From the Office of Official Information of The Pentastar Alignment

SECURITY OPERATIONS IN DERRA & SEROCCO

Peace is our profession.

In response to the insidious spread of lawlessness and criminality across the galaxy, the Pentastar Alignment has taken part in security operations in both Derra and Serocco. These measures, notably those bravely undertaken in Serocco alongside friends and supporters of galactic order such as Black Sun, the Tresario Star Kingdom and the Chiss Ascendancy, aim to uproot criminals, rebels and pirate marauders who prey upon honest citizens and legitimate trade routes.

By personal order of the Grander Moff, independent alignment operations remain ongoing for the foreseeable future. Neutral factions and independent spacers are hereby advised: the Alignment bears you no ill will. Peaceful bounty hunters, merchants and freighters will pass unmolested so long as they refrain from harbouring traitors, aiding & abetting criminals or carrying contraband of disloyal origin. Alignment forces have standing orders from the Grander Moff to render aid.

By decree of the Moff Council, Moff Eiretrir is awarded the Medal of Supreme Loyalty for his masterful command of multiple corvette squadrons during the Serocco operation. Under his capable command, Alignment vessels cut through rebel fighters like vibroblades through bantha. Commander Calud, meanwhile, is awarded a medal of bravery for his participation in the timely rescue of a stranded Raider Corvette under fire.

Efforts to secure comment from King Baba were met with echoes of an empty throne room. Sources report he may currently be "optimising his Toydarian stealth protocol" somewhere beyond ordinary sensors. A silent protector is often the sternest guardian.

A statement issued from the office of the Grander Moff stated: “We have destroyed multiple A-Wings, B-Wing bombers, communication satellites and their shovels. We are driving them back!”

GRANDER MOFF ISSUES UNILATERAL STATEMENT ON GALACTIC GOVERNMENT

In light of increased banditry targeting Alignment property and personnel, the Alignment offers this statement as its own expression of friendly intent to supporters of law & order across the galaxy. Perhaps in a sign of increasing threats to the Grander Moff’s life, the brief speech was issued in front of blast proof forcefields, aboard his own flagship, whilst flanked with personal security:

“There have been rumours of our disloyalty to friends and allies, our associations with pirates and scoundrels, and supposition of hostile intent. These are the product of our enemies, known thieves and betrayers who despite their obsessive, somewhat creepy, monitoring of our organisation remain amusingly ill informed of our complex strategy to survive in the outer-rim. We have struggled immensely with the concept of why some in the galactic community would believe the words of designated thieves and betrayers above our own purely benevolent propaganda...

...Yes, it is true, we have had our differences… Most notably for me the Galactic Government refuses to recognise the rank of Grander Moff despite its clear, obvious, unquestionable, legal basis in my own proclamations. But, in these times of insecurity, when bandits strike at our shipping lanes and saboteurs skulk in the shadows of every asteroid hideout, all should know this: we seek order, in harmony with the Emperor’s vision, where others sow anarchy.”

Comments from disloyal voices claiming the emperor “has more important things to do”, “doesn’t care” or “doesn’t even know who you” are designed to minimise the significance of our great work in our asteroid belts. Please report all such slander to your local inquestoriate for appropriate re-alignment.

MOFF DANE STAR CUTS RIBBON AT NEW OPEN PLAN OFFICE

In a surprising change to usual Alignment design ethos, Moff Dane Star ordered the transformation of the Coco Settlement administrative wing from cramped cubicles into a spacious open plan office. At the ribbon cutting ceremony, Moff Star said: “An open workspace is open in loyalty” before staring into the distance eerily for roughly 30 seconds. The new design features unlocked doors symbolising the Alignment’s demand for full transparency from its workforce, broad seating clusters that facilitate both communication and unobtrusive surveillance, and clear signage urging vigilance against saboteurs, spies and most devastatingly, Ewoks.

Attached to the administrative wing is a newly commissioned Volunteer Workforce Upgrade Camp, where over five hundred traumatised victims of rebel kidnapping will be inducted into Alignment employment programmes. These individuals will perform supervised labour in logistics and maintenance of carbonite freezing infrastructure, and be given 1.1 times the normal ration allocation for the duration of their rehabilitation & re-education programme.

EWOKS DECLARED INFERIOR TO JAWA

According to the draft text of a Grand Proclamation, the primitive Ewok species will be officially designated inferior to the scavenging Jawa species. The decision follows rigorous research studies on the resourcefulness, technological aptitude and informal trade networks undertaken by intelligence agents of the Moff Council. While Ewoks fiddle with sticks and stones, Jawas manipulate mechanical components and stoke the engines of commerce, despite their weirdness and obsession with hairy eggs. Both species appear to offer comic relief, although for Ewoks it is of inferior quality. There is no good reason to befriend Ewoks and all attempts are clearly doomed to failure. Jawa may be okay, and even amusing, in certain circumstances. Special exception has been given to the Ewok Nitchka Kappa, who continues to prove the pitfalls of sweeping generalisations: through his loyal example, may all Ewok gain wisdom.

MELEENIUM TARIFF MORATORIUM

Effective immediately and directed by the Grander Moff until further notice, the previously imposed 1100% tariff on all Meleenium transactions is hereby placed on indefinite pause. In the spirit of pragmatic governance and to avoid unnecessary hardship on our honest miners and manufacturers, transit tolls will revert to only five times their former rates. All Meleenium declarations remain compulsory, but vapourisation ceremonies will temporarily be suspended whilst the Alignment investigates superior sourcing strategies.

While some foreign markets hail this reprieve as a victory for so called “free trade,” let it be known that the Alignment continues to regard Meleenium as a potentially corrosive influence that's in dangerous oversupply. We retain the right to reimpose maximum tariffs at a moment’s notice.

Closing Notes from the Editor:

• Order is to be restored in Derra and Serocco; the Alignment will help you.
• The Empire is quite good, actually?
• Open plan offices can be loyal design, especially if featuring a panopticon and appropriate signage.
• Ewoks are not to be trusted.
• Meleenium remains seditious.

This edition was triple-verified by the secretariat of the Moff Council.

Any misreading is your own fault.

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