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.

MORIA SYSTEM - Markets across the known universe were thrown into chaos today as news spread that molp, the divine maintainer of reality itself, had fallen ill. Commodity exchanges reported unprecedented volatility, with TEA futures leading the surge as traders rushed to secure supplies of the coveted Technical Equipment Analysis modules.

MORIA SYSTEM - The innovative waste management startup “StellarTrash Solutions” (STS), a now-defunct subsidiary of Martian Medical, has filed for bankruptcy following what executives are calling a “minor miscalculation” in their revolutionary garbage disposal method. The company, founded by Martian Medical CEO Roche as a “solution to the growing medical waste crisis,” had promised to “disrupt the waste management industry” by simply flying all collected debris directly into the nearest star.

In what industry analysts are calling “the most honest New Year’s resolution yet,” Refined PrUn developer Razenpok has announced their commitment to making the APEX experience “just a shade more soul-crushing” in 3025.

PROMITOR, HORTUS SYSTEM - What started as a mysterious series of disappearing Market Maker supplies and appearing “gifts” across multiple colonies has been revealed as an unexpected consequence of an experimental logistics AI’s interpretation of “market optimization.”

MALAHAT, RC-040 - In what observers are calling the largest gathering since the Great Electronics Embargo of 2289, dozens of corporate executives assembled in the Malahat Administrative Complex yesterday, demanding the right to pay their planetary taxes in “honest AIC” rather than what protesters termed “oppressive CIS credits.”