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==== March 3302 ====
*March 1 - Ricardo Bentonio's appeal concludes, but does not turn up evidence of impending universal catastrophe. The date of February 29th also passes uneventfully.
*March 1 - Congressman Kristine Lasky criticizes President Hudson's decision to use Farragut-Class Battlecruisers as Starship One, arguing the move places an unnecessary burden on taxpayers. Lasky asks the Federal Accountability Office to investigate the costs involved, and proposes limiting the President's use of the vessels to certain occasions each year.
*March 2 - Canonn scientist Professor D. Luffy of Bond Hub, Varati issues a request for meta-alloys to further research how they can counter the technological plague affecting stations and devise a way to replicate the plague's elimination at Obsidian Orbital.
*March 3 - The Lave Radio Network launches a campaign to construct a new interstellar transmitter relay in Diso and requests deliveries of Cherbones Blood Crystals.
*March 3 - The Pilots Federation in association with LHS 3447 Dynamic and Co places a kill order on all wanted ships operating in LHS 3447 to combat an influx of marauders.
*March 3 - Rose Trebek of the Joint Security Taskforce announces the operation to subjugate the Blue Hand Gang in Orulas and liberate escape pods is successful, though the Blue Hand Gang remains a threat.
*March 5 - One of the escape pods recovered from the Blue Hand Gang in Orulas is found to contain Professor Ishmael Palin. Rose Trebek speculates that the Blue Hand Gang likely purchased Palin's pod from his abductors without realising who was inside.
*March 6 - Controversial chef Oliver Gordin proclaims his intent to obtain samples of alien barnacles to use in his dishes.
*March 8 - Chef Oliver Gordon is sued by the Pan Galactic Mining Corp to force him to change the name of his restaurant, "PanGalactic". Legal experts believe the case could set a new precedent for galaxy-wide intellectual property rights.
*March 9 - Medical personnel at Wilkes Orbital, Nespeleve confirm that Professor Ishmael Palin will make a full recovery.
*March 10 - The Lave Radio Network's campaign concludes successfully, with the new transmitter expected to go online within hours.
*March 10 - The Canonn Interstellar Research Group issues a request for palladium to construct a new outpost in Col 285 Sector IX-T d3-43 to support research into Unknown Artefacts.
*March 10 - President Zachary Hudson unveils plans to create a new arm of the Federal Navy funded by local corporations instead of taxpayer credits, the People's Navy. The flagship, a Farragut-Class Battlecruiser, will be added to the 54th Fleet. Independent pilots are asked to contribute to the ship's construction in Beta Hydri.
*March 10 - LHS 3447 Dynamic and Co announces that agitators in LHS 3447 have been neutralised, and the new Bluford Orbital starport is expected to open in the next few days.
*March 11 - The Buckyball Racing Club is criticised for reckless endangerment over its "Spring Break Chaffeurs" event, which will involve escorting students from Grant Academics to the region's biggest tourism hotspots between March 18th and 26th.
*March 14 - Professor Ishmael Palin speaks to the media about his kidnapping. Palin describes his transport coming under attack from unknown assailants, who then captured and interrogated him for several days about the extent of his Unknown Artefact research. When the interrogation ended, Palin was sedated, placed in an escape pod, and apparently sold to the Blue Hand Gang.
*March 14 - Chef Oliver Gordon loses his legal battle over the name of his "PanGalactic" restaurant. The restaurant is closed and sold to cover Gordon's legal costs after he rejects the Pan Galactic Mining Corp's offer to become their exclusive caterer.
*March 14 - The Buckyball Racing Club organises a three-day "Midweek Madness" race from Buckey Ring in NLTT 57216 to Raleigh Orbital in Ross 720.
*March 15 - Media outlets across the Core Systems receive an anonymous message asserting a sinister, conspiratorial connection between Core Dynamics, the Highliner Antares, Starship One, Emperor's Dawn, and setbacks in Unknown Artefact research; the deaths of Emperor Hengist Duval, Vice President Nigel Smeaton, Sean Richards, Arnold Lowe, Susan Monroe, and Elaine Boyd; and the disappearances of President Jasmina Halsey and Professor Ishmael Palin. Federal and Imperial officials decline to comment on the message.
*March 15 - Molecular chemist Lea Tantaga reveals the cause of the technological plague to be Unknown Artefacts, which have a self-repair process that siphons resources from their surroundings. Tantaga explains that meta-alloys can be refined to create materials capable of neutralising this molecular interference. In response, starports affected by the plague open their markets to the sale of meta-alloys.
*March 15 - Commander Engalo reports to Canonn his observation that specks of light that appear near barnacles and Unknown Artefacts, so-called "fireflies", appear to interact with each other.
*March 15 - The Congressional Oversight Committee launches an investigation into reports that a pirate-operated Farragut-Class Battlecruiser with no identification code has been harassing Federal Navy battlegroups in LHS 3447, Fuleum, and HIP 16996.
*March 16 - Federal officials and media discuss whether Jasmina Halsey could be reinstated as Federal President should she make a full recovery.
*March 16 - Adle's Armada wins the first Galactic Combat Championship tournament.
*March 16 - A spokesperson for the Canonn Interstellar Research Group renews the organisation's plea for palladium to complete its new research facility.
