANNIK – As a result of a random blood test, it was discovered that Rolsat “Rolstone” Noviee is a Clawdite changeling who has been posing as a Lannik for the past nine years. “Everyone said he moved unlike any player they’d ever seen,” said Kova Naan of the New Osler Flejj Beasts, “and now we know why.” Noviee, the highest-scoring and highest-paid Pugil participant in Lannik history, is missing and presumed to be offworld. “For all I know, you’re Rolsat,” quipped Naan.
Read MoreCoco District Jailbreak Alert COCO DISTRICT, CORUSCANT – The Coco District Constabulary have issued a general alert to the public following the escape of three criminals from the Moderate Security Ward of the Coco Penitentiary this morning. The three convicts escaped aboard a supply truck servicing the penitentiary’s laundry wing. While none were arrested for violent crimes, all three have a long history of criminal behavior. Achk Med-Beq and Dannl Faytonni are both humans jailed for a wide array of confidence schemes while Llollulion is a Borlovian smuggler. Any information…
Read MoreSluis Van Offer Met with Doubt OUTER RIM NODE – An offer from the Sluis sector capital world to help rein in the vigilante Scarlet Thranta corvette was met with skepticism from the Judicial Department. On a pirated HoloNet frequency, Candobar Inglet, the Sluissi Khedive, said his government would be willing to assist any Judicial and Jedi ventures into what is now Separatist space. The Judicial Department has yet to accept the offer. “It is undergoing careful study at this moment, and we are not at liberty to comment,” said Judicial Terrinald…
Read MoreLahara Patrol Attacked, Jedi to Send Aid OUTER RIM NODE – Separatist extremists opened fire on a Space Rescue Corp patrol cutter on the borders of the Lahara sector yesterday, prompting an emergency Jedi taskforce to be dispatched to the area. The Iron Tether was strafed by a quartet of Subpro C-73 Tracker starfighters backed by a modified Corellian freighter despite transmitting its identifying telesponder signal and flying its recognizable red and black hull colors. “When the engagement began, there may have been the off-chance the Separatists didn’t recognize the vessel as…
Read MoreJedi Starfighters Moved to Eriadu Base PHELAR, ERIADU – The Jedi Council has moved a squadron of a dozen Delta-7 Aethersprite starfighters to the busy Phelar Port of Eriadu, bolstering Republic security in the Seswenna sector which now borders a sizable Separatist front. The sleek wedge-shaped starfighters have been stationed at the Eriadu Planetary Security Launchport complex. “The Jedi order has the full support and cooperation of Eriadu and the Seswenna sector,” said Brigadier Gideon Tarkin in a ceremony that welcomed the fighters to the base. Tarkin then joined Jedi…
Read MoreAntitrust Suits Dropped in Light of Separation EXPANSION REGION NODE – The Judicial Department has cleared over 2,000 pending antitrust suits against the Commerce Guild following the secession of several Mid and Outer Rim sectors that no longer have any coverage by Republic laws. The suits, some of which have been on the backlogs for over six years, contend that the Commerce Guild has been bullying competitors in its lucrative commodities markets, sometimes even unleashing private droid armies to enforce guild membership. “These small local companies are in for a…
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