The Crowncast report remained above the Citadel gate after the first convoy finished unloading. Its red casualty banner covered the route map, while Dorian Vale spoke from a studio built to resemble an emergency command room.
Behind him, a wall of national maps showed government silos marked empty. None displayed the hidden Ironvale granary whose doors Diana's cameras had recorded opening less than an hour earlier.
"Garran Holt maintained the last certified famine reserve serving nine affected cities. That reserve is now controlled by an unregistered territorial power," Dorian said, facing the central camera.
Nox watched from beside the road marker as workers carried grain into the former classrooms. The feed showed him standing over Holt's broken freight armor, then cut before the surviving dispatchers entered the frame.
"He likes the part where I stand still. It saves him from editing around witnesses," Nox said, checking the relay map on Vasa's portable screen.
