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Alistair Young

May 7, 2015

GORBIS (CORDAI GAP) – The Syndic of Tribunals has indicted all former officials of the People’s Bureau of Safe and Sustainable Technologies, nearly six hundred thousand in total, on a range of charges of which the most significant are 17 billion counts of cognicide by willful deprivation. Executions are expected shortly.

A list of several thousand other former Bureau officials, said to have been off-world at the time of the Fall of Bantral, are sought by the Syndic, which has published these names to the various public bounty registries active in the spinward Worlds.

– from the Objective Eye newswire

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