This made me smile. Keep it up. Hive/cabal/fallen news networks should be a thing. For those saying the sword is destroyed and not missing - true. But would the leadership allow that information to get out to the masses? That would make them look even less capable to run things; not only taken, but every guardian prince of it killed? Erosion of both the confidence in leadership and general sense of security for the hive layman. As such I suspect the leadership would effectively give a half-truth about it to the media, as per OP's well-crafted narrative.