Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}   The Daily Bugle Newspaper Tuesday                                                                                                                                                         May 22, 2018 National News Meridian Engineering Opens Fully Automated Factory (California, Corona)                 Mayor Livingston cut the ribbon and declared the state of the art electronics factory open for production. This revolutionary factory can turn out ten time the production of similar facilities and requires only a single human operator. Yes, you read that correctly, this ten thousand square foot factory can operate 24-hours a day 365 days a year with only a single soul on site.                 Even security is automated. More than a dozen Armbruster security robots and drones will provide impenetrable protection for the robotic factory.                 The factory is the brain child of James Hamon. The materials used in the devices fashioned here are extremely hazardous but the products are essential to the development of space, low earth orbit and beyond. In order to met the growing demand for such materials by organizations like Blue Origin, Copenhagen Suborbitals, and even NASA production can not be halted.                 In order that development can continue safely human beings need to keep at a fair distance.                 Labor unions and others protested the factory. If this is successful the same processes will all but eliminate the need for production line workers across the board. They claim that Meridian’s Frankenstein Factory will cause unemployment to skyrocket, suppress demand and salary for technical production workers, and help destroy what remains of America’s manufacturing economy.   Local News Brooklyn Brigade Battles Bot Is Genocide Back With A Vengeance? (New York, New York City) New York , or at least Brooklyn, has a team of heroes defending it. For a second time in less than a week a gigantic robot was on the prowl looking for victims. Not that this isn’t odd enough but the machine was pursuing a woman who has been identified as one of the exotic dancers who went missing after the massacre at the Boom-Boom Room. The woman, whose name is being withheld, credits her rescue to the Brooklyn Brigade, the newest (and only) superhero team on the east coast. The membership pf the Brooklyn Brigade includes Crimson Knight (their leader) and Mighty Girl. Two other members of the team have not had their names released to the press. PART has taken custody of the two animal-men and possession of the robot remains. Except for being of comparable size there are no similarities between these robots and the repurposed Minutemen Robots used by Genocide.   World News OPSEK Crash Prediction Of When and Where (Washington DC)                 NASA, with support from Russia and the United Nations, has narrowed the expected landfall of the failing OPSEK space station. As reported on May 18 the first module of a Russian space station failed to reach its intended orbit and will be returning to Earth in an uncontrolled reentry.                 This OPSEK module weighs several tons and contains a ‘small’ fissionable care intended to power the station for ‘many years’.                 Current models for the descent predict that it will return to Earth June 30 th or possibly June 31 st . If the orbital decay remains as predicted it will make Earth fall in the Atlantic ocean within 200 miles of the American East coast.   The Daily Bugle Newspaper Friday                                                                                                                                                             May 25, 2018 National News Couple Found Locked in Vault Near Death (South Carolina, Branchville)                 When First Colonial Bank opened this morning they discovered an unexpected overnight deposit; a naked couple in the bank vault. The man and woman were near death from asphyxia and seemed, overall, to be poorly equipped to be bank robbers. The only thing the pair had was a very old leather bound book, which they appear to have brought with them.                 The young woman and her much older companion have been taken to the hospital where they are being treated. Neither one have regained consciousness.                 There were no signs on how they managed to enter the vault. Nothing was damaged nor has anything been discovered missing.   