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Greetings Residents,
The Council of Rannon is pleased to announce two more students are beginning their journeys in learning to serve the Force and the beings of the Galaxy.
We have high hopes for the pair. Mentors, guide them on their paths. Students, support them and offer advice when it is sought.
Kind regards,
– The Jedi Council
Companies such as Czerka Enterprises, Lerrimore Contracting Company, and Corellian Engineering Corporation – in cooperation with the Bank of Aargau, have granted 50 million credits to the University of Coruscant, Corellia University, and Mrlsst Trade and Science Academy. This unrestricted donation is meant to bolster creativity and ingenuity in the respective school’s engineering and science departments.
This contribution has been met with wide acclaim by the public.
One student from the University of Coruscant – Jaq Roznex (20 M), majoring in engineering, is thrilled.
This is insane! My class and I will be able to finish our robotic project without my professor coin pinching. Never thought companies like Czerka or Lerrimore cared like that.
We were able to catch up to Republic Senator Menzyx Kallian, a rising star in the Senate, leader of the Centrist party, and former executive for the Bank of Aargau, on the Senate floor – and he had this to say on the matter:
I am proud of the ceaseless work the Bank of Aargau has done to finance the Republic. And it is my firm belief that we are approaching a precipice. Every day I see more homeless people, more violence, and not on Tatooine where you would expect such a thing, but on planets that were once the models of dignity like Coruscant and even Aargau, my home. Why? The people of this great Republic, of all classes and races, have been crushed by the weight of its… imperialistic overreaching. More conflict in our Outer Rim territories? What a surprise! We must instead focus on investing in the next generation of top minds. Without their innovations, their… forward-thinking, it will be impossible to improve our infrastructure. It is imperative that we raise the quality of life and make smarter use of our resources, or this… fractured Republic will shatter.
Research done by the Affiliated Press Voter Study Group shows that Senator Kallian has had a significant uptick in the quarterly Senatorial polls since this interview. Time will tell if this really is just the nudge the Republic needs.
Reporting contributed by the Affiliated Press.
Jedi of the Order, please turn your attention to the following address from Grandmaster Coron Audax:
“Greetings fellow Jedi,
It has long been tradition for our Order to provide our newest students with training weapons to begin their journey on the path of learning to defend others with the Lightsaber. Traditions as old as the Order themselves often carry the risk of becoming mundane procedure. Upon deep reflection and consideration of the process, it has become clear that we have fallen into this trap.
Receiving, training in, and eventually constructing ones Lightsaber is a sacred ceremony of dedication to Jedi ideals. It is the High Council’s belief that current practices lessen the spirit of the sacrament. Jedi Artisans have lead missions to Ilum not as a personal journey, but as a perfunctory duty in collecting focusing crystals in order to mass produce these training weapons. This is costly in both time as well as credits. Mainly, however, it is a disrespect towards the tradition of the Gathering.
Henceforth, the High Council has decided that all new training weapons will be constructed in such a way that they possess a synthetic power crystal and focusing crystal chamber that stands ready to receive the crystal personally discovered by the student who wields the weapon, as the proper ceremony dictates.
This serves to reinforce the importance of a student’s journey and, following the successful completion of the ceremony, will outfit our students with a weapon fully capable to defend the Galaxy that they will be travelling into as Padawans.
High Artisans will be dispatched from Ossus to our Jedi branches, all over the Galaxy, to instruct our students in the importance and practicality of this new philosophy.
That is all and may the Force be with you all.
Grandmaster Coron Audax.”
Devastation today at Jovan Station, a deep space station and trade hub located at P6 subgrid C in the Gordian Reach. Abruptly, and for a second time in the last cycle, Industrial Automation’s line of DE units, ones that had been recalled, repaired, and vetted by Quality Assurance specialists before being reactivated; exploded and sent out EMP shockwaves that resulted in damage throughout the station. System failures and collateral damage from unit detonations caused 76 people to die during the events, as well as four others who succumbed to their wounds at a later time.
During the commotion, several storage bays opened and thousands of credits worth of goods were lost. Eyewitnesses spotted at least one freighter taking advantage of the chaos to recover several dozen crates that were adrift in space before departing and making a jump to Hyperspace. Due to the electromagnetic blasts that occurred throughout the station, flight control was unable to identify the transponder code of the freighter in question. The Republic is offering a 10,000 credit reward for anyone who has information that can help in identifying the thieves.
Industrial Automation’s spokesperson has not made any public or official comment yet. Anonymous sources from inside the business have reported that there’s mass chaos within the droid manufacturer as the leaders of the corporation hunt for people on the inside who may be conducting sabotage or other espionage inside the business.
Senatorial Candidate for the newly formed Independent Reach Party, Ralskun Direeb, had this to say on todays’ events:
It pains me to see my people, the noble and dignified people of the Gordian Reach, betrayed yet again by the incompetence of the Republic! Over the last several weeks all that my supporters, and future constituents, have been demanding is basic security and stability for their families! This is the problem with the bureaucracy of Democracy. These democratic elites on Coruscant care about nothing other than their re-election campaigns! When I’m elected to office, I will waste no time in using my voice to introduce a secession document for all systems so that we can create our own government that will reclaim how great the Gordian Reach used to be!
Of note, Candidate Ralskun Direeb was wearing an armband on his sleeve with the emblem of “The Roilers”, an ultranationalist group that has been holding, often violent, protests in the independent ‘Back Reach’ as well as on Torque after the terror attack there. The movement is gaining in momentum, and only time will tell how this latest incident impacts the radical movement in this sector of space.
Reporting Contributed by the Affiliated Press
Planetary Counsel for Torque, regarded as the highest elected law enforcement official on the world, recently filed suit against DE-series droid manufacturer Industrial Automation in the Courts. This move comes after the world was afflicted by a catastrophic failure of the aforementioned droid series that was under recall at the time.
The initial hearing of the case was held at the Galactic Courts of Justice building on Coruscant in a closed session, so the exact particulars of the suit will not be known until a later date. However, our investigative reporters have uncovered two clues suggest the suit is not related directly to the incident, but rather statements made by Industrial Automation employees leading up to the tragedy.
A discarded draft of the initial filings reveal that the Galactic News Network was also named in the suit. However, the final filing was amended to remove them from the list of involved parties. Secondly, a leaked excerpt from Industrial Automation’s motion to dismiss indicates their defense theory is the detailed statements were to “stress the dangers to our clients and dissuade them from delaying to engage with the recall process.”
These two items hint that the government of Torque is claiming the attack on their world would not have occurred if the droid manufacturer had not released the following statement to the HoloNews:
“One of our Lead Engineers found a potentially dangerous subroutine error that, if triggered, could cause a catastrophic meltdown in the unit. It’s highly unlikely, and we have no reports of the bug causing any damage, but we don’t want to trust that this error won’t cause serious troubles down the line. Effects could include a dangerous detonation of the unit, as well as even EMP bursts that could wipe out on-board electronics including life-support systems on freighters.”
We have reached out to both parties in the suit. Both sides have declined to comment, citing the on-going nature of the case.