The Lost Gardens of Antipi-Hymbos on Wicca’s World (Alioth) are host this month to yet another Jjagged Bbanner extravaganza. The galactic hyper-stars are staging their notorious ‘Wiccan Ware’ competition – the race to transport their latest release from the spectacular Dream Production plant at Old Curie on Hope in the Alliance system of Gateway (-1,4) to the cultural haven of Wicca’s World in the Alliance capital of Alioth (0,4). Read more »
Thargoids follow strange religious rituals and sacrifice their neonates to appease war-like gods. Thargoids are psychic and can invade the dream-space making the dreamers mad. Thargoids can teleport between stars without needing ships. All of theses have been seen in print and all of them are, quite plainly, insane.
Some of the myths, however, ring more true than the rest.
The witch-space legend may be based on fact- it is certainly the case that the number of hyper space mis-jumps increased alarmingly during the Thargoid Period and that ships were frequently attacked by overwhelming numbers of Thargons immediately afterwards, supporting the belief that the alien Commanders had the capacity to accurately re-direct a ship during the process of hyper space jumping thus successfully destroying a large number of ships piloted by less experienced commanders.
Next issue, we look at Thargoid morphology.
The Thargoids, c2950 – 3150: a non-human, sentient species of advanced technological development. They had ships capable of out-flying and out-shooting the best technology that either of the two existing galactic powers could produce at the time (and very possibly better than anything they could produce now).
They appeared in our Universe suddenly and with no obvious warning and disappeared in a similar fashion without any apparent reason. Certainly the combat skills of the INRA pilots were unlikely to be the real cause – good as they were, human technology was not ever going to compete with that available to the aliens.
So far, so good. In real terms, that is the limit of the facts known about the Thargoid race. The rest is rumour piled on superstition, piled on basic dishonesty. Next issue, we look at some of the wilder myths and their basis in fact.
Captain Dante Gazara has been tried and found guilty of assassinating his president. He has been sentanced to life imprisonment in the cold harsh prison colony of Ross 128. There forever to mine glitterstim in -5 degree temperatures.
The trial was obviously rushed, and much was edited out of the federations video review last night. Our reporter was there in the courtroom and can bring you the truth.
Captain Gazara never stopped pleading his innocence, he claims to not remember anything since he was aged 25, apparently the last eight or nine years of his life are missing to him.
We don’t know whether to believe him or not, but we can report that the feds are attempting to cover up this claim.
Meanwhile the Imperials are claiming the president died in a gas explosion!
That old harpy, President Thorold, has had a string of bad luck recently. Culminating in her death just the other day when a gas main exploded in a opulent hotel she was staying in. Does capitalist decadence not stretch to safety checks any more. Engineers are probably too busy fiddling the stock market and drinking champagne.
Capitalist news agencies are claiming the president was assasinated by an Agent of the Emperor, of course this is just nonsense.
Our President is dead. She was assassinated by an imperial double agent, Dante Gazara. Gazara has been tried and found guilty. He has been sentenced to life imprisonment at Ross 128. See the trial tonight at 2100 SST.
New information on the assassination of President Thorold. The Federal authorities are yet to go public but we can reassure our readers here in the free world, that the Federation President is definitely deceased. Captain Garzara has been arrested and a court-martial is scheduled for tomorrow.
He was found in the rubble of the penthouse of the New York Hilton. He had upon him a detonation device and a supply of what our investigator believes to be an experimental explosive compound, developed in secret by the Federal Navy.
More news on the trial when it begins.
Yesterday evening Madam President Miranda Thorold was assassinated by one of her own security team. The ever popular President Thorold had spent the evening at the annual New York Philanthropy Society’s Ball and had returned to the presidential suite at the New York Hilton. At exactly midnight a huge explosion rocked the Hilton, blowing out the top floor in a huge rolling ball of flame. The only two people on that floor were President Thorold and Dante Garzara , the head of her recently assigned Special Forces security team. Read more »
CUDDLY ANTI-ROMANTIC, one of life’s arm-chair spectators with no interest at all in anything beyond Universally Wonderful Food, Quinessian Champagne and Silk seeks companion to spread the delight. All mail answered WITHOUT hologram.
OUT OF WORK SECRETARY seeks bossy man for escapist adventures!
SUN-DIVER with own ship and sixteen direct scores on current rating needs companion to share the glory. If you’ve never dived, this is your chance.
COME HUNTING in Aymiay. Big game hunter with an eye for a neat catch seeks companion for this trip only. Guaranteed NO permanence. Late model Androids considered. Hologram essential. Read more »
It is now three hundred and fifty years since the first reports of Thargoids from the settlers of Molotov Village on New Africa (Veliaze -2,3) and exactly fifty years since the last mother ship was destroyed by INRA pilots flying out of Facece.
In the three hundred years of their existence, the Thargoids represented the only Universal Enemy that humankind has ever encountered, Read more »
R.I.G. reporters have uncovered a shocking truth. President Thorold is sleeping with her bodyguard. For pictures see the full story. Read more »