By Joran Kael – The Kael Report
"There are wars fought for territory, wars fought for resources, and wars fought because somebody wants the next world watching to understand the cost of choosing a side."
By the time reliable reports began escaping Abregado-rae, the distinction between invasion, reprisal, and extermination had already become difficult to maintain. Civilian recordings showed smoke columns rising above industrial districts while military traffic crowded what remained of the local communications network. Ships were leaving where they could, others were being held on the ground, and witnesses farther from the principal fighting described a red haze settling over sections of the cities. Above all of it, Sith and Mandalorian warships were exchanging fire close enough to the planet that missed shots were beginning to find targets of their own.
The Sith Covenant came to Abregado-rae after the world allowed Mandalorian elements associated with the Iron Covenant to establish a presence there. Covenant operational material recovered during the fighting paints a remarkably clear picture of what followed. The invasion was not primarily intended to annex another industrial world. Its objectives called for the destruction of Abregado-rae's manufacturing base, the seizure of its spaceport, the obstruction of evacuation efforts, and the deliberate spread of a biological organism through populated areas.
That last part deserves emphasis.
This was not simply another weapon deployed during an invasion. Reports gathered from Sith positions, Mandalorian units, surviving civilian channels, and observers operating around the system all point toward biological contamination being integrated into the campaign from the beginning. Ritual dropships carried the organism to the surface, while personnel around the resulting growth sites were instructed to protect the machinery supporting its spread and supply additional biological material where required. Even Covenant instructions acknowledged that the organism was experimental and could attack those responsible for releasing it.
Whatever political argument existed before the first dropships landed, Abregado-rae is now paying for it in flesh, steel, and fire.
Accounts from the surface vary considerably depending upon where they originated, but they agree on several points. Red fungal growth has appeared around contaminated areas. Hostile organisms have emerged alongside it. Spores and other biological material have moved beyond the original deployment zones, aided by combat damage, collapsing structures, atmospheric movement, and the simple fact that a modern city contains an almost unlimited supply of places for contamination to hide.
Some of the clearest evidence comes from the Sith themselves. Mission directives identified the drop sites as the centers of the outbreak and ordered personnel to keep the pyres and associated machinery operating. Prisoners and biological material were to be brought into those areas to sustain further growth. The same instructions warned that remaining near the sites carried the risk of infection, attack, or incorporation into the spreading biomass.
The Mandalorian response appears to have changed as commanders learned what conventional weapons could and could not accomplish. Reports attributed to forces under Feydrik Munin indicate that fire was proving less reliable than expected against portions of the infestation. Cryogenic weapons and explosives were subsequently requested, while disruptor weapons were used to physically eliminate infected organic material rather than leave damaged tissue behind. Factory districts were simultaneously converted into fortified positions, with overlapping fields of fire established against approaching Sith forces.
Then came the reports that are harder to read.
Information attributed to Mandalorian command elements indicates that some troops began killing civilians in contaminated areas regardless of whether infection had actually been confirmed. The reasoning appears brutally practical: airborne contamination, no reliable field-testing capability, inadequate quarantine infrastructure, and an enemy organism capable of turning additional bodies into resources. The resulting orders favored destruction over uncertainty.
I cannot independently verify how widespread those orders became, how consistently they were followed, or how many civilians were killed under them. But enough separate accounts describe the same problem that it cannot simply be dismissed. The Sith released the plague. The defenders are now being forced to decide what they are willing to destroy to contain it.
Away from the infection sites, thousands appear to have converged on Abregado-rae's spaceport.
Footage and traffic records gathered during the fighting show congested terminals, civilian ships awaiting departure clearance, emergency transmissions bleeding across increasingly unreliable channels, and approach corridors changing status as control systems failed or passed into military hands. One independent observer monitoring traffic around the system noted a growing discrepancy between the number of people reportedly waiting to escape and the number of ships actually reaching orbit.
That was not accidental.
Sith orders specifically identified the spaceport as a priority objective. Forces were instructed to seize its landing bays, departure halls, control towers, and traffic systems, preventing evacuation while simultaneously denying the Mandalorians an easy route for bringing reinforcements onto the surface. Political and commercial figures attempting to escape were considered potential prisoners if they possessed sufficient value. Others were afforded considerably less concern.
