The stillness the Gazette remarked upon only yesterday has broken at last, though not by cannon-fire duly logged in this office's ledger of battles fought — rather by a quieter theft. Basseterre Town, so recently marked as PANDA's object of siege, has indeed changed hands: NSCN's French garrison has been cast out and the port now flies under PANDA's black flag, a Pirate prize won as promised. Fresh contests already crowd the horizon in its place. HORN means to test ONU's French hold on Fort Baai this very afternoon, while Great Britain's VALOR has called PVP's Spanish grip on Xpu Ha to account this evening. The NPC Raiders, restless as ever, have marked NSCN's Kingstown and HYDR4's Croata for trial come the 13th — whether these marauders improve upon their recent record of failure, the Gazette will not presume to guess. The treasury table stirs for the first time in a fortnight of near-perfect stillness. CFS remains enthroned atop the standings with twenty-six ports, a reign now unbroken into its eleventh consecutive day and entirely undisturbed by the morning's events. But beneath that fixed summit there is real motion at last: PANDA, flush with its new conquest at Basseterre Town, has vaulted from eleventh to seventh place, its port count climbing to seven — a rise the Gazette suspects owes rather directly to this morning's flag over Basseterre. Whether PANDA's ambitions extend further up the ledger remains a matter for tomorrow's ink.