Dominion and Tharinians at War

Location: Thain
Yesterday the Axis squadron attacked the Tharinian home world of Thain. The events leading up to this attack are as follows:
-The Dominion caught several Tharinian spies that had infiltrated the Axis Squadron. This caused general outrage in the Dominion's government, which issued a demand for resource reparations to the Tharinians.
-The Tharinian government apologized for the spies, and agreed to pay reparation on the following turn.
-While the Tharinians were collecting the reparations, the Axis squadron warped in above Thain.

When the Axis squadron had fallen out of warp, the order was given for the high fleet to engage. It did, and do to gross mismanagement of forces, was obliterated in minutes. Axis squadron is said to have taken minimal casualties. It was rumored that Admiral Benbow had been ordered to attack with his Strikers, but the order was never carried out do to the fact that Axis Squadron left Thain early this morning. It is rumored they were headed toward the Mykonian Star Empire, which had allied itself with Thain. When reached for comment, Admiral Benbow said that he was "smoking a pipe right now, so bugger off you vultures!" It is not yet completely clear whether the UK, Praetorians, or FDE have aligned themselves yet, though we have gotten a report that the Praetorians are currently Allied with the dominion. That is all the information we have at the moment. Look for an investigative report by Snapper Carr in the coming days. This has been a Galactic New Network Report.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: If you are outside of the Thain system, you may be getting this report later than we would have liked to get it out to you. This is because the Tharinian government ordered a strict radio silence while the planet was under blockade. We tried to transmit anyways, but our station was almost instantly blown off the face of the planet by spaceship fire. As it turned out, it's a lot easier to get a firing lock on places that are transmitting radio signals. We assume that is why the radio silence was ordered. We are working on this problem, and hope that next time, if our headquarters come under attack, we will have a way to transmit and not get blown up. As it is, it would be reasonable to expect a delayed story if Thain comes under attack again. Thank you, and goodnight.