Units associated with Leontis Antalis were among those advancing on the facility. Reports from that sector describe troops deliberately attempting to take traffic control intact rather than simply reducing the tower with artillery. Whoever controls that system controls more than a collection of landing pads. They control departure clearances, incoming traffic, identification records, and one of the few remaining organized routes off the planet.
Mandalorian naval forces have managed to get at least some civilians out. Ships reaching orbit have reportedly been escorted toward the far side of Abregado-rae while fighters and gunships maintained cover against Sith forces. How many escaped is unclear. How many remain below is even less certain.
Abregado-rae's industrial districts were always going to matter.
Electrum processing, manufacturing, foundries, and associated heavy industry gave the world economic value long before the first Sith vessel entered the system. Those same facilities also helped make Abregado-rae useful to the Mandalorians. That usefulness placed a target across them.
Recovered Sith objectives called directly for the destruction of the world's industrial heart. Foundries, processing plants, and manufacturing complexes were to be brought down regardless of whether workers, defenders, or civilians remained inside. There was a second purpose as well: collapsing industrial sites would throw dust, ash, chemical waste, and contaminated material into the surrounding environment, giving the biological infestation additional opportunities to spread.
Reports from inside those districts describe a very different battlefield from the fighting around the spaceport. Production floors and surrounding structures have been turned into defensive positions. Catwalks provide firing angles, machinery provides cover, and Mandalorian units have established interlocking positions through facilities that were never designed to become fortresses. Sith troops, Mandalorian warriors, droids, heavy vehicles, and other combatants have subsequently been fighting through an environment filled with industrial equipment and contaminated debris.
The factories may therefore be lost regardless of who ultimately controls them. If the Sith take them, their stated objective is destruction. If the Mandalorians hold them, the fighting required to do so is already tearing portions of the industrial sector apart. There are victories that leave you holding infrastructure. This may not be one of them.
Look upward from what remains of a clear street on Abregado-rae and the second half of this war is visible through the clouds.
The Sith Covenant committed a substantial naval force to the operation, including a Super Star Destroyer supported by additional capital ships. Mandalorian forces already present in the system initially faced a significant disparity in available strength, although that situation has changed as additional elements of the broader Mythos Fleet entered the battle.
Reports from Mandalorian formations describe Star Destroyers, cruisers, frigates, fighters, and gunships maintaining orbital and atmospheric operations while simultaneously attempting to preserve evacuation corridors. Heavy Mandalorian weapons have struck major Sith vessels, but the largest Covenant ships have proven capable of remaining operational under punishment that would cripple lesser warships.
Then the battle became considerably stranger.
Multiple accounts describe a massive rift opening above Abregado-rae, followed by the appearance of spectral vessels or entities connected to Mandalorian arcane activity. Reports attributed to Tytos Saxon and other Mandalorian sources describe what they understood to be the dead entering the confrontation through a breach connected to the Netherworld.
I have no instrument readings of my own to offer you.
What I have are several accounts from people already fighting beneath a sky filled with capital ships, biological contamination, and orbital weapons who looked upward and reported something they could not explain conventionally.
At some point, that distinction becomes worth reporting by itself.
More immediately dangerous is the amount of fire being exchanged close to the planet. Missed shots and weapons passing through damaged formations have continued into the atmosphere, with reports of orbital fire striking the surface below.
For civilians still on Abregado-rae, whether the shot was intended for them matters very little once it lands.
For the Sith Covenant, victory does not appear dependent upon occupying Abregado-rae afterward. The available operational material points toward a punitive objective: destroy the industrial capacity, break the world's usefulness to the Mandalorians, spread enough destruction that other governments notice, and make association with the Iron Covenant look prohibitively expensive. A burned world can satisfy that objective almost as effectively as a conquered one.
For the Iron Covenant and the Mandalorian forces fighting beside it, the equation is almost the reverse. They do not necessarily need an immaculate battlefield victory. Keeping evacuation corridors open, containing the plague, preserving portions of the industrial base, and inflicting enough damage upon the attacking fleet to make another operation like this costly would all undermine the political purpose behind the invasion. The arrival of larger Mythos Fleet formations suggests the Mandalorians are prepared to contest that point with considerably more than the forces originally stationed around Abregado-rae.
Then there are the people who actually live here. For them, strategic calculations sound very different. A factory preserved after half its workforce dies is not much of a victory. A spaceport held after the people waiting inside cannot leave does little good. A neighborhood cleared of biological contamination through indiscriminate fire may be safe afterward, but there may be nobody left to return home.