Local News Minutemen Warn Brooklyn Brigade May Be More Harm Than Help (New York, New York City)                 Dollar Bill, leader and spokes model for the hero team The Minutemen, called a press conference to address their concerns about the Brooklyn Brigade. Dollar Bill, with his lovely sidekick Dollar Girl on his arm spoke to the press with the rest of the team standing behind them. “It has been over a year since we have seen any significant activity from Genocide. Not since the Exodus have they raised their ugly head to endanger the people of New York, not until last Wednesday. “It might be a coincidence that the Brigade formed at the same time of the resurgence of giant robots stalking our streets, but I am not a believer in coincidence. The Brigade might be heroic, as they present themselves to be, but until we know more about them The Minutemen will be on heightened alert. “I invite Crimson Knight to come and speak with us, to explain why he left Georgia. Why was it necessary to lead these engines of destruction from there to New York? I suspect these things were hunting him and his friends so he relocated. Is he was trying to spare his beloved home the whole scale slaughter these machines are capable of by sacrificing the people of New York? “Should he accept my offer of a sit down talk he can send word to me at the First National Bank of New York, main branch. My shift ends when the bank closes. There are several places where we can talk nearby “Thank you.” And with that Dollar Bill ended the conference. The Minutemen returned to their usual activities, whatever they are, while Dollar Bill and Dollar Girl resumed their constant vigil to protect their sponsors.   World News Alzheimer’s Cured? (New York, New York City)                 “It’s incredible, simply incredible!” stated Doctor Manfred Barnes head of research at Moreau Bio Industries. Moreau Bio Industries has developed a treatment that, in its initial stages, seems effective in curing or at least halting the progression of Alzheimer’s.                 The treatment is still years away from human testing, and could be a decade or more before it is approved for widespread use, but it has the most promise in this area, ever.                 When questioned about how the ‘cure’ was developed Dr. Barnes would only say that part of the answer came from material salvaged from prehistoric ice samples and the rest was gleaned from research involving sharks.     The Daily Bugle Newspaper Monday                                                                                                                                                          May 28, 2018   National News Human Trafficking Alert (California, Arvin)                 A dozen young women were rescued by the California division of SAT (Special American Tactics). The girls had been abducted from several communities throughout California and were being transported across state lines. Their ultimate destination has not been released.                 Four members of the Arvin chapter of the Black Muslims are being held in connection with the kidnapping.   Local News Vandals Destroy Museum of Civil War Inventor and Spiritualist (New York, Catskill Village) The historic home of Jacob Hopewell and the museum that honored his work in the field of communications were vandalized last night in his hometown of Catskill Village. Several irreplaceable exhibits were destroyed at both sites and severe structural damage was wrought throughout both buildings. Catskill police believe the vandals were ‘kids’ or a group of scavengers trying, once again, to find pieces of the Hopewell Machine. Prior to his death in 1875 Jacob Hopewell claimed to have invented a machine that allowed him to communicate with the dead by means of sending and receiving photographs. The only known part of the machine was housed in the museum until it vanished in 1945.   World News Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Superhuman Relief Volunteer Saves Hundreds In Haiti (Haiti, Delmas Ouest)                 Age is no barrier to heroics, especially if you are super strong.                 A deranged cult leader and his followers attempted to sacrifice the entire population of a relief camp, over a hundred men, women, and children, to his dark god. The unidentified madman possessed some degree of power as the weather during the ritual went insane. Lighting, wind, and rain were only some of the environmental symptoms that hinted at the destruction that was to come. The clouds above Delmas Quest formed a tunnel leading skyward ending in a hellish region inhabited by demons.                 If not for an old man the loss of life would have been massive.                 He called himself the Warrior, but the people in the camp knew him as ‘Oscar’. He’d been living there for months helping with reconstruction after the most recent bouts of earthquakes. He served food, tended the injured, and gave the rest of the refugees hope when hope was in short supply.                 Witnesses say that he walked easily against the hurricane force winds the cultist summoned. He brushed through the army of disciples like a man wading into a calm sea. When he reached the cult leader the heavens unleashed a barrage of lighting bolts on Oscar. He was staggered but he did not fall. With mighty hands he reached out and grabbed the cult leader by the head and turned it 360 degrees on his neck. The storm died with the cult leader’s last breath. Oscar turned to the people he saved and said he was a warrior who had grown sick of war. He regretted that he had to leave. He’d taken a life and now he had to disappear. The Warrior said he would return someday, maybe in a century or so, when the authorities were no longer interested in him.