The Last News Story

The shared internal communications network on Red Knight, offering an array of entertainment and educational programs, also operated its own simple "ship's news" service, usually limited to covering promotions, interesting astrological sightings, new menu items in the cafeteria, what was showing in the ship's cinema etc

It was part of the duties of the ship's morale officer to update this service on a daily basis, which meant that sometimes they had to really stretch the definition of the word "news".

However, they were also in the fortunate position of being the only news presence to cover the "incident" which wiped out the crew of the mining ship three million years ago.

This was the last news story ever published on RedNet.

Other newspapers were available for download to the crew's personal display units, for a small deduction from their company credit.

Unfortunately the digital issues stopped updating as soon as the Red Knight left Earth's sub-space comms range.