Whatever flag remains over Abregado-rae when the guns finally quiet, the civilians have already paid more than either invading or defending command can reasonably put on a tactical display.
Reporting on Abregado-rae carries an obvious problem.
Almost everyone providing information has a reason to shape it.
Sith accounts emphasize punishment, Mandalorian association with the planet, and the destruction caused by defensive fire. Mandalorian accounts emphasize the deliberate deployment of the plague, civilian evacuation efforts, and the need for increasingly severe containment measures. Individual soldiers describe only the few hundred meters of ruined city directly in front of them. Civilians describe explosions without necessarily knowing who fired the weapon that caused them.
Some information reaches us directly.Much of it does not.
A recording passed from a survivor to a transport crew, then to a merchant captain, then onto an encrypted network is evidence of something, but not necessarily everything claimed alongside it. A military after-action report may contain precise numbers while conveniently omitting why the engagement happened. Even orbital sensor records become difficult to interpret when hundreds of military contacts, civilian vessels, debris, electronic interference, and something described as a supernatural rift occupy the same battlespace.
So here is what can be said with reasonable confidence. The Sith Covenant deliberately deployed a biological weapon on Abregado-rae. The world's industrial infrastructure was deliberately targeted. Its spaceport became an objective because civilians and reinforcements could move through it. Mandalorian forces have attempted evacuations and fought to preserve sections of the planet.
Some Mandalorian units have also adopted lethal containment policies that appear to have killed civilians whose infection status was uncertain.And both sides are now exchanging enough firepower around the planet that Abregado-rae itself is absorbing the consequences. Everything beyond that deserves scrutiny before it deserves certainty.
There is still no clear indication of how this battle ends.
The Sith retain substantial forces. The Mandalorians have reinforced. The plague remains active. The spaceport remains contested. The factories are becoming fortifications and ruins in roughly equal measure. And the naval engagement overhead has expanded rather than contracted.
The more important question may eventually become whether Abregado-rae remains habitable enough for victory to mean anything. Every damaged industrial complex introduces more debris into an already contaminated environment. Every orbital strike risks destroying infrastructure needed by survivors. Every infected district that cannot be safely cleared removes another section of the planet from practical use. Every evacuation ship destroyed or grounded leaves more people trapped inside that shrinking space.
There are reports of firestorms across population centers and continuing contamination around the original drop sites. Civilian traffic remains disorganized, while some surviving corridors have fallen under increasingly strict military control. The planet beneath the battle is being consumed piece by piece, not by a single catastrophic weapon, but by dozens of smaller decisions made by commanders trying to solve whatever problem is immediately in front of them.
That may ultimately decide Abregado-rae. Not one decisive duel. Not one capital ship exploding. Not one flag raised over a spaceport. Just the point at which there is too little left worth fighting over.
I've covered enough wars to recognize the language used around them.
Necessary. Strategic. Proportional. Retaliatory. Defensive.
Those words will all be used when Abregado-rae is discussed after this is over. Statements will be issued. Casualty figures will be challenged. Commanders will explain what alternatives they did or did not have, and somebody will eventually stand in front of a holocamera with a map behind them and describe the operation as a success.
The recordings coming off Abregado-rae are less complicated. People running toward departure gates. Soldiers firing into shapes moving through red fog. Factories burning behind defensive lines. Warships trading fire above evacuation traffic.
Bodies disappearing beneath something growing where bodies should not grow. The Sith Covenant appears to have come here to make an example of a world that chose the wrong allies. The Mandalorians appear determined to make the price of creating that example unbearable. Between those objectives sits Abregado-rae.
When this ends, both sides will tell the galaxy what happened here. For now, the smoke is still rising. And until it clears, anyone claiming to know exactly who won should probably be asked what, precisely, they believe is left to win.
"This is Joran Kael, and you're watching The Kael Report bringing you the truth, no matter where it leads."
"There are wars fought for territory, wars fought for resources, and wars fought because somebody wants the next world watching to understand the cost of choosing a side."
