Thargoids are insectoid. They have a chitinous exo-skeleton, multi-jointed legs and opposing first and second digits (analogous to the humanoid thumbs).

Collections of Thargoid body parts were initiated during the peak of the Thargoid Wars and the morphology of those remaining are divided into two distinct types: those parts scooped from the wreckage of a Thargoid ship and those parts retrieved by explorers from other sources. The former are large, blue-green to grey in colour and suggest a body mass ranging from two to five times that of the average 2 metre humanoid.

The latter, described in detail in the Giomanst Encyclopaedia, are black, have fewer leg joints and are of a human scale. Of the two, only the Giomanst specimens have been reconstructed in full. It seems likely that there are several variants and that the two forms may well represent different stages in the life cycle of the Thargoid from neonate to full adult.

Next issue: Thargoid biology.

A series of wild rumours are emerging yet again, this time from the Barnards Star system, regarding the sighting of yet another Thargoid fleet. Two courier pilots travelling from Barnards Star to Eta Cassiopea each claim independently to have fought and destroyed a single alien mother ship with a host of attendant Thargons. Read more »

The Imperials called it the ‘Duval Artefact’ and locked it in a vault on Conversion for all eternity. In reality, this unique piece of uni-dimensional art work is the last surviving relic of an ancient and sentient race, wiped out by the Colonising Forces of Duval in their efforts to carve for themselves a space on the Universal Trading Map. Achenar 6d died so that the Empire might live and we are not about to let them forget it. Read more »

The Imperial Palace Guard of yesterday cancelled all leave following the theft of the priceless Duval Artefact from the Imperial Provincial Museum and Authentic Theme park in Chekovport. The relic, discovered on 6d in the early days of the Empire was treasured as an Inter Stellar Treasure and a perfect example of an ancient and novel uni-dimensional art form.

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Reports of a riot in the Federal prison colony of Ross 128 have started to filter through. There were a number of explosions, and reports that security was breached.

According to the Feds records show that no prisoners have escaped, there were no ships docked at the time for them to escape on anyway!

Rumour has it though that high profile prisoner Clifford Stryker, formerly head of the shadowy mafia organisation known simply as The Company, make be missing and un-accounted for.

Dozens of innocent citizens from across the Galaxy died last month in that most reprehensible spectacle – the race to take a piece of self- indulgent ‘Dream-Ware’ to the Alliance ‘Cultural Centre’ of Wicca’s World. Reliable Imperial eye witnesses report that the winner: Commander Chris Moss won purely by default on the grounds that the leading ships had all been involved in a savage dog-fight, leading to multiple deaths and the loss of several million credit’s worth of inter galactic shipping. This practice cannot possible be condoned within the civilised galaxy and His Excellency, the Hengist Duval, the Righteous Ruler has decreed that any Imperial citizens henceforth taking part shall be subject to court marital and summary execution (should they survive).

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The Wiccan Ware race was watched by thousands as the first of the fifty or more ships to take part flared through the atmosphere above Wicca’s World in Alioth (0, 4) bearing the coveted new Dream release ‘Lost on the Edge’. In the event the unknown commander, Chris Moss came in first leaving a trail of wrecked ships behind and causing more than the usual amount of gossip. Nevertheless, the Jjagged Bbanner Launch Party went off with the usual mind-bending bang and the sensory effects were such that more than a few of the visitors reported seeing the famous Hymbos Maze tear itself out of the ground and float in the air. Read more »

The so-called Sohalian fever is running rife again in all three of the inhabited worlds in the system of Sohalia (-1,5). Symptoms range from the starting signs of a mild head cold with tension headache and run rapidly through to pyrexia together with gastro-intestinal pain, hameorrhagic diarrhoea, haematemesis and death within twelve hours of onset. Both pulmonary and neurological variants have been reported with sudden onset pneumonia in the former and progressive paresis, ataxia and collapse in the latter. Read more »

The spectacular ‘Wiccan Ware’ race is on again. Anyone close enough to the picturesque city of ‘Old Curie’ on the planet Hope in the system of Gateway (-1,4) to get there by midnight on 4th May can pick the latest release from the prolific dream-rock group: Jjagged Bbanner and take part in the race to get it to Alioth (0,4) to start the Launch Party. The first Commander to arrive in the starport of Ghandi on Wicca’s World will win their millionth share of the first day’s profits.

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The galaxy’s biggest, most exploitative, greed-inspired Dream-ware fiasco is taking place once again on the planet Hope in the Alliance system of Gateway. Several dozen relatively inexperienced pilots are permitted to land at will on the starport of Old Curie and then to take off simultaneously in their desperate hurry to reach their goal in Alioth.
Needless to say, significant numbers of ships are lost in this insane action alone but the sad fact is that the race which follows see the deaths of literally hundreds of pilots from around the galaxy – all for the sake of a few thousand credits.

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