From: ksun@pomona.claremont.edu
Subject: MercVII after two weeks.
Organization: Pomona College
Date: 6 Apr 92 23:23:48 PDT

Do not Cry, for War is Kind
	Stephen Crane in his poem War is Kind
There can only be one!
	Krugger in HighLanders

Welcome to MercVII where the novices are rampant and wanna be killers
salivating over the supposed fodders

The Editor in Chief Silk is responsible for all the articles in this report,
if a report is from a free-lance reporter, that means the article was
submitted from that nation rather than Silk.  We reserve the rights to edit
the articles.

Many border skirmishes have occured in the past week.  However, none of them
have escalated to full scale war since people are armed with only fishing
boats and cargo ships.  Now bridge is possible within this week (the tech
leaders).  War for the colonies is expected this week (unless we have a
friendly and gentle game?  Nah!)

Top of the news
As soon as the last week's report went to press, a war over some colonies
erupted between Cybertops and Wonkoland.  Wonkoland citizens, trusted our
weather report, had the misfortune sunbathing in the sun when suddenly
A Cyborg warrior appeared on the beach and proceeded in wiping out the
few civilians who failed to flee in time.  A few skirmishes resulted and
Cybertopsy seems to be in control.  Now, we switch to our free-lance reporter
in Cybertopsy.

Battle report from the front line.

Cyborg Chief General reports D-Day invasion a complete success.  No causalties
of our Elite Cyborg Warrior 1's were taken.  It has been proven the New Tech
Warriors are superior to the flesh and bone Humans' Special Intelligence Corps
has developed a new protype of cyborg... Cyborg Warrior 2's are soon to be
introduced into the Military Forces of Cybertopsy. Combat with this new
Weapon will prove Cyborg inviciblities.

Otherwise out leaders name is DarkStar. It ain't no democracy here.
It's (DarkStar) is rumored to be a Class XXXXVI Cyborg Warrior.  Who has been
teleported back to the era to change the Human Race...

The reporter wondered if Arnold has slipped past the Empire security system
and materialized in MercVII.  Stay tuned.

Various and numerous skirmishes were reported as well.  Some people were
so happy to see each other that they greeted each other with bullets.
Jelomould was engaged with Arawan and Kazaddur at one point.

Many government bureaucrats were fired for one reason or another.  Nautava
is hiring a new minister of propaganda and TheCulture lost a secretary.
Both nations are currently hiring.  Excerpt of TheCulture follows:

> Announcement from TheCulture, (#22)  dated Wed Apr  1 07:24:20 1992
More news from the land of peace, understanding and weapon plants.

A tragic governmental error recently caused 8 of our brave
citizens to miss their weekly allotment of gruel and 
therefore starve to death. Our reporter from the scene:

"Hi there, Dizzy Sma from CTV here. Well, tensions are
running pretty high here in HeavyInd site #3, but the
opening of a beutiful park nearby has prevented full-scale
riots. Local authorities promise to have everything running
fine Real Soon Now".
And now for a government comment on the famine tragedy,
here's Mr. Rehutalous from the Ministry of Gruel Management:

"This has been a simple case of misunderstanding. I left the
office for a two-day golf break, and told my secretary to
keep things rolling. My (ex)secretary apparently then
proceeded to tell everyone in the Ministry to 'take a break
because things were rolling along nicely'. When I got back
I found a totally empty department and a ton of mail.
Really, these things happen..."

D.Sma, CTV.

Now some commercial break before the weather forecast.
	Cyborg Warriors for sale!  Buy they while they last.  However, no
programming is guaranteed so buy them at your own risk.  Contact DarkStar
for info.
<more commercials>
Now we're back.  Now is our long awaited weather report.

Weather is sunny but cloudy towards the middle of the week and continues
towards the end.  10% chance of shell shower and traffic on the coming up
bridges are to be expected.  Possible hail from sky is a possibility towards
the end of the week.

Here's the power chart.

