Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 11:52:18 -0500
From: Ron McClung <seawolf@VNET.NET>
Subject: [SW-RPG] HOLONEWS: Nanth Ribbon Radicals commit mass suicide
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                    The Corellian Galactic Dispatch
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    A HoloNews subsidiary serving the Near Core and Inner Rim
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    GalacticDate - 10..4 ASW4
    OuterRim..Corellia System, Corellia
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    390 Killed in an apparent Mass Suicide
    Suspected Connection to the Nanth Ribbon

The Imperial constabulary on Corellia reports an anonymous comm brought
them to an affluent part of Grasa City, on the West Coast of the Tharan
Continent.  There they found what could only be described as horrifying.
390 members of a radical religious group calling themselves the Nanth
Chosen, were found in a large mansion house owned by a prominent computer
business man, who also was among the dead.  They were found peacefully laid
out throughout the house, as if they were asleep.  Their is rumors of
something odd about the bodies; all their eyes were missing... as if the
were just lifted out of their heads.  This reporter got it from a good
source that this rumor is true and that there is no evidence on how it was
done.  It is unknown what exactly killed all 390, but Imperial
investigators are working hard to find out.
The Nanth Chosen were apparently a radical cult that was following the path
of the Nanth Ribbon, via telescope, waiting for it to join it's "brother",
a comet, that is nearby the Ribbon now.  Once they meet, "it was their time
to ascend into new being", according to their doctrine.
It is unclear how this cult got started, or who did.  The prominent
business man who owned the house was only a member, according to
preliminary investigations.  "It just goes to show you what harm can do to
adhere to old religious ways like the Jedi Knights, and such.  The
Emperor's right..."  one Imperial Constable was quoted saying.


This has been Darknu Elmstead reporting for the Corellia..."
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