By Joran Kael – The Kael Report
“Power does not always arrive to rule. Sometimes, it arrives simply to break what already exists.”
TAPANI SECTOR — VIOLENCE WITHOUT VISION
In a region long defined by aristocratic politics, mercantile leverage, and carefully balanced authority, a new destabilizing force has taken root. The group calling itself the Sith Covenant has not announced its arrival with manifestos or declarations. Instead, it has been introduced through absence—of leadership, of order, of continuity.Across multiple Tapani worlds, governments have not fallen through siege or occupation. They have been removed. Administrations decapitated. Command structures erased. What remains is not conquest, but collapse.
The Covenant does not appear interested in holding territory in any conventional sense. It is interested in what follows when authority is gone.
A DOCTRINE OF INSTABILITY — STRENGTH THROUGH DISRUPTION
Unlike the formalized hierarchy of the Sith Order, or the imperial systems that historically followed Sith expansion, the Covenant presents itself as something far less structured—and far more volatile. Intelligence summaries describe it as a warband: Sith aligned not by ideology or governance, but by a shared belief that the galaxy should be forced into perpetual instability.According to field reports, the Covenant rejects bureaucracy outright. It does not build institutions. It does not administer law. Where it intervenes, it does so violently and briefly, striking critical nodes of governance before withdrawing and allowing disorder to metastasize.
In the Covenant’s worldview, endurance belongs only to those strong enough to survive chaos. Stability, by contrast, is treated as weakness.
METHODS ON THE GROUND — PROFIT FROM PARALYSIS
In the absence of a sector-wide media blackout, reports have continued to leak outward from Covenant-affected systems. The pattern is consistent.Planetary leadership is removed or rendered irrelevant. Defense forces fracture. Civil authority collapses. Into that vacuum, the Covenant reappears—not as rulers, but as brokers of fear. Governments, criminal syndicates, and corporate entities are presented with a choice: supply wealth, materials, or war production, or be left to collapse further.
These are not taxes. There is no pretense of sovereignty. What is being established instead are rackets—temporary, coercive arrangements enforced through the threat of renewed violence.
The Covenant extracts value without responsibility, then moves on.
WHAT IS NOT HAPPENING — THE ABSENCE OF RULE
Notably, the Covenant has shown little interest in long-term governance of the Tapani Sector. No planetary administrations have been reconstituted under Covenant oversight. No civil frameworks have been imposed. No attempts at ideological conversion have been observed at scale.This absence is strategic.
By refusing to rule, the Covenant avoids the burdens that destroy empires: logistics, legitimacy, and accountability. Instability becomes both weapon and shield. Worlds left fractured are easier to exploit—and harder for rival powers to reclaim cleanly.
The result is a sector that remains nominally free, but functionally crippled.
WHO BENEFITS — AND WHO BLEEDS
The immediate victims are civilian populations and local governments, forced to navigate an environment where authority no longer guarantees protection. Trade routes fracture. Security contracts multiply. Power consolidates downward into militias, gangs, and private interests.Yet for the Covenant, this fragmentation is success.
Every broken world becomes a resource node. Every destabilized government becomes leverage. Every unresolved crisis weakens the broader galactic order the Covenant claims to despise.
WHAT COMES NEXT — MAYHEM AS STRATEGY
If current patterns hold, the Tapani Sector may be only a proving ground. The Covenant’s approach does not scale through conquest—but through repetition. Strike. Shatter. Extract. Move on.This is not an empire in formation. It is a contagion.
And for a galaxy already strained by fragmentation, the most dangerous thing about the Sith Covenant may not be what it controls—but how effectively it ensures that no one else can.
