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Terror in the Bard Expense Yamatai Interstellar News Network (YINN) Location: Ushizu, Skadi A disturbing story coming from the Bard Expense. Recently the town of Ushizu, on Skadi was the scene of what officials are calling a terror attack. This little agrarian town of 2,000 was recently attacked by NMX forces. Testimony from survivors and video captured by personal devices retrieved shows the following. A Squadron of Yui- Ke-D2-4a Class ships landed a short distance from the town. The citizens of the town, composed of former soldiers and their families came out to greet the crews. When the majority of town people had gathered the ships opened their airlocks and came out. The reports say that a group of Nekovalkyrja disembarked...

Star Army Scraps NovaCorp Gates Star Army News Distribution and Reporting Agency Yamatai System - As a precautionary measure, engineers from the Star Army demolished all NovaCorp jumpgates throughout the Yamatai Star Empire. Because some of the gates had fallen into NMX possession, it was feared that the gate system could be used as an attack vector for an invasion of Yamatai or another key system. The gate systems have been deactivated since the start of the war, so civilian shipping has not been affected.

Yamatai Interstellar News Network (YINN) Yamatai Students Support War Effort Across the Empire students in the upper-secondary schools are giving up meals supplied by the school systems once a week. Each school is taking all food they would normally serve the students and faculty, and adding donations from the student body to produce Standard Star Army Rations on that day. This effort came about from the several students talking about how they could help in the war across the school system networks. The students created a petition and an overwhelming majority of students and facility signed it. It was then submitted to the Director of the Department of Education. Star Army Logistics is supplying the schools with the pouches and...

STAR ARMY NEWS DISTRIBUTION AND REPORTING AGENCY (SANDRA) Ketsurui Fleet Yards, Yamatai KFY announced the recent release of several new ship designs, now available for use by Star Army of Yamatai fleets and other agencies. Kainushi-Class Tug Vessel. This new workhorse craft will soon be found at most locations with heavy traffic. Star Fortresses, Starbases and shipyards. The Kainushi-Class is designed to facilitate the loading and offloading of ships, and moving ships around facilities when they can not do so under their own power. Minori-Class Hospital Ship The Minori-Class is named in honor of Ketsurui-Chinomai Minori and is intended as a replacement to the Jihi-Class Medical Ship. The Minori-Class is smaller and less expensive...

STAR ARMY NEWS DISTRIBUTION AND REPORTING AGENCY (SANDRA) YAMATAI TO RELEASE HALNA Halna System – The Yamatai Star Empire announced today that it would no longer be protecting nor patrolling the Halna system. Halna is a small system on Yamatai’s (galactic) northeastern border that was the center of a controversy when Star Army forces attacked and claimed the system in response to the encroaching threat of Freespacer terror groups and their comingling with a criminal element there. The invasion was led by Ketsurui Hanako, adopted daughter of former Empress and current Star Army Commander Ketsurui Yui. Currently the system’s small population is divided over the changes. “I’m just out here trying to make a living” a local tavern owner...