"Good morning, bunnies! It's the Empress of Information, the Queen of the Quantumnet, Nikki FORTRAN with your mornin' news! Looks like the Guardsmen overstepped their bounds at 13:50 local time on Bifrost, raiding the ground facility of famed pirate Valencia Dagge! Hey guys, thanks for the help and all, but your juris is in our diction! You guys are supposed to have authority off-world only, or did you think little Nikki wouldn't find out about it? Still, the Xanadu Exchange shipping lane should be a little safer for a while, so you long-range haulers better get while the gettin's good. The outer colonies could use the supplies. Oh, and speaking of colonies, New Hope's gone dark. The Guardsmen have sent an expedition to make sure it's just a downed Q-Link, but little Nikki suspects something more...sinister. They built New Hope on the edge of the Orion Expanse...No Man's Space. Me thinks some creepy crawly picked up their beacon...let's hope I'm wrong. That's it for now bunnies! Remember, good info makes Nikki purr...so be good little boys and girls , upload me some terrabytes of juicy goodness, and press 'SUBMIT' for the Dominatrix of Data...." Nikki FORTRAN, if that is her name, transmits throughout the Free Colonies from a secret location known as The Hub. Her signal piggybacks on every colony's quantum net, through means authorities haven't yet figured out (though some say she's just bribed all the right people). While mostly known as a cosmic disc jockey, she's an information broker of the highest calibre, paying top dollar for the "good stuff." In truth, though her broadcasts are illegal, no one in the government, or the underworld, dares touch her...she knows far too many secrets and far too many people owe her debts they can never repay. Enjoy, and let me know what you think.