ABREGADO-RAE — A WORLD CAUGHT BETWEEN PUNISHMENT AND DEFIANCE
By the time reliable reports began escaping Abregado-rae, the distinction between invasion, reprisal, and extermination had already become difficult to maintain. Civilian recordings showed smoke columns rising above industrial districts while military traffic crowded what remained of the local communications network. Ships were leaving where they could, others were being held on the ground, and witnesses farther from the principal fighting described a red haze settling over sections of the cities. Above all of it, Sith and Mandalorian warships were exchanging fire close enough to the planet that missed shots were beginning to find targets of their own.
The Sith Covenant came to Abregado-rae after the world allowed Mandalorian elements associated with the Iron Covenant to establish a presence there. Covenant operational material recovered during the fighting paints a remarkably clear picture of what followed. The invasion was not primarily intended to annex another industrial world. Its objectives called for the destruction of Abregado-rae's manufacturing base, the seizure of its spaceport, the obstruction of evacuation efforts, and the deliberate spread of a biological organism through populated areas.
That last part deserves emphasis.
This was not simply another weapon deployed during an invasion. Reports gathered from Sith positions, Mandalorian units, surviving civilian channels, and observers operating around the system all point toward biological contamination being integrated into the campaign from the beginning. Ritual dropships carried the organism to the surface, while personnel around the resulting growth sites were instructed to protect the machinery supporting its spread and supply additional biological material where required. Even Covenant instructions acknowledged that the organism was experimental and could attack those responsible for releasing it.
Whatever political argument existed before the first dropships landed, Abregado-rae is now paying for it in flesh, steel, and fire.
KEY DEVELOPMENTS — THE PLAGUE CHANGES THE BATTLE
Accounts from the surface vary considerably depending upon where they originated, but they agree on several points. Red fungal growth has appeared around contaminated areas. Hostile organisms have emerged alongside it. Spores and other biological material have moved beyond the original deployment zones, aided by combat damage, collapsing structures, atmospheric movement, and the simple fact that a modern city contains an almost unlimited supply of places for contamination to hide.
Some of the clearest evidence comes from the Sith themselves. Mission directives identified the drop sites as the centers of the outbreak and ordered personnel to keep the pyres and associated machinery operating. Prisoners and biological material were to be brought into those areas to sustain further growth. The same instructions warned that remaining near the sites carried the risk of infection, attack, or incorporation into the spreading biomass.
The Mandalorian response appears to have changed as commanders learned what conventional weapons could and could not accomplish. Reports attributed to forces under Feydrik Munin indicate that fire was proving less reliable than expected against portions of the infestation. Cryogenic weapons and explosives were subsequently requested, while disruptor weapons were used to physically eliminate infected organic material rather than leave damaged tissue behind. Factory districts were simultaneously converted into fortified positions, with overlapping fields of fire established against approaching Sith forces.
Then came the reports that are harder to read.
Information attributed to Mandalorian command elements indicates that some troops began killing civilians in contaminated areas regardless of whether infection had actually been confirmed. The reasoning appears brutally practical: airborne contamination, no reliable field-testing capability, inadequate quarantine infrastructure, and an enemy organism capable of turning additional bodies into resources. The resulting orders favored destruction over uncertainty.
I cannot independently verify how widespread those orders became, how consistently they were followed, or how many civilians were killed under them. But enough separate accounts describe the same problem that it cannot simply be dismissed. The Sith released the plague. The defenders are now being forced to decide what they are willing to destroy to contain it.
THE SPACEPORT — THE LAST WAY OUT BECOMES A TARGET
Away from the infection sites, thousands appear to have converged on Abregado-rae's spaceport.
Footage and traffic records gathered during the fighting show congested terminals, civilian ships awaiting departure clearance, emergency transmissions bleeding across increasingly unreliable channels, and approach corridors changing status as control systems failed or passed into military hands. One independent observer monitoring traffic around the system noted a growing discrepancy between the number of people reportedly waiting to escape and the number of ships actually reaching orbit.
That was not accidental.
Sith orders specifically identified the spaceport as a priority objective. Forces were instructed to seize its landing bays, departure halls, control towers, and traffic systems, preventing evacuation while simultaneously denying the Mandalorians an easy route for bringing reinforcements onto the surface. Political and commercial figures attempting to escape were considered potential prisoners if they possessed sufficient value. Others were afforded considerably less concern.
Units associated with Leontis Antalis were among those advancing on the facility. Reports from that sector describe troops deliberately attempting to take traffic control intact rather than simply reducing the tower with artillery. Whoever controls that system controls more than a collection of landing pads. They control departure clearances, incoming traffic, identification records, and one of the few remaining organized routes off the planet.
