Editing Wars of Reaving (section)

== Beheading the Snake (or at least one of them) ==
After all of this death, bloodshed, and kicking out of any undesireables, Steel Viper was feeling good about themselves...right up until the next grand council. The orders of business were as per usual; certain bloodnames were to get reaved, Clan Goliath Scorpion got the boot, and everything was going fine...until Star Adder's Khan took the stage, and announced the next clan to be reaved was in fact Steel Viper itself. For all of Steel Viper's claims of purity, they themselves had ultimately undergone many political games in just such the way that the Spheroids would in order for Brett Andrews to keep power, and had crippled the Clans in many of the ways that mattered. Andrews in a fit of rage chose to invoke the trial of refusal, and then just shot the Star Adder Khan, in clear violation of the rules of the Grand Council, sealing their fate. As he was placed in custody, he demanded another trial, and Star Adder's SaKhan, who was buddies with the man who was just shot in cold blood, promptly beat Andrews to death with the enameled ceremonial mask of Star Adder. Steel Viper itself would quickly find it's actual grip on the situation was tenuous at best, as every clan left in Clan Space kind of hated having to check themselves for "purity" or whatever the fuck Andrews meant by that, and pretty quickly tore through them like paper. Star Adder would take in any of the survivors, and the Wars of Reaving were at last over.