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.

A Selection of Movies Available on RedNet

Captain Lister's favourite movie

Incubus: JMC's mandatory Esperanto movie (every crewman must watch at least once)

Long-lost silent movie, reconstructed and upgraded (with sound) by A.I. technology

Last Movie Screened Before The Accident

Vintage French art house film, Hans Backovic's La Fin Absolue Du Monde, was the last movie shown in the Red Knight's main 200-seat cinema before "the accident" (c. 3,000,000 years ago).

It quite possibly played to an empty house as "vintage French art house films" didn't usually go down well with a crew of space miners and astros.

Luckily, the only print of the movie now seems to have disappeared.

However, examples of more popular movies shown in the weeks before and still in the ship's archives (therefore available in personal cabins via RedNet) can be found here.