Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 21:30:30 -0400
From: Armage Bedar <gskywalker@GEOCITIES.COM>
Subject: [SW-RPG] NEWS: Explosion kills 206
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Here's my second crack at a holonews; hope you like it!
-Armage Bedar
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                                          IMPERIAL INFORMATION SERVICE
                              Imperial Standard - 3.5.25 ASW4
                                                                 Churba
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NEWS FLASH - Explosion on Passenger Repulsorplane Kills 206; Injures over 300

        "There was much confusion around 16:24 yesterday afternoon when a Cessca
BR-556 repulsorplane abruptly blew the port engine 3:34 after liftoff on
the 3rd landing pad at Churba City Metro Spaceport.  Fortunately, the
backup repulsor kicked on just as the jet almost hit the pad.  The people
killed were people sucked out the pressure door or people who panicked,
took a parafoil, and jumped.  The wind speed was about 25 mph, and they
crashed rather painfully into the side of a shock fence surrounding an
Imperial Detention Facility.

        206 people were killed and at least 300 were injured.  Seventy passengers
were taken to Alagreme City Hospital with minor injuries and were released.
 4 passengers and a navigational technician were DOA at Alagreme.  The
pilot and copilot were knocked out by the shock of hitting the ground.

        "The cause of the explosion is as yet unknown.  However, one witness using
his Superior 12C holocamera caught the following clip of someone running up
to the port engine, affixing something to the side, and running off."

        [Anchorman shows clip of amateur holophotography. The picture is very
grainy due to enhancement and recolorization, but you can make out a
bipedal animal running up, attaching a device to the engine, and leaving
quickly.  No one seemed to see him.  You look really close, and you see him
look at someone, gesture, and they collapse.]

        "Imperial authorities have no firm idea on who could've done this.  They
are thinking about Don Juan Hicks and his latest crime spree, but it was
most likely Rebels.  Imperial authorities are looking into it.  Although
there have been no Rebel pockets of activity in Churba since 4 years after
the Clone Wars, there could've been a development recently.

        "This is Nosyarg Drapehs for Eye on Churba."
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Whaddya think, eh?


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