Here are some suggestions or ideas that you can slip in when people ask you for information:
1. You heard from BLANK that BLANK is trying to convert an admiral to switch sides"
2. You heard BLANK is building up a fleet to attack BLANK"
3. You heard one of the (kings) might join the Dominate
4. You heard one of the kings might join the Union
5. You head BLANK is hiring some kind of people to attack something in BLANK's place
6. You heard BLANK is saving up to buy a high tech fleet
7. You heard BLANK stole from the Food Store
8. You heard BLANK never repays their loans
9. You heard BLANK betrayed EVERYONE last year
10. You heard Blank hasn't been paying for his fleets lately
11. You heard BLANK has been trading a lot of resources, you think TYPE to BLANK
12. You heard BLANK (Rex van der Sever) is having some kind of uprising, maybe a revolution?
13. You heard BLANK has been paying BLANK to deal with a bunch of pirates
14. You heard that one of the kings has been making deals with Dominate, but you can't remember which one.
15. You heard BLANK is about to go broke
16. You heard BLANK is having Food riots
17. You heard BLANK or BLANK is really low on production
18. You heard BLANK took our a huge loan for something
19. You heard BLANK just bought a bunch of Red Cross Shares
20. You heard BLANK just bought a bunch of Mercenary Shares