The Root of the Weed

"The fate of the Union convoy that has disappeared near the Federation border a week ago while carrying an influential war hero has been cleared up. A Union rescue team tracked the engine signatures down to a place where they had been ambushed by slave traders. A few hours later, the survivors could be rescued, but they had already been used as test subjects in a drug lab. The war-hero, who has suffered such heavy damage to his nervous system that he will probably never recover, has blamed a Federation conspiracy for the incident. Relations between Union and Federation have suffered. (Galatic News Network)"

Many citizens of the Union are worried about this incident - as they are supposed to be! It's not different in the office of The Wasat Times. When we got this info, our journalists nearly fainted - yet not out of joy, like Pseudo-War Prince Lucky would if he should stumble across a new pair of shoes.

However, different to most residents of our universe, which happens to be a rather sad place lately, The Wasat Times tries to view situations from a different angle, and tries to avoid the blind believal of any information that finds its way into our office. This news is now totally "out of sense", like one chain-smoking Human in the room right next to me would say - I never got the faintest idea what's so interesting about doing that stuff. I think he'll bite the dust within five years if he doesn't stop that habit. But back on topic. Where've we been? Ah right, Lucky's shoes.

So when the news came in, us The Wasat Times journalists gathered at that pink ugly table in the meeting room to discuss what was going on. The Imperial Sun apparently got the information aswell, as we intercepted that their desicion to send an undercover reporter into the hospital, where that poor sod of a (now former) war hero is taken care of, turned out to be an unhealthy one - for the reporter. Apparently the Union Military Police isn't interested in any further reports, especially from a stinking imperial - eh, who can blame them for doing so? At least, there's an advantage in being beaten up in the hospital: A doctor should be quite close. However, exactly this doctor felt that a loose tooth of a small keldonian girl - who happened to had her 7th birthday on that day, a happy birthday from The Wasat Times ! - had a higher priority, and said imperial reporter was told to stay where he was - as if he could move away with two broken legs anyway.

But, once more, back on topic. So we were sitting there, trying to figure out what was going on. Everything changed with a phone call of a Rashkirian engineer from Iozeio. Apparently, the Union War Convoy changed it's route, and headed to the North Pardus Rim, instead of staying in the West Pardus Rim and observing traffic as they were supposed to. But what's got that to do with that little engineer? Simple. The convoy had to repair it's ships on Iozeio, and this engineer - who wants to remain anonymous - overheared the line "Dunno what those imps are gonna do, but let's see what happens at dat meeting point".

Strange, isn't it? Seen the last time before that terrible incident, Imperials are known to be in touch with the convoy? And it happens that we are currently in tensions with them, while being in friendly relations with the Federation, going as far as joint-pool parties on Sargas and Cor Caroli? Yeah, something's foul about that GNN story, even that stupid blind Ska'ari working in that minerals shop right next to my favourite bar on Phao could see that. Isn't it more likely that the Imperials attacked that convoy?

The Wasat Times is going to keep you up to date.




For The Wasat Times, Mogul Dagobert.