HNN - Evening News
Category: HNN Broadcasted on 10.Nov.2011 - 06:38hrs Author Alex Tylger Comments: 0
The standard introduction montage of the Hapan News Network rolls across the screen, before being replaced by the backdrop of the Castle of Per`agthra on Hapes Prime. Anacia Chalcedon looks up from her notes and gives her trademark smile and a slight nod before she addresses the viewers.
"Good evening, Hapes. Here is the Hapan News Network with the latest news from around the Consortium.
Grief struck personnel from the 1st Fleet today as news reached them of Lieutenant Nosirrah Tox`s death. The Lieutenant, a native of Barab I who immigrated to the Consortium several years ago to pursue a military career, expired as his personal vessel purposely entered close proximity of Lorell`s sun. In his last will and testament, the Lieutenant stated `life as a space dweller no longer honours my Barabel instinct and abilities.` He went on to dictate the distribution of his personal assets to friends and colleagues.
His death was commemorated by Hapans from all walks of life across the Hapes Cluster. In Lorell, many ships passing the sun jettisoned bouquets of flowers, while candles and cards were placed outside the Hapan Hawks stadium on Hapes Prime where Tox had taken part in many matches of the Shockball League.
The Fountain Palace and Lorell Hall issued a joint statement regarding Tox`s passing, saying `It is with great sadness we receive these news, and hope that he may find peace in the afterlife. Honour, pride, and glory to him.`"
"In other news, the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Imperial Union is almost upon us. Like last year, one of the Union member states is expected to host a summit commemorating the event. This year`s event will also celebrate the acceptance of the Aurodium Legion in to the Union as its sixth member state, and also the ascension of Emperor Ndengin in the Galactic Empire.
While not willing to divulge the location of the summit so far, the Fountain Palace has confirmed that the Hapes Consortium will not be the host, and that the Rai`ix Chume is planning to depart the Hapes Cluster relatively soon along with an escort fleet. We will keep you updated as more information becomes available."
"Officials in Lorell Hall have announced that following the impending completion of the Daein Project in Ut, the Ministry of Industry intends to devote significant resources to upgrading the Consortium`s industrial infrastructure.
Plans are being drawn up for new shipyard hubs, major storage nexuses, as well as extensive expansion of existing factory complexes. Several lightly populated worlds of little strategic and cultural importance are also being earmarked for new mining operations aimed at adding to the Consortium`s already considerable stockpiles. The project, nicknamed `Industry 4039,` will likely be the largest such undertaking in several years and will include many of the central systems of the Hapes Cluster."
"Emergency personnel were dispatched to the secluded Maad system last week as several workers were killed and wounded in an explosion on the ancient Uroro Transfer Depot. The system, located in close proximity to Terephon near both the Hapan Spine and Great Rim Route hyperlanes in the Rim Worlds Region, has been remained virtually uninhabited save for small outposts of scientists and mining personnel.
The station, pinned between the twin gas giants Uluq and Qogo, has been used to store large quantities of tibanna gas, as well as other materials from Shedu Maad. The station was hit by an archaic space mine from the Hapan Civil War that had been deployed in `the Throat` - the system`s lone access corridor through a monolithic debris field of ice that surrounds the system. The stealth mine, originally produced by the Royal Armaments Guild of Charubah some seventy years ago, was one of thousands placed in `the Throat` sometime during the 3990s by the Draconian Union`s forces in order to impede an invasion of the system. The extreme gravity wells of the gas giants led to the old mine drifting towards the center of the system, randomly striking the station.
Ironically, the accident occurred shortly after the fortieth anniversary of the second battle of Gallinore which effectively ended the Hapan Civil War. Sweeps were conducted during the Phoenix Age to rid the region of leftovers of warfare, but the density of the Transitory Mists in the region known as Rivved Space made the task difficult at best. A spokesperson from the Royal Hapan Armed Forces has pledged renewed efforts to sweep Maad for more residual mines and other unnatural debris.
More when we come back..."
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