Mandalorian naval forces have managed to get at least some civilians out. Ships reaching orbit have reportedly been escorted toward the far side of Abregado-rae while fighters and gunships maintained cover against Sith forces. How many escaped is unclear. How many remain below is even less certain.
THE FACTORIES — AN ECONOMY TURNED INTO A WEAPON
Abregado-rae's industrial districts were always going to matter.
Electrum processing, manufacturing, foundries, and associated heavy industry gave the world economic value long before the first Sith vessel entered the system. Those same facilities also helped make Abregado-rae useful to the Mandalorians. That usefulness placed a target across them.
Recovered Sith objectives called directly for the destruction of the world's industrial heart. Foundries, processing plants, and manufacturing complexes were to be brought down regardless of whether workers, defenders, or civilians remained inside. There was a second purpose as well: collapsing industrial sites would throw dust, ash, chemical waste, and contaminated material into the surrounding environment, giving the biological infestation additional opportunities to spread.
Reports from inside those districts describe a very different battlefield from the fighting around the spaceport. Production floors and surrounding structures have been turned into defensive positions. Catwalks provide firing angles, machinery provides cover, and Mandalorian units have established interlocking positions through facilities that were never designed to become fortresses. Sith troops, Mandalorian warriors, droids, heavy vehicles, and other combatants have subsequently been fighting through an environment filled with industrial equipment and contaminated debris.
The factories may therefore be lost regardless of who ultimately controls them. If the Sith take them, their stated objective is destruction. If the Mandalorians hold them, the fighting required to do so is already tearing portions of the industrial sector apart. There are victories that leave you holding infrastructure. This may not be one of them.
ORBIT — THE BATTLE ABOVE ABREGADO-RAE ESCALATES
Look upward from what remains of a clear street on Abregado-rae and the second half of this war is visible through the clouds.
The Sith Covenant committed a substantial naval force to the operation, including a Super Star Destroyer supported by additional capital ships. Mandalorian forces already present in the system initially faced a significant disparity in available strength, although that situation has changed as additional elements of the broader Mythos Fleet entered the battle.
Reports from Mandalorian formations describe Star Destroyers, cruisers, frigates, fighters, and gunships maintaining orbital and atmospheric operations while simultaneously attempting to preserve evacuation corridors. Heavy Mandalorian weapons have struck major Sith vessels, but the largest Covenant ships have proven capable of remaining operational under punishment that would cripple lesser warships.
Then the battle became considerably stranger.
Multiple accounts describe a massive rift opening above Abregado-rae, followed by the appearance of spectral vessels or entities connected to Mandalorian arcane activity. Reports attributed to Tytos Saxon and other Mandalorian sources describe what they understood to be the dead entering the confrontation through a breach connected to the Netherworld.
I have no instrument readings of my own to offer you.
What I have are several accounts from people already fighting beneath a sky filled with capital ships, biological contamination, and orbital weapons who looked upward and reported something they could not explain conventionally.
At some point, that distinction becomes worth reporting by itself.
More immediately dangerous is the amount of fire being exchanged close to the planet. Missed shots and weapons passing through damaged formations have continued into the atmosphere, with reports of orbital fire striking the surface below.
For civilians still on Abregado-rae, whether the shot was intended for them matters very little once it lands.
WHO STANDS TO GAIN — AND WHO LOSES
For the Sith Covenant, victory does not appear dependent upon occupying Abregado-rae afterward. The available operational material points toward a punitive objective: destroy the industrial capacity, break the world's usefulness to the Mandalorians, spread enough destruction that other governments notice, and make association with the Iron Covenant look prohibitively expensive. A burned world can satisfy that objective almost as effectively as a conquered one.
For the Iron Covenant and the Mandalorian forces fighting beside it, the equation is almost the reverse. They do not necessarily need an immaculate battlefield victory. Keeping evacuation corridors open, containing the plague, preserving portions of the industrial base, and inflicting enough damage upon the attacking fleet to make another operation like this costly would all undermine the political purpose behind the invasion. The arrival of larger Mythos Fleet formations suggests the Mandalorians are prepared to contest that point with considerably more than the forces originally stationed around Abregado-rae.
