NE[ws]

NEWS (Land or Sea)

Displays all announcements plus battle news and census reports. If no argument is provided, all news generated since your last reading of the news is displayed. If a specific date is requested, all news starting on or after that date is displayed.

  NE[ws]  [(date)]

  Where:  (date) = The game date (nnn.nn) to start displaying
          the news from.

Note:  The news file is a circular file.  At some point in the
       game earlier news items may be over written by more
       current news.
  
Example:
  [ Official Empire News ]  Date: 32288.00

Date: 30912.00 thru 30928.00
NEWBIE[4] attacked PRIMUS[1] on ISLAND 6[#6] island killing 243 people.
14 sectors were captured including the capitol and 2937 civilians were
taken prisoner.  Materiel valued at 8 power was destroyed or captured
in the attack.  NEWBIE[4] lost 133 military during the battle.

Date: 30916.00 thru 30926.00
NEWBIE[4] bombed PRIMUS[1] sinking Carrier #506, Carrier #504,
Destroyer #512, Destroyer #511, Mine Sweeper #510, Cruiser #508,
Cruiser #505, Cruiser #497, Cruiser #496, Cruiser #494, Battleship
#507, Battleship #495, Carrier #492, Destroyer #509, Destroyer #502,
Tanker #501, Destroyer #499, Destroyer #498, Battleship #490, Liner
#489, Transport #491 and Freighter #493.

Date: 30932.00 thru 31802.00
NEWBIE[4] shelled and attacked YIKES[18] on TROUBLED AREA[#5] island
killing 286757 people.  127 sectors were captured and 8272 civilians
were taken prisoner.  Materiel valued at 337532 power was destroyed or
captured in the attack.  NEWBIE[4] lost 6563 military and fired 1894
shells during the battle.
  

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