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.