A new threat: There is talk among the voidskippers that ply the Canis run down to Tau space of dangerous xenos craft striking from the darkest reaches of space. Large, cylindrical vessels with masses of armored spines and jagged protrusions. They attack out of nowhere, and the only warning you get is the flare of radiation from their drives. The ships are fast and heavily armed, but their preferred method of attack is boarding: swarms of boarding torpedoes and attack craft.
Thus far, the Tau have been the worst hit, and several free traders have gone missing. The Jericho Sector fleet has only lost a single corvette-from a convoy that got away-and has a galleon down for repairs. The unescorted galleon was able to flee the attack, but the crew was nearly overcome by a hundred our so xenos that got aboard. Horrible eight-limbed monsters the size of ogryns, cyber-enhanced, and packing a variety of blades and guns. Only the heroic sacrifice of nearly two-thirds of the crew was able to save the vessel. No xeno was taken alive.
Remove 1 corvette. 1 star galleon is out for repairs for 1 turn.
Plague! (Wrath): The cities of Wrath are experiencing an outbreak of a most virulent plague. Thousands are dead and tens of thousands infected. The world is in lockdown for the time being. Tanith Baal has dispatched the Angelic Touch. Krawl is en route to look for signs of...someone's grandfather.
Reduce loyalty by 1. Maximum tax reduced to Fair.
Child of Light (Calisi): There is talk of a messiah, a boy of no more than ten or twelve years, walking the wastelands of Calisi, spreading the word of the Star-Lord and the Heavenly Host. According to this new faith, the STar-Lord is the supreme divine being who created the universe. Soon, he'll send his Heavenly Host to destroy it, and only the Faithfull will be spared (they get to join the Host).
Increase loyalty by 1. Reduce Spiritual by 1, but as long as the faith is allowed to exist, it still counts as a Full holding.
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