BONUS SECTION:
Newsflash


	That evening, I did something I hadn't done for close to four months: 
caught up on the news. It'd take me a few hours, but I'd get through the 
four months of news I missed. There wasn't much good to it, as usual. The 
sports teams from HQ all lost, which wasn't a big surprise. The price for 
ammunition for cannons and missile launchers jumped 20 thousand, which was a 
big a surprise as the HQ teams losing! Leo had won some minor battles on ice 
planet C23 and lost a few water holes on desert planets E04 and E05. I 
skipped over the Rashilé news because, well, you should know. Then came the 
sections that I enjoyed most of all: News from Old Earth. I tossed the 
remainder of the paper aside, put my feet up, and started to read.

	The report was quite short for the first few weeks. The new archeology 
site had jack shit in it. I got a rumor from one date about a body being 
found. Three dates later, the rumor was shot down. The relic I heard about 
in the bar that day one did in fact turn out to be a prototype battle mech. 
The scientists working on it guessed the humans were going to use on our 
ancestors! So, in otherwords, the humans got what they deserved. Being on 
the topic of weapons, they also found a number of live nuclear and 
biological warheads at one site in old Iraq. In old Northern Ireland, they 
found massive stores of antique weapons and ammunition, including AK-47 
assault rifles and, my favorite classic, the old Raptor Sniper rifles. 
That's a true classic. Old America yeilded some ancient submarines, as well 
as many nukes. It was like the humans were stockpiling to blow the hell out 
of each other!