PROMITOR, HORTUS SYSTEM — In what local Insitor Cooperative officials are calling “a beacon of hope for the next generation,” 12-year-old pioneer worker Davi Mendoza has astounded his supervisors by occasionally looking up from his Personal Data Assistant during his 14-hour workday.
PROMITOR SYSTEM - The highly anticipated release of “Integrated Cybernetics” (IC), a new luxury consumable from Alpha Tau Nutrition Systems, has faced immediate backlash from the pioneer community, who claim it’s “just an exoskeleton with fancy lights and a bigger price tag.”
PHOBOS, ANTARES I SYSTEM - What began as a routine supply operation has evolved into a full-blown crisis for Antares Initiative settlers as Kombucha supplies reached critical lows across multiple systems, sources confirmed yesterday.
Antares I System — In a development that has left APEX administrators both baffled and concerned, colonists on AI1 have reportedly discovered that standard-issue medical kits can be consumed as a food substitute in emergencies, with one pioneer describing them as “tangy, with notes of antiseptic and a pleasantly numbing aftertaste.”
MORIA STATION, MORIA SYSTEM — The Exodus Council’s Department of Economic Affairs reported today that an unprecedented wave of company liquidations has swept through the pest control sector following the revelation that an apparent system-wide rodent infestation was merely an April Fools prank perpetrated by a popular APEX interface extension.
BENTEN SYSTEM - What began as a routine classified ad in the APEX marketplace has spiraled into a system-wide investigation after executives at Xenos Logistics were accused of consuming poly-ethylene, a common building material used in headquarters construction.
DAIKOKU PRIME – Following the release of Castillo-Ito Mercantile’s annual Educational Board Report, controversy has erupted over their new children’s educational program “My First APEX Console” after parents discovered it teaches advanced price manipulation techniques alongside basic math. The interactive learning tool includes lessons like “Understanding Market Gaps” and “How to Spot Desperate Haulers.”
MORIA SYSTEM - In an unexpected development following the recent creation of a black hole in the QQ-264 system, a self-proclaimed “amateur astrophysicist” from the Antares Initiative claims to have made breakthrough observations about the celestial anomaly’s “dietary preferences.”
MONTEM, Moria System - Local industrialist and self-proclaimed “crypto trading virtuoso” lowstrife found himself in an awkward position this week when he was unable to pay basic production fees at his NEO Charter manufacturing facilities, having invested his company’s entire reserve of NCCs in what he called “an unprecedented opportunity in digital starship ownership.”
PROMITOR, HORTUS SYSTEM - In a move that has raised eyebrows across the known universe, the Insitor Cooperative’s latest venture aims to transform from cultivating crops to cultivating a shipbuilding empire. The initiative, spearheaded by the Cosmocene Combine, promises to “plant the seeds of industrial revolution” in the traditionally agricultural Hortus system.