Then there are the people who actually live here. For them, strategic calculations sound very different. A factory preserved after half its workforce dies is not much of a victory. A spaceport held after the people waiting inside cannot leave does little good. A neighborhood cleared of biological contamination through indiscriminate fire may be safe afterward, but there may be nobody left to return home.
Whatever flag remains over Abregado-rae when the guns finally quiet, the civilians have already paid more than either invading or defending command can reasonably put on a tactical display.
RESPONSES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD — FACTS, CLAIMS, AND THE SPACE BETWEEN THEM
Reporting on Abregado-rae carries an obvious problem.
Almost everyone providing information has a reason to shape it.
Sith accounts emphasize punishment, Mandalorian association with the planet, and the destruction caused by defensive fire. Mandalorian accounts emphasize the deliberate deployment of the plague, civilian evacuation efforts, and the need for increasingly severe containment measures. Individual soldiers describe only the few hundred meters of ruined city directly in front of them. Civilians describe explosions without necessarily knowing who fired the weapon that caused them.
Some information reaches us directly.Much of it does not.
A recording passed from a survivor to a transport crew, then to a merchant captain, then onto an encrypted network is evidence of something, but not necessarily everything claimed alongside it. A military after-action report may contain precise numbers while conveniently omitting why the engagement happened. Even orbital sensor records become difficult to interpret when hundreds of military contacts, civilian vessels, debris, electronic interference, and something described as a supernatural rift occupy the same battlespace.
So here is what can be said with reasonable confidence. The Sith Covenant deliberately deployed a biological weapon on Abregado-rae. The world's industrial infrastructure was deliberately targeted. Its spaceport became an objective because civilians and reinforcements could move through it. Mandalorian forces have attempted evacuations and fought to preserve sections of the planet.
Some Mandalorian units have also adopted lethal containment policies that appear to have killed civilians whose infection status was uncertain.And both sides are now exchanging enough firepower around the planet that Abregado-rae itself is absorbing the consequences. Everything beyond that deserves scrutiny before it deserves certainty.
WHAT COMES NEXT — SURVIVING THE BATTLE MAY NOT SAVE THE WORLD
There is still no clear indication of how this battle ends.
The Sith retain substantial forces. The Mandalorians have reinforced. The plague remains active. The spaceport remains contested. The factories are becoming fortifications and ruins in roughly equal measure. And the naval engagement overhead has expanded rather than contracted.
The more important question may eventually become whether Abregado-rae remains habitable enough for victory to mean anything. Every damaged industrial complex introduces more debris into an already contaminated environment. Every orbital strike risks destroying infrastructure needed by survivors. Every infected district that cannot be safely cleared removes another section of the planet from practical use. Every evacuation ship destroyed or grounded leaves more people trapped inside that shrinking space.
There are reports of firestorms across population centers and continuing contamination around the original drop sites. Civilian traffic remains disorganized, while some surviving corridors have fallen under increasingly strict military control. The planet beneath the battle is being consumed piece by piece, not by a single catastrophic weapon, but by dozens of smaller decisions made by commanders trying to solve whatever problem is immediately in front of them.
That may ultimately decide Abregado-rae. Not one decisive duel. Not one capital ship exploding. Not one flag raised over a spaceport. Just the point at which there is too little left worth fighting over.
WAR WITHOUT QUARTER
I've covered enough wars to recognize the language used around them.
Necessary. Strategic. Proportional. Retaliatory. Defensive.
Those words will all be used when Abregado-rae is discussed after this is over. Statements will be issued. Casualty figures will be challenged. Commanders will explain what alternatives they did or did not have, and somebody will eventually stand in front of a holocamera with a map behind them and describe the operation as a success.
The recordings coming off Abregado-rae are less complicated. People running toward departure gates. Soldiers firing into shapes moving through red fog. Factories burning behind defensive lines. Warships trading fire above evacuation traffic.
Bodies disappearing beneath something growing where bodies should not grow. The Sith Covenant appears to have come here to make an example of a world that chose the wrong allies. The Mandalorians appear determined to make the price of creating that example unbearable. Between those objectives sits Abregado-rae.
When this ends, both sides will tell the galaxy what happened here. For now, the smoke is still rising. And until it clears, anyone claiming to know exactly who won should probably be asked what, precisely, they believe is left to win.
"This is Joran Kael, and you're watching The Kael Report bringing you the truth, no matter where it leads."