     - = [   Empire Power Report   ] = -
      as of Mon Apr  6 21:36:50 1992

         sects  eff  civ  mil shell gun  pet iron dust food oil  pln ship money
    FUBAR  70   48%  14K 300    0    0    0  900  400  2.6K 250    0    3   15K
Consolida  55   54%  14K 200    0    0    0  2.1K 500  2.6K 350    0    1   25K
 BenHowth  60   54%  15K 200    0    0    0  800  600  3.4K 500    0    3   15K
Cybertops  75   39%  14K 400    0    0    0  1.0K 150  3.2K 350    0    2   20K
TheCultur  50   73%  11K 250    0    0    0  850  350  3.9K 200    0    2   20K
    Sioux  80   39%  13K 500    0    0    0  600  250  3.3K 200    0    4   10K
Plainsbor  45   60%  14K 250    0    0    0  1.2K 1.1K 2.3K 400    0    4   15K
   Iconia  55   59%  11K 150    0    0    0  800  400  3.1K 150    0    4   25K
 Caldonia  85   27%  13K 100    0    0    0  1.1K 750  4.7K 200    0    2   30K
Brandenbu  55   50%  13K 200    0    0    0  750  650  5.1K 400    0    1   20K
Greenfiel  40   79%  11K 250    0    0    0  600  300  1.9K   6    0    1   30K
   Fraidh  50   56%  11K 250    0    0    0  1.9K 300  2.5K 350    0    3   25K
Jelomould  60   42%  12K 300    0    0    0  600  800  3.1K 100    0    2   25K
Kazzad'ur  45   69% 9.6K 200    0    0    0  700  550  2.2K  41    0    3   20K
   Thrace  45   67% 8.5K 250    0    0    0  2.1K 350  3.0K  45    0    2   25K
  Esperia  50   60%  11K 450    0    0    0  500  600  2.9K 250    0    2   15K
Belgariad  54   42%  13K 522    0    0    0  748  280  5.4K 147    0    1   20K
     Gaia  65   53% 8.2K 200    0    0    0  600  300  4.5K 150    0    3   20K
  Nautava  40   65% 9.8K 100    0    0    0  900  300  3.0K 100    0    1   30K
Blackthor  50   48% 8.2K 100    0    0    0  1.6K 150  1.4K 100    0    3   20K
  Battery  45   45%  10K 300    0    0    0  1.4K 300  1.6K 150    0    3   15K
Wonkoland  55   39%  10K 150    0    0    0  400  100  2.0K 150    0    4   20K
  Skondia  40   41% 9.8K 200    0    0    0  2.3K 350  2.7K  49    0    0   25K
    Space  40   44%  11K 150    0    0    0  350    4  5.3K   0    0    2   30K
     Wyrd  40   62% 5.7K  50    0    0    0  1.9K 100  2.1K 150    0    1   25K
G.R.O.S.S  50   38% 9.2K 200    0    0    0  450  500  6.0K 350    0    1   25K
     Jinx  55   32% 8.5K  29    0    0    0  850  500  1.5K 450    0    1   30K
General_P  55   31% 8.6K 100    0    0    0  450  350  750  150    0    2   30K
    vslab  40   48% 4.0K  50    0    0    0  900  350  1.6K  25    0    0   25K
   Arawan  70   17% 4.3K 150    0    0    0  1.4K 200  1.4K   0    0    2   30K
TheBlackL  35   18% 1.4K  26    0    0    0   17    0  400    0    0    0   30K
  Paranor  40   16% 1.4K  16    0    0    0    0    0  500    0    0    0   25K
          ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
worldwide 1.7K  46% 317K 6.5K   0    0    0   31K  12K  90K 5.8K   0   60  725K

P.S. the worst joke teller award goes to Fraidh!  He dared to mock my king,
king Belgarion.  The ceremony starts in 5 seconds.
<Leader of Fraidh came to the stage to receive his pretty little gold
medal with the inscription: If it's a bad joke, it has to be from Fraidh>
Blam-BLAM-BLAM-Blam
Oops, I'm sorry but it seems someone had a vendetta against Fraidh.  Must be
the quote Fraidh wrote
"All countries near me shall cede half of their territory to me.  Failing to
do so will be considered hostile and shall be invaded"
-AK

"Never forget Love, like a dream, tell me the secret....." Eve Tokimatsuri