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From the pages of the Traveller's News Service:

158-1120 Mirabilis rolls out the red carpet for Terran Baron

1332 Mirabilis/Solomani Rim (Solomani Confederation InfoNet)- A crowd of 60,000 turned out yesterday to greet the Baron of Buenos Aires on Terra. What an amazing welcome from these wonderful people, averred his Excellency Alyn hault-Jackson Espino upon his entrance to the grand park in the capital. The Baron meets today with government officials for trade talks. This is his first stop in a grand goodwill tour of the Confederation.

156-1120 Imperial Noble Arrives in the Confederation

1332 Mirabilis/Solomani Rim (TNS)- This morning IMV Coeur d'Or jumped insystem from the Imperial border world Iilike.  The Baron of Buenos Aires in the southern American continent on Sol. The Baron is due to spend several days on Mirabilis before traveling on to the Bootes Cluster and other stops in the Confederation. 

148-1120 Independent Shipping Insystem

1429 Iilike/Solomani Rim (Iilike Shipping News)- Commercial Transports arriving today:

Ship

Inbound from

Bound for

Type

Apishali Queen

Shulimik

Ishkur

Mixed

Bad Penny

Shuruppak

Shuruppak

Freight

Brunto

Shilgiili

Terra

Passenger

Coeur dOr

Sirius

Mirabilis

Mixed

Dingiri Leader

Ishkur

Sirius

Freight

Ruby Spar

Ishkur

Shuruppak

Mixed

Tukera Peonia

Terra

Mirabilis

Passenger

Vegan Polity

Meshan

Sarpedon

Freight

Ziemia Tarnowska

Markhashi

Shuruppak

Freight

134-1120 - Navy searching Sirius system for missing starship.

1629 SIRIUS/Solomani Rim (TNS)- Representatives of the megacorporation Delgado today announced a cutback in transshipment through the Sirius system. In the weeks since the disappearance of the subsidized merchant starship Northroyal Elspeth, Sirius system authorities have requested assistance from the sector government. Despite the recently increased customs presence in the system, another ship has disappeared in transit between Lily Station and the outer system. Yesterday an entire Imperial Navy CruRon, or Cruiser Squadron, and a flotilla of gunned escorts arrived in system from Iilke. Commodore Benjamin Magnan announced that things will change in the Sirius planetoid belt.

"We're certain that the Navy will quickly uncover the cause of these recent disappearances."

Navy assurances notwithstanding, Delgado is the third major company to reduce its presence in the Sirius system. Both Sternmetal Horizons and Tukera Lines have announced scheduling changes in the wake of recent events in the system.

134-1120 Baron of Buenos Aires to depart for Solomani Confederation

1827 - Terra/Solomani Rim - Baron Alyn hault-Jackson-Espino will lift from Starport Phoenix aboard the chartered vessel Coeur d'Or, according to spokesman Robert Lee Clark, of the office of the Marchioness of Terra. The Baron will be visiting several Solomani Confederation worlds on the border with the Imperium and carries with him official greetings from Marchioness Ribeira da Silva, Archduke Adair and Emperor Strephon.

131-1120 - Baron of Buenos Aires attacked by unknown assailants.

1827 TERRA/Solomani Rim (TNS) - Reports of gunfire from the grounds of the Baron's country estate south of Buenos Aires, according to sources within the Terran government. Immediately, the Baron's huscarles were dispatched to deal with the intruders.

 

Sources within the Baron's office advise that individuals gained access to the estate to illegaly hunt Pampas cats.  Hunting of these protected plains predators is strictly forbidden, and the poachers have been taken into custody.

 

The baron's Chief of Staff, Don Francisco Bonavenura-y-Santiago noted that while the Baron was visiting the rancho at the time of the incursion, he was entertaining guests in another part of the large estate. "At no time, were the Baron or his guests in any danger from these poachers," Don Francisco advised.

 

Among the Baron's guests were SuSAG scion Evard Schunamann, and Eric Kayeleayaiko, the Aslan Baron of Veran on Desdemona.

94-1120 - Baron of Buenos Aires announces goodwill tour of Solomani Confederation.

1827 TERRA/Solomani Rim (TNS) - Sir Alyn hault-Jackson-Espino, third Baron of Buenos Aires announced at a press conference yesterday, that he intends to set out on a multi-world tour of the Solomani Confederation in the coming year. The Baron of Buenos Aires, Alyn hault-Jackson-Espino, ascended to his position just last year following the death of his father, Admiral Sir Hiro hault-Jackson-Espino, who was granted one of Terras premier baronies after a series of military and political victories in the Diaspora sector. Alyn was the second in line for the Barony after Sir Hiros death 1118, but his older sister, Danielle declined the accept the title. Sir Alyns letter of patent was published in the Holiday List of 1119.

 

Prior to the new Barons was investment, Sir Alyn received an honors degree in Interstellar Relations at Imperial University on Dingir. After returning to Terra he began studies at the Hasegawa Univesity Terran College of Government. Although he has worked toward finishing an advanced degree, the Baron has advised that he needs to travel to the Confederation to continue his research on the history of the Third Imperium and the Boötean League. While on his research mission, the Marchioness of Terra has charged Sir Alyn with encouraging trade and amity between the Imperium and the Solomani Confederation. Along with the Baron and his staff, members of the diplomatic staff and representatives from the corporate sector will travel to Twylo, the Boötean League, Hamilcar, and other worlds on the rimward edge of the Confederation.

 

Although some in the Terran parliament have opposed the idea of a high level diplomatic mission to the Confederation at this time, Marchioness Alessandra and the government have extended their blessing to the endeavor. "I am certain that Sir Alyns special experience with the Solomani Confederation will help to can only serve to strengthen the growing bond of friendship between our two nations", the Marchioness noted before boarding her personal shuttle bound for the Terran highport. "He and his team will do just fine."

 
 
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