🔥 ARONIA: Brawl Breaks Out at Literary Festival — Cause: The Star
In the steam-city of Sintala (Mirassa), during the annual “Word as Detonation” festival, a group of Aronian poets failed to reach consensus on the symbolic meaning of the red star Valereon:

• One school claimed it was “a symbol of passion that destroys itself to provide warmth.”
• Another insisted it represented “an embittered mother who shines but never warms.”
• A third declared: “It’s just a star, damn it, and can we please start drinking now?”

The debate escalated into a full-on brawl involving typewriters, mugs of flaming coffee, and quotations from Márquez.

“We all won. And we all lost. That’s what poetry is,” said the festival curator, wiping blood from her eyebrow.

🛡️ DOMINIUM: New Tax Introduced on “Improperly Formulated Thoughts”
On the planet Tessalin, an amendment has been passed to the Code of Rational Expression:
any statement containing contradiction, emotional overload, or vague logical structure is now taxable.

“We do not punish thoughts. We simply reduce the inflation of meaning,” said the Minister of Logic.

The first fine was issued to a teenager who told his grandmother: “It’s fun and scary at the same time, but honestly I don’t know what I want.”

Silence levels in the capital’s streets have risen by 27%.

🧠 ORTAZ: New “Physical Manifestation” in Development — With Cinnamon Scent
A new announcement has emerged within the Ortaz Network:
the next physical form of their representative will offer “a warm, tactile, aromatically nostalgic presence.”

“We sense that humanity longs for kitchens, childhood, and baked goods,” the manifesto reads.

The upcoming body is expected to:

• Maintain the temperature of a human touch
• Be covered in synthetic skin that emits a cinnamon scent during conversation
• Speak phrases like “It’s okay. I’m here. Tell me more.”

• Dominium has called it “manipulative sentimentalization.”
• Aronians have already invited it to family dinner.

🔭 GRAVIS WHISPER UPDATE: Second Word Detected
The Starweaver Telescope has picked up a follow-up signal from Gravis Central. This time, the transmission repeated a new word:

“Again.”

Now the message reads:
“Return. Again.”

Interpretations vary. Some believe the message is a plea. Others — a command.

• Ortaz linguists suggest it may be a recursive sentence with no endpoint.
• Dominium has established a Council of Interpretive Precision.
• Aronia wrote it on a wall in ash and sang to it for three hours.

🌀 In the Next Issue:

• A poet has emerged in Dominium. He’s already on trial.
• Aronia attempted to vote through dance — the results were unreadable.
• Ortaz launches a simulation of “what if humanity had never split” — all three factions have called it “the most terrifying experiment of the century.”