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The five thousand citizens of Slafdon made an unfortunate choice in their home town:  it’s slap-bang in the middle of next year’s Fortris Challenge Cup arena!  Relocation notices were duly issued earlier this year, which the town challenged in a legal petition to the Court of Prestations in Prestix.  The petition was dismissed last week, leaving the townspeople only five days to vacate their homes before the Sports Council’s demolition teams were due to move in.  Some have left, but the majority were still there, barricaded into their homes, when SC’s wrecking blasters moved in position earlier today.  Their spokesman Dervant Makravish - also President of Slafdon Town Council - said, ‘These have been our homes for generations.  Evicting us is unjust, whatever the legal position is technically.’

SC spokesman Armelia Furst was unimpressed.  ‘I don’t know quite what they’re hoping to achieve with this pointless gesture,’ she said yesterday evening.  ‘The law is clear.  Everyone knows - or at least everyone else knows - the importance to civilisation of allowing sports to continue.  Relocation is a benign process which is ultimately beneficial for these people.  The law states they have to be given homes of at least 25% greater value than the ones they leave behind, and in practice relocated communities do a lot better than that.  I’ve been to Slafdon.  It’s a run-down tedious little nonentity of a town.  They should be grateful for the chance to improve their lot.  And they might care to remember the kinds of things that happened centuries ago, before sports were formalised.  If they’d prefer a blood-crazed mob to overrun the town and hack them and their children to bits with bushknives, that could be arranged.  In fact, if they don’t move before the Cup begins at the start of next year, that’s more or less what will happen.  The games are going to start on schedule whatever happens, and if they want to be sitting in the middle of a sports zone when the battle starts, that’s their lookout.’

Slafdon residents in protest at Sports Council annexation