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“It’s the breaking news with Universal News! Welcome, all you of the universe.
External threats. Today, the Utela galaxy has been placed on orange Zcarbb alert. Citizens are urged to have their bunkers brought up to standard and to be prepared to go there in the event of an alert. The War Institution and the Communications Institution inform you that there is no particular reason for concern and that this barbaric incursion will be quickly stopped. Additional troops are being deployed to deal with the situation.
Politic. The Administrative Assembly has finally adopted in final reading the new law on democratic normalization. From now on, all administered nations are required to have citizen representation and to include this principle in their constitutions. A series of sanctions are provided for in the event of refusal to cooperate, which will undoubtedly encourage the recalcitrant to quickly accept this new step towards the universal establishment of democracy. On the other hand, the law for a new universal tax intended to finance the administrative army, proposed by the presidential camp, was again rejected by the vast majority of deputies: knowing that this refusal is widely supported by the voters, this does not bode well for the president with the elections approaching...
Internal Security. A priority alert has been issued against a rogue administrative agent: Libre Lhom of category alpha+. The report that you can see in the image has been broadcast to all media, official and not. Recently registered, this agent used the advantages of his status to help a prisoner escape and attacked the prison fleet launched in pursuit of it. The status of these prisoners has not been communicated by the Administration, but the rogue agent managed to escape after causing thousands of deaths among the prison forces. We do not yet know for which terrorist group he works, nor what his intentions were with this escape. The official rebel group ‘Liberty’, to which he once belonged, has officially announced that they have no longer had any ties with the rogue agent since a long time and has strongly condemned his actions.
Finances: The economic crisis continues, but the government claims that their new measures will have it completely under control within two standard years… that is, after the elections. Biggest increase on the universal stock market: War-Fun, a major arms company, mysteriously saw its stock value increase by 326% today. Some see this as a sign of an upcoming major conflict, but it is likely that this is just a speculator's frenzy based on false rumors in ‘insider’ circles. Biggest drop: GoW, a stock market giant whose activities are still unknown, seems to have ceased… well, ceased all activity. An administrative investigation is underway and billions of people have been ruined by the total loss of value of the stock.
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Technology: Neru-teque has officially announced that they are indeed developing a SECURA-03 chip. Their representatives have specified that this model is still under development and will not see the light of day for a few standard years. In addition, it will not be for sale to the public but exclusively reserved for the armed forces fighting on the Zcarbb front. Despite the conspiracy rumors spread on the Network about the SECURA-02 chip and, now, about the SECURA-03, the company is confident in the future, as demonstrated by their public statement: "If we announce this release today, so far in advance, it is because we felt obliged to respond to the paranoid rumors we are the subject of. Each release of a neural chip, by ourselves or our competitors, is systematically the subject of a smear campaign on the private media, claiming that we are going to take control of our customers' brains. Not only has no accident ever occurred, but scientists linked to the Administration verify the reliability of sensitive products from private companies, making this type of crime, of which we are accused, impossible. This announcement has already caused a slight increase in requests for implantation.
That’s it for today’s news! It was the breaking news with Universal News.
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