*March 16 - Damon Clarke, a disgraced Imperial patron and industrialist who supplied weapons to Emperor's Dawn, is assassinated by poison. Clarke had traded information about Emperor's Dawn to the Imperial Internal Security Service in exchange for a light sentence, but the IISS was unable to protect him from retaliation by remnants of the terror group.
*March 17 - The Beta Hydri Corporation completes construction of a new Farragut-Class Battlecruiser. The honour of naming the vessel is granted to Commander Khemsa, who made the single largest contribution to the initiative.
*March 17 - The Canonn Interstellar Research Group's initiative to build a research outpost in Col 285 Sector IX-T d3-43 is successful.
*March 17 - An alliance of independent pilots works to saturate Ackerman Market in Eravate with meta-alloys to hasten its recovery from the technological plague.
*March 17 - Governor Lawrence of Wilkes Orbital in Nespeleve issues an urgent request for Ceremonial Heike Tea to quell an outbreak of a new strain of the Cerberus Plague detected in Professor Ishmael Palin and his research staff.
*March 17 - The Revolutionary Party of Vennik calls for deliveries of Land Enrichment Systems to begin the next phase of terraforming the planet Vennik 1.
*March 19 - It is reported via an anonymous source that Admiral Denton Patreus is privately concerned about President Zachary Hudson's "People's Navy" project, seeing it as a prelude to a major expansion of the Federal Navy. It is assumed the Empire will respond with its own military fortification effort.
*March 22 - The Alliance holds a diplomatic summit at Irkutsk in Alioth to discuss various domestic and foreign issues.
*March 22 - The Carmack Intergalactic Mining Association issues a reminder that its ongoing competition to identify new pristine metallic ring sites will conclude on April 3rd.
*March 23 - Carl Simmons, chief medical officer of Newton Dock in BD-02 4304, discusses the Cerberus Plague at a health summit, and warns about the risks of underestimating the new strain of the disease at Wilkes Orbital.
*March 23 - Medical personnel at Leoniceno Orbital announce that Jasmina Halsey will be brought out of her induced coma, and should be conscious within days.
*March 24 - Professor Ishmael Palin returns to work only hours after receiving the antidote to the Cerberus Plague and meets with Professor Lea Tantaga to discuss her breakthrough in producing an Unknown Artefact-resistant material. The Pioneers Cooperative in Maia agrees to sponsor an appeal to gather meta-alloys in order to create special Cargo Racks that can safely transport UAs.
*March 24 - The appeal for Ceremonial Heike Tea at Wilkes Orbital, Nespeleve concludes, and an outbreak of Cerberus Plague is successfully prevented. Drusus Kane, head of an Imperial counter-insurgency unit in Achenar, speculates that Professor Palin and his assistants were deliberately infected with the disease by their mysterious captors in an attempt to trigger a new pandemic.
*March 24 - To ensure the success of its terraforming project, the Revolutionary Party of Vennik extends its campaign for Land Enrichment Systems by one more week after supplies of the commodity across the Core Systems are unexpectedly exhausted by overwhelming demand.
*March 24 - Philanthropist Alfred Jeffress launches a new treasure hunt, promising a generous reward to whoever can find a mystery object and deliver it to a specific location based on the following clue: "The king's resting place is where I'm hid. Entrusted to a queen, with a spring in her steps."
*March 26 - Federal President Zachary Hudson issues a statement confirming that Jasmina Halsey has been successfully brought out of her coma and could be well enough to speak to reporters in a week.
*March 29 - Verity Gavroche of the Canonn Interstellar Research Group promotes the Pioneers Cooperative's appeal for meta-alloys, noting that being able to safely transport Unknown Artefacts will be a crucial part of future scientific research.
*March 29 - Commander Oriza wins Alfred Jeffress's treasure hunt.
*March 29 - The Federal Times learns from Azalea Halsey, sister of Jasmina Halsey, that the former Federal President is behaving and speaking somewhat strangely, though she appears to be lucid and recuperating well.
*March 29 - Coordinators of the Distant Worlds Expedition announce that the some expedition members have reached the destination, Beagle Point. An individual known as Commander Salomé is among the first arrivals.
*March 30 - The Buckyball Racing Club schedules its "Total Recall" race at Schneider Relay in Epsilon Indi for April 2nd to 10th.
*March 31 - The Pioneers Cooperative's appeal concludes, and work begins on manufacturing Corrosion Resistant Cargo Racks. Professor Lea Tantaga also asks independent pilots to deliver meta-alloys to starports affected by the technological plague so they can manufacture UA-resistant material themselves.
*March 31 - The Revolutionary Party of Vennik's campaign for terraforming materials concludes.
*March 31 - Edward Bores is appointed the Federation's "onionhead tzar", a position that will oversee the elimination of Onionhead in Federal space. Bores organises a campaign called "Hand in the Head", asking Federal citizens to surrender any Onionhead in their possession at Grandin Gateway in Altair in exchange for a cash reward. The Altair Purple Mob launches a competing donation campaign to study Onionhead with the aim of proving it is harmless and should be reclassified as a legal, non-toxic plant.
==== April 3302